worth getting?

[Ryuuaki]

didn't play the original.. but i played children of the nile.. well still do sometimes.. is this similar and is it worth getting?

[DirewolfTH]

Pharaoh (and a handful of other Sierra's games) is unique in that it's a "walker" type game.

Buildings, instead of affecting the area around it, produce NPC that travese the street. And it is to the buildings these walker can reach that receive the effects. For ex a police station doesn't immedialtely lower crime rate, instead it sends out police that will lower the crimes of the house he passes. Storages and warehouses have limited amount of workers they can send out to fetch and deliver goods. And they can only follow the streets you laid for them so there's some thinking required to help optimize your industry.

Understanding this mechanics and designing the path to accomodate it, is something no other games can offer. For the past 20 years nothing scratches my Pharaoh itch except Pharaoh.

[JayFlow521]

i'd wait a month or two. the game is borderline unplayable with all the bugs, glitches, and save file corruptions.

[Silvi the Bun]

Pharaoh is a very good game - the OG one that is; I'd wait with this one as it has plenty of UI issues (no minimap, no map rotation, no way to disable edge scrolling, very small font on some adviser screens and information panels, no UI scaling in general) and some bugs that really get in the way of fun. I'ts a decent remake, but definitely needs patching. There are also some issues that it needs to resolve (for example without military like in the OG, there is no way to deal with wildlife, there are issues with goods crossing water, sometimes monuments get stuck and have to be re-built due to some weird bugs with workers, and quite a few other little irritations that pile up.)

[Sky]

Im a 20 year veteran and loving it

[Federcio2]

Instant buy. For 19€ it's okay.

[Ryuuaki]

cheers guys

[Bazdin]

I'm waiting for a few months before I'll even consider getting this game or any new game for that matter. I hope they can make it right.

[IRNMDN54]

I loved the original. This game is very glitchy and does not have a good flow to it. I played for 10 minutes before I just exited out of the game

[HellSlayer]

One of the best city builders.. best ui and music and art.. its not overly complex compared to some other games so you feel like you playing a video game rather than doing work. Later missions do become complex but by that time you become really good at the game.

[Rocket]

Not this year

[la_nague]

it seems to have progression ending bugs, ill wait.

[Ryuuaki]

thx i will wait for now

[HellSlayer]

Originally posted by Ryuuaki:

thx i will wait for now

I mean if you really want to play then why not? It has and will have some small annoyances but overall how long will you wait? If you got no games to play then no reason. Its not 60€ game where you can say - i will wait until they bugfix.. and maybe discount too someday..

[Dread]

Originally posted by HellSlayer:

Originally posted by Ryuuaki:

thx i will wait for now

I mean if you really want to play then why not? It has and will have some small annoyances but overall how long will you wait? If you got no games to play then no reason. Its not 60€ game where you can say - i will wait until they bugfix.. and maybe discount too someday..

I think its better to wait for bug-fixes and QOL-changes which will hopefully come. No reason to buy the game now if you can wait until it is better.

They should have released it in EA and put another 6 month of work into it.

[Jimi]

I haven't had a single bug so I guess I'm lucky. I'm enjoying it lots, I have no problem with the UI, it's fine (thumbnails on left side could be better) There will never be map rotation because the game was not made that way, it's isometric. It has a flatmode (press F) which is more than adequate to 'see around the corner'.