Tridus

[quote who="voodoochile123" reply="29" id="2995909"]If your only definition is that you are playing a role, then you could call the majority of games an RPG, even games like Crysis or Fifa Soccer etc. The fact is, it used to be generally acknowledged that when a game was called an RPG, it was one which had all those key elements and lots of depth. The fact that you even defend these companies just shows how screwed modern gaming is. Modern gamers don't care enough, and the game developmen

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="9" id="2997177"]What's the big deal? It's just a shot of a few peasants hanging out. A rope guild doesn't seem that exciting. Am I missing something here? [/quote] Rope guilds inevitably draw pirates. Arr!

Ironically those of us who bought early enough actually DID buy an RTS. :P

You know that the "RP" in "RPG" doesn't stand for "mountains of stats and OCD inspired gear hunting" right?

What will suck more? This, X-COM the FPS, Shadowrun, or SimCity the FPS?

You going to be selling stuff (especially games) elsewhere? I've done this Stardock specific client thing twice already, and sorry to say that I'm not playing along a third time. If future games aren't on Steam/D2D/Whoever then I'm not interested.

The "capital" in AoW 2 was usually also your best city because with your wizard sitting in it you'd build the casting chamber and likely a teleportation gate. That's what made losing it a big deal, rather then some special "capital" property. Civ 4 was like that too, since the palace just gets rebuilt somewhere else but capital starting locations were generally high yield. They made it matter more in Civ 5 because you lose your diplomacy victory vote if your capital is conquered (and

So to summarize: terrain bonuses, tax rates, managing armies vs production... this is pretty win.

Ah, shame.

Anybody playing? Steam's got a demo for those who haven't tried it (and probably other places too), and the full game was on sale on Impulse a couple days ago. I'm finding the game to be an absolute blast. Haven't played a good 2d overhead space shooter in quite a while.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="9" id="2990014"]Tridus, I know how AoW works. Did I give the impression that I do not?[/quote] Yeah, since you said they have their own mana pool and it's actually a global mana pool. :)

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="5" id="2989521"]While Age of Wonders & Master of Magic made spellcasters have their own manapools, we shouldn't do it like those games did something just because. I completely disregard realism as well. The system that should be used is the one that is best for gameplay. I trust Derek to make the right decision.[/quote] AoW2/SM had a global mana pool and global mana generation. All spell costs came out of i

Well, yeah. I'm not happy about that either. But it wouldn't make sense for Gamestop to spend a bunch of money buying Impulse and relocating the staff if they're going to close it. So I'm not too worried about that. I do hope once the exclusive period ends we see SD games on other providers though.

And also because at this stage of development there is no realistic way to change it. I mean I agree with you that hexes > squares, but it's not changing at this point.

[quote who="Cackfiend" reply="6" id="2988654"]well Fall officially starts Sept 22nd so I guess we gotta wait at least another month or two.. boooo[/quote] Or five, since "fall" ends on December 21. ;) (And thats if you take this as a real date rather then a guesstimate, which you shouldn't.)

No we don't. :P The last thing we need is a half-implemented beta that gives people a bad impression. This is an important release, they can afford to wait on a beta until it's actually beta ready.

Yes. If it goes under, then preusmably they'll deal with it. But I doubt Gamestop would have bought it in order to shut it down.

Only thing that's been said about that so far that I've seen is the use of Shader Model 3 instead of 2. That'll actually help people with video cards, though likely not anybody trying to play with the integrated graphics of a netbook.

No, and probably. Anybody who bought WoM early enough is getting FE anyway, it would make sense for those people to get beta access.

Well it was also brought up in the other Deus Ex thread in this very forum. :) The whole thing is pretty ridiculous. Gamestop is complaining the coupon helps their competition and so they won't sell it... but they sell how many Steamworks games? How inconsistent can you possibly get? Not that it matters to me because I stopped shopping at Gamesuck after the time I went to buy a game and got treated to a lecture on why I should have pre-ordered instead. I then walked across

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="46" id="2987440"] In Canada, all video games are available for purchase when they are released. When I get my games, I know what I'm getting; I'm getting a game. Each game is very much like how a game is supposed to be. Very game-like. Why would I need to try it from the torrent sites?[/quote] Maybe if games had enforced quality standards like milk does, it wouldn't be necessary.

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="38" id="2986797"] Quoting Gwenio1, reply 34As I see it, memory would only be a problem in TC if they are keeping the world map data in memory in order to reduce loading times when switching. I could be remembering this incorrectly, but I seem to recall 32-bit memory limitations being brought up when scale of tactical battles was being discussed. Like they could have given us huge numbers of units (i.e. Total War-style, hundreds or thousands) being

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/24/gamestop-pulls-deus-ex-human-revolution-pc-versions-from-shelve/

[quote who="Alstein" reply="1" id="2987295"]Unrelated but you mentioned it. I really wish Empire could get horses. Wargs should be an exotic mount that requires a random tech. I don't feel the current setup in WOM is a good design decision, it's just a nuisance. At a very minimum, I'd make horses a food resource for Empires, and wargs a food resource for kindgoms. [/quote] Yeah, me too. I'd rather see hor

Apparently Gamestop has now pulled the PC version entirely. I guess they got a nasty phone call from SquareEnix about that whole tampering with the contents of the box thing.