[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="4" id="3385652"] "best game ever?" is pretty subjective, but add my name to the list of people playing 1000+ hours and still playing. I'd say this is one of the Top 10 Best Strategy Games of all time.[/quote] Same here. It has flaws certainly, but every game does.
[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="52" id="3385577"] I hate this definition; it seems to suggest that anything that's free is stolen (air, for example. or the genes to Monsanto's corn.). I think a key element of theft is loss. And in the case of piracy it is particularly difficult to show that anything was lost. [/quote] No, it doesn't suggest that at all. You're playing word games to avoid the point. Air isn't produced throug
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="21" id="3385580"] I have had many debates with people on this topic and it has become very clear to me (and it took awhile because I just couldn't bring myself to believe that they actually felt this way) that their philosophy is that the successful owe the less successful something simply by virtue of being successful. There is a real divide in our society now based on this. [/quote] I think this idea is probably
[quote who="Uvah" reply="14" id="3385551"] Just because someone is successful, wealthy and what have you does in no way give them the right to expect you to be nice to them based on their success and or wealth. You want respect you must first give it. Don't and you know where you can go. End of story![/quote] You have this exactly backwards. Rand was talking about those who are "Takers", those who do not contribute to society but live via handouts and welfare, insistin
It's interesting that people are taking this to be a point about whether or not to be nice to others. That's not what Rand is talking about at all (at least not in this part of the book). She's talking about whether or not people have the right to expect YOU to be nice to THEM regardless of what THEY do to YOU. You are more capable/successful/wealthy than I therefore I should be able to do anything I want to you and you should still be nice/charitable towards me.
I never played Fez, but I hate to see someone give up on their talent because of the whining chattering class who never actually get into the arena and take their shot (to paraphrase an old speech on the subject). [quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="8" id="3385409"]I guess my only real insight is maybe the cancellation was a long time coming. Usually there are many things that build up and it just takes one more to push past the boiling point and decide to give up out of frustratio
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[quote who="Cackfiend" reply="26" id="3384964"] Lord Xia's reply in this thread is interesting too. voting no with the reasoning he didnt want SP compromised in order to have MP in the game. Is that really all that people worry about? I think thats a bit silly tbh as they wouldnt have to touch anything balance/feature wise[/quote] A portion of (or most of in my case) the reason why people don't want MP because it will "compromise" SP has nothing to do with features/b
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[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="20" id="3384811"] As to MP itself, I couldn't care less for the feature, and the stats and info that SD has shared with us to date tends to agree with my point of view. For Civ 4, there was only a very small percentage of users actually making use of MP functionality....and considering the investment required to provide said feature, they would have been better off just not having it for civ 4 either (and I think they could have made a better
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[quote who="Cackfiend" reply="9" id="3384665"] all the people that have stated they have friends/family that wont buy FE:LH because it lacks multiplayer. ive found several such posts in just one night of searching these forums and steam forums. Your narrow minded view of "multiplayer is bad for SP players and wont even make stardock money" is incredibly flawed [/quote] I love the line of reasoning that goes "Game X doesn't have feature Y. I want feature Y. Th
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[quote quoting="post"] FE:LH is doing well but I believe it could be doing so much better with some multiplayer support. [/quote] Based on what evidence? Historically multiplayer makes up a minuscule portion of TBS player base. And once you account for players that only play multiplayer once or twice to give it a try, in other words cut out those who aren't really multiplayer players, the actual multiplayer portion is so small that it's not worth m
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[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="15" id="3382986"] Well since you brought it up, I think Felix Hernandez is a better pitcher than Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw plays for the big-market (Los Angeles) Dodgers so he represents a Firaxis or EA games or Ubisoft and gets a lot of the glitz and glamor simply because he's in Los Angeles. Felix Hernandez plays for the smaller-market-in-the-middle-of-nowhere (Seattle) Mariners so he is a better representative of Stardock. Fe
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="40" id="3384175"] I have Star Control 2 on my Panasonic 3DO. Gonna have to play it again, so I can correctly tell Stardock everything they are doing wrong [/quote] It needs MOAR pink space ponies perhaps?
[quote who="Starkillr" reply="14" id="3384227"]Also expect some whacky and cool merchandise to come along w/ my StarCon reboot [/quote] Hmm.. what sort of interesting junk, err... collectibles... will we get in a limited edition collector's box of the SC reboot.
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[quote who="SecretBaron" reply="6" id="3384067"] PLEASE Stardock, for all that is holy and pure, do not make Star Control as a XCom-style roboot: keep the game mechanics in place. Thanks for listening to this die hard fan :}[/quote] I think by "X-Com style reboot" they mean that they'll start the franchise over with large inspiration taken from the predecessors. IE, the game won't be a continuation of the previous series (SC3 or SC4, depending on what you think of
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="3383571"] I think what most Star Control fans are looking for is a new Star Control game where the inspiration comes from Star Control 2. They want a game with fun, adventure and top down ship battles like in Star Control 2 that all play within a fun sci fi universe. [/quote] This sounds just fine.
[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="18" id="3383517"] Heh, hopefully the new StarControl starts off with "I awoke from a bad dream about the Hegemonic Crux, eternal ones and Daktaklakpak" [/quote] One can only hope.
Brad asked randomly in a post the other day if folks would like to see a SD developed game in the SC2 universe. Also worth noting that Brad has, according to Wikipedia, tried to buy the franchise from Atari in the past. So that's my guess.
[quote who="Nakisisa" reply="91" id="3382925"] I am playing 1.3 (checked the save file data) and following changes have not worked. Fear is only working for the first action. Paying maintenance on mercenary's. Beguile on ranged units. [/quote] Did you start a new game or continue a game from before you patched?
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="3382777"] I wonder what people would think of a Stardock developed Star Control game.[/quote] Yes please? I'd preorder it now. That's what I think.
[quote who="Ruzinus" reply="8" id="3382735"] Locking topics tends to increase sentiment immensely.[/quote] Nothing in life that revolves around $3.60 spent on a video game is worth getting upset about.
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You're argument is basically that (and forgive the baseball reference) all pitchers in Major League Baseball are disappointments because they're not Clayton Kershaw. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong and an apologist for whatever pitcher they don't think is a disappointment. Facts be damned. In case you don't get the reference, there can be multiple "good guys" in a discussion like this. CD Projeckt is awesome for a whole lot of reasons (the b
That's some serious sentiment over $3.60.
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[quote who="littleduckie" reply="5" id="3382542"] If you're talking about LH and FE to the first bunch of people who bought E:WOM, well that's just making things right since no one disagrees that E:WOM is horribly broken.[/quote] So basically they shouldn't get credit for all of the stuff they did give away for free just because you say so. Do you realize that what SD did in response to EWOM was unprecedented? As in it's basically never happen
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These SD guys are greedy criminals I tell ya... They would charge visitors of their building for the air they breathed if they could find a way to do it. /sarcasm It always makes me chuckle when people come here of all places to complain about SD not giving stuff away for free.