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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I enjoy Prog Rock, but not enough to seriously get into it I guess. I did go through a phase where I was listening to a lot of Yes and Styx, but burned out on them eventually, while Zep and The Who remained on the play list. I can't say I was ever really a fan of Genesis (or the Police for that matter) though. Not sure why, but I never really enjoyed Peter Gabriel. I think you're right with the folkrock bit, what you mentioned probably isn'

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Why not go the full off topic mile ehh? ;) I am 42, and the music of my youth was largely the Rock bands of the 60s and 70s. From those I especially enjoyed The Who and Led Zeppelin, though there are certainly other artists/groups which appealed to me. I am not much of a album collector, so if we judge my preferences off of albums (and later CDs) which I actually own, then the ranking probably goes like this The Who/Led Zeppelin (near complete

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="40" id="3320224"] I think the Goafans issue was not your hate of RTS games, rather how it is completely unrelated to the topic of this thread. At least i fail to see what your gaming preferences mean in a bigger picture of possible demise of the RTS genre.[/quote] He'd have to answer that, but reread his posts, I don't think that was really his concern. In any case, my reply was on topic. I wa

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rhadagast" reply="38" id="3319973"]I've always enjoyed TBS over RTS, but excellent RTS games like Starcraft I/II, Dune, Warcraft, etc... are fantastic games and it is foolish to overlook them. [/quote] Why is it foolish? What do you mean by 'overlook'? I've played SC, WC, TA, various other RTS... and I didn't enjoy them. If those are 'best' a

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Reply to Sword of the Stars 2: Enchanced in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="23" id="3319964"]Just because a game is different from it's predecessors does not mean it is inferior or unfinished....[/quote] Sadly though we are talking about SotS][ which was inferior and unfinished when it was released. That doesn't really have anything to do with where it is now, but it clearly was a major F up on the part of Kerb, and yes, Mecron admitted as much. Now to your more general po

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Reply to Sword of the Stars 2: Enchanced in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well, I was hoping SotS][ would be more like prime than it is. As it turned out, I can't be bothered to even try ][, just too many changes from a system I really enjoyed, and I don't see the benefit in actually learning it, as it came out in such a poor state to begin with. Maybe once the expansions are done I'll take another look at it as a 'finished' product. Kinda what I'm doing with Civ5 as well. Sad that th

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="32" id="3318304"] That doesn't meant there isn't strategy involved. And again, why the strong word of hate? I'd reserve that for a game that almost offends what your definition of a game should be, like a horse riding game or something. If you like strategy I don't see why you wouldn't at least respect some RTS games, even if their style isn't really your thing.[/quote] What does there being strategy involved have to do with an

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="24" id="3318227"] I just find it strange. I mean Total War is probably the most successful TBS series behind Civ, and you have RTS elements in that. And while I understand that some of them can be too fast past or just feel like a management simulator (I couldn't get into Wargames: European Escalation because it was just all tactics to me), I don't really see them as being that different. If you like TBS games but have never ever played an RTS game yo

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Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

What hate are you all moaning about? I may hate RTS games, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize that some of them are very well executed. I just hate them, they are not fun for me to play and I find the mechanics in most of them to be tedious and repetitive. Same as playing FPSs honestly, not my cup of tea. Again, that's no comment on their actual merits, just that I hate them. The same way I hate eggplant, e

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Reply to Age of Wonders 3 announced next week in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I know, I didn't like it those games either, but the effect wasn't that large for the lower tier units, they were just a different type of archer. The balloons were just kind of cheesy I thought. Though really it's just that I don't much care for the mixing of SP with fantasy in general. If the mechanics are good, and the game plays well it won't bother me much though.

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Reply to Age of Wonders 3 announced next week in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Oh, indeed, for those who like SP elements I'm sure it will be a great addition to the game. for me... not saying it would be enough for me to not buy it, but if the rest of the mechanics is some kind of rehash of SM then I will probably skip it. I've got enough sense to not waste my time or money on stuff which doesn't give me what I want ;)

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Reply to Age of Wonders 3 announced next week in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]Oh my goddess I'm all giddy. AoW did so many things right and in such an elegantly simple way. Different races, sieges, ships, a steampunk-like faction (from what I see), beautiful map, gaaaaawd! [/quote] I can totally live without any steampunk nonsense in my fantasy games thank you very much ;) We'll see though, I refuse to get excited about these things until we actually can see how the mechanics work and how they have chosen to

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Reply to Age of Wonders 3 announced next week in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I am one of those who felt that AoW was great, and all the sequels just continued to get worse. They weren't bad, just worse than the 1st. The campaign in SM was really not my cup of tea either, and the AI was simply poor. Which isn't a surprise, few AIs in games like that were/are any good. I'll be interested to see how 3 turns out though. I did like the mechanics of the series, just the execution failed in a few are

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Reply to What's Iron Clad Been Doing In These Last Few Months...? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="3314464"]I own Demigod and a friend just gifted me DotA 2, I really should give MOBAs a bigger try, but I just can't seem to get interested in them at all.[/quote] I'm with you on this. I've never actually played any, but everytime I read/watch them I just don't see anything which seems to appeal to me. Mostly because I don't enjoy RTS, but also because they just seem kind of

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Reply to All the good names are taken in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="16" id="3311766"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 15I'm not sure what my opinions of a "good name" are, or at least my opinions on how valuable it is. I've always thought that "Sins of a Solar Empire" was a fantastic of a name for any game, book, etc as I have ever heard. Never played it though. So no matter how cool I thought the name was, I have never played the game. That's pretty much the point. Great names won&#

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Reply to Stardrive - A 4X Game to be Excited About! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="6" id="3288139"] I mean, Distant Worlds essentially has that feature too, but it doesn't detract from what is otherwise a brilliant 4X grand strategy game. [/quote] Meh... I did not care for DW at all. Oh well. To each their own :D

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Reply to Path of Exile is freaking awesome! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well I finally had time to DL the thing and check it out :D Seems promising, though I'm a bit put off by the early economy since getting enough scrolls of wisdom or portal (or whatever they call it) is a bit of a hassle apparently. I guess you can just sell unIDed stuff you're not going to use anyway, which is what I do, but the inventory feels small, and the inability to easily go back to sell 'junk' makes me sad. I will hav

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