[quote who="seanw3" reply="5" id="3267264"]No. The poor quality of mainstream titles dulled my interest in mainstream titles.[/quote] This. And Skyrim is a large-budget, mainstream game. :p
[quote who="psychoak" reply="62" id="3266374"]Asshole then remasters the movies, releases them anew, and "softens" his character by making the bounty hunter shoot first. Now he's a moron.[/quote] You have to put things in perspective. Carrie Fisher was quite attractive.
[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="116" id="3256094"]Actually, I haven't used a straight blade in years either. Then again, I only shave when I have to.[/quote] Fair enough! Unfortunately, my hair grows very unevenly so I have to shave more often than I'd like.
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="41" id="3245795"] Quoting wbino, reply 38So could the game ships/structures be imported into Sins with a mod now that the game is dead? If someone can tell me what format the models are in I could give an answer.[/quote] The models seem to be in ogre3d format, but there's also a legal question. I don't think anyone not affiliated with the game knows who holds the copyright (the artists, the developer, the publisher, etc.) to these a
[quote who="starkers" reply="34" id="3203294"]It's only generic here because it relates to anything from brothels and tattoo parlours to pubs and boutiques. Moreover, Aussies aren't greedy about it, either. It seems anyone here can stick a 'Metro' in their business name if it fits well enough, and nobody's going to sue over it. Nah, it'd take more than that to get us up in arms...[/quote] Hey, we may be very litigious, but you Aussies aren'
[quote who="alaknebs" reply="32" id="3203121"]or is it more like a quiet word in the background between chums? [/quote] Fairly chummy. Metro AG owns a chain of electronics stores which sell Microsoft products, among other things.
[quote who="TAOCuathon" reply="2" id="3202700"] Usually people ask for less detail... However the game is designed to possess Sim, TBS, and RPG features and systems so if you spent all of your time microing your army you would be falling behind in research and economy and you wouldn't have time to decide what to do with RPG stuff like raising stats and having mages learn new magic and such. The hierarchy works hand in hand with toggled and selected settings/command
Can you explain the system in more detail? What level of the hierarchy does the player directly control, e.g. the unit, the squad, etc.
[quote who="starkers" reply="27" id="3202183"]So Metro Germany is a stay-at-home firm that only sues from its armchair if the mob using the Metro name is an international corporation and it'll give them oodles of free publicity?[/quote] No, the point is that trademarks are country-specific. Metro Germany probably doesn't own the registration in Australia. If the Metro brothel began operating in Germany, then they'd likely have a case for trademark dilution.
I'm sure the original agreement contained a clause allowing Valve to amend its terms and defined the available remedies. I don't know enough about contract law to say how a court would rule.
Master of Orion 2 X-Com Starcraft Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Master of Magic I'm heavily biased towards strategy games, though.
[quote who="Sinperium" reply="82" id="3175183"]So a believer will attempt to present an epistemological logic to others--something that gives validity to questions or points to answers to the questions like, "How can we know if there is a God?", "How can we gain knowledge of it?", etc., etc. Doing that isn't irrational or moronic (though a person's arguments may be sometimes).[/quote] I'm going to pass over the first part and let others explain for t
[quote who="Sinperium" reply="78" id="3175102"]I'm taking it that the above referral to Moore's argument is meant as sarcasm (correct me if I am wrong). But it's exactly the point I could make.[/quote] To clarify, I wasn't serious when I wrote that, and I agree that insults don't make for good conversation. But, more seriously, I don't think that "honest" is the correct word for it. People really do believe that there cannot be reasonable disagree
[quote who="Sinperium" reply="76" id="3175021"]Your topic is Epistemeology. From the wiki (for convenience) that encompasses: Philosophically examining the questions: What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? To what extent is it possible for a given subject or entity to be known? It's a bit hard to believe your view is the only valid one within that scope.[/quote] But some of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_a_hand
[quote who="137" reply="71" id="3174923"]An interesting take on the subject of knowing and believing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_de_Finetti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_%28philosophical_gambling_strategy%29[/quote] Go peddle your Bayesian nonsense elsewhere! :-p
[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="11" id="3165782"]So does Fallen Enchantress have completely new engine from ground up? Is it not reused engine from some older game (Elemental?), just with reworked AI part to be multithreaded? I am not a programmer, therefore i ask. [/quote] Both Fallen Enchantress and War of Magic use versions of the Kumquat engine. From what I can gather, Kumquat was designed to support multithreadi
[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="1" id="3164453"]So The Fallen Enchantress is going to be multithreaded, am i reading this right? And you cant do the same with Rebellion why exactly? [/quote] Because Fallen Enchantress was designed, from the beginning, to support multithreading. It also has different requirements (e.g. no multiplayer). Implementing a multithreaded program isn't simply a matter of taking a single-thread, sequential program and "multithreading" it.
Yeah, I was wondering if any of their subsidiaries were older. Guess not. Did some quick Wikipedia research. Apparently, 1C is privately held. And produces a heck of a lot more than games.
LucasFilm is privately held. Although, if you included subsidiaries of privately held companies, then you'd also need to include all the Valve and ZeniMax studios, so that's probably cheating.
They're not that rare. LucasArts was the first company I checked, and it was founded in 1982.
I miss Computer Games Magazine. :(
My guess is that the "cosmetic" files are for the menu background, cutscenes, etc.
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="37" id="3151008"]I'll be extremely surprised if Diablo 3 gets anything less than 9/10 considering its a big-name AAA game.[/quote] It's a big-name game that Blizzard has been developing for the past 10 years. I'd be surprised if it [i]deserved[/i] anything less than 9/10.
Fans have started work on a Warlock wiki: http://warlockmota.wikia.com/wiki/Units
[quote who="Jafo" reply="18" id="3146213"]I can't say I care either...but then I've never cared for an antiquated 'bill of rights' too...[/quote] Now if only we could find a capable and charismatic leader to make our decisions for us... ;)
