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Games are more than the value of their technology however. I'm not sure what you're trying to say though. The Geneforge games sell for roughly half of the price of a standard game on the shelf today. What determines the market value of a video game though?

By the time Democracy is prevalent, few of my games have much for war in it as well. No nations really declare war as they'll end up suffering from gargantuan war weariness and civil disorder.

EVE is certainly a "free" game, in terms of free from restraint. My friend had multiple contracts out on him, and got a gigantic mercenary guild targetting him. The way he took out this one really powerful ship was fantastic. They were cornered in highly policed space, and since it was a Corporation War, the police didn't do anything. So they rushed him with many little ships that got annihilated, but didn't cost much money. Then they payed some independent guy a huge chunk of change to simply TARGET the big guy (since this would autotarget the smaller ship by the big guy). Given that he was instantly attacking anyone that came up since they were all rushing him like crazy, when the independent targetted him, he fired back. This resulted in the space station and the millions of police patrols to get pissed at him, and my friend got the militia/military take out the big powerful ship for him. I was impressed by his realization of the situation. I'm sure the guy that got wasted was pretty pissed

I was thinking the same thing. The main reason why I brought up Geneforge is that I know many people that claim that graphics are unimportant, yet have a hard time looking past the dated visuals of a game like Geneforge. Technology and nice graphics DOES make a difference in our purchasing decisions, whether we like to admit it or not. In fact, I'd consider Geneforge to be an example of putting manhours into gameplay over graphics. All the "RPG purists" have some notion that all that work on graphics takes away from the gameplay. Geneforge is an example of the resources being put on story and gameplay rather than graphics, and now some people say that it's overpriced because of the technology of the game. Not bad for a crowd that claims that all it cares about is gameplay and not graphics.

You could have just said every major console except N64 and Gamecube. Save you some time

All those that hate RTS games should still give the Total War series a try IMO.

I'd probably have to go with the Guardian being the best villain too. He played things very well and just gets foiled by the Avatar. Just another in a long line of interesting villains that the Avatar has foiled, but the first in the trilogy of trilogies where the villain was the villain for the entire trilogy.

I seem to have found ways to score already. Need to find a goalie boost, or maybe just find ways to limit my shots on goal. I'm having good games, but they're like 8-7. But I'm playing with 10 minute periods. I don't really like the 5 minute periods personally, so maybe I'll slow the game down in order to compensate. Mike Peca scored a Hat Trick and a short handed GWG against the Kings! Nice work Mr. Peca. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come :D EDIT: I like the fact that it's possible to get "lucky" goals now. Sakic scored a PP goal on me and it just kissed the inside of the post before going in. My first two goals Aebischer got a piece of it, but it still trickled in the net.

I'd post my registration key, but I bet they wouldn't like that :D I've only played the first one though.

There's been a lot of injuries so far, and the season hasn't even started yet!!

They really value maps. But if you trade your map with one person, you better do it with all of them on that same turn. They also really value resources. I can get huge gold per turn trades, and technologies, for trade goods.

Give them their first shipment on an ICBM.

And will be playing PC games for a very very very very long time.

Play.com told me that they only ship to Europe when I inquired.

I know that Civ 3, in addition to games like SMAC, make the number 1 nation a target, and they receive penalties when dealing with the AI.

The colour used for Wizard of Oz was Technicolor's 3-strip process, developed in 1929. Disney acquired a two year exclusive license for it, meaning everyone else was stuck with the two-strip process (i.e. colour still existed prior to 1929, it just wasn't very good). The 1932 cartoon Flowers and Trees was the debut of the 3-strip process. The first live action film to use the 3-strip process was The Cat and the Fiddle in 1934 (which was an MGM production...the same studio that made Wizard of Oz), and the first movie to use it throughout the entire production was Becky Sharp. Wizard of Oz came out in 1939, 5 years after the colour technology it used was first scene by audiences, 10 years after the technology had been developed. Somehow I can't see Wizard of Oz being in development for 10 years (the script was completed in 1938, the same year the Snow White, another colour movie, came out). To reiterate, the colour technology used in Wizard of Oz did NOT come out during the production of the movie.

Heh, in Jr. High our best marathon runner was a heavy smoker

Although seriously, when has it not been all about the money?

That would explain the EA official replacement CD that contained all the patches that I received, complete with a formal apology from the developers and the publisher. Odd.

I suspect their next reason will be NWN2.

He needs more sensationalism then: NWN2 WILL MAKE YOU ITS BIATCH!

Don't underestimate Fox's influence. They single handedly made EVERY other TV station change the winner from Gore to Bush simply because it's the FOX NETWORK!!!:!@ OMFGZORS!@!!! At least Fox News is upfront about their bias :D

Try and fail of course.