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Reply to Gamers: Are we getting soft? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Go ahead and ask it to be locked if you like. You are the one that is stating if I don't see it your way, it's the highway. Just look at what you wrote. Aka, if you disagree with me then you don't know what you are talking about. How exactly is that respestable? [quote who="ZehDon" reply="74" id="2395229"] If you don't think that this is the case, then you simply don't understand the history of our medium. [/quote] Yes, I know they were neglected, not just neglected, ign

Reply to Gamers: Are we getting soft? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I never ever said that casual gamers were oppressed. You both are putting words into my mouth because that is how you FEEL not what I said. I am saying they are completely miss labeled. According to both defintiions given, someone who plays everyday for hours at a time is NOT a casual gamer. Nowhere in your defintiion did you specify TYPE of game, only frequency of play. And here you are, both of yo complaining about games being made for casual gamers not that so many of them are pl

Reply to Majesty 2 in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="7" id="2394801"]The AI isn't so bad ! You just have to use well your flags. And I didn't encounter strange behavior, like a hero not defending himself while he is attacking a den. And even if the game is short, it's just plain fun. The fixed locations for temples and caravans bothered me at first, but now that I'm accustomed to it, it's a great idea. This game is good ! And hard. Not too hard. Just hard. And that's a good t

Reply to Majesty 2 in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="5" id="2394316"]I'd say I'm a game. I bought Majesty 2 because I was feeling down, and man... it picked me right back up again. (thats when you know you've got a good game) Yeah, the demo basically had the easiest level (tutorial) and hardest level (not even in the game) as the examples. I guess the idea was to give the entire spectrum of what to expect from the game. (I feel they should have made it more c

Reply to CD-ROM driver help please in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="22" id="2394426"] You're right....hell, it could be an anomaly in the cosmos.... No....I didn't touch his computer....even once.... It wouldn't be the first dvd/cd rom/rw drive to go belly-up.....they are built to a price, not a quality......think about it.....$20 or so buys you one these days....so they are going to be essentially crap.....waiting to fail. They are throw away technology....swap it out and see what happens..

Reply to Gamers: Are we getting soft? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="pseudomelon" reply="69" id="2394327"] Naturally what feels tedious for some may feel like a real challenge for another, as I've stated in previous posts. However, many people feel that the amount of challenging segments even in the harder difficulties of games is decreasing; and for mainstream gaming, they seem to be correct. Edit: As for Casual gamers, the terminology is not rediculous. People who play very few videogames play them casually. People who play

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They were two extremes, and compared to the orignial, they seemed to make 2 more RTS and a management of dealing with waves and waves of mobs.

Reply to Gamers: Are we getting soft? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="pseudomelon" reply="67" id="2393948"]I don't think anyone's saying the option for an easier difficulty is a problem so much as the lack of true challenges on harder difficulties of many of today's games. [/quote] Except that is entirely subjective. True Challenge? What challenges me and the type of challenge that challenges me isn't going to be the same for you. I really think people are just looking for nostalgia moments from the days when you could ge

Reply to Gamers: Are we getting soft? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I played and loved Diablo 1 and 2. I do not consider myself a hardcore gamer as I am not such a snob that I feele the need to label people in such a way. I think the ability to scale difficulty now is great, and have no regrets about that choice for the industry. If you want to be punished, scale it up. No, we're not getting soft. There are more choices now and for some reason, that makes some people really unhappy.

Reply to Part 2 of Shacknews Interview with Brad Wardell in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I read this I think. Is this the one where Brad talked about hoping/wanting Microsoft to do more for the PC as a gaming platform and then mentioning Windows Live came with some sort of charge. News flash Microsoft, if I didn't play games as heavily as I do, I would have little reason to stick with Microsoft products.

Reply to CD-ROM driver help please in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"] When i go in to my computer and try to open the disc from there the my computer menu freezes up. Come to find out I had forgotten i switched out my old CD-ROM for a better one and I'm thinking i need to reinstall the driver but I can't find the CD that came with it. [/quote] So am I correct in assuming that Windows actually sees the drive then? Because if it's not even showing up, that would be a different issue than just not reading a disc.

