[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="20" id="2705924"] Sheesh, doesnt she get it, games ARE quality time. Duh. [/quote] My sister and her boyfriend (long-term bf) play games all the time, and with me even, but that is not all they do. It sure helps that they both love it though.
I wish they would say more about multiplayer this game. Aside form the number of players that can play that is. I'd like to know if there is any cooperative play at all (not in the campaign more like coop victories). Just anything at this point. Nice videos though.
If it's like Demigod, it will be long after the release. Then again, demigod had some unique problems that had to be taken care of.
[quote who="CariElf" reply="83" id="2706216"] Quoting Raven X, reply 60 The only thing that Stardock has EVER done to miff me even a little bit was to stop putting out their patches as stand alone downloads. I do Completely Understand this is to help fight piracy and I'm sure it's a wise decision. Many, MANY, other companies have gone this route in the last few years. I don't like it, but as TwoHawks says above me, it's the reality of the situation. <br
[quote who="cephalo" reply="81" id="2706120"]Good post Jalicos. I'm not sure these fears apply to Stardock, but I do worry that game publishers these days really don't care about what people are playing 20 years from now. If you are ok with your game being unplayable in 10 years, then your heart is not in it. I'm surprised that people who work so hard to make games would allow this to happen. Sometimes it's not clear immediately which games will stand the test of time but the one's that
[quote who="Tridus" reply="116" id="2706005"]I don't think it does have more micro Storm. They added some things, but they also streamlined other areas so in terms of time spent on micro I don't think it's going up. Kotaku has a great preview up now. I'm getting excited! [/quote] I never thought civ was that heavy in the micro department myself. Then again, I play a lot, a lot of strategy games, some of which are so heavy in micro management it's unr
[quote who="Aractain" reply="1" id="2704358"]Is this going to increase or decrease female interest in the title? Like you say, straigh away it actualy sounds - if they do it right - like I might be interested. Maybe. Aslong as I can cross out the "The Sims" title and write "Im gonna go" and then underneath the title write "on your ass!". [/quote] Can't speak for other females, but I enjoy the Sims series in general, and th
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="2703505"] Quoting Stmorpheus, reply 8 i just need to know if i can save a game in multiplayer and then load it back up with the same, or perhaps even different players at a later date. if so, does it save the game to the stardock servers or everybody elses? I can't speak for this sadly but I know it's supposed to let you save games MP to continue them later. I just don't know how stringent it is on getting
[quote who="Zubaz" reply="63" id="2703013"] Quoting Raven X, reply 60 ... I would love it if Stardock made patches to games downloadable for Only Paying Customers so I could save them on my system and back them up for storage for the years to come if I ever do have to move back to a area with no connectivity. http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com/ ? It still requires Impulse
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="90" id="2702979"] Nobody is forcing you to use it.... [/quote] Haha. Thanks. That made me chuckle. Excellent point [e digicons]:|[/e] .
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="531" id="2702616"] Perhaps you post during times when we have big jobs running? Unfortunately it isn't easy to figure out what job might be increasing database load. Of course, we are continuously looking into better solutions for this problem to prevent it from happening as often as it did a few weeks ago, so eventually we might do something that may help you (especially after Elemental launches and everyone all of a sudden has
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="88" id="2701952"] There is big difference between VAC ban and ban of entire account. When account itself is banned entire account is gone. When you are VAC banned you only cant play multiplayer in games using game engine in which you were banned. [/quote] Oh well then that makes it all better. After all, having Valve knee jerk in response to unvalidated information, taking away your ability to play games you actually pa
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="86" id="2701537"] Quoting Campaigner, reply 85 I plan to buy plenty of games during their next holiday sale but I want achievements! Also, their term of "revoke your account at any time for any reason" is a bit scary. EULA contain lots of things which are there only because of lawsuit happy people in USA. Steam accounts are banned only for doing thing which EULA say arent allowed (sell
[quote who="Aractain" reply="255" id="2701379"](Im talking about DA) I love the way they put a boot fetish and some halrious stuff in the brothel stuff. This stuff dosn't get enough light in most games. Everyone should have a fetish that defines them. [/quote] More brothels in RPGs! I loved that part myself, especially some of the humor they threw in it.
