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Distant Worlds is the best I have played. Going to be even more awesome with the expansion coming up soon.
Well if you are going to make a sequel to something (and if someone who worked so heavily on it is involved you kind of have a right to) then you have to trademark the name, that's just business. Anyways as for the Dota saturation, I don't agree either. I loved Demigod and would have payed for expansions or DLC for it and I've never played dota or LoL/HoN which to me appeared to be budget PC games. If a good decent budget PC game comes out based on it I
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2798569"]Demigod, is that fun as a single player? I know it had multiplayer issues and all. It can be played one player, right? I could probably go look that up, but you know...lazy... [/quote] If you are going to play it single player make sure you get the AI improvement mod from the MOD section of the Demigod boards. Unfortunately it's only for skirmishes, not the Tournament but still makes for a more fun game.
I own the nVidia 3D glasses on a very high end machine. I use the 3D on very few games though. Developers don't bother to support it mostly, crosshairs are at 2D depth and impossible to use, shadows or water is often rendered in 2D, RTS render stuff at screen depth. Sins for example is impossible to play in 3D. That said when a game supports it because the Developers give a shit ([e digicons]<3[/e] Valve) then the results can be a lot of fun. Left 4
Christ what an asshole. There are people out there that don't see through this bullshit?
The greatest loss in gaming is as games companies have got bigger and they are almost all privatised then no games companies want to make specialist / niche games. They just want to make Call of Duty clones or turn their games that have been loved by fans in to Call of Duty clones anyway. Sadly SWAT 5 would be a Call of Duty clone if they made it now. Look at the last Rainbow 6 games, sort of a Gears of War clone. Any games company that makes amazing games carving
Excellent description COSIAN , well done.
[quote who="taltamir" reply="88" id="2774702"]I highly recommend you: 1. Turn off space monsters[/quote] I always play with them on minimum. [quote who="taltamir" reply="88" id="2774702"]2. Turn off space pirates[/quote] eh......what....? That's like 30% of the game, using them to find stuff and adding a challenge to get your empire off the ground. Why turn them off? They are manageable and finally getting your revenge on thei
This was one of those games I was sold by the web site and forums about it without a review or demo and I'm really glad I was. The latest patch has improved a LOT and it's even more fun than before. At the moment I play Blood Bowl and Left 4 Dead 2 but there is a small number of games I would still boot up and play on occasions, Sins, Distant Worlds being the main ones. As soon as they properly open up the modding capabilities (the next thing on their list) I imagine I w
[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="12" id="2769671"]More info about Legendary Edition please. [/quote] It's all on the website for the game. The current game uses Living Rule Book 5 (LRB5), the Legendary Edition will use the rules currently used in competitions which are now set in stone and unlikely to change for years. There is also around 20 races compared to the 9 with the Dark Elves you get in the current game. All of them except Chaos Dwarfs (d
The game is very worth the steam sale price buuuuuuuuut...... The Legendary Edition is due out very soon and contains all (but 1) of the tabletop teams so we are talking 20+ races to play and so will be a much superior version, using the current and final tournament rule set. A lot of people are likely to switch to it. If you are not sure you would pay full price for Blood Bowl though so wouldn't invest in the LE then the steam sale is a great introduction.
[quote who="Dariune" reply="4" id="2763495"]The story was phenominal IMO. Trapped on an asteroid with a scientist having done things to you. As you find out about your self you see others who have been mutilated far worse than you, aliens and their respective technology (but not the type of generic aliens, mysterious aliens where each thing you discover about them feels like an achievement) and depending on your actions you end up having been a different person each time.[/quote] I do
I played Syndicate about a year ago for Nostalgia value, unfortunately all it did was satisfy the nostalgia, it really could use a facelift in gameplay. I think I played it through a dos emulator just fine. If I were to bet though, I would bet this is going to be a cover system 3rd person shooter ala Gears of War.
[quote quoting="post"]Hey all A long time ago when games were better and gamers were more mature a game named Bioforge was released (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioForge) The story was beyond phenominal if you took the time to read the text. The game was fairly revolutionary for its time and the puzzles were interesting. Normally in games such as these the combat falls short but even the hand to hand combat was deep and fulfilling. I absolutely lov
Hope they read my list [e digicons]XD[/e] https://forums.stardock.com/383724
You should at least say what you are talking about in your original post! The original Alien Swarm was absolutely brilliant. For a mod it was great fun, Alien Breed with 4 player multiplayer. Been looking forward to this one for ages. I've been prepping my 4 regular gaming mates to get it, gonna send them a text when it's out to force them ;)
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You ask for ONE thing and spew out loads yourself [e digicons]>_>[/e] I would like to see the single player tournament style being able to be played multiplayer. So everyone is a player, anyone who drops being taken over by the AI.
[quote who="Spooky__" reply="9" id="2665799"]Settlers II on the DS is also not that bad. [/quote] It's also widely reported to be completely broken. Save games corrupting and major issues with the zoom feature that mean you can't use it. Blood Bowl is best played on the PC, but wait for the Legendary Edition coming out soon, an improved version with all 21? teams. Check the main site for details, I can't wait.
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="21" id="2652848"]How is Sins any different from Warcraft III? Both of them are hero units that gain experience as they kill stuff and gain more powerful special abilities.[/quote] Based on how much people go on about how crap Cap Ships are (well not so much these days) but totally require a fleet to kill anything I think the difference is obvious. Could you win a battle without a Cap ship in Sins? Could you win a battle without a hero agai
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="13" id="2648633"]Warcraft III and Sins of a Solar Empire both let you customize your "hero" units as they gain battle experience, and Civilization IV lets you give custom promotions to your individual units. The feature worked very well in all of those games.[/quote] Hated Warcraft III. The way it went to a Hero centric RTS was terrible as fas I was concerned. Running round killing creeps for XP, battles decided completely by their spells.
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="6" id="2646898"]Well, if you have one particular "pet" with such characteristics or dungeon-wide speccing, that's fine, but any further than that would be too far.[/quote] W hat's the point? How will it add to the fun factor? Name one non RPG or MMORPG where RPG features improved the game? I can only think of Diablo type games and in my mind they tap the same RPG itch in a slightly different format. Talent spec
For some random reason I thought I would make this list after reading in some old threads about how cool it would be if a Dungeon Keeper 3 was made. Just in case some developer picks it up and they decide to makes some "improvements" here is what we wouldn't want (yes I speak for everyone cause I'm arragant like that): 1) Being able to pick up monsters and put them anywhere It was in the first and second game and it made the whole premise silly. Wh
[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="13" id="2645071"] It doesn't get that much talk because it's just not really that good. Granted it's a novel approach to the genre and deserves credit for that, but meh, ultimately it's just kind of boring and disjointed. The entire 'let the AI do it' part is cool though, I appreciate that, only that it wasn't pulled off well enough. That and the old school graphics don
The OPs opening paragraph is very true and has been a big reason I am a way less frequent visitor here. A lot of people accuse people round here of fanboyism for coming to the defence of Stardock but the real fanboyism is the constant bashing of everyone who isn't Stardock. Recently it's suddenly not cool to like Steam for example when I remember a time (pre Impulse) when Stardock employees would say good things about Steam and Valve and these days it's a slight negative co
Distant Worlds is the best space empires real time game I have played ever. Why it doesn't get talked about more around these forums makes me sad :(
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