How much better is this than previous Spellforce?

[craig234]

I've bought numerous previous spellforce and not played yet. This looks like a nice game, but I'm looking at playing the previous or buying this one.

[NeoX]

Originally posted by craig234:

I've bought numerous previous spellforce and not played yet. This looks like a nice game, but I'm looking at playing the previous or buying this one.

I think the question is what type of gameplay your are looking for.
Here on this fanmade website you can see an overview of the main game entries and their gameplay styles with key-features:
https://www.spellforce.info/tab_thegames_features.php?lang=EN

I think there will be something you will like under all the games.

[craig234]

Thanks but that link didn't work. Sounds like you're saying it's very different.

[Butcher]

Main line spellforce 1-3 are RTS/RPG hybrid games. First 2 allowed you to zoom in and control your hero in 3rd person with WASD.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892975966

This one is turn based and sort of 4x. A mix of Master of Magic, Thea, Age of Wonders and Fantasy General 2.

How much better it is depends on what you looking for.

[NeoX]

Originally posted by craig234:

Thanks but that link didn't work. Sounds like you're saying it's very different.

The link works fine. Just give it a little time to load because of the animations.

[Arakus]

In my eyes this game is much better then the last Spellforce.

[Gorwe]

Originally posted by Arakus:

In my eyes this game is much better then the last Spellforce.

And in my eyes it's easily the worst SpellForce. Maybe they released it too early or I just don't like anything that even remotely smacks of 4x, who knows.

But to say that this half-mobile game is better than SF3 after all the additions is ... nonsense. You can like it better than 3, but better it is not.

[easytarget]

Hey look, he's taking the hate train on the road to other threads. All aboard!

[Gorwe]

Originally posted by easytarget:

Hey look, he's taking the hate train on the road to other threads. All aboard!

This is SpellForce, how can it be so bad, so boring?

[Arakus]

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Originally posted by Arakus:

In my eyes this game is much better then the last Spellforce.

And in my eyes it's easily the worst SpellForce. Maybe they released it too early or I just don't like anything that even remotely smacks of 4x, who knows.

But to say that this half-mobile game is better than SF3 after all the additions is ... nonsense. You can like it better than 3, but better it is not.

I can and will say that this game is much better because i think so.
If you like my answer or not, wayne....

[Heindal]

I played Spellforce III and even liked it, even so it had some issues. It had great voiceart and a compelling story, with different story branches. Conquest of Eo is completly different, it has no voice art and no RTS, but offers some nice mechanics for this type of games.

I'd say you can't compare them. This is an turn based exploration game, with complex and cool mechanics in the same game world and with references to the lore of Spellforce. The story is ok, crafting mechanic is entertaining and the different magic branches allows a fair replayability if you like to discover different playstyles.

[easytarget]

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Originally posted by easytarget:

Hey look, he's taking the hate train on the road to other threads. All aboard!

This is SpellForce, how can it be so bad, so boring?

I'm trying to decide how long it'll be before you drift off to haunt some other steam forum.

Spending 6 hours playing this and deciding you hate it suggests a relatively short attention span so it shouldn't be too long.

On the other hand you may be one of those that enjoys grinding on stuff you hate on, in which case it could take a bit longer.

I think I'll go with a week to 10 days.

/ the clock starts ticking, will be fun to see how long you last

[Robineus]

All the other spellforce games followed the model of rpg/rts which was unusual, most of them are punishingly hard compared to this. This one follows rpg/stragegy/turn based I don't think it's fair to compare them as they are very different but playing the other Spellforce games would give you a much clearer understanding of the lore in this one.