So, I preorded Galciv2 a month and a half ago via ebgames.com. But as of yet, my order is stil listed as "waiting for product". Is this the case in the actual Electronics Boutique stores as well? Do no retailers actually have the hard copies of the game yet? Or is the online order proccess just exceptionally slow? jujumbura
Microsoft, whether they knew this would happen or not, has a very powerful card in their deck. It's called "Armies of Fratboys who will follow Halo-whatever-# over mountains and off a cliff if it comes to that". It was an untapped market, because it introduced a culture of former "non-geeks" to competitive multiplayer gaming, and had the side effect of luring post-grads and pre-grads into the circle. Tons of kids with expendable cash, and a brand name seared into their brains. It
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Making the battles less strategic by removing the rock-paper-scissors system would be crippling the tactics. And you'd like to do this, just so that players spend more time focusing on the non-military portions? What about all of the people who are really excited about the depth of the military strategy? The goal is to flesh out ALL aspects of gameplay, not remove them at the expense of one another. Even if changing you changed the damage type to armor type system to be a toggle fe
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I'd like to respond to the post of apoc527, if I may. Because I think he touched on something that sums up my personal feelings about multiplayer in the strategy environment. "Lots of things are really cool in a single player game, but only for a time." That is absoutely true. What is entertaining for the first 20 hours of gameplay will quickly lose its novelty. This is why most RTS, which have really pretty simple mechanics and rule systems when you boil dow
Nebulae would be cool, but I'm not sure how they would implement that as terrain. It couldn't mess with sensors as you're viewing from a galactic point of view, unless they made that area always greyed out, so you couldn't see what was in the cloud unless you had a survey ship or sensor drone planted there. Interesting possibility for ambu