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Fallout 2, Heroes 3, Baldur's Gate 2, Heroes 5

These are old games. They are already simpler to modify, which is why there are so many amateur modders. But I don't see any advantages in this. It's definitely more enjoyable to play an official expansion pack, which is made with care, than to force yourself to enjoy the "creativity" of these, as someone here put it, "kids." It only spoils the impression of the game.

Old games. They are already… easier to break.

Actually, because they are old, they are not easier. They are not user-friendly for modders.

It’s definitely more enjoyable to play an official expansion pack, which is made with care, than to force yourself to enjoy the “creativity” of these, as someone here put it, “kids.”

One expansion pack might be worse than a mod, while another mod might be as good as an expansion pack.

If you had provided evidence, there would have been something to discuss. And "in every other one of your posts" is just empty talk.

I exaggerated, and you, as always, nitpicked at a minor detail. In any case, I don't need to prove anything; I just expressed my opinion, without initially intending to convince anyone or prove anything.

Ah, here we go. I exaggerated, you nitpicked, I just expressed my opinion.

Idiotism is calling everything you don't like "crap" and saying that everyone around is just upset.

Idiotism is seeing a long post in which the speaker's position is explained in detail, and dismissing it with, "I don't care what you're saying, I exaggerated, I just expressed myself, I didn't claim my statement was true, I just blurted something out without any arguments."

There are objectively good things, and objectively bad things. There is a hypothetical president of a hypothetical European country who has been in power for eight years. This president is bad, unimportant, says a war veteran begging in an underground passage. No, an oligarch replies, who received permission from his old partner to embezzle the state budget, with whom they go skiing and relax in the sauna every year, this president is good, and I don't care about your opinion at all. And the war veteran sighs, shakes his head, and goes back to the underground passage to beg. Because his pension is meager, his health is weak, and his rent was raised again in January.
Is that a clear analogy? Probably not, because you live in almost greenhouse conditions. You are well-fed and content, it is warm and bright, your mind is free to roam, and your views acquire a certain arrogant tinge. While someone else had to eat buckwheat for months, borrow money wherever they could to get a piece of coarse bread with butter, and receive court summons from the housing office for a debt of one hundred thousand for the apartment.
But what does all this matter, of course, nothing. You just exaggerated, you didn't want to prove anything to anyone, you didn't have any arguments. You just threw it out there. Why not, if you can. You are a calm, content person with broad views.

That's precisely why old games aren't necessarily easier.

Indeed. Especially your favorite, Fallout 2, for which I even saw a modding guide in one magazine.

Some DLCs are worse than mods, and some mods are as good as DLCs.

Let's just say that official DLCs are, AS A RULE, better than amateur creations, and a good user-made mod is rather an exception.

to see a long post where the speaker's position is explained in a simple way, and dismiss it with, "I don't care what you're rambling about."

When I wrote my очередной short post, I completely skipped everything that was written after the first sentence in yours. I continued on the topic that you call everything garbage. And that supposedly someone is offended by this. This is indifferent. It could have been guessed.

There are objectively good things, and objectively bad things.

Is this a clear analogy?

Such an analogy is inappropriate when comparing people's tastes for anything, because when talking about tastes, opinions are almost always subjective from all sides.
By the way, I don't have an inflated ego because I don't think I'm better than others. I also don't think that my tastes are great, and others' are terrible, unlike you, for example.
Actually, I won't continue this topic any further, because I repeat, I expressed my opinion and nothing more. And regarding the fact that "what is described in post 40062 is found in every other one of your messages," perhaps not in every other one, but very often. I think many people here will agree with me.

When I wrote my очередной short post, I completely missed everything that was written after the first sentence in yours.

Of course, how else could it be? Everything is clear about you. And all your nonsense about idiocy isn't worth a damn.

By the way, I don't have an inflated ego because I don't think I'm better than others.

Many people think that way.

I also don't think that my tastes are great, and others' are terrible, unlike you, for example.

