[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="7" id="3450987"] LOL, misread the topic name and thought this was something about Vasari Rebels and jumpable Orkulus...again.[/quote] SONEHSONEHSONEH!
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="5" id="3450740"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 4 Setting aside the "we've heard all this yakkity yak before about this tech for decades," Sony is on my permanent boycott listanyhow due to their rootkit fiasco. Hackers that aren't incorporated get years or decades in prison, but because Sony is a corporation, it got little more than a slap on the wrist despite, essentially, willfully infecting millions of computers with what amounted to
UTC-0800 [PDT] Unfortunately, availability is very limited ... I work the night shift which has me gone from 1730 PDT to 0600 PDT (0130 - 1400 GMT) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights into the following mornings, and occasionally Wednesday nights. 1-2 hours between work and sleep is woefully inadequate to play a TBS, so these nights/mornings are generally not good for me with the exception of Saturday morning after work, as I can stay up several hours since I don'
I am pretty sure none of the game text will be finalized at the alpha stage.
Setting aside the "we've heard all this yakkity yak before about this tech for decades," Sony is on my permanent boycott listanyhow due to their rootkit fiasco. Hackers that aren't incorporated get years or decades in prison, but because Sony is a corporation, it got little more than a slap on the wrist despite, essentially, willfully infecting millions of computers with what amounted to a rootkit virus and essentially hacking their paying customers' computers for their own
This is hardly something new or revolutionary ... VR headsets have been forecast as the next big thing for a couple of /decades/ now, as has 3D, but the fad comes and goes. I don't see any particular reason why it might /really/ take off this time compared with all the previous fizzle-outs. I definitely wouldn't throw out your PC-with-a-monitor game development studios just yet (and I certainly hope you don't), but I'm certainly not an expert.
[quote who="Borg999" reply="4" id="3450256"] I can't access your link or the images from work, but you must be mistaken. There is no way Sins could be more popular than LH. [/quote] It doesn't seem that surprising, actually ... Sins is more multiplayer-oriented. I'm glad singleplayer-oriented games are still being developed. I like Sins okay, but the AI is definitely lackluster for singl
Brad: Just out of curiousity, since you seem much more relaxed about sharing details other publishers would probably be appalled by ... have you ever seen significant bumps in sales of older games (like GC2) that correspond with fan-made mods? More than just a few dozen or so participating on a thread about a mod, do mods actually generate a significant bump in the baseline sales for the game?
[quote who="NelsMonsterX2" reply="13" id="3449344"]Well don't worry then, TESO's engine doesn't approach the quality of Skyrim's. That's another issue I have with MMO's: they typically dial back the graphics so the game can run on the most machines.[/quote] Skyrim greatly impressed me for how good it looks even on lower-end machines. It looks good with a decent framerate on my $500 homebrew PC, whereas Dragon Age: Origins looked less good and had a
[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="54" id="3449301"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 53 Has no one else even heard of nor tried Mechanized Assault & eXploration (M.A.X.) from Interplay, circa 1996? Ive heard of it but never played. But Is it a 4x? Looks like a Turn based version of starcraft. Well, I guess that might count as a 4x.[/quote] While there isn't much exploration, per se, you have to survey for minerals, gold and fuel. There's a g
Has no one else even heard of nor tried Mechanized Assault & eXploration (M.A.X.) from Interplay, circa 1996? :(
I am curious to see a Skyrim-level engine's render of the parts of Tamriel we haven't seen since Morrowind, but my curiousity isn't strong enough to pay an MMO subscription. I'll probably sate myself watching TESO fans' "Let's Plays" on Youtube.
A mechanic I find missing from TBSes is an overlay showing the last turn's moves (or replay). This is very frustrating when you can place a unit on 'sentry' mode to awaken when a hostile unit enters its sensor range, but the hostile unit scoots out of sensor range off-screen, so you don't see it -- but you get hassled to do something with your awakened unit, but you aren't allowed to know what it was your unit saw to wake it up. Some sort of overlay would help,
I'm no fan of MMOs, either. I gave a couple a try -- namely, Anarchy Online and Star Trek Online. Got bored quickly with AO, and quickly became disgusted with STO as well. I have enjoyed the Elder Scrolls games ever since Morrowind. I hope TESO won't mean an end to single player Elder Scrolls games, the way The Sims brought an effective end to the SimCity series (sorry to die hard fans, but SC5 is a pale imitation of its predecessors).
Remains to be seen. Its one thing to sculpt your own 'verse, like GalCiv or Elemental. I think trying to further the creation of someone else and retain the creators' vision expressed through various nuances its fans will go for is harder, and you won't know whether you've succeeded or failed until release.
Clicking on the "Store" link from the galciv 3 site still shows the Founder's Elite Edition as being available for purchase. Wasn't it supposed to no longer be available after March 2?
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="27" id="3446797"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 24I'm just going to agree with everyone else here. LH does not seem to be coming up very often... Ocassionally I see it 5th....3th....a few 2nd....but not often. I'm hoping that LH 2.0 readjusts everyone's list to 1st. [/quote] FE and LH would make my top 10. Nothing really wr
My guess is beta would start no sooner than half a year after alpha, maybe even longer. I think Stardock learned its lesson with War of Magic on rushing things. I seem to recall the beta for WoM lasted a long time as well ... I was an early adopter of WoM so I got all the perks when Brad took his hat in hand to all of us. Lots of developers/publishers push out bad releases, but so few have the decency to make it right.
I have been elitessimilated.
[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="48" id="3445631"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 46Molecular oxygen is a gas. This is only true if the molecular oxygen is maintained within specific temperature and pressure ranges. Since this thread is about Gas Giants, within which temperature and pressure can vary greatly from its outer edge to its core, this can become an important aspect of the technology required for mining the gas planet's resources. While tech A may work for mining
Democracies can be evil, especially when they degenerate into a tyranny of the majority over minorities, and dictatorships can be good.
Master of Orion II Civilization IV (the apex of the Civ series thus far; V just doesn't measure up though I really like the hext tiles) M.A.X. (Mechanized Assault & eXploration) Galactic Civilizations II Sword of the Stars Not sure if b
I hope the upcoming Nitrous engine (not in GC3) can do for strategy games what the Unreal engine did for FPSes.
Its tough. I have played several games, got good, but then I've had trouble again with several massive population collapses. Managing resources is such a pain when you can be swimming in food one minute, then suddenly the next its all gone and my population plummets from 150 to 40.
I dunno, that wouldn't be very GalCiv-ish. Leaders in GalCiv are more disembodied. I like the sovs in Elemental (though I miss the dynasty/children from WoM, hope they make a comeback), but its a different game.