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Guardians of Graxia: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-7TqOpKCk[/video] It's card-based, but still a great fantasy-flavored strategy game.

The strange looking frog is right. The beta is going to have all sorts of issues. Betas always do. Start with the finished product, FE. It's frankly good enough to give you plenty of pleasure. And once you've become familiar with it--whether that's in a few weeks, or in a few days because you have no real life ;) --you can always move to LH's beta.

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="37" id="3331808"] Just a fair warning. The AI shows absolutely NO MERCY. Even on easy. 9 of 10 times you will be war dec-ed by 2/3rds of the factions before you finish researching your first 2 techs. It may be a good or bad thing depending on how experienced you are with these types of games.[/quote] I'd suggest it isn't a matter of whether the AI "shows no mercy." (Which is in case usually a euphemism for "Hey, kid, we *da

[quote who="Alstein" reply="36" id="3332163"] I don't think champion stack of doom will be a big issue. Most factions will end up with a similar number of heroes, if fame works the way I expect. [/quote] Exactly. It's a matter of AI tweaking.

Swarm. Battles in the streets. Governor replaced. All solid choices.

EA is an object lesson for those who assume that companies are entities, and never change. Back in the early 80's they were an excellent development and publishing house that gave some of the best games designers a good, well-paid, reasonably supportive environment in which to create new titles. Murder on the Zinderneuf, M.U.L.E., and Archon all came out in '83, a year after Trip Hawkins started EA up. Hawkins was smart enough at the time to support good people and leave them to do wh

[quote who="Sharky_22" reply="3" id="3331346"] Ok I figured out the problem, I thought all the essences in the area surrounding the city you build would cunt towards the city essencse count, not just the tile it was founded on! Thanks anyway [/quote] It's an easy mistake to make, especially if one plays such games as Master of Magic, or the Civilization series. There are some good gameplay videos that might help out in the basics.

[quote who="G_Bison" reply="138" id="3331334"] Despite repeatedly telling users that there was no way for SimCity to run offline, EA and Marxis have finally come out to say that is not true. Marxis General Manager Lucy Bradshaw announced in a post on the EA website that SimCity could have run in an offline mode but that it conflicted with the vision they had for the game.[/quote] I realize I'm just an idiot, but I'm afraid it's beyond my understa

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="23" id="3331335"] No I'm talking about Baldurs Gate II. Perhaps I thought it was dragging on due to no text....I remember there was quite some text from all the guys I released though now that I think about it, it may have been one to two minutes of text instead of five ^^[/quote] You're the best judge of what you like, in any case. :)

[quote who="BernieTime" reply="3" id="3331158"] Seeing this does remind me of one of the things I would like out of Governors. Players should not be able to see the stats of units sitting in a city.[/quote] That would be a very bad design decision, the kind that leads to lots of complaints about "I built it, why can't I tell what its stats are?" [quote]This was for a game design class. [/quote] Makes sense, b

Not top ten. Just one. That's all.

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="136" id="3331232"] If a modder is capable of making the game run offline, the usual suspects are probably quite capable of doing that, too.[/quote] The modder capable of making it run offline already had a purchased copy, and stated this was so. [quote]A google search revealed several sites that claim to have a working crack. And members of those sites thanking the doubtful individual who posted it.[/quote]

I personally don't like it, but I have no problem with it being made an [i]optional[/i] feature, since others want it.

This was for art class?

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="133" id="3331105"] For your information... Sim City 2013 is available freely available on the internet... has been since release day if you believe the date of some entries. Even more devastating... it is a working version.... if you beleive the comments on said entries.[/quote] Put your hands in the air, and step back from that poor, abused ellipsis. Slowly. Simcity 5 hasn't been cracked. Other game forums hav

[quote who="jackswift85" reply="1" id="3329830"] Isometric RPG with tactical hex-based combat? Yes please! After spending 5 minutes watching the videos and reading through the webpage, I couldn't find any substantial details on the game though (is it open ended, leveling/characters, quests, dialogue, etc.). Looks great, just need a little more info.[/quote] Agreed on all points, save that I'd like a lot more info. Such as what l

[quote who="Borg999" reply="69" id="3330980"] Quoting MutantDwarf, reply 68 Pretty sure it's just the melee units that are moved closer - ranged units still spawn farther away. That's true, but at least according to Brad in the video, the ranged units start just a couple tiles farther away from the melee units. It just doesn't seem quite far enough.[/quote] Personally, I'd rather see strict range limits and

My choice, for what little it's worth, would be Herodotus, the so-called "father of history." I'd like to know the extent of his actual travels, how his work was received, where he got the grossly inflated figures for Persian forces (which he would have known would have been logistically impossible at the time), etc.

Just one. Just for one hour. They'll miraculously be able to understood your native tongue, though they will have no idea about technologies subsequent to their death. You can talk to them about anything they'd know. Of course, you can discuss other stuff, too, but they'll probably just look at you as though you were crazy. Whom would you choose to speak with?

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="21" id="3330867"] I don't claim to have a perfect memory. On the contrary, I know it only picks up main points or things that stand out. Oh I like reading a bit, but that much right at the beginning.... [/quote] Are you sure you aren't confusing it with Planescape: Torment? Because PS:T is very text-heavy. BG II gets right down to battles, after just a small amount of information. There might be a

[quote]Baldurs Gate II a.k.a "We wanted to write a book but videogames sell better!" - Start in some prison and every time you click on another character there comes an A4 of text. And NO voice! [e digicons]:S[/e] By the time I got to the first fight I have read for ATLEAST 5 minutes....move onwards, a fight starts! Yeeeejj [e digicons]:)[/e] *3 sec later* One of my characters die....dammit....repeat 3 or 4 times....I FINALLY make it out of the dungeon bu

http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=5626 Great blog from indie developer Rampant Coyote on this. Here's an excerpt: "In response to requests to enable an offline mode – a feature that would have saved the launch in the first place, the Maxis (EA) general manager claimed it was just not possible – online play wa

Planescape: Torment. Only things that come close are Ultima VII, Morrowind and Betrayal at Krondor, in my opinion.

As someone brought up an RPG with typically turn-based strategic combat in my other thread on turn-based strategy games, I thought I'd make another thread here for that. So you can keep only one RPG, now and in the future. Which one would it be? My own choice? Planescape: Torment. Though Ultima VII and Betrayal at Krondor are both close runner-ups. Well, and probably Morrowind. Over to you.

It's not been "fixed" for the latest release. The modder is waiting on more advanced modding tools, as are several more of us.