Recent content by dasqoot

If you don't physically need the game on day 1, timed exclusives can be quite good for consumers on other platforms. Usually, on PC anyway, we get the game much cheaper, fully vetted and get all the DLC bundled for free. Then wait a week after release and see if the controls or UI were...

I used to play MTG back in the 90s, still have my decks actually. Would be interesting to see which cards are banned now, which cards are worthless now because of new abilities and which cards are so old and forgotten that they are not ever encountered. Decks are White/Blue for 1v1...

I was at the E3 event when they were really showing what people wanted in the game. There was a huge 20 foot wide wrap around LCD monitor showing the cut fish stage, and showing tactical combat in the RTS phases. All the official statements for the game were that each stage would be in depth and...

I personally did not play much of Sins of a Solar Empire, but it's a very beautiful game with a very slick UI and controls. Although I bought both Homeworld games new, I've never played much (mostly skirmishes). A bit hardcore for me, but they are considered classics for many reasons. SC2...

Tl;dr from someone who bought it day one: it's very interesting and fun to play around with, but there's almost nothing to it. Each phase just has one basic click interaction. Space has a few terraforming interactions you can do, but they are meaningless and there is no goal or reward besides...

The patches doubled the FPS on my system (GTS 450, about 4 1/2 years old and definitely lower end when it was released, 2gb ram, winXPsp3 32bit). Game runs at 1920x1080 all settings high, not maxed, with usually Netflix or youtube running on the second monitor. The game should pretty much...

Sounds kind of like a Star Control game. I only ever played 3, but that had the different atmospheres, real time battles and total laser domination.

I've only bought Shivering Isles for Oblivion, Heart of Darkness for Victoria 2, Lair of the Shadow Broker and Kasumi for Mass Effect 2 and Awakenings for Dragon Age Origins. I'm about 75% unsatisfied between all of those purchases, and probably will never buy DLC again (I did really, really...

Most likely Total Annihilation Kingdoms.

I'll second these guys above with recommending Bioware games. Some of the older ones can be pretty challenging at normal difficulty, but very hack and slash and diablo-y at low difficulty. Bump the difficulty up and you might have to plan out every fight carefully. Baldur's Gate w/ Tales of...

If you've ever played the earlier Everquest expansions, you know that a single death can sometimes set you back by days of experiencing. Worse is the fact that it's definitely dangerous where you died, and your corpse stays there until you can get to it again. Compounding this were the "hell...

Ladder scene in FEAR was the worst for me. It was 3 or 4 in the morning in a dark room with headphones and I think I woke up my roommates. That was the only thing that has ever made me jump, but The Cradle in Thief 3, and actually quite a lot of levels throughout the Thief games had me almost...

Jeez Simulord, I came to say Aerobiz Supersonic, PTO II and Victoria Revolutions, but you seem to already know all my obscure loves. Strange thing about Victoria is that my friends who love its historical bookends, EU3 and HOI2, can't stand the middle game, which is my favorite by far.