Reply to Anyone else hate EA? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheDude37" reply="21" id="2389291"]I hate EA too. You know that they are the reason we haven't been playing Dragon Age for the past 6 to 8 months or so. Since EA is publishing it, they made Bioware wait till the console versions were complete to launch them at the same time. Bioware initially was going to release the PC version first and then put out the console versions at a later date. [/quote] Well this certainly sounds like EA, they are not the only one doing this

Reply to Anyone else hate EA? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="PegasusJF" reply="11" id="2388889"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 1 Maybe this is the part where I should tell you the City XL is boring as hell and not getting much good feedback. My favorite part is where they say you don't have to pay to play the game but you don't get mass tran without paying their monthly fee. It's a a slow boring game that tacks on a monthly fee for fun. No thanks. Awww... I had my eye on City XL and on paper it see

Reply to Anyone else hate EA? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mogmoogle" reply="3" id="2388777"]Lord of Conquest was 15 dollars, and I have plenty of money. I'm just talking about the Quality of Games from EA games is poor. Besides if I Listened to half the reviews I have seen on the internet, I wouldn't have most the games I really like, or watched half the movies I really liked. [/quote] Well then it looks like you are not looking for a solution to your problem but want to vent against EA. Go ahead. I don't "hate" EA as

Reply to Anyone else hate EA? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Are you allergic to message boards and game reviews, Lord of Conquest got plenty of feedback from consumers on how it feel short. A lot of people like SimCity 4, and SIm City Societies has series technical issues late in teh game. You also need to lay some blame on the developers. Hey, I am not an EA lover by any stretch of your imagination, but it sounds to me you are throwing your money around without any research. Maybe this is the part where I should tell you the City XL is boring as hell

Reply to Three most important games to remember in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="40" id="2386540"]MoM Nobunaga's Ambition (Remember that? One of, if not, the First Koie game on the 8 bit Nes) [/quote] That was hardcore strategy. I had the original and the 2nd one for SNES, still do. They had marriages in that game but it was very limited. I am thinking there was an interesting flavor to it though.

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[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="29" id="2386216"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 25 Well ageless doesn't work either. ... My Webster's says "Without old age or limits of duration." The wiktionary more or less agrees. I see no reason to keep using a term badly just because lots of people do. But then I'm a self-professed curmudgeon who fears living to see the death of the sentence in 'modern English.' I take the language much more seriously than I

Reply to space rangers 2 in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Strand" reply="1" id="2384865"]Starforce is an extremely notorious form of DRM. The product pages for Space Rangers 2, Space Rangers 2: Reboot, and Space Rangers Complete do not list it as being used. I am aware that the retail version of this game used that form of copy protection. [/quote] The original version had Starforce, the jewel case they released later didn't. Unless Stardock is getting sloppy, I didn't think the Impulse version had

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[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="26" id="2385638"] patriarchal/primogeniture model for the dynastic stuff I hope it is just like Crusader Kings. It would be nice if we got choices of several types like in that game as well. Don't really care about female rulers as there weren't that many anyway and most of them were pretty terrible rulers as well. [/quote] As opposed to all the men who ruled and lead to decade after decade of war? Seriosly,

Reply to L4D 2 Banned in Australia in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Haree78" reply="37" id="2385087"] Actually I have a lot more empathy for characters in a good film than I do in a computer game. Video Game stories are usually quite childish and fail to connect me emotionally. [/quote] That's probably because the gaming industry as a whole, is pretty bad at telling a story. I mean most of them don't even use professional writers, and you can tell. It came up during that writer's strike that bo

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Well ageless doesn't work either. That implies that they never have and never will age. I am guessing they were children at one point and aged to a certain point and then only showed minute changes but aged. Ageless would describe something like a vampire best, or anything that unnaturally stopped a biological clock. Really though in sci-fi/ fantasy, immortal is the term that is more often used even if it is not 100% accurate.

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I think kingdoms that allow for a matriarchy could have civil wars. I mean it could be very complex, but the point is it's a fantasy setting, there is no need to force all kingdoms to have to rely an males to rule.

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[quote who="Scorpiana" reply="10" id="2384286"] I'm just hoping we aren't locked into a boring old patriarchal/primogeniture model for the dynastic stuff. I'd like, but don't expect, to see a canon faction that is fully matriarchal, where sons are bred to look good jousting and married off for fat doweries, alongside a faction or two where title-holders can choose their heirs, and perhaps even one where the sovereign isn't even obliged to choose among his or her offspring for an heir.<br

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Shack: What's the deal with multiplayer? Is it essentially the single player component with human players? Brad Wardell: Not quite. We have some special modes for multiplayer. We have an arena mode, which is almost a little bit like Demigod, where you go into a tactical battle. Whoever wins that wins the game. That's for the guy who only has 20 minutes to play. Then you have small maps, very small maps, w

Reply to 1$ is NOT equal to 1€ ! in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="36" id="2376992"] Long story short, Stardock can't do anything ? Correct. One day when I write my tell all book I'll have plenty to say about European retailers. People first blame the digital distributors for the pricing and then people blame the publishers but it's really the retailers who put the pressure on (in my opinion). You have no idea what sacrifices were made behind the scenes to have Demigod have a single worldwide