Bodies flying out of the ships? No. Tell you Craig, you need to play more StarCraft. Now Medics and Marines in StarCraft make quite a mess when they get killed. As you would expect. But ships just blow up. One would expect that when a ship blows up the explosion is hot enough to vaporize the crew.
And Hearts of Iron 3 later this year!
wbino, do you have any game software protected by SecuRom? Software from EA Games for example.
Concerning OP's objection, the sound clip should be changed not because it contains a "naughty word" but because the current sound clip is inappropriate to the unit and the situation. This is the Marza Dreadnaught! The sound clip should be consistent with its nature and its stature. Instead we have the present sound clip associated with it, and it just doesn't fit. I am certainly not against salty language in games when it fits the unit and the situation. I th
What works for you, what you like. I use AVG Free myself. A few false positives, all cleared up in a day or two. No other problems.
As for me, I have not used Steam. I still down deep remember when it had a bad reputation and my subconscious is suspicious of it. But there is already competition other than Steam and lots of it. Search for "download games" in a search engine. Good Old Games www.gog.com has interesting PC classics for download, lots and lots of them. Many of these good for NetBooks, but that market is not going to become huge before the second or third generation of Netbooks.
" Some one needs to make video tutorials/guide of this .. " yeah, that would help a lot. But since we do not have official video walkthrus, I suggest this. 1. Go through the four tutorials a couple times. Maybe three times. Glance over the manual, just sort of know what's in there. 2. Start a game against the AI. No, there is no campaign, sorry about that. 3. Go to Options, find the key commands. In there find the Pause command. Bind the Pause command to on
Yes, Linux and DOS. I started with CP/M and it was standard procedure before hard drives became available.
Now what is this about Windows losing market share in the years to come? Windows 7 is going to be increasing their market share, not decreasing it. Windows 7 is going to rule! Why Steam wants to support Linux with Windows 7 coming out I am not sure unless they are thinking of supporting it with dedicated Linux hardware and a distro to go with it down the road. I am not anti Linux. I was working with AT&T Unix back in 1984, then la
You can bind pause to a mouse button for extra convenience.
One of the pro reviews said that the reason they did not put in a campaign was that they simply ran out of budget, or it would not fit in the budget, something like that. However that may be, it is true that all development time going into a campaign would be development time not going into the game as we have it. A good campaign takes a lot of money to produce. A mediocre campaign is not worth having. The real shortcoming that I see is not a lack of a campaign, but rather Tutorials w
Not sure I understand the question. For good games, the life cycle is as long as it can be made to run on the current operating system. For bad games, they die quick. Couple weeks ago I looked at a game rack and StarCraft and Diablo were there, still strong sales for them; 10 and 11 years since they were released. It gets even stranger. The Homeworld series still has an enthusiastic player and modding community, yet the series is long gone from retail shelves. Similarly, Microsoft Fre
Did that to me week or so ago, and I've been registered a long long time. I reentered the information, submitted it. Still no good. Waited a couple days, then it worked. Suggest you contact Support.
Very interesting thread General Etrius and all. I would suggest there will be a third option by the end of this year or middle of next. The Netbook 2nd generation is about to come out. Look at the specs here for a 2nd generation netbook, which will sell for $400. It has improved graphics over the first generation but how improved is not yet known for sure. This model may run Linux or XP or either. But the third generation will probably be mostly Windows 7 machines. Sa
If you want the game in a box, Gal Civ Ultimate Edition including Twilight of the Arnor (and yes you want it) will be out I think February 9. See Amazon. I don't know what retail stores will be carrying it. Galciv is the fully mature game series. So it is solid as a rock. Sins is just getting its first expansion pack, still in beta; think there will be two more. So there are some bugs, here and there.
Disciples II . You can get this combined with Rise of the Elves in the value software, jewel case section of stores at the present time for $10 or much less if they have a two-fer. I like it a lot when it first came out, except for Rise of the Elves which never appealed to me all that much. The Elves were such a bunch of dimwitted kill-crazed schmucks. As patch level 1.04 game balance seems to me to have gone down the tubes. You spend way too much time trudging back across the
Another to try if you can find it real cheap ... (Let me first move myself behind this thick flame proof shield) ... is Warlord IV Heroes of Etheria . Turn based all the way. (I know that even now a moderator is reporting me to Brad as a dangerous lunatic!) When Warlords IV first came out, it had a hideous memory leak and numerous other problems besides. Now, finally, five years after release the publisher Infinite Interactive in AU has gotten t
Even more off the beaten path, Etherlords II . You would have to find this one used, don't think it is retail anymore? Mix of RPG, adventure, and turn based combat. The overworld is free roam on your strange looking mount, combat is in an arena where you will play a beautifully animated fantasy card game with your opponent. Zorch them with spells, but mostly summon creatures like snakes, spitting cabbages, bees, wasps, and goodness knows what all so as to block what the enemy
Kings Bounty is good. Low key humor, sometimes high key humor, much humor at your expense! First tip, Easy Mode until you get your feet under you. This game will hand you something dear to you so quick it is hard to believe. Second tip, get one point in Scouting right away no matter what class you play. Hovering your mouse over a potential attack group (they will aggro and come after you in the overworld) will tell you whether it is too strong for you at present. The overworld you can
Brad, eat more sardines. If you are not hungry enough to eat sardines, you are not hungry. With a nice great huge big salad. Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team . Good! Now see if Microsoft will sell you the IP and existing code and art for Freelancer 2 . Then you would have a first person space adventure to go with Galciv 2 and Sins! Write a fantasy novel for publication . Wowsers, Brad, do I
Yeah, also get strange connection error pages, SQL nard. Google on fritz.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html?full=true&print=true Lovelock. Read.
hairlessOrphan, you may be right about HAL from IBM being a coincidence. On the side of it being a coincidence, Arthur C. Clarke came to MIT in either 1969 or 1970 (I forget which) and delivered a lecture in Kresge Auditorium. This being a year or so after 2001 came out. Then he opened for questions from the audience. Someone stood and noted the relationship between HAL and IBM and then asked Clarke how IBM had reacted to this bit of humor. Clarke then gave every sign of being completely amaz
Sorry I beat up on you, PiratesReally. I apologize. Especially considering that from time to time I've felt the same way not only in this game but in a lot of others I've played. Just remember, developers don't have mothers. They hatch from eggs like other serpents! The Dave stuff is from 2001 AD A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. In this movie the ship's AI computer, a HAL 9000, goes insane and in a very unfair and unpredictable manner kills of
Haree78, your experience and preference a lot like mine. But you go back farther than I do. I started playing when StarCraft was about patch 1.04. I did play SC online a bit but had much the same reaction. So mostly I got into modding that game and designing maps. Came WarCraft III and TFT, I found online went downhill even faster to the "go out and bash the enemy hero with your hero until one of us gets bored" gameplay which I hated. WarCraft III was really fun when it first came out. You ne
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