Without proof, you're just a nobody. However, it's strange that your broad, liberal views allow you to make such categorical judgments, unless you think you're better than others, in this case, than me.

And regarding the fact that "what is described in post 40062 is found in every other one of your posts," even if not in every other one, it's very often. I think many people here would agree with me.

Without proof, agreement with anything is just a waste of time.

In fact, I won't continue this topic any further, because, as I said, I've expressed my opinion and nothing more.

I didn't expect you to say anything useful anyway. As in any discussion in a section or on a resource in general, all you can do is, as LV recently put it, add fuel to the fire with some nonsense. In fact, there's really no point in discussing it; it's much easier to spend that time watching anime, for example, and not strain your brain unnecessarily. That's harmful.

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Well, and of course, when people notice you after you leave a provocative post and spend their time, for once, talking about something, discussing something, or conveying something, the most important thing is to show all the observers your indifference to what's happening and your fashionable nihilism. And everyone will immediately understand who is the coolest here. It's like going to school in the morning with an unlit cigarette in your mouth and a bored, uninterested expression on your face.

Isn't today a glorious day?

I finally got divorced from my wife, without resorting to slavery or using a sledgehammer.

Oh my god, did you get to New Reno?

In Battlecraze, there are 12 Factions, or maybe more, I don't remember exactly. 3 types of Elves, 2 types of Dwarves. That's it. "3 types of Elves" should be considered as one Faction, like Althgarde. The Dwarves are completely different. I don't remember exactly, but you can divide the Factions approximately like this:
Elves (3 types) - Standard development, each Faction focuses on something, the Light Elves on cavalry and support healing, the Dark Elves on hit-and-run raids, there are not many opportunities to retreat, and the Forest Elves on ranged armies and their defense.
Humans - Standard development, although the tech tree goes along a different system than the Elves, the focus is on all troops, their balance.
Dark Dwarves - Development is almost instantaneous, but the troops are expensive, almost all of them are combat machines, the tactics are based on overwhelming with machines and a lot of meat.
Dwarves - I don't remember what the development is like, but the troops are slow, there is no cavalry, there are siege machines.
The Damned - One of the most interesting Factions, there are no strong or large units, there are a lot of different small and weak ones, a Zerg-like tactic.
The Undead - Development is through upgrades, the units themselves, with enough money, you can create an army of higher-level Death Knights in seconds.
Minotaurs - The Faction with the fewest units, there are only 5-7 of them, the main focus is on upgrading and buffing.

+ In addition, there are heroes that can be developed in a hundred different ways, from leader to assassin, combining skills, and so on. A lot of different mini-events, like solo PvP with heroes.
But, the third part is much worse, they added a not-so-cute plot, but removed the battle map and all the cool events.
The history of the Warlords world is very cool, it's a shame that it is not revealed much in Battlecraze.

I've been hanging out there for a while now, but the reply option appeared recently. It wasn't there initially.

There is a hypothetical president of a hypothetical European country who rules for eight years. This president is bad, unimportant, a war veteran would say, begging in an underground passage. No, an oligarch will answer him, having received permission from an old partner to divide the state budget, with whom they go skiing every year and relax in the sauna, this president is good, and I don't care about your opinion at all.

Without proof, you're just a fool.

Give me proof of the conversation between the veteran and the oligarch about the hypothetical president of a hypothetical country! Otherwise, you have defined yourself.

The only bone for an adequate person is the ability to customize a hero.

A bone for an adequate person is a decent plot, which was in the first and third parts. In the second, it was removed in favor of a stupid conquest of the world, although it also turned out well.

The second bone, for the "scaler" (someone who focuses on numbers), is a million races, consisting of one model with different skins and stats.

Models exist in 3D games; in 2D games, there are only sprites, lol.

The Minotaur race. Minotaur-worker, minotaur-warrior, minotaur-archer, minotaur riding a minotaur.

