Lord Xia

Am I the only one that thinks that a lot of these complaints about steam are either completely incorrect, have nothing to do with steam itself or are just about the way the industry is moving? I am continually amazed by people's ability to argue without the ability to reason or use logic, or obtain and use information about their argument. EDIT:I want to say I posted this before I saw Jeje's arguments, which I think are

[quote who="Bellack" reply="53" id="3168239"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 50I stayed away from steam for a long time. I had heard a lot of steam bashing from gamers on online forums. This was before I understood forum posters, so I actually listened to them without screening their bullshit. I finally tried out Steam and I absolutely love it. It's easy, doesn't cause me any problems what so ever, I can play the games offline, I can mod still, it

I stayed away from steam for a long time. I had heard a lot of steam bashing from gamers on online forums. This was before I understood forum posters, so I actually listened to them without screening their bullshit. I finally tried out Steam and I absolutely love it. It's easy, doesn't cause me any problems what so ever, I can play the games offline, I can mod still, it has tons of great deals all the time, it has a large selection of games and i

I don't know if it's official, but it's the most common name I have seen for it. And I disagree about them being "body snatcher" type aliens. Those types have to control your body or take it and replace it with a fake, these guy do a facehug rape to impregnate you...not really the same. To be a body snatcher type alien, there has to be a "fake". Either a replacement or a mind controlled. That's my nerd opinion.

Cool, i'll take a look. EDIT: Once I get home, apparently the State doesn't care for you blog and has blocked it.

The maps suck. They don't come close to resemble any real landmasses. They are impossible to explore for most factions due to monsters. They are formed from ugly squares that create this square-ish ugly landmass that is the world, it's just very unappealing. (having the camera defaulted to look at it from an angle was a fairly lame trick to make it less bland). And nations form very strange borders because pioneers are super mass produced a

Just create a faction and save, close the game, open of the faction file and there will be codes for its skin color, change them to be more green. I have almost 0 ability to mod anything, so the fact I was able to do it on my own should give you hope.

Let me also say that my problem with it is less to do with the reality of it, and more to do with the fact it's crappy game mechanic. I would prefer the Bear to take over the city, proclaim himself Mayor McBear, and rule his new people with an iron paw. I could care less about how real it is, I just hate that pioneers spread like herpes, and you have to play whack a mole with cities and forts. Kill 2, and 3 more pop up.

[quote who="Kalin" reply="13" id="3165250"]Well, to be fair, this is a "city" with what... 30 people? More of a camp that got overran by a bear than a city. It's not that hard to imagine it happening.[/quote] It kind of is to me. A bear doesn't kill 30 people and destroy any buildings they have. Despite Colbert propaganda, Bears are not evil society destroying creatures. I imagine the bear would wonder in, eat some food, and wonder of

Ah Koei, they use to be something special...

How often do bears destroy cities anyway? How ridiculous is that?

The current injuries system is too punishing to be fun.

Yea, I can't stand that stuff. It really feels cheap. And the spamming of pioneers and forts is annoying as hell, as with how easily cities and forts are destroyed. They are so easily created and destroyed, they are become almost unimportant individually. And crack monsters, I had to fight them in NYC and Chicago, I don't want to fight them in the game...okay that part is a joke.

I totally did...damn it!

You can't in game, you have to go into the files and mod the skin colors. I made Green Wraiths for Goblins in WoM doing that. Haven't tried it in FE though.

Sprites are awesome, I spent hours making my own god-awful sprites for Dom3 and loved every moment of it. It's strange how much we have lost by increasing technology. 3D graphics and voice acting haven't had a 100% positive effect on game quality, IMHO.

I'm guessing it's GalCiv 3. That's the easy guess. There was talk of making an elemental Baldur's Gate-like RPG, but I would think that Jon's expertise would be in 4X, so I would think it would be a 4X game and not an RPG. Also, it's been the allotted 5 years time that Frogly said would be the time between GalCiv games. Would they create a new IP? I don't think so. So, I am thinking that GalCiv 3 is the most likely answ

It's amazing to me that people think that there are universal morals. There aren't. They change and fluctuate with time and culture. What is good today may be evil tomorrow. I'm not saying having morals are wrong, I think it's good to have a sense of right and wrong, but it's important to realize that our own morals are just that, our own. If you believe that a game shouldn't force players to play single player games with a online connecti

But the issue is that most F2P games are of the social or MMO type. If a games like Skyrim, Elemental, Civ were to be F2P, then would they continue to allow modding? I would think that they wouldn't be able to, or to a much lesser degree, if their prime revenue came from minor transactions of mostly cosmetic content.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="10" id="3159760"]I don't like having elements of games locked out on me period. FTP games tend to cost hundreds to unlock the full game. If you had a dual-track model, where one could pay for the full game as a pre-order and get everything guaranteed up-front, but FTP otherwise, that would be more appealing. [/quote] I think that would be far less appealing, b

Whatever works to continue making games I want to play. I tell you this, if it's free, I will try it out. I may pass on a thousand games that I am interested in because of price, but if I love it, I may spend $100 bucks on crap over time that is offered to enhance my enjoyment of that game. I have yet to do this, as the system isn't implemented in games I like yet, but I could easily see myself doing it. The only thing I wonder about it

Techs shouldn't be random. Instead they should have techs, and even tech branches, that are added to your tree through questing or defeating a wildland. But just random is bad/lazy game design. Individual tech trees, with additions being EARNED in gameplay is a far better choice. This gives you both the feelings of strong design and planning along with the fun of surprises, and making it quest/achievement related adds goal orientation.

I think I looked into it and it would cost almost, or more than $100 to upgrade. But, when it comes to technology I am pretty ignorant. I figured that I could just get a new computer, which I need, for $500 that would come with a new 64 bit OS. I don't think putting a new OS in my old crap is worth it when I know I will need to replace the thing soon enough any way. And as a government worker, I am poorly paid and thus cheap.

No random techs.

Well, there are few of us who are still using a 32 bit OS, my desktop still is, and the main reason I haven't bothered to upgrade it is I haven't been forced to. I will probably;y just get a new comp, as it's almost silly to by a new os for a comp that is over 4 years old.