[quote who="CapnWinky" reply="3" id="2063314"]FF is def going to the xbox. They announced it at E3 last year. Being an xbox owner, I'm pretty damn happy.[/quote]Hey, that's pretty neat. This may be the first FF that I'll play in years. Is it going to be a sequel for anything, or is it completely stand-alone in it's "own" setting, as FF tends to be?
[quote who="mrakomo" reply="9" id="2063227"]I do hope it will NOT be able to change the angle of the view. With a good design it is not necessary. If one can rotate the screen, it makes only problems with orientation. And if you allow this, you must handle the extensive 3D graphic problems too and it does not have a any influence on a gameplay. Heroes V has this feature and I think it is useless there. It is better (and easier) to have a nice graphics from one side rather than from all sides.
[quote who="Sepiatus" reply="18" id="2063131"]tell me please, the fight in the Elemental is a real-time or turn base?[/quote]Simulated real-time, as I've come to understand it. That is, real-time. The "turns" take place behind the screen. There's also supposedly going to be a pause option. Think.. tactical combat Baldur's Gate-ish. The turns are there, but it's not turn-based, it's real-time and with a pause option.
[quote who="Ynglaur" reply="24" id="2061756"]I'll buy off on the idea of needing a spell. It's the concept of deception I like: the method of implementation doesn't matter that much. Alternately, it might be cool to have the color scheme seen be setup by player. Thus, I see my forces in blue and yours in red; you see mine in orange and yours in green. Seriously: how often do we say "look out for the blue army!" We usually refererence sides b
Doesn't the very fact that you failed in the prevention of the Diplomatic Victory of your enemy in fact prove that you are the inferior player, not the superior one? As you say, you may have been superior in other aspects of the game, but on a general scale, you failed . The problem with a mod like that is that you've effectively neutered a number of ways of winning and turned it into a quest for points. Mostly in favour of the Conquest Victory condition(s), obviously - the Di
[quote who="KnutAreMykland" reply="14" id="2061116"]some randomness in games makes the games more fun to watch and play. But it comes at the price that the game can never include a realistic ladder, since a relatively poor player can quite often beat a top player. Aka master of magic, AOW series etc[/quote]That's not true. On average, you will have an equal amount of "lucky breaks" and "tough luck". The skill would lie in investing in the proper lines of technology and manipulating
I got an idea with a little help from landisaurus in this thread , that is far more fitting here. So I'm going to quote the only one worth quoting: Me! :D [quote] El Presidente Bär: [quote] thelandisaurus: only if they have a spellbook maker or something like that so I can save "silly spellbook" and "tournement spellbook" as different.[/quote]<
Question! Question! Oh, oh, me, me! Question! Do we need to put walls around our cities? I've always preferred my cities wall-less, except maybe the inner courtyards or a keep. Or is it a 'building' like any other? The cities in my heartlands rarely have walls unless absolutely necessary. And no, anyone that's thinking about ever meeting me in a multiplayer match didn't just hear that.[quote who="Ynglaur" reply="7" id="2058003"]Maybe
Frogboy , if you see this and have the time to answer, I'd like to ask if the names of the nations are work-names or their actual names. I don't want to intrude on your creational process but if Humans and Fallen are both divided into adamant Kingdoms and Empires it feels a bit.. dichotomic. [quote] thelandisaurus: only if they have a spellbook maker or something like that so I can save "silly spellbook" and "tournement spellbook" as
[quote who="ese-aSH" reply="1" id="2048887"]a beta without graphs is rather an alpha no ? :) call it a beta primitv ? okay ;) [...] [/quote]He actually says "primitive alphas and betas". But one could make the argument that the since it's a concious choice not to include the 'real' graphics, it's still a 'proper' beta. It's a beta - with the graphics -taken out-. :p[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="2" id="2049020"] what
[quote who="alway" reply="1" id="2059452"]Ah yes, I played one of those... My first online RPG actually. http://www.ishar.com/ hehe... The hardest part of learning the game is figuring out commands. If a typable spell sort of thing is done, make sure it has a really really big spell list... Nothing worse than having to reword your request to make the algorithm understand it. At least have a help menu which tells you how to word the spell. Something such as '(effect) (number of units
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="20" id="2057974"] Quoting Shadowgandor, reply 19... Basically, the spell allowed a very very experienced caster to wish for something. You could type the thing you wish, and you get it. Immortality? Sure. A huge army standing in front of your castle? Hah, the fools, wish for reinforcements and you'll be granted hundreds of men. Low on resources? No problem. I just loved the freedom that spell gave you. ... That sounds like magical software to me.
