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Reply to About multiplayer in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vhorthex" reply="29" id="2786236"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 22 As far as I am concerned, I wouldn't even call a computer game without simultaneous turns multiplayer. Only one person is playing at a time. That's how terrible I think that "game" mode is. That "Game mode" is called "Turn Based". You know, like a Turn Based Strategy game? Simultaneous turn, in my opinion, are a poor attempt to reflect RTS mechanics. The fa

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="301" id="2787216"]I will say this: I'm amused by all the posts I'm seeing in various Civ 5 forums saying things like, "This will be an awesome game once they fix issue X, Y, and Z with a patch/expansion." But that's O.K. because it has Sid Meier's name on the box, so of course it deserves a top rating. If only Elemetal were so lucky. [/quote] You aren't doing Stardock any favors by comparing the two titles like that. Were you in the b

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="95" id="2787150"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 92 Wow. It looks like there was some sort of developer handbook passed out in the last few years titled how to fk up multiplayer games in as many ways as possible. How unfortunate. We really do seem to be going backwards on MP, particularly in TBS games this year. It's particularly sad in the case of co-op, where shooters are getting better at it and strategy games are go

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="90" id="2786707"]Heres some good posts outlining some of my issues. http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88675 and http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89150 [/quote] Wow. It looks like there was some sort of developer handbook passed out in the last few years titled how to fk up multiplayer games in as many ways as possible. How unfortunate.

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="81" id="2786263"]Civ 5's multiplayer is worse than beta software, this makes me sad. [/quote] [quote who="Tridus" reply="83" id="2786454"]MP is not as polished as it should be, for sure. But "worse then beta" is overblowing it. So long as you set autosave in the game options to save every turn, MP is pretty functional. [/quote] Compared to Civ IV, what is the deal with Civ V's MP?

Reply to Done with Civilization 5 Demo in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="38" id="2786600"]I love it when people talk about how they played the demo and then proceed to break everything down like they've been playing the game for months. Saying things like "So Civilization V goes like this-" after having played the demo for awhile is pretty silly. [/quote] The only thing the demo can't tell you is if the mid and end game are fixed. 100 turns gives you plenty of time to test out mechanics, UI and AI.

Reply to Done with Civilization 5 Demo in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]while empire-bulding and economy are virtually non-existent. As I said - it was fine on X-Box, but that is not what I want from a PC game. I can see how younger kids from the "special generation" may find is nice to have a fast pace and no real thinking other than RTS-style active expansion, but at this point first Civilization had more depth. And it was a STRATEGY game not watching-animations-of-units-kicking-each-other game. [/quote] <p

Reply to Age of Wonders Makes It Way to Impulse! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="16" id="2785795"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 15 Impulse is simply a downloader for it, you don't need to keep it running or have it installed to play. True, but its safe to say that's not going to matter that much to this fellow. [/quote] Impulse maybe DRM friendly, but GoG it is not. It makes no sense to even claim that it is. GoG gives you an exe and you're good to go for as long as the

Reply to gog.com is going down in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="streetgang073" reply="97" id="2784439"]windows seven support runs very sloooooooooooooooooowly [/quote] Can you explain this? I'd like to know what the problem is.

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="louist" reply="50" id="2783965"]Been playing and largely enjoying Civ 5. No scenarios. I suppose these will have to fall under "mods," but they could have easily shipped the game with a few set-pieces, like they have done in previous versions. [/quote] Maybe I am being cynnical here, but i suspect we'll be seeing scenarios that traditionally ship with Civ games as DLC, probably over-priced DLC. I am not crashing or anything drastic, but

Reply to Multiplayer... uh... please explain... in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ineffigy" reply="3" id="2783906"]Would you have rather waited another year to play it and get all of the features being added to the game but without player involvement? [/quote] Yes. I mean seriously, I don't know why Stardock fans defend this practice. I don't want ANY company to advertise features that are not ready or available for a game on the box or even the website for that matter. It is not an ethical practice to have.

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="32" id="2783410"] quoting post I been hearing a lot of problems are going on with Civilization V. I am curious if that game will be judged by the same merits that Elemental was judged? What do you guys think? Yes. If you compare Civ 5 at launch to Elemental at launch, it goes something like this: - Civ 5 is having crash issues for some people in DX11 mode. Dropping

Reply to gog.com is going down in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'm not impressed. I've been looking at GoG for awhile thinking about buying, but haven't done it. This behavior just screams unprofessional twit, and it does not make me want to give them my business which would be, admittedly, small. I have certainly stopped telling people about them as I don't trust them at this point.

