Shadow Empire with more streamlined UI combined with Dominion 6 battles would be game of the century for me!

Dom 6 and FOG Kingdoms definitely my top 1 and 2 as well very excited for these two!

List is missing "Aurora 4x" which just got two major updates and is completely free to play (no pay to win no ads nothing just a labor of love free for us to enjoy). It's not on Steam of course.

Very excited for Dom6, I haven't heard anything about the changes but if it's going to be easier to engage with that makes me very excited! Finally I can get some more of my friends to play maybe...

The Master of Magic remake has taught me that when I want a remake of an old, much-beloved game, I really just want a lot more of it. The Master of Orion remake and so many others like it can leave me flat, but the new MoM was so careful to start from recreating the original so closely. All I wanted from it then was just a whole lot more--cue the Mythical Realms mod. The QoL update I really want for MoM is to be able to queue buildings that aren't unlocked now, but will be when the building comes up. Granary > Marketplace > Farmer's Market, why should I click into the city each and every time?!?

I completely agree about the Era evolution in 4X games. That's what appeals to me about Old World, but i've not played it yet and few people talk about it.

@joramhh1637

6 ай бұрын

You should try it, it's very good!

Love your content. Thanks for sharing!!!

Dominions 6!! Distant Worlds 2 & Shadow Empires are my 2 favorites for 2023. Both games are vastly improved from initial release.

@thibs2837

6 ай бұрын

Amazing games indeed :D

@joelrasdall7662

6 ай бұрын

Dom6 Dom6 Dom6! I felt like Das was speaking directly from my mind when he pointed out the reasons why he couldn't make it #1 on the list--but then said if "personal preference" was the only criterion, it would be #1 easily. Less than two weeks...

@Muzzlepaint

6 ай бұрын

@joelrasdall7662 In the darkest depths of winter, I shall rule my Dominions!!

Nice list, and appreciate seeing some games that werent on my radar. Im looking forward to the dlc for distant worlds2, release of dom6, and aurora 4x development - lots if updates to end 2023. Its not 4x or strategy, but an amazing game is tales of maj'eyal which is expecting another dlc this year.

I do hope there will be conquest of elisyum 6 Dominions 5 is ok But it lacks something That CoE5 has (with few mods) CoE5 lacks battle control management that DoM5 has But DoM5 lacks maneuver ,individuality and plane levels With few mods in CoE5 Each race is totally different game play And its hardcore Losing is always an option Even in late game Replayability very high

Gladius tactical aspect might be the best one for 4x games. So I am excited for Zephon

lol Alliance of the Sacred Suns keeps beeing pushed back, it really is vaporware at this point tbh

Very honest and great preview

The 42% review score for DW2 is 100% deserved. It's a great simulation and a stunningly tedious game. I know because I've played about 600 hours of it. Yes, I'm a masochist. Distinct borders would be great. Also, a better notifications system (filter out the important notifications from the MASS of spam), storyline tracking would be nice. Codebase/Matrix/Slitherine won't open up modding while people are paying twenty dollars per race DLC, for which you get 2 off sets of modular ship designs (ie each iteration of ship is the previous with more modules bolted on. Look at the ships, you'll see what I mean) and an almost always bugged and unsatisfying storyline for the new empire/race. You can never look back on previous discoveries to get an idea what you should be looking for next. They also need a searchable (and frankly better-organised) Galactopedia that hotlinks from the design screen, also a searchable map to find systems and planets. And hotlinks in the discoveries to take you to the useless co-ordinates they supply. Those coords meant something in DW:U, but are meaningless in DW2 because there's no grid. Why not a grid? DW2 is trivially easy unless you absolutely stack the difficulty, which means you're basically playing a different game to the AI. The correct way to scale difficulty would be to make the AI smarter, but I don't think they're capable of it. In Sandbox, every race plays the same. To be fair, I never played DW:U with winning conditions enabled, but I might have to try it with DW2 just so eg Teekan AI could "win" a game by hitting their goals, but still inevitably get flattened by the human if they chose to keep playing. The fact some people still want a multiplayer version of Distant Worlds 2 points to how many people just don't "get" it. DW2 is a game where you can legitimately spend half an hour perfecting a ship, then another half hour amending your fleet definitions to incorporate that new ship. These people play a default difficulty game, leaving the game part of the game to the AI, win easily and think it'd be neat to play with friends. 42% negative reviews is going easy on it because the active player base is so low right now that there can't be many new players coming to it, just people returning after the disastrous launch, seeing how many problems it still has and washing their hands of the game with a parting review. I wish there was ANY game that had the AI back-bone DW2 has, but with interesting gameplay. Star Ruler 2 scale and scope running with the fleet design and AI of DW2 would be a miraculous thing.

