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I don't mind the spreadsheet interface; one of the earliest games I played was a precursor to Civilization and was text based (each turn giving the player a new screenful of updated status). I meant that the spreadsheet-interface wasn't best suited to a console, television and control pad.

I think flatpanel monitors would have added a neat update to the game, too. "

I just found it amusing that the developers decided to use a familiar diminutive personification for the assets: "Arty". :D

I wouldn't have thought anyone uses C# for game development ... it's a web technology.

Not so spreadsheet-interface, then?

I think they have scaled up the BIG things, too, like the dam and the reactor, from HUGE to LUDICROUSLY LARGE.

What that game called again? It's the Airborne Assault series. Published by http://www.matrixgames.com (same dudes publishing War in the Pacific, alanschu's latest fling). The two games available right now are Highway to the Reich (Operation Market Garden) and Conquest of the Aegean (invasion of Greece/Crete). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And what is "Arty direct support only" code for?

It'd be better than Portughanistani pop, too. "

Well, actually, we can't tell what improvements they have made (if any) to the already good AI, for example, so it wasn't necessarily a snide remark in that respect, either. I did notice that the dam seems to be a LOT bigger than in the first one: the broken down ute in the middle of it is tiny compared to my recollection of the first game.

*cough* And other posts in this thread too ... " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey, you try being a mod and reading all this garbage and see how much you take notice of ... "

Evidently not. ^_^

I thought Palms used Symbian? Windows CE is still Windows: i.e. bloatware.

Careful, you don't want to confront EdD'Oh with his nature or he'll disappear and something more complex will appear in his place ... like a sea cucumber

Then I trust you won't throw your back out.

Myth. "Fired" was worse than getting "the sack" because one's tools were incinerated rather than given (in a sack) to take away on the search for new employment. (I think you had to steal something, or worse, to get fired.) Because that is the verbatim text he spoke.

Yeah, that's more a basic understanding of physics (moments of force about a hinge joint) ... so I'd blame your science teacher (or you, if you didn't pay attention).

Anyone who laughs at the pirate police.

I think that was a good example of keeping the audiences attention: that must be the most famous of all Shakespeare's lines in all his work, so the fact that there is a chance it wasn't said helps to differentiate the tv series, sustain some anticipation from the audience as they strain to hear the phrase, and underscore the uncertainty inherent in historical recording (due to apologists, renaissances and revisionists, or whatever). I thought that worked well, though I confess I was waiting to see if he spoke, and if he spoke in Italian (like some of the other key lines!). Maybe, as the ScottishMartialArtist intimates, the problem is having to dumb down the show to the lowest common denominator. Maybe Mel Gibson could re-do it, all in latin?

Out of the mouths of babes and Volos ...

I see psychotropics are not unusual in Japan.

Hmmm, back trouble and no sporting / exercise in your 30s ... do we see a connection?

Except that you are laughing about the misfortune of others!

I thought the plot was pretty easy to discern from the film (haven't read the book).

As you say, it's far too early to tell. A console's controller is not a bad thing, in and of itself; it's only if the developers haven't done any bespoke PC development that the game will suffer.