Interesting discussion on the Stardock forums about "Middle Market" games.
Paradox Interactive and Stardock make middle market games and do a great job of it. Not the best graphically but they cater to a certain crowd and do it very well.
I feel that the Civ series was middle market until the fifth iteration of the game where they tried to move up to a AAA game with less than wonderful results.
Here's the link:
http://forums.elementalgame.com/406827
Paradox Interactive and Stardock make middle market games and do a great job of it. Not the best graphically but they cater to a certain crowd and do it very well.
I feel that the Civ series was middle market until the fifth iteration of the game where they tried to move up to a AAA game with less than wonderful results.
Here's the link:
http://forums.elementalgame.com/406827