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Reply to You can now cross over any two games series - which two would you chose? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="1" id="2983213"]Sins of a Solar Empire with Wing Commander. Play the strategy game then, when you need to, jump into a ship and help with the battle directly.[/quote] Absolutely brilliant.

Reply to Deus Ex: Human Revolution - First Review in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

This game looks interesting, but I A) am short on cash, and B) kind of feel like like I should play the two previous entries. Also, my backlog is a little bigger than I'd like to see it, so that should be taken care of a bit.

Reply to What would you like to see in the next and future designer journals ? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bellack" reply="7" id="2982667"] I can't play WOM more than 5 minutes without shutting it down and switching to AOW:SM[/quote] Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Again, I can admit that the AI needs some serious work done to it, but other than that, I really like what it is. It could use a bit more balancing, but that's not the biggest deal to me.

Reply to Elemental: A General Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Most of this sounds good, and I like the potential of "every tile matters." But I am a bit bummed to hear that WoM might get pulled. While that may be in the best interest of the company (to prevent confusion), I do see it making it more likely that updates will stop. I mean, perhaps 1.4 solves all the AI problems and a 1.5 polishes it nicely, but I doubt we'll get that lucky. Still, I like hearing that you're giving the team the "make it great" order without focusing

Reply to Is there goign to be a EWOM v1.4? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="mastroego" reply="19" id="2981730"] Can you take a step back and honestly say that one can have actual *FUN* while playing WoM? [/quote] Maybe this is going to rain on your parade, but I do have fun playing WoM. In fact, I wish I could be playing it now (I had to move my gaming box to my new small business to help save on costs). Yeah, the AI is certainly in need of some work. And I've seen some graphical bugs. And I do wonder

Reply to What would you like to see in the next and future designer journals ? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I agree with hearing more about the strategic layer, as I never really got into TBS for the combat. And I really would like to hear more about WoM 1.4- perhaps I'm the only one, but I really like the game (AI issues and some graphical bugs aside). I played for nearly 5 hours today and had a damn good time. I just wish the AI generally put up a better fight...though I did manage to have an army or two wiped out by the AI at the same time. [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e]

Reply to So what have you been gaming lately? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="46" id="2921384"] I, and most of the free world, heartily disagree that Clear Sky was better. It took some good ideas from the SoC mods, but isn't nearly as good as the first with some essential mods. Unfortunately there's aren't mods available to bring CS to the level that SoC achieved. Call of Pripyat has me interest for now, and I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm still trying out the different mods, but none of them add enough

Reply to So what have you been gaming lately? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I just polished off S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl last night. Man, that game fell off in terms of fun at the end. Clear Sky sort of had the same problem, but I don't care what anyone says- Clear Sky was the better game. I got one of the bad endings because I didn't feel like doing one minor task in an extremely annoying area (Pripyat). [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] I've also been playing a fair amount of Valkyria Chronicles 2. That's an awesome series and wish s

Reply to PCWorld’s Game On: Interview with Stardock CEO about Impulse Sale in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Nice interview. I don't have complete faith in Gamestop, but if Brad's got faith in them, then that does mean something to me.

Reply to What games are you waiting for a sale to buy? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'm waiting to see Mass Effect 1 and 2 on sale. I've already beaten the first, but I don't have the game myself, so I'd like to play through it and the second. I'd say $10 is the max I'd pay for those, though (each). I'm already backlogged as it is.

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The fact that Oblivion even made the list, let alone into the top 10, makes me question the sanity of PC Gamer. Honestly, if I ever cared much for reviews, I'd definitely never consider PC Gamer as a good source for them now.

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="87" id="2810895"]Impulse::Reactor doesn't have high profile titles like Modern Warfare 2 or Counter-Strike Source pimping it's features to the mass market. Impulse is basically where Steam would be if Valve didn't shackle Half-Life 2 with it; fighting for ground. The only reason Steam is even has 30,000,000 accounts is because Valve forced a signficant portion of them to make those Accounts. Every Civilisation V owner, every PC Modern Warf

Reply to The minimum system to play this in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="monsterfurby" reply="3" id="2795614"]Azkatraz - well, there's integrated graphics, and there's integrated "graphics"... While I don't know what kind of system you have and it is of course good to hear that it runs on it (the cloth map display sounds good, actually), I always assume that this here thing will not be able to play it. My system specs are namely this: Intel Atom 1.66 GHz; Integrated Intel GMA 3150; 1 GB RAM Of course, my system at home is closer t

Reply to Direct2drive opinions? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I've only made one purchase from them (Gothic 3 and Call of the Cthluhu or however you spell it) and I've had no issues with them.

