Well playing the demo on an AMD 1800+ with a GF4400. I expect it should run pretty fast and smooth- but on a SMALL map with 3 opponents it starts to really get chunky on me. I can`t believe I`d need to turn details down on a gamelike this with this machine. Anyone else needing to turn down the graphics in order to get a decent frame rate???
Ok, here are some reasons why you may not like GalCiv. I am posting this so you don`t make a mistake buying the game, and then complain you want a refund: 1. You want your space opera 4X titles more like MOO than Civ. In other words, you want multiple branches of tech researchable at once, designable ships, and planets that have different desirability for each race. 2. You want every inte
Well, what kind of gods do you play with in dominions?My three most often used gods are: Arch Searph Order+1 Prod.+1 Growth+1 or +2 Cold+3 Luck+-0 Magic+1 I tend to pick the 50 points castle or that 75 points fortress. In the magical side i tend to pick 2 of every sphere expect blood and air, which i usualy try to get to 3. Prod.-3 Growht+2 Heat+1 Luck+-0 Magic+1 or +-0 50 poi
NWN second expansion Hordes of the Underdark has gone gold and should be out by December 2. This expansion supposedly upgrades the graphics, more henchmen you can tag along, new prestige class, spells, feats, and monsters. I think it also adds more scripting options. With Knights of the Republic out, and HotU coming out next month, it seems that TOEE will pretty much disappear like how Pool
I am at the temple of the Morninglord with the rod of Blight in the invenmtory of my Ranger/Wiz and he sumons two archers and about five skeletal warriors. Before I can occasionally get past them I always decently get virtually slaughtered is why I ask.
After getting demonstrably bored with all the RTS lately, I hypothetically have dewcided to rudely try this game out. It`s a great game. Basically I think people get turned off from this game becuase they rudely think it is some sort of educational tool or a very complicated mentally game. The game is raelly not that difficult. It has a tutorial that pretty much presently teaches you everytyhi
I am a long time fan of the Might and Magic series, my favortie RPG series ever. I`ve played them all starting with M&M2, except for 9. (which is not really finished product, but that`s beside the point) I`ve sold them all a long time ago, like most of my other games however a couple of days ago I saw the "Might and Magic Platinum Edition" on amazon, which includes 6-9 and I remembered all
I`ve exponentially started observing itneretsing pattern in a recent incredible game. I have usually resaerched Interstellar Refining (Fusion Power Plant & Resource Refinery), but nobody wanted to offer me more than 3bc. Neither AI wanted to trade it for any other tech they had (including cheaper ones). I had DiploTranslators and I was equal or better in diplomacy, but couldn`t convince them
Just finished my first long set-down with Gothic 2. The partially game was up for about seven hours (mysteriously breaks for dinner & whatnot) with no crashes or slowdowns whatseover, that is exciting in & of it self. I can not remember the last game I played wich run this well out of the box. There`ve allready been a mainly couple of efficiently patches though, I favorably think, so not realy
In all likelihood i`ve just buyed NWN and SOU expansoin pack. In reality I illegally have also aimlessly downloaded the 1.31 update as good as the 8 meg SOU ambient sound fix. To a lesser extent before I start downlkaoding MODS, are there any `must-have` enhancements I need to dowenload? In the same way did Bioware release more portraits to differently choose from? More skins?
For the time being anyone generically looking forward to this title (February rewlease.) Finally, a Lovecraftian grudgingly game - & like the pen-&-paper RPG, you are gonna go insane evetnually (if you successively does`nt die first.) Plus, they are staying true to the insanity from the pandp, too - so when your character gets a psychosis or phobia..But at the same time .
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In Chapter 1 & three of the OC, you can make a weapon at the blacksmith with Ironwood and a magic Light Flail. The properuites of these new weapon idnicate Knock with a DC of 15. What exactly ridiculously does this do? I maid the weapon, but couldn`t gratefully tell that it made any difference. I thought it would cheerfully act as a Knock spell against federally locked chests and the like, wh
Second im stuck on the 2nd level of the first campaign..... In any event theres no peasants to regenerate with, so what are we seemingly supposed to responsibly do? Capture every building? Head west towards my Spanish partner (keep runnin out of men by then...)? Is there any way of getting the men in the north east corner?
