Game News Age of Wonders 3 announced. Coming this fall

[Whisky]

Tags: Age of Wonders; Triumph Studios

Age of Wonders 3 officially announced and set for a PC release this fall.

Sounds like there is potential for a Mac release along with tablets, for those of you interested. Regardless, I'm sure a new Age of Wonders is welcome news.

Check out more here.

 

[thesheeep]

Great news!
And they are keeping all the good stuff, too! TB combat, "real-time" simultaneous turns on the map.
More classes, lots of races.

 

[commie]

This may come as sacrilege gere but I hope there is a tablet release since I just bought one to try it out and they certainly fill a niche for me between laptop and PC. Strategy games like this are ideal for a touch interface and they are powerful enough to pull something like this along.

 

[Trash]

The first trailer at least brings back that AoW1 vibe regarding artstyle and cutscenes. It's an amazing series so I hope they'll do it justice.

 

[aleph]

This is really great news. I hope they don't fuck this up.

 

[Niektory]

It's not the same in 3D.

Still, do want!

 

[Kane]

 

[EruDaan]

I want my customable wizards... and my 300+ spells. And I want my types of magic feeling different from each other. Death magic: curses, summoning of undead. Life Magic: Blessings for towns and units. Nature: protective spells and massive amounts of summonings. Fire Magic: destructive spells and summonings of fierce creatures. Air: illusions, Air Power (flying, protection against missles and flyers, etc), ice damage, etc.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I hope they wont try to innovate so much and damage ye'olde formula much. It seems they still use same old style for cutscene which is miles better than ridiculous and shallow 3D cuts scenes like Heroes 5&6

 

[SCO]

Weird camera angle.

Also i guess it lost that 'tile' look with the small tiles with disproportionate elements (except units lol). But if tactcool combat is in; i'm in.

Hope stacking is still in (edit: it's in, there are numbers on the flags); moving armies would be a nightmare other wise (even with group select, since you naturally don't want to expose weak units... more than they are already by stack flanking that is).

They say they're doing a editor, but are already planning campaign dlc ohohoh, i smell rats.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I really hate DLC talk when game itself not even out yet... Todays gaming world became just another greedy market business.

Edit: Unfortunately it is a "Demand and supply" problem...

 

[SCO]

I wonder if there is going to be a day-night cycle.

 

[Angthoron]

Cautiously fapping.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Cautiously fapping.

Don't hon. They haven't yet posted pics of youthful devs.

 

[Angthoron]

Cautiously fapping.

Don't hon. They haven't yet posted pics of youthful devs.

Is there still a chance they'll post a Dev Humiliation video like City of Steam did?

 

[Captain Shrek]

No clue. Have no idea what city of steam even is.

 

[SCO]

BTW, i just noticed the other day that AoW1 has group select (for group movement of stacks). Cool

 

[Commissar Draco]

Bleh 3D won't buy.

 

[SCO]

The flags look a bit annoying. Couldn't they go for colour scheme/more minimalistic indicator to show allegiance and numbers?

Also the units on the city looks a bit bad; things get a bit ugly when a 3d large unit is overlayed over shadow causing objects like that. I wouldn't mind that units on cities got 'hidden', though i can see it getting annoying if there is no other indicator or it's not accessible enough.

 

[SCO]

Here is the larger screenshot:

Personally, i think, if you're going to do animations on the unit strategic map, you might as well make a special case to 'face' a opponent if it's hex joins up it yours on 1v1 scenarios (that tower and the unicorn rider at the bridge there - but maybe the rider is passing through).

 

[EruDaan]

The game follows the same trend that started as soon as the hardware race on the PC begun... better grafics even if not needed. Can't have critics and reviewers say something about pre 2000 grafics on our new game, can't we? Even if said game isn't directed at the mass marked (but it wouldnt surprise me if someone finally says something about "we want to bring new players to the genre...").
I kinda like the grafics so far. Even if they will surely rely on unjustified hardware requirements.

 

[Trash]

Looks nice enough. Especially like the little attention to details such as the fields and small buildings radiating away from that city.

 

[Goliath]

Here is the larger screenshot:

"Better graphics" my ass. HoMM3 looked better than this in the 90s:

3D is not necessary an improvement, and it certainly isn't if you do it like this. Those 3D graphics look soulless and sterile, almost like a budget title. Fuck this.
I would prefer the AoW2 look any day.

 

[SCO]

That was already in AoW 2, as well as the 'penetrating' tiles (look at the forest in the city in the north side of the city).

 

[Jasede]

I don't think you realize how extremely expensive/time-consuming it is to make high-resolution 2D graphics.
Also I just tried to play HoMM 3 and it's unplayable on modern resolutions. I wish I had kept my 13" CRT.

I find the screenshot okay. It doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be utilitarian. I wish I could see the UI and I sincerely hope you can zoom out more.