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- 18 Dec 2006, 06:03
- Forum: News
- Topic: The Dark Misogynist
- Replies: 77
- Views: 23802
The Dark Misogynist
It's a simple truth that the mythology behind Succubi is inherently sexist, as any historian will tell you. It comes from the same tradition by which Dante figures the Second Circle of Hell (I think it's the second) -- which represents those who suffer from the sin of Lust -- as being populated almo...
- 05 Nov 2006, 21:34
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tom Chick on the IGN Review
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4141
Tom Chick on the 1UP Review
I just can't figure out why people who are fans of a strategy game like HoMM would even be interested in the inane world of FPS...
Edited on Sun, Nov 05 2006, 14:36 by WretchedGnu
Edited on Sun, Nov 05 2006, 14:36 by WretchedGnu
- 05 Nov 2006, 21:10
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tom Chick on the IGN Review
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4141
Tom Chick on the 1UP Review
... up to us to decide what the numbers mean? Doesn't it just mean that the game is yet another shallow first-person slasher?
- 01 Nov 2006, 02:59
- Forum: News
- Topic: Gamespot Reviews Dark Messiah
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5929
Gamespot Reviews Dark Messiah
I don't know... To me, any first-person shooter/hacker game is going to get repetetive and boring very quicky, so the reviewer's complaint in that regard doesn't surprise me. And the repetition of the game *was* his central complaint -- not the games "glitches" as this site misleadingly su...
- 18 Sep 2006, 04:19
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: After 3 patches, what is the verdict?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10505
- 05 Sep 2006, 15:31
- Forum: News
- Topic: On the Power of the Priestess
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6413
On the Power of the Priestess
Gosh, who would have thought it? A first-person slasher game is infinitely shallower than its ridiculous hype? Now where's my Oblivion coaster...
- 05 Sep 2006, 15:28
- Forum: News
- Topic: IGN Look At Upcoming Games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14524
IGN Look At Upcoming Games
Exactly. The veneration people have for WoW -- one of the most fundamentally *boring* games I ever fell asleep in front of -- is baffling.
- 12 Jul 2006, 00:36
- Forum: News
- Topic: Heroes V 1.1 Reviewed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4105
Heroes V 1.1 Reviewed
As usual, the logic of the review is that 3D is necessarily better than 2D. After all, to make his point about *why* the landscape is more beautiful than previous incarnations, all he has to do is remind his readers that those were "2D." I personally find the Heroes III maps much more aest...
- 09 Jul 2006, 21:57
- Forum: News
- Topic: Patch 1.2 News
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15655
Patch 1.2 News
I think it's a good thing to keep CivIV in mind when evaluating the "quality control" of *any* $50 computer game, whether it's a TBS or not. It's easy to excuse mediocre quality with a shrug and a "that's just the way the industry is nowadays." Not so. I've become so inured to sh...
- 29 Jun 2006, 22:54
- Forum: News
- Topic: Heroes V Still in the Top 10
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3038
Heroes V Still in the Top 10
Oblivion sucks. Its AI is worse than Heroes V -- and that's saying something.
Heroes should get another boost, though, after today's rave review in the New York Times...
Edited on Thu, Jun 29 2006, 16:54 by WretchedGnu
Heroes should get another boost, though, after today's rave review in the New York Times...
Edited on Thu, Jun 29 2006, 16:54 by WretchedGnu
- 24 Jun 2006, 07:00
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dark Messiah Warrior Video
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7057
Dark Messiah Warrior Video
uh... yeah, it looks cool -- and it looks like your opponents are about as smart and challenging as a jar of bacon grease. Looks like Ubi's got the bad AI thing down pat...
- 17 Jun 2006, 02:37
- Forum: News
- Topic: Disciples 3 Trailer and Q&A
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6727
Disciples 3 Trailer and Q&A
Well, after reading the interview, I'm a little alarmed. Every time the interviewer asks him a question about the game, he goes on and on about the graphics engine, but has almost nothing to say about major gameplay elements -- except that they're pretty much going to duplicate D2 in that regard bec...
- 17 Jun 2006, 02:18
- Forum: News
- Topic: Disciples 3 Trailer and Q&A
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6727
Disciples 3 Trailer and Q&A
If they give Disciples 3 a decent AI, as it had in the past, it'll automatically be superior to Heroes 5. Disciples 2 even gave Heroes 3 a run for its money...
- 11 Jun 2006, 04:00
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: simplicity - most important?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2778
I doubt the original poster's computer is the problem. I ran the demo on a killer machine, and the whole graphical environment worked as smoothly as it's designed to -- and yet I still agree with the original poster. Because of the way it's set up, you simply can't jump quickly from town to hero to ...
- 10 Jun 2006, 22:32
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: Serious question for those who play Single Player
- Replies: 48
- Views: 12908
Re: Serious question for those who play Single Player
Even against such cheat-favored heroes, and even if you lose against them, your subtle strategic choices never actually mattered in terms of the ultimate outcome. Actualy then they do. Especialy is you win by a small margin. Means you used the right strategy to maximize ur army. But ur right, the o...
- 10 Jun 2006, 18:45
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: Serious question for those who play Single Player
- Replies: 48
- Views: 12908
Serious question for those who play Single Player
Although the consensus seems to be that the AI in H5 is on the poor side, I don't want to debate that here: But for the purpose of the question I want to ask, I assume we can all agree that, unless dozens of people are simply lying in these forums, the following scenario does not misrepresent the ga...
- 10 Jun 2006, 00:11
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: Did MMORPGs kill HoMM's AI?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4462
Did MMORPGs kill HoMM's AI?
It's a well-known fact that the popularity of MMORPGs has altered the way game publishers and their investors (as opposed to developers) evaluate the profitability of new games. One of the "lessons" they come away with is the idea -- whether it's true or not -- that the majority of game do...
- 09 Jun 2006, 23:23
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nival Answers Again
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13715
Nival Answers Again
Nice! It will only take *two* patches for them to add descriptions of creature abilities -- only two patches to include information in the game that would actually allow people to know which resources they have at their command, and therefore know how to strategically deploy those resources. Only tw...
- 08 Jun 2006, 23:51
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: Playing against a lame AI is like.... um... Help me out here
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1793
- 08 Jun 2006, 23:05
- Forum: Heroes V-VI
- Topic: Playing against a lame AI is like.... um... Help me out here
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1793
Playing against a lame AI is like.... um... Help me out here
It's a toughie....