[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="251" id="2700982"]Times are a' changing if people are bringing up Neverwinter Nights as an example of "deep, engrossing" RPG experiences by jaded teenagers. I still remember NWN's release day, I still remember the hordes of Baldur's Gate fanboys denouncing it as "dumbed down, kid-oriented trash" and complaining of how you couldn't have any tactical depth controlling a single character in a party of two, how 3D meant NWN was just a fantasy-themed Quake mod and h
[quote who="Island Dog" reply="48" id="2700612"] That means that if I reinstall the OS a lot, everytime I've got "to ask" for permission to use the gameagain. This is what I don't consider fair, even not taking into account the possibility to receive "no!" as an answer. Frankly, it doesn't seem like a "trollish" complaint, to me. You are not asking for permission, activation is basically just verifying your purchased game. Which in reality if it is a legit pur
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[quote who="SpaghettiMon" reply="14" id="2700200"]I was wondering why no one was playing multiplayer the other day when I got it, that's disheartening. However, I think the game is still pretty fun, and there's nothing else quite like it. Then again, I'm a sucker for simulator strategy games. [/quote] I only played with a couple of people I knew. Basically people you know well enough to e-mail a saved game file that isn't corrupted sort of thing. These games do suffer a little bi
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[quote who="Shunmaha" reply="12" id="2700171"]Yes, this game would be great if multiplayer works better. Playing with more than 2 players can cause too many problems. I really do want to buy it but 18~20$ still sounds too expensive knowing how The guild 2 was like. Also, wasn't Renaissance originally a community mod? [/quote] Yes it was. They said something about it being too big for a mod so they converted it into an add-on. Except from what others are sayi
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="529" id="2700011"]We have the forums cache on 3 different servers to help spread the load. This means that occasionally you might see some odd things like that. Your issue likely happened because when I made my post, it updated the cache on one server but not the others. The others were eventually updated when the cache expired (~5 minutes). The reason you saw it in your recent posts list is likely because the cache for that page is s
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Yeah I am not sure why they keep calling it an add-on. It adds to the confusion. It is stand-alone, you don't need anything else to play it, and it isn't added to the original campaign.. it's just separate. It was kind of silly of them not to include the tutorial. I know it's in the original game and I think pirates has a tutorial too. The only thing stopping me from getting this is some of the bugs that are popping up. And while I play games all the time with bugs, i wanna see that JoWood/Ru
[quote who="jeffalford" reply="42" id="2699770"]Microsoft recently dropped support for Windows XP SP2, 1st version and SP1 was dropped about 6 months before that. One day you will be on your own with it no security patches will come to you. I am sure it will still work but activation of a new install could be a problem, by the way did you have this issue with activating XP also or did you steal it ! come on be honest! [/quote] You can actually manually update unsupported Windows
I just got one today too and this time hitting the back button didn't give me my post back. The back button not bringing up my post again happens occasionally but not always. As far as I can tell, it's random, at least from my perspective anyway. I get at least one a day, sometimes more. It's been about 1-2 lately, at the height of the problem, when this was thread, I'd say i was gett more than half of my posts not going through. I don't mind questions. I also had a
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Ack the stupid thing went Boom on me and ate my post. I'll make it shorter. There is a demo available on the official site, but it's for the vanilla game which was extremely buggy last time I played it. Pirates and Renaissance are supposed to be cleaner versions, but I don't know for sure. Last time I played they released a patch that I could not get to install and JoWood couldn't be bothered to even reply to my issue. i am not convinced they would know how to fix it even if the
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I have the original Guild 2. JoWood is the major reason why this game doesnt get much talk or attention. Their support is generally crap. It's not really a matter of how clean it is, but how many bugs there are, how bad the bugs are and the out of sync problem seems to be a permanent issue that used to make this game darn near unplayable via multiplayer. I hear it's more stable now, but i was told on the official forums there are still cases where the host has to email the saved game to other
[quote who="Polynomial" reply="244" id="2698632"] I thought Cryostasis was very good. [/quote] Well I didn't mean that all of them are low quality or that all from one region is always high quality. There are jut a lot of RPGs and Strategy titles coming out of the eastern european area that don't get much press that are niche like/unqiue, but there are some quality issues attached to them which, frankly, keep me from recommending them to people.