Nick_i_am

I'm with you on that actually. I'm a huge (addict level) fan of Hearts of Iron 2 (i'm serious, it's like crack to me), but I took one look at the graphical style of EU3 and simply decided that I wasn't interested. Shallow and probably stupid, sure, but I know exactly where you're coming from. As far as Sins go, I don't own it, and the reason I never picked it up was that, polished as it was, it felt incomplete. The limited trade and diplomacy aspects really took away from the touted '4X' side of the gameplay, which was a huge negative. If these expansions deliver I could easily pick this up.

Shhh, gabs doesn't know what a producer is, don't spoil it for her.

He's right though, this is only an issue for a small minority of gamers. Even more so when it comes to Spore. But given the stink that can be kicked up over things like wheelchair access i'm not saying that EA is right to ignore it. Feel free to use that disabled person analogy btw, it'll be a fresh start to the inevitable round of Hitler comparisons.

Well, exactly, i've wasted more time and effort on PC issues that I had to sort out myself than I ever did with the 360. I mean, sure, it sucks that MS screwed up on the hardware front, first generation, and we get screwed because of a marketing call, but it just isn't enough of an issue to whine about or boycott. The games are fun and thats all I really ask.

It's nothing new, with this DRM crap people are buying games they don't even want. 'It doesn't have DRM! I'm making a stand!'.

I love the concept of crafting, but no SP game I have ever played has ever done it in a way that really made me care about it. The real 'issue' for me in NWN2 is, I guess, the fact that you have to 'waste' feats on it, to (mostly) make stuff you can buy in shops with your mountain of gold. However, the new format that SoZ is taking might well make it relevent.

Yeah, i've put up with it in the past (was a big fan of Hidden and Dangerous which had some major gamebreaking bugs) but these days it's simply not enough, esspesally when i've already got so many good games available to me.

Really? haha, people get annoyed over the strangest things in computer games.

6 weeks? haha, mine was back in a week and a half. Thing I find funny is the fanboys of other platforms taking a highground over this. I mean, PC games can regually be buggy as crap and have incompatability issues and the PS2 had some pretty major failure issues when it launched way back when. Nintendo is the only company that's relatively blameless, though it's too bad that they no longer build their consoles out of Nintendium, the strongest material known to man.

Everything is not broken?

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/sinsofa...topslot;thumb;1 New features include epic sized starbase for when you're serious about a planets defence. These things apparently cost as much as 5 capital ships. Priced at $10 it's the first of three 'specilized' expansions, to be released in rapid succession, that each focus on specific aspects of gameplay.

They'd have to iron out the bugs before I gave it a shot. Consoles have made me snobby about games that crash.

I was in the worst situation, having my box fail literally a month after my warantee expired (non RRoD) but you don't see me whining about it, it's only a freaking console. Let me guess, they're going to claim emotional distress too. Some people need to get a life.

BG was a buttfest so haha.

CD keys are pretty annoying.

Only because Ghost got canned.

It's not 3, but it looks too low-res for 4.

Actually, that was cheap, I enjoyed the Fallout games. But Llyranor is right, the PC market may have dropped that torch a long time ago, but consoles have picked it up. Not in exactly the same way, sure, but Disgaea proves that there is still a huge market for 2D turnbased isometric games.

I'm not sure how that would hinder ones enjoyment.

I SRPGs I don't mind a crap when out of battle movement is limited to menus (such as in Front Mission or Disgaea), since i'm playing for the battles. In CRPGS, exploration and a personal attachment to the world makes all the difference, being able to 'walk in your chracters boots' is actually important to the game. 'walking has less use than any other gameplay feature' is actually a falsehood (though I know you were 'joking' and that i'm actually backing up your point).

Are you high?

Eh, compared to the other classes (save amazon, which I never played) I found the 'spam this spell over and over!' gameplay relatively boring, even for the clickfest that was D2. Some varience to spells depending on situation (ice with backup elec for bosses), but very little. Sure, most 'power' classes rely on a very limited skillset, but most of those take part in melee to make up for it. I'd take the likes of a melee assassin over it any day of the week.

Memento Mori

2nd ed IE 4eva!

Yeah, D2 Sorc was pretty boring PvE.