[quote who="Snowman" reply="19" id="3088069"]There already is such a technology. It's called 'proper education' and understanding of your/ones own language.[/quote] But teachers are poor (at least in my country). How come?
[quote who="Alstein" reply="7" id="3088126"] it's crazy how woman-hating many gamers are.[/quote] Can you think of non-sexualized female game character? It's hard, isn't it? There are some exceptions of course, like Alyx Vance, but they are minority. So games sexualize women. Gamers are educated by those games.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="19" id="3087761"]I had this game won. The AI cheated. Really. If you think about it, it was cheating. Mathematically plotting when units would converge from across the map is cheating. It's BS.[/quote] Mastermind with a very high computing power always wins. Watch this . He is not cheating (he cannot see through walls, or see the future).
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="8" id="3087690"]Before reading this I actually thought about making a pre-emptive BETA 2 UI problem report thread saying that the path indication system you are going to implement doesn't have turn labels for each square in the path. As a human I need this information displayed on the screen, there is really very little use of the path estimation system without the turn information.[/quote] This.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="3087671"]Game sucks. Screw this![/quote] [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e] defeated by his own creation. Don't tone down AI on normal. At least not before I could face it! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] What is "sniper"? Super-accurate archer?
[quote who="Solam" reply="7" id="3087561"]I played FE beta on my Single core AMD 2g with 2 gig ram and a Nvidia 512 meg card. It work ok. [/quote] Good to hear this. Thanks.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="4" id="3087428"]Do you have single core processor as well?[/quote] Yeah, Frogboy said that single core processors will not be "officially supported". And I don't know how to deal with it... edit: "We don’t officially support single core CPU’s because they’re so old but their terrible performance helps us find bugs" ( source ). So I guess I must forget about playing FE. Maybe
I have Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (single core), 1.5 1 GB RAM (0.5 GB was defective) , GeForce 8600 GTS (256 MB) and Windows XP. Will FE work?
Why don't you release new Sins in two versions: (1) on Steam with multiplayer mode, and cloud saves, and chat, and achievements, and all other fun stuff, (2) without all those things, just good old singleplayer? CD Projekt did it with Witcher 2 -- they released it on Steam (with cloud n'stuff) and on GOG.com. I know that there is no multiplayer in Witcher 2 so both versions were almost the same, but still. ps Steam requires an internet connection
[quote who="seanw3" reply="6" id="3086630"]Brad indicated that if FE is a huge success, he will allocate some funds to make WoM what he wanted it to be on release. But that will be a very long time from now.[/quote] [quote who="seanw3" reply="8" id="3086652"]You can update it with the FE engine and then fix the many problems. [/quote] I think making WoM 2 on FE engine would be way more effective. [quote who="Lord Xia" reply="7" id="3086637"]Can't pol
[quote who="Drakohan" reply="97" id="3086851"]Anyways that is my two cents, hope you enjoyed reading it. [/quote] [e digicons]k1[/e]
By saying "music and graphics made me buy this game" I meant that quality of graphics and music convinced me to buy the game. I didn't mean that they where the only factors I took into account. I would never buy a beautiful but unplayable game. And I would never buy AoW if it was ugly. For me climate is essential part of gameplay experience. Graphics, sound and music build the climate (also others factors, like writing and plot if it's an RPG
If such technology existed, its creator would be killed by enraged Facebook users !
ps One more thing: it would be wonderful if forums were scalable. The default font is too little on smaller screens (like on my 1024x600 netbook). When I zoom ( ctrl + + ) the posts don't fit in the screen.
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="2" id="3086609"]Not in this update, no. It is a known issue and we will try to have a solution soon. Bara[/quote] Good to hear this.
Will there be a possibility to put quote inside a quote?
[quote who="ARTHANASIOS" reply="57" id="3086459"]@Gandhialf: Buying a game just because of its graphics/music isn't a very clever thing to do. On the other hand, buying a game because you like its gameplay is the best investment you have ever done! But why should I care? People like you will be the losers if keep judging the book by its cover and not by its content. Graphics who age well, graphics who age bad, who cares? THE THING THAT NEVER AGES IS THE GAMEPLAY, PERI
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="55" id="3086213"]HOMM II is another game whose graphics have aged very well. Although I don't think HOMM III's graphics have aged nearly as well.[/quote] I agree about HOMM II: I loved it's graphics and I still do. HOMM III doesn't have all that charm, but I still like it. Have you seen/played Age of Wonders 1? Music and graphics made me buy this game some time ago (I didn't play it when it came out, in 1999).
Graphics of some 3D games didn't age very well. Especially the games which came out when 3D technology was in early stage of development . I didn't play TA:K, but TA looks awful for me (I played it, but I could tell this from some gameplay videos). Graphics of most of the 2D games, on the other hand, aged nicely. I still love Warcraft II graphical style for instance.
So how FE is compared to AoW?
So you've got something like x=x? It's a tautology (formula which is always true); x is still unknown.
[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="53" id="3084842"]That'd be great. Be nice to see more developers of good games out from under the thumb of the megalithic game crushers. Not sure Zynga qualifies as that or not, but obviously they are not making any in-depth type of games though either. At least that I've seen.[/quote] Zynga has very bad reputation. See here (Reddit
[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="51" id="3084806"]Wow, you really know how to absolutely crush a guy's hope. Completely. [/quote] I'm really sorry. When I learned about it I was crushed as well. Brian Reynolds himself told that AC 2 is virtually impossible ( here , 1h30min podcast -- very interesting btw!). I think Stardock should
Alpha Centauri 2 ? 1. AC is a baby of Brian Reynolds. He now works for Zynga ( [e digicons] 2. AC is a baby of Firaxis. It's called "Sid Meier's" after all. But Firaxis doesn't own the rights for AC. 3. EA owns rights for AC (<a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/10/alpha-centau
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="39" id="3084335"]I only have 2 actual games from Stardock, other than FE beta. GalCivs 2, which I would give a 9/10 and WoM which would give about a 5/10. With those two releases they are gien a Xiacritic score of 7/10. What I own of Firaxis, Alpha Centauri 10/10, Civ 2 9/10, Civ 3 7/10, Civ 4 9/10, Civ V 8/10, Pirates 8/10, Colonization 8/10. Giving Firaxis a Xiacritic score of 8.4/10. All scores are subject to change at a