YiddoBobbins

Take a chillaxative fella, go out and play football or talk to a girl, you'll live longer and be happier.

Is this a joke? Why the hell would you not buy a great game because you need to install Impulse? Impulse doesn't do anything invasive, what's your problem? If you want to deny yourself a great gaming experience because of some bizarre download manager phobia, feel free. Me, I like to enjoy myself and I think there are more important things in life to worry about.

[quote quoting="post"]16 November 2009 Who else here thinks the back story to Sins of a Solar Empire is absolutely amazing? I thought it had a very good base, but wouldn't it have been nice if they made a campaign as well as the amazing multi player? I don't know how it would've gone, but hey, maybe they could've made it where it followed the opening narrator's life through the current galactic war, or could they have done something more on the lines of, let's

What about the brilliant Freelancer (brilliant story and single-player campaign, but also massive open universe after completing the story, loads of ships, loads of factions (including various pirates, governments and corporations), loads of upgrades, secrets etc. Jump gates for the law-abiders, and hidden jump holes in asteroid fields for those criminal types who need to avoid the law. Amazing game. They should make a sequel damnit! If not t

Actually, they were for the OP - as I said I'd like to convince him to play the classic C&C games to experience some great gaming moments and give him an impression of the continuity of the franchise. Ok, you've written something positive towards EA, this conversation's over (those story-raping bar-stewards...)!

Your day has been made by someone pointing out that your posting style is that of a child...? I'm not entirely sure why you'd be happy that, at 32, your writing makes people think of a teenage fanboy? Anyhoo, the fact that you're pleased by writing large number of question marks and exclaimation marks in sequence, then having it pointed out that you're apparently a grown adult and should really know better, is irrelevant. The point is, stop t

[quote who="Dargoon999" reply="17" id="2271539"] Quoting YiddoBobbins, reply 16 Quoting Dargoon999, reply 8 Annatar is right, the original C&C was awesome back in 95, but now its basically unplayable, so is Red Alert 1 and so is Tiberian Sun. This compilation pack only containt 2 playable/fun games for me; Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge & Generals/Zero Hour! As for Renegade, Komnenos is right, you could enjoy i

I love DLC. I get regular new content for my favourite games which adds new gameplay and new features, and more gaming time. What's not to love? Anyone bitching about having to pay a few notes for content can either not buy it or get a better job. And no free update to any game before the days of DLC ever added anything meaningful to a title.

[quote who="Dargoon999" reply="8" id="2266978"]Annatar is right, the original C&C was awesome back in 95, but now its basically unplayable, so is Red Alert 1 and so is Tiberian Sun. This compilation pack only containt 2 playable/fun games for me; Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge & Generals/Zero Hour! As for Renegade, Komnenos is right, you could enjoy it but its a long shot. Its an OK fps. Its not bad but its not very good either. Best way to know is f

I'm surprised at people slating C&C3 - great game IMO. Ive always loved the Tiberian universe and this was, although not everything I was hoping for, a good return to the roots of the series and a fun game in its own right. Worst 3 purchases I've made: 1 - Global Power - dear God, why did I buy this awful spreadsheet collection? So, so awful in every possible way. 2 - Master of Orion 3 - much the same as #1. Awful collection of numbers

I have to agree that I've always found the phase jumping pretty random - fleets do seem to choose some pretty random and long-winded exit routes.

I'm amazed at some people. Free updates, and free online play. All you have to do, is work with an extremely easy to use, does-it-all-for-you download manager. And yet people complain. People are basically complaining about the way they get their free stuff. Seriously. I'm using Impulse now for all my digital purchases, instead of Steam. I like Steam, I like the stat tracking stuff, friend/community options etc, and the auto

[quote who="mja5000" reply="5" id="2074065"] Quoting Phalnax811, reply 3 i doubt any space ship in a combat role would go out with 0 weapons and only strike craft. I doubt too. You'd think they would just have a flak gun or two on the ship. The flak gun could attack anything though. But it's attack paramters would be set to the "immediate area" instead of the grav well so you don't have Carriers dying for no reason. If that made s

