Sola_III

Reply to What Did You Play This Weekend? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Played mostly Lord of the Rings Online with my level 58 Guardian. Finally bit the bullet and bought a top end Belkin Wireless N Router and dongle. No longer fear getting disconnected in Moria (or elsewhere) in the middle of nowhere, getting defeated while logging back in, only to find myself half way across the place having to trek back to where I was. No disconnects in a week. For those that play LotRO, it's a bit expensive to repair Guardian armor as well when this h

Reply to Windows 7 on a Dual Boot ? in OS Customization Stardock Forums

Echoing above - yes. I am more or less doing the same thing today (and I too use Acronis True Image 2009). Only difference is I have XP, Vista, and W7 build 7100 running on three separate hard drives, with the boot manager on Windows 7drive loading the boot menu. Separate partition on the Vista drive for data, and another one for images of the three OS on the Windows 7 partition. They all get along quite nicely...... Main reason for three OSs is to have mo

Reply to Dragon Age: Origins in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bingjack" reply="10" id="2323990"] Quoting Sola_III, reply 9 Bioware has said that the only DRM on the Box Dragon Age game will be the traditional simple disk check. No activations or anything. If what you say is true, I will be the happiest man on earth later this year. Although if they are simply wordsmithing here (and just mean for example constant in

Reply to C&C4 to require internet connection for singleplayer in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

What a load of bunk. If they want to track stats for player progression they could do check for an active internet connection each time the game launched, and upload since the last connection any progression.

Reply to Dragon Age: Origins in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bingjack" reply="18" id="2322885"] Quoting Sola_III, reply 17 Quoting Zaisha, reply 7Excited, but cautious. (given EA's involvement) I think I know where you are coming from. I'm cautiously excited. All depends on the DRM. Bioware has said that the only DRM on the Box Dragon Age game will be the traditional simple disk check. No activations or anything. [/quote]

Reply to Dragon Age: Origins in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zaisha" reply="7" id="2322125"]Excited, but cautious. (given EA's involvement) [/quote] I think I know where you are coming from. I'm cautiously excited. All depends on the DRM.

Reply to NPD PC sales top 20 June in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I am ever grateful that EA wised up at least for 5 minutes and didn't hose Sims 3 with anything other than a disk check. Sworn "no EA for you" gamer. For what I miss they publish there is another game I play that makes me forget all about what I missed. I had never played the series and what finally pushed me to purchase it was the copy protection didn't install garbage on my system. By the way, runs on Windows 7 RC1 fine if you are curious. Starcraft B

Reply to The absurdity of Oblivion on Steam in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Grottenolm85" reply="16" id="2315202"]Ever thougt about that there are places on this world without Walmart? I am livin in China as well and there is no Walmart. Even if i am back in Germany there is no Walmart. Only Media Markt and Oblivion is still 35€ there(As all Computer games tend to be a lot more expansive in Germany). So digital distribution platforms are really convenient if you live in a area where it is difficult to find cheap(problem in germany) or genu

Reply to Bing vs Google Round 2 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="tazgecko" reply="12" id="2320026"]How about NoScript? [/quote] That's exactly what I do. Matter of fact I remove Google from search options in Firefox. I'd rather use Bing - better the devil you know, eh? Speaking of Silverlight - ever been to the downloads page at Microsoft.com? Huge install button on the popup; need a magnifying glass for the "no thanks" click.

Reply to The absurdity of Oblivion on Steam in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Update to absurdity - 2K is bundling ESIV with Bioshock - and packing says you need to internet connection to activate. Don't know if this applies to ESIV now as well, but enough reason to avoid that "greatest hits" package. Go buy ESIV at Walmart for $20 and save yourself the trouble of dealing with it.

Reply to C&C4 to require internet connection for singleplayer in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It's not about having connection to the internet; it's about using the Internet to create new hoops paying customers must go through to play the game they purchased a license for. An MMO or being online for multiplayer functionality is one thing; it's another to treat PC's like a console. Case in point: Battlestations: Pacific. Someone please explain to me how a persistent internet connection keeps the game from being copied, unless the publisher and/or developer default

Reply to CIV IV , is it worth it? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

CIVIV is great. After buying the vanilla version retail ended up buying all the expansions as well. I've bought alot of Sid Meier games since including Railroads.