Oops. First, the speaker is not familiar with the subject, except for reviews from gamers who were not paid enough. List of Minotaur units: Slave (human), Minotaur-warrior (simple minotaur), Axe Thrower (also a minotaur), Basilisk (oh yeah), Shaman (minotaur), Minotaur King, Sheep (oops), Titan - Sartek's Skull (not a minotaur). Suddenly, half of the units are not minotaurs. Secondly, take any strategy you mentioned, except for Warlords 3; instead, you can take Warlords 1 or any other. And what do we see in the human race? Human-peasant, human-worker, human-warrior, human-rider, a couple of special humans, and possibly some other human, and in the best representatives of the genre, a trained animal. "Sir, a band of humans was discovered by scouts nearby!" - okay, I'll send my own humans, who are exactly the same.

Ordinary dwarves, dark dwarves.

Unlike many similar clones, they differ greatly, as has already been said. Dwarves are proud warriors, remembering honor; dark dwarves are cowards, corrupted by the magic of the Death Knight, and have developed machines that fight for them.

Dark humans, light humans.

No, knights and imperials, are only divided in the third part and, unexpectedly, also differ in tactics. Some act with a cavalry wedge, others are merchants, living off mercenaries from all races.

Dark elves, light elves. Forest elves. Jelly elves. High elves. Low elves.

There are more in D&D :p And, as already mentioned, the tactics for them differ, but it does not correspond to what is written in the manual. High elves - good mages + anti-dragon cavalry + the best archers in the game, dark elves - assassination + magic + summoning demons, forest elves - heavy infantry + archer-cavalry + healers. Yes, unfortunately, in order to please the dark elf fans, the dark elves have again become great martyrs and need to be pitied. But this is the only downside. Plus, there are truly unique races, like the faeries mentioned by WisTrit.

"Twenty-eight character classes" - it says on Wikipedia.

Another source that allows you not to form your own opinion, but to use a ready-made one and not strain yourself.

Are there five missions in the game?

In the first part, there are 4 chapters with 5-7 episodes each, plus there is a choice between the light and dark path. In the second, there is no plot, but to achieve complete victory, it is necessary to capture 67 provinces, plus intermediate events that increase the number of missions to almost 100, plus different game difficulties, plus the fact that after 15-20 missions before the victory, they will try to bribe you each time, offering an increasingly cool reward, up to a dragon in your retinue (otherwise, you cannot get it), then you can play it again. The third part - about 15-20 story missions, plus a lot of non-story missions, but giving their bonuses.

A completely soulless, vile piece of garbage, parasitizing on the original "Warlords," which had enough mythical creatures, but there was no such cheap crap.

Is this a rant from a Warlords fan or just another piece of garbage? What you said is Puzzle Kingdoms, Puzzle Quest 2 (the first was good, although the approach and plot simply killed it). And Battlecry turned out better than all the Warlords, except for the very first ones. Because the second ones are more of the same, not bad, but no more, the third ones didn't hook me against the background of Heroes and AoW (also, by the way, 12 races), and the fourth ones kill all the desire to play with their randomness; we even argued with friends about which is more random, Warlords 4 or Wesnoth.
In the end, it creates the impression that you are slandering a game that you are not really familiar with; you probably saw screenshots and, perhaps, read a couple of reviews. And if you are familiar with it, then either you are a fan of the original Warlords, which prevents you from adequately perceiving a good game, or you saw the graphics and immediately deleted it, which is also stupid.

But the third part is much worse, they added a not-cute plot, but removed the battle map and all the cool events.

I like the third part less only because there are more RPG elements in it and the campaign is easy to complete, and I wouldn't say that it is much worse. The plot is good and even original, the lack of it in the second is not good. There are events, you just need to play more carefully, plus quests have appeared (although there are few), and pleasant opportunities, such as training a hero for money, hiring mercenaries, and artifact shops.

Let's just say that an official expansion, AS A RULE, is better than a fan-made one, and a good user mod is rather an exception.

