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Reply to Enthusiasm disappeared? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gaeb22" reply="85" id="2805155"]I still go back to the games I view as classics now and then ... warcraft 3, age of empires 2, space empires IV, myth, marathon... Its early, but Elemental has potential to fall into that category. Enthusiasm hasn't really disappeared here. Actually if anything it was buying the game, realizing it was half finished, then realizing I could influence the direction of the game because of the Dev interaction on these boards and the strong mod

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="VBProject" reply="36" id="2801798"] 4. When the users hate the DRM, they rate games into oblivion no matter what they think of the game itself. Reviews don't tend to do that. This is stupid. Assassin's Creed 2 is almost masterpiece in gaming's world. But these kids with unknown stupid principles rate this game very low. That's why I don't trust any reviews. [/quote] It's stupid to claim its just kids. Besides, after Spore, I support any reviewers

Reply to Dungeons - Dungeon Keeper clone in development in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="45" id="2801596"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 44 New screenies! http://www.gamershell.com/pc/dungeons/screenshots.html Bah... Those screens look terrible to me. [/quote] Maybe a little dated, but for good gameplay, I could deal with it.

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="25" id="2799730"] The game is so crash prone that I actually wound up making a NEW CHARACTER in open beta (which was actually a demo, I mean they explicitly barred open beta users from submitting bug reports so it was never intended to be a 'beta') so I could attempt the starting quests again. Release fixed very little about the crashing. The control scheme is completely out to lunch and they made no effort to come up with an intelligent system for the PC

Reply to Hiring for marketing, cause boy do you need it! (exclusive content rant/FUNNY) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="29" id="2799577"] Quoting 3DGrunge, reply 17 Honestly pc games are most commonly sold at walmart and bestbuy. For marketing they should go for a viral marketing plan on youtube or something of the like. Or simply hitting up all the game websites and make themselves known. I find it hard to believe the people who would play a little app game on their phone would ever buy a full TBS pc game, sounds like th

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="10" id="2799410"] 3. Some games just get a pass due to their name. I'm looking at Final Fantasy 14 as an example. This review talks about what is flat out dealbreaker stuff, but gives it over 80% despite that. I mean, how do you end a review with "We can’t recommend that you spend $50, and then $12.99 a month after the first 30 days, on a title that has as many flaws as FFXIV does" and give it 84% at the same time? (Final Fantasy 13 got

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thiryn" reply="8" id="2799337"] I suppose it does pay off then. The reason I don't pay much attention though is my opinion generally seems to conflict with most reviewers/gamers in any case - though I suppose they are useful for learning more about games but in general those arbitrary numbers at the end of a review mean nothing to me. [/quote] I'd be happier if the number system were either removed entirely or something else took its place.

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thiryn" reply="5" id="2799304"]I personally don't pay much attention to either. [/quote] Well they both have advantages and disadvantages. You've got fanatics that will give anything attached to their favorite series or publisher or developer a ten, and you've got pro. reviewers knocking down games for reasons the fans actually like the series. I will certainly say between the two, I've managed to save my money and not wind up with a game like Spore.

Reply to Hiring for marketing, cause boy do you need it! (exclusive content rant/FUNNY) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Your post made me smile OP, and yet at the same time very sad. I gave up a long time ago expecting assistance or even knowledge about games that interest me, that includes games on console by the way. I avoid Gamestop fairly heavily too.

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I had my reply written up, and then I realized I needed some clarification. How are you defining a reviewer versus a user? Most reviewers, though not all, are also users for one thing. Are you talking professional reviews? Reviews on amazon. When you say player consensus, how are you getting that consensus, a couple guys on a board saying this game is great or something else? Thanks.

Reply to Cities XL single player? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="5" id="2798886"]I don't own the game, but didn't they release a number of large patches (for free) that severely improved upon the game? [/quote] Well that would depend on how you look at it. I believe the large patch installed luxury items like buses which should have been in the game in the first place. I think they had to fix the issue that single player had to phone into MC's servers each time too. If anyone is serious about XL or 2011, you cou

Reply to Cities XL single player? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The game was garbage and now completely abandoned. The new company continues to sell it but they have no intention on building on the game at all and what they call support... Their focus is on City XL 2011. It's close to a crime that City XL is being sold at all. 2011, who knows. I mean it is a new company, the old one took a nose dive after this disastrous release, so 2011 might be okay. I am skeptical though.

Reply to Demigod on sale now, $5.99 in Demigod Stardock Forums

So what's the deal with the price increase? 6.01... is a weird price.