Reply to Great Turn Based Games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Kings Bounty - over the top awesome.

Reply to Tell me what is a good game? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'm with you on AoE III including all the expansions. Civ IV as well. I'd include: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - changed my gaming life (so THAT's what an RPG is all about - more to life than shooters) Fallout 3 for a twist on the previous If you can get around the bugs, the two STALKER games put you in a radioactive funk (in a positive way) - maybe it's just an eastern Europe vibe but great world building. Company of Heroes - first two. <p

Reply to The absurdity of Oblivion on Steam in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Bah to Steam. Go pick it up at Walmart. Around here it's always in stock and 20 bucks for the GOTY edition. I've got 2 copies.

Reply to ZeniMax Media bought id Software! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Worse thing that Zenimax/Bethesda every did was put all their marbles in the Windows Live thing with Fallout 3. I'll play Broken Steel when it comes out Retail on disk like the first two expansions did. Other than a bit slower than your average bear when it comes to patches, Bethesda can do no wrong by me (consider me a proud fanboy). Oblivion totally changed the type of games I'm interested in.

Reply to What Games are You Looking Forward Too? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I am actually looking forward to the Sims 3 expansion packs. Wow is this a load of fun. Never played the series and it exceeded my preconceived notions about it. After hours of killing stuff in RPG's and strategy games nice to take some time and build houses, landscaping, and micromanaging folks lives! Guess I'm getting a bit soft, although Sims 3 plays like a RTS/RPG in some aspects. Too many good games to play right now (Demigod, Sins of a Solar

Reply to How many video games do you own? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Probably in the neighborhood of 2 dozen (started playing in 2007). All PC baby!

Reply to Great Turn Based Games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

HOMM has been mentioned, so has Kings Bounty. Kings Bounty is awesome in just about every aspect. One more game I never have enough time to play....

Reply to Regrets. Regrets. Regrets. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

What's wrong with Age III? I actually reinstalled on Windows 7 RC1 since I enjoyed it but other games came along and it lost it's hard drive lease.

Reply to The Sims 3 leaked in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="2" id="2231138"]This is for women. This is for kids, This is for idiots. Etc. If you don't like it, despise it. After all, it's just some kind of 2nd class game for 2nd class people. I happen to like it. I liked 1 and 2 but never bought (that includes not playing) an expansion (it's fun but I prefer Gal Civ II and Civ IV style games, or Neverwinter Nights style ones). It's a fun game with elements from which other kind of games could learn a thi

Reply to DEMIGOD please read in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

I bought it about the time it came out and only started playing the Touney seriously last night. I love it. Graphics are awesome on auto - configure with 8800 GT 512 mb. Shoot - even the lack of tutorial doesn't even bother me anymore. After playing click fest games like Company of Heroes and other RTS games, takes some getting used to not controlling everyone. Can actually just settle down and enjoy the game.

Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Sadly (or maybe not!) Company of Heroes - original. I only started gaming in 2007!

Reply to King's Bounty: The Legend in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I was never that interested in turn based games until I purchased the original Gal Civ within the last year. Nice break from the key smashing real time RTS games. Bought a retail copy, not being familar with Heroes of Might and Magic and it's core similarities. The game stands on it's own though. The graphics, music, crazy quests (pulling a dragon's tooth?!?!) - it's beautiful. We all need to keep a close eye on Eastern Europe in the next few years - awesome st

Reply to Demigod is Great. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Just to throw my 2 cents in, I purchased a copy out of curiosity (I've been playing way too much Lord of the Rings online!). Before the MMO disease I acquired, was a big RTS fan - still am. Just hard to find time to play all the good stuff. Big supporter of Stardock in spirit and sales. My experience so far with the tournament is pretty fun - learning from trial and error. I'm running an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 at stock 1.86 ghz, with an EVGA 8800 GT Akimbo 512