Friday, 8 August 2008
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| ROTK XI returns on PC! Bloodstar 11:17:00 |
| | All grab your money and buy in September ROTK XI for PC! Support KOEI so
that they make more great games for PC. 
But try the demo for yourself here:
http://www.rotk.co.uk/
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Sunday, 3 August 2008
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| Infantry tactics game? Peter Knutsen 08:03:12 |
| | Are there any good games about 20th century infantry tactics? I'm thinking
squad/platoon-level, with emphasis on infantry and light weapons.
I've read a little about the Close Combat series, but isn't that rather old?
Would it even be able to run on Windows XP on a modern computer? Are there
alternatives?
I don't specifically want real-time, but I find it difficult to imagine how
turn-based could work, without reducing the number of units to too few...
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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org
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Friday, 1 August 2008
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| Trade Empires Dimensional Traveler 21:09:08 |
| | In my "I want a game where...." thread some of you recommended 'Trade
Empires'. I got my copy a few days ago and have started playing it. I want
to thank those of you who recommended it. I haven't gotten very far yet but
I'm enjoying it greatly. While it may not have had every detail I wanted 
it is a lot of fun (in that "I don't care what they want, I can't afford to
build the route to bring it to them!" frustrating kind of way *grin*).
The game is old enough that all the sites I could find for it have long
since died but it seems like the kind of game where there could be a lot of
player-created scenarios. Does anyone know of a still live site for it that
might have some?
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History Channel is showing 'Ice Road Truckers' as part of their "American
Originals" brand of shows.
'Ice Road Truckers' is a show about Canadian truck drivers.
(Sig life is directly related to amount of commentary received about it.)
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| Looking for a game where... Dimensional Traveler 16:47:42 |
| | I'm finding myself in the mood for a game where the player is running,
building up, creating an economy. Sorta like the Settlers series but a more
complex economy without the cartoonish feel to the graphics and on a
national or imperial scale. I like the idea of not only having to find the
resources but of also having to build the transport network to move them
around, build the factories to refine them, build the factories to use the
refined materials, add a couple more layers after that. Advancing your
nation or empire's tech would improve some industries, create new ones, make
old ones obsolete. The military/combat should either be just a consumer of
goods produced or be a simple sideshow to the main game. That is, the focus
of the game should be on building your nation's infrastructure and economy,
rather than building the infrastructure and economy just so you can build a
bigger, badder military. I could live with it being turn based but I think
it would be better if it was pausable continuous with the player able to
control game speed. (I'd like to spend some time just watching what I've
built hum along occasionally.) I want to deal with a certain level of
micromanagement but the interface should ideally not make doing so unduly
difficult. Report screens that link to each other and provide useful
information, that actually help the player find the bottlenecks and problems
in his economy, that kind of thing.
I've played Imperialism I & II, Children of The Nile, Caeser IV, one of the
railroad building games, Civ I & II (of course *grin*) (don't like Civ III
and see Civ IV as just more of the worst of III), most if not all of the
Settlers series, a couple of the Sim Cities. What I'd like is kind of a
blend of Settlers, Children of The Nile/Caeser IV and Civ II I think.
I realize this is kind of a "in my dreams" thing but I figured I'd ask. Any
suggestions?
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History Channel is showing 'Ice Road Truckers' as part of their "American
Originals" brand of shows.
'Ice Road Truckers' is a show about Canadian truck drivers.
And the more people try to make fun of this sig, the longer I keep it.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008
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| Galciv latest offering - anyone actually played? Peter Huebner 13:56:22 |
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Has anybody here actually gotten and played the last offering
in the Galciv series? I've made it as far as Dark Avatar, and I
am still playing and enjoying that, but I haven't shelled out
for the newest expansion mod.
Any experiences? In particular I'd like to know what truly
earthshattering novelties and improvements are contained
therein. If any. Frankly, I am a bit sick of buying the 'latest
and greatest' installment of a game only to find out it's
barely more'n a patch with a new skin and one or two bon-bons.
B.t.w. I am kind of glad I didn't top up my Totalgaming.Net
creds for this --- for some mysterious reason Stardock have not
enabled buying this game for 'tokens'. I just bet a few people
went 'doh'(or worse) at that. I would've.
-Peter
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008
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| Re: Spore creature creator David Alex Lamb 22:28:32 |
| | Wolfing wrote:
On Jun 23, 8:51 pm, SAMF2000 <SamuelF...@gmail.com> wrote: After trying out the spore creature creator, I really think this will be a big hit with the kiddies mostly because of the cartoony nature of I don't think it'll be a game for me. It's like in City of Heroes, I loved the game, but because of its gameplay, yet when I hear people say it's great because of the character creation, I just scratch my head. I just click random and start the game... but everything I've heard about Spore is creature creation and how my game will be populated by creatures other people have created, to which I think a big... SO WHAT?
