[quote who="FadedC" reply="12" id="2810415"] Quoting ZehDon, reply 11 Quoting mentalinstra, reply 8 ...I guess the actual game doesn't matter, its the silly little program running in the background that's really important. Should we blindly accept a forming monoply without question? What requirements and checks need to be placed on you before you're not willing to use whatever it is in order to avoid those requirements?&
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="137" id="2810387"] All true. So maybe what I said (becoming console-spoiled) happed a few years back already and what we're seeing now is the crossing of consoles and PC's. Someday we might not be able to tell the difference anymore. [/quote] Well your point was still a good one. It takes more effort to play PC games even if you have everything above specs and are up to date... i mean just toyign w
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="135" id="2810379"] Well said. It does seem like many people (even many who are actually technically inclined) just don't want to expend even a fraction of the effort it used to require (more often than not) to install/configure/play PC video games in the past. With the multitude of hardware configs available today and equally numerous ways to install/configure software we should be ready to expend even more e
[quote who="Alstein" reply="132" id="2809918"]That said, the beta is one of the reasons to pre-order, without an open beta , there would be no point in pre-ordering- just wait until it comes out. Stardock would get a benefit of seeing what the interest is, and it helps them make a proper budget. [/quote] That's nonsense. There are games that have large pre-orders all the time, and I do mean ALL THE TIME, that don't
[quote who="Alstein" reply="130" id="2809858"] As for the longer open betas, that's a good concept- though given the Elemental launch- I am unsure if GalCiv3 will have a sufficient pool of testers since many have said they're reluctant right now. (I plan on pre-ordering it as of now when you offer it in 2-3 years) [/quote] Stardock could fix this by first, not selling tickets to their beta
[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="127" id="2809772"] Quoting Istari, reply 126 When you say specs for the 3 or 4 test rigs, do you mean for the game to be published with the specifics of all the hardware and software versions used in those machines? For example, Asus Geforce XXX with XXXMB DDRX, Intel Core iX @2.XGHz, XGB DDRX RAM, Soundcard X, Windows X XXbit, DirectX um....X, .NET X, Service Pack X, etc.?
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="114" id="2809633"] It's been addressed. Computer games have become exponentially more and more difficult to create due to the increase in technology and the increase of diversity of systems. Back in the 80's, one guy could make a computer game in a number of weeks. And, I bet, if you wanted to make the exact same game now, it would a bit longer and suffer a little more bugs, simply because the difficulty of making it compatible with the plet
I think "the industry" should get some credit in terms of specs on the box. It used to be if you had the min. the game would run like crap if it ran at all and they, the industry folks, would say something ridiculous like well it installs so we're good. Now if you have minimum, you can actually play the game. I might be hard on the gaming industry, but some areas got a lot, I mean a lot better. Is there room for improvement still, sure.
[quote who="FadedC" reply="96" id="2809061"] Quoting LEADER MkII, reply 93 I dunno about that..I mean I survived the THAC0 years..who can boast such claim?...or want to go back to it...Oh God the debates! But yeah- the typical MMO classes seems to be the norm- I suppose it`s part lazyness from the devs, part easy-does-it: I mean just put whatever type of character, and put Tank/healer/ranged DPS/melee DPs and peo
[quote who="Grove12345" reply="45" id="2808549"] hmm seems alot of people seem to be missing the point of my post. Hey thats cool just keep pretending your supporting PC gaming by buying EA and Blizzard games. [/quote] So you don't like some publishers. I don't like some too. So what? Your taste is just that, your taste.
