Gorth
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I know a number of games where the second game outshines the original, but that isn't necessarily the case here. When holding up two products and compare them against each other, which one are you going to have the most fun with? Even the original only had limited appeal once the novelty of fighting chess pieces wore off and you changed to standard chess board just for a game of chess. Archon on the other hand, I bought the remake of (original made by Freefall Games), because it never gets "old" whacking your oponents pawns over he head with a big club/sword/fist/lightning bolt/fireball (or just suck out their life force) in the action parts. Currently there is only one kickstarter project I seriously consider backing and that's because I can't run the original on my PC (despite having the original cd's)
Sorry Cutlock, but I think I would rather buy the original from GoG. Actually, I would prefer to buy the Amiga version to run on an emulator, but unfortunately that isn't really an option these days.
Watched a few of them on their home page. Agree with Rosbjerg. Too long, and the "music" just killed it before boredom did.
We have those "passport" photos on our intranet page, but not in our emails. Even with several hundred colleagues, you mostly deal with 50 or less on a regular basis and of those you'll have met most of of them face to face regularly. The joys of international communication... having fun getting systems to talk between continents. Why can't people just settle for a simple universal alphabet??? Spanish, Russian, Eastern European... they all have their own custom built letters with funny little accents all over the place. Don't get me started on Scandinavians who just adds letters to an otherwise perfectly good Latin character set. Some Socialdemocrat probably planned to introduce a letter tax at some time. Trying to avoid UTF-16 because of the overhead and finding an ISO set that fits as a lowest common denominator. The Latin alphabet has too many letters. Honestly, what's the point with 'Z'? Even worse with 'C' who is completely redundant and it's job could be taken over by 'S' and 'K'. Heck, if some nutcase decides to start a partition to save 'Z', we could drop 'S' and do a promotional tour for 'Z' to take it's place instead.
Second official trailer for "Iron Sky". This movie looks even better than "Dead Snow". Seriously guys, get those DVD's up for sale on Amazon already http://youtu.be/gQ3rQBL_EDo
Chess without multiplayer... I'm still wondering when the "Chess - the RTS" game will be made. People just don't want to sit and wait for their oponent to take his turn Battlechess for Amiga was one of my old favourites. I could have sworn it said EA on the box though.
They call him... El Mariachi!
Tempting... very tempting. I've been hoping (and drawing a lot of pentagrams and spilling a lot of chicken blood at full moon) for a real Carmageddon game for a very long time. Ever since I realised my old Carmageddon (and Splat Pack) wouldn't run properly post 3Dfx Glide driver enabled cards
Thread moved to gaming section (I assume your kickstarter project is game related?)
According to moby games, Queen Roslyn / Leona http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/dungeon-siege-iii/credits
The cosmetic industry has been using fetuses for decades without anybody making too much of a fuzz, although it gets mentioned every now and then when there are no spectacular wars to report from.
He was probably at least partially a product of his time, France falling apart at the seams during the revolution and the initial struggle of the revolutionary army trying to hold it together. All the surrounding monarchies agreed on one thing, that idea had to be stomped out before it spread. As a general, entirely subjective opinion of mine, I think he wasn't so much a brilliant strategist/tactician as he was a brilliant motivator that could exact superhuman performances from the men serving under him. Seriously, he was a disaster when it came to cavalry operations and nobody had the knack of wasting naval resources faster or more efficient than Napoleon. Artillery and infantry was what he knew how to use.
Soylent Green Babyfood. I'll sell the idea to Nestl
Yet Bulow had to save Wellesley's butt when he from superior positions was about to have his lines fold and run back to Brussels. The Napoleonic wars had so many pitched battles, countries constantly changing sides that it can be hard to keep track of who at any given time was at war with who. Only certainty was the eternal enmity between England and France. Besides Borodino, how many "pitched battles" did the Russians and French fight?
Your tax money at work... I guess they can't even use black humour to describe their predicament. There is such a thing as not being unnecessarily offensive and then there is PC taken to ridiculous levels where you can't say anything without it getting analysed twice over.
Hence my previous question, how do you define "greatest army"?
But the 5 military groups listed were definitely world powers. They created empires. Not that they weren't impressive achievements for their time, but only the Roman empire lasted more than 20 years. True dat. (Mongols can make a case for a bit longer, but not by much.) Touching one of my favourite subjects listed previously, the descendants of Timur. The Mughal Empire actually lasted until the 19th century, so I guess I was wrong about that one, making it one more lasting for lots of centuries
But the 5 military groups listed were definitely world powers. They created empires. Not that they weren't impressive achievements for their time, but only the Roman empire lasted more than 20 years.
I suspect they are "westerners". Personally I would attribute the rise to major power to Ivan the Terrible in late 1500's, even if in the end of his reign he got his nose bloodied by the Swedish and Lithuanian armies. Moving the goal line isn't fair... we were talking military powers, not world powers
