Aesir Rising

I bought a Civ III compilation a while back from D2D. It was my first digital distribution game purchase. I've held off on them for any other purchases for the following reasons: * Patches and content updates released after the version you've purchased for the games I bought or was looking to buy were either very delayed, on the order of *months* (or in the case of Civ III, never materialized afaik). * User created content, mods, and addons may not be compatible wi

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="6" id="2054147"] Bioware gets more filled with shit and suck by the minute. "Nothing will change now that we are a part of EA" was such utter and complete bolloks.[/quote] I've no idea if it's related to the deal with EA, but I do have to say I was looking to DA as being a return to more open-ended PC RPGing. I enjoyed KotOR, and have started playing Mass Effect, and think I might like Jade Empire. But th

The most interesting feature displayed in the shot is the cave entrance just 'north' of the town walls. The explorer in me wants to find out what's inside. re: I agree that having the crop fields within the walls is odd. Aesthetics aside, from a gameplay standpoint I'm curious about that strictly because I'm leaning towards a preference of having such resource nodes (if that's the purpose they serve) outside of the walls and (theoretically) more vulnerable

[quote who="Gir92" reply="3" id="2053669"] Have you not heard of Dragon Age: Origins?[/quote] 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 Mar

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="25" id="2050523"] Dragon's Lair? [/quote] Bingo! And to make my earlier post more contributory, I'll add: I really do look forward to someone developing a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate. If rumours about PS:T and SD are correct, I'm not as excited as I might otherwise be. Though I respected the tech and story of Planescape: Torment , it wasn't in the setting that I most enjoyed. I just p

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="8" id="2050354"] Quoting landisaurus, reply 7[...] If bears arn't in, then somebody will add them. [...]Will you make the animated model(s) and parse it with the other models? D:[/quote] I'd offer a decent starting point, I can try to recreate my old Im

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="3" id="2050295"] "I think the fourms is catching a rare..." fourms - forums [/quote] No, I think fourms is correct. It's short for transfourms - as in furrier transfourms . This is the end result of all the symptoms listed in the top post. If you get furrier transfourmation , you grow more animalistic and, well, fur. You

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="1" id="2049610"]point and click adventure game is my vote. (in a dark planescape setting)[/quote] point and click ... like that laser disc arcade game I played once and hated? Dragon something. My god, please no.

This is like NTFS hard links. I hate them too. I'd like to think that because the banner I'm posting under says Elemental , I'm posting on that forum. What was the giant win for implementing this nexus of confusion?

I ctrl+esc (common) or alt+tab (rare) fairly frequently, in order to flip to another app (usually a web browser). Assuming this auto-save option is an option, I'd be ok with it - but I would certainly disable it. Because I don't want hard disks thrashing while I try to switch over to the other app.

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="25" id="2049762"]Has anyone stopped to consider whether, for the long-term health of the planet, these things need to happen (rising & dropping temperatures, rising & dropping sea levels, continental drift, you name it)? It's all about us, after all.[/quote] I've considered the Earth-as-Self-Cleaning-Oven. But I enjoy the prospect of human survival as a species. So, I am ok with exploring opportunities to help keep us around a

[quote who="DarthCaedusMorgan" reply="12" id="2045284"] Um vegetable oil comes from food and that not an option period. Basicly option B that you provided on the list does not work at all period due to the need to produce mass quantity of food required to fuel all vehicles, which will be pointless and that food can be used to help africa and other places start having a real functioning economy and no one starving. This option should not be c

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="5" id="2049688"]DoT is more accurate, since obviously 'seconds' have no factor in turn-based gameplay (or shouldn't anyway, defeats the purpose). [/quote] I probably should have just said "Damage" instead of DPS for that bullet point. Thanks for pointing out the issue with terminology. If they implement DoT** attacks then I'd still consider (possibly) having that as a seperate role for my casting unit(s) if I were trying to bet

I'm ambivalent about random events. Sometimes they're fun and sometimes they're not fun and get annoying, Check box toggle off/on, or slider frequency control from Off to Frequent works best for me.

Pretty sure a 3 foot rise would screw Florida. Probably Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, too. New Orleans would have to start over. Again. Doesn't take much in coastal areas.

Some of the roles overlap in functionality (Supporters and Augmenters). A couple might be too narrowly-defined (Mage Killer, Diviner) to be worthwhile unless very cheap to get. Whether that is good or bad (or not an issue) I have no idea yet - and won't until we have more info about actual gameplay. For sake of discussion, let's say having overlapping roles or magic schools was just horrible and we absolutely had to avoid it. In that instance, I'd probably reduce t

[quote who="Elvenshae" reply="13" id="2049277"] You're on the Auctioneer team? Thanks for your work - that's one of the absolute best mods I've ever seen for any game, ever.[/quote] I am, and I'm happy to say, "You're welcome!" and thanks for the support. I'm just a bit player (I don't work on the core engine and stats, mostly QA and UI related bugfixes), it was awesome that my first WoW addon project turned out to be with an esta

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="10" id="2048422"] And what? There's a hardcore mode in World of Warcraft? Is that new? [/quote] Not very new, but he's thinking about Heroic Dungeons. These party instances have a higher percentage chance of dropping EXACTLY THE SAME rewards as available through normal mode dungeons and world drops (depending upon the reward type and rarity). I have a WoW account, and I'm involved in testing for a UI mod that I happen to like, and deve

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="25" id="2047108"] Playing games using the save/reload to change the future and provide yourself a benefit is cheating. No need to cry your save/reload crutch will be in the game... us other gamers here are asking Stardock for a "hardcore" / "iron man" setting which will have no impact on your games. In fact one day you might be brave enough to try playing this setting.[/quote] I'll never be as brave a

Can't speak to the question or concern about spell or unit progression (yet), but I will say that I'm really not worried about concerns about 'balance' stemming from player created content. In other games (and there are many that are modded heavily) these things (balance, playability) tends to sort it outself out, a bit like a self-cleaning oven. Taking 3 fictitious scenarios (just from my own experience watching how modding communities develop content over time for games like O

I drafted a post on ideas for a series of 'packs' of user -created spells organized thematically. Then binned it because it's folly. I need to know the scope and granularity of spell effects. Do spells impact individual units, groups of units within or spread across multiple map grids, or even across the entire map? Need to know if spells can have negative impacts on the caster (Say I want to make a Fireball spell a la D&D. But I

[quote]Well the point is that many gamers assume it's not cheating and they continue playing games without experiencing the joys of being the underdog and making a comeback. [/quote] That definitely isn't the point. The point is that you can't force someone else to play the game you like to play. Think this through: Let's say they put in an at-will available any-time save function. How does that mess you up? That's

"Pre-Ordered and in it for the Long Haul: Sound Off" Sorry, can't. It's not the best time to tie up disposable income. But I wanted to at least sound off on my support for the dev efforts, as this is a game that I'm looking forward to playing.

Don't get sucked into it. The crux of each argument has been about 10 or 30 year cycles. The issue isn't about such vanishingly small periods. It's about longer term cycles where the Earth loses the ability to find it's equilibrium. How long do you stand in front of the loaded pistol before you act on the threat? It's too late once the trigger is pulled, and I think folks that actually study the warming trending are trying to tell us that the fin

You should become a tobacco lobbyist, too. You've got a real gift.