Which Game to Get...

[MattP]

As far as graphics upgrades go, I have heard nothing and I seriously hope there will be none. My personal opinion, again, is that these games modded with Phillipe's mods look way better than the upgraded ACW games (of which I have 3) or the upgraded PC games. David (Strela) is doing a really great job improving those titles but the maps still are not as natural and beautiful as those in the Nappy series as modded by Phillipe. If you use Phillipe's mods you get wonderful, natural, less hexy, more realistic maps that are also beautiful to look at and clear in terms of elevation.

I've downloaded Phillipe's mods.  While I certainly think they are an improvement over stock, they are still entirely limited by the low resolution of the core artwork itself.   Further, when you zoom in on a modern PC with a high screen resolution, you can see all of the individual blocks making up the counters for example.   I have tried as well previously to mod the counters in Campaign Overland but it's impossible to get a good result with such low resolution.  You literally are coloring individual pixels....
I guess one way to view it is that if Phillipe's mods are good on low resolution, imagine what he could do if the art resolution was many times higher...……………….
Anyway, I think playing solitaire one notices these things much more.  In the heat of an actual game, i'm sure I'll be looking for function over form....