u/Chezni19

I think the biggest draws to the game for me would be, the large map size and the beautiful art. I think the map size alone makes this game pretty interesting since you can really get lost, but in a good way. Map size is probably the biggest thing this game brings to the table.

I think one average thing is, they seem to have copied a lot of the moves from other metroidvanias rather than coming up with their own new moves. Example is the double jump, the dash, wall jump and that kinda thing. These are good moves but so many games have this.

The story being nonsense doesn't bother me that much, since I rarely care about the story anyway.

The game seems really easy? I'm about average as a player. This doesn't bother me though. It's ok to have an easy game sometimes. But I could see this bothering some people.

Did I miss any major beats in my analysis?

I'm thinking about ancient machines which still work but no one knows how to repair them or fully repair them.

I think the Emperor's throne is somewhat like this so I'm thinking of more examples.

I don't know much 40k lore at all so go ahead and even say obvious things, I probably won't know it.

Now it's easy to google and read about "Magog", but it seems to be some kind of lost tribe, or an ancestor sometimes attributed to being the progenitor of various lands (the Huns? the Irish even?)

So I'm wondering where the "demon" depiction comes from, but maybe it's more like demonizing your enemy?

I got this game in 1999, and I always come back to it and play a few games.

I don't really fool with mods for the most part, and I didn't even know about horn of the abyss until earlier this week.

I am just so impressed with the work that's been done on it!

The rebalancing seems really well-thought-out. The skills and heroes weren't that balanced before. Also some of the "critical paths" have been rebalanced, like in the wizard town (Tower), you don't need a mage tower in order to get giants.

Also the new towns are really cool. I'm mostly playing the "Factory" and it's such a fun town (do the gunslinger guys need more HP though? 45 is rough!). It's kinda silly but I really like the Armadillos and the Couatls. Though the halflings are a very good T1 unit as well as the sandworms help a lot.

What's your experience with it?

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Bounced off this game, but I'm thinking about retrying it

I found in CIV you basically always want at least a big army, because otherwise everyone just says they hate you for no reason and kills you.

This is kinda realistic actually...

But anyway how important is having a huge military in OW?

Is it higher rates of lactose intolerance? Or something else..