Kinda late but who cares, I don't so I still bought a copy. Even though I *also* bought it on Steam during its sale but still, it's one of the best RPGs I've ever played and they deserve the money, plus I get a spare CD-Key just in case.
From the switch to hexes and the addition of bombardment it sounds awesome, hopefully they'll sell it outside NA this time :( Elemental though, its already decided: I'm preordering it as soon as I get enough money, GalCiv2 is far too incredible to do otherwise. But I'm still interested in Civ5 so if they sell it to me, I'm buying. Please 2K make it happen.
[quote]Out of the 70 games that are region locked on Impulse, 57 are available to me on Steam. I can only think of one reason, Steam has exclusive digital distribution rights.[/quote] There are more reasons, however. The most obvious, and I believe most likely, is that the games are published by a multinational giant, who typically aren't one company but many ones working separately each with only the distribution rights to the area they're in, and Impulse lacks the emm... presence?
Coke, though I'm drinking Pepsi at the moment. Variety is the spice of life, as they say. Though I must note, I wholly believe the word "Ambrosia" was greek for "milk straight from the cow". Such taste, such texture... and with quality coffee? heaven on Earth, people, heaven on Earth.
I wonder if even the average console gamer is interested in such games to begin with. The combat system of Dragon Age is fairly simple even compared to Starcraft or CoH, let alone the 'heavyweights' of the genre like Sins or SupComm, yet nearly all console gamers I've seen dismissed it as 'slow and boring'. Even if you made it work or, hell, you went and bundled a mouse with the game, I don't think most console gamers would appreciate an Empire: Total War for their X360 or a Galactic Civiliza
Heh :D something similar happened with the devs of Project: Aftermath, who had the full version posted as the demo on Steam for over a month. To answer your question, however, it depends on the particular arrangements they may have with the publishers.
I think next time I get some money I'll preorder Elemental, it looks better and better every time I read up on it. I do wish, however, that they just charged you the moment you preorder instead of having to wait for the next beta, for all its tyranny Steam's "we'll charge you right now and you're stuck with the game whether you like it or not" system is simple, consistent, and makes planifying purchases easier for me at least. And it's nice to see The Path here :) it's a great... dunn
[quote]Totally agreed. All this does is give devs an excuse to hold back content and charge extra for it later. Hell, there are some cases where $60 retail games don't even have a proper ending unless you pay for the DLC![/quote] As opposed to expansions, where you spend the whole game being told how you need to stop the three Prime Evils but you can't fight the third one without paying for the $40 expansion which also *happens* to include the ability to change your henchmen's equip
My view on expansions is pretty much contrary to everybody else's on this forum: they're a cheap way of avoiding having to do a proper sequel. Which was what I expected from Dragon Age, the game, some nice-but-not-really-necessary DLC and that's that, not some half-assed, full-priced expansion on top that has to screw over the original game's ending just to fit into the storyline, but a *proper*, 60-hours-and-counting sequel with a plot that may tie into the original but not require it, ala M
It's already easier than Windows at least, as anybody who's had to troubleshoot their internet connection can attest to. Half an hour to find how to disable an interface and another half hour to find out how to enable it again after closing the dialog the first time, *UGH*. Everytime I use Windows for something other than 'launch pretty game', I'm reminded of the old quote: "make a product that even an idiot can use, and only idiots will want to use it".
[quote]Finally you have a device that can keep track of your appointments, let you take notes at a meeting, and won't fry your lap. [/quote] I wouldn't be so sure. This *is* from Apple, after all, they've got something of a track record in that area. [quote]You can do a crossword, read webcomics, and defend your civilization which is ever beset by barbarians.[/quote] So long as you pay for it. The reason I disl
No. The fact that it uses the iPhone's OS instead of full-blown OSX, has no multitasking, no USB and you have to *buy* a separate adaptor to plug in SD cards are simply deal-breakers for me. I want a portable computer, not a toy.
