

What gives me pause is what i've seen of the strategic level of the game. I was instantly intrigued when I saw them casting spells to enhance their empire (i'm a bit of a sucker for magic in spite of what that favorites list above may have implied) and the tactical battles seemed potentially entertaining. It was shortly before I gave up on GC2 that I had found this game on Youtube being played by some of the people I watch regularly. The early game was ridiculously slow and the combat was simply dull (cinematic battles were not enough to make up for 0 input and a rock, paper, scissors combat mechanic.) Anyway, because of that I found myself looking for another 4x game that might be interesting enough to satisfy my desire to play 4x before moving onto something else in my Steam library. Recently, I found myself playing GalCiv 2 for the first time and I got bored of it very quickly. I loved games like MOO 1/2, Star Trek: BotF, Most of the Civ games (I was disappointed in the vanilla Civ V but the expansions made it much better,) Sins of a Solar Empire and Warlock: Master of the Arcane (I haven't played 2 yet.) I've played many more 4x games but those rank among the favorites I can remember atm. I'm no expert at 4x games but i've been playing them for a very long time now when the mood for some deeper strategy hits me. I know what many of you are probably thinking, "another one of these?" Well, I just haven't found an answer yet among the other threads I found while searching to finally convince me one way or the other so I thought i'd ask myself with more direct points.
