[quote who="Sinful01" reply="164" id="2765527"]You just remind me of someone I used to know, who I did not get along swimmingly with in a past life.[/quote] I'm sure you'll get over it.
[quote who="Sinful01" reply="156" id="2765400"]I always wonder how you are enjoying playing Elemental so much, seeing as how you're spending so much time in most threads, 3+ times per page, spouting about how great it is to combat every person who says they're not enjoying it. You alt-tab back and forth (without crashing) or have a dual-monitor setup?[/quote] Because we all know it doesn't take mere seconds to submit a post to a message board. And this being one of only a
Nice looking site. Hope you get some traffic soon. Your forums have tumble weeds blowing through them.
I thought the Civ 4 tutorial was awful myself. First of all, Sid Meier has the blandest voice imaginable; and secondly, it showed practically nothing. "Place a city here... move your units like this... here's the city screen... O.K. now go have fun!" Frankly, I'd rather have no tutorial than one as poorly implemented as that.
[quote who="falconne2" reply="149" id="2764936"]They should have gone with limited size stacks, with a tactical mode similar to AoW:SM.[/quote] Or Elemental? [e classic];)[/e] Anyway, everything is abstracted in these kinds of games anyway, so it doesn't bother me much when things don't completely line up with reality.
[quote who="falconne2" reply="140" id="2764799"]The difference was that, despite all this, the gameplay was solid and highly addictive. They delivered on their promises, plenty of new functionality was there, the strategic depth and a capable AI that gave you the challenge needed to play the game. This means that even when slowdowns or crashes affected you, you would curse, but you'd still be firing it up again, at 3 in the morning, because you so want to get back into it.[/quote] You
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="132" id="2764316"]You might seem some reviewers be more kind and generous to the title in terms of score...[/quote] I was referring to professional reviewers, which really do seem to set the tone for a lot of discussion boards.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="22" id="2764160"]Yeah... like say, Elemental "beta" 1. [/quote] No, I mean that reviewers are in the habit of calling any game with bugs or undercooked features a "beta". It gets a bit silly after a while.
[quote who="Nedryel" reply="130" id="2764011"]The point is people need others to think they made the best choice. They can't just consider a game "the best" if not everybody thinks so, they need others to agree with them.[/quote] Funny thing is, I always seem to get behind games that "everybody" hates. It's almost as though people have forgotten that the point of gaming is to have fun , and that even a flawed game can offer hours of solid entertainment. Roger Ebert
[quote who="the_spyder" reply="2" id="2763860"]I haven't purchased yet. Still waiting on fixes ...[/quote] As of 1.07, most major issues have been resolved and the game is really fun. If the game had Sid Meier's name on the box, it would be pulling 8's easily.
The problem is that the term "beta" is thrown around too casually and with little regard for what it actually means.
[quote who="StarReaper" reply="8" id="2763155"]The big issue with Demigod (We played it LAN out fo the box with 10 people worked great) was that so many people pirated it, that the servers were so damn overloaded. There were a few hand shake issues ive read as well but nothing to serious.[/quote] That and retailers broke the street date, so the servers were getting hammered before they were ready.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="6" id="2763350"]Some people consider the Load function to be an exploit.[/quote] It depends on how you use it. If you lose an army because you underestimated the enemy, reload the game, build up a bigger army, and then conquer him, that's effectively an exploit.
[quote who="sagittary" reply="1" id="2763289"]If they're just basic strategies, why not call them basic strategies? [/quote] I think being able to make and break treaties on the same turn without serious consequences counts as an exploit.
[quote who="lordkosc" reply="123" id="2763414"]...their level of refinement and testing is up there with Blizzard...[/quote] Again, Firaxis' past games contradict that assertion.
Socialism and communism depend on a level of altruism that is foreign to most human beings.
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="111" id="2762757"]The thing is though, do we really need to have a competition as to which games are the worst now?[/quote] It's not so much a competition as it is a reality check. I still have a hunch that if Elemental had Sid Meier's name on the box and all other things were equal, it would have been given a far more charitable reception. You would have seen a lot of reviews using phrases like "Despite these problems..."
[quote who="divvu80" reply="110" id="2762524"]I bought Civ 4 at launch, and I remember all the problems I had in the beginning (mainly they went away after 1st week IIRC).[/quote] Some of Civ 4's critical problems stuck around for quite a long time. A lot of people don't know about them because they weren't quite as "in your face" as a crash to desktop. For instance, if you ever wondered why some bonuses weren't as effective as you expected, it's because they weren't being
[quote who="marlowwe" reply="230" id="2762974"]Valid, constructive criticism is being drowned out by frothing at the mouth forum members.[/quote] Except that a lot of the so-called "valid constructive criticism" is nothing but snarky cheap shots at Brad and Stardock. That's why new dev journals are now read only.
[quote who="dirtforker" reply="228" id="2762916"]I really doubt you can possibly make this game fun for the people that don't like it now.[/quote] You're probably right, but probably for reasons other than what you suspect.
[quote who="Lfseeney" reply="2" id="2762274"]Please LOCK them on posting, and keep them coming.[/quote] That seems to be how he's doing it now. He just posted a 1.08 preview and it's locked.
[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="67" id="2762381"]When I was in the Navy, in the early 80's we had a guy in the barracks with a C64, and we'd sit there all weekend, drinking beers and typing in numbers from magazine listings to create games.[/quote] I can't even begin to guess how many hours I spent doing that. There were actually a lot of really cool games listed in the back pages of COMPUTE!'s Gazette. For that matter, SpeedScript 128 got me through college! It still bo
[quote who="Pvthudson" reply="212" id="2761968"]I will not pay Stardock 50 dollars to basically beta test a game and be a sucker for the next 5-6 months...[/quote] I keep seeing comments like this, and I'm left scratching my head. Who says you have to beta test? Just play the game and have fun with it while Stardock gets busy with the updates. That's what I'll be doing. Nobody is going to force you to file detailed error reports if that's what you're worried ab
[quote who="greggbert" reply="107" id="2762061"]Firaxis can craft excellent games with a high degree of quality.[/quote] That's not always true. Civilization 4 had some serious problems at launch that took several patches and expansions to completely sort out (and even then there are still some outstanding quirks that Civ fanatics grumble about to this day). Sid Meier's Railroads needed a patch to address performance issues that made it virtually unplayable late game, and
[quote who="nobalkain" reply="9" id="2761958"] I had no idea you even had to pay them to join you. They never ask me for money they just say "Hey I would like to join you".[/quote] Janusk is the only one you can recruit for free. The others usually say something like, "I will gladly assist you in your rise to power for 27 gildar."