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Reply to Victoria 2 so far is a good game in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Just realized V2 existed! Nothing much to add to your posts except that patch 1.2 is in progress. I did download the demo, but it is after midnight here. Play it tomorrow.

Reply to You know, the state of things is fairly off-putting... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The Elemental release is not nearly as bad as the release of Master of Orion 3 that set a kind of standard for bad releases not soon to be forgotten. To me it seems more like the release of Hellgate London (one of my favorite games of all time). Except that Brad Wardell is certainly not the shameless con man that Bill Roper of Flagship Studios appeared to be. Shame, because "stardocked" can't become a household word like "flagshipped" became. So we will not see wonderful degrading car

Reply to Torchlight 2 Announced in PC Gaming Sins Forums

http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/2010/08/entry_3741.shtml brief review of five major Torchlight mods that work with the current version. Look better, whole bunch new classes, etc but this just scratches the surface. There are a very lot of excellent mods. I have one that just came out, turns the Cat into a Tiger including sound effects. Not just a skin, the Tiger is the hit man you always wanted, but

Reply to Torchlight 2 Announced in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Yes, Nesrie, they did a very good job with the graphics, the lighting, and the textures. You are right that the game itself was lacking. After the demise of Flagship Studios, they founded Runic Studios and got the game out in one year! It is a very good game considering they did all that in one year. Their financing comes from Perfect World of Beijing, People's Republic of China. Interesting, eh what? Perfect World is also a MMO that lives in the shadow of WoW. It is the Chinese versi

Reply to Torchlight 2 Announced in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I am a veteran WoW player. Started playing I think a week after it went live. Still play a bit now and then. Love WoW, I will not knock WoW, love that game. I played some EVE too, about five months way back there. Good game, even worse time suck than WoW, though. Now GW is not really a MMO even though it sort of feels like one. I have 7 classes full up over there, all three chapters and Eye of the North. GW has been very successful, enough so that GW2 is coming with some absol

Torchlight 2 Announced in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Runic Studios has announced Torchlight 2 to be released Spring 2011. Torchlight 1 might be considered a modern remake of Diablo 1 on steroids. Torchlight 2 will be more like Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction on steroids! While Torchlight was purely a dungeon crawl, TL2 will have an overworld and greatly enhanced quests. Existing features will be enhanced and reworked with many new features as well. New game engine. And, yes, new classes. Reviews of Torchlight have been good both from profe

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Sins Forums

"Civ games typically attract people that don't have high end gaming rigs." Bonscott, that seemed a strange idea, but since Civ series includes Civ 3 still readily available and cheap it might be true! Civfanatics still shows a moderate amount of activity with Civ 3, including mods, $5 these days for Civ 3 complete. $5 is a lot less than $49.99. Sure, Civ 5 is a lot more game. My rig wildly exceeds minimum specs. But still ... were I to want to get back into Civ, is Civ 5 really going

Reply to The Sims Medieval in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Well, it's a step in the right direction for sure. Now if they include a good editor and such, this could really take off. The normal Sims I played once in the first version for a few evenings. I borrowed it while a friend was away. Mostly I really didn't get it. I tried my best to make George happy. He hit on every woman he met. All hated him. George got more and more depressed. I decided I was not good at this sort of game. Then too, the weapons sucked. All I could find was some kin

Reply to Games that I miss in PC Gaming Sins Forums

www.gog.com is a good source of Good Old Games like the above. Note that Killap, The Bear Dude, has just released version 2.1.1 of the Restoration Project for Fallout 2 as of July 24, 2010. http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54328&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=2020&a

Reply to RELOADED Shoots Starcraft 2...Right In The Face!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

While in agreement with SpaghettiMon about Activision and Kotick, I don't think splitting the game into three parts is really an evil plot. The original StarCraft came out March 31 1998. Brood War came out November 1998. Was this done purely to milk players? Probably not. Brood War brought huge improvements but probably could not have been rolled into the original game release since the improvements were not yet thought of. Probably each Chapter of SC2 will bring its own set of improv

Reply to FYI: Simple fix to prevent Starcraft 2 heating issues in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Amazing how fast this fix has propagated around the forums. Strange that Blizzard missed this one.

