Recent content by danisans

This is really how it works: Version III - 1 year to develop, release, 3 years of patches, DLCs and EPs Version IV - 1 year to develop (but pretend you have been secretly working on it for five years), release, 3 years of patches, DLCs and EPs Version V - 1 year to develop (but pretend you...

I am glad you enjoy the game. Fact is, despite my complaints, I am still playing it too. Just not as much as I thought I would. Hopefully somebody at Firaxis will take note of our issues with Civ V and fix it. If you have no issues with Civ V, then just don't install the upcoming patches and...

I really hate when I read that comparing vanilla Civ V to BtS Civ IV is unfair. Give me a break. If I dish out 50 bucks to buy the next instalment of a game, I expect it to be better than the previous version I am playing, patches, expansion packs and all. If it is a "vanilla" Civ V and we...

Why Civ V is not that "tactical": 1. APs are often used up immediately upon attacking. Knights and Cavaliers appear to be the only units that have true APs, where they attack and then retreat, leaving the hex for another unit to attack. 2. Knights destroy Gunships issues are numerous...

Fallout 3 was a huge disappointment for me too. But I still play the game. It isn't broken or bad. Hoping Fallout Las Vegas can bring back the depth and charm of Fallout I and II, but I won't be buying it until all the reviews are in (and then probably not until it is reduced in price)...

Panzer General Forever is not up to snuff. I crashes often on my PC and the balance is not the same, some of the original game's mechanics don't work as well, it is harder to complete some missions compared to the original, and it's tendency to spam defensive units around the last city to...

But these games still stand the test of time. I still play to this day Panzer General using DosBox. The graphics are not great but they are still functional for that type of game. A game like Loom (Loom, not Doom) really sucks when it comes to graphics but it is still as involving as it was back...

There are games like Civ V, Fallout III, Panzer General II and III that are let downs because they failed to totally get me immersed in the game like the previous versions did. They are not bad games, and I still play them... just not as often or with the same passion. I remember playing...

Those new fixes are all pretty good. Puppets generating gold and not screwing with your economy by building resource gulping or maintenance heavy buildings will reduce razing.

1. Fix the excessive penalties for expanding your Civ beyond 10 cities. I liked it in Civ IV when I could either win by Domination or Culture. Waiting 80 turns for the next Social Policy because I expanded my civ to the whole continent is ridiculous. 2. Provide better food yields for...

I think it will get better with a patch or two and then much better with an expansion pack. It was the same thing with Civ III and IV. Civ III had a major balance issue with corruption, distant conquered cities with 1 pop. constantly flipping and destroying all units stationed there, overly...

I tend to play on a huge Continents map and I find there is always an AI Civ that ends up crushing all other civs on the other continent. But the conquering Civ tends to do a lot of razing. With proper timing, I can usually send 4 or 5 settlers (if I have the extra happiness) on that other...

It is true that workers take a while to build early on. It was weird to see me well into my game with three cities and yet no workers. But considering the few improvements I could build early on with a worker and the limited bonuses they gave (I could get all the food I needed early on with a...

But in the original Civ III, conquering distant lands was a pain. No point taking over cities because they would take 300 turns to complete the simplest of buildings and they had a tendency to flip. My original strategy in Civ III was to raze every distant city (i.e.: other continent) and leave...

I am a huge fan of Civ since Civ II and I am NOT one of those who plays the first game of a new Civ version and declares: "I am removing this game from my hard disk and reinstalling my previous version of Civ". I know that sticking with the new version will eventually force me to adapt to the...