the great debate - /vst/

Anonymous01/18/26, 12:08No.2323607

The great debate

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Anon01/18/26, 12:23No.2323611

Tied.

Anon01/18/26, 12:38No.2323614

Emperor took too many cues from Zeus and feels too casual.

Anon01/18/26, 14:46No.2323656

Pharaoh of course!

Anon01/18/26, 15:07No.2323668

easy pharaoh win

Anon01/18/26, 15:28No.2323682

I dislike the house plot sizes in Pharaoh. Just make them 2x2 or 4x4. What's the point of clustering a bunch of 1x1s?

Anon01/18/26, 15:40No.2323690

emperor, nothing beats the walled city feng shui mechanic and great wall is much cooler than pyramids.

Anon01/18/26, 15:43No.2323692

I wish Emperor had navy and better trade. I like that you can change how much you can sell for but I'm mixed on the dedicated trade building thing other than for trade ports on the river. On the other hand the events in Pharaoh are better but I wish there was a way to interact with cities more like Emperor, personally sending your own army in your own time to browbeat a city into opening up trade with you. It also makes me wonder what the multiplayer in Pharaoh would be like.But I usually pick Emperor for replays simply because some of the challenge in Pharaoh just comes from obtuseness. Managing armies is a nightmare mid-combat, and I dread having to sit through something like Rostja again. It's a shame because last time I managed to beat it until Cleopatra's Alexandria before I got burnt out.

Anon01/18/26, 16:02No.2323705

>barbaren

Anon01/18/26, 20:23No.2323935

Pharaoh had a lot of crap mechanics, I didn't have the patience to put up with them the last time I tried replaying the game. The newer games are just way too convenient to go back. I hear the QoL mod for Caesar III completely eliminates any difficulty in managing your cities, actually.

Anon01/21/26, 00:04No.2325322

I wish Emperor required you to build more than one housing block to complete levels. I also don't know how to solve the equilibrium of either "drowning in 100,000s of gold once you have a trade eco set up" vs "hemorrhaging money in a death spiral because your neighbor suddenly decided to demand 8 bronzeware before you even have clay pits set up"

Anon01/21/26, 00:24No.2325333

Caesar 2 of course >why not Pharaoh, Emperor or even Caesar 3 because I did not play those

Anon01/23/26, 03:15No.2326484

hey hey people

Anon01/23/26, 10:59No.2326626

>The Pharaoh is the heart of Egypt my son, the land is its body, and the people are its blood

Anon01/23/26, 11:33No.2326635

tough question. Technically, Emperor is a much better game in many ways, but I definitely had more fun playing Pharaoh.

Anon01/23/26, 14:36No.2326724

Zeus

Anon01/23/26, 22:10No.2327025

Just finished the Shang Campaign. Think I ran into a bug where I had two warehouses full of Bronzeware, Silk, and Ceramics sitting next to the Tumulus wonder, but they weren't getting delivered. I had to delete and replace the wonder three times to finish the fucking thing.

Anon01/24/26, 14:05No.2327447

i prefer emerors looks also music also emoeror is the latest right?

Anon01/24/26, 21:11No.2327711

Literally coin toss, both are equally good. Pharaoh has better monuments, but bunch of obtuse, post-C3 mechanics, while Emperor has vastly better gameplay and inferior monuments (still 2nd best in the series, CotN included)

Anon01/25/26, 00:43No.2327823

I think the series clearly peaked with Pharaoh for several reasons, chief of which that the Egyptians built better and more interesting monuments. I won't dismiss the mechanical improvements of Emperor, but building the Great Wall of China just ain't the same as building the tallest structure on Earth for several thousand years.

Anon01/25/26, 02:49No.2327869

I like both

Anon01/25/26, 11:04No.2327979

They are equally good. If anything, Emperor was a nice send-off to the series, being good all across the board, while Pharaoh took good IDEAS of Caesar 3 and turned them into good GAME, reinventing the wheel in the process

Anon01/27/26, 02:10No.2328865

Anon01/27/26, 02:17No.2328867

I should do a replay of these, as a kid I always fucked up my cities by not understanding the walker system and putting crossroads everywhere then wondered why all my housing devolved randomly for lack of pottery or whatever.