2008/11/18
Social gaming? Try HoMM 3!
Last time I wrote about trying to find casual games for medium/large-group social events. We can split multiplayer video gaming into a couple of vaguely-defined categories; I'm going to use the term "casual" or "social gaming" to refer to medium-scale social gatherings that involve video gaming; hardcore gaming, of course, is all about the game; and we might perhaps call the last group "LAN party gaming" to indicate a middle ground between casual gaming and super-intense gaming.
It is for the first category, social gaming, that I suggest a game today: Heroes of Might and Magic III.