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Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="47" id="2832889"] I don't really understand any of it. If there's a cash prize for being in the top 3, then sure. Do what it takes to win if you're aiming for that. But in most games I've played, people don't respect the #1 player. The #1 player is usually just infamous for abusing a cheese tactic when something was badly imbalanced. That guy with the 400-10 record? Yeah, nobody is buying that skill got them there.[/quote]<

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Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

@OP: Scouting is important, but what's more important is just knowing what your opponent's race can throw at you and coming up with a build that can deal with all/most of it. Starcraft 2 is not a "counter" game. It's not about playing passive and reacting to your opponent's build to "counter" it. If you want to play a long game, learn what each race's early rushes are, and come up with a build that can beat them back. If you know at ~6-7 minutes you can have a pair of cl

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

It doesn't matter how long they have supported it for if they're actively dropping support now. Only SP3 is getting updates now, and eventually that will stop. In the corporate world, companies will stop being able to downgrade to WinXP in a few years (2014 or 2015), meaning that every new computer they buy will have to have a new OS, and since mixing and matching OS across the company generally doesn't work, they have to upgrade everything. This was actually supposed to go into effect sooner

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Reply to Help me find a game for my friend and I in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="20" id="2830240"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 19AI War has a fun multiplayer co-op mode, and is a pretty awesome game to boot I'm really considering picking this one up as well. Didn't know it had co-op. Good stuff![/quote]the Check out this youtube vid of the lead dev describing his co-op game :) http://www.youtube.com/watch

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="127" id="2829600"] I am saying that there is very good reasons for corporations not to upgrade AT ALL... that is, stick with winXP. Taltamir brings up an excellent point. Corporations are not home users. And what Windows 7 brings to the corporate table is minimal compared to the pain of upgrading thousands of computers. Microsoft is a victim of its own success with that OS. They got it right, and have not been able to duplicat

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Reply to Fat Cartoon Look WHY? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

FPS and MMOs probably have to worry most about system specs. Both are terribly expensive to make, and need to be played by many people. Historically, graphics-heavy MMOs have not done well (Age of Conan, the new Final Fantasy) because they severely limit the amount of people who can play them, and MMOs depend on subscription income. And as an added bonus, MMOs are meant to be played for a long period of time, so presumably they'd want something that can keep looking good. At some point, this

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Reply to I need advice for a cool real-time Space Themed Game besides SINS... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Light of the Spire. Zenith Remnant was a pretty tremendous change to the game (very happy about the Golem buffs in 4.0), and the premise for Light of the Spire sounds pretty awesome. Since those Spire starships are damned annoying to kill (and are quite powerful), I can only imagine the rest.. I stopped trying to keep track of the changes after 4.0, though. Every time I start it up there's at least 1 beta patch, if not more. The 4.0 changelog itself would

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Reply to Fat Cartoon Look WHY? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Honestly, some of the bigger considerations for developers to go "cartoony" are because it ages better and tends to be easier on the system requirements. WoW is almost a decade old now but it aged so well that it still looks good (in the technical sense, not necessarily personal taste).

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I was replying to taltamir, Thoumsin - it wasn't meant as a reply to your post. :) On the issue of "Well, why not just keep XP 32-bit", because sooner or later (sooner) MS will just cut all support for it. Already only SP3 is supported, but once Win8 hits they'll probably stop supporting even SP3. I'm sure our upgrade people would love to stay on XP and save themselves the hassle, but it's a sinking ship, we'll have to upgrade even if we don't want to in order to keep up on security f

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Again, you're completely thinking from the average home consumer mindset. The corporate world is very different. Okay, let's say among the hundreds (literally) of unique executables we use here, there are no compatibility issues - and by the way, an app can work in 32-bit and not work in 64-bit that's not just a driver issue. And speaking of drivers, I'm assuming you realize that it's not uncommon for companies to upgrade all their devices very rarely? As a prime example, I'm typing on a 1gb

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="taltamir" reply="105" id="2828951"] Windows 7 64bit is an EXCELLENT 32bit platform... it can run any 32bit app with no problems, unless it requires 32bit driver, in which case it has "xp mode". [/quote] Oh yeah? Especially like all the security apps that notoriously stop working if it's a 32-bit app? ;) You have to remember that companies are out to save money on spending so they can make a bigger profit. For the vast majority of companies

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

A huge part of the reason why 32-bit is lasting as long as it does is because of corporate clients, not home users. Where I work, we have over 100,000 computers, all still running WinXP 32-bit. An announcement of an upgrade to Windows 7 over the summer said the upgrade will take several *years*. I expect us to be using Win 7 32-bit, as well, as we have a metric crapton of internal and contracted applications running and there's little need to upgrade hardware on all the machines. <

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Reply to I need advice for a cool real-time Space Themed Game besides SINS... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

AI War is definitely a nice little gem. The structure of the game is a bit different, though. In all these other games, you and your AI opponents start off on the same foot and build up with you trying to out-do the AI. In AI War, you start with one planet, and the AI has everything else already settled. Your goal is to defeat the AI smartly - just about everything you do that hurts the AI increases its aggressiveness (think of it like the Borg, while you don't mess with them they just go abo

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Reply to Beta 1.1 and Internet Connection Questions in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The reason (I imagine) internet connection is required is to download the data files at game launch instead of having them local. This is what they did with the Elemental beta, and it means they can make certain changes (like xml fixes) without having to push out patches. When the game starts, instead of looking locally for the files it just downloads them from their server. This means that in theory, as long as your connection is available when you launch the game, it should work fine if the

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Reply to D2D announced Price matching in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Yeah, too many conditions that make it basically useless. The only times prices really differ is during sales, and those are ruled out. In the vast majority of cases, for US users the prices tend to be the same across all the sales platforms. @Heavenfall: Those limits don't exist anymore, and haven't since I started using the service (sparingly, but still) a few years ago. I didn't even know it did that. It's nothing special of a service, I haven't bought anything from them recently t

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

There's nothing inherently wrong with Vista 64, just the same stuff that's "wrong" with Vista in general. I've been using it for a long time and have never had a problem related to having a 64-bit version. It's XP's 64-bit version that's been the ugly duckling. In any case, it is the content makers that have to nudge the market along. Nvidia/ATI can keep coming out with newer and fancier GPUs all they want, I'm still not going to upgrade as long as my GTX 285 can run anything I

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