Reply to Starcraft info for those of us too lame to have played yet in PC Gaming Sins Forums

http://pc.ign.com/articles/110/1109117p1.html first impressions from IGN. On Youtube, JosefVStalin is doing a full playthrough of the campaign, in English. Josef is a very talented commentator who is also a devout StarCraft fan. Spoilers out the kazoonie of course, but if you want to see what the campaign is like ... HDStarCraft and HuskyStarCraft are two extremely excellent commentators with huge subscriber bases on YouTube. Keep an eye on them. They will be posting commente

Reply to Starcraft 2 is out in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Spaghettimon /sign Plus Brother Laz raised some issues with regard to modding by amateurs. They might fix this or not. No, I am not getting it. Activision, just say no. A huge number of people will, though. The game for me will be checking the forums from time to time. Should be a riot!

Reply to Spartan - New strategy game by the ex-Ensemble crew in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Halo with a romantic Master Chief? Ewwwww! Gross!

Reply to Progress Quest Online in Your Browser in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Well SpardaSon, Alien Swarm is indeed a great game. But it is online multiplayer cooperative. Even worse, it would require something like effort on my part!

Progress Quest Online in Your Browser in PC Gaming Sins Forums

You can still download the client, but you can also play a relaxing game of Progress Quest right in your web browser! Progress Quest reminds me of WoW, of Diablo ... of a lot of games really. Huge number of playable races and classes! Enormous beastiary and vast arsenal, armory, and items. Unbelievable number of quests, all of which get performed for you automatically. Graphics: Best there ever have been! Not a Click Fest: Choose your character and your class at the be

Reply to Favorite Laptop Game in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Check out Good Old Games, gog.com.

Reply to Civilizations Wars in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The fast thinking lets me out. I want slow thinking games for dumb people.

Reply to Multiplayer fees in online gaming? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Not me! I have lots of old games that work offline, so to heck with multiplayer if that is the future. Note that ArenaNet does not charge a monthly fee for Guild Wars, and they have stated that there will be no monthly fee for Guild Wars 2. They will of course charge for major content updates and offer optional items in their company store as they have in the past. And new chapters are pricey. It is possible for an active company to make plenty of money without turning players

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

1 . The following comment is by Brother Laz on StarCraft 2 Beta, but taking into account currently announced changes for the retail release. Custom maps are a big part of StarCraft competitive gaming. Apparently you still need 3 copies of the game, 3 CD keys to have worldwide coverage for maps, mods, or to play in international competition. 2 . Blizzard has apparently given up on their requirement that people post on their forums with their real world,

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Break my heart, ZehDon! The following ties in to what Ravenstrike said above about Blizzard coasting along on past successes, in a left hand sort of way. And Diablo 3 is at stake in all this too. Plus I've written about Median XL above as well. Median is popular and technically proficient enough that it was commented on by some of the Diablo 3 designers during an interview at Blizzcon 2009. <a class="external autonumber" title="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/pc/games/1

Reply to Am I The Only One Who Can't Stand Bioware? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Hero With a Thousand Faces is a very good book indeed. I'm not really into heavy RPG, but I played Dragon Age Origins all the way through and then started a second pass with some mods but about a third of the way through that was it. Could not stand hearing all those dialogues again. Played at the original Mass Effect, but it bored my socks off. I decided to lay off anything Bioware or anything else RPG. More of a mindless action oriented gamer I guess. No, I don't want to know about

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Thanks Tridus. Doesn't need much salt because it is about what I would expect. Activision will continue to extend their control over Blizzard and morale will decline even further. And I think DethAdder is 100 percent correct. The only good news I've heard about StarCraft 2 is the Brother Laz of Median XL fame is thinking about doing a big mod for SC2. This would be single player only, but Brother Laz is a creative genius whom I respect a lot. SC2 prices for the basic game shou

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I have used an S controller quite a bit. It works really great for certain types of games and the best part is it simply becomes an extension of your desires. Yes, I like controllers where they work with a game designed for them. And yet ... way back there I played Halo 1 on an XBox, and then later on got the PC version. For some reason, I found that game much easier to play on PC with a mouse and the keyboard. Borderlands ... watched a lot of videos of the game also and the o

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

KWAiRT , I am not "afraid" of cross platform per se in Diablo 3. However, there will be some limitations in the game itself that will arise from limited memory of the consoles, limitations in the CPU and the GPU, and a simplified control scheme. Brad Wardell has written about this in the context of generic games somewhere on this forum. Perhaps someone can remember which thread. If I gave the impression I was bashing a platform, I apologize. Borderlands is a go