Recent content by thunderlips

Change is always better. The PR specialists at various Corporations keep telling me so. Here's some examples of great games that were 'misunderstood' by 'old foggy fanboys' of previous titles in the series: Ultima 9 Master of Orion 3 Hearts of Iron 3 Empire Total War Pool of Radiance: Ruins...

In this new version of chess, they eliminated checkmate, the knights, the rooks, leaving only the pawns. It harks back to that other board game played with red and black chips now. Remember those who insisted for more than a decade that only one mouse button was 'really necessary'? Just...

I should add, just to be clear, that I came to this board looking for an alternative way to get it w/o Steam, and then saw some of the comments from long time Civ players. Normally, I would have just gone to the store or D2D and got it just based on the fact that it was Civ5. I'm glad I...

I haven't brought the game because it was on Steam, I was going to wait a year or two and hope to see it on D2D. Reading the reviews carefully, including the awesome detailed report by "Sulla" ( http://www.garath.net/Sullla/Civ5/civ5SP.html ) it looks like Civ IV and expansions were like...

HOI3 had plenty of defenders, actually. That game sold really poorly, lots of people still mad at Paradox over it, and that's a company famous for buggy releases (but making them awesome later). HOI3 was particularly bad, and still isn't great. However their newest, Victoria 2, is a reversion...

I don't see the need for bloatware. I don't MP, so the MP features are important to some, but not to me. Developers have been whinging about Piracy since the 80s when I had a C64. The Developers and Distributors do very well for themselves, Two and a Half Decades ago they made gloom and doom...