Eisenhund

I'm a bit of non-consoler. After playing several ports to the PC, I've come up with my with a rather strange analogy. It's like looking at Lamborghini or Porsche or muscle car. It looks sleek, has impressive lines. The outer appearance advertises it's a sports car with power, acceleration, speed, and handling. Yet you open up the engine compartment and you find a 2 cycle lawnmower engine in it. Every port or cross-platform I've pla

1. Well, for core mechanics, what is the term - suxxor? So, any change to core mechanics I view as good. It won't bother me since I also view the game no where near what I would consider its potential fun factor. Mechanics are a bit brain dead right now, in my opinion. 2. Minor graphics wierdness I could live with if the game was fun. I mean I still play some GoG games and they're not exactly eye candy any more. 3. Can't comment on thi

Any thing that gets away from the over simplistic and boring combat. It feels like it was designed for 5 year olds.

I don't play online vs humans myself. I also find the actual RTS of aspect as standard Blizzard RTS play. What draws me back is the story. For me, that is what makes it worth playing and coming back to. If I had to decide just on getting it based just game play, I'd never bother to play it, though the units do have lots of character.

I just saw Planescape: Torment is now offered. According to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/stolen-pixels/8148-Stolen-Pixels-229-The-Tearful-Goodbye it was some kind of stunt.

The way I see it, and as some have mentioned, it's the overly simplistic, non-tactical battles used in GalCiv and now Elemental. It's boring as all get up. To me, GalCiv II is really a Sim 3 style game. Make stuff all perty but that's about it. In my recent games of MOOII, I found the combat much more fullfilling and ship design more interesting. It isn't just a Lego set. Just look at weapons development. Research the base weapon, and as you go hire i

I starts up, I see the autoexec loading, etc, then it just closes itself and the DOSbox now, never entering the game. Any one have an idea what might be up? Edit: Oh, and I deleted it and redownloaded/installed it with the same result.

I don't think piracy will necessarilly kill software developers, but copyright infringement. As some have pointed out, and I think Frogboy has mentioned, DRM actually greatly increases the cost of development more than it saves in lost sales from pirates. DRM also does little to curtail pirates. It becomes more of a right of passage to crack things. I wish we had more data. Generally all we see are the doom and gloom, "Lost 10 Megabucks from pirate

Tridus, I got if off Impulse. I been feeling like a new game lately and I saw advertised that they had the kid'd donation going on so I figured I would try a couple things. I have a feeling many of the old games sold are attempts by dev studios to make a quick buck while feeling no need to invest in support any more.

It's a fail. I got the dll, stuck it in the app folder like it wanted. Then it wanted binkw32, so I got that and stuck it in the app folder like it wanted. Now, I get a solid black window when it tries to find my, "opitmal settings," for the game. I don't seem to be able to skip it either. I don't think it likes me Geforce 460.

It seems most tech people recommend copying it off the CD, but since this is a download product, there's no CD. I also checked the spell force folder and dll. Is this going to wind up being another Warlords III fail?

It finally installed, but then I got, "could not initialize display hardware." I have a good reach beyond minimum spec. Then I also read that you can't map keys unless you use a hex editor. At this point I just uninstalled the game and took it for a loss.

I stook it to D:\SD decompress. I'll see if it works this time.

Okay folks, I've tried downloading Dead Space. I think it succeeded, but when they game tried to install it, I got the Decompression Error message. I changed the extract directory, but still get the same message. I've been trying to figure out how to redownlaod it, but can't seem to mind the method. The Application Data\Stardock\Impulse\Temporary\ DownloadQueue, ExtractedFiles, and PreloadData are all empty. The new extract folder I Have is empty. <p