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[quote who="Tormy-" reply="30" id="2529904"] Quoting Cerevox, reply 17 elite swordman killing modern armor? How is that a joke? Happens all the time in real life. Iraq invasion, quite a few tanks got killed with moltov cocktails. Set thier air intake on fire, engine gets no oxygen, it dies and rips itself up. Dead tank. For all that we talk about how high tech and powerful our army, all the gps and coordination gear and predator drone uplink won't save you from get

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[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="21" id="2529567"]Thats a real problem with games that use something from real life, we demand that they behave as they do in real life. To the point that a good set of rules can't be included because people will complain when their battleship gets defeated by the phalanx. Yes its annoying, but geez if you have a battleship and they the phalanx think what the AI must be thinking.... <br /

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Gotta have some randomness involed or you might as well be playing your game on a spreadsheet. I think the idea that randomness killed Civ IV is just silly. That's a wildly popular game for a strategy title. I've been playing Civ games since I knew what PC games were and they've done an excellent job with the series. No reason to hate on a game just because you don't care for a part of its system.

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="55" id="2528916"]Yeah steam didn't force anyone (but valve) to use steam. Like I've said before I would prefer every game to use at least one of the platforms because its SOO much better than the alternative (i.e. having to create a new acount to play, gamespy and silly non standard crap). Ah the disscusions on MMO forums about what kind of armour females should wear. So good. Of course the answer is always the same from me - "Anything

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[quote who="lackoo1111" reply="53" id="2528865"] quoting post I’m a Shacknews junkie and was reading about Valve’s announcement of Steam’s growth last year. If Steam announce Elvis is alive,do you belive it ? Steam's growth? Why? They forced publishers to use their service . SEGA - Empire Total War Activision -CoD MW2 THQ - Dawn of War II SEGA - Aliens vs. Predator and s

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[quote who="Cerevox" reply="51" id="2528848"] Are you saying that if we increase the number of male prostitues in games, the game will be more apealling to females? That really says something about what you think is important that i am pretty sure you didn't want to say. [/quote] If the idea makes you blush, go play with the kids, let the grown-ups do the talking here. It is exactly what I am saying. If you make a game where there are wome

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Back to Steam though, i still prefer Impulse, and Steams 3 hour downtime tonight only solidfies that. Everything is so incestial with them that when something need to be taken down, they pretty much take it all down. I hate that.

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[quote who="DethAdder" reply="43" id="2527498"]My Girlfriend plays games like Animal Crossing and such, but her favorites are actually Halo series, run and gun shooters like Serious Sam and the like. It all depends on the individual. There is no set demographic IMO, different people like different games. If you want to feel slighted as a gamer and blame it on the industry being male dominated, that's a personal issue. There is enough variety in games being offered nowadays that anyone who cal

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Way to go GoG. They've done a great job bringing back some classics.

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[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="35" id="2527344"] no, what im arguing is that games are developed to be fun and good, and that one's gender or race (i mean seriously, minorities? lol) has less of a determining factor in the types of games that are enjoyed by people than you seem to think. plus, you didnt answer my question. exactly how would a game catering to girls differ from what we're seeing today? and i don't mean the boring casual games, im talking about real

Reply to what is anti-aliasing? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Gotcha. Well I generally just let a game choose its own settings and only messed with it when i thought wow, that doesnt' seem right. AA doesn't seem to be turned on automatically so sometimes i turn it on, sometimes I don't. I didn't really understand the feature real well enough to think I should be messing with it, but if its something other people tinker with I figure I might try it when i shift to newer games again, most the games I am playing now are pretty well aged except maybe Tropic

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Since you gentlemen are speaking about this, I am wondering, is there a way to know when you should or should not use other than say increasing the value and seeing if runs like crap or runs fine and looks better?

