#Goodgame empire flash update#

Sure, it's a casual game from a developer who usually makes casual, social titles, but this 'halfway' approach to nice, semi-realistic combat is a bit more frustrating than combat that doesn't attempt realism at all. But then we are faced with completely unrealistic combat systems like instantly completed battles and no real loss to the defending castle except for some building damage, small troop reductions, and some plundered goods. My issue with combat like this is that there are attempts to make it more 'realistic' like long marching times and assigning troops and equipment to certain castle 'slots' to represent sieging a castle.

#Goodgame empire flash update#

Minutes or hours later (depending on the distance), you'll receive an update in your in-game mail that tells you whether you succeeded.

You will find a target on the large in-game map, scout it out or send a spy to perform some espionage, and then send an army of your soldiers or a pack of hired mercenaries to attack. The combat is pretty typical but executed well. As I mentioned, the artwork is fantastic if you like art that feels hand-created and stylized. Having said all that, I do think that Goodgame Empire is a decent take on the genre. That's because most of these issues stem from the lack of truly original takes on the genre, something that only a person who has explored dozens of the titles would notice. For them, the issues I found with Goodgame Empire would probably not be very apparent. They log in, set an army on its way to battle, build a few buildings, and collect a daily login bonus. I've met people who literally play only one game or a handful of games, an MMORTS being one of the main ones.

The truth is that if you are new to the genre, you can probably find a nice MMORTS and settle down for some truly fun times. (Forgive the embedded video Twitch cut it off halfway.)

Watch live video from massivelytv on TwitchTV After all, every other developer and publisher makes one! But I just wish these games were born with the goal of creating original content rather than creating Yet Another MMORTS Clone. I can appreciate a developer's need to make some money, and I can really appreciate it when a developer decides to make 'one of those games with the cities and armies' that seem to make money. Goodgame Empire is a good game, really, and does some very original stuff when it can, but I just wish more MMORTSes would stop selling the same basic speed-ups, basic resource buffs, and occasional units that we've seen in every other MMORTS. Sure, I can understand repeated concepts like levels or classes, but when one game appears to have pasted new graphics over pre-existing games, I become more than a little bored. I don't like it when I see the same designs popping up over and over. I just have the same problem with cash shops as I do with any other part of MMOs: I can't stand when I recognize patterns. Heck, I'm perfectly fine with selling 'power' and have often paid for powerful items. For the record (and in case you have never read one of my articles), I am all for of cash shops and virtual goodies. See, it's a group of games that often borrows heavily from each other more than most, and the genre has come to rely heavily on cash shops and virtual purchases. It's unfortunate that the game shares so much with the rest of the MMORTS genre. Goodgame Empire is a pretty typical MMORTS.