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[quote who="Savyg" reply="39" id="2910340"]I still haven't played Baldur's Gate. Or any Fallout before 3. I don't feel any terrible loss. [/quote] See!!! lol J/K Savy

[quote who="Aractain" reply="23" id="2706517"] Girls will be lamented because they arn't useful tools like boys. [/quote] Hmm...I don't know. I think that all depends on what your definition of the words "useful tools" is...Mwhahahah!!! ....er...um...nm.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="17" id="2705729"] Quoting Raven X, reply 11 My wife already wants it...so, I'll be picking it up either way. If it's any good maybe I'll play it too, still too early to tell at this point. Hehe, that's good stuff. I never met with a girl, who liked computer games. [/quote] [quote who="GCFL" reply="12" id="2705128"]your wife is a gamer? ...turning green with envy now [/quote] Having a wi

I bought it today for my wife as an early birthday present. She says "I like it a lot". Let me put it this way...we went out and got it at 2 something this afternoon. Since we've gotten home, she's only stopped playing it long enough to eat dinner, and even then, she ate in front of the computer..lol. I've glanced over at it a few times, haven't played it yet, but just from looking at it I will say it does actually look kinda cool for a Sims game. After she falls asleep tonigh

[quote who="kenata" reply="36" id="2909697"] Sadly (for us, not the investors) game development is now a well-run business that puts return on investment first. Why would they spend 1000s of additional man-hours on a game that people are going to buy and be satisfied with (as opposed to in love with) when it doesn't make business sense? You have a definite point here, but there is another side of this picture that many of us seem to neglect during these types of disc

Great work, Bara!!! Killer update, great features. :)

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="29" id="2909578"] The word you're looking for is "illusion", which means a deceptive and false image, rather than "allusion", which means an incidental reference to something.[/quote] Ahh, yeap..Hmm...I think my auto spell checker changed the word on me there. When it's fixing stuff I just hit "next next next" lol. Maybe I should pay better attention next time..heh.

lol my wife's drooling over the game and gets rabid any time I mention it. I already have to get it for her for her birthday next month. It looks kinda fun for what it is I think, but then again, I'm not really hard core into the sims either. I know the intro video has Patrick Stewart doing the voice, so that makes it full of Win if you ask me..lol.

[quote who="FadedC" reply="320" id="2908869"]I guess my thoughts are that if I were ever so poor that I could not afford internet, then not being able to play my old games would be a pretty insignificant problem compared to all of the other problems that I'd be facing. It's hard to imagine a situation where I would be at such a crippling level of poverty that I would give up something as essential to daily living as the internet, while still being in a position to have an exten

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="48" id="2908984"] My second post did indicate that I thought there were other bugs (non graphics related) still present some of which do go to gameplay. [/quote] Which is very true. There still is the occasional glitch in the battle AI. Luckily I've only seen them act up once on me, but once was enough. The whole enemy army stood around and did a little jig for a good 20 seconds or so at the bottom of a hill, getting rained on by arrows. They cou

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="43" id="2907276"]People are generally disgruntled from less than honest activity due to the entire professional game review industry as a whole. The only reason this case made news is the developer company got caught red handed so to speak. It's a natural backlash for something long coming. [/quote] Aside from Karl above mentioning "Myth", RogueC's comment right here Wins the Thread .

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="38" id="2907145"] Indisputably: Myth 1 Myth 2 [/quote] Man, that brings back some Old School Goodness right there!!! Good call!!!

[quote who="Alstein" reply="317" id="2908752"] BTW- the expansions being DD only , Stardock did that with GalCiv also. No need for the tinfoil hat on this one- it's a business profitability decision, not an anti-piracy decision. [/quote] Indeed, no tinfoil hats here...lol :) . GalCiv wasn't DD only though was it? Unless you mean the first one. I've seen GalCiv 2 in boxes in stores, as well as the expansions.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="315" id="2908661"] It's not just going away for PC gaming, it's going away for everything. DVDs are being replaced by stuff like On Demand and Netflix streaming (which is where Netflix considers the future of their business to be, not in mailing stuff). The cost of pressing and shipping disks just doesn't make sense in a world where we can send stuff across wires in a reasonable time frame at a fraction of the cost. Particularly since you don't have to guess ho

