Tridus

[quote who="ghoulas" reply="104" id="2701953"]So if my credit card was charged already for the game i'll get that boxed copy for me in Europe or not? I payed for the shipping.[/quote] If you paid SD for shipping they'll ship it to you, yeah. This announcement just means you can't go to a store and pick up a box there.

Achievements are fun when they encourage you to play the game in ways you normally wouldn't. Stuff like "win a map on normal without ever founding a town."

A 220 isn't really a gaming grade card, yeah

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="86" id="2701731"]Ah, my card was a VISA. Actually now that I think about it, I paid through paypal I think. Edit: Nope, I used my card[/quote] There are some places that have debit cards that go through the VISA system. Because those are seen as VISA cards, they'll work. :)

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="63" id="2701519"] 1. Tactical Combat. The TC is way too simple right now, but lot of things will be improved, like special abilities will be added etc., so it should be ok for release. Also we need a more informative UI for tactical combat. [Damage types, armor resistances etc. should be listed as well!] The battle maps are extremely small. Even the smallest should be bigger, and the size of the maps should grow dynamically based on the total&nbs

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="66" id="2701530"] Anyway, I still vote for an FX Interactive release in Spain and Italy of Elemental at a nice cost of 19.95€. I'd certainly buy some extra copies.[/quote] I'm sure you would vote for that. Unfortunately Stardock wants to make more then $0.05 per copy. :P That's the reason why there's no European retail distribution right now: it's such a mess that there's just no profit in it for them.

[quote who="Heart Shaped Man" reply="64" id="2701524"] I understand that it's a global price, but when that policy makes your game more expensive at launch in certain countries than 99% of the other games (approaching twice as expensive, in the case of games that can be had for £18 at launch), maybe you should rethink it. If people can only afford one game purchase in a particular time period and can't decide, they'd usually go for the cheaper option.[/quote] Depends

[quote who="Gazing" reply="53" id="2701470"]Regarding the availability of the game: Per your explanation, I understand I won't be able to buy a retail copy of the game a store. In that case, I have a question, or rather a request, regarding the download-able product: Suppose I download the game. Can I then burn it on a DVD, and then install and play it from that DVD without any internet connection? I plan to make full use of the offline features of the game, but I want to make sure

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="5" id="2700732"]The fact that our government officials spend their time and our money doing such frivolous crap is ludicrous. But it is kinda funny in it's ridiculousness. [/quote] Yeah, it's terrible that someone spent two minutes signing a meaningless proclamation to show support for a local company that brings in large quantities of tax revenue. Next thing you know the governor will dare to take coffee breaks too! [e digicons]:|[/e]

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="26" id="2699757"] This is great. The game needs more "persistant" quests. The one I'm actually making now in spare time is from a Leatherworker to collect pelts from (wolves, currently) and turn them into leather armor for my Sovereign/Champions. Mostly proof-of-concept stuff while I figure out how stuff works. These kinds of quests are great. Also please consider quests that are not guaranteed to appear. Quests that begin from a rare item drop fr

Is Renaisance an expansion, or a stand alone thing?

So then what games do you play? Even Elemental for all practical purposes requires registration since the disc version will be dramatically out of date by time release happens. You're going to want that day 0 patch. That's what I can figure out. What *can* you play with restrictions that strict?

[quote who="Charvel1" reply="12" id="2699639"]I think what really broke my back over the game was the patch that tried to introduce the Demon Assassin and Occulus into the game. If I remember right there were a lot of hoops you had to jump through in order for them to even show up in your game and play them. Something about logging into multiplayer, creating a game, then restarting your client, and then you could play them. There were a few different suggestions to get them to work and none o

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="6" id="2699180"]What´s up with Steamworks? Is it different to Steam? Will the game only be available through it? I hope not ffs, i want the physical copy...[/quote] Steamworks is like Games for Windows Live. It's a platform that gives the game achievements, storage, matchmaking, and some other services that Steam offers. The advantage is that developers can integrate it much more easily then building their own solution, that the servers are already s

There already is an Elemental Wiki, make a modding section there. :)

So, you must not play any games these days, right? Almost everything has a one time online activation now.

[quote who="CyrusNunn" reply="112" id="2698872"] Quoting marlowwe, reply 110Tridus' library analogy was appropriate. And that's what makes the irony so delicious.[/quote] Yeah. OMG it's the same as... almost every other game! The horror! How dare Blizzard make a game like everybody else!

[quote who="Maccilia" reply="8" id="2698926"]While what most of what has been posted here is true... I don't see alot of the people here who are commenting on balance and map viability actually playing Demigod consistently. And as Hedgie is saying, DG is balanced. My 2 cents [/quote] TBH, if it's balanced now doesn't really matter. It wasn't well balanced when it came out and people were actually playing it. At this point there's too few peo

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="30" id="2699089"] On a technicality, DoW II lets you play infinitely long since it "randomly" creates new missions (albeit with rinse-and-repeat dialog). Also, DoW has always focused on one race at a time? [/quote] Random maps with canned dialog don't count as a campaign. That's just random maps. [quote]All I know is I got both games for half the price of Starcraft ($30), and that was a few days after release :shrug: I

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="32" id="2699112"] Lead of what? DoW 2 was long before Starcraft 2. DoW has one campaing for one race. Stacraft 2 came later with just one too. DoW 2 has you in your ship where you can improve units and select missions, including optional ones. Stacraft 2 has you in your ship where... well, like DoW 2 but you can talk to people and do research.[/quote] Read the link. DoW 2's developers were the ones who said they were following Blizzard on thi

It's possible that they found it and it just didn't make release to get fixed. Really the bug is that the game sucks up more power then it should in some cases, but the crashing it causes is due to hardware with inadequate cooling. That's not really their fualt. No doubt the next patch will fix it though.

Ultimately two things really conspired against Demigod. 1. The launch was brutal. It's been covered in a few places just what went wrong here, but the short version is that connectivity was a mess. For a predominatly single player game (like say Civ) that's annoying but not the end of the world, but Demigod is a multplayer focused game. First of all Gamestop broke the street date, so a pirate version was out even faster then usual. That pirate version was connecting to the ser

Hopefully the demo for this is better then the demo for Empire: Total War. That one turned me off the game completely.

I'm surprised they bothered putting DRM (in the form of GOO) on games this old.

[quote who="CyrusNunn" reply="106" id="2698278"] So you keep books that you own in the library? Jeez, my comparison was great to start out with, but thanks for making it even better.[/quote] No it wasn't, and you're adding words in to read what you want. I never mentioned ownership at all. :P It's kind of amazing how Starcraft 2 handles offline access the way so many other games do, and people are trying to make an issue out of it (but nobody seems to mind one time