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I gave in and pre-ordered yesterday, and it certainly has that MoO "one-more-turn" factor. It may be a little dangerous, as I blew off my g/f and her friends while staying up until 3am. I was impressed with the UI and most of the gameplay, but a couple things need to happen for this game to be truly great. *The rock-paper-scissors that Cauldyth was talking about is a little annoying. Only three types of attack/defense (guns, lasers, missiles) and designing your ships is just looking a

It certainly does look like the game I was hoping SotSII would be. Although I haven't gone back to SotSII for a few months, got burnt out on playing with all the bugs and am just waiting for the "all-clear" flag (should probably be another month). Definately looks streamlined, beautiful and intuitive. Will definitely have this one on my radar, until GCIII is announced of course.

Pretty hard to recommend without knowing your taste/what you're looking for, but most of the good ones have already been said. Probably my favorite series are (in no particular order): Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Babylon 5 (really cheesy to start but just keeps getting better and better) Firefly (Its cancellation is still one of the great crimes of the new millennium) Game of Thrones (Just don't watch it with the kids) Drama: Hou

I liked the bit about all the platinum that's ever been mined on Earth would fill a basketball court waist high and one platinum-rich 500 meter long asteroid would have enough to fill up that same basketball court 4 times the height of the rim. The real key here would be the mining water and being able to process it into rocket propellant on the spot. Also, I get to imagine being an ice pirate in space.

Haven't they watched any movies at all!? Space miners are always the first ones to die when drilling in unknown places!

[quote who="PanicWave" reply="35" id="3137385"] Quoting Humility, reply 34 upgrade seem nice, but what is point if someone build three outpost next to each other to upgrade all of it? better go with it in ome package. the upkeep cost should be adjusted to prevent it... [/quote] That as well as the minimum tile distance between outposts. Although it would be kinda cool to see two civs build up a border of fortres

I missed this tidbit from the forum discussions: The demo capped off with a display of Elemental's equivalent of a nuke: triggering a spontaneous volcanic eruption under an enemy city that completely obliterated it from the map. That won't happen too often, Wardell assured me. "When you start doing this, everyone declares war on you, because you're using weapons of mass destruction." I really really like that ide

[quote who="Bellack" reply="13" id="3127728"] Quoting seanw3, reply 11 The burden of proof is on you. Do you have a sales receipt or did you buy with a debit/credit card? If not, you may be lying. Everyone that ordered later could claim as much and get a free copy of FE. That is not fair to Stardock. Especially since WoM eventually became a competent game. I agree with everything you said except this " Especially since WoM eventually bec

[quote who="niz032" reply="29" id="3122858"] Expert players are part of what keeps game quality from dropping off a cliff. I've been gaming for 30 years and the game quality of PC and modern console games has gone down as games have been noobified to cater to the masses. First person shooters are a case in point. Halo with it's recharging shields and two weapon limits that every fps has copied, even duke nukem forever had recharging ego ffs. [/q

A more realistic version: [video]http://youtu.be/t3TAOYXT840[/video] When I first saw it I first went to all the potential abuses: "Google, where is my ex-girlfriend? Oh, 200 yards to the south, she just entered the public library? Great, thanks...!"

If anything I've seen the amount of "iHole-ishness" decrease over the last few years. I like to hope that it's because people are realizing that it's just another operating system and not a "cool way of life brand-identity" thing. Or that everyone has one so it's no longer "trendy". But yeah, on topic. We just got a few macs at work that I have to be in charge of, so I get to familiarize myself with them after 10 years of using nothing but Windows. And knowing ab

[quote who="seanw3" reply="33" id="3123071"]@nix032, Actually your opinions are invalid. I can say that because you are missing subtle nuances of the game. You need to play it more and make several mods before your opinion matters at all. Right now it doesn't. People like you reach a mediocre plateau in the game and think you know everything. The real gamers go beyond that. Every time I play I have to mod a new difficulty setting to challenge me. It really sucks that the

