WH40K: DoW+Exps vs GalCiv2+Exps. Which is better and why?

[racofer]

Given WH40K's focus on the only real way to play games (that is, completely annihilating your enemies) and visceral combat, and then comparing it to GalCiv2's pussyfication with things like Diplomacy and Technological victory conditions, which game do you prefer and why?

Me, WH40K for the aforementioned reasons, plus I found GalCiv2 to be a game completely devoid of soul and inspiration. It felt like playing a game in an excel sheet for fucks sake.

Discuss!!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Warhammer 40k. Perfect setting for games.

 

[Turok]

First time i notice about warhammer was when i play Warhammer Dark Omen, i really like this game, the setting and the lore of the world is rich, i make my research after that about the warhammer and i found that this setting is just awesome for any game (specially rts and rpg). DoW is good, everyone i know love it, but i get pissed with the game getting near to the end of it, i preffer more DoW 2, this kind of game i really love and it make me remember the Dark omen one.

 

[MetalCraze]

I am a eurofag that believes in diplomacy and I managed to play only 1 GalCiv2 skirmish before getting tired of the game.

Therefore I vote for the only true way to play games - WH40K. In fact I'll say that anyone should be better off playing Alpha Centauri than GC2.

 

[crazy_dave]

Yeah, Warhammer rules... I really really tried to like GalCiv, but it was just a waste of time, because the races and the whole universe are plain boring. I also didn't like the supposedly funny comments in the research tree. It ruined my immershun..

At least in Warhammer you manly kick some heretic butt...

 

[PorkaMorka]

As a huge fan of TBS 4x and a huge RTS hater...

the answer is clearly DOW.

Galactic civilizations doesn't really seem like a game.

It just had no pay off, compared to how fun it can be to discover a new tech, explore or fight in MOO2 or SMAC.

I guess it was too highly abstracted and simulated at too high a level (in terms of distance from the action), such that everything was just numbers, you didn't get a thrill out of anything.

You build a space station + 1 influence and that's all it will ever do... AWESOME.

 

[Mefi]

Got to agree that GalCiv2 did absolutely nothing me, whereas I played a fair few hours on DoW.

Different games for sure, but GalCiv2 just seemed to be the epitomy of how to suck fun out of 4x while DoW was actually a lot of RTS fun. The half-assed Total War 'strategy' was crap in DoW though. Do it properly or not at all fags.

 

[poocolator]

I managed to play only 1 GalCiv2 skirmish before getting tired of the game.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Maybe if GalCiv actually did something interesting with diplomacy(I.e. make the aliens ALIEN and not just different looking humans with different bonuses) it would be interesting.

As it is, war is the motherfucking anwer.

[Edit]Oh wait, you're counting DoW expansions too? Well in that case no one wins. Expansions fucking ruined that game.

 

[Syvere]

DoW1 is pretty sweet, but DoW2 is even better. I just hope they release expansion packs so we can play with all DoW1 races.

 

[entertainer]

Both suck.

 

[Trithne]

Try Sword of the Stars for galciv2-scale sweeping across the galaxy, combined with the only real way to win being utter annihilation. Up until the last expansion you couldn't even claim an enemy world without glassing it.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

DoW1 is pretty sweet, but DoW2 is even better.

You played it? Wasn't it too depressing?

 

[Hoaxmetal]

DoW1 is pretty sweet, but DoW2 is even better.

U MAD

 

[Wulfstand]

DoW 2 was kinda bad in sp,mainly becouse of the fact that it's campaign had 4-5 types of missions,the game offering very repetitve gameplay.The only nice part about DoW 2 was it's last mission,which was really well done and suitably epic, giving you a really nice epic feeling.

Also my vote goes for DoW 1, which offered me,alongside AoE 2, some of the most memorable skirmishes in terms of epic-scaling and fun.

 

[JarlFrank]

Didn't like DoW that much but it was still vastly superior to GalCiv 2 which I really tried to like but... it's just too boring. One of the most bland space 4x games out there. MoO2 is still the best, and even the buggy Space Empires series is more fun than GalCiv2.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

 

[Qah]

One's turn based and the other is Real time, so should we even be comparing these games?

Also, DOW2 for the fact that i like shooting first and diplomatically making friends later.