My Dreams of World Domination

I noticed that all my blog posts have been for strategy games. I've wrote about Starcraft, Company of Heroes and Dawn of War which are the games I've played in the past few months. There's also this flash game over at Kongregate that I tried out, Pandemic: American Swine which is another strategy game. I love strategy and war games whether they be real time or turn based. This desire stems from my long unfulfilled dream to take over the world.

Well I have been playing other non-strategy games like Braid, Audiosurf, Battlefield Heroes and random flash games over at Kongregate. However, I never really seem to write about them. There's a weird feeling of power when you command your little people in the screen to go fight the enemy, whether they are carrying MP40 machine guns or psi blades. You don't get the same feeling say in a shooter whether Left 4 Dead or Battlefield Heroes. It does feel good to see that you are racking up headshots yet it's nicer to see a group of you doing headshots with a huge tiger tank backing you up.

What would be more fun than being a global dictator? Starting at the ancient times in Civilization and reaching technological superiority over your opponents. Having tanks while your opponent is still playing around with swords and slamming your keyboard in disappointment as your tank gets beaten up by a lone Pikeman defending a city (an age old problem in Civ games :/ ).

Having no free time to experience grand strategy games or even play more of the games I like is definitely my greatest frustration now. I don't have the time to try and learn Hearts of Iron or maybe Supreme Ruler. I want to try those games as they seem to be a better simulation and feed my hunger for global domination. Well, I guess that's the biggest limitation of someone wanting to take over the world, time. Dictators don't live forever.