I'd still rather have a solid, physical, DvD I can put on my shelf. I'll take those over Digital Only Downloads any day of the week, period. I have a sad feeling though that the farther we get into the future the more and more solid media will be going the way of the dinosaur as far as PC gaming is concerned, and I can still only help but think that over-all that's a Bad Thing for many reasons. Even now, my family is having such a hard time with bills we're seriously thinking about having our

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="26" id="2908303"]First Gameplay Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQc9Fe5SiRQ Enjoy!!! [/quote] Man, this game is looking better and better every time I see it. Can you imagine how awesome it would be if a game like GalCiv 2 had real time battles like that, but with the strategic and empirical depth the rest of the GalCiv 2 has? That would be like the Ultimate Space Strategy game right there. Maybe we'l

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="37" id="2908158"] Even those issues asside.....let's take the issue RAVEN points out about the AI "detecting" your attack-click so if you want to surprise a unit you have to click all around the unit just never actually "on" the enemy or the AI knows you're coming. The AI is STILL abysmal even in SHOGUN 2. Please refrain from suggestions such as "oh it's an improvement over Medieval 2".......my god I would hope so! Medieval 2 had the m

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="34" id="2908083"] What I think is crap is that we have NO ANTIALIASING support in-game at the moment. Thanks a lot CREATIVE ASSEMBLY....really? I used to sing their praises. I've been a TOTAL WAR fan since the very first one. Unfortunately I've seen the series tank and turn to hollywood garbage. Thanks for the latest FAILURE Creative Assembly........I will be a sucker no longer. This is the

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="23" id="2906959"] I've read that the AI doesn't properly lay siege to settlements - they just charge blindly at the walls and die. True? [/quote] Honestly, it depends. Allow me to explain. In Shogun 2 you have varying levels of castle design, some with multiple entrance points, but at a slower climb, the walls of most are slanted and climbable. If the enemy army is massive compared to yours, then yes, depending on the castle layout it can just

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="13" id="2906207"] I liked total war... then steam and empire happened. and now i am finding i like the cheap knockoff better. :-/ Agreed. TW is one of those series of games I was a rabid fan of until they went steamworks integrated, and had to look elsewhere for my strategy fix. I was extremely excited about shogun 2 til i realized they would continue on the same path. No worries i still have my disc copies

For the last 4 or 5 hours I've been laying here in bed playing Shogun 2. Holy sh!t this game is Awesome!!! I just can't say that enough. I'm on normal difficulty and from a campaign perspective, I'm just holding my own. I started my campaign as the Shimazu Clan. So far I've managed to take 3 cities while holding off the combined alliance attacks of two of my enemies. That's right, Combined Attacks. Allies actually help each other do battle on a regular occasion. They plan and coordinate strik

That "light Peak" looks AMAZING. 2 problems. 1. If it's just now in the works in house at Intel, it'll be another 2 years maybe before we start seeing it available (built in not needing an adapter) in our home PC's. 2. I DON'T have the damn money!!! *sigh* Better start stuffing those piggy banks now boys and girls.... On the up-side, this will make EVERYTHING blazing fast. Especially if I can ever save up enough money to buy an NVidia Tesla Proc. That thing has

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="125" id="2904315"]I dont mind the gameplay decisions. I didnt find that they really dumbed down the game in a bad way. But there are other problems. I've completed the game, and the main story is VERY weak throughout. Some of the sidequests are nice, but the main story is just weak. It doesnt feel epic in any way, and frankly its about the quality of sidequests in other bioware games. The constant reuse of settings ge

[quote who="Uvah" reply="12" id="2904351"]That cat will sleep soundly tonight. Good article Doc. I wonder if a really 'prestigious' Journal would present itself the same way. [/quote] So I'm guessing "The Journal of Cosmology" isn't really a scientifically prestigious journal?

lol nice reposting, Doc :). Any "Raven" I know though would peck the eyes out of any cat, even a tiger :P Seriously though, I keep forgetting you win-customize forums users don't see the same colors we do here on Elemental. My bad. [quote who="Uvah" reply="12" id="2904351"] Good article Doc. [/quote] Hey, that's my article :P Doc just put it in a better color for his stomping grounds ;)