[quote who="ericulm" reply="12" id="2833992"]I bought the game with real money. I shouldnt be part of any testing of this game at all. [/quote] You also downloaded the real beta patch, and are now complaining about the state of the beta. If you don't want to test the beta, don't download it .
[quote who="ericulm" reply="74" id="2834338"]Alot of thought went into this Starcraft stuff. I wish someone could spend that much effort into fixing Elemental war of crashes.[/quote] Playing the beta patch eh? Yeah. There's a reason why it's labelled a beta. Might wanna look it up. Of course, this is ignoring that Starcraft II had a rumoured budget of $100,000,000.00. I believe Elemental's was $8,000,000.00. Nice way to compare the largest development c
[quote who="random_target" reply="21" id="2834020"]...Because that's not what I see in reality. In reality I see no more than 5-10% discount, usually less for new games...[/quote] No, Digitial Downloads in reality are often costing more than their retail counter-parts. The best example I can offer is pretty much any Activision Blizzard game available for download. The PC Version of Starcraft II is available for AU$80.00 on shelves right now. On their own website, Blizza
Steam has very FEW exclusive titles. What you people are ranting about, mostly, are titles with Steamworks integrated, which is a very different topic. Of course. Steamworks is Valve stealing customers and forcing everyone to use Steam whether they want to or not. Exclusive titles is Valve offering the best deal so that you send your customers to Valve willingly. In the end, everyone uses Steam. Beside, I really can't say I have nothing against S
[quote who="flymar" reply="61" id="2833601"]...As many of you I'm also afraid dof further consolization of the franchize.[/quote] This is my second major concern, the first being that they decide to go the MMORPG route, and The Elder Scrolls ends up like Warhammer Online; a joke of a product. This concern of course comes from Bethesda registering the domain "Elders Scrolls Online". I hope it's merely one of those red herring kind of things; if Elders went MMO I
[quote who="Whindog" reply="127" id="2832657"]...There expos.....so theyll be rrp $40 to start out but nobody will pay that and find it for cheaper somewhere...[/quote] Diablo III will feature Regional Restrictions; importing your game prevents you from playing with your friends, interacting with your local community and voids you from any and all offical promotions. Australian's will pay significantly more, as will Europeans.
I'm glad that this is getting special attention; Spells make all the difference between success and defeat, and A.I. opponents in these types of games typically under-use or incorrectly use these types of complicated mechanics. Keep up the good work!
So you barely scratched the surface of that game playing through the tutorial and yet you are speaking. Impressive. I played the entire opening two chapters, taking some 3 Hours to do so. At which point during the game, I was greeted with a situation that requires me to induce a 20 Minute Strategy which involves running around in circles while my Health Regenerates for 45 seconds, attacking for two hits, before repeating unt
[quote who="RavenX" reply="9" id="2832035"]What Blizzard needs to do to fix this is make it so that a player who "Quits" gets a LOSS added to their score...[/quote] I might be misunderstanding what you mean here, but a Quit is considered a loss in Starcraft II. Starcraft II's online stuff is all about catching your opponent unprepared. 6 Pool, Proxy Gate, Proxy Barracks; they're used because if you don't account for it, it's game over. They're great for Win Farming
Supreme Commander 2 functions more akin to Starcraft with larger unit counts than Supreme Commander 1. It runs on more machines, due to heavily reduce graphics, and overall lost a lot of it's personality. I still prefer SupCom: Forged Alliance.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="28" id="2830563"]Hey, people are allowed to have their own opinion, even if it seems like bat-shit crazy hyperbole. I personally would take a Bethesda, Bioware, or Obsidian game over just about any other developer, including Stardock. I don't even know who did the Witcher, I've been meaning to pick it up, it looks good and all, when it gets really cheap, I might pick it up.[/quote] Granted, however there's a difference between a logical, valid opi
[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="18" id="2830247"]Oblivion and Fallout 3 were terrible games in almost every respect (gameplay, technical, writing, repetitive enemies and dungeons, big-empty-world-with-nothing-to-do, etc.); unplayable without extensive modding and cheat codes to teleport around to avoid all the pointless walking around. If they're going to copy-paste the same game yet again because the 360 can't handle a better engine I'll pass. Thank goodness for The Witcher 2, as th
After a significant break from their flagship series, it seems Bethesda is returning to The Elder Scrolls. IGN has reported that , according to an unamed source, Bethesda is hard at work to TESV, which will be a direct sequel to Oblivion. The source also apparently describes that Bethesda is using an entirely new graphics engine this time around, rather than the Gamebryo engine that powered Oblivion and Fallout 3.<
There are a few factors in the more common use of what, as has already been described in this thread, is known as stylised visuals. The single largest factor is simply the industry's shift to mainstream entertainment, and the search for increased profit margins. The first primary reason is simple performance. Realistic rendering of light, shadows, particles, models, textures and so forth has some very large system requirements. By lowering the complexity - su
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="9" id="2828685"]Well it got me to download their client, and 10 cents is about right. What a pain in the ass system. Why the hell do I need an xbox live account to play a pc game anyway?[/quote] Microsoft are tying all of their 'Live' sites together. Xbox Live, Windows Live, etc. It's a centralisation thing. Handy for people like me who use a lot of their services - annoying as shit for everyone else.
I can confirm that this doesn't work for people outside of the United States. As it seems, GWL doesn't work in it's new format for Australian's at all.
Imperium Galactica II. No Real Time Sci-Fi game has even come close to the sheer genius of this game, although Homeworld was a contender. It's old school, but it's still the king. Skip the third one, it was trash.
I'll be checking this out when I get home from work. If this is indicative of how Microsoft intends to compete with Steam, I'm happy to climb aboard.
We've only got the beta at the moment, so you'll have to wait for the proper release.
There are no PC Games Section in any of the stores in my town. If it isn't labelled 'The Sims' or 'World of Warcraft', it's space that's filled with Console Games. And even high profile titles like Fable III aren't given shelf room, while Call of Duty: Black Ops dominates an enitre 20 meter wall in my local Target. If I want to buy a game these days, it's eBay, Impulse or Steam. I have no other options. I use eBay for Console
[quote who="id_est" reply="37" id="2825598"]This is a singleplayer game, WHERE IS THE AI?! No ai in beta patch --> there is nothing to show --> game will suck continuously. There is no point in the new spells, global mana, etc., when there is no challange. Ok, you want ideas? Make survival mode with enormous monsters spawn, that want only one thing - to kill your soverign! This is the only way to create challange without AI (except PBEM). [/quote] Would you li
Torchlight 2 will arrive next year, with a focus on multiplayer. Before that, Darkspore also lands. I'd wait for the reviews before touching Darkspore though, it has EA's taint upon it...
[quote who="konjad" reply="2" id="2823542"]Elemental can be downloaded from torrents with patches without any problems I think. I do have legal copy but that DRM is useless and annoying.[/quote] You mean using an automatic updating tool to update your game - shit, it even gives you the option to not update - is useless and annoying? What?
[quote quoting="post"]Requiring my email address just to install? Requiring email and full name just to get patches? You've crossed the line. I will never buy another stardock game.[/quote]
The problem with most of Apple's products - besides their bloated prices - is that they're locked to particular services. And I don't mean Apple's services; iPhones are limited to specific carriers, for example. The equivelent would be like needing a specific internet provider for Xbox Live, or a particular Power Company to use Steam. When and if they drop that, their products become competitive. As for gaming - as the Wii showed, gimmicks sell like hotcakes, but