Been playing Caesar (pronounced Kai-Zar) 3's Augustus mod for the first time ever. Strange I never played these games back in the day despite being obsessed with AoE2 and SimCity.I'm having fun.
>>2433441these games have mods?what are some good onesI have played only pharaoh
>>2436560I think only Caesar III has meaningful mods by adding things that older entries in the series have like roadblocks. Otherwise I'm only aware of Pharaoh's widescreen .exe.>what are some good onesZeus is like Pharaoh's side-grade, it's pretty much the same gameplay but simplified in a lot of aspects. The campaign is focused on establishing colonies, playing the same city over missions and fulfilling gods requests/missions.Emperor is a straight upgrade, it has beautiful sprites and is the peak of the Impressions games genre. Must play if you played Pharaoh. Feng-shui mechanic is an oddball though.Caesar is the oldest but people swear it's very good even as it lacks things like roadblocks. I've never played it.
>>2433441read it as Impregnation Games GeneralI'm sure that means something about me
What does Augustus actually change? I'm not interested in installing Caesar 3+mod just for it to be a nothing burger that only adds roadblocks or something.
>>2436601Gameplay enhancements include:RoadblocksMarket special ordersGlobal labour poolPartial warehouse storageIncreased game limitsZoom controlsAnd more!
>>2436631See, that's not enough for me. I want more buildings or something. If it's just the same with quality of life, I got other games to play.
>>2436633Which games? Anything good?
>>2436576Emperor is great. My only complaint would be that I wish you couldn't solve literally every single level (except the last) in the game with a single housing block.
>>2436641Nothing you'd probably be interested in. Certainly no city builders.>Jurassic World Evolution 3>new Battlestar game>old Battlestar Deadlock gameI've played Caesar, didn't like it compared to Pharoah, and really if I wanted to play an Impression game, I'd just play Pharaoh. It'd take better monuments to make me interested in the Roman era.
>>2436631>takes all the challenging mechanics I refuse to play this game with mods. Yeah I know they changed things in Pharaoh, Zeus, and Emperor but those games also lack some soul of Caesar III
>>2436633Augustus does have more buildings. In fact, it adds Pharaoh style monuments with labor camps, guilds, phases and such. These are two trade-boosting buildings, the Pantheon and the new god-specific grand temples that all add perks when completed. The Colosseum and the Hippodrome are also now built in this manner - to compenstate, there are now free-built Arenas and Taverns for entertainment. There are new resources and production chains to get bricks, stone and concrete for the monuments. The cultural buildings (academy, school etc) now have an upgraded state. There's also a bunch of new smaller temples for needs satisfaction. There's a small graveyard mechanic where the new mausolea emit a massive negative desirability in a small radius around them but then boost it in a large one outside of the NIMBY area. There's a supply post through which you now feed your military and watchtowers/palisades as a cheap and shitty wall variant. And a shitload of decor of course.There's also mechanical changes like completely reworked citizen happiness and health.
I've been kicked out of my home and through no fault of my own
>>2436769>I refuse to play this game with mods.In my experience, that's usually something people say when they're too stupid to install even a simple mod. Besides, Augustus isn't just a regular mod. It changes so much and adds so much new content that it's practically a whole new game.
>>2436560Then you will absolutely love the universal workforce mod for Pharaoh.Aka the only mod you will ever need for that game.C3 modding scene is basically two autismos trying to out-do each other in the weirdest flex imaginable, while both missing the memo they are "fixing" a fundamentally different game than rest of the series and doing it in a completely wrong way.
>>2436769>muh sovl>C3Pick one.C3 was basically a tech demo for Pharaoh, to check if they can pull new mechanics after C2 for their upcoming game.It's a glorified object placement game as a result. Does Augustus trivalise it? Sure, but the challenge was always about how shit the game controls of your own city are, not the missions themselves
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>>2444383I take a fat smelly shit all over your retarded nigger face and opinion. Enjoy
Pirated a GoG copy of caeser III I'm getting black screen then nothing happens Tried running it on admin + compatability mode nothing happened
>>2455910Use Julius to play it without any problems:https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
>>2433441I loved the city building in this.It just needed better unit management for battles and stuff.So you'd think Stronghold would be perfect then for me? Wrong. From memory it kinda ruined the city building aspect of impression games and it was buggy to the point where the battle aspects were nearly as bad as impression games.But it was definitely on the right track ay?It was cooking.I think there have been some newer RTS games that try to emulate something like that, but it's not quite the same, especially the economic/administrative component and the logistical component. To me, having that component and then having solid battle/rts components is perfect. Anno and I think Tropico tries this a bit, it doesn't quite click for me though. For starters, having a grid system for placing buildings and shit just werks better. I noticed in Age of Mythology and RTS games post Red Alert 2 they just sort of felt buggy when you made things like walls. Walls are a nightmare in RTS games. The obvious game where this is disgusting is Kenshi. I love that game, but holy fuck those walls suck so bad and you end up having to load saves to work around bugs. That game has a very interesting way of doing it's economy and techs and whatnot though. Add a bit more administrative components and it becomes a bit like Impression games or Stronghold. Problem is, you can't really multiplayer with it. It's just not it's thing. It's more like Skyrim with some city building aspects and rts aspects. It's kinda warm though.If you get something that combines:>Caesar, Pharoah, Zeus, Emporer>Stronghold>AoE>Age of Myth>Warhammer, Warcraft 3>Red Alert>Simcity>Sims>Skyrim>Fallout>Anno>Rimworld>maybe Factorio (this might be asking too much)>GnomoriaThen you are a genius if it somehow functions at all though. That could just become a "Sizzler buffet milkshake" of a game though.
>>2444289>I HAVE NO PLACE TO LIVE!!!
>>2455910Firstly, Emporer is the best game in the series. Do we all agree?Secondly, see >>2455950You have Augustus(?) too.
>>2456177>Emporerwhats so good in it? does it actually have good combat? Personally i think Pharaoh has coolest aesthetic
>>2456183It's been a while so I can't really remember, but I remember trying Zeus and Caesar after it and it was missing a lot of QoL things. The combat is still kinda meh though.It just seemed a lot less buggier. You could route walkers better without relying on exploits to make sure they did what you wanted. Caesar's walkers are kinda dumb and buggy and things like gates, though still buggy in Emporer kek, were at least functional enough to not annoy me as much. So you could make some really interesting housing blocks that didn't look like ass. Caesar, to me, is like building a integrated processor and it just lacks humanisation in it's management maybe? It comes off like factorio only the pathing is a gamble.I can't remember specifically.It just had these unique components and things like Feng Shui legit make it interesting to me. It's completely meaningless superstition, but it's fun to manage kek.
>manage stupid meaningless superstitions, cultural processes and contracts in a game>fun!>manage stupid meaningless superstitions, cultural processes and contracts irl>I want to die!Life sure is strange.
why can't they make isometric games like this anymore?
What do you guys think of Tlatoani? I gotta get back to itThe only game like this I've played is Caesar II when I was a kid
Does Simcity Societies count as an Impressions game?
simcity 3000 was the last good simgame
>>2459034what part of it was made by Impressions Games?
>>2461994*2000
>>2457028I don't think about it at all
>>2456177+500 social credit
>>2444374It just makes Caesar 3 to be more like Zeus. Which is good, because Zeus is good.
Is nebuchadnezzar good?
>>2464588If my only son asked that I'd convert the entire family to judaism only so I could legally stone him to death.
>>2456183Emperor just has everything work right. The ability to program gates makes controlling walkers so much easier. You can set up districts really well. The art is great too.
