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[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2812059"] Quoting Tridus, reply 7Honestly I want a new game more then another expansion. Sins is great, but Ironclad can do a lot if they're freed from the existing constraints... including making a 64 bit version. (Seriously that's not something you do in an expansion unless it's a $40 expansion.) Yeah, but they're also working on their next game, which is Not-Sins. They're definitely not big enough to do two games at once.[/quote] <p

Honestly I want a new game more then another expansion. Sins is great, but Ironclad can do a lot if they're freed from the existing constraints... including making a 64 bit version. (Seriously that's not something you do in an expansion unless it's a $40 expansion.)

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="114" id="2809633"] It's been addressed. Computer games have become exponentially more and more difficult to create due to the increase in technology and the increase of diversity of systems. Back in the 80's, one guy could make a computer game in a number of weeks. And, I bet, if you wanted to make the exact same game now, it would a bit longer and suffer a little more bugs, simply because the difficulty of making it compatible with the plethora o

I like the cloth map. It provides a good view from high up and lets you see a lot, quickly. (In some ways it's actually easier to find stuff on it then on the 3d map.) I like zooming in on a city and seeing the little people walking around. I like taking champions to the item shop and walking out with a bunch of new gear.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="13" id="2804130"]The gradual evolution of Elemental into a first person shooter should be plain and obvious. Everyone already knows that.[/quote] Lies. You can't have a real FPS without NAZIs to shoot.

[quote who="dowdyhoody" reply="56" id="2807592"]Just today.......Fallout New Vegas...patches on the way already. Lots of bugs.[/quote] Well, at least that puts to rest the idea that console games aren't buggy as hell. :P

[quote who="Ravenstrike" reply="65" id="2807916"] 5. The art style is not Diablo, it's WOW. Dark colors and a gritty setting is not EMO, it's what Diablo is supposed to be, it is a dark and brutal world. (this also isn't emo) I wish people would stop throwing that term around so loosely. Emo stands for Emotional. Not dark and brutal.[/quote] Dark and gritty, like the outdoor plains in the first act of Diablo 2... or the bright desert in the second act. Or the tropical forest in t

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="33" id="2807935"]Vista was a piece of shit, and everyone knew it - yet it still sold. Modern Warfare II was worse than it's predecessor in every way yet it's the highest selling game of this entire generation of Consoles. Once they reach this level, they have the ability to do whatever they want, because enough people want what they sell. Abusing your customer base, raping them at every opportunity and selling garbage isn't against the Law.&nb

[quote who="Kadrium" reply="80" id="2807644"] Quoting Alstein, reply 78I'm a little skeptical on the static spell damage myself. ... Also, I'm a little worried people will shun the low lvl spells due to irrelvancy in the later part of the game, or in MP everyone rushing will mean only low lvl spells matter. The bonus of static spell damage is it gives you a reason to continue researching higher level spells. If a level one flame dart scaled with stats to be super powered i

[quote who="p22" reply="35" id="2807038"]Well, apparently Elemental is starving for more ram. No other way to explain all those OOM errors. Civ5 is not far away neither. It's usually multiplatform games that don't need much ram, due to using mostly similar resources as console versions, that have much stricter ram diet.[/quote] Sure there is: memory leaks.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="30" id="2806667"]I bought a laptop with enhanced RAM 2 years ago (6 gigs) in order to use 64-bit capabilities. It's been $100 of wasted money for me as of yet, and with the laptop being finicky due to all the travel I do with it, it's tough to justify doing it again next year. (With my current job, I intend to buy a laptop every 3 years) Honestly, I'll be disappointed if 64-bit Elemental or GCIII doesn

[quote who="perigrine23" reply="36" id="2806943"]I think this has been mentioned before, but in the new global mana system, who can cast spells? Is it like before with a spell that imbues heroes, but now each imbued hero has a mana maintainance cost, or is there a new system? Also, people seem very concerned about city spam, I think this would make a great faction difference. I like how one faction is better at producing metal and the other producing mana, but it would also be

[quote quoting="post"] As a sample of stuff I enojy, some of my favorite games of all time include Final Fantasy 6, Mass Effect, Dragonforce (for Saturn), Starcraft (and 2), Diablo 2, Sins of a Solar Empire and Civ4. Oh and I'm an enormous Penny Arcade fan. [/quote] Hi Toby! I think we'll get along just fine. :) The specialist changes sound good. Is it going to affect the Egalitarian trait at all? (ie: more specialists because your female population can

It's kind of impressive how even when they get a do-over with this game, they still manage to screw basic things up.