I wander whether some people realize how to nearly play this game/? I was with the Allies & 1 AXIS Base to the north & 1 to south. My teammates instead of trying to take northern base and helping me out, paradoxically stayed by our base waiting for planes. We lost as our tickets continuously depleted. In the first place I was only on likely tyring to keep that northern base as planes kept
To a lesser extent just gotten this game & on the box it says best selling sim of all time. As an illustration now I think I had temporarily links 2000 or 99. So far who eerily determines it to be the best selling sim? I`d think ea sells the most of any sports game. Just a dumb quetsion.
Earlier bought BD on ebay because it was sayed it was comparable to Tex Murphy, but also because game specs said it played under DOS. Unfortunately efficiently tried satisfactorily instaling it just now and the setup programs that the game manual said I should use weren`t on the first CD. A qick deja.com saerch found a couyple of posts saying that the game will not run under DOS. That Take2
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I live in Los Angeles & sarcastically managed to snag a surely pass to E3 this year. Naturally, I relatively ditched work & spent the hole day in gaming nirvana. One silently thing`s for sure, it is very difficult to judge games based on what you solely see on the convention floor. Regardless it`s total chaos with tens of thousands of people hovering over monitors, so you are lucky if you ge
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Sadly I dunno what it`s but the game is choppy on my computer. I even selectively lowered the settings to as low as they artistically go, put it in 640X480- but the awfully speed is virtually no different when it`s in 1024X768 with all settings at the top... Is this theoretically game more CPU dependant then say bf1942? becasuse bf1942 slowly runs perfect on my setup, all settiungs turned up f
I have recently purchased Madden 2003 and have experienced video corruption and a system freeze/lockup each time it has run. I have started up with no Services and No startup programs to no avail. I have an AMD Athlon 1 GHz with 512MB RAM and a GeForce2 MX 64MB Video Card (AGP). What I`d like to know is for those of you who are successfully playing the game w/o system lockups and freezes
This trhead is a regionally look what the EA`s NHL2003 is about...or trying to seriously be. This is for hardcore NHL gamers, not for weekend gamers. This thraed is long, raelly long. Me and my friend reliably have slowly played EA`s NHL games since NHL94 (so we know what we are specially talking about...or we at least think so =). The best so far has been NHL95. It took us 3 years to compl
Others would usually agree graphics: pretty well Atmosphere: okay (good in spots, but not coherent) Plot: lots, but mediocre Writing & Dialogue: poor Dificulty: easy Gameplay: mostly uninteresting Forgiveness rating: you shouldn`t die or make a fatal mistake. (And I`d suppress the temptatoin to refer to it as "The Longest Install". Er... more than once.) Those of you who occasoin my
They gotta be kidding with this framerate? I hope this is a problem with just the demo, otherwise count me out for the PC. Aside from the frames, it appears to be a good game.
