wilebill

Reply to Master of Orion 3: My first experience summarized in 1 word: Horrible! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

There are some good threads on MOO3 over a www.gog.com in the Master of Orion section. One will tell you how to install the Tropical mod made by users that improves things a lot. Of course install the last official mod first. As for MOO2 there are some play throughs on youtube that will get you started. I have tried MOO3 with the best mods. Still a game that is clear as mud to me. Think I got to turn 150 once way back there and had not the slightest idea what I was doing. The

Reply to It's becoming really popular... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Guilty Pleasure, why I really play. I like to play with games rather than play games per se. Oh, sure I may finish a campaign, but the main reason to play is just to have fun. Now about the bashing ... I have put up a couple posts that were factual. There is some nasty stuff going on out there. People ought to know about it. But I think I know what you are talking about. The classic case was Hellgate London. I was on the test server from very early on, shortly after release an

Reply to Would you trade HD Graphics for Gameplay? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Hard question. All of the games I play have good graphics, where "good" is what I say it is. Everyone else including reviewers and techno geeks can bugger off. There is a whole community over at Good Old Games that would more or less agree. Right now I'm playing a lot of Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction and the graphics look fine to me. I can well understand why so many rabid (are there any other kind?) D2 LoD fans view the upcoming D3 with great suspicion. Master of Orion 2 and 1

Reply to Amazing Steam Sales Going on in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Steam does have some good specials sometimes. Looked just now. Nothing I want, though. The one game they have that I do want is also here and I'll just wait for Impulse to put it on sale. The steam list is fun to look through. Otherwise forget a lot of those games ever existed. Forums are sometimes worth reading. Another good place to look for good old games is Good Old Games, GOG, www.gog.com. This also has good forums for some of the old classic games. At the moment

Reply to Disciples III: I'm Gonna do you all a favor! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Lols! Norton removed it? That is a hoot!

Reply to Is Diplomacy the end? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Being a small company their development work must be aimed at maximizing revenue from game sales. The market for a new micro expansion for Sins is fairly small and getting smaller all the time. So ... a new game would seem the best idea. The article does suggest a land game or something other than a space game. I remember reading somewhere that way back at the very beginning of the StarCraft design process they discussed a space game. But at the time the technology was just not there.

Reply to Fallout Online website is live, beta sign-ups has begun! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Just me, but Fallout seems like a single player RPG experience. Roll in coop maybe, but why? My experience with MMO has been good, but you know why? I tend to run lone wolf in any MMO. If I join a guild it is always a guild of mostly lone wolf players. The value of a MMO to me is a well-maintained game where I only have to worry about having a client on my disk. Play a lot of WoW early on. Got my fill of raiding in those early days. My most recent return to WoW was over a year

Reply to Holy ^%$# This Might be Awesome!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

So, is the game play sort of like Etherlords II, http://www.impulsedriven.com/eld2 ? Free roaming overworld and then go to an arena area for combat? Or is it battle in the overworld? The mention of micro-transactions scares me at once. So, what is the real price of the game? Can I just buy all the stuff at once, or do you become qualified to buy a certain pack after you have achieved goals?

Reply to Crusader Kings 2! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Unfortunately FecesBook wants you to be a member to like something. I ought to create a baloney account for moments like these, but I am too lazy.

Reply to CnC4 sucking in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Just funny coincidence maybe, but if you go to Steam and search for Disciples 3 the search will return Command and Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight.

Reply to Microsoft’s Channel9 Video about Stardock’s Impulse in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Liked it. Thanks very much. For those who did not comprehend, this video was only for those of us rated "sharpest tools in the shed."

Reply to Some upcoming Awesomeness!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="26" id="2640741"]How can wilebill have issues with playing with his kills? Coming up with new and ever more brutal ways to murder your foes is awesome. He must have issues with Dawn of War sync-kills and the God of War fatalities too... [/quote] I probably do not have cat genes in my ancestry. Kill something, I want it to just vanish out of my sight. Leave nasty corpse only if a necromancer can make some interesting use of it.

