Posted on: December 3, 2016

Jabokoe

Spiele: 101 Rezensionen: 1

Great design but technical swampland

The premise of rebooting Master of Orion was interesting. Of course a lot of people were afraid it would tarnish their memories of one of their beloved franchises but as I have never played those when they came out I can not pass judgement over that. I can however judge this game on its own. There are some excellent things, such as beutifull graphicss and clean but stylish UI. Some great music and sound effects and in general the core gameplay loop is addictive and major design issues were resolved. It seems highly polished. It seems because that is just the visible surface of the game when you'd play it for e.g. an hour. Unfortunately there are also many problems. The games Early Access stage was quite interesting and you can expect a lot of changes, unfortunately this game released a bit prematurely. It seems the habit of changing things around a lot by the developer continued after release. It is good to have active support on a title post release but when the developer does not communicate their intentions clearly those changes appear very willy nilly and will upset customers. Failing to manage expectations will make any change a failure in the eyes of some users. Most irritatingly, even after release they regularly broke savegames without warning (and no option to roll back to at least finish your games). Obviously, talking about customers, Wargaming does not consider GOG as an actual important store front. On the one hand it is understandable that Steam is ginourmous. On the other hand, the 'meh' for witholding the Linux build and essentially forcing GOG to link up GOG accounts to Wargamings DRM system are a bit of a spit in the face. GOG used to care about the quality of their release, technically and in player experience as they were carefully restoring historical gaming artifacts, but now with the brand new releases it is clear GOG will sell it as long as they can make their cut. (At least most consumer laws requires them to have a refund policy.) With this attitude this game is essentially unplayable. It is impossible to play through a full game as stuff continously and sometimes intentionally breaks or they throw you a game design/balance curveball out of the dark because they feel like it. :(

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Posted on: November 12, 2018

kblazer883

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 1

More Galaxy DRM

The single player game is fairly entertaining and there are plenty of customization options for building your own race which makes replayability fairly high (4 of 5 stars for this). Although, in later turns of the game all the notifications tend to bog down your PC (I have a fairly high end PC and it still does this). That said, once again we come to a game that requires DRM (requiring 3rd party participation to use something is a form of DRM). Therefore, you do not get the "full-version" of Master of Orion unless you use Galaxy and the publishers own account login. This game should be marketed as a single-player game (priced accordingly) with the option to use DRM for mulitplayer.

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Posted on: August 2, 2018

Gaijin Gunji

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Spiele: 653 Rezensionen: 8

Lack of style over substance

I’m going to focus on the single player aspects of this games, as I usually don’t bother with multiplayer. Over all I have a very mixed opinion of this game. This game is very hit or miss. First let’s start with game play. For the most part it’s alright. It does get tedious when playing longer games. Second this game needs more customization options when comes to map settings. The choices are very bare-bones and it’s difficult to set up the map for short small map matches. Finally if you do happen to really want this game the DLC is a must or the game feel incomplete especially when compared to previous entries. The other big thing I got to focus is the game’s presentation. It is very hit or miss. Some aspects like the narration and some of the races like the humans are done quite well. Some of the other races like the Mershan and the Bulwratithi are just cartoonish and annoying. Plus the soundtrack the game is so generic and doesn’t help with making the game enjoyable. Finally the game lacks immersion. The atmosphere feels so generic and lackluster. These hold the game back on being any fun as the lack polish shows. Honestly I would just pass this up.

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Posted on: December 9, 2016

JohnVonWar

Spiele: 34 Rezensionen: 1

Slow Progress

Bought on Steam Early Access. Tested with: 4790k, 16 GB RAM, R9 290, 1 TB Crucial SSD. This is quite different from MOO1&2. It's got enough of the same content to feed my nostalgia bone a little, but it feels more like an Endless Space full conversion mod than like a real Master of Orion 4. On the other hand, despite its myriad faults, I like it better than MOO3. Most will agree, that is not saying much. :P This game feels about half-finished. Some aspects of the game, such as some of the ship models, the diplomacy screen, much of the planet/tech balance...are lovely. Great visuals, pretty good voice acting, mostly good game balance... Other aspects, such as...almost everything else...vary from decent to abysmal. Mods can improve the base game, when they're up to date...some will break with every update. There are a lot of bugs. Sometimes victory conditions can't be met, because the game simply fails to respond to a player accomplishing them. Huge empires eventually become next to unplayable, as turns take 5+ minutes to process; when you're about to get an espionage notification, or when the Antarans are sending a large fleet to attack, the turn will take even longer. Quite frequently during the turnover, windows will send a pop-up claiming the game is not responding—it never crashes, but it does grow steadily slower the bigger your empire grows. If you have the Omniscient perk, this can happen pretty early on. Large battles(hundreds or thousands of ships) take ages to load and play at very low fps; if set to auto, they tend to have very strange results, sometimes zero casualties to one side and 2,000 ships dead on the other. Also, auto-resolve will take upward of 10 minutes for a battle that size. There are a lot more minor bugs, but those ones are the big three that make it really hard to enjoy the game to the fullest. Why WG figures they're ready to sell expansions, I don't know...I certainly won't be buying them for a long time. I bought into the game in Early Access. I want to see it succeed, but it is still very much a work in progress. If you buy this, be aware...there is a long way to go before this game will be a finished product. It's very, very beta...if not alpha.

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Posted on: November 6, 2016

Ahso

Spiele: 55 Rezensionen: 1

Baseline

after reading other reviews and the TOS.... I have decided not to purchase this game, love the cast and consider it to be stellar, but the other issues in multiplayer and installation practices have changed my mind. Will not be getting this game. Sometimes you just have to say no, no matter how much the cast impresses you....

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