Recent content by Sadan01

Hey ranters and fangirls... For some reason, I got a mysterious email from Civfanatics advising that someone has posted a new rant on Civ V. I haven't posted in this thread for what would be almost 12 months which is about the same time since I uninstalled Civ V in pure disgust that Firaxis...

Ah crap. You stole my idea! :lol: After reading what EA is going to do to the Syndicate franchise, I suspect that is what will happen here. Civ VI will be a FPS so those GIANT DEATH ROBOTS can look even more real. :rolleyes:

I suspect we are talking too soon about how it will compare to Civ as if history may be repeating itself. As you wrote before, the developers listened to feedback so it may not be as bad as you originally feared? I certainly won't turn my nose up at a new HOMM game. I guess we'll have to wait...

A lot of games are doing it. Compare DiRT3 with the original Colin McRae's DiRT. The races in the original are far longer and much more difficult. MMOs have been dumbing themselves down since WoW. It's all for instant gratification. Many folks in a certain demographic do not have long...

I don't want to derail too far so will keep this short and sweet. I love the HOMM series (especially II and III, like most people) and have heard/read bugger all about HOMM6. I wasn't that impressed with HoMM-V even though it was so much better than IV. What kind of changes were they...

Actually, my comment was in reference to different teams looking after different aspects of their products and when they "cross-over" there tends to be quite a bit of in-fighting for design methods. However, I do agree with your statement regarding versioning and as it should be. Actually...

Yes, much like how they want to discourage gold-farming and item-farming. :rolleyes: As long as Blizzard is getting a cut, they don't care. In fact, if Blizzard could somehow get a cut from piracy of their games without the retailer, I'm sure they'd be all for that too. <snip>

It still doesn't really mean anything as Google still update the version number of Chrome for little things like changing an icon or adding one small feature. I guess Mozilla's crime is that they're blatantly using the version number whereas Google isn't doing this actively. However in practice...

Hmm. All we need is a few large publishers buying out respected development teams, cordoning off sections of the market with "franchised" games and we have a somewhat of a monopolistic view of the games industry. Of course, that would never happen ;) Hint: EA, Activision-Blizzard, Take-Two...

What a load of crap. If we're talking about why LAN-play is missing, then this response seems appropriate. As they're talking about pure single-player I can only assume Diablo III is going to chat to Blizzard's servers when it wants to drop some loot? No? Or does this quote apply to the...

Keep checking back on this page. It shows that Firefox 7.0 is due to be released on September 27, 2011 and Firefox 8.0 moves into BETA on the same date which most likely means Firefox 8 will be released in October or early November. We could be seeing Firefox 9 before the end of the year...

Even though I do not agree with the model Mozilla are following with releasing a new version every six weeks or so, considering that Google change the Chrome icon and increase Chrome up half a version level, I cannot fault Mozilla for doing almost the same thing. As deanej says, most version...

Hmm. I have won a number of times on deity difficulty on Civilization V. By your definition I should love [civ5] because I have "beaten" the game? It is this reason among many others as to why I dislike the game. The AI is too easy to exploit. Edit - Other players will disagree as they were able...

There are so many great points you make that I agree with in your post however the one I have quoted above really stands out in my mind. You explain exactly how I feel about Firaxis and the franchise that is Civilization. I'm sure your post will be picked apart by those that cannot seem to...

So what changed from Civ V then to Civ V now? Why couldn't you get into it to begin with? After doing more thinking about it, I think my root dislike(s) of Civ V are 1UPT, a lack of depth (all games basically play out the same way - build military and use the AI's complete lack of tactics...