Reply to And again... victory vs 6 AI, Ridiculous/Ridiculous difficulty in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Polistes" reply="4" id="2737290"]Your lucky, I get my ass handed to me by the AI on novice difficulty.... [/quote] Same here. I keep getting frustrated. (well, I only tried beginner, but still). The worst thing is I swear opposing AI always starts near tons of resources and shards while I will start, at best, near two...usually one resource. And there are never any shards remotely near me.

Reply to PCGamer warning in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I got the early release version and I never had an issue (and I have an ATI card with Win7-64, which makes me more likely to have problems) outside of one crash. The article is completely stupid, but that will be lost on most people. Really, read what the guy said- Elemental's launch is a disaster because HE can't get the game working. Are there others having problems too? Sure, but how many more people are playing the game with little to no major issues? A disaster would be a game th

Interested in playing on a netbook? It runs somewhat ok. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I've got a gaming desktop and a netbook, and I thought I'd give it a whirl. Just for reference, I have a very, very, very non-gaming laptop. It's a Lenovo S10-3T, with an Intel Atom CPU at 1.66Ghz, 2GB ram, and an Intel GMA 3150. This is definitely nowhere near the top in netbooks, which is already low. Anyway, the game requires 1024x768, so if your native resolution is 1024x600 like mine, you'll have to see if you can do a registry hack. Once I did, the game booted up without

Reply to Can I run elemental? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aseir" reply="7" id="2721108"]the game can run on a netbook.[/quote] I'll be testing this theory as soon as we can download the game. (I have a regular gaming desktop, so I didn't buy it solely for this reason [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] )

Reply to How long is the campaign? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Wait wait wait, if you buy the book, you get an additional campaign? Is it a disc in the hard-copy or would an e-book+ download code be possible? Sorry if this has been answered, but it's the first I've heard of the additional campaign at all. I wouldn't be able to buy the hard copy but I could do an ebook version. But I really probably would be buying it for an additional campaign and less for the book itself, since I don't enjoy reading much.

Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="40" id="2717137"] That's true of Impulse too. There's no way to tell Impulse to install say Sins 1.0.5 unless you made an archived version of that when it was up. Being able to load old versions isn't something I've seen any DD service do yet. (Though I wouldn't be surprised to see someone do it some day and point out that it makes them a more modder-friendly store.) ... This is a good reason to want Reactor to do well, even if you'r

Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="31" id="2716869"]Can't see the forest for all of the trees. The people talking about fanboyism are acting exactly the same on opposite sides. Why don't we make this fair? Because all you anti steam fanboys have done so far is list Steams negatives. Steam: Positives: 1. HUGE selection of games 2. Large number of gamers to game with 3. Free xbox live 4

Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="36" id="2717067"] Quoting Gwakamoli, reply 35 For all those concerned about if a company goes bust...even alot of disk based copies with their online drm (read ubisoft)...if they went bust..you have about the same chance of getting a offline running copy as you do of steam and impulse, the only difference being valve have made a promise in the eventuality of that happening, and i don't see stardock going under because nothing they make will break them

Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="4Nana" reply="25" id="2714819"] Quoting SumoX, reply 23point out a flaw in Steam and they randomly attack Impulse saying it "sucks" but never qualifying how. that's what I think of the people who think Steam sucks. They never explain a legitimate reason of why it sucks. Oh you have to connect to the internet? Sorry? When you download patches it can take a long time on 56k modem? lol? Steam helps to prevent exploiters by banning the entire ac

Reply to Kane&Lynch2:Dog Days in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I actually was interested in playing the first one, but I always miss it when it's been on sale. Despite some questionable aiming, I liked the feel. For the upcoming one, I tried out the demo to that and can't say I really liked it at all. Which is too bad, because I live in China and liked some of the authenticity of the city.

Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="21" id="2714679"]I still dislike steam. I remember when it used to disconnect me back when I was playing DOW2. If I lost the connection to steam, GFWL or the actual servers, I'd be kicked from the match. That's two too many chances to disconnect, especially when steam decided to start changing servers without announcing it, causing disruptions for a week, and so on. And no, you couldn't "opt out". I also don't like getting popups whenever I start it u