Post by David Murray on Mar 13, 2009 14:59:00 GMT -5
Okay.. I've decided to pick up a very old habit, that of playing Populous (the original version) for hours on end. Only, this time I've decided to try going through the conquest mode. I used to play on my Amiga all the time, but now I'm playing the DOS version under DOSBOX on my PC.
Trouble is.. I can't get past the world "BURUING" because it is just too darned hard. I can build land really fast, and in fact during the first few minutes of the game the score meter actually shows that I am ahead of the evil diety. But a few minutes into the game, he throws me a volcano. The sad part is, I don't have quite enough magic by that point to retaliate. And once the volcanoes start, he starts giving me a new one about every 10 seconds. After a minute or two, my entire land is ruined and he starts making knights. One after another after another. And because on this world "water is harmful" I can't drowned the darn little guys so the game is pretty much over. And by some chance if I manage to get enough magic to do one volcano back to him, he has the whole darned thing repaired in about 10 seconds.
I've played this world a dozen times. I figured I must be getting near the end of the game, but when I looked up the name of all the worlds on the internet I found that I'm only about half-way through. So that being the case, the rest of the maps must be even harder. So that means there is some strategy I'm not yet aware of for dealing with this problem. I even tried raising my land to the maximum height so that the volcanoes wouldn't work anymore, but he still kept doing them filling my land with more and more rocks, and the knights finished me off anyway.
So.. surely there are some former Populous players around here that can throw me a bone!
Trouble is.. I can't get past the world "BURUING" because it is just too darned hard. I can build land really fast, and in fact during the first few minutes of the game the score meter actually shows that I am ahead of the evil diety. But a few minutes into the game, he throws me a volcano. The sad part is, I don't have quite enough magic by that point to retaliate. And once the volcanoes start, he starts giving me a new one about every 10 seconds. After a minute or two, my entire land is ruined and he starts making knights. One after another after another. And because on this world "water is harmful" I can't drowned the darn little guys so the game is pretty much over. And by some chance if I manage to get enough magic to do one volcano back to him, he has the whole darned thing repaired in about 10 seconds.
I've played this world a dozen times. I figured I must be getting near the end of the game, but when I looked up the name of all the worlds on the internet I found that I'm only about half-way through. So that being the case, the rest of the maps must be even harder. So that means there is some strategy I'm not yet aware of for dealing with this problem. I even tried raising my land to the maximum height so that the volcanoes wouldn't work anymore, but he still kept doing them filling my land with more and more rocks, and the knights finished me off anyway.
So.. surely there are some former Populous players around here that can throw me a bone!