"Time to start thinking about Mac and Linux" I view the competition between pc and mac as one between gm and ford. Linux, on the other hand, offers a more consumer friendly approach.
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="53" id="2810575"]Just to see if they could. It was a bet between Gates and Jobs to see who could destroy more PC market share in a 10 years time. Bill brought the X-Box and Steve the iPod/Phone/Pad with all the apps so no one needs a PC anymore. [/quote] Which is the "lesser evil"? [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
[quote]Much like the article concludes with without actually saying it, there's going to be a lot more litigation because the ninth circuit court can't get it's shit together and lay down a clear ruling that doesn't contradict itself in the process of making that ruling, or something to that effect.[/quote] Lawyers and their job security issues. What did Shakespeare say about them folk? "First, you must..." [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="3" id="2812244"]Did you remember to hold your right big toe and squint slightly while clicking the install button? Otherwise you won't unlock the bonus content.[/quote] You forgot that it must be the 2nd thursday of the month... [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] Glad I never cared for Warcraft. That Dune engine got old fast.
[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="17" id="2812003"]To those saying games are now too big and complex, tough. It comes with the business. Sucks that the industry got into a technological arms race during the last decade and games are so tied with shiny new tech, but again, tough. Indie game devs don't bitch about that.[/quote] Good point.
Oddly enough, most the time I that thought a person on the web was woman, "she" turned out to be a right-wing guy. Either a college guy with pimples and "Jeff Gannon fetish" or a retired cop. Go figure. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
"Remember when all PC games were buggy as hell..." No, I don't. Back in the 90's I didn't encounter that many games with bugs. The games that were buggy really stood out then. The buggyness has increased since. Now the ones that aren't buggy seem to stand out. [e digicons]:D[/e] But games are a lot larger programs now and I'm sure that is the major reason there are a lot more bugs in them. Along with companies not willing to spend the extra manpower needed for a de
[quote who="FadedC" reply="15" id="2810431"]Edit: I'm not going to bother responding to Scratch the Pitch's post, because every communication I've had with him has degenerated into him insulting me and accusing me of secretly working for Steam along with everyone else who disagrees with him.[/quote] Passive-aggressive character assassination using falsehoods. Gee, what will the boy think of next?
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="11" id="2810407"] 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? Where do you draw the line? Some time from now, when you
[quote who="FadedC" reply="12" id="2810415"](and that for the majority of gamers it doesn't even register as an issue).[/quote] From what I've seen of customer reviews of Civ5, steam didn't register with many because they had never encountered it before and when they bought the game, they were surprised they had to use this additional program to run the game. A lot of those people were considerably less that pleased about that and voiced their anger all over places
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[quote who="Alstein" reply="71" id="2809292"]These sorts of posts are what got that thread locked. You guys should know better.[/quote] Well, I gave my opinion of steam, and was then maligned by steam's pushy sales people. Expecting people to put up with insulting behavior over the internet that they would never put up with in person only encourages those obnoxious people to do it more. And they do. [quote who="Alstein" reply="71" id="2809292"]As for the chargeback ab
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[quote who="TucoBenedicto" reply="70" id="2809252"] Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 68 On the now locked thread about steam here, you were one of the strongest promoters of this monopoly scam. And here you are using bs to defend steam's main salesboi here and attacking those he attacked. Gee, that's some real curious coincidence, aint it. God, you're creepy. You're actually paranoid in an almost-scary way.[/quote] Actually, coming into a
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[quote who="FadedC" reply="67" id="2809184"] Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 65 Calling someone a salesboi is paranoid? That's funny. Well assuming that you were accusing him of not being a genuine elemental forum goer, but instead secretly working for another organization, then yes that is pretty much the textbook definition. So is angrily lashing out at people for percieved insults.[/quote] On the now locked thread ab
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[quote who="DethAdder" reply="57" id="2808861"]Here's our local steam salesman again, with an almost unreadable OP. What's with the damn background image screwing up the readability? Why not just go to you beloved steam forums anyways. You do nothing but promote them on their competitors forums while trying to sway people against Impulse. Your lucky the moderation of these forums are so accommodating, most places would of given you the heave-ho long ago for trolling.[/quote] </p
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[quote who="FadedC" reply="59" id="2808907"] Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 56 Quoting Rebell44, reply 55 2. You are paranoid. Insults. The common response of a slimy salesboi to those who don't buy their sales pitches. Cant have people not buying the slop, can we? Everybody line to get fleeced. I'm not sure that lashing out at him and accusing him of being part of a secret Steam conspiracy
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[quote who="Rebell44" reply="55" id="2808735"]2. You are paranoid.[/quote] Insults. The common response of a slimy salesboi to those who don't buy their sales pitches. Cant have people not buying the slop, can we? Everybody line up to get fleeced.
The "dialog" in the advert for this game was embarrassing to listen to. I'm definitely in the wrong age group for vanquish. [e digicons]:D[/e]
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Accordingly to what I've read, steam was started by former microsoft guys. Steam is pursuing a similar strategy as microsoft to garner a monopoly in their area of business. Start out cheap and "friendly" to reel in the suckers, then once you got them by the balls, start squeezing. I have no doubts that steam is a microsoft "front" company. The downsides of steam have already been explained in grisly detail, the future with this outfit is obvious. Ever hear of "once bitten, twice shy"? Why con
I've found that customer reviews of a product are invaluable,while "official" reviews are totally worthless and not really different from adverts.This goes across the board, not just computer games.
[quote]other than moving my units from one end of the map to the ther to finish off the next empire - that being ecessary, because the pathfinding in this game sucks horribly. Its like non of their programmers ever went to college and took "Theory of Graphs and Networks".[/quote] That was one of the things that killed my interest in buying Civ4. I did a test of that to see if they improved the game AI from Civ3 and AI was still clueless in how to move a unit from point
[quote]Breaks for McRibs[/quote] Good lord!? You were feeding upon Scotsmen? (I just found out by accident that if you highlight a section of another's post, and then click the "quote" button, the forum program will quote just that section of the post.)
[quote who="Augerman" reply="326" id="2790732"]Yeah I noticed the AI is pretty weak, I knocked off a couple Civs and was just going to go for a tech victory when all of a sudden , 3 big civs declared war on me all in the same turn. I thought oh ph I'm i n trouble, but then they decided to just sail unescorted troop ships , toward my land. I knocked off about 30 units in about 3 turns. Then as I started to bombard their cities, they come up and ask for peace. From reading the
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Most of my computers used AMD CPUs.
MOO2 is addicting....
If your disk has both the exe files for dos and windows, that's orion2.exe & orion95.exe respectively, then the dos exe should work with dos box and the windows exe should work with windows from 95 to xp. From what I've read, I think vista is iffy and windows 7 wont work with it at all. You should be able to use the dos exe with dos box on vista. I seem to remember reading about problems with dos box and windows 7, but I think dos box will work OK with vista.