[Game] Stronghold 3

[Merin Redplate]

I'm assuming the lot of you have heard of/played the older Strongholds so, perhaps this may appeal to you.
A brief summary;

"Stronghold 3 is the long-awaited third installment in the award winning castle-building series. Set 10 years after the original, the Wolf it seems, has cheated death and during his painful recovery he

 

[Xendance]

Looks awesome, will definitely keep my eye on this.

 

[DraKon2k]

I wish more RTS games had SCII-esque storytelling/gameplay inbetween missions, then I'd probably also play them.

 

[husbert]

played stronghold 1 and stronghold crusader HOURS
LAN and single, and spend HOURS in the mapeditor


but i didnt buy stronghold 2.

 

[hockeywarrior]

I'm cautiously excited about this! I LOVED the original Stronghold and logged countless hours on it back in the day. The best part was being able to make castles for your friends to siege.

Stronghold 2 was a bitter disappointment. Hopefully they don't let me down with this version!

 

[Alexei]

I also felt disappointed by Stronghold 2.

 

[Chadwiick]

I'm of course going to want to get this. But watching a video and one guy pointed out the actual battle parts of the game look like it wasn't ready for show. I'm starting to get worried for Stronghold. :\

 

[MrLebanon]

Stronghold 2 was horrible.. the 1st one i haven't played but have heard great things

Hopefully this is a stronghold 1 and not a stronghold 2

 

[Nenjin]

Stronghold 1 was really nice. Had a really nice terrain editor, it was really focused on how to custom build the castle of your dreams, had a nice little economy/population management thing going on....tbh I had less fun with the battles than I did building and managing the castle.

SH2 tried to make everything way more systematic and gamey, with supply lines and conquering territory, yadda yadda....and the economy didn't seem as free-form and natural. I didn't make it past the 2nd or 3rd campaign mission before I put it down.

So I'm not really sure what to expect of SH3.

 

[Harb]

I hope it's a cross between Lords of the Realm, Stronghold 1 and Defender of the Crown 2

 

[NoxNoctum]

Hope it turns out good, I remember having a blast catapulting infected cows over the walls with a friend back in HS LOL.

 

[husbert]

Stronghold 3: Militär-Kampagne (dt.) - YouTube


looks more "dirty and real"
found it only in german

 

[smith1215]

Stronghold Crusaders was the ****. It was soooo good. I liked it more than AoE II.

 

[Nenjin]

Ok, that looks DISTINCTLY more like the Stronghold I loved and not the Stronghold I chose to forget.

 

[hockeywarrior]

Ok, that looks DISTINCTLY more like the Stronghold I loved and not the Stronghold I chose to forget.

In some ways ... I do think the graphics look pretty bland though.

Hopefully they bring back the castle building game modes where you could build one and have a friend siege it. That feature made the first game amazing, and its absence pretty much killed Stronghold 2, among other things.