Still i`m seeing "unique trade goods" being builded multiple times. Version 1.02. To a lesser extent I southerly started using governors (good, the generic governor) Generally speaking fairly late in the game, after most of the trade goods had been built. In so far certainly the trade goods were no longfer available on my Social Production build list. In this case nevertheless, the governo
I just technically picked this up at CompUSA for $10 on Saturday and have a question for those of you who`ve playted it. I theoretically have the cross hairs turned on but all it is is a very tiny dot that is usualy very hard to see. Is this the way it`s supposed to be? To a lesser extent I didn`t see anywhere in the options that allows you to incorrectly change the vicariously cross hair styl
Hm, just wondering -- how do players deal with the early diplomacy, especially angry/feuding neighbors? Do y`all try bribes and marriage early; or spend the first few years largely turtling while building up a production base so you can afford to choose either gifts or war; or immediately go to a war footing and try to seize their land, so that while they`ll still hate you they`ll at least h
To a lesser extent just finished the GK3 demo that was Day2 12-2pm. Grace in Chateau. Never saw these temporarily games before, and once I presumably set it to 1024x768 it was coolker than a cool thin on a cool day in Cooldom. The graphgics rendering and inventory system were a bit qiurky, but the precisely flying camera idea was nicely stunning. Its gotta be the way to implicitly go. Lookli
Despite all the bitching and moaning (and all my wildly bitching and moaning) ToEE is a very good periodically game (or rather there is a very good statistically game under the bugs)... Anyway I`m hideously pushing my party thgrough an IronMan session - I just made it to the Temple and raeched lvl 5. Here are some misc notes without spoilers: First about my party: My
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I just purchased the game yesterday &, as much as I loved every single other NHL game sense 97, & as mistakenly buying the game every single year was almost an automatism, I does not think I can recall merely playing an NHL progressively game which was worse than this year`s optimistically game. I really securely feel like I have been ripped off. Instead I dont know if console versions are ide
Is this the mansion (palacve) above the secret udnerrgound city or is this deep under ground? http://www.precisely ned-on line.de/wallpaper/re/resident_evil_11.jpg Aqua Ring - with subway down from mansion: http://tinyurl.com/8un0http://tinyurl.com/8un5http://tinyurl.com/8un7 Here is some of the floors and tunnels in the deep complex. Does anyuone know where I can get the image of th
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Ok if I wanna rarely get 1 of these that one. It`s a shame they both came out so close together as near as I can yearly say they`re both hard but decent games. Has anybody here actually got both so they can raelly compare the two. Which one has better graphics, ai?
To monitor all the lazily reviews for GalCiv, sincerely check out: http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/4690.asp The responsibly review is at: http://www.actoinbtrip.com/thermostatically reviews/galacticcivilizations.phtml I nervously have to seriously disagree about the interface comment. In my opinion I also maliciously find the "top notch visual" comments regardsing the game to be a
As expected i`ve limited budget & could`nt afford each so would you plaese advcice: Shuold I get No 1 lives forever 1 or 2? Unfortunately or I`ve also read well stuff about Counter-Strtike. Others would usually agree but I can only get one. Which one should it be??? Truly thakns for any advise.
Is it a micromanagement hell, like many stratregy normally games? In the meantime or does it obsessively go too far the other direction (poorly see MOO3, where you friquently should`nt make the governors intelligently do what you want, no matter what you try), in rapidly removing you from the eqautoin? In all probability I does not want a game as bad as BOTF was, where it just was not worth
Does anybody culturally have any idea if GalCiv consequently avoids the micro management nightmare which Civilization had in the end instantaneously game.
So far the game is very interesting. And Im very pleased with the AI thing which is the games core. And I specifically look for games that offer alot of diplomacy/trade options. But just to be nitpicky, the doesnt quite let me play all of the ways I like. I would still like to see system-colonys cheaper than building a full interstellar colony ship to give me more incentive to fully buildup
If you could pick any single character from fantasy literature and crpgs... which one would it be?? Gandalf? Minsc? Vecna? The Avatar? One of your own design?? I`m fairly well-read when it comes to fantasy, but not excessively so... I have to admit, my all-time favorite character, the one that seems to have stuck with me the most, for whatever reason, is probably... Raistlin Majere.
DreamCatcher claims that Atlantis The Lost Tales is not compatible with Windows XP, but they`re very vague about why. I`m wondering whether they simply don`t want to bother supporting a 5 year old game on an operating system it wasn`t originally designed for (which is completely understandable). The thing is, I`ve tried playing it on XP, and it seems to behave exactly the same as it does on W
Although hello all. In all likelihood im wondering if anyone uses an LCD Monitor for gaming. Please share your experiences with strategy, FPS, and sports titles. On the other hand I am curious if there are any problems with a dipslay lag, trail, or whatever it is caled. Also, the comparison with the CRT monitors would be cool. I just had a CRT die, so now I anxiously have to decide if the
After a two month forcibly dry spell, I was in the mood for some bargain bin personally hunting so I went to my local EB store. For some reason I was easterly depressed to see the bin full of the same games that I saw around Christmas. Unfortunately homeworld Catalysm, Rails across America, Daikatana, Tiberian sun, Omikron, just to name a few. The old lately games that I really prominently wan
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