What are you playing now

[Jackalmonkey]

Uh-huh, you must've played the beta a lot then.

as good as it is, it's an updated SC 1, nothing more.

On the contrary, I completely agree. Perhaps I ought to have used italics to better convey my tone, but I figured that a statement as breathtakingly capacious as "every strategy game ever made" wouldn't be taken as anything but ironic.

 

I'll likely wait until the collected "battlechest" takes a price drop (in 3-4 years) before buying it.

[Oner]

Actually my gripe was with "obsolete". A 13 year old gameplay style hardly makes newer (and most of all, different) RTSs obsolete.

 

While we're at it, SC II has an "interesting" price.

[WorstUsernameEver]

Since Half Life 2 is hopelessly problematic with me apparently (after I finally fixed a problem with sound and I managed to play up to the boat-driving section, the problem reappeared after the Steam update :/) I've begun Gothic 2.

The old nostalgic feeling is all there, and after fiddling a bit with the control scheme I've managed to create something comfortably close to that of Risen. Not quite as smooth but still good fun.

And mighty hard too!

[Calax]

I never understand players sense of entitlement about "GAMES SHALL NOT INCREASE IN PRICE!"

 

it's a business, they'll go up in price, acti is just the first to do it with pc games.

 

*grumbles like a curmudgeon*

 

I'm messing around in Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 again. Playing it on my 22 inch hdmi 1080p monitor... I need to get headphones for this thing, the sound quality sucks.

[Oner]

I never understand players sense of entitlement about "GAMES SHALL NOT INCREASE IN PRICE!"

 

it's a business, they'll go up in price, acti is just the first to do it with pc games.

 

*grumbles like a curmudgeon*

Great job putting BS in my mouth. Have a candy.

[Purkake]

The Wings of Liberty campaign should be pretty epic, with all kinds of crazy upgrades and units.

[Calax]

I never understand players sense of entitlement about "GAMES SHALL NOT INCREASE IN PRICE!"

 

it's a business, they'll go up in price, acti is just the first to do it with pc games.

 

*grumbles like a curmudgeon*

Great job putting BS in my mouth. Have a candy.

... I didn't do that, it's just that your post brings up some annoyance in remembrance of my soon-to-be-ex coworkers who gripe that a game is going up 10 bucks in price. Along with the numerous members of the interwebz who think that we should never have the prices on games jump from their 90's levels.

[entrerix]

wasnt warcraft 3 60 bucks too?

[Oner]

... I didn't do that, it's just that your post brings up some annoyance in remembrance of my soon-to-be-ex coworkers who gripe that a game is going up 10 bucks in price. Along with the numerous members of the interwebz who think that we should never have the prices on games jump from their 90's levels.

I see.

[Nihilus5078]

Well, when I got Split/Second, it costed me 50 bucks. Guess Blackrock Studio and Disney are following activisions footsteps.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

... why should PC games cost less than console games again?

[Purkake]

Bu... but tradition aand... things.

[Gorth]

A pox upon GG and their sales. Ended up with Bioshock (at $7, how much can you really lose?) and East India Company. Only downloaded them though, still playing Space Rangers 2. It is strangely addictive

[Purkake]

Ended up with Bioshock (at $7, how much can you really lose?)

Well, you can still loose ~20h of your life, but it's not really that bad if you know what to expect.

[Gorth]

Ended up with Bioshock (at $7, how much can you really lose?)

Well, you can still loose ~20h of your life, but it's not really that bad if you know what to expect.

That's the thing, not really expecting much. First there was the DRM thing (I read that the 1.1 patch removed the limited activations), then people complained about this and that. All I've ever seen from it are the youtube trailers. You could say curiosity simply got the better of me

[Purkake]

It's certainly worth checking out, just for the cool art deco stuff and old music.

 

I made the mistake of getting all hyped for the second coming of System Shock.

[mkreku]

I made the mistake of getting all hyped for the second coming of System Shock.

I bought the Collector's Edition.

[unskilled-]

It's certainly worth checking out, just for the cool art deco stuff and old music.

 

I made the mistake of getting all hyped for the second coming of System Shock.

 

Go play DeadSpace if your looking for the second coming of System Shock (1 and 2).

[Starwars]

Dead Space had some great lighting but that's about it. Was incredibly underwhelmed by it after hearing so many great things about it, thought it was very mediocre.

[Purkake]

I made the mistake of getting all hyped for the second coming of System Shock.

I bought the Collector's Edition.

At least you got a pretty little paperweight out of it.

 

It's certainly worth checking out, just for the cool art deco stuff and old music.

 

I made the mistake of getting all hyped for the second coming of System Shock.

 

Go play DeadSpace if your looking for the second coming of System Shock (1 and 2).

Does not compute.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Dead Space is like Bioshock: buy into the hype and you will be incredibly disappointed. Otherwise they're both pretty good games.

[Purkake]

Dead Space is more of an improvement on the Resident Evil formula, if you like that kind of games.

 

And whatever your expectations, it' still too long.

Edited July 21, 2010 by Purkake

[Big Bottom]

Uh-huh, you must've played the beta a lot then.

as good as it is, it's an updated SC 1, nothing more.

 

They didn't really set out to revolutionize anything with SC2, did they? I'll still buy it but it's a pity.

[Purkake]

Starcraft doesn't really lend itself for something crazy like a Supreme Commander style map or Company of Heroes style level design. I'm glad they're sticking with what works.

 

If they'll innovate, it'll be with a new IP.

Edited July 21, 2010 by Purkake

[Mamoulian War]

Starcraft doesn't really lend itself for something crazy like a Supreme Commander style map or Company of Heroes style level design. I'm glad they're sticking with what works.

 

If they'll innovate, it'll be with a new IP.

 

Interesting, how you can say that innovating starcraft2 would be new IP, and when people were disapointed about new face/innovation of XCOM you were defending the chang of IP... How do you judge what is good to innovate and what is not? Or you just write random non-sense based on who do you want to piss off?