An official expansion, AS A RULE, is a way to make easy money and has fewer flaws than failures. The same is true for user mods; there are more failures than successes, but the successes are much better than official expansions.

A decent plot.

Ancient evil. No.

List of Minotaur units:
Peasant, Worker, Warrior, Rider
Okay, I'll send equally similar humans to meet them.

You didn't quite understand what I meant, did you? A Minotaur is a single mythical creature; in the games, they cleverly bypassed this by making Minotaurs multiple mythical creatures, but does the Minotaur race seem like overkill to you? Do you know who Nidhoggr is? I think you do, so it's strange that you didn't understand or completely ignored the analogy for the sake of demagoguery. Where is the Nidhoggr race? Where is the Loch Ness Monster race? Where is the Phoenix race? There aren't any? Let's make them and write on the box "even more playable factions." Phoenix house, Phoenix forge, Phoenix shop, Phoenix barracks, Phoenix siege workshop.

In the first part - 4 chapters with 5-7 episodes each, plus...

Drug addict. Correct me, add to it, that there aren't a hundred or two hundred classes.

Is this a Warlords fan's outburst or just another pile of garbage?

The opinion of a strategy game enthusiast who has tried to play it several times.

Battlecry turned out better than all the Warlords, except for the very first ones.
The second one is more of the same, not bad, but nothing more.
The third one didn't grab me.
The fourth one kills all desire to play with its randomness.

Is this a Battlecry fan's outburst or just another pile of garbage? I don't know why you mentioned some reviews and some game journalists three times, apparently you thought your unargued outburst/pile of garbage was a strong argument.

Ancient evil. No.

Not ancient and not evil. Lol.

You didn't understand what I was talking about, did you? A Minotaur is a single mythical creature; in games, they cleverly bypassed this by making Minotaurs multiple mythical creatures, but the Minotaur race – doesn't that seem like overkill to you?

No. In games, this has already been addressed, so why shouldn't a separate race have its own culture? Or is it better when they are slaves, as in Heroes 5, or just part of the Nihon monster army, as in the third game? But they somehow became slaves and part of the Nihon army. In games, Minotaurs are humanoid, intelligent creatures, and therefore they have their own culture and society; otherwise, they would have gone extinct long ago. So why shouldn't they be like that here? And why did the outrage focus specifically on WBC, and not on, say, Warcraft? After all, Tauren is just a deviation from the usual name; otherwise, everything is the same.

Where is the Nidhog race? Where is the Loch Ness monster race? Where is the Phoenix race? None? Let's make them, and write on the box "even more playable factions." Phoenix house, Phoenix forge, Phoenix shop, Phoenix barracks, Phoenix siege workshop.

And why? I have enough as it is. Besides, for now, these mythical creatures are used in games in isolated cases, and not elevated to the rank of a race. And they don't meet the definition of an intelligent race with its own culture. And Phoenixes were integrated into the Elemental Castle and fit well there, unlike fairies, because they are also elemental spirits.

Drug addict.

Well, now you've resorted to insults.

You correct me, add that there are not a hundred races and not two hundred classes.

You dismissed the game by saying that there are only five missions, and I told you that you are wrong. Moreover, I argued with facts, and not with empty words, as you do.

The opinion of a strategy game lover who has tried to play it several times.

As I said, you are not very familiar with the game.

Is this a Battlecry fan's outrage or just another dump of garbage?

Where is the outrage? Did I say that everything is garbage, and Battlecry is forever? I argued why I think Battlecry is better than parts 2-4 of Warlords.

I don't know why you mentioned some reviews and some game journalists three times.

You can't count. I reread my post; "game journalist review" is used exactly once.

apparently you considered your unargued outrage/dump of garbage a strong argument.

If I have an outrage, everyone will notice. If I dump garbage, you will be cleaning up for a week. And if I have an unargued answer, then you don't say anything at all except the words garbage and outrage.