Thormodr

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="22" id="2948919"] Quoting Thormodr, reply 17 Personally, I can't stand vapid FPS's, dull grinding MMOs and the plethora of crappy games that are all style and no substance. I like history, realism and complex games that actually make you *shock* *gasp* think. Pride of Nations is that type of game. Deep, complex and pretty realistic. That I find fun and interesting. In a day and age where so many ga

I'll give it a whirl when it gets released. Shame about the minor factions. Hopefully they can be brought back in the future somehow. All in all, it sounds promising though. + LOTS of code to handle the increasing costs in terms of people to run your improvements. If anyone thinks that getting highly talented people

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2947991"] Quoting StevenAus, reply 10How will the AI handle particularly tough Wildlands areas? Best regards, Steven. Better than you humans will. Freaking meat.[/quote] That's the spirit. Hoping to see some truculence from the AI. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Also, delaying the

I'd rather that they actually tried to improve Spore. Huge disappointment that one was. [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e]

Double post. Lovely. It appears these forums are too complex for me. Lol.

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="19" id="2947611"]Well the issue was not 'complexity = bad' it was 'needless complexity = bad'. I can't comment on this game, because it doesn't interest me much for other reasons, but I really don't find many paradox titles to be engaging (yes, I know AGEOD is not Paradox...) because I do find the level of complexity too distracting, and ultimately pointless. Different strokes for different folks.<

[quote who="Sethai" reply="1" id="2947332"]More diaries are always interesting. And they give me stuff to complain about, which is always nice. Personally I'd be surprised if there is much AI work going on though. You've got to settle on how the game wors before you teach someone how to play it. Most of the problems I have with the AI would be more easily fixed by changing the game. Ie, stopping the player us

Whichever option gives Stardock more $$$ I will use. If it's the same, then Impulse is fine. Unless Gamestop makes changes to Impulse that make it dramatically worse that is.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="16" id="2947078"] quoting post Anyway, this game is not for the faint of heart but anyone who loves historical realism and a deep, complex game would be interested. Best of all, it's only $20. It won't appeal to a lot of people I'm sure but it's a game I'm excited about. BTW, I don't work for them and I'm not a beta tester or anything. I just love history and grand strategy. ^^ B

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="14" id="2946936"]Actually the games are WEGO as opposed to IGOUGO I thought. But maybe not the case in this one. At least Rise of Prussia is WEGO I'm pretty sure. Still turnbased though obviously...[/quote] Well, it is simultaneous turns anyway if that's what you mean. 2 more days until release. :P

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="10" id="2946416"]With comments like these I feel angry and cheated even though I didn’t buy or play Elemental. (But, yeah, nearly bought into the hype and got the game.) what else is there to say?[/quote] Not much really. These quotes might suffice though: Nothing in all t

Confucius says: He who farts in church sits in his own pew.

[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="8" id="2946410"] Quoting Thormodr, reply 6Quite a few arseholes on that site. Wow! Yup. Fascinating how grown ups can act like 12-year old drama queens over a damn computer game. And to give Derek crap for FFH... That's just lol. [/quote] Indeed, Lots of self entitled little pricks in this world. Probably immensely spoiled as children and they've grown up that wa

Quite a few arseholes on that site. Wow! [e digicons]8C[/e] They savaged Brad, Jon and Derek, a fair amount of it without reason. This was an interesting comment from a self entitled little prick. Sounds suspiciously like the infamous a-hole Dale. Lol. “In my spare time I liked to work on games, and I worked on a Civilization IV mod called Fall From Heaven.” Which you left in

[quote who="keithburgun" reply="75" id="2946018"]You already named your game "Fallen Enchantress"... it's a little late to be concerned about having good names for things. I love you guys, but that name is just awful, I can't say it to friends with a straight face.[/quote] Fallen Enchantress is perfectly fine. I like it because it implies magic, darkness, corruption and danger. Sorry to hear you are so embarrassed by it. <img src="http://web.stardock.net/images/smiles/th

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[quote who="RFHolloway" reply="86" id="2945939"]Lords of midnight (they crammed how much story into 48K!) Populous (first time I ever played P vs P) Gauntlet Planescape/Baldurs gate Magic the gathering (cards not PC - when released it was truely groundbreaking) Sim city Go [/quote] Ah...Magic the Gathering. Truly was ground breaking. The good old days. *Sigh* Love

Yeah, as mentioned it's turn based which is nice in my opinion. Not a lot of good turn based grand strategy games out there these days. It also focuses more on realism and historical accuracy for the most part. Should be good for anyone who likes the Victorian time period and for anyone who loves history. A Jules Verne Steampunkish mod would be awesome as well. </

Alpha Centauri? WOOT! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="9" id="2945039"]Sounds good. Hope it's good. But my experience with Paradox is that waiting for a while after release is a good idea... Nevertheless, I shall try the demo. [/quote] Cool. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] The game is by AGEOD and I've heard their release day products are usually pretty good. They are now owned by Paradox but I think they are pretty well independent. <p

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="103" id="2944710"]I think the AI's somewhat better this time. He camps on the high ground sometimes. The solo cavalry charge into your spearmen doesn't happen so much. He's pretty good at assaulting strongholds.[/quote] Well, that's good to hear. I thought ETW was absolutely disgraceful in that aspect so it's good that they are improving. Perhaps I'll pick up Shogun II when it drops to

[quote who="Lantros" reply="7" id="2944902"]You are right. Patches for balancing and tweaking, thats what i meant. I don´t think that there will be heavy stability probs. Demo was stable for me. And yeah, i´m excited too. Good turnbased strategy games are rare. Thats what brought me here to stardock last august. Stardock and paradox and the connected/related/associated? smaller indi developer teams seems to be the last ones, who knows what makes older

[quote who="Lantros" reply="5" id="2944819"]The devs wrote that they will work on that. But they said also that we should not expect big steps. I understand it. I mean there is really much to calculate. And overall... I think after release the game needs serveral patches. But i have the feeling the devs will stay with the game for a couple of time and again... 20 bucks. [/quote] Certainly the game will not be perfect upon release but I am not too concerned. The game should

[quote who="Martok" reply="3" id="2944796"]I've had my eye on Pride Vainglory of Nations for a while now. I've never had much interest in the Victorian era, but this game might change that for me! I've been playing around with the demo for the last few days, and have been having fun with it for the most part. It has a steep learning curve (especially with regard to economics and the trade system) and the game could use some improved optimization (I&#3

Upon some more time and reflection, is the AI as moronic as the last couple of offerings?