Reply to SWAT 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="bArOn88" reply="8" id="2794326"] Quoting Grove12345, reply 7 how funny that the theme of this first person shooter, is not to shoot anyone. You get higher scores to make them surrender and put down a gun. So the point of the game is not to shoot anything. LOL grove, you make an excellent point. tactical shooters stood out from the FPS genre because they required you to think, not just run and gun everything that moves. in re

Reply to where are all the space flight games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="21" id="2794134"] The original wing commander was a pc game. As they evolved they got more and more storey elements. By 3 and 4 they used full motion video better then just about any game up to then. You get a decent team to put together the space combat sections and use biowares no how to develop the storey and plot = pure gold. [/quote] Well maybe so, but i know for a fact the game I played on SNES wa

Reply to where are all the space flight games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="18" id="2793987"]all this talk and no one says anything about wing commander.....EA owns the rights, wy not givr bioware a shot at a space based rpg flight sim. I think it would be worth a shot. [/quote] I liked wing commander, but i played it on SNES. I think really that was the last time I played a game like that was on SNES. I would be open to a nice one on PC though. I am not sure Bioware would be the right choice. I mean story is nice, but I would

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="falconne2" reply="389" id="2793643"] A "review" of a game, by definition, has to be by someone who's played it. [/quote] This is where you are having a difference of opinion from other people. It is not a review of a game, it is a review of a product. That product includes the game, the servers, the DRM or anything else attached to it. Let the pros focus on the game and ignore things like the price and value and delivery systems. As far a

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="falconne2" reply="385" id="2793599"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 384 I never said I agreed with the 1 star rating with Civ V because of Steam, only that it is valid to some people. That fact that it is not valid to you, or this other guy who abuses the word troll, or even to me, does not change that. Well if you say so. But it's not a case of whether its valid to me or not, but a question of what's appropriate where. I don't see th

Reply to Enthusiasm disappeared? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cryptomancer" reply="15" id="2793528"] Quoting otakucore2, reply 8 Hostility? Apathy, maybe; but there's no hostility here. I agree with the Original Poster : there was no hostility in the thread's initial post. Apathy? Yes, in my case. I'm having much more fun with Civilization 5. But I have an extreme faith in the Stardock team : When 1.1 comes out, I shall go back to Elemental.

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="falconne2" reply="383" id="2793430"]Can't we just agree that disliking Steam is ok but disliking a game because of Steam is silly? I think it's fair to say that someone who buys a game on Steam should review the game; it's ok to take away one star if they hate Steam and say so. But if they're not going to buy it because of Steam, they shouldn't post a review at all, because other customers are looking for reviews of the game, not Steam; they already know it's on Steam a

Reply to Every one knows that GOG did not go down but got a facelift? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpaghettiMon" reply="14" id="2793324"] You are not purchasing? Again I must ask why. They didn't lie or deceive anyone. The internet deceived themselves. Maybe they should have been more specific, but it was the people on the internet who invented the lie that they were going out of business, not GoG. I have never bought any games from GoG, but this whole stunt has nothing to do with it. I just find the backlash GoG is getting to be hilarious and uncalled for. By

Reply to where are all the space flight games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="10" id="2793319"]Im saying a triple A company wouldn't make Reccetear in the first place. [/quote] Well what you said is they wouldn't make them because of something related to the metacrtic scores. I am not disagreeing with you in that a triple A wouldn't make it, because they won't. I am disagreeing with you as to the reason they won't make it. It's not the score.

Reply to Every one knows that GOG did not go down but got a facelift? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpaghettiMon" reply="11" id="2793317"]GoG didn't lie, they just worded things cleverly enough that people thought they were going out of business. What they really said was "GoG just could not continue to run as it was." "We will provide a way for everyone to download games until the end of time". I mean I thought it was pretty damned obvious it was a joke.. especially after they updated it a couple times. If every gaming website hadn't reported it as GoG going out of business, I

Reply to where are all the space flight games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="8" id="2793297"]Yeah... and my point is that with such a good indie game a triple AAA game would soon follow its succsess. [/quote] I understand your point, but here is what I don't quite understand. Are you saying that if a triple A company released something like Reccetear, it wouldn't get a high score? That doesn't make sense. The game is either good or it isn't. It doesn't matter who makes it. You're talking score as a reason for them not doing th

Reply to Enthusiasm disappeared? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Wow, who would have thought that the open hostility from the Demigod forums would wind up bleeidng into the Elemental and Stardock [general] forums so readily.