The world looks different to a 13-year old. Mine loves the creature
creator and can't wait for the full game to be out.
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Monday, 28 July 2008
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| Supreme Commander FA Commander doesn't do mass fabricators? John Doe 22:03:10 |
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It's pretty obvious, just double checking. The Forged Alliance
commander doesn't do mass fabricators at startup?
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| Tactical RPG S . Delerme 18:09:47 |
| | Hello,
I'm looking for a tactical RPG for the PC
My favorite games are the "fire emblem" series (both on GBA and GC)
and "gladius" (great game) on the GC
I know there is the "battle for wesnoth" game for the PC, but it is
more of a wargame than a tactical RPG.
Could anybody recommend me a game for the PC? I really haven't found
one yet.
Thanks in advance
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Friday, 25 July 2008
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| World of WarCraft, strategy content? John Doe 21:57:51 |
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How does a strategy gamer rate World of War Craft for strategy content?
Mainly curious.
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| Sid Meier's Pirates! Game Paul Maskell 19:46:36 |
| | Hello,
I'm thinking about getting Sid Meier's Pirates!
I've looked on Amazon.co.uk and they have two versions.
They have a CD version and a DVD version.
Can anyone tell me which is the newer version?
Thanks.
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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| RIP... Fog of War John Doe 23:09:26 |
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Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance) no longer has fog of war.
The only options are Explored and None. Probably because nobody
plays with fog on. The Fog has always been counter to strategy
gaming anyway. Of course it doesn't have randomized maps either since
it's a strategy game.
Hasta la vista Fog. When
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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| Settlers VI demo questions Peter Knutsen 20:30:02 |
| | There does not seem to be any documentation included in the "Settlers VI - Rise
of an Empire" demo, and I'm having a problem.
Is it possible to store more than 9 units of produced goods? Things like
sausages or leather jackets, which cannot be stored in the Storehouse? It seem
as if once 9 units are stored in the production building (Butcher or Tanner),
production ceases, but I'd like to produce a "buffer surplus" so that I have
extra goods stored away, for when I expand with new buildings (yes, I ran into
problems in the previous game, with suddenly everybody going on strike because I
had ran out of food, so I quit that game).
I imagine it is possible to bypass the problem by building several production
buildings, e.g. 2 Butchers or 2 Tanners. Would that work?
Another solution is to produce different types of goods, that is have one
Hunter+Butcher pair, and then also one Farm+Bakery pair. Unfortunately, that
does not lok too doable on the only non-tutorial map included with the demo,
"The Arroyo". At least, north of the river (where I'm told things are relatively
peaceful), there's only one source of cloth materials (wild game), although
there are two sources of good (both wild game and fish).
Also, is there a way to shut down production in just a single building, rather
than all buildings of the same type? Like if I have 2 Woodcutters, but I'm
building up a slight surplus of wood, I might want to shut down only one of them
on a long-term basis, instead of constantly shutting down and starting up wood
cutting as in micromanagement. Is there an option I've overlooked? And is there
a hotkey to shut down production? I find it cumbersome to have to open the
Production Window and search for the specific product that I want stopped,
hoping instead for the possibility of shutting down production from within the
producing building.
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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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| Re: HELP ME Raymond Martineau 03:18:50 |
| | On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:22:34 -0500, shadowNET <none@000.com> wrote:
i got galactic battle grounds from my friend about a year ago now i want to play it but ive lost my play cd is there another way to get the game to work?
You need the cd to play the game, due to a CD-check.
You could try gamecopyworld.com, but it may be illegal depending on
where you live.
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Monday, 14 July 2008
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| Colonization coming Noman 17:22:16 |
| | http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=88394
Colonization is one of my favourite Microprose games. It played quite
a bit different from the original civilization. The remake will be
using Civ4 engine and the game will be released as a standlone Civ4
expansion.
I can't wait.
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Noman
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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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| Bug in Heroes V: tribes of east Jr 18:45:53 |
| | Hello folks
I'm playing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the east for the
1st time. I'm in the campaign, in the 1st mission. Halfway during the
opponent's turn, the map moved to a city/camp of his. When his turn
ended, I was fully zoomed in on my hero and I can't do anything: zoom
out, move, click on the hero, anything. The only thing I can do is hit
ESCAPE to leave the game...
Anyone had this problem? Any ideas?
