Falknir

Reply to Fallout 3 Tech Demo in Games Sins Forums

Well, thirty-one more days till their big teaser. Hopefully, they are keeping the game very-mature, and don't water it down to cater to a larger consumer base.

Reply to Theatre of WAR in Games Sins Forums

Well, problem was, my current rig doesn't run a dual-core, and honestly I've had massively larger battles on Company of Heroes with physics, bullets flying everywhere, crazy effects, and some gameplay to boot. Note: I mostly play modifications that just furthered the experience, but ToW just doesn't stack well even against vanilla CoH. Maybe, there was a huge compatibility problem somewhere that is affecting people (and me), but honestly the game looks like something from the DirectX

Reply to Super Stardust HD (PS3) in Games Sins Forums

I'm still a sucker for those kind of games, and it looks pretty interesting. Of course, I just need to get a Playstation 3 to play it.

Reply to Theatre of WAR in Games Sins Forums

I was looking forward to this game till the demo came out, and it featured a boatload of performance problems, outdated graphics, and meager unit counts. I couldn't really make heads-or-tails of the gameplay due to performance problems, but it seemed tanks/tank destroyers were greatly over-powered. I sort of just stayed static in one position and annihilated what might have been six tanks and roughly fifty men equiped with anti-tank weaponary and rifles with only three tanks/tank des

Reply to Genesis Rising in Games Sins Forums

We had a previous thread about this game while it was still in beta, and don't think anyone had anything really good to say about the game. In my opinion, the entire game could be summarized as half-baked, tedious, and shallow (minus some very-abusive tech) with some organic-ship wierdness.

Reply to Thrawn's thoughts... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I don't you'll catch me uttering that word in a sentence, as it sounds SO wrong.

Reply to Sword of the Stars..... Anyone play it? in Games Sins Forums

In all honesty, that doesn't make things much better for them, they need to get the press ball rolling, and start making such information more widely known to get attention towards their expansion. Right now, they have a website, which frankly should be spilling with information on the expansion this close to release. Yet, are more content -- releasing tidbits throughout forum posts? I think they need to hire better community managers, site administrators, and-or marketing p

Reply to Sword of the Stars..... Anyone play it? in Games Sins Forums

There seems to be an information void with "Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood"; there is no previews, no public screenshots, no box art, a vague list of additions, and all for an expansion coming out within the month of April, 2007. In addition, they set this expected release date only a month ago, and it seems they either ran into some serious setbacks or they are planning one hell of a stealthy release. Kind of hard to get interested (or renew one's hope) in a game that is an enigma

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire BETA 1 Now Available! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I wont be participating in the first phase of the beta either. I cannot afford the expense for a beta product with ongoing and future expenses of me moving out-of-state, job training, and day-to-day needs. So, I will be observing and discussing, while looking forward to the next phase of the beta.

Reply to Thrawn's thoughts... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, would have to agree about a tax slider or more tax options, we all love taxing our people into poverty to fund the war machine or in my case my Idiot Proofed, Doomstar (I wouldn't dare used that other cursed name on my precious planet destroyer!). Look at what happens when I'm gone! Jeez, WWII? C'mon guys! We can do better than that. How did this man fall? He allowed his own bodyguard to stab him i

Reply to Infinity: The Quest for Earth in Games Sins Forums

I heard of the game sometime ago, but they didn't have nearly this level of information and footage as they do now. So far, it looks pretty good, but hoping it does manage to make it to completion.

Reply to Blizzard/WoW in Games Sins Forums

GPotato is making money somewhere, that is all that matters, and if they aren't making money or leeching it from another profitable venture. They are relying on a source of banked money that will eventually dry up, which will either force them to change their payment models or terminating the game service all-together when the time comes. About a possible World of Starcraft, well, seems Warhammer 40,000 Online is going to beat them to it. Unless they totally screw that game up. <img s

Reply to Give Suggestion here!!! Ironclad will read them in Strategy Sins Forums

Of course, the Sovereign and Eclipse Super Star Destroyer were even better in SW: Warlords. Both had a miniaturized Deathstar super-laser mounted on a SSD. Nothing like watching those pathetic Rebel ships vaporize in one shot.