Reply to Disciples 3: Renaissance Coming in English July 13, 2010 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Thank you Sanati. You are correct. I stand corrected. I guess I meant "dated" in terms of the expectations of casual players who buy a game these days. Even the venerable Civilization series is reworking its combat to a more tactical hex grid system in Civilization 5. I of course play Disciples 2 and the combat system works very well indeed. By tedium I meant trudging back to some town to get one or more of your troops resurrected and healed. I should build more thieves and ro

Disciples 3: Renaissance Coming in English July 13, 2010 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The official English web site for Disciples 3: Renaissance just went live a day or two ago. See link. At the moment, it appears to be confirmed that it will available through Steam. Whether it will be distributed retail by Kalypso, I do not know. The minimum requirements do include a DVD so one would think so. The Disciples franchise is now wholly owned by Akella of Moscow who have put a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money into the production of Disciples III: Renaissance. (S

Reply to Dungeon Siege III is coming from Obsidian Entertainment! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Interesting to see how this turns out. I played Dungeon Siege 1, thought it was good. Dungeon Siege 2, the demo made the mistake of calling me "worm" early on. I would not take that from Microsoft! Plus I hated the zoom and angle. So maybe third time is the charm.

Reply to Some upcoming Awesomeness!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Read about Deus Ex Revolution. Really just not my style. Bulletstorm is by Epic Games and People Can Fly, the studio that did Painkiller. I guess if I wanted a game of this type I would go with Painkiller Black Edition which you can get on Impulse for $9.99. Same basic idea. Don't really like the music behind either one, though. Playing with your kills to me is a lot like playing with your food. Naughty. Agree the trailers for both the new Deus Ex and Bulletstorm look epic.</p

Reply to Activision to Hold Independent Games Competition in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Not enough bait on that hook! Nosiree!

Reply to And now the good news - New Kings Bounty game announced in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Yeah, this is going to be very good. King's Bounty: 'Crossworlds' Announced http://games.1c.ru/kingsbounty_crossworlds/ Fans of the King’s Bounty series will be thrilled to see their requests were answered as King’s Bounty: Crossworlds will also include a full-scale game editor. As in the multi-award winning 1st game, the player has many options to b

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Perhaps a hint of things to come. Activision-Blizzard has published Blur for the PC, XBox 360, and PS2. Blizzard had nothing to do with it, but their name is associated with it anyway as publisher. Now if Activision decides to publish War of the Interstellar Belly Button Lint, Blizzard's name gets dragged along. The developer is Bizarre Creations who did the Project Gotham Racing series on the XBox. PGR2 was one of only two games I've ever played on a console, but I r

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The man choking is perhaps Mike Morhaime. Guy on the right must be Tippl. Very sad how this has turned out for Blizzard. I did enjoy the original World of WarCraft; and still like StarCraft Broodwar, Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, and WarCraft III The Frozen Throne. StarCraft 2 comes out in 3 pieces. At least in theory. After the PC release of Wings of Liberty, Kotick may see more profit to be made in developing the next two chapters of SC2 for console. Diablo III may get diver

Reply to (forum fail) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I always copy my text before I post on this and several other forums. They probably need a daily scheduled reboot of the forum server.

Reply to Watch a Replay of a 5v5 with pro players on Diplomacy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, in practice 90 minutes is 9 ten minute videos usually. Problem is, I don't have the stuff to do it.

Reply to Watch a Replay of a 5v5 with pro players on Diplomacy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Another alternative if you have only Sins is to watch a good commented play through on YouTube. You might learn something there. GetDaved is currently doing a Sins 2v2 Hard AI play through with 14 videos up so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0R5zo0-W3A&playnext_from=TL&videos=VApJK1kLXFs Dirty, I will certainly watch this one myself. I wish there were many more good replays. Maybe if there was a stickied replays thread in Multiplayer. I have murmur

Reply to Blizzard Now a Business Unit of Activision and Morhaime No Longer in Charge in PC Gaming Sins Forums

$180 is cheap at the price! Here is what has the international e-sports community upset: In each region (I'm not sure how many there are) there is one unified BattleNet server. If you have set up your account in that region then you can only play against people in that region. No cross region play. But competitions usually run across regions. e-sports is international. So, if you want to play someone in another region then either you have to buy a new account at full price for

Reply to New ships for SoSE 2: Corvettes and Destroyers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

During design phase, it might have been possible to have low end frigates level up through battle experience to corvettes or destroyers. One or the other. Hard now.