alanschu

Exactly, you are displaying board-game bigotry by not appreciating good cheating techniques that existed way before the computer was a games machine! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I used to cheat in Fighting Fantasy choose your own adventures all the time!

Where did you find this information. My research on DirectX 10 is rather, nonexistant.

Well, had it not been "won," you'd probably still have the arms race. Oh wait, that's a what if. Sorry. Wait a minute, you'd have to contemplate "what ifs" to come to the conclusion that "winning" the cold war may not have been a good thing.

They've supported many coups. No where did I say that anything they did in South America was good, so you can take that pretentious emoticon and shove it. EDIT: And thanks for that meta. I figured you'd know. I knew it started with a 'G' but was thinking of names like Garrick.

Handheld gaming eh? HOI2 can be coop...ish. It'd be interesting to play two teams against each other. The big problem with WW2 games, especially ones that allow a build up, is the metagaming. Hard to compete when America is already building up a million infantry divisions prior to war.

I suppose God Mode could exist in a board game. You know, just pretend you can't die or something. WHen you fall on the "you die" square, just ignore it!

So you don't plan for anything? You see, my "what if" is something that actually has happened in recent history. And given increased global interdependence, probably something that will happen again. In fact, the US has tried to be rather proactive about it, especially through South America. Not only do you not deal with "what ifs," you don't seem to care about "what has already happeneds." But whatever. If not having an explanation simply because of your bizarre concept of reality doesn't entail planning for the future, so be it. Not surprisingly, it seems as though the whole Hades "act" wasn't really an act at all.

Then I am quite confused about comments such as "God Mode" and save and reload.

On the plus side, I don't remember my plan either! :D I like Coop as well, but it just doesn't exist as much any more. And I definitely am unaware of coop in WW2 strategy games. Too bad a game like Silent Hunter 3 doesn't have good coop. It'd be fun being a mini wolfpack.

What if said civil war interrupts the economy of the US though. And no, I'm not saying that the Iraq situation is doing this. But global interdependence is a reality. What if a civil war starts somewhere, and as a result, many Americans end up losing their jobs, and the economy ends up on a heavy downward trend.

I'm wondering if people noticed that the 'it' was a hyperlink.

Oh yeah, I forgot about CM ahahahahaha If I can find the file, up for still playing it hahaha?

I'm surprised by how many older people seem to be entranced with the Wii. People I would never expect to play a video game console ARE playing the Wii. Also, what is a second party developer?

It matters on the individuals definition of a just war. A "preemptive strike" sounds more like a nazi Germany tactic to me. Where as JFK only pushed the cold war as far as it had to go thus keeping it cold. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wish I could remember the name of that law that says controversial discussion, given enough time, will eventually involve a comparison in some way to Nazi Germany.

Are 3D animations done with a bunch of static images? I'm not a graphics guy so I don't know. I know they are outputted in static images (hence the whole "frames per second" and whatnot), but is the animation itself created in static images? I mean, I could see a tree, especially when operating somewhat dynamically thanks to the physics of wind blowing through it, rarely having the same image for two different leaves appear on the screen at the same time. It'd be a bit more likely in a game like Total War (except that they've gone with making people no longer look all the same, and having more distinct differences between soldiers in a single unit) where the attack animation is probably the same. Would you also get varying performance benefits with varying frame rates? With a higher frame rate, it's more likely that you'll get states where the same image will be drawn on the screen, but with a lower frame rate, it'll be less likely, simply because there is less opportunities for it to happen.

Errr...I only played the board game, which makes save/reload a bit too obvious of a form of cheating.

Heh, Allan the jerk-troll seems to be making enemies by agreeing with someone that commented about how the price was atypically high for a game that was 2.5 years old. The typical argument is that "Well, when you get it, you won't buy other games, and you'll play it for many years," so I figured I'd ask if they felt that Starcraft and Half-Life were better games. Waiting for the fireworks to explode out of that one! Go Here if you wish to see grognards defend themselves. I wonder if this will hurt my chances to get a PBEM game

I used to win it it all the time.

The darkside ending of Jedi Academy was indeed much more fun. I was referring to the original Jedi Knight (Dark Forces 2), where Kyle becomes all evil with Sariss at his side.

If the images aren't being animated, then what real purpose does it have? Because the leaves and little men in Rome: Total War are animated. The idea of doing this for static images doesn't really strike me as new though. I thought stuff like this for grass had been done already?

Jedi Knight's Dark Side ending was quite poor.

The Japanese did! Ensuing battle resulted in 20000 Japanese casualties, and the complete dissolution of the division! :D

I thought the game was pretty exciting. Pretty up and down with goalies making a lot of big saves to keep the game close.

Excellent, the offensive into Burma is going quite well. Heavy air coverage from India let me capture Mandalay shortly after Myitkyina fell. From there, I was able to dominate air superiority over Rangoon, and capture Lashio and Tuang Gyi with relative ease. All that is really left is Rangoon, and I can use that as my new forward base of operations, and perform strikes into Siam and Malaya with ease. Hordes of troops have also landed in Australia, preparing to fortify and retake the northern areas of New Guinea. Unfortunately, Palemberg has finally fallen, and it seems like Java Island will fall too. Slowly trying to extract who I can out via submarines. The Japanese air coverage is way too dangerous to try anything else.

I could see some truth in the statements I have heard about magnets helping to deal with pain, as the magnetic field could interrupt electrical signals (I'm not a biologist though), but the "healing" properties of magnets make me laugh. Even then, the pain killing aspect could just be placebo.