Supreme Commander, and to a lesser to extent it's sequel, have some of the best Co-Op RTS action around. Starcraft II's Co-Op is pretty lacklustre, frankly. One person spams ground units, the other spams Air units, and you steam roll your opponents. If it's online Co-Op, then in Starcraft II whoever has highest number of Zerg players is going to win.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="19" id="2880011"]...In fact, the things you listed to start your commend is the only true way to determine a "top" game...[/quote] If Sales figures alone determine the "top games" then Deus Ex was a failure in the "only true way to determine a top game" and Call of Duty: Black Ops is the single greatest piece of art ever created. I refuse to accept this.
After tweleve years of seemingly endless false starts, cancellations and delays, and after the single longest development in video game history, Duke Nuke Forever is now a game I can never play. Way to fuck it up at the 11th Hour, Gearbox.
... they'd probably look like this. Haha. Couldn't help it...
[quote who="TheProgress" reply="5" id="2886596"]...Please pile on some more fear. For one thing, unless someone hacked into Crytek, or broke into their office physically, this has nothing to do with pirates...[/quote] DRM in general has little to nothing to do with piracy, however that doesn't stop Publishers from claiming that's what it's for. The moment the game hits the net - even in a near-but-not-quite-final-state - it becomes the subject of piracy. Do you really think t
It's hard to remain positive about the future of PC Gaming - that doesn't involve Facebook, I mean. Crysis 2, complete with the DRM Master Files for Online Authentication, have been leaked some 48 days early. Check out the news article here . I suspect things like this are the reason why most developers now focus on Consoles, where Piracy - while still present - represents a much smalle
It can be difficult depending on your audience, such as with Activision Blizzard games, where the active and vocal members are usually teenage boys who suffer a deadly case of "entitlement" syndrome. In this instances, it's difficult to see the real problems amongst the garbage. However, ignoring your fan base entirely - like EA Games or Activision Blizzard - isn't the answer, and leads to things like World of Warcraft, where the developer changes to fundamentals of the game every
Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Gameplay video here . Single player game is good, though incredibly unrealistic and more akin to Call of Duty than it should be. The multiplayer, however, is the best Team Based FPS since Counter-Strike. You will become addicted, and you will love it. ARMA 2. Game video here . Single player i
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="11" id="2879726"]WoW as #1 should come as no surprise; I may hate it, but there's no questioning it has definitely been the most influential PC game by a wide margin...[/quote] When the list is called " Top 25 Games of the 2000s" including World of Warcraft on it really devalues the entire list. Is it popular? Sure. Is it selling well? Of course. Is it making Activision Blizzard over $200,000,000.00 a month on subs
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="2878591"]Elemental lacks any kind of scripting, which makes adding content to Elemental easy, but changing Elemental nearly impossible. Most modders do not appreciate this. When a new thread is created, often the first replies will be "this cannot be done". Sometimes, you can work around the problem, but most of the time you cannot. That, in my opinion, is the primary reason for lack of mods.[/quote] I tend to agree with this. I was very intere
Ah, Trolls. After posting this, he'll go back to cleaning up kiddy puke at his local grocery store, before being called into the manager's office and fired for leering at the female customers.
I disagree; while some movies are bad all the way through, often enough the start of the film is decent, and it teeters off into craps-ville about half way through when it becomes clear the writer and director didn't have a good enough grasp on the tone of the film, it's characters or emotional flow of the film to engage an audience for the duration. Dare Devil, for example, had a decent enough opening and then became fucking horrible about thirty or so minutes in. The Direct
It seems Duke Nuken Forever is really happening . The latest trailer shows off a lot of cool stuff really fast, and packs in some good humour as well. Definately not for the children, though. One thing I noted from the trailer is that the game feels dated... and yet, I'm totally Ok with that. It's weird. The graphics aren't mind blowing, the set pieces don't look like something that takes 12 years to make
There's a fair bit of difference, however I've only played the base game of SoaSE. Imperium Galactica 2 has a little more depth in terms of non-combat options, though it's combat is still decent it can't really compare to SoaSE which has more depth there. IG2 also had the SimCity aspect, which SoaSE kind of lacked and ultimately planet development became a bit of a bore - at least in my opinion - compared to what IG2 offers. IG2 also had it's campaign story intersecting the
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="67" id="2864165"]Kids as in player's kids or kids in the world?[/quote] Most likely it means Kids in the world. Marriage or lasting relationships have never been a big thing in The Elder Scrolls, it would be massive enough that they'd list it along side the Skill changes.
First leaked image can be seen here . It's scanned, but it's damn impressive. Faces have come a long way from Oblivion! First, offical details can be seen here , are below: Third person view has been improved 5 massive cities, more variation in
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Sorry guys, I just entered my Quest. Competition over, thanks to everyone who lost. Haha [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
The point of making a game on Facebook is revenue generation. This is either done through in-game advertising or charging the player for content; buying the game's currency and using it to purchase in game rewards or advancement. Being as everyone is chasing FarmVille and Zynga's profits, the latter seems more likely - in which case I'll be passing. I'd don't pay someone to remove the arbtrary progression locks on what is essentially a tread-mil game. I'd rather play C
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="132" id="2861188"]What's got my eyebrows and ears perked up is how just recently Stardock had layoffs. Now we've got a spate of senior staff being hired.[/quote] You are, of course, aware that nearly every person laid off was re-hired prior to Jon's hiring. I'll have to assume you do, because no intelligent person speaks on matters they haven't educated themselves in, and that this post was satirical in nature - otherwise I'd have to berate
Oh boy, this is like a second Christmas! Do you guys ever feel guilty about all the people who spent their hard earned money to buy the respective terrible games you helped make and hype? I imagine the guilt isn't quite at the level of war criminals, but it's definitely more than say people who commit petty crimes. Does it keep you up at night? How do you manage it? I imagine you probably lie to yourselves a lot. Based on your assumptions, I can safely estima
[quote who="Fistalis" reply="7" id="2860072"]LEAD DESIGNER.. is the main visionary of the game... He was the one preaching in interviews about the BETTER AI.. the greatness of 1UPT etc etc. He put his face and reputation on the line with CIV V so he can live with mine anyone elses response to it...[/quote] So no, you don't have any idea what his job entails, and are in fact basing your assumption of his responsibilies for the failings of Civilisation V off of the literal definition
[quote who="Fistalis" reply="1" id="2859893"]Ya he gets to ruin this whole generation of TBS. I buy elemental to get away from the crap that is Civ V only to have the lead designer of that crapfest work on elemental...[/quote] Yes, because Shafer funded the project entirely of his own accord, created the design brief and instructed the development team to create a dumbed down version of Civilisation. Because all developers are self funded powerhouses who don't have to answer to Pub
I love the internet; any moron with a keyboard can pour their uneducated opinions out for all to read. Only on this Forum, the CEO steps in to explain the situation. And only on this Forum, he's basically told he's wrong by an uneducated moron.
[quote who="Alstein" reply="2" id="2859810"]Odds are the next SD release will be tested more carefully/made sure it's ready before being... [/quote] I agree, however I also think that with more seperation of roles the end product will be better by nature of design. Having fresh eyes on a project often helps - as Brad has mentioned, he was too closely involved with the nuts and bolts development of Elemental and couldn't provide that needed perspective. With Kael and now Jon o