[quote who="TCores" reply="40" id="2602081"]As soon as I mod in the "God-King" civilization option, that is.[/quote]Varenus Bearheart III, God-King and Divine Emperor of the Ursaris Hierarchy. Sounds good enough.
[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="19" id="2602027"] [...] ANY SF beats Twilight. Even STAR TREK of all things, beats Twilight. "I don't grin like a moron, I grin like a sociopath."[/quote]Did you just diss Star Trek? What. The. FFFFFFUUUUUUU- >=(
[quote who="leeboy26" reply="20" id="2601754"] Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-n8UZM5Cc Sounds like Patrick Stewart's less talented brother. Forgivable if not impressive for 1995, but it shows it's age now.[/quote]No. Like this . Worst. Narrator. Ever. It's so terribad that it becomes a parody of hilarity. I just chose a random part of the game narration. Feel free to browse ot
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="36" id="2601980"]Plato was doing religion then? Religions are control forms based on a supreme authority/entity/power, priests being the arbiters between the divine and the mundane which obviously grants them lots of power in societies where other kind of social structures hasn't been developed yet (except those ones who expand in all the areas of a society so they can have total control of it and perpetuate themselves ad astra).[/quote]Your judeo-christian outl
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="32" id="2601951"]I'd expect Taoism inspiring philosophies and not religions. Being a way of life. Hoping for some kind of animism too.[/quote]Religion is, more often that not, "inspiring philosophies" that are also ways of life. Religion is so much more than the abrahamitic religions and monotheism, or even theism. People really have to stop defining religion as the belief in a supreme diety (or several). Religion, strictly speaking, doesn't e
[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="27" id="2601552"] But if the "Gods" were to just do random acts that should not mess up the AI nor the choices on has and still allow for temple building and upgrading for a specific "God". The only variable would be the random acts of the Gods. Could be good ones(beneficial ones) these should be from your chosen God and the rest are either neutral to you or detrimental. I sure would love to fight a battle to the end and just before I was to call it
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="25" id="2601506"] The problem with that is that religion spreads on its own and you have very little ability to suppress it. You can choose your state religion but that will really cripple you if that choice does not agree with the choice of your population. If religion did not influence the AI's behaviour it would have almost no effect at all (besides bonuses from temples that were already present from previous games that lacked religion).[/quote]Y
[quote who="Tasunke" reply="17" id="2601474"]I would TOTALLY love some giant praying mantis action. Equally, there should be a faction that uses Dragonfly mounts [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote]I have yet to see my bears. [e digicons]:|[/e]
Aside from the ability to add multiple hotbars, I'm not sure I can find a way to improve the Dragon Age UI.
Hasn't this been discussed before, by the way? I think we settled on "both". [e digicons]:pout:[/e]
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I'm not a fan of "Metropolis" myself, either, but I don't see anything wrong with "Town" at all. And arguably, "Grand City" sounds even worse than "Metropolis".
I must say that although the intro feels "short" somehow, I really like the style. And there's nothing wrong with her voice. As for the Total Annihilation intro, it's OK-ish, but the voice is so.. melodramatic. Reminds me of the terrible, terrible, TERRIBAD narrator in DoW:SS. Edit: Man, I need to repeat how absolutely psyched I am over the artistic style of that intro. I do hope Stardock opts to keep it (the style).
[quote who="Servius" reply="2" id="2600829"]Darkodinplus is right, I remember someone complaining about it. Frogboy stated how we named our planet after dirt so Elemental couldn't really be a bad name for the world.[/quote]How do you know that we didn't name our dirt after the planet?
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="19" id="2601159"] Yeah, they decided that it made the AI behave too randomly and in a non-optimal fashion. Attacking another Civ based only on religious differences may be a "realistic" thing to do historically but it doesn't mesh very well with a good strategy to win the game.[/quote] That doesn't mean that the concept of religion in games is flawed, though. The outlook that "starting wars for religion" is flawed - historically, politics dictated reli
[quote who="Arthgen" reply="15" id="2600925"] Did you just call Age of Wonders a RTS? Have you played it? [...] [/quote]Not once, but twice. By the gods, Mogmoogle is either a troll or just a gaming illiterate. Either way he is henceforth barred from voicing any opinions dealing with games or gaming.
[quote who="Mogmoogle" reply="6" id="2599737"] [...] Age of Wonders 1,2 (crappy) [...] Disciples 1,2 (Sucked) Galactic Civilizations 1,2 (ok, get boring) [...] Sins of a Solar Empire (didn't like) [...] World Of Warcraft (All Expansions) (Great but gets old)<br
How do you kill that.. which has no life?
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2600042"]NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Let the modders handle that kind of thing.[/quote]Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Give it as a major feature in an expansion! I can't trust modders to handle something so important! [e digicons]:(O[/e]
I came into this thread hoping for something along the lines of "I want ridable giant spider mounts". I hate you all so much right now. ;_;
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="21" id="2600614"]Intro should be a BSOD mockup. [...] [/quote]Man, that'd have some unintended consequences. I get so many BSODs that I'd instantly and casually restart my computer right away. It could take days of "Why am I getting a BSOD on launch"-threads come launch! [e digicons]:(O[/e]
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="76" id="2598438"]I have a totally different opinion about Civ 4. It's an "ok" game in my book, but that is all. It's way too simplistic and primitive in many aspects. Actually the combat system is what I hate the most in Civ4. It's just pathetic.[/quote]Boo! I absolutely love everything touched by Firaxis; to claim that there is something wrong with the strategic combat is heresy, and should be punishable by forty whippings at dawn! A
No pl0x.
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We need a toggle for cards; Show/Hide Weapon(s)/Shield. There are currently many clipping errors regarding the models.
[quote who="alway" reply="4" id="2596133"] [...] As for a video... Start with a view of a sovereign in the wasteland. Sovereign then casts a massive spell, healing the lands around him. Skip forward in time to that same area with a big city with lots of construction going on in it. Then flash to a seige: darkness and storms swirl all around, as an undead horde lead by a dark sovereign attack the city. The dark sovereign casts a spell, blasting a hol
On a very serious note, I'd absolutely love if we could keep something reminiscent of what we have going right now, with the obvious changes, since it wouldn't be beta anymore. Something completely retro, with a good MIDI soundtrack. Other than that, I propose something between or mixed between " 1 " and " 2 ". Something that gives a general outline of what's going on, without actually telling you exactly what's going on.