The only thing Star Trek about STO are the skins. When you have to put a fictional universe typically based on exploration, diplomacy and peace in a constant state of war just to get your game to make sense, you know there is very little trek involved.
[quote who="Aractain" reply="22" id="2543071"] You really think that could happen? I mean, if I was running it - I wouldn't want to risk it I guess. [/quote] No actually I am not holding my breath after watching these videos that we will get anything close to unbiased and outspoken on ImpulseTV. I was just using Island Dog's words which made me think these were reviews not the sale pitches they are. Unbiased and outspoken is probably only going to come from user/con
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="26" id="2542933"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 25 Can't wait. When can we start pre-ordering it on Impulse? I hope so. 2K seems to have narrowed what digital distributors it wants to put titles up on. Bioshock 2 is only on Steam and D2D for instance. So we need to start bombarding 2K with requests now? [/quote] It doesn't make a lot of sense either. I mean why would you wa
[quote who="Firestem4" reply="19" id="2543010"] Hopefully that makes some sense [/quote] Sure I see what you mean now. They started 100% positive, so it's going to be hard to shift from that. Still I am hoping they do more with this than just pimp the entire catalog one at a time on video. I mean this is the kind of thing Nintendo does with it's videos and games on the Wii channel which is about as "unbiased and outspoken" as marketing team hyping a game before releas
[quote who="Firestem4" reply="16" id="2542850"] that said I'd like to reflect Raisar's comments that they really are Commercials. I can understand why it would be in poor taste to review a game badly, and I thoroughly applaud Impulse for reflecting the good things about games because it shows consumers and players a lot about games they've never heard of or looked at before. [/quote] I am not sure why giving a full perspective of a game would be in "poor taste," but ye
[quote who="psychoak" reply="18" id="2542581"]I'll only get Civ 5 if really good mods come out for it, or people who's opinions I trust claim it blows the socks off 4. It's got to at least surpass the mods for the last one for me to bother with it. [/quote] Civ IV was one of the few more recent series where I bought the original game and each expansion as they were released as opposed to waiting for gold editions and such. It will be interesting to see how they've updated
Normally I say if you don't like it, don't buy it. In this case, I say pirate the hell out of all of their games and flaunt it. I don't care what the other developers and publishers say. If you have this much disdain for the industry you work in and your own customers, you deserve it.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=235290&site=pcg PC gamer with some updates on how this actually works. looks awful. Worst than any DRM scheme I have encountered to date.
[quote who="Sarudak" reply="6" id="2541458"]The original majesty had a skirmish/sandbox mode and I remember there being a ridiculous amount of settings... [/quote] And an ability to beat a map competively without actually warring with other players which was a lot of fun.
[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="13" id="2538980"] What I really want is a proper SimCity 5, I guess this isn't it. Unfortunatly, I doubt we'll ever see a Simcity 5. EA shut down most of Maxis, and knowing EA, there're likely to release another crappy spin off like Simcity Societies. What I'd like to do is keep playing Simcity 4, but my card is so new that the modern drivers mess up the graphics. The buildings show up fine, but things that move like cars do n
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="5" id="2537363"] There is no single unit in Master of Magic that cannot be countered. In high-level battles, it would be foolish to use a monocultured force as that would make it much easier for you to be countered. [/quote] Correct me if I am incorrect, but wasn't Elemental supposed to be the game that had really big units in it, like some units you had to work very very hard to get and therefore are very powerful (alth
[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="1" id="2536511"]Two things I hope will be in are a kind of zone of control and morale. I just hate when you can travel away from an opponent you just attacked in close combat. [/quote] Well that tactic makes sense in some cases for some units. Perhaps not all but I don't think it should be ruled out entirely.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="11" id="2535330"] IE, chrome and opera all show the same thing, my post is in a white block, not a problem. Firefox has problems. Formating is broken. text running off into random space. Cerevox, no, IE shows it just fine. Your last comment is #5 and there are two following...so it is definitely not broken. If it shows as broken on your machine it will be a cache issue [your cache]... [/quote] Jaf
[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="14" id="2534559"] Totally agreed. All this does is give devs an excuse to hold back content and charge extra for it later. Hell, there are some cases where $60 retail games don't even have a proper ending unless you pay for the DLC! As opposed to expansions, where you spend the whole game being told how you need to stop the three Prime Evils but you can't fight the third one without paying for the $40 expansion which also *happens* to incl
8600 mGT is that part of the faulty chipsets nVidia put out, the ones basically prone to burn out? I know mine is, it's an 8400 and since Dell's response to that mess was to send an BIOS to increase the fan, I don't even try to use it for gaming (wasn't meant to be a gaming rig for me though.)
