[quote who="Daynarr" reply="10" id="2785765"]Also Shadow Magic is not a sequel but rather expansion of AoW 2. It has a tons of content though so it could almost pass as sequel.[/quote] 1) It didn't require ownership of AoW 2 2) Was sold as a stand-alone game 3) No reference was made to it being billed as an "expansion" :: Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic :: http://www.tri
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="30" id="2785720"]Many players are playing almost entirely City State strategies (where most food, culture, and units built by City States), which hinges on gold production to keep them as allies.[/quote] Really? That's interesting. Is it done as a challenging way to play or as a strategy to win? [quote who="Krazikarl" reply="30" id="2785720"]Going with population for everything simply doesnt work well on any reasonable difficulty level
[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="5" id="2785690"]I don't understand why someone would buy "Age of Wonders" instead of "Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic". Doesn't the latter include the original game plus a whole lot more?[/quote] No it doesn't. First came AoW I, then AoW II, then AoW SM (which was a sequel to AoW II). The reason for getting AoW II in addition to AoW SM would be for the campaigns. I actually ordered AoW SM but would be interested in AoW II.&nbs
Triumph made the announcement that the AoW series was being released digitally before Elemental was released.
[quote who="FadedC" reply="278" id="2783313"]Now my only real criticism is that I wish i could still see what the other civilizations opinions of me are. I understand that they got rid of the little table full of little modifiers (although I really miss it) but it would be nice to have some better idea if a certain civilization loves me or hates me. Granted I have noticed that civilizations will sometimes send insults my way....that's probably a good sign that they don't like me![/quote]
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="59" id="2785169"] - P4 3GHz, 3GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT w/ 24in monitor at 1920x1200 running Windows XP. Unless that CPU is dualcore you are significantly under minimal specs - I dont expect it to run Civ5 at any decent speed.[/quote] The CPU is not a dual core. It did run at a decent speed. Played 6 hours last night, stayed up until 3am this morning - standard size map, 8 civiliza
[quote who="PaxTerminus" reply="27" id="2785480"] - Money is VERY important - I won the game by the skin of my teeth because I built to many buildings in my cities and didn't have good relations with the city states. Well, I get it that there is not enough money to go around for maintenance. But when you have let's say an extra 500 credits and don't need to buy tiles. At least in the demo there is not much I can do with it to actively progress my
Awesome!! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Question : If someone ordered Age of Wonders when it was initially offered on Impulse and now they're interested in purchasing the Trilogy, can they contact support to "upgrade" for the difference?
[quote who="Thizzbaby" reply="227" id="2784810"]Elven Legacy Collection while Elemental gets sorted out, i highly recommend both.[/quote] I saw those released on Steam recently. So you liked the games?
Excellent! I'd hope that something like this would get incorporated into the regular game at some point.
[quote who="klaxton499" reply="55" id="2784427"]Louist - I'm not sure this will help but I'm playing smoothly with Medium video setting on all ( except High resolution textures) on a dog of a PC. Thing is 5 years old and only the video card (8800GT) exceeds minimum specs. However, I'm running XP so only DX9c is available to me. I wonder if they problem is more related to the DX version. You may want to try DX9 version, if that's possible, until a few patches
[quote who="AgentNihilist" reply="23" id="2784945"]Since I just finished My first Epic game this morning - with the full version(I haven't played the Demo so I can't comment on differences) So I'll throw in My 2 cents.[/quote] I've been doing some reading, read Tom Chick's review at 1up.com, etc. After reading AgentNihilist's post I finally hit the buy button. I had been leaning in that direction anyways, but it was enough to finally make me decide it's good enough. :)</
I'm still waiting for the hot coffee mini-game.
If only J.R.R. Tolkien had accepted Kael's help... [e digicons]:P[/e]
[quote quoting="post"]If the quest giver says that she will be killed if someone doesn't rescue her, you'd better believe him because it can really happen. [/quote] That sounds cool. I find it funny when a game says something is going to happen, but you're able to postpone it by ignoring it or avoiding the trigger point.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="17" id="2784751"] This is the first time I've ever heard Civ 4 and CivRev put together like this. If Civ 4 is your idea of a dumbed down game, I can only imagine what you find interesting.[/quote] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
What an amazing story this is. Stories like this really help put things back into perspective as to what really matters most. To be the first person to undergo a procedure that had only previously been performed on cadavers - that's guts. The article said there was another person who had decided to just live out his life until it killed him. She decided that was not an option because of her kids. That's dedication. She's also blessed to have a wonderful h
[quote who="SPMaverick" reply="81" id="2783973"]Whew... I just now heard about this from reading this thread. When I first saw it, I freaked. I love GOG and would have been very disappointed to see them close up shop. I like and use Impulse, but I prefer GOG. However, in my opinion, it was poor PR on their part. [/quote] Imagine if you were a current customer of theirs and visited their website over the weekend? Not everyone follows gaming news sites or gaming related
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="79" id="2783934"] IMO they should have posted some "normal" downtime announcement. Something like this recent Steam announcement:[/quote] Yeah, I was thinking they probably knew they would require some downtime to roll out the new site. However instead of taking a professional approach like Steam, they pulled this sophomoric publicity stunt. I'm sure if their new site was as great as they make it sound, they would have generated a lot of
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="77" id="2783464"]We released two expansions for Sins of a Solar Empire which were $10 apiece.[/quote] What could we get for a $20 expansion? [e digicons]B)[/e] [quote who="Frogboy" reply="77" id="2783464"]The idea behind an expansion vs. a patch is that an expansion adds or changes a core game mechanic (Starbases in Sins: Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins: Diplomacy). It has nothing to do with the quantity of the content being added but
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="21" id="2783093"]If elemental taught us anything, it's that you can't trust the screenshots released. [/quote]
The question is, will Master of Magic ever come to Impulse?
I'm thinking I might be waiting for the first expansion that's inevitably in the works. Only because I don't have time for yet another time sucking game. :)
[quote who="nOObonian" reply="20" id="2782435"]Stop at 2 kids!!!! Having 2 kids leaves you and your wife in a man-on-man defense, 3 kids is a zone defense. (In all seriousness STOP AT TWO KIDS!!!!)[/quote] I have to ask, how many kids of your own do you have? I have 3 and I absolutely love it! I can't imagine just having 2 kids. I could go on about what makes 3 kids better than 2 but I don't want to derail this thread even more.
[quote who="luketan" reply="96" id="2782867"]Nice thread.[/quote] Thread necroing ftl