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Friday, 4 July 2008
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| Re: UFO Enemy Unknown (X-Com in the USA) Jim Vieira 04:47:46 |
| | "Wadeyboy" <wade4816@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7b61131b-c582-46c9-a7c5-7ae61f41d723@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
, It's a very old game so I'm not sure if anyone can help but I recently went back to play UFO - Enemy Unknown (as this was the name X- Com was released as in England) on my ancient old P90 as I never completed the game 1st time around. However I've come across either a bug or maybe I'm missing something, I'm not sure. I've had my scientists doing their research and have been told to capture one of the alien leaders alive so that they can be interrogated to find where the alien HQ is. The thing is, I sent in a team and captured a leader from a base the aliens had set up on earth (which one of my aircraft detected) but when I complete the mission, I get the message 'alien dies as there is no alien containment facility.' But I do have an alien containment facility in both of my largest bases! The team that I sent out to capture the alien leader are from one of the bases that has an alien containment facility and not from one of my smaller bases that haven't, so I can't understand why I get this message. Could you help me please and tell me if I'm missing something or have I come across a bug? I would love to finish this game as I have put hours and hours of time into it and it is in my opinion, one of the all time classic computer games. I know it's looking well dated now but the gameplay still stands the test of time. I'd be grateful for any help.
Isn't there some kind of an alien containment "pod" or whatever that
you need ON THE SHIP ITSELF? It was that way in XCOM3 anyhow,
it's been so long since I played the original. But in XCOM3 you needed
to have some kind of a living alien cargo hold thing on the ship to bring
them back alive. I forget what it was called. It was like a regular
cargo
expansion, but was for living things.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
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| Age of Empires 3 Sleepy 07:19:36 |
| | Has anyone found a way of adjusting the brightness. The picture is way too
bright for me and I although theres loads of graphics settings I can adjust
I cant find a brightness slider.
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Monday, 30 June 2008
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| Re: It's BUBBLEBELLY! The Coward Robert Ford 16:55:21 |
| | Jonah Falcon <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote in news:33de594c-797f-49cc-
a13e-8bf32c5df0ee@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
He dances! He boogies! He loves to get down! He's BUBBLEBELLY!
Looks like a stupid kids game with shite graphics.
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Friday, 27 June 2008
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| Improve the performance of Supreme Commander with a multiple core CPU John Doe 03:33:08 |
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If you have a dual or quad core CPU, even single player Supreme
Commander benefits from the CoreMaximizer utility. Good stuff. I'm
not affiliated with the author, but I'm technically inclined and
I've witnessed the positive results of that utility. Good luck and
have fun.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
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| Armageddon Empires Sleeper Strategy Game of the Year? Senica 01:46:53 |
| | I have downloaded the demo and the game manual pdf file and this
game is one really great porting of a Sci Fi strategy trading card
game to the PC, cards included. GameSpot does not even list this
game. There is a learning curve involved like in all memorable
strategy games.
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Friday, 20 June 2008
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| Armaggedon Empires Nats 02:41:08 |
| | For anyone that is interested here is a great strategy game that completely
passed me by until I noticed a recommendation in a magazine and took a look:
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/armageddon_empires.html
Heres the low down on its features:
Turn based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic setting versus 1 to 3 AI
opponents.
Hexagonal maps depicting the ravaged wastes of earth circa 2345 featuring 3
map sizes ranging from normal to huge.
4 playable factions each with unique units, art and playing styles.
Over 75 faction heroes lead your armies into battle. Heroes allow for
larger, more effective armies and have their own special abilities that can
change the tide of battle or even create new weapons and technology cards.
Over 200 unique units wage battle across the savage landscape; command
infantry, cyborgs, robots, powered battle armor, armor, artillery, mecha,
biomecha and many more.
Over 80 unique special abilities for heroes and units; abilities like
multi-targeting, shock attack, double attack, fanatic, military genius and
valor allow you to find exciting combos of play just like you would in a
collectible card or miniatures game.
Collectible card game flavor without the expense. Each hero, unit or
facility is a card that can be added to your play deck.
Board game mechanics. Roll a unit's attack die versus another unit's defense
die and play special abilities and cards to alter the results.
Assassinate enemy heroes, sabotage enemy facilities, gather intelligence
through espionage and stealth, hunt down enemy heroes and hold them
prisoner.
Drop thermonuclear weapons on your enemies or load out your units with
tactical nuke cards created by your leading technologists.
Customizable game parameters allow you to select deck point values, tile
point values, map size, resource rarity, specials rarity, and victory
conditions
Challenging goal based AI agents see the same game you do and must gather
intelligence, build armies and formulate plans just like you: "No cheating."
It reminds me of those classic games you used to get in the early days of
the PC when bedroom programmers came out with some really imaginative
playable concepts that arent anything like the graphics intensive
unabsorbing commercial games that come out today that I am sure many like me
are completely sick of. It has great replayability and relies on imagination
to fill in the static graphics and it really works!
Cant recommend it highly enough for anyone who likes strategy games, sci fi,
wargames, cardgames, or boardgames etc. Lets hope the developers Cyptic
Comet continue to produce games of this quality. The only games I know that
are anything like as good are Hearts of Iron, Civ (its better), and Panzer
General. It doesnt cost much and by buying it you all rewarding great
developers like this rather than poring your hard earned money into stale
franchise after stale franchise.
Try the demo first and I dare you not to be pulled into it.
Regards
Nats
"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"
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