... even if it is only to a degree. It's ridiculous DRM scheme of requiring a constant internet connection for it's games seems to be on the way out . Both Assassins Creed II and Splinter Cell Conviction have had the constant authentication requirement toned down; you still need a connection when starting the game so the DRM is still a hinderance, however it's a step in the
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2859317"]...Frankly, I'm surprised some people haven't figured out at least one of the announcements. [/quote] Elemental's first expansion pack is a gritty FPS Reboot where you play as John McSwordsman, a swordsman with dirty mouth and sarcastic attitude battling his way single handedly through an Rogues Den of enemies on his path to save the world?
In my opinion, we're going to see the evolution of the current fringe markets: Digitial Distribution and Browser Based games. Facebook games are already worth billions ; it won't be too long before we see something like Quake Live - a 'real game' - on the platform. Digitial Distribution, however, is going to head further down the wrong direction. Instead of providing lower cost games, we're seeing companies already abuse them; EA restricts access to it's titles
Well, coming from the futurs - I live in Australia, where it's the 4th already - I can confirm that annoucement was made for the duration of the 3rd. Better luck tomorrow guys, I'll keep you posted.
Well, a friend of mine purchased this on Steam during it's Sale and gifted me a copy. I've played enough of it to now have a very educated opinion, far more so than my hour or two with it previously. It runs much better than the previous entries, however it comes at cost; it's simply not as impressive visually. From the Unit designs to the overall level of detail, it simply feels a generation behind it's previous entries and doesn't compete with other RTS games of
While I understand the "Horses for Courses" ideal, for me Windows always wins out. I tried to use a Mac during my High School days, when my mind was still open and willing to give mice with a single button a try. It was just too backwards from what I was used to that using a Mac was counter-productive. I could have learnt, sure, however everything other PC I got my hands on was running Windows. While Mac is more common today, it still doesn't work the way I feel it sho
Excellent to see, thanks for keeping up in the loop as well as you do. Hope you've kept room on your shelf for some more awards.
With the decade known as the naughties behind us, alot of good times and bad times have also past on. From good movies, games, events, people; the 2000-2010 was a pretty turbulent time. Now that the decade is really over, I thought it would be good to look back and say: "Hey, these 10 things really made the last ten years something special". It doesn't matter what it is, and you don't have to rank them - hell, it didn't even have to be made in the last 10 years - what were t
[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="46" id="2857287"]So is yours, in fact. Somebody who believes in "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay" would never approve of a scheme such as Copyright, which mandates monetary compensation for work done by your grandfather up to 70 years after he bit the dust and would, in fact, be actively campaigning against such laws rather than supporting them with their own money.[/quote] As someone who does quite strongly believe that someone should be paid
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="36" id="2857048"]While the two are not at all related, sometimes taking a stand against laws are required. I don't think Civil Rights as a movement was laughable because people in the movement broke the law. Sometimes the laws are just wrong.[/quote] Oh, don't misunderstand me; some times the Governments need a kick in the ass, when the Laws no longer support but confine society. As we head further into the digital era, we're going to see Governments - an
[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="31" id="2856944"]So the law is what decides right and wrong? That's laughable.[/quote] The Laws decide what is enforceable, a person's morality decides what is right or wrong. Laws merely represent what the majority of society consider to be right or wrong. Attempting to take a stand against such things with the "my moral code holds me to higher restrictions than the codes of man" atttiude is what is laughable. Justifying inte
So, you're complaining about a News Article from August and decided your complaint was so insightful that it deserved it's own thread? After 12 pages of posts, I think everything that needed to be said had it's chance to be said. Greedy bastards gonna be greedy, Pirates gonna pirate, Lawyers gonna... lawyer. The world keeps spinning.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="5" id="2856052"]Frog, I've played the hell out of the game and still do, and maybe that statement was too harsh, but until 1.1, the game was pretty unplayable except to the really hardcore loyalist. I play it, I just created a thread for it's improvements, I want the game to be better. Sorry if you have thought the game is more than it is, but right now, the game is playable and bland, when before 1.1 it was a struggle to even play and was bland.
[quote quoting="post"]Strange how all Elemental threads here seem to get locked...[/quote] Not sure what to make of this... so I'll return the favour. Enjoy your pony little girl.
With Christmas come and gone, it's time reflect on the most important and oft-forgotten part of the holdiday: the booty. More specifically: what did you get for Christmas? I got several gifts including, but not limited to: Took all of one game before we resorted to restricting the words to the dirtiest, sexual deprived words we knew. <img src="
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="14" id="2852122"]I'm not sure I like this. This makes it so that you can get an abundance of resources from every part of the map, instead of having to focus cities on the few resources that exist. What is there to stop this deteriorating into another case of "spawn a city every 5 tiles apart" aka city-spam?[/quote] I tend to agree; using the current system, Elemental encourages a City to built near the resource locations. Under the pr
Indeed. The removal of Levitation, to accomodate the seperate cell nature of the Cities, hurt as well. Hopefully they add some of this back in.
[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="1" id="2851805"]Soon.[/quote] edit: removed image, apparently they don't like hot-linking.
As long as it doesn't have Steamworks, I say go for it. Deus Ex and Invisble War for 3 bucks ? Seriously, you're not going to get a better deal than that, even if Invisible War isn't as good as Deus Ex.
Civilisation V was everything I feared it would be. Owning, and loving, Civilisation IV, there is no reason for me to purchase Civilisation V. They took more out than they put in, and the game just feels ... weak. The move away from Stacks-of-Doom opened up some interesting combat opportunities that were entirely squandered. Steamworks certainly didn't help it's cause. Elemental wasn't as good as it should have been, with 1.1 being what should have shipped a
Might wanna re-do those image links; click the little picture of the Tree and add them that way.
Elemental version 1.1 is what should have been released as version 1.0 in my humble opinion. There's still some work to be done, and I don't think anyone will argue to the contrary, however you should be able to throw down the asking price with confidence.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="28" id="2848681"]...Actually I was noting how much fun the vampire quests were in III as compared to the futile quests in IV. Also, it seemed like a great opportunity to have a vampire hunter story that was sorely overlooked.[/quote] Some great mods for III really expanded the Vampire stuff into it's own Guild-like story and quests. IV's treatment of Vampires was lacking.
Wow. Just... wow.
Still needs Steamworks? Moving on.