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Pride of Nations

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Just thought I'd give a shout out for a game that's coming out soon (June 7th) called Pride of Nations by AGEOD. AGEOD or Paradox France is a company that

has released many excellent war games. Also Philippe Thibaut who is a co-developer of the game is the original creator of Europa Universalis. It's a turn based grand strategy game that looks to provide real historical insight into why history unfolded the way it did.

 

This game is going to be deep and complex and should accurately portray the time period (1850-1920) that it's set in. You can play one of the 8 great powers. Great Britain, France, Prussia, USA, Russia, Japan, Sardinia-Piedmont or Austria-Hungary.

Each nation has it's strengths and weaknesses and the game will focus on realism and keeping things roughly historical. (Although there are options for Sandbox

play as well.) Turns are 2 weeks long and there will be 1680 turns in all for the Grand Campaign.

 

The military aspect will be excellent as they have refined the AGE (Adaptive Game Engine) through many successive games. Attention to detail with accurate portrayals of thousands of historic military leaders of the time and over 500 different attributes for them. The economic, diplomatic as well as colonization parts of the game also look very deep and realistic.

 

Anyway, this game is not for the faint of heart but anyone who loves historical realism and a deep, complex game would be interested.

Best of all, it's only $20. It won't appeal to a lot of people I'm sure but it's a game I'm excited about. BTW, I don't work for them and I'm not a beta tester or anything. :P I just love history and grand strategy. ^^

 

You can download the demo now:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?538924-The-Demo

 

Pride of Nations page here:

http://www.prideofnationsgame.com/

 

Here are the Paradox Forums for the game:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?558-Pride-of-Nations

 

Finally, here is a short walkthrough of the game:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?538568-Pride-of-Nations-Video-Walkthrough-Released!

 

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Campaigner, reply 25

Quoting Thormodr, reply 23
However, if a thread pops up on an upcoming FPS or something I have no interest in, I'm certainly not going to go in there and tell people, "Don't like it. It's boring. I'd rather commit suicide than play it." What the heck is the point in that other than to be a dick?




 

I didn't mean to come off like that. I just said what I thought about it.

 

You start a thread about an upcoming game so I thought I'd give my input about it. If only yesmen participate then it becomes 'false'.

I started a thread about the Battlereport 3 for StarCraft II and one guy with the FinalFantasy blackmage critisized it and I thought that was alright (or atleast I do know).

 

I also have a horn in the side to people who praise complex TBS games and talk lots of crap about RTS since I've encounted some of'em here and I've been WAY too nice to them in the past. So I'm speaking my mind much more now and if conflict comes then let loose the hounds of forumwar

 

No problem. Criticizing Pride of Nations is fine of course. I just thought the "committing suicide" bit was a little too much. :P

 

Most RTS games are not for me. I am not into Starcraft at all for example. I did really like Rise of Nations though.

 

I have a wide range of interests as far as games go. I love turn based strategy but I also like RPGs like Baldur's Gate as well as hack and slash like Diablo or Torchlight.

 

Anyway, it's all good. Plus, I have found Pride of Nations to be quite addictive. It's got that "one more turn" feeling that Civ used to have. (They totally lost that with Civilization 5 though in my opinion.) Hope you have an addicting game like that yourself that you are playing. :)