No, artifacts should most definately not be destroyed. I'm a bit torn, however, between having the original hero keep the artifacts in "limbo" (having them returned when he is resurrected, if at all possible) and having the artifacts fall to the one that killed you.
[quote who="arstal" reply="4" id="2059279"]You guys really do need better organization for these forums. I saw this on Elemental Forums, so assumed it was about Elemental. The good thing is, that's the biggest thing I can nitpick Stardock about.[/quote]Off-Topic is Off-Topic, no matter what forum you're in. So there's no reason to keep them seperate. :p
[quote who="landisaurus" reply="6" id="2056827"]Did I mention a spell that gives me a floating city?[/quote] Any takers? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote who="mittens" reply="9" id="2041182"]I'm not sure exactly what I can say other than that we are definitely planning on having very large worlds with numerous continents/islands. That is part of the reason why Scott's screenshot existed at all; having a map generator that's smart enough to determine valid locations based on any number of continents and islands is a bit rough to do so it's requiring a great deal of testing.[/quote]So it was real? I always assumed it was a mock-up 'shoop.
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="6" id="2053787"]http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr221/zanespal/2266410321_8c0e039f5ccopy.jpg[/quote]
[quote who="Aesir Rising" reply="5" id="2053807"]It was the 'secret project' listed on Bioware's site when I was active in NWN persistent worlds. I've followed it off and on for a while now (seems like about 5 years?) to see where it stood - and it was stuck in "looking for publisher" status for a couple of years. Yes, I've heard of it! I also was a bit peeved they pushed the March '09 release back to Q4 '09 recently - so they could publish the PC version simul
[quote who="2of3" reply="20" id="2053100"]I have had some funny experiences with things that aren't exactly standard in size or hight. Means you have to buy all extra pieces at IKEA. Smart buisness [/quote] What are you people talking about? Everything on IKEA fits everything else on IKEA. If you really tried, I'm sure you could create evil, man-eating shelf/sofa hybrids! [e digicons]8O[/e] [quote who="Heavenfall" reply="25" id="2053533"]I love going to IKEA for findin
[quote who="alway" reply="24" id="2053299"] Quoting psychoak, reply 23Considering how much diversity there is to human culture, you're probably asking the impossible. We've had everything from baby eating death worshippers to flower power free love communes... It would be nice to not have the French aristocracy and germanic tribes for the humans in yet another fantasy game though. Even just switching to the English longbow based armies and a new world culture for the to
[quote who="NTJedi" reply="9" id="2053261"]Well losing one_turn of work during mid-game on a very large map of Dominions_3 could mean 2+ hours of lost work. [e digicons]8C[/e] A saving feature with a timer can be useful for the very very large maps which will become available in Elemental due to the use of the 64-bit OS.[/quote] I don't know about Dom3 and two-hour turns (that must be some insanely massive non-stock map you're playing on there) but with the scope we're "promis
I've never bought anything bad or "badly fitting" from IKEA, it's mostly been relatively top-notch. Of course, after about 10 years to the day, it completely falls apart. But I think that's a design decision. :D Of course, IKEA has a incredibly wide variety of stuff. Some stuff (like their slippers, or their trashcans) are just piecemeal crap that you use until they break, and then buy another one. I bought like 10 bed-sheets the other day, for less than 150 SEK (~15 Euro) to use for
[quote who="Fallout386" reply="16" id="2052443"] [...] On a more serious note and not a woefully attempt at humor way I'm hoping its a SCI-FI RPG. I'm so sick and tired of orcs and elves and what not. Planescape universe would also be welcome. Although the bioware game felt like reading a novel it had a damn good story and very interesting characters. I mean who wouldn't prefer to have Morte travelling with them instead of generic dwarf no3947 [e digicons]*_*[/e
[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="5" id="2052447"]Next thing you'll know, he'll be eating Swedish... Funny that. You often hear people say let's go for a Chinese takeaway, or have an English breakfast, or Indian, or eat Italian - you never hear anyone say let's eat Swedish... Much the same as Canadian really...[/quote]Swedish meatballs , Swedish Smö
My -office- area isn't IKEA, but god-knows-what-else-is. Thank you for shopping Swedish. Ingvar (Mein)Kamp(f)rad and family thanks you. :p