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Reply to Millionth Impulse User Gaming Rig Prize in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Congrats you lucky bastard. :D

Reply to Clean up that GOO! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I love the "if you complain about DRM you're a pirate" argument, it so directly labels the person making it as a total moron. If I was a pirate, why would I care about DRM? It's not like pirates have to deal with it, after all, and it's not like there's been a DRM scheme yet that wasn't broken within days of the release of a game. DRM only causes problems for paying customers, game pirates don't care about DRM one way or the other because they never have games that are

Reply to another stardock game with no story in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Mooster" reply="19" id="2150872"]To be honest, creating campaigns takes more manpower to write a level than what ironclad or stardock probably has, I once did a course, on game wrting, it took us 3 months just to produces several campaign level not even enough for one race, and our prof is actually a person who works in the gaming industry professionally[/quote] Err, Gal Civ 2 and its expansions each have a camaign, so Stardock is clearly capable of producing one. That doe

Reply to another stardock game with no story in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="transitive" reply="12" id="2150586"]a tutorial would have been appreciated. a campaign mode with a story is not appealing to me at all, particularly for a multiplayer oriented game like this one. i mean, does Team Fortress 2 have a campaign mode? does it need one? exactly. [/quote] If the game were clearly advertised as being multiplayer focused, with SP basically reserved for practice skirmishes, you wouldn't hear as many complaints of this sort.

Reply to another stardock game with no story in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="6" id="2149722"]DOTA didn't have a story either. [/quote] In fairness, DotA was also a free, fan-made mod project. The bar [i]should[/i] be higher for a professionally constructed $35 game, even if I disagree with the particular bar that the original poster is trying to raise.

Reply to another stardock game with no story in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Stardock is the publisher, Gas Powered Games is the developer, what does 2k have to do with anything? And strategy games are far, far too story-based these days. Strategy games need strategic context, not narrative context. Granted, Demigod has neither (being an MP skirmish game, basically), but if they were going to add a substantial single player mode a story driven "go here do that" campaign would be the least interesting possible option (and the same goes for Sins,

Reply to Feel big? You're not. (Epic Mindboggle inside) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Tesla: Look up "parallax," and when you've absorbed that look up "standard candles" and you'll have your answers.

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]XP was less usable at launch as far as I'm concerned, though. Of course, not too many people choose to remember that.[/quote] It's not a matter of not remembering it, it's simply unimportant. I didn't switch to XP until 2006, for the same reason I haven't switched to Vista.

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="SlyDrivel" reply="18" id="2135982"] Why anyone would be using Vista is a separate mystery. WTH is wrong with Vista? I've been using for a couple years, and its been fine. With the free mycolors "thinkgreen" desktop, the free object dock, and fences, Vista looks pretty much like the Mac OS anyway. You can even download the free soundpackager and load Mac sounds if you want. But I have digressed. I think the truly important point here is... holy crap!!! Look how many games

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Google "god of the gaps," it's essentially what you seem to be getting at.

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Vista itself isn't a bunch of executables dependant on each others' goodwill?[/quote] Why anyone would be using Vista is a separate mystery. :) But even if you look at the OS as a program, the question just becomes why you would start a program to start a program to start a program for you. Impulse is an unnecessary additional step, no matter the configuration in question. Why start a game from Impulse when you could just start it direct fr

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

"Launch it from Impulse." Err, why would you start a program to start a program for you?

Reply to Hi. New to Impulse / Stardock in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Download the demo for Sins before you purchase. From the sounds of it you're not an RTS gamer, so you'll want to make sure you find it different enough from other RTS's to be worth your while.

Reply to Rising to the Pantheon: Demigod Goes Gold in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Ke5trel" reply="14" id="2128049"]O man, you guys missed Vinraith vs. Everybody? It was a year ago and I still remember the epic curmudgeon threads Vinraith - waiting for the demo is a good call[/quote] Oh right, the Off Topic forum is visible on more than one board isn't it? I'm actually posting from the GC2 forum, I try to stay away from the Sins forums. The Frasers and I have... different views on how to handle customer criticism. I do my

Reply to Rising to the Pantheon: Demigod Goes Gold in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I'm definitely interested in trying this one, but my experiences with Sins necessitate that I have a demo first. I'm not going through that again.

Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Of course I had the Atari 2600's, then moved on to the 5200, then the 7800 as a kid.[/quote] I still have my 7800 (my 2600 is gone, sadly), along with a sizable pile of old 2600 games (backward compatibility is our friend).

Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The earliest I can clearly remember was King's Quest and Swashbuckler on Apple, and the original Space Quest on PC. Funnily enough it was years later that I actually owned my first PC game (Master of Magic), until then I played on friends' computers, my uncle's computer, and school computers.

Reply to Apparently no criticism of Stardock is allowed.. is called blasting and they ban you. You may be next, but SD has your money in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

"A friend of mine," now that's rich. Please, by all means keep this up, it's kind of amusing.I suggest starting with a detailed explanation of how a privately run internet message board not censoring people that are mean to you is "illegal." [quote]Take your meds[/quote] The scary thing is, I don't think he has any.

Reply to There should be negative karma for all objectionable posts. after a score of - 10, a ban for 3 months in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="9" id="2119872"] Censorship in this case simply isn't a factor. I see people bitching about moderations all the time trying to claim first amendment violations and I mock them for it. Publicly whenever possible. As I am constantly pointing out to users over there, there are ways of making your point without trolling, flaming swearing, etc. If you can't think of those ways of expressing your ideas, that's no one's fault but your own. If I wer

Reply to There should be negative karma for all objectionable posts. after a score of - 10, a ban for 3 months in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

I find censorship objectionable, proponents of it would receive negative karma from me. I suspect I could get 9 other people on this forum to go along with that idea. In other words recode, be very careful what you ask for.

Reply to OnLive to change the way we game? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

This would be the end of modding and user generated content. While certain parties would probably love that, a certain segment of the PC gaming community won't easily give those things up. They're among the greatest advantages of the platform.

Reply to I LIKE Impulse! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

To borrow from Churchill: Impulse is the worst form of PC game content control, except for all the others. Absent truly DRM-free games (ie no restrictions on anything ) Impulse is about as good as it's going to get.

Reply to The Impulse Millionth User PC Prize in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="vStyler" reply="1" id="2106609"]Seems pretty simple to me, motivation to register new purchasers. Nice prize [/quote] That's the part that confuses me, actually. The only place I've seen this contest mentioned is here, so the only reason I know about it is that I'm already a Stardock customer and consequently inelligible. :D I seriously suspect that whoever wins this may not know it's coming. It'll hopefully be an

Reply to The Impulse Millionth User PC Prize in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Wow, that's a lot of prize for an arbitrarily chosen new customer. I'm not entirely sure I understand the strategy behind it, to be honest. You're awarding this, with seemingly virtually no advertising, to someone that as of yet isn't a Stardock customer. I have to agree with the crowd here that it seems like giving existing customers a shot would make for better advertising, but it's SD's money and they get to make the rules. I hope whoever gets that rig is actually a gamer, though. It'd be

Reply to Amped Gaming Reviews Sins of a Solar Empire in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

That actually seems kind of misleading. They're pretty strongly implying that there are alternate paths to victory in the game besides "conquer everyone," which as yet sadly isn't true. I'm pleased to hear this is being addressed in the new expansion, but implying that trade and diplomacy are somehow major aspects of the current game is questionable at best. I'm not familiar with AmpedGaming, but this would make me question the veracity of any review of theirs.