Software companies
Joseph Hoane wrote:
PS I like Railroad Tycoon II. It's just the same but bigger, better, more. I also can't wait for HeroesOfMightandMagic III. Bigger, better, more of a good thing, I hope. Dune 2000 was exactly the same as Dune 2, just updated to the newest engine and user interface tweaks. It was not bigger, better, more.
Joseph,
There are a few companies from whom I'll buy any title they produce. Right now these are Pop Top (makers of RTII, HOMM, HOMMII, HOMMIII), CaveDog, Firaxis, and Blizzard (makers of, well, you know). They have a history of producing relatively bug-free games, with good gameplay.
Similarly, there are a few companies from whom I will have to read a review before buying another game from them. These are Sierra (NOT Papyrus produced games, or certain adventure lines like King's Quest and Gabriel Knight) and Westwood. I'm sure I'm forgetting some companies here.
Then there are the companies which produce games with great gameplay and strategy, but suck with the interfaces and have exceedingly buggy libraries. Chief of these were the Microprose and Avalon Hill games produced by Sim-Tex. Their DOS library for MOM sucked so badly, I created a partition solely for their games, called "SIMTEX_SUX". After exiting a game of MOM, it screwed up your COMMAND.COM so badly that if you typed "DIR", it might scramble the FAT on the drive. Lovely! (This was fixed in patch 1.22)
Tim "History of Gaming 101" Burnett |
