Disciples II - with all the talk of DIII's major letdown, it got me hankering once again to try my hand (or paw, as it were) as the TBS genre. Fun as they look, I just can never stay awake for theses games. It's the gold edition, so it's got tons of stuff, like everything DII the total package. I love the artwork, the maps, the characters, the sound is great (I crank it up, it's awesome played loud), glot it's a gorgeously made 2d game. Played 3 hours and tried a couple different sides (empire, legion of the damned) and had great fun. Stayed wide awake!
Part of it is the fact that there's less choice in battle, yet some solid strategy still in the overall game. I really like the two-rank fixed position thing more than the hexes, and the fact that there arent just tons of stacks of creatures. The battles are fun, relatively quick, and challenging. Kings Bounty and HOMMV were just snoozefests for me, huge nebulous battles just dragging on and on… buying more and more stacks of creatures… ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
Disciples II is the game.
Also, like everyone else slogging away at Starcraft II, and also replaying Witcher on the Squirrls side.
I'm liking this new "variety in gaming" type philosophy that I have. More and more I play multiple games now instead of focusing on just one til I'm done w/ it. It takes forever to actually finish a title now, but I'm having more fun in getting in the different styles.