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Well asking is a good start. Marketing isn't just about making stuff up and seeing what sticks. There are actually methods available to study and inquire about your target market. I never said women don't like the same games men did. What I have been saying is we aren't catered to, for the most part, so that if we like a game, it's just by chance. You don't make a character like Bayonetta has and tell me she was created for women because she is a female character. Clearly she wasnt'

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[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="29" id="2526749"] You’re just proving my point…Women gamers are no different to men; they enjoy games based on personal preference, not some weird biological determinism. First you would have to identify the fundamental differences between the gaming sexes before you argue that developers should pay attention or treat gamers as two distinct groups based on gender. [/quote] You're not seriously suggesting that women and minori

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[quote who="Cerevox" reply="26" id="2526684"]TBH, every time i see a thread about how we need to cater to female gamers more i just don't get it. Being able to make a female character? The options for female character are probably MORE deveolped then the male character. Most of the gamers i know pick female character regardless of what gender they actually are, after all, crude as it may be, if you are going to be staring at someone's ass for the next 20 hours, i would rather it be a female a

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[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="24" id="2526611"]yeah, i don't quite understand how/why "female" games would differ from male ones, other than a few cosmetic differences in character choices etc. surely female gamers enjoy slaying dragons or shooting rocket launchers or racing cars as much as their male counterparts? [/quote] Right because men and women like exactly the same thing in the rest of their lives right... or wait, no, no we don't do we? See you're making the s

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="16" id="2526025"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 15 the mainstream typically could care less if women play their games and hardly make an effort to appeal to them. Some women should setup some development companies then I guess? I would really be intested to know what a game that appeals to females *actualy* looks like. Since I've heard that said over and over but not actualy been shown one with all the massive

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[quote who="VicenteC" reply="14" id="2525976"] Quoting -RAISTLIN-, reply 8 if its such a good time to be a PC gamer, why are we being subjected to cross-platform titles that reek of consolitis? Because games have become too expensive to develop, so if you can launch it in another platform with minimal cost (compared to the cost of developing the game), you'll probably do it. But I can't understand the console hate, there are great games

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[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="10" id="2525850"]ergo, its hardly a "good time to be a PC gamer". [/quote] I see your point. We get piss poor ports and heavy handed DRM and they get... market share because we get piss poor ports and heavy handed DRM. However, when a company does it right, makes it for the PC and stops treating their customers like thieves, it's still truly great.

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[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="7" id="2525373"]he may have been talking about star trek online? in which case his perks wouldn't have arrived until today since you don't get your perks for pre-ordering (from anywhere) until after the headstart... Just throwing it out there, don't know about the install/download stuff. [/quote] Perhaps in the future, Cryptic and digi distr. should do a better job informing their customers of these things. A lot of people seemed

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If Wiiware or Virtual Console had a sale, I would assume I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone. As for physical copies, consoles have them every weak at the traditional retailers and places like Gamespot.

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[quote who="aeortar" reply="65" id="2524339"] I get conflicting reports about this on various forums. If the DLC phones home to check legitmacy, and there is no server to verify, it doesnt' really matter if its already intalled, it won't work. With DA:O I always thought I had to be logged in (/online) with DLC for it to work. This is because I'd frequently be prevented from loading a saved game and get the message that I had to be logged in because my saved game had DLC

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I like the idea better than Hollywood's let's sell everyone a brand new "3D" HDTV talk i've heard about now and then sinc Avatar. This works with... what's already out there.

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[quote who="Servius" reply="63" id="2523827"] What? You download the content and install it and restart the game and is in the game no matter what. [/quote] I get conflicting reports about this on various forums. If the DLC phones home to check legitmacy, and there is no server to verify, it doesnt' really matter if its already intalled, it won't work. The thing is, some people say it does phone home, others say it doesn't. Some say you can back it up and not have to d

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[quote who="Luckmann" reply="5" id="2522911"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 4 [...] It was enjoyable playing with your friends too. They kind of messed that up a but with NWN 2 though.Obsidian made NWN2, not Bioware. But I agree. NWN was fun to play with a friend. NWN2 was a clunky, badly optimized POS. [/quote] True, and I realize that but thanks for pointing it out. I wouldn't want Bioware to get the blame for something that