Emperor_Nero

It has been much some time since I posted on these forums and I may be grave digging somewhat here but I just wanted to agree with those who say the move to Steam is bad. I hate steam with the red hot passion of 10 million, million dying suns.... Or something poetically tragic like that. In my eyes Steam is the totalitarians of the gaming industry. They control the end user and slip in tricky clauses into the contracts to (il)legally force the control of the end user. Shadowrun Returns is fac

Is your key through steam?

[quote who="rabittalice" reply="20" id="3286752"]wow. im not saying you are an idiot..... but you are. 1 read a history book. and get your facts straight 2 accept that this is an ANIMATION MOVIE MADE BY FOX. SO NO THERE IS GOING TO BE NOTHING ACCURATE ABOUT IT! I mean the story is that anastasia lives... 3 russia was a wreck after and during the revolution. its a civil war in a reforming country. what do you

I think it is astounding how a small group of individuals who wrote cheap pulp fiction would go on to become some of the greatest influences in writing in general. Lovecraft's influences alone are incredibly far reaching through most genres of literature. And I agree about King. Lovecraft is a much better writer than he. Don't get me wrong, King has some good stories but he is no match for Lovecraft. (I had an incredibly long post wrote, but

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="3" id="3283382"] Quoting Emperor_Nero, reply 2 Quoting Glazunov1, reply 1You might want to give Algernon Blackwood a go. Lovecraft referred to his The Willows as "the finest weird story I've ever read," and Blackwood preceded Lovecraft by a couple of generations. Most of Blackwood's short stories are in the genre. I've read a lot of Mr. Blackwood as well as a lot of Dunsany, another huge Lovecraft inf

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="1" id="3283369"]You might want to give Algernon Blackwood a go. Lovecraft referred to his The Willows as "the finest weird story I've ever read," and Blackwood preceded Lovecraft by a couple of generations. Most of Blackwood's short stories are in the genre.[/quote] I've read a lot of Mr. Blackwood as well as a lot of Dunsany, another huge Lovecraft influence. I've studied Lovecraft's work, and the work of hi

Recently I have fallen in love with postmodernist literature, and then that led me into some of the stories by H.P. Lovecraft (not postmodern, but I had been curious and read a couple of stories of his a year or so back) through some convoluted avenues of Wikipedia. Lovecraft is the father of the Weird story and is probably one of the, if not the most influential figures in modern horror literature. A piece of Weird fiction generally involves the merging of science, mythology, and the paranor

Novel - Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut Anthology - Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos - Robert M. Price (ed.)

I have the cheap $79 Kindle from walmart, but I've read enough books on it so far to make up for the price. I get a book and pay $7 - $20 for a physical copy, and I can get an electronic version at half or even less. The Kindle pays for itself as an investment in the first little bit I own. Not to mention the amount of free books you get that are out there in the public domain that you would have to pay for if you wanted to buy a print version for. It is difficult to read from your ipod,

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not exactly fantasy but some of my favorite books. They are still relevant two decades later. The Hyborean Cycle of stories by Clark Aston Smith is more fantasy based, or the Dream Cycle of stories by H.P. Lovecraft.

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="3" id="3281874"]Correct, because with each change of management, valuable assets were sold off. Pitifully poor management was the problem, not the union... this time. ...But this time with Hostess? Not buying "the union's guilty" theory.[/quote] From what I have gather from the situation it is this. I come from an area where unions are highly favored, it is a very rural coal mining area of the US. So my opinion on unions may

[quote who="SOLOSOL" reply="2" id="3281751"]I don't understand what do you mean with Line of Sight...that is for the strategic map, but for the tactical? For Tactical combat, I would pay for the type of tiles giving bonus/penalties (forest, hills, swamps,...). And for Ships: fishboats, warboats, and why not, magic boats. Naval techs. And for a new game mode with The MasterQuest. The Wildlands expand over time, spamming monsters, so you have to ally w

I would actually like to see some sort of statement concerning this, besides the same old same old empty promises.

I've avoided Cnet since I attempted to download VLC player once from them. They threw in a lot of junk and then the site just has that fishy feel about it, like one of those virus spreading sites that masquerades as a site to download graphic design things from.

[quote who="Valentine82" reply="9" id="3280059"] Quoting Mmrnmhrm, reply 6Since this is the best fantasy strategy game I've played in years I may be wrong but I think it's the only one that's been made in years. Quoting Lord Xia, reply 8What idiot review would say this game is a casual 4x game? The game seems more casual than it is on the surface, in the review it's compared to Civilization 5. Quoting Lord Xia, reply

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3279708"]It is beyond me why you keep coming to these forums if the game is so abhorrent to you. We get it! You don't like some things. Move on with your life.[/quote] I agree...

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="6" id="3279229"]I find it interesting that the review made no mention of the wildlands to conquer in the game. It really seems like they played maybe 50 turns of the game and quit, and wrote a review. I know that there is a lot more depth to be had in the game at later turns, but it is what it is and it very well could be that the game didn't grasp the reviewer. [/quote] I kind of got this feeling too, but there has also been a couple

I played a highly modded Oblivion most of the time and only one, maybe two of those mods came from Nexus. I never really like Nexus because it made me feel that I was being punished by not paying for their service to download mods. I understand people have to make money, but I've always seen the modding community in any game I've played (that is moddable) is a place to get good content for free. Too bad the game couldn't get on at Heaven games. They've always been great for an

I would rather not see MP for enhanced single player capabilities. It's going to take a lot of time and money to make FE multiplayer ready is what I am suspecting, and even if it does happen I believe people will be disappointed because I am sure certain features would need to be dumbed down or dropped all together. I would rather see all that time and money spent developing the single player experience because that is who is going to want to play this game. MP in a 4x TBS is a niche insi

Any chance to get details on the stamps included?

[quote who="Motley_Jester" reply="8" id="3274137"] Quoting Emperor_Nero, reply 6 Quoting Valentine82, reply 2 quoting post Hopefully now that it's a relatively stable game mechanically, minus a few AI issues, they'll focus on making it an interesting game to play. Can you stop being butthurt for a minute, really? Trying to dissuade people from the game makes you seem like a petulant little k

Notepad++ offends me, and therefore any modifications or editing done within should not grace my computer screen. It will doom my soul to an eternity of fluffy couches and crumpets.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="11" id="3274398"]I would like them to have +1 dodge per level and +25% to all elemental resistances to balance them out. [/quote] I don't really agree with resistance to all elements. I would say resistance to water, earth, and death.

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="24" id="3273922"]If there's something bad I have to say about the game it's this. Start in a bad location, and you're in for a game where you permanently have your back to the wall. I had a game where Gilden were sending guys in Light Plate with Sledges and although I could handle them, my hands were pretty much tied as to how I could handle them. Then they decide to change tactics, so I have to juggle my units around and adapt, fig

That would be so awesome, but it'd probably be difficult to do.