I agree with the games taking forever but they are immersive and in depth. Wanna talk about time consuming, Empire Earth, the original was insane. As well as Sins of a Solar Empire. In both of these RTS games, I have had one single game last several days, DAYS. Had some LAN parties back in high school and spent one weekend doing 5 humans versus 3 AI allied on the hardest difficulty on Empire Earth. We never finished it because in the first 5 hours one of my friends got routed from his island and we spent the next 12 taking it back for him and taking some smaller islands in the middle of the map and tried several times to establish a beach head on one of the AI’s islands.
I would like to try HOI 3 online with other people, probably have to speed up the game speed a bit cause it would just take too long otherwise. It seems to be a better college game, one that you play with a roommate.
My best so far in it was starting in 1938 as Japan and instead of island grabbing I went with the tradition AAA style attack and took most of China, southeast Asia, all of India, and the Phillipines. My German Allies were in the midst of fending off D-Day in 1941 and Italy was gobbling up Africa. I ended up quitting that one cause I basically starved my country of all resources and came to the conclusion that Japan took all of those islands for a reason, resources.
Sins of solar empire is just amazing game… yes I have not played it for a while so is there any updates? Hope you will reply ASAP.