Reply to Starsiege: 2845 in Games Sins Forums

Yeah, it needs a lot of work to be a fun game, and it doesn't help the developers went into "silent running" mode about it's development ever since the alpha tech release. Back in the day, I was even tasked to make them a new website, but due to unfortunate circumstances at the time (taking care of mother with cancer) my time was short. They never gave me concrete-information on what kind of website they wanted (sometimes took days to get those responses), and their usually vagu

Reply to Blizzard/WoW in Games Sins Forums

Well, that was probably the reasons and-or lack-of-direction (uncertain memory) in the game at the time, and the subscription rates throw-in probably made me go. "No, way!"

Reply to Huxley in Games Sins Forums

Falknir: Also, Planetside is only going to continue it's F2P model till March 24, 2007, and it wasn't ever planned to permanent, as it was more of an experiment to see if it would attract more subscribers. I mentioned it a bit earlier in the thread, but, did look around their community for any new information on a possible follow-up and ended up finding nothing promising. I believe, Planetside is on the verge of

Reply to Blizzard/WoW in Games Sins Forums

I can see how you feel that way about their other franchises, but, only time will tell when they will formerly come out with information on them. About Shadowbane, I did beta-test or at the least participated in the pre-release event, where they let players get access to the few unique races, i.e. the bird-men. I just remember having a bad taste in my mouth playing that game for some reason, and never really bothered looking back into it, again. On the other hand, I might give it anot

Reply to Huxley in Games Sins Forums

I did enjoy Planetside at the start, but the huge time-gap at start till the first-content appeared, the mistakes in balance and game play changes, and game breaking bugs that went unresolved for months. All that didn't leave a very-good impression or experience with former subscribers and players. I know about MU's and SUN's status, though i probably should have been more specific. I sometimes make th

Reply to Hegemonia in Games Sins Forums

I thought Gamespy Arcade was the primary game browser for it or was it dropped?

Reply to Blizzard/WoW in Games Sins Forums

I don't understand your argument, Blizzard is made up of different teams, and each team is working on their own game projects presently. The last time I checked, they now have over three-hundred employees at Blizzard, and that now includes the entire previously-independent second studio that was making Starcraft: Ghost. They wanted to shift focus from the sixth (PS2, XBOX, Gamecube) console generation to the seventh console generation (PS3, XBOX360, Wii), and didn't feel continuing i

Reply to Blizzard/WoW in Games Sins Forums

I'm sure they are working on other games. Blizzard like most large/popular companies are put under great, sometimes unfair expectations, and any small mistake or grievance is greatly magnified. They have to spend more to concept, polish, and develop games over a longer period of time to at least roughly meet the expectations of it's fans, and it is no easy task. I can only imagine the pressure on their teams if they are actually working on Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, or remaking Starcraft:

Reply to Hegemonia in Games Sins Forums

I'm curious did they ever fix the shallow depth of the game in the patches and expansion? That was one of the biggest letdowns of the game for me.

Reply to Huxley in Games Sins Forums

Also, no, S.U.N. isn't free-to-play (F2P), it uses a buy-to-play (B2P) and pay-to-play (P2P) model at the same time in regions outside Asia, and inside Asia it's F2P and B2P. In addition, MU is only free-to-play on some servers and pay-to-play gives you unique servers and a bunch of benefits, and heard they will probably be enforcing some payment plan across all servers in the future. I highly doubt Huxley will be F2P, unless it runs with similar models of their past games. For instan

Reply to vista in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

When upgrading to Vista, does it overwrite my data? What I mean is will upgrading to Vista delete all my documents/programs/settings, etc? It won't if you take the upgrade option (instead of a fresh, full install). I strongly recommend against the upgrade option, however, as it's been problematic here. That holds true for most of the past Windows operati

Reply to Anyone else getting just a LITTLE tired of people comparing this to Homeworld? in Everything Else Sins Forums

That line of thought, about stealing and copying another isn't much different then the ammount of nonsense that plagued me -- by others -- in website, mod, and graphic design over similarities and coincidences. Pretty much, there are some really over-zealous people that believe they must defend their favored item against anything infringing on their views of it, regardless if it needs it or not. Isn't to uncommon to see people criticizing another game about it taking ideas from another