[quote who="FadedC" reply="78" id="2808524"] Well it's a fine line, because no matter how great a change is there will always be a vocal group of fans who thinks the change really sucks (you see the blizzard boards after even the most popular and needed World of Warcraft change). But of course not every change is great and sometimes those people are right and it really does suck. The trick is figuring out the difference, and that's much easier said then done. So I think f
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="40" id="2808104"] I don't know why you bring up Wii Fit. It isn't required for most games and most of the commonly perceived best games on the Wii don't even use it. If the Kinect was priced closer to $75, it would probably sell like crazy. But $150 for something that does pretty much the same stuff as what you already have is too much. I use that as an illustration of one of the several additional peripherals needed to enhance the user experience
[quote who="Cryptomancer" reply="67" id="2808479"] Quoting Renevent, reply 46 Been a PC gamer for 20 years now and out of 100's of games that I have purchased the vast majority of games work just fine. Saying 9/10 games these days are broken on release is crazy...either that or just really really bad luck (or crappy system?). I have purchased hundreds of games since May 1993 (MoO) ... and most of them did not "work just fine". <br
[quote who="Ravenstrike" reply="68" id="2807954"] Wasn't talking about release TQ, Immortal throne only. TQ at release was very lackluster. My comments about TQ being better simply stem from the fact some were saying there was nothing in the genre to top Diablo, and I disagree. I have also put more hours than I can count into both titles. [/quote] I do not and will not ever subscribe to the idea that expansions should be used to fix problems with the o
[quote who="Ravenstrike" reply="65" id="2807916"] 2. Titan Quest (with expansion) is better than diablo. Only thing holding it back is lack of online servers [/quote] Titan Quest was not better at release, and a large chunk of the "expansion" should have been in the original game. I completely disagree with you. Not only that, are you seriously comparing games that are over 6 years apart. Last I heard, there were a number of games "better" then pac-man
[quote who="FadedC" reply="61" id="2807838"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 60 Quoting FutileEmotion, reply 59 I wonder what they're doing about cheating in Diablo 3. In Diablo 2, it has always been a major issue, between duplicated items and bots running, or that you can (or at least could earlier this year) buy stolen/generated CD keys for $5-10. Well they are forcing battle.net on everyone whic his sup
[quote who="FutileEmotion" reply="59" id="2807821"] I wonder what they're doing about cheating in Diablo 3. In Diablo 2, it has always been a major issue, between duplicated items and bots running, or that you can (or at least could earlier this year) buy stolen/generated CD keys for $5-10. [/quote] Well they are forcing battle.net on everyone whic his supposed to be improved, but my solution for something like that had always been to play with people I know.
[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="48" id="2807272"]I have no opinion on the game... except being able to play each class as female is awesome : D [/quote] Yeah this is pretty awesome. In this date and age, it should also just be standard to offer everyting with a male/female choice. Good for Blizzard for doing it on a big title.
[quote who="Grove12345" reply="35" id="2807179"]Sometimes people get offended and misunderstand when they hear PC gaming is dying. To me PC gaming is unique smaller developers making games that are always evolving, and usually should not be found on a console. Basically compare PC games of the 90s to today. In the 90s pick up a PC gamer and you have like 30 games reviewed every month. Usually alot of them were pretty good or okay.Filling multiple niches.
[quote who="Boone62" reply="31" id="2806732"]Well, I honestly dont know what you guys have been gaming on all these years however PC games have never been bug free on release. [/quote] We're not talking about having a game work out of the box which does not equate to bug free. I don't know where you got the idea that anyone said PC games are or should be bug free. Minor bugs, most PC gamers can deal with. Heck even larger bugs PC gamers can deal with depending on what kind of bug it i
[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="22" id="2806411"]I am willing to accept some level of hardware issues as long as the company patches them. I do think compatibility would be a nightmare for any development company. The fact some companies are better at addressing this is why several companies have earned my repeat business and others will not get any more of my money (no matter what the title is). As far as Elemental, Frogboy has been pretty open with the f
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="19" id="2806385"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 18 For all the people making excuses for piss poor releases, I've had a number of games that worked just fine, out of the box even, no patches necessary or registration required to take a broken product and turn it into an actual game. Is there a chance that there are hardware problems, sure but not always. Elemental, FFXIV and a host of others are not suffering from some unfair disa
For all the people making excuses for piss poor releases, I've had a number of games that worked just fine, out of the box even, no patches necessary or registration required to take a broken product and turn it into an actual game. Is there a chance that there are hardware problems, sure but not always. Elemental, FFXIV and a host of others are not suffering from some unfair disadvantage of working with PC hardware though, the problems are/were much deeper than that. PC gamers
[quote who="Tarkus01" reply="10" id="2806034"]The new 2011 has SecureRom DRM. Tark [/quote] SecuRom has many forms, including a basic disc check. Judging form the official forums, this version seems to have some sort of online activation attached to it. And according to Steam 3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™ 5 machine activation limit Which makes it a c ompletel pass for me. I d
D3 I could probably get behind. RealID, Battle.net... bleh. Art style, we'll see. I didn't like Borderland's art style at all, but when it dropped in price I picked it up and enjoyed it.
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