Same guy who did Armageddeon Empires did the original SI.

Surprised to hear the problems with modding in DW2. DW1 was a game with lots of mods, seems strange they would not have ensured easy modding from the start.

All hail the algorithm!

Alliance of the Sacred Suns has been on my wish list since July 2021 - since it is almost 3 years later, I doubt it will come out at all.

I agree with Das, replayability in MoM is way way more than AOW4 which is ironic given that AOW4 allows you to customize "everything" in races :) Master of Magic I admit the UI is not as slick, but it's just a superior game design. UI can be fixed, AOW4 is fundamentally broken design that cant be made more replayable...

Case and point: you convinced me to buy the expansion pass for GalCiv based on your opinion of the upcoming warlords

You need to mod CIV 6 where archers turn into better archers instead of tanks etc… then use magic for flying units and bombs etc… then it won’t feel like eras.

over 4500 hours in Dominions 5 and still the best. Cant wait for Dom 6!

By deviding this into 2 separate videos 1st for high budget high graphics and second for the rest you would appeal to far broader audience.

Did find two to add to my Wishlist Millennia and Cultures. I totally agree that GC/ Supernova and it's DLC are the #1 game ATM.

A game that looks very interesting - Antimatter

For LoG version of SI i can answer your question cause I have seen it asked a lot. They will not add the ability to make your own archfiend. They kind of went 50/50 here with letting players customize their loadout which you can do a fair bit with, but there are a few reasons they did not add the whole mechanic like how it was in OSI. I know one of the reasons is that just by having pre-set archfiends you know what to kind of expect to some degree from that player at least in terms of their ability. Also in case you or anyone else for that matter does not know, they are doing a multiplayer public beta on stream next Thursday 1/11/24. You just need one other player to play your game cause from what I understand you can't just do AI only games in that build, but if that is something that interest you it worth checking out. Also Stellaris nexus is a great game. But like you said it not stellaris at all, it way more like the twilight imperium series, so if you like games like TI4 or TI3 I would recommend it since unlike TI series it does not take 8-12 hours to finish a game.

To Clarify in MoM remake your settings ARE remembered. But not your custom Wizard setting.

oh no, another couple of game to the wishlist

Humankind would be my choice for the best. Along side master of magic and gladius.

have you tried world warfare & economics? looks similar to geopolitical sim series

still another good piece from dastactic. i feel informed about the attacks on my money

8:06 If these are the same dudes who made that CK in Space game, it looks good! 21:39 I used to like Planetray Annihilation, and this looked to be right up my alley. I have not been following it 29:39 Didn't know it existed! Nice! 36:52 I might keep an eye on it. :) I hope it succeeds! 43:05 THEY ANNOUNCED IT!? HYYYYYPPEEEEEEE!!!! I love Dominions so much. I really hope they keep Ind in, and that the old modders port some nations into it. Dominions is a very sick game, and a new installment is just what it needs. 46:23 More resources and less cheap magic is good change. I appreciate the granularity too 51:27 Quite hype as well

@Kyle-lx7xo

6 ай бұрын

That ck2 mod that was in space was amazing!!!!

