Gandhialf

Gandhialf

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[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="12" id="3083490"]Distant Worlds-My new GalCiv! Get the expansions too! Ya I also agree best 4x out there right now.[/quote] I would love to play it, but in https://www.matrixgames.com/store/ the game with both expansions costs 98.62 USD (after 20% d iscount on expansions ) . That's a lot of money.

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[quote who="Chasbo" reply="8" id="3093753"]They are not books unless they have paper pages.[/quote] They are not books unless they are handwritten on parchment. Book market has been completely ruined by Gutenberg's " innovation".

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[quote](Windows XP users are definitely suffering according to the logs).[/quote] Do you have data about OS used by all beta testers or only by crash sources? Could you share how many beta testers use respective OS? I'm just curious.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="48" id="3088955"]Our new titles are typically $39.95 in 2011 dollars. Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was over $90 in 2011 dollars. Games are vastly cheaper today and you get a lot more.[/quote] How dare you compare FE to Pac-Man. [e digicons];)[/e] (Just making fun of guy who had a problem with this post .)

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In Civilization III there is a similar concept to outposts -- colonies: "Resources must be 'connected' to a civilization's infrastructure (via a road or railroad) and must be within that civilization's cultural border to be utilized; a resource outside of the cultural border can still be utilized by connecting a road to it and building a colony (colonies are easily destroyed and are targeted by barbarians, so they must be defended)." (<a hre

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[quote who="Alstein" reply="7" id="3088126"] it's crazy how woman-hating many gamers are.[/quote] Can you think of non-sexualized female game character? It's hard, isn't it? There are some exceptions of course, like Alyx Vance, but they are minority. So games sexualize women. Gamers are educated by those games.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="19" id="3087761"]I had this game won. The AI cheated. Really. If you think about it, it was cheating. Mathematically plotting when units would converge from across the map is cheating. It's BS.[/quote] Mastermind with a very high computing power always wins. Watch this . He is not cheating (he cannot see through walls, or see the future).

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[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="8" id="3087690"]Before reading this I actually thought about making a pre-emptive BETA 2 UI problem report thread saying that the path indication system you are going to implement doesn't have turn labels for each square in the path. As a human I need this information displayed on the screen, there is really very little use of the path estimation system without the turn information.[/quote] This.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="3087671"]Game sucks. Screw this![/quote] [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e] defeated by his own creation. Don't tone down AI on normal. At least not before I could face it! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] What is "sniper"? Super-accurate archer?

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[quote who="Solam" reply="7" id="3087561"]I played FE beta on my Single core AMD 2g with 2 gig ram and a Nvidia 512 meg card. It work ok. [/quote] Good to hear this. Thanks.

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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="4" id="3087428"]Do you have single core processor as well?[/quote] Yeah, Frogboy said that single core processors will not be "officially supported". And I don't know how to deal with it... edit: "We don’t officially support single core CPU’s because they’re so old but their terrible performance helps us find bugs" ( source ). So I guess I must forget about playing FE. Maybe

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Why don't you release new Sins in two versions: (1) on Steam with multiplayer mode, and cloud saves, and chat, and achievements, and all other fun stuff, (2) without all those things, just good old singleplayer? CD Projekt did it with Witcher 2 -- they released it on Steam (with cloud n'stuff) and on GOG.com. I know that there is no multiplayer in Witcher 2 so both versions were almost the same, but still. ps Steam requires an internet connection

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[quote who="seanw3" reply="6" id="3086630"]Brad indicated that if FE is a huge success, he will allocate some funds to make WoM what he wanted it to be on release. But that will be a very long time from now.[/quote] [quote who="seanw3" reply="8" id="3086652"]You can update it with the FE engine and then fix the many problems. [/quote] I think making WoM 2 on FE engine would be way more effective. [quote who="Lord Xia" reply="7" id="3086637"]Can't pol

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By saying "music and graphics made me buy this game" I meant that quality of graphics and music convinced me to buy the game. I didn't mean that they where the only factors I took into account. I would never buy a beautiful but unplayable game. And I would never buy AoW if it was ugly. For me climate is essential part of gameplay experience. Graphics, sound and music build the climate (also others factors, like writing and plot if it's an RPG

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[quote who="ARTHANASIOS" reply="57" id="3086459"]@Gandhialf: Buying a game just because of its graphics/music isn't a very clever thing to do. On the other hand, buying a game because you like its gameplay is the best investment you have ever done! But why should I care? People like you will be the losers if keep judging the book by its cover and not by its content. Graphics who age well, graphics who age bad, who cares? THE THING THAT NEVER AGES IS THE GAMEPLAY, PERI

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[quote who="StevenAus" reply="55" id="3086213"]HOMM II is another game whose graphics have aged very well. Although I don't think HOMM III's graphics have aged nearly as well.[/quote] I agree about HOMM II: I loved it's graphics and I still do. HOMM III doesn't have all that charm, but I still like it. Have you seen/played Age of Wonders 1? Music and graphics made me buy this game some time ago (I didn't play it when it came out, in 1999).

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