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This is true for some techs but not others I believe - i.e. before you research mounted warfare I think you need to research animal husbandry.

Mages seem most OP against large stacks - Dirge of Ceresa and similar multi-target spells when properly boosted can just do obscene amounts of damage.

Once you've researched Spell of Making, you're supposed to have to construct three towers before you can build the Forge of the Overlord, but for me, I was able to construct the Forge right off the bat, sans towers.

Let me preface this by saying I just started playing FE after not having touched Elemental since the release, so to the extent that something has already been decided, I am probably not aware. That said I did just read the .90 changelog, so hopefully I'm not beating any dead horses. Is marriage gone for good? Sad if so - it was a fun mechanic although it did seem very difficult to implement correctly. I have two balance concerns about spells (apologies if these have

Whether or not spells are OP, summons are definitely OP and stacks too. The game plays completely differently early (when your champ is wanderign around with one or two OP summons) from late (a decent recruitable stack destroys anything else, including summons and your sov, regardless of what level he is).

Well, I think a lot of people would agree that Brad's comments, however you feel about them, are really the lesser issue here. How the game plays is infinitely more important (esp. because if the game was super amazingly perfect or ridicubad, no one would care either way). As it is now, the game is somewhere inbetween, thus the spirited debate. There are game breaking bugs (including some nasty hardware ones for at least a good minority of people) but those are being

The zero damage representing as a miss thing is extremely irritating, to me at least. But it should be easy enough to fix.

[quote who="Buio1" reply="76" id="2731722"]Here is PC Gamers review of Empire: Total War http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=209544 The gave it 9.4/10, using an amazing amount of positive adjectives at release and I quote the beginning paragraph: This is the grandest, most spectacular work of strategy gaming on the PC. If you've not tackled a Total War game before, or assume that they're not for you, I challenge you to play Empire and

That's because your criticisms are inane, whereas Brad's efforts have been pretty Herculean over the last few days.

"Life is tough, lil' bro. Get a helmet."

"Begin energy transfer! Power to full!" "Roger!" "More! Give me more power!" "Roger!" Props to anyone who can identify that extremely generic quote lol.

Nm, I uninstalled it anyway. Just makes sense to do a clean install.

Heard if we beta tested we should do an uninstall and then a clean install, that correct? Anybody confirm that?

I loved BGII's epic 4 disc install lol. They all had different cool art on them! And I loved the BGII manual. Even if it had a lot of misinformation, it had way more flavor than manuals do nowadays.

[quote who="Smarmellows" reply="4" id="2696951"]The stability and performance of 3c may or may not make it pretty awful, but the intro cinematic more than makes up for it. I laughed my dorky arse off when I saw that. If he pre-ordered it on Impulse and has it set to show pre-release versions then it SHOULD show up on his games list. Downloading it is another story, took me about 10 resumes over the course of 6 hours to get the bloody thing. It would get to 7 percent... be sent the wrong file,

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="3" id="2697207"] Quoting Twohawks, reply 2 It has nothing to do with your level Hmmm I though it had to do with level and turns... i.e. even if you don't level it will go up.. it just goes up faster if i am leveling a lot. at least that's how i thought it seemed to work.. but as I have said I have been wrong before It is definitely directly connected to adventuring research - research adventure and you'll see a dramatic increase in the

Same issue.

Civ 5 looks ok to me so far. At least I'll probably pick it up, Civ 4 was good enough for me to trade on faith a bit. Unlike Starcraft 2, which I'm probably not spending any money on anytime soon. Or (for any console gamers) the Madden franchise, for the rest of eternity. *sits and waits for beta 4*

Well, I dunno, I haven't read up on it, so I'll trust whatever you say. I was just kind of conjecturing based on the scenario as it was presented in the link. I don't really care about whether they can or can't ban people legally. The part that would rankle me is the total lack of information (again, trusting what that link says) because it doesn't give people any kind of representation.

Well it seems a bit early to worry about anything combat related since combat is broken in 8 trillion ways right now, so its not like a valid ground for comparison or anything. I mean right now who cares about a wall, archers obliterate everything?

I actually wouldn't say Total War really favors the defender all that much - if anything I might say the opposite because you can just siege them while their numbers starve, forcing the defender then to become proactive, while there's no realistic option (mods excluded) to account for the fact that the besieging army would also be starving. The only reason TW really favors defenders is because in actual battles the AI tends to be completely brain dead and do things like stand outside th

Personally I always run around creating wall o' mountains. Maybe I read too much L.E. Modesitt. I just like the idea of my sovereign bending the land to his will! Plus the AI has no idea what's going on, at least at this stage.

It's not really Valve's right no matter what the fine print says (Valve has the right to refuse service to anyone arbitrarily, but this doesn't constitute taking someone's money for a product and then refusing service without refunding this money; alternatively, they could prove that the users violated their agreement, but reportedly, they refuse to do so. A contract which states that they can refuse service after payment for any reason whatsoever is almost certainly not valid). H

There's no real evidence they ARE, either, since the program doesn't say what they've done or prove it in any way, and since they won't release nay inofrmation on it. If someone did something like that in a real world equivalent they'd never get away with it, at least without refunding the client.

I totally woulda called the police on the old lady.