Master of Orion 2

[Chaos Descending]

Who DOESN'T love this classic game? I was soooo disappointed in MOO3. It felt like doing my taxes for "fun".

GalCiv has been a nice substitute, but IMHO it doesn't capture the magic that MOO2 had.

I really wish someone would make a MOO4 that serves as a truly worthy sequel/successor to MOO2.

 

[Plecostomus]

Who DOESN'T love this classic game? I was soooo disappointed in MOO3. It felt like doing my taxes for "fun".

GalCiv has been a nice substitute, but IMHO it doesn't capture the magic that MOO2 had.

I really wish someone would make a MOO4 that serves as a truly worthy sequel/successor to MOO2.

I wish I could get it running on my computer.

One of these days I'm going to have to make an "Old Slow Box" to play classic games on.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Download DOSBox and run MOO2 on that. That's how I roll.

 

[Jono]

I don't love MoO2 and think that GalCiv2 is a far better game. I do agree that MoO3 was terrible, I wasted my money on it and tried to play it for a few days and now its buried deep in my CD piles never to be played again.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I enjoy GalCiv2 fairly well. I love the ability to create almost any kind of spaceship I want. My only beef with GalCiv2 is that the game can get too busy, but it's quite fun regardless.

 

[Angry Angel]

Never played 2, but I've always played Master of Orion, and sometimes still do. It's one of those games like Colonization that I can get a real urge for.

 

[AdAstra]

I never did quite manage to get into GalCiv...

I loved MOO2, and I did give MOO3 a try more than once, always fooling myself into thinking "It can't have been that bad". But it was!
There were good ideas in there, I love the whole Senate and politics mumbojumbo, but well, it didn't work.

 

[TEH BABA]

Hearts of iron3 will have a ship design component .

 

[firehawk12]

I've got to go back into MOO3 sometime. People claim that if you don't play it like MOO2 and just let some of the automation happen, it's actually a good/if not better game.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I love MOO2. I would often play it just for the ambient soundtrack. I always play as the Trilarians.

 

[Hoser]

I always play as my own civ. I love doing that.
MOO3 was the biggest disappointment of my gaming history. Heck, most of the post-XCOM games I can play again for fun, but the other day I saw my son spinning a MOO3 CD on the floor and didn't really care about it.
Galactic Civs is probably the best homage to these games that ever existed.

 

[clint g]

I never played Masters of orion but I did pick up GalCiv2. I liked the game but I keep on getting my ass kicked. I don't think I can handle the genre

 

[Jono]

I never played Masters of orion but I did pick up GalCiv2. I liked the game but I keep on getting my ass kicked. I don't think I can handle the genre

I was the same when I started but I found that the online community is pretty good and there are lots of helpful tips in the official forums on how to become a better player.

 

[MNM]

I never played Masters of orion but I did pick up GalCiv2. I liked the game but I keep on getting my ass kicked. I don't think I can handle the genre

A couple of quick codes to increase your money and clone any ship you want, and that game becomes a lot of fun!

I loved Master of Orion 2, I played it so often the cd broke in my drive.

 

[Cain]

Love, love, love Master of Orion 2. One of my all time favorites. I was also disgusted by MOO3. Horrible game. I actually ended up returning it after a few days.

Sins of a Solar Empire actually scratches my Master of Orion itch these days. It's a real time strategy game, so it plays quite differently than MOO, but it manages to capture the feel of it for me.

 

[Plecostomus]

...of course now I can't find my MOO2 disk anywhere. Bah!

 

[Chaos Descending]

Love, love, love Master of Orion 2. One of my all time favorites. I was also disgusted by MOO3. Horrible game. I actually ended up returning it after a few days.

Sins of a Solar Empire actually scratches my Master of Orion itch these days. It's a real time strategy game, so it plays quite differently than MOO, but it manages to capture the feel of it for me.

By brother-in-law mention that game. I keep meaning to try it.

 

[Holdfast]

MOO3 was a godawful pain in the ass. It was more an exercise in how much automation you should invoke rather than how to play the game since, as the OP rightly points out, it was more complicated than taxes.

I have no idea where my MOO2 disc is. Lost/broken I assume. And probably unplayable on my current PC anyway. Oh well...

 

[Davros]

I loved the original never played the second one but hated the third.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I think MOO3 is almost universally reviled. I installed it a few separate times, wondering each time if I'd unfairly judged it as utterly lacking in fun... and was reminded each time why it was deleted last time. Ugh. So much potential, wasted.