I get that nagging feeling too. In games like Civ, I know that I want to build lots of cities, build lots of buildings, make armies, conquer things. In WoM (and somewhat in FE) it feels like if I try to play the game like Civ, I lose. I then try to play 'out of my comfort zone' and try certain strategies that work or fail. It feels more like I'm playing Dominions 3 and if I don't go into the game with a preconceived plan I'll end up losing. It's way to early in t

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3120533"] They're all in there. You can even go on the Colbert Report in the game. [/quote] Sold.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="74" id="3117091"] FTL is much less scary to think about. Although, TBH, If I had a time machine or some sort of Jacuzzi time machine combo, the first thing I would do is time skip around, making myself an immortal machine, killing all future people that work on time travel, insert myself into all religions as a messiah, and then return to rule the species I have done this to. Then I would come back to Earth and see what humans have been doing.

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="24" id="3116009"]Short answer: NO Wait for aliens to show up with the technology, kick their asses and take it. [/quote] Yep, all we'll need is one of those Macbooks from 1996.

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="20" id="3113404"]Would be great to have a newer MOOII, the very same game with just modern graphics! [/quote] They did that with HoMM V and got all sorts of nerd-rage about the gameplay being too stale (among other really nitpicky things like camera angles and stuff). If someone made a MoO4 I'm sure there would be the same type of response just because some people can never be satisfied.

Dark Avatar is higher rated than Twilight of the Arnor? Methinks some Drengin got in and threatened those voters. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="seanw3" reply="288" id="3112641"] Quoting SivCorp, reply 287 So is it an absolute fact that there are no absolutes? As far as we can comprehend, yes. I can't think of one thing that is absolute besides the idea that nothing is absolute. Not really a solid line of logic to refute the claim. It may confuse a drug addict for a few hours though. [/quote] Insert joke about the absolutes of&nbsp

Yep, for a state of the art machine 2k is plenty if you build it yourself. 5k is starting to get into that crazy rendering workstation area. Save the 3 grand and buy yourself a trip to Tahiti or something.

I guess I'm in the minority when I agree with metacritic that MoO3 felt around a 7/10 for me. I still had fun with the colonizing, zoning, ship building, combat, techs, custom races, all that good stuff... the game was pretty serviceable after the community AI patch. Sure there were a lot of flaws and things that bugged me (they never did get around to explaining the difference between the 10 gadzillion stances for ground combat or diplomacy) but the game itself was somewh

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="261" id="3111637"] Verse 7 answers my question, "if not, what kind of world is this?" [/quote] A world where religious bigotry is just as intolerated as your views on homosexuality? Slavery and murder has been "justified" by scripture before, so I'm not too keen on accepting homosexuality as against God's will because our version of the Bible says so. The Bible isn't meant to be a literal translation of

[quote who="Bellack" reply="203" id="3101200"] I will disagree with your first statement. I perfer to have hands on in Tactical combat which Dominions did not allow. This is the reason I never got into Dominons had the tactical battles been hands on like MOM, AOW:SM or FE then I would have said it was the best Fantasy TBS to date but sadly it is not.I would not want to see this happen to FE. I'd much rather FE keep the bland TC that it has now than use the Dominion versio

[quote who="seanw3" reply="54" id="3104433"] The great thing about religious warmongers is that their close mindedness prevents them from inventing weapons like this to fight their religious wars. [/quote] <img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQspUH8AUZFtnt2vE2JJvPgnHRr_qWjL4j-GCo2jAP0rL0hrRag" alt="" w

[quote who="ddd888" reply="89" id="3104519"] stubborn ppl probably may overlook the fact that if im here i already have it and that not even a kid would laugh at such a terrible joke but ehy, this is the internet, stupid nonsense pics, trololols and smeley are on vogue [/quote] I don't think you're giving this small part of the internet enough credit. There's been many rational statements and arguments that you have ignored, de