I'm going to say this only once, and I'm not going to spend much (if any) time debating the point.
Imo, zk and evo are the only presentable games in spring atm. If you're wondering why, this is it.
It has nothing to do with the merits of the games themselves. It is how the game is presented to the end user.
Evo install from desura does pretty much everything for you. The hardest part is registering a nick on the lobby. If the end user is running moderate - decent hardware, they also have no need to ever tough the settings program (though it does come up automatically upon first launch).
I should add that Gundam has the beginnings of a nice presentation and does well with what it has, but it's too disjointed. I am aware that smoth has a lot more going on than what we see, so that is taken into consideration.
Where evo suffers the most upon presentation is the lobby. People simply do not like springlobby, and no offense meant to anyone who has put hours and hours of work into it, but I can understand why. It is not user friendly.
The lobby is where zk shines the most upon presentation. It is nice, mostly sleek and has a lot of really cool crap just built into it.
Where zk falls short, is the fact that the lobby installs itself to appdata, which is very not awesome. Most end users won't care (so in end user eyes it doesn't really count against zk much), but it is a bad thing.
Ingame:
Ingame, evo presentation is pretty much perfect. The ui is set up for the user and there is no need to adjust it. Certain things could be better of course, but overall, it gets a good score.
ZK falls short in this instance, because zk is not set up well for the first time, causing the user's first multiplayer game to be a clusterfuck of trying to figure out wtf is going on and fighting with the ui. This has been improved somewhat, but it still needs a lot of love.
And there you have it. Let the baw begin. I didn't mention KP because while it's functional, it's presentation is lackluster and boring.
smoth wrote:
S44, EVO, ZK WTF GUIZE! ZK deserves to be on that list instead of me!
http://www.evolutionrts.info/1216/vote- ... -the-year/ << posted December 3rd. I made that post more for pomp and circumstance than anything. I had no delusions about actually getting anywhere with it.