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[TheDarkStar]

I just saw that Wargaming was developing a MoO reboot.

Wargaming article on it (they're the ones who own the rights to MoO).

PC gamer article with trailer.

The video doesn't appear to show any real gameplay, but the game could be good, especially since the development team will have "key members from the original Master of Orion".

[Fikes]

Huh. I was expecting civilization 6 next after the xcom and fallout annoucements. There is less information here than with either of those and that makes me nervous.

[TheDarkStar]

Huh. I was expecting civilization 6 next after the xcom and fallout annoucements. There is less information here than with either of those and that makes me nervous.

Yeah, I'm waiting to get hyped until substantial information shows up.

[Mephansteras]

Ugg, that announcer voice was terrible. Sounds more like the voice you'd use for a cheesy parody game.

Oh, there is a website up for the game already: http://masteroforion.com/en/

Nothing really good there yet but...we'll see. I'm going to avoid getting too hyped for now. I've never played any of the studios other games...or heard of them, actually. But none of the ones listed on the developer site are Strategy games at all. I can only hope they brought in enough good people for this one to make a decent game.

[Flying Dice]

It's WG, so prepare to have your hopes and dreams crushed by the heel of Russian capitalism and WG's truly legendary respect for players.

[Frumple]

Nah Meph, something like half their games are strategy. Not terribly well known ones, so far as I can recall, though.

But, uh. Yeah, the people that have spent the last half decade or so churning out those world of X games doing a MoO remake is... not the most encouraging of thoughts. Maybe it'll turn out well! We'll see. I'll just be over here, breathing regularly. No breath holding.

[Flying Dice]

I'm just saying, it doesn't matter what you think about the quality of their games. WG has a consistent history of not giving a shit about non-Russian players, of ignoring serious problems with their games, banning people from their forums for dissent, conducting astroturf propaganda campaigns against their competitors, and first selling then promptly nerfing pay-to-win features. They're not the last people I'd trust to reboot a beloved series with the care it deserves, but they're close.

tl;dr maybe it won't be Duke Nukem Takingook Forever, but don't get your hopes up.

[Mephansteras]

Nah Meph, something like half their games are strategy. Not terribly well known ones, so far as I can recall, though.

I was talking about the developer, NGD Studios, not the Publisher, which is Wargaming.

[Fikes]

For some reason, something in that post made me think it would be (shudder) real time.

[Frumple]

I was talking about the developer, NGD Studios, not the Publisher, which is Wargaming.

Ah, didn't even notice that. It does look like NGD Studios inherited the members of another group that did do some strategy games, though. Maybe. Looks like one of the originator groups that formed up to make NGD was something called Conde Software, which did few back in '95-'97.

... seems like the games may have never made it out of Argentina/South America, though. And that was a long bloody time ago for a software development company, so who knows if they still have the same people involved.

Though yeah, Fikes, if the only existent pedigree involved is anything to go by (which, being fair, is from like two decades ago and probably shouldn't be gone by), then RTS is... possible. Which, I mean. Distant Worlds managed alright, right? It's not impossible to have a nice sci-fi 4x that just happens to be real time.

[gimli]

Wut? World of Spaceships?

[Jopax]

The head honchos at WG did say they were fans of the original MoO (IIRC, not entirely sure where or when was this said) so I think they'll atleast try and make it decent.

[cerapa]

I am at my lowest possible state of hype. I am more hyped about the possibility of eating a sandwich tomorrow than I am for this reboot.

I suppose there's a chance that it's pretty much a copy of MoO 2 with a few features tacked on, which does actually sound like a vaguely decent game. Or it might just be MoO 3 with a few features tacked on, which would be terrible.

[gimli]

I am at my lowest possible state of hype. I am more hyped about the possibility of eating a sandwich tomorrow than I am for this reboot.

Same here, but hope dies last.

[a1s]

WG has a consistent history of not giving a shit about non-Russian players, of ignoring serious problems , banning people  for dissent, conducting astroturf propaganda campaigns , and first selling then promptly nerfing pay-to-win.

So... Wargaming.net is Russia the company?