Strategy First Games on the DS

[baz]

GameGossip.com (http://www.gamegossip.com/comment.php?id=13702) is reporting that Strategy First and developer Pocket PC Studios have signed a deal that will see Strategy First's titles released on the DS. The first two games to be released are of the Jagged Alliance and Disciples series.

Seriously that kicks arse, I love Jagged alliance and Disciples/Disciples II. Those games would be totally awesome on the DS.

[baz]

w00t go me, first news post!

[outontheporch]

i cant wait till DS games start comming out, especially strategy and rpg's.

[goc_sin]

Totally sweet! I I love my DS! Awesome.. I agree I can't wait until the RPG's start coming too. I would love to see X-com make it to the DS as well.

[baz]

I would love to see X-com make it to the DS as well.

I don't know, if I could play X-com on the DS, I may never work again, and end up living on the streets, shambling round trying to find a place to plug in and power up my DS.

[Last of the Red Hot Mamas]

The Gallop brothers (who made the original X-Com and Laser Squad Nemesis) are working on a cartoony X-Com-a-like called Rebelstar (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/30/news_6121341.html), but for some thoroughly retarded reason it's a GBA game. I don't even know who owns the rights to X-Com these days but a proper DS port would be fantastic.

Oh, and the games they're porting are JA2 Gold Edition and Disciples II. They also mentioned Europa Universalis II at E3.

[Kyle Jones]

This is some good news! More titles for my eventual DS purchase. I've never played/heard of Disciples, anyone mind giving me some information/linkage? (I'll just run to google in the meantime and searchify the internets.)

[Adewade]

Disciples is a fun little turn-based game. Erm... the only thing I can think of comparing it to is the map-game of Etherlords (although quite a bit superior). I never actually bought the game, but I played through the demo quite a few times. But yeah, taking hero-ish units, moving them around the map killing things, etc.

[KamaItachi]

Excellento... just... excellento.

Nintendo, with your DS you are really spoiling us.

[baz]

may as well bring HOMM to the DS as well.

sweet I`m starting to get the hang of dvorak!

[eatme]

Holy fucking shit.

I mean, fuck. Shit. Hot damn.

If they release Disciples for the DS, I will buy a DS and Disciples the day that game comes out. I love the current (very innovative) DS games for a little bit, but they get old too quickly. Disciples, well... yeah. Holy shit.

[Adewade]

Yeah. Might be a seller for me too. You know, if I have any money at that point.

[Kamalot]

Disciples is a fun little turn-based game. Erm... the only thing I can think of comparing it to is the map-game of Etherlords

Now Etherlords is a game that would work quite well on the DS!

[*Legion*]

The first time I seriously saw the DS as something I would consider buying was when I saw Advance Wars DS - touch screen control of the battlefield is the first use of the stylus that doesn't seem like a cute gimmick to me.

The more neat strategy games that come out with such control, the closer I get to actually paying for a DS.

[mister_slim]

sweet I`m starting to get the hang of dvorak!
Do you use a dvorak layout? I switched a few years back and it's worked out quite well. It does confuse anyone using my laptop though. F is u? S is o?... <YU?

[baz]

Just started making the switch yesterday, I'm actually amazed by how easy it is to learn a new keyboard layout.

I can type about 50 wpm with QWERTY so its a bit of a frustrating period, but I'm commited to seeing this through. I'm a programmer so I spend all my day either coding or writing specs, and I've been getting a bit of wrist strain lately (no cheesy jokes ;) ) so I thought I would finally make the switch, as its something I have been curious about for years.

[mister_slim]

I'm not a programmer, so it doesn't matter so much to me, but do the punctuation position changes make typing code better or worse?

[baz]

Its still a bit early to tell for me, as I'm still a noob when it comes to dvorak, so I'm still doing most of my programming in QWERTY (can't really justify making my company pay for me learning Dvorak).

However from what I here its fine for coding. Not that typing speed is really an issue for coding, just general finger strain.

[mister_slim]

I think forcing myself to switch completely to dvorak helped bring my typing speed back up quickly. I'm no longer able to type in qwerty though.