Tridus

Is it just me, or does it read like there's a missing page 2? It just kind of stops.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="12" id="2961233"] Parent-frakking pragmatists. I hate y'all, not least because I so often end up being one myself.[/quote] If it makes you feel better, I hate pragmatists too. It's not a lot of fun to have someone tell you that what you want can't be done with the budget available, and it's really not fun to be the guy doing it. Course, that's not as bad as promising stuff you can't deliver, which is a lesson I had to learn v

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="16" id="2961428"] But Brad has told us why. It's because WoM is a 53 Metacritic game that people don't like. If it had been as liked as GalCiv II then he wouldn't dare to touch corethings like that. But now since it's a failure anyway he can experiment as much as he wants. And I agree with that (though I don't suffer like others here do since I don't want to play WoM ).[/quote] Sure, if you ignore the part that it's a 53

I don't see that at all. The sales haven't really changed. There's been some good ones, and some not so good ones. Just like before. All that's changed is that now it doesn't have Stardock fans pushing it online, and nobody else much cared to begin with because Steam's game selection is so much better. The idea of going back to SDC at this point is pretty absurd, Impulse was created entirely because SDC wasn't up to snuff when it came to pushing out games.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="81" id="2960906"] Triumph Studios are above average at making games but A.I is NOT their strength. I remember you from the AoW Heavengames forums. You're a veteran of AoW just like me and then you know how bad the AoW A.I has always been.[/quote] The AoW AI was pretty good compared to the Elemental AI.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="10" id="2960498"] Your point is only valid if you accept that the dynasty system was always planned as some sort of decoration or secondary detail. To some of us who were with the beta well before the first version was released, dynasties were, conceptually at least, absolutely a core game play element. [/quote] I love it when Firefox crashes and eats my posts... My point is valid because I'm coming at it from what the game is now, not w

Nah, there's still some people hung up on physical copies.

Well that's too bad, but it's hard to argue with that reasoning. Thanks Derek. What about a strategic map level defense where stone walls around a city prevent attacks until the attackers camp outside the city and use a "siege" ability for two turns?

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="38" id="2959104"] Quoting Sethai, reply 33 I’d also advocate a “laying siege” mechanic where an army surrounds a settlement without actually going in for the kill. Armies should not be able to move to a city and attack the inhabitants in the same turn unless they have the means to do so (ie catapults). The attacking army should have to wait a number of turns before attacking, based on their amount of siege equipment and the quality of

They didn't hint at it, they flat out said it. Of course that was back when they owned Impulse, so hopefully someone thought about that when writing the sale contract.

That's a pretty old school way to embed an image there. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

[quote who="Goontrooper" reply="2" id="2958907"]So it sounds like there is not a comprehensive, up-to-date list of any kind. I'd really appreciate it if Brad or someone would create this and keep it up-to-date in a sticky. Right now, I'm having a really hard time understanding the thought process between WoM and FE being two 'different' games, instead of FE just being a normal expansion that improves and expands the original. So far, it sounds like FE is just going to be bette

[quote who="jpmcconnell" reply="10" id="2958633"]17 year old game now. Also be outplayed by an 11 year old game (AoW), and an 8 year old game (AoW:SM). sigh... I just always makes me so sad that the only difference between a fight between my scout and a pair of spiders out in the wastes and a fight at the largest Empire in the game's capital city is that the enemy units have a few extra hit points. Unfortunately, since we haven't heard a peep about it since

[quote who="Sethai" reply="37" id="2958458"] The Wii & Kinect only sell to people who don't like video games and want an expensive, more flashy looking version of kerplunck for "family occassions" that sound nice in theory but which no one enjoys. If those people enjoyed games they would have bought stuff like deadspace extraction, okami, boom box... but they didn't. [/quote] "Enjoy it" and 'want more' aren't the same thing. I got my dad NHL Slapshot

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="3" id="2958540"] Quoting Tridus, reply 2Depends on the game. Something like Rift is so much better optimized on Nvidia hardware that the price/actual performance isn't even close to what the benchmarks will tell you. Unless one knows exactly what games will be played on the machine, price and power are the things to look at..[/quote] Not really, because Rift isn't an exceptional case. More games are optimized for Nvidia then for ATI,

[quote who="SwerydAss" reply="8" id="2958464"] If thats a good reason to drop them then shouldnt all the half-baked parts of the game get canned.... Oh wait then there wouldnt be a sequel. sorry couldnt help the cheap shot..... I am hoping FE is a good game....[/quote] It's half-baked AND not core to the gameplay. That combination is fatal. Core stuff that simply can't be done without will benefit from its removal because devs won't be wasting ti

[quote]So what I'd like to ask here is what exactly are people expectations for FE? What does it need to accomplish in order to get a thumbs up from you? What does it need to accomplish in order to transform into a game that people will still be playing 20 years from now (I just downloaded MoM from GOG and while its obviously has aged in some regards its still fun)? And finally, based on what you've seen so far, do you think Stardock is moving in a direction that will meet these expec

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="1" id="2958527"] On graphics cards, ATI card are better buys for price vs. proformance (at least when they are new), but NVIDIA cards will give you less grief because it is easer to work around their issues. (With NVIDIA, when one card has an issue it is likely they all do, but with ATI errors are specific to the card).[/quote] Depends on the game. Something like Rift is so much better optimized on Nvidia hardware that the price/actual performance

The tactical combat AI is incredibly weak, yeah. But that has a lot to do with there not being a whole lot of mechanics in tactical combat. If the AI played smart, half the fights would end in stalemates where nobody is willing to run in to attack and it wouldn't be fun for the players. If you're asking me if you should buy it now, I'd say no. Buy Fallen Enchantress when it comes out. That'll be the version to play.

[quote who="Azzazell" reply="5" id="2957129"]Tridus --> Why civ 5 is better? what example? AI is better in civ 5? I think is AI better in Elemental war of magic[/quote] City building in Civ 5 is more fun. The economy is more interesting. Combat is more fun, even though the AI in both of them is terrible at it the Civ 5 model has a lot more interesting things to do (tactical combat in WoM is just pointless). Units are more varied in ability and use in Civ 5. There's less mechani

No, there won't be a polish translation of WoM. I guess its not impossible that if it does well they could translate the expansion (FE), but there's been no suggestion it's going to happen either. Civ 5 is better right now. Hopefully FE changes that because Civ 5 wasn't exactly that great either.

[quote who="Terraziel" reply="13" id="2956517"]I'm sort of astonished that Sword of The Stars 2 isn't on more people's lists, given the games Stardock make anyway.[/quote] It's not on mine because I LOATHE the UI in SotS 1 and it's a constant fight to put up with it. If they improved that, I'll be interested. If not, then not a chance. Tanafres - You get FE if you bought WoM in 2010.

[quote who="tanafres" reply="2" id="2956584"] I also loved Myrror. That said, I hated the underground levels in Age of Wonders (and every other game), even though both are simply another overlaid map with well-defined transition points. Maybe it was because Myrror had actual character, unique terrain features, unique races, and no movement speed penalty (that always killed me in the underground maps of other games - made the game soooo tedious). The ruins and nodes had better defen

I don't think The Old Republic will make a 2011 release either. I'm betting on January. Though I hope I'm wrong, I have a lot of vacation time in December.

[quote who="Sethai" reply="35" id="2956327"] Yeah, that's a great example of a circumstance for a trait: an elite unit for a certain purpose that the player is not going to build all the time. That's not what I've got a problem with. It's when every tarthan needs a trait to work as intended, or every archer. Why give the standard archer a trait that they have the option to remove, when you could apply that trait to the bow itself (ie, all archers), and the