On: The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)

[AdeptusAquinas]

Master of Magic has been on every PC I've owned as well. And gog.com's version was the first thing I installed on my newest Win10 laptop a few months ago: Runs with no problems :)

[Razengan → AdeptusAquinas]

There's a new Master of Orion game coming out too :)

http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion

[eru → Razengan]

Alas, no resource sliders, and a tech tree instead of tech ladders with holes in them. So more like a reboot of MoO2 than MoO.

[Goladus → AdeptusAquinas]

This is such a weird coincidence. I've been listening to The History of Rome podcast [1] and was getting the itch to play some civilization/strategy. I literally downloaded Master of Magic from gog.com (had purchased it there years ago) about 20 minutes ago.

[1] http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

[AdeptusAquinas → Goladus]

Quite a lot of strategy in MOM. In a way, the several unbalanced units, psychopathic AI and diversity of units and spells adds up to quite a compelling and deep game, even by modern standards :)

[Natsu → AdeptusAquinas]

That's quite a fun game.

Archmage + channeler + confusion spam can win so many otherwise unwinnable battles. And yes, I have alechemist to keep up the mana supply, so I have almost no spells or troops and still win fights with my magic spirit scouts.

Naturally I use Rjack's portrait as I'd prefer not to face him in game with a strategy like this.

[AdeptusAquinas → Natsu]

Chaos mages like Tauron are painful on the highest difficulties :) That Armageddon spell, volcanoes everywhere!