Black and White 2

[frogbeastegg]

I hated how the villagers kept on "We need Home!" "We need food!" constantly. It was a great game, but that was so annoying that I didn't get past the 3rd island.

My abiding memory of the game. "We need food!" "We need wood!" We want children! Gah! I'm not getting involved in that last; do it yourselves! No matter what I did they were never satisfied; fill one whinging complaint and they always got another. I remember killing entire populations to shut that voice up, every last little person. The voice kept going. Endlessly. Even though no one was there ....

Nice to see some people had success with training their creature. I never really did. My ape (I wanted a horse! Gah! No fair on the limited avatar selection at the start!) ate a villager, so I slapped it around a bit. It ate another one, so I kicked it until it could barely stand. It then ate villages frequently for the rest of its life. Nothing I did influenced its behaviour much; petting, slapping, casting rain spells on it, throwing huge rocks and trees at it ...

I started as a good god endured as good until half way into mission 3, got driven insane after a while, began a new campaign with a new creature and found that didn't help, then went on a rampage in a last ditch effort to shut the voice up and get the creature to stop treading on buildings.

As you might have guessed by now I didn't like the original game much. I was not expecting to have a fiddly RTS thrown in along with the heavily advertised creature, magic, god and flexible universe stuff. In addition to the voice and stupid creature it was too much; I lost interest.

I did like the two consciences though, the little guy on his cloud and the devil.

[Productivity]

frogbeatsegg's comment about the management of the villagers showed why multiplayer realyl shined in B&W. If you could find a friend who liked the opposite to you, it worked really well. In my case I loved managing the economy (I'm studying economics/human geography, so no suprises there really ), but didn't have much interest in the creature. Anyway, in multiplayer, I allways ran the village, and my friend dealt with the creature.

[DisruptorX]

Anyone else figure out the burning rock tactic? Here's how it worked, you found as many stones as you could, and placed them/threw them so that they were touching the AI's temple. Then you set them on fire with fireball. The funny part is that stones don't go out, they act as tinder. So basically, your enemy's entire kingdom would burn up and he would die.

Naturally, the AI player wouldn't pick up the burning stones and move them.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Heehee, i did that too. btw, FrogBeastEgg, i feel your pain. I once destroyed an entire campaign, trying to kill the voice. I had made a huge city, named Pinewood, on Island 2, with about 3000 people living in it. And at the other end of the island there was another city, Napalos, with a population of 1500. Both of them had 5+ huge wonders that towered over the skyline. You can just imagine the mayhem and devastation that ensued when i started throwing fireballs on random houses. Huge fires spread across both cities, killing thousands and causing a fire visible from space. Then, once it was all razed to the ground, i gathered the few survivors and started the cities all over!!