You have any problems with other games? I mean you said 3rd or 4th map which makes me think you have been playing for awhile. Maybe it's a heat issue that needs to be fixed, for instance your GPU overheating after a bit. Oops I should have read your post better. You said its only L4D, so the other games you're not having an issue with, are they graphically intense aka taxing your GPU much?
[quote who="Aractain" reply="9" id="2532909"]What does multiplayer city building even look like? I mean why and how would you want to interact with other people? [/quote] I am not 100% sure, but being able to trade oil and water and get mass transit certainly wasn't enough for an MMO price tag. Emperor had multiplayer trading which wasn't too bad but still a bit of a disconnect. The Settlers series always had some sort of multiplayer in it, right from the first game release in th
[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="7" id="2531306"] This is a game I really wanted to try, but there was no demo version when it came out. So I just moved on and forgot about it. There was a demo for a short time before it was released. [/quote] Yeah and it was a pain to to play the demo too. Being the kind of person I am, i put symbols in my password with them, guess what, their registery would accept passwords with symbols at sign up but reject them when yo
[quote who="Aractain" reply="1" id="2532696"] So, nice big chunky expansions = GOOD. Small tiny unfullfilling empty DLC = BAD. [/quote] 100% agree. Hey if they want to give me DLC for free to register my game, verify it's a new purchase, not a second-hand, fine but 10-15 bucks for what has been coming out for some of these games... pass.
I've seen a black bear and a bobcat in person fortunately they are usually seen around here running away from people not at them. There are a couple locals bears too you just call in and let the authority know where they are seen so they can keep tabs. They're a lot more fun looking at photos and on TV. I've heard a cougar before, and when you hear one of them, you just get right back in your car. Still, that is just so cool to see!
You pick Simulation, i would pick Strategy. I think Simluation, I think flight and train sims. If there was a sandbox category, yeah that would work. As it is now, there isn't. And really, i wouldn't pick either one, I would pick something in between. And no, L4D does not "require" cooperation. There is nothing in the game that forces you do to do it. Roll it down to easy or play it solo and nope, nothing comes out the scream and says you "have" to do it. You don't "have" to think ahe
[quote who="CrazyElectron" reply="48" id="2531577"] So no, in context, the Sims is NOT a strategy game, despite what the dictionary may tell you. Something is defined not by a book full of words and explanations, but how people think of something. In today's world, dictionaries aren't that helpful, such has been the propagation of connotations, colloquialisms, and jargon. In context, for all those pople arguing with Oxford, that's how we must look at this. [/
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="46" id="2531514"]Classifying The Sims as a 'strategy' game demeans both the category and The Sims. The Sims requires no continual theory or strategy to be employed; in fact, most players would enjoy the game in a more reactive way as opposed to a pro-active way. There is basic planning required to succeed in whatever your after (friends, career, property, etc.) however calling this basic planning a strategy is beyond reaching in my opinion. [/qu
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="41" id="2530806"] Because that is fixing the horrible RNG based combat system. Riiiight. [/quote] You're not exactly a majority in that opinion. The Civ series has done very well for a very, very, very long time. It's not horrible and it's not broken, and I have yet to see you actually verify that yo have played Civ IV for an extensive amount of time or if you are just bitching about the older versions and applying it to the newer vers
[quote who="Cerevox" reply="37" id="2530510"]Changing the seed or not changing the seed on reload had nothing to do with it. He meant that the extreme randomness that the has RNG had allowed the swordsman to beat the tank often for no apparent reason. Its not just the number of tries, but the fact that in a single run through, the swordsman actually had a pretty good chance of winning, no reloads required. [/quote] In what world is a 1% extreme. Hell how often in a
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