@gabrote42

5 ай бұрын

@@Kyle-lx7xo I think it was a separate game, called, like, Star Dynasties or smth

I love distant worlds 1 and 2 But big map late game it crushes For me Always Annoying to build up to a point you want to go to war And thats where the game ends

Fun fact: yield was not going to have a hot-seat mode until I messaged a developer on Steam and he said he had never even thought of it until I brought it up and was going to try and add it into the game.

I'm really looking forward to the Warlords DLC too :)

Overboss has a demo out now.

Das love your content you and I share the same interests in games... but any chance of moving your vids up to 1440P ? Tnx

One thing I wish to mention regarding AoW 4 and how boring it gets. I find that the game suffers heavily from the snowball effect that a lot of strategy games fall into. Once I get to that point, the rest of the game feels like a mindless slog to mop everything up to the victory screen. At least, that's how it was when the game was relatively fresh from release.

I wonder if Civ 7 is going to be a drastic departure from 6. A bunch of devs left and have gone on to make other board game style games. Is Civ going real time? Abandoning tiles? Midnight Suns was a drastic departure from Xcom. Might they bo cooking a similat departure for Civ? To me it makes sense. Civ 6 is the ultimate board game style Civ game. Sure you could make another board game style game, but would it be better, or just different? Civ 6 felt like the continued development of Civ 5. It was the districts expansion basically. I dream of a real time Civ game. Empire Earth used to be this but there has been nothing else in over a decade.

Followed Civ for 20 years but if Seven is not EA right out of alpha and allow hands on player input it will be off my list after the disaster that Six ended up. Sad that the flagship of Empire builders has sunk to the level of a third rate indie game.

Life gets in the way of playing games so Stellaris Nexus is perfect for me. 4x for people in a hurry 😂

Das, you are wrong about AoW4: Primal Fury. It will add a new culture to the game, it litterally says that: "and a new primeval culture" Which is great, the game really lacks a nature based culture

I’m really looking forward to the Solium Infernum remake, but I agree with some critcism that the map looks a bit drab and uninteresting

thanks game grandpa :)

I just can’t get into the Songs of Silence game. I played the demo and really just hate the battles

No Old World?

Drop your rating/scoring method. You don't like it, we don't like it.

Das: I can't believe someone else also has AoW4 as their all-time favorite game. It's mine too. If you ever "play with the peasants" and want to try a coop or comp stomp of that, please let me know.

Not Shilling for this company and its slightly off topic but Sacred RPG is less than a dollar on Steam right now. Get it's amazing value for the money if you like text based games.

Civ7 could really abandon "leaders" theme. Why play over and over with nations we have today? Why deal again with Cleopatra leading egyptians from northern taigas? Look how Civ: Beyond Earth let you do. How we could shape look and behavior of our colonists. When you start as small tribe somewhere in northern forests of your generated continent, you should gain basic characteristics of northerners, diffrent tech and cultural perks you would unlock would shape your tribe to look more like Scandinavians, Slavs, Germans or Celts. You Spawn in the deserts, you get other tech and basic characteristics that will make you look like Egyptians, Arabs, Phoenicians, Assyrians or Subsaharan Africans. Game throws your tribe at the steppes, you start shaping your tribe with what you have, going for Hunnic, Mongolian or Kazah style. Maybe you are blessed to start on the coasts of warm sea, then you can shape your civilization to look like Romans, Greeks, Iberians or Thracians. If your tribe begins in wet and hot climate, and begins its journey in the jungles, you could go for Indian, Eastern Asian or Mezoamerican styles.

Birth of Cultures seems dead sadly.

Millennia has ERA DLC. In a Civ clone. How can anyone support such garbage. Edit: i do not think the game is garbage only the practice of over dlcing everything. Thank you for the video. Sorry for sounding rude.

Bad presentation