I rarely play Vasari, so tend to enjoy naming my ships in a very human convention when I play TEC or Advent. I used to prefix every name with EAS for Earth Alliance Ship, but found the characters that took up restricted what I could use for names. I started off with my favoured route of Babylon 5-style mythical/classical history names, such as: Apollo, Agamemnon, Cassius, Damocles, Kraken, Cerberus, Medusa, Gorgon, Chimera, Hydra, Griffon, Vesta, Juno, Ariadne, Ale

I'm sorry but that's the kind of post which really gets on my nerves. Every single aspect of what you're complaining about is amendable through the game options - pirates, resource speed, game speed - everything. Read the damn manual, or at least click the options button, before writing 5 pages of ranting. And I don't care if it's a bit patronising but they're only bloody pirates, they're an annoyance, not a game-breaker.

Maybe graphically it's impractical to make it bigger? Perhaps an object of that size might slow the whole game down significantly when in a big battle? Who knows, just trying to think of a reason, I'm sure there's a good one. They looked good to me on the videos I've seen. Ships docking would be cool, but purely aesthetic. And then you'd get hundreds of people moaning about how their ships have to undock in order to be able to fight.

I love: - The ability to name your planets, and importantly, your ships. Oh boy have I been waiting for a game where I could have fleets led by the EAS Behemoth or the Ajax Excelsior and have them launch from the shipyards orbiting the planet Gallanighor ... I would love a few more (like just 5) character spacings if possible! - The relations between CapShips, frigates, and cruisers. None can work without the other, and they combine so well on so

psychoak: I think the very fact Obama's willing to meet with the guy, even though he knows it's pointless in terms of achieving anything, shows that he understands that gestures can mean so much to the rest of the world. To see an American president willing to make that move would be almost unprecedented in the current era, and might go some way to showing other countries that the US isn't some imperialist power whose president only talks to people he likes. It's all about gestures and appear

[quote who="dragoon" reply="25" id="1920631"] As a nationalist Welshmen, who despises the British state, yet has no choice but to be a part of it if he wants to remain in his own country, I am generally against the tories ( being monarchist and Imperialist in the past ). I Could only wish that the availability of weapons was more open to my people in the past, and that we had been able to follow in Americas footsteps.[/quote] To be fair, the Welsh had plenty of weapons when what

He's clearly trolling to try and get a reaction - the easiest way to get rid of him is to ignore him. It's obvious he's trolling and that he's not very good at it - a good troll would never make it quite so obvious, and no normal person would ever react/post the way he has on this topic as it's obviously completely irrational and bordering on mental illness.

No, it comes down to you instisting that one useful unit which you find hard to beat makes the [I]entire game[/I] unbalanced. The ship is getting mildly nerfed, the fundamental ability of it remains, and it will still require the same tactics to beat. And it's very easy to assume you're being stubborn and not listening when you barely respond to people's advice, and when you do, you insist that nothing will work and the unit can't be beaten. I don't even know why I'm

Apricotslice, you've completely missed the point. People aren't moaning about modding the game to have fun. You're free to do that of course. People are annoyed because this person has announced that the game is broken because his one tactic gets beaten and he can't win by clicking the 'build' button a lot. If you look at his posting history almost all his threads are basically blaming the devs for releasing a broken piece of crap. That's massively disrespectful to

Strange, UT3 was well-received by the gaming press. The PC version averages at 84% on GameRankings. Over a million units of the game have been sold, more than half of those on PC's. 1.2 was released in Feb this year. I have to say, I really don't understand what the original poster is on about. Pretty much every point you make is either inaccurate or based on pure speculation. Sure, the Linux delay may be down to involement from Microsoft. But to say the game has been

Hilarious! Someone claiming that games somehow managed to get viruses on your pc! And then they admit to using Limewire! Tell your sister and her raggedy-ass boyfriend to get the hell off your pc and to stop d/ling dangerous p2p programs and then trying to shift the blame on to you. I can't believe they're trying to claim it was games wot did it! Better yet get that job and buy your own pc so no-one else can get their grubby hands on it.

[quote]Well, still buying this game Edit: While I do wish game company's would follow SD/IC example, however, didn't someone already mention that not everyone has an internet connection? Which mean's not everyone would be able to download a game, and if there is no disk available, well they are screwed then.[/quote] yes and with this game, with no internet connection you can't even play the single player game. That's the entire point of this thread?