Well, it's mostly because the RTS genre itself is fairly narrowly defined. You can't get much more complex than Starcraft & company without either sacrificing a bit of the 'real time' aspect or the 'strategy' part (well, Sins did it but that's because its pacing is so slow it may as well have been turn-based). But for examples of very innovative ideas in the wider strategy genre, check out Paradox' Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series, Sega's Total War series and Best Way's... how
[quote]and I'll actually buy a RPG game (even if it's a bad one) where one fo the main chars is a fat balding man..I'm sick of seeing the same stereotype all the time..grizzled fighter..femme fatale..comic relief alien..all with bodies that are sculted by the Greek Gods of old...c'mon guys, it's been on since the 30s..a little thinking out of the box please?[/quote] You may want to take a look at Bioware's Jade Empire then, one of the available character choices is in fact a huge, bal
My personal review of Fallout 3: great graphics, great storytelling, nice gameplay and... ooohhhhh, Dragon Age was released, kthxbye. I'm planning on finishing it *someday*, though, but I'm in no rush to do so either. Perhaps because I know that, without the oh-so-expensive DLC, I won't be able to continue playing after finishing the main campaign which leaves me with very little desire to actually finish it.
So, they've already made Photoshop into a dumbed-down version of Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere Pro, but now they're targeting Corel Painter users as well? Truly the only piece of software able to surpass Vista's sheer bloat. As for it being true or not, I'd bet on the former. The first part is already present not just in Corel Painter, as it's already been said, but even OpenCanvas 1.1, a freeware app from over 6 years ago! and the warp thing is already possible with vector image
[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="4" id="2510803"]that is one thing I think people get confused on, what exactly ET-life is. I think that extraterrestrial life could be out there, I just don't think it is sentient on the level (or above) of a human. [/quote] Same. I'll be surprised if there's even the equivalent of an alien fly out there, let alone a sentient, tool-using species out there. Ohh, and as far as the OP is concerned, I vote for C. Myself. That's right,
RAM sticks of different speeds will work, within limits, at the speed of the slowest one, so a 500mhz 512MB stick and a 466mhz 512MB stick will give you 1 GB of 466mhz RAM. IIRC, the 'limit' was the whole DDR1/2/3 thing so you could mix-n-match only of the same type, but speed differences within the same type would still work. And, of course, RAM of the same speed but different makers (as in the OP) should always work (the computer I'm typing this on is tangible proof of it). But yeah
Fighting game, whoever was the secret-and-final-we-really-mean-it-this-time boss in Capcom vs SNK 2. I remember spending an entire hour trying to beat him, to no avail... ended up turning the DC off in sheer frustration. Overall... probably that same boss. I'm far too good at FPSs to have much trouble with them (Quake 3 and UT 2004 included, cheating bastards that they were they still went down), I'm far too slow at RPGs to reach the final bosses at a level I'd have trouble with, and
Single-Player FPS: STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Competitive Team FPS: Red Orchestra, Battlefield 2 Competitive FPS: Unreal Tournament 3 Co-Op FPS: Killing Floor Single-Player RPG: Dragon Age: Origins Co-Op RPG: Guild Wars Competitive RTS: Sins of a So
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So it was Lara Croft? I googled for Laura Croft and got an... err... nice surprise, I'd say. I was wondering why would Stardock's CEO discuss a Playmate in a public forum, though. Anyways, Happy New Years to y'all ;)
Hayden Christensen did far more damage to the Star Wars franchise than Jar-Jar Binks ever did. Well, he and George Lucas, whoever thought the line "hold me like you did on Naboo" deserved to be in the final script should be shot. But I also think Half-Life 2 deserved a mention in the list, separate from the bundle it later belonged to. To me, there's a clear "before" and "after" marked by Half-Life 2's release in the entirety of the FPS genre, from graphics and audio to gameplay and s
[quote]Then I say there is no observed evidence for evolution.[/quote] There is. Want me to link you to some, so you can explain how they all fit under the umbrella of your "intelligent designer" theory? [quote]No I don't like how it works. No establishment of anything tends to work well. Establishments end up simply trying to promote and protect themselves and their vested interests. The scientific establishment is no different than any other establishment in this respect.
[quote]HINT: All theories start out with the "disproven" label attached by default. The "disproven" label is removed when the theory is proven. Evolution hasn't been proven.[/quote] Wrong, and that's where you prove you don't understand science. A theory starts off as what we could call 'unproven', and then, based on formal analysis and experimental data, can be found to be 'proven false' (what you call 'disproven') if shown to contradict either itself or the phenomena it atte
This thread has become quite pathetic, y'know... people trying to deny evolution by strawman attacks against abiogenesis, cosmogeny and, of all things, electrical motors, ignoring information and redefining words to suit their own world-views, and a complete and utter failure to understand science in general, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics or even philosophy and logic. Some of you seem honestly ignorant and curious, but the behavior of others really, really cannot be explain