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="TLamming" reply="259" id="2783493"]People who pc game and have problems should probably format their machines, install the latest drivers and then test. Civ V is orders of magnitude in better shape than Elemental was. They also had easily 10x + the budget elemental has/had. Not to mention man hours. Not sure if would have made a difference, but I like to think so. [/quote] Please don't ever work in customer service. That is the most ridiculous and lazy answer gamers g

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="falconne2" reply="717" id="2782635"] Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 714 Thanks to the annoying behavior of the likes of Firbolg, FadedC, falconne2, and Rebell44 I will never be using your service or buy any of your products. I did what now? [/quote] I am guessing it was the silly idea that the only people being locked out of their Steam accounts are careless stupid people. Personally, I thought blaming victims was sti

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="227" id="2782510"]Judging by some of the things I'm reading on various forums, Elemental actually isn't too far off from Civ 5 in terms of polish and completeness. Lots of stability, performance, and balance issues being reported as well as complaints about the game being overly simplified and inferior to its predecessors, particularly Civ 4 which is starting to look like the pinnacle of the series. I honestly think the biggest problem with E

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="253" id="2782364"]IMO its better strategy than Civ4, because of one unit per hex and limited resources. [/quote] Yeah but is it a better game as in more fun? I don't really play Civ games to get a war game fix. There was always more appeal to the series than moving units around trying to have strategic battles.

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Eiralin" reply="225" id="2782443"] Quoting goldknight, reply 220 Why don't people have room for two really good games? I do. If Elemental were a good or even passably decent game, I'd have time for both. [/quote] Same here. I don't pay for buggy unfinished games. I've got room and money for a lot of good ones though.

Reply to Intel wants to Charge Customers Additional Fees to 'Unlock' Processor features. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I am not a huge fan of paying for content already on the disc either. Then again, you'll get the develoeprs and publishers telling you that you haven't bought anything at all, just a license to some limited access to a product they can change at will and sell to you unfinished and unpolished. In any case, Intel still has at valid competition. I for one would have no problem in switching back to AMD. I've had their products beforein the past.

Reply to gog.com is going down in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="52" id="2781082"]This whole mess has just passed the line from strange to strange, if you get my drift..... [/quote] Definitely passed into the wtf category awhile ago. Bizarre does not even begin to cover it.

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Melamine" reply="193" id="2781033"] Quoting _PawelS_, reply 191 Elemental is "imprisoned" on Impulse (theoretically you can run it without Impulse, but to get updates you have to use it). Steam is evil and Impulse is good? Let's compare: Steamworks games require Steam for installation, updates, and use. Updates must be installed in order to access the game, and should Steam choose to deactivate your account

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Faust.br" reply="600" id="2779655"] . The most sucessful mods in the history of gaming were created using Valve's engine, so I can't understand how do you say that Valve's STEAM is destroying the mod scene! [/quote] So what criteria are you using to make this very bold claim. Also know, i don't really have an issue with Steam and mods, although I think we're goin too be DLC'd to death with Civ.

Reply to gog.com is going down in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

That's a real bummer. This was the only digi store I really considered truly DRM free, and they were doing a great service getting all these old games available and in usable formats again. It seems a little strange to me that they would pull the plug, pretty much literally, overnight too with no warning of even a phase out.

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Faust.br" reply="584" id="2777941"]"Impulse doesn't need to be open to be able to play the games you bought off them." Not all games delivered by STEAM needs your STEAM app to be open. A lot of titles, including all Paradox Interactive titles (EUIII, Vicky2, HoI3), have no DRM at all, you can play it without STEAM, you just use it do download the game. The company/publisher decides if he wants or not the STEAM DRM or just u

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="222" id="2777505"] Quoting Tridus, reply 216 Quoting Tridus, reply 216 It's "liberated". The manual has been released early. I'd suggest saving it rather then opening it in a browser, as it's quite large (233 pages, 25MB). That's a nice manual. I wish it verified a few more things on MP, but maybe that's just my new response to MP after Paradox and Stardock MP d