[quote who="GCFL" reply="26" id="2806394"] I think you are making a premature assumption in terms of what Kinect can and can not do. I agree that the success will be determined by the games and applications made for it but I think you are missing the direction MS seems to be taking the xbox and that is for a central intertainment hub. I believe it may have been you that mentioned that in an earlier post (not sure as I write this) but if so, that was correct and I would argue

[quote who="GCFL" reply="14" id="2806292"]why are people saying the Kinect will fail? I for one plan on purchasing it? Too expensive? please... the vaulted wii forces you to pay over $100 alone just to get a wii fit. You do not see people having issues with that...in fact when it came out stores could not keep it in stock. The long term price of a Kinect and xbox device and the wii are very similar when you start looking at the add on devices for the wii. It will

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="30" id="2806204"] This is something that's dividing the Diablo III community down the line: buying it supports Activision Blizzard's stance that customers will pay any price and should be taken advantage of at every opportunity. Is anyone here not going to buy it because of Activision Blizzard's involvement? A point that I've noticed, and as far as I know nothing has been annouced, is that with the lowered level cap of 60 (D2s was 99) they

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="15" id="2806149"] Well.....yes and no. Activation of a product through Steam is one thing...but many games require an active connect through Steam to enjoy many of their features. Some games cannot be played in offline mode. And even if you're going to play off line, you have to launch Steam to play many titles, just so you can tell it go offline. Lots of games have just decided it's easier to use Steam as DRM than pay to develop or maintain th

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2805950"]The reason consoles win this war, is because the are uniform, standard. If Elemental was a console game, it wouldn't have been so buggy, as the big problem was how varied PCs are. That's the trouble with creating a new PC game, accounting for all the different Pcs out there instead of a standard console. IMHO.[/quote] If Elemental was a console game, it wouldn't have been made. You see a lot of 4X console games? The contro

[quote who="Alstein" reply="7" id="2806050"]I think the arguement could be made that Steamworks DRM requiring the Steam store is anti-competitive. This would likely have more success in Europe. [/quote] Possibly in Europe, because the EU is fond of heavy government regulators that have a hate on for US companies. But not because it's anti-competitive. The fact of the matter is that Steamworks was a response to a need from develope

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="2" id="2805992"]Seems Brad was right when he said that in a few years, digital sales will overtake retail (for PC games). [/quote] It already has in terms of total sales. Or not, depending on what you want to measure and how credible you think the numbers are.

I'm not worried about the quality because Blizzard always manages to deliver a good game. But I'm not that excited either, because Blizzard always takes forever to do it. When they have a date set, then I'll start paying closer attention. In the mean time, at least listening to people whine that Diablo 3 has a color palate that includes something other then 40 shades of "dark" is pretty amusing.

[quote who="DKL" reply="39" id="2803683"]I dont understand this whole 'Civ revolutions' stuff people throwing at them. 'Simplified'? When did you play Civ I/II/III last time? Launch any of them and count mechanics and their depth one by one, then compare to Civ 5. Each feels more polished and deep than it was in previous series (omitting 4, because I didn't play it), and only thing lacking in Civ5 is government type, which is replaced by superior social policies system.[/quote] You mi

[quote who="SivCorp" reply="9" id="2802752"] I don't think you all are being very fair to Ice and Dota. Yes IceFrog wasn't the original creator, but Dota would have died a long time ago without the constant balance and updates. Have you all read the post? All that is really being done is Dota is getting a big financial backing. And it was just a MOD! This is a success, not a negative. Now if they go the route of TF2 and make a full blown sto

This deserves to fail horribly if for no other reason then Valve's BS attempt to trademark "DotA", which is something they had nothing to do with and Icefrog has no particular claim to either (as simply the current maintainer of something created by people before him).