If my wife had any interest in a 4X fantasy game, then yes. Unfortunately the only TBS game she has any patience for is Heroes of Might and Magic.
I am hoping that The Fallen Enchantress will provide the game play I hoped for in E:WoM. WoM just felt more work than fun, and after the beta, I kind of lost interest in the game all together. Actually, before WoM most game releases did not spark my interest at all (I guess I'm just getting older), and at that time I hoped WoM would be the game that would get me hooked again. I never bitched much about WoM after release, just felt more and more disinterested. Perhaps The Fallen En
Your wife sure has more patience than my [e digicons]^_^[/e]
Very cool interview. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Now I'm really stoked for the single-player campaign!
[quote who="Tridus" reply="318" id="2715426"] Quoting kochujang, reply 316 You can either take the paranoid approach (this thread) and firmly believe that no LAN is ever coming, or actually have some faith in Stardock who has until now been very player friendly and has had a good dialogue with its customers. We should have faith why, exactly? The direct answer we've gotten is "eventually, maybe, depending on interest" for things that we were told would be around now. I see no r
[quote who="Tridus" reply="315" id="2715418"] Quoting kochujang, reply 308 You are wrong, in this case. There will be custom servers available, but probably not on day 0. That's not what they said. What they ACTUALLY said is "no custom servers, MP modding, or random MP maps at release. We'll see how people are using it and might do more later." We've asked for a timetable and a list of what's actually in MP at release, and gotten nothing. There is exactly zero commit
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="306" id="2715364"]As someone who didn't pre-order until it was said that the game would have LAN-support as opposed to the "Stardock servers only" that had been discussed prior to that point, I feel nothing short of cheated. I genuinely thought Stardock was different. Turns out I was wrong. Would that I could get my money back. I now see what the pre-order-and-get-beta scheme is all about. [/quote] You are wrong, in this case. There w
Yeah! No DRM! Gotta love stardock games. Regarding the LAN-issue: Geez guys! Sit down and just think for a couple of seconds, instead of raging about semantics. Multiplayer is expensive. Elemental is mostly a single-player experience (don't try to deny it, forum-goers don't represent the demographic population of gamers). Stardock is a small company. TBS is a niche. Since Stardock can't throw money around they decided for one multiplayer-option and th
[quote who="louist" reply="24" id="2666003"]If you are on the fence and want to try something that isn't burdened by all the negative attention, try Risen, it's essentially Gothic 4. (Not that I blame them for dropping the Gothic name!)[/quote] The developers (Piranha bytes) got kicked out of their own franchise by their ex-distributor, JoWood, so the namechange was imminent. Gothic 4 is also in the making by another developer company and should come out soon.
[quote who="joasoze" reply="21" id="2665032"]Bought Gothic 3 a couple of years back. Wasted at few hours on this buggy performance hogging beast. Not worth a dollar in my opinion[/quote] The patched Gothic 3 is significantly less buggy than a couple of years back. I gave up on Gothic 3 like you did then, but gave it a shot some years after. Gothic 3 is still inferior to Gothic 1&2.
Sounds like just the game for me and my wife. Going to give it a try when I have time :)
Great news! I loved Dungeon Siege 1 & 2 and I loved NWN 2 from Obsidian, so I'm looking forward to this.
Cool! I'm also in platinum, rank 50 :).
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="132" id="2629389"]I'm glad our input improved the game TACTICAL COMBAT I'm not sure how to do it the right way since every TBS is different and thus require different rules, but I firmly believe that the attacker must get the first move. About "my side moves first" vs "speed decides who moves first" I don't know what's best....I'm not gonna pretend that I know what's best. Consider
[quote who="Dr Franknfurter" reply="43" id="2628163"]one thing about fall from heaven... it has lots and lots of resources... it really is a good idea to play with a race not bothing with magic at all at least once through for a little less to deal with... maybe play as Grigori to begin with, adventurers are strong and let you try out lots of things without requring you to go down religious paths (although immortal adventurers are impressive). The free experience for hero units means you can
[quote who="Aractain" reply="425" id="2627323"] I don't think civ 5 willl lose that many sales from it being on steam, they might even gain more in total if there are some new fans coming in (after 18 yearolds right now were born after civ1 lol).[/quote] That is not the issue, since Civ 4 is on also on steam.
Played Demigod LAN with my wife, tried to play Starcraft 2 with the unplayable patch 13, installed Fall from Heaven 2 for my very first time (while waiting for Elemental beta 2) and a little bit Titan Quest.
@BoogieBac Cool! :) We had the same debate 2 years ago at my office, and now we never look back. One thing that still amazes me is how blazing fast tagging and branching in SVN is compared to CVS, especially for big projects.
I see you are using CVS. No love for subversion?
[quote who="Tasunke" reply="22" id="2621007"]You do, however, need an internet connection to register the game onto any computer. Therefore, you do need an internet connection to play the game ... you just don't need said connection all the time.[/quote] It was never disputed that an internet-connection is required for the installation and activation. I just wanted to clear up any ambiguity regarding when an internet-connection is required, which is not whe
[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="19" id="2620817"] Playing an installed steam-game does NOT require an internet connection, since steam has an offline-mode.Well, the offline-mode isn't the default mode for SP game. And I may be wrong but I was under the impression that you need to be connected to switch to the offline mode.[/quote] No, that is not necessary. If steam can't find a working internet-connection, it automatically suggests to switch to offline-mode. The only hassle is
[quote who="strager" reply="16" id="2620727"] Quoting AXidenTAL, reply 14I personally don't understand all the Steam hate, especially the Civ fans who aren't willing to give it a go... I can understand not liking DRM, but to me Steam is probably the only type which I actually like with all the community stuff built around it etc... It's not that we hate steam per-say, but we hate being FORCED to have it installed, and not able to play without it, or a connection to the net. This mea
[quote who="Spooky__" reply="32" id="2619596"]Technically it doesn't really matter if you have a "physical copy" of the game or not, it doesn't change anything. [/quote] Technically it is centralized vs decentralized storage, so a "physical copy" is a pretty significant difference. [quote who="Spooky__" reply="32" id="2619596"]Physical media like optical discs are stupid anyway, at least nowadays. It's an inconvenient and unnecessary way of distributing software in times
[quote who="Spooky__" reply="16" id="2615938"]Indeed. You can't even view most music videos on YouTube in Germany due to copyright issues. (Or you will at least soon be unable to, the GEMA wants to make an example.)[/quote] ..and that is so annoying!
I don't pirate games, and I have several Ubisoft games at home: Heroes of Might and Magic V (all addons) Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Baldurs Gate: Dark alliance I was interested in Assassins Creed 2, but when I heard about the DRM, I decided not to buy it. I played Settlers 1-4 (4 was a bit of a disappointment), and heard that Settlers 7 was going "back to the roots". Unfortunately, Settlers 7 uses the same DRM as Assassins Creed 2, so I deci