Wow, that's a total kick in the nuts for anyone who bought it then. I'd say the first post isn't totally spam then, as if you've never played CoH and enjoy RTS' you might as well try the campaign for free.
Now that I read the whole post, I noticed now that he claims single player in COHO; which it does NOT have. It is multiplayer only.
Meh, they can sell whatever they want. If people are dumb enough to pay for this it certainly deserves a facepalm, but the rest of us will move on.
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[quote who="Tridus" reply="14" id="2781515"] I was hoping someone would bring this up. At the manufacturing level, this isn't new. It's been true for ages that many mid-range or bargain parts are actually higher end parts that have some defect and get "binned" down. The classic example is two video cards based on the same chip: one with 80 stream processors and one with 120 stream processors. Both of them are the SAME chip made at the same factory, and both have 120 stream pro
Most Company of Heroes veterans despise the game due to the fact the Relic more or less left the original game in a broken state after a bad final expansion, and apparently abandoned support for it for this instead. Even if you didn't come from the original, CoHO gives lopsided matchups due to a player either having flat out better units due to playing more, or buying them; having skill alone not decide the match is the most absolutely stupid design you can go with in a RTS, and only on
[quote who="Raven X" reply="29" id="2391074"]I think the reason it quite hasn't been recaptured yet is because no one has faithfully reinvented every aspect of it correctly. What people truly want in a new Grand 4X Space Strategy is something with the complexity of Gal Civ 2 or Moo2, but have the battles from something like Sins of a Solar Empire. Gal Civ 2 came close to Moo in my mind but the battles just weren't quite there. Everything else was dead on though and I loved the ship customizat
[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="43" id="2779864"]Speculation on Kotaku is that it's a marketing ploy. What's Happening With Good Old Games? http://kotaku.com/5642141/what-happened-to-good-old-games [/quote] The owner deserves a severe kick in the nuts if this is true.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/realtime-worlds-apb-closing-tomorrow I think this is some sort of record for a MMO flopping. Even Hellgate London survived almost a year. I wonder if any poor bastards who bought it will get some sort of refund.
I used to be a tech at a University that had MAC addressed software (some stats program). Basically everyone just prayed daily that nothing would ever happen to the server or local machines that had it installed, as you would have to beg them and jump through fiery hoops to get it working again in the event of disaster. The funny part is no one would ever need to use this software outside of the University, so the outrageous anti-piracy measures were totally pointless.
[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="5" id="2773271"]You can't steal 600k and walk away. If they try it they will be sued for millions of dollars, and the guy will win.[/quote] They've stolen people's money in the past, so they will certainly try. Something Awful raised $30,000 for the Red Cross Katrina fund, and Paypal froze the assets, closed the account, and refunded all the money minus their fees ! Any 'investigation' they claim they are
Damn it, I've played that game a million times. I've beaten it on the hardest difficulty, I've done the turbo-fast Guardian kill (killing people with the Avenger when they still have fusion beams and mass drivers for weaponry is fun), I've made the completely invulnerable super-ship. There's no reason for me to ever play it again...but so tempting. No! Must resist!
Well the food items are the game's healing potions (you can use them in the dungeon for those who didn't know, the game never really mentions this to you), so it makes more sense when you think of them as such. I guess they just didn't want to be boring and make 15 variants like 'Healing Potion I', ' Healing Potion II', etc. and instead made them various foods. The housewives being your primary customer is an unfortunate side-effect of the action RPG portion being pointless during
I tend to agree on the problems with dungeons on your first playthrough. Even in Amber Garden you rarely find anything worth more than a couple thousand pix, by which point you can probably buy 10000+ pix items from the guild. The number of events you need to trigger to access the third dungeon make it nearly impossible to get to during the main game (especially considering you need at least one of pricey heretic customizations to attract Griff to the store), and that's where dung
For those who bought it from Impulse, note that for some reason they aren't submitting new patches through Impulse. You need to go to the main site and download them. http://www.carpefulgur.com/recettear/ Version 1.106 is the latest version right now.
[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="9" id="2770378"]I knew about being able to save one item. I think that's a nice idea so that at the minimum you come away with something. So how many levels is that first dungeon? I'm wondering how close I was to getting out of there alive with my bag of phat lewt. In regards to those "certain features" so does it allow you to leave a dungeon at any point? If I'm taking too many hits and have a nice haul so far, can I
[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="14" id="2769685"]$39,500??? I bet I could DIY something like that with about a year of planning and less then $1000. Hum..............[/quote] Ironically, this $17000 computer isn't actually aimed at people who know anything about computers. It's kind of like selling a $500,000 sports car to some celebrity who knows nothing about cars.
They are a scam. My friend and I used to use Ebay to sell stuff years ago, and we both stopped due to Paypal screwing with us. I sold a video card to someone outside of North America. He complained he didn't receive it, I provided the tracking number to Paypal to prove I sent it out. Paypal said too bad it's outside of North America so the buyer complaint automatically wins and had to give him a full refund . I didn't even get by shipping costs back; I
Been playing it a bit since the weekend. Lots of fun as it's basically two games in one, a business sim and an action RPG. It's also pretty difficult if you don't know what you're doing. It's nearly impossible to avoid the game over screen on your first playthrough, but the game is meant to be replayed several times in order to have enough time to see all the events and dungeons. While I can understand those who can't get past the cute graphic style and think it's a
UBI eliminated their own draconian DRM-scheme How nice of them to remove something that would have guarenteed them poor sales . Not shooting yourself in the foot gets you credit in the gaming industry these days?
The prologue and first chapter of The Witcher were absolutely horrible. It gets much better later on, but I have little doubt many players shelved it after playing a few hours into it and I can't really blame them. There were huge parts of the town full of absolutely nothing, quests that made you backtrack through these areas over and over, the plot at that stage was mundane, and you didn't have access to many abilities yet. I'm genuinely surprised they didn't overhaul that
The more I see big companies moan about piracy, the more I realize the while thing is just a smokescreen to allow them to deloy more and more restrictive DRM. Despite what many people think, most high-up managers are not idiots. There is no possible way anyone is stupid enough to still think piracy can ever be stopped. No, instead these new schemes like persistant Internet connections are just their way of controlling their customers. Publishers ultimate goal is to tie
What Annatar said. The $1000 machine I put together 2 1/2 years ago still easily handles any current PC game without breaking a sweat. The fact the every new 'PC' game these days is designed to run at 360 specs for easy porting accounts for 99% of the reason for this, although I'd say the power of top-line graphics cards has finally exceeded developers ability to take full advantage of them as well. The time and cost to develop something that would actually require two or mo
Uh, he's posting a link to pirated version of the game and encouraging everyone to use it. Reported.
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[quote who="BadTune" reply="3604" id="2736316"]Hey now, DS is like part of the main game at this point, you almost have to dl it when you get it, these guys are gonna be goin strong till the game itself ends, and that most likely aint gonna happen with this community [/quote] I have nothing but respect for the DS team as this mod is the ONLY reason I even look at Sins anymore. I still can't believe Ironclad didn't think to add some of these improvements in either of the official
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I can excuse them not bothering with any more balance changes at this point, as they probably realize it's a lost cause and the community can do better than they can at this point. However there's still some minor bugs that really should have been fixed long ago. In particular the 'AI only puts bounty on Human players' bug makes the game a far more frustrating experience for new players than it should be. The whole point of Sins Diplomacy was to make unlocked FFA THE single