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Reply to Mass Effect 1 or 2? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Thanks, everyone! I wasn't expecting so many responses. I ended up getting ME1. Mostly, because of this tip: [quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="9" id="2887125"]ME1 is on sale on impulse today for $5. Just a heads up.[/quote] I've been playing for about a day now, and I understand what everyone's saying about the story being more important to the game than the gameplay. Unfortunately for me, I'm absolutely compulsive about listening to every dialog, even though it's no

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Reply to My Distant Worlds Review in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I had the opposite opinion. I thought that the above review of the review was overly harsh for little reason. The rating may be harsh, but it's fair if it's consistent with other reviews on the site. By 'consistency', I'm not just referring to consistency in terms of ratings, but also to the preferences that contribute to those ratings -- in particular, the review's preference for micromangement over macromanagement. I'll be more specific. I think that you and I fall down o

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Mass Effect 1 or 2? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I'm considering purchasing one of the Mass Effect games. I usually play strategy games, but have heard good things about the series. When I play RPGs, I'm usually more interested in the game mechanics ("just one more level up") than the story. Which one should I get and why?

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Reply to Sins Makes GameSpy List of Top 25 PC Games of the 2000’s in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Congratulations! Sins' place is well deserved! Especially considering the recent boom in 4x RTS games. It's a decent list, besides than the Relic love in. (Or at least the inclusion of Company of Heroes and Dawn of War 2 over Homeworld 2 and Dawn of War.) It'll be interesting to see how this list changes over the next ten years as perceptions change.

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Reply to Game Development Organization in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote] You can pay freelance reviewers to do a write up of a build to get a better view of how someone not used to the game will view it...one of the many practices we'll be using this point forward I'm glad we're to the point where we can take a healthy look back on what happened with Elemental...it's really a facinating case study on the "small team becomes a large team" tipping point. It was bound to happen eventually, but I wish the lessons hadn't been so brutalally learn

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Reply to UFOs: What do YOU Believe? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote] Why is lightspeed 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum? Why isn't it 10 miles per second or 1 million miles per second? Why was it 186,000 miles per second yesterday and why will it be 186,000 miles per second tomorrow?[/quote] Even if light traveled more slowly in a vacuum tomorrow, it would still travel at exactly 299,792,458 m/s. ;)

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Reply to UFOs: What do YOU Believe? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="563" id="2871656"] Quoting Fuzzy Logic, reply 561Cats are the answer. Every cat knows it's the centre of the universe. So, nothing else matters... and i thought it was 42.[/quote] No, that's the answer to life, the universe, and everything. But cats aren't the center of the universe either. That'd be Fremont .

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Reply to UFOs: What do YOU Believe? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="555" id="2871455"]"fallacious" is cunning linguistics....[/quote] You have quite the silver tongue. Yeah, that was a bit forced. I'll get my coat. [quote who="starkers" reply="554" id="2871428"]All of them are fallacious. Is that a rude word or am I getting mixed up again? [/quote] Sort of. It's not as bad as "unpersuasive" or "unconvincing", which mean that the knives are really coming out, but it usually has a snarkier subtext th

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Reply to The movie 'Black Swan' in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="15" id="2868689"]This is my friend Mariel's review of the movie. http://nerdyke.blogspot.com/2011/01/black-swan-oral-sex-can-kill-you.html[/quote] You're friend had a very different reaction to Black Swan than I did. Feminist studies major?

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Reply to X3, any good? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

It's fun until several weeks into it you come to the realization that no game should require so many goddamned keys.

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Reply to My Star Ruler Review in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

They have very different design philosophies. Sins is greatly simplified (not necessarily in a bad way). Star ruler takes an 'everything and the kitchen sink' approach.

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Reply to The movie 'Black Swan' in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

I haven't decided what I think about Black Swan. It's similar to Aronofsky's previous films in that it relies on provoking a depth, but not bredth, of emotions. When I watched The Foutain for the first time, I thought it thoroughly unwatchable for roughly the same reasons you didn't like Black Swan. Since then, I've managed to convince myself that it's not only watchable, but actually pretty good.

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Reply to A Better Game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It's significantly better. It's the first time I've wanted (or been able) to play a game through to completion. The UI really needs to be overhauled in the next patch.

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Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I think a lot of it is sample size and self-selection. There aren't nearly as many reviewers as users, so the averages are statistically questionable. At the same time, users are more likely to review games that they enjoyed (or really hated, although my unresearched guess is that negative reviews are much less common than positive reviews), hence the ratings are higher. Reviewers also have different ranges than users. Reviewers almost never give above a 9.5/10 and almost never giv

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Reply to Plural Unit Names in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It might be poor design for a web form, but it's the only completely accurate solution. The alternative would involve hooking the game up to a dictionary with plurals in any of the number of languages that players would use to name their units -- and that wouldn't even cover player-invented names.

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Reply to About multiplayer in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Carielf, what's the point (in terms of amount of gamestate information) at which you have to ditch something like a client-server model and implement a simultaneous simulations model?

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Reply to Court decides that right of first sale isn't in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

It's important to keep the ruling in perspective. The Ninth Circuit is one of the more corporate intellectual property rights-friendly courts in the country and might not be representative of, say, the views on the Supreme Court. There will probably be an appeal.

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