I played the original colonization, a few years after it came out (I used to play a lot of strategy videogames). It was a really nice game to play.
I tried FreeCol a few years ago, when I had a free afternoon. It was kind of ok, but not particularly attractive. Most likely, I got older :)
I still praise the efforts of developers that, mostly for free, try to replicate great games from the past.
I even gave a look at FreeOrion, because Master of Orion 2 was my favorite game ever. Not as great. I think there's an easy option to play MoO2 if you buy if for a few bucks online, e.g. on Steam [0]
There's also the great Master of Magic. A developer from Japan created a complete overhaul of the game, and published it for free as a patch. I remember reading that someone bought the rights of the game from... Atari? ... And they're now developing a new version of it, and the Japanese guy is involved. Nice way to end the story :)
Strategy games are a ton of fun. A pity that I mostly played them alone, when I was a kid. Today I guess it's all about social, like Fortnite?
Regarding Master of Magic, there's a Java reimplementation that looks pretty good and I think worth checking out called MoM-IME [1]
For all other things about Master of Magic, Blake's website [2] has a good curated list. Warning: Blake took 90's website design & styling very seriously :)
Edit: from Blake's sanctum, I had no idea this existed!!
> I recently and excitedly discovered that Simtex and Micropose did indeed do a followup MoM game called Civizard - Majutsu no Keifu, a PlayStation remake of Master of Magic with totally new graphics and a remastered soundtrack. Sadly the game was only released in Japan hence why most of the western world have no idea this even exists.
I tried FreeCol a few years ago, when I had a free afternoon. It was kind of ok, but not particularly attractive. Most likely, I got older :)
I still praise the efforts of developers that, mostly for free, try to replicate great games from the past.
I even gave a look at FreeOrion, because Master of Orion 2 was my favorite game ever. Not as great. I think there's an easy option to play MoO2 if you buy if for a few bucks online, e.g. on Steam [0]
There's also the great Master of Magic. A developer from Japan created a complete overhaul of the game, and published it for free as a patch. I remember reading that someone bought the rights of the game from... Atari? ... And they're now developing a new version of it, and the Japanese guy is involved. Nice way to end the story :)
Strategy games are a ton of fun. A pity that I mostly played them alone, when I was a kid. Today I guess it's all about social, like Fortnite?
[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/410980/Master_of_Orion_2/