Recent content by Niveama

Umm total an utter bullshit: the fluff is the tru ability and the TT is an attempt to make a game balanced to actually play. If you ahd actually bothered to read any fluff properly, you'll see that is not the way the universe works. A Space Marine strike force in the fluff can be as little...

I am proud to say that I have kept my Mega Drive (personally I prefer our UK name) for the exact same reason. Herzog Zwei was the first game I bought for it (and in fact the first game I had ever bought), but it was down to complete chance as I was actually after a top down scrolling shoot...

I'm just pleased that Herzog Zwei got a mention as it's so often overlooked by the PC RTS mainstream, I bought when I first got my mega drive thinking it was a different style of game all together. Once I got my head round what it was I loved it. As for trying to get Dune II to work, really...

Another problem with modern/WW1&2 total war is that warfare in these time periods is much less city centric than previously. In that military forces did not base themselves in cities, yes there were many battles in and around those cities, but once the battles were over the forces did not...

Mechwarrior 4 CTF was one of my favs too, and I played CTF almost exclusively because it was the only game mode that truly made use of all the classes. It was awesome, I too was a runner, i loved just running around like your life depended on it(because it did) and unlike all other CTF in...

Can't believe that Shamus miss that a large number of the founding members of Westwood left when EA shut the studio and set up Petroglyph games. And that they are developing the potentially awesome End of Nations MMORTS game. A persistant game world RTS made by the people behind C&C, yes...

At the moment this game is a monthly pay to play game, although I predict it will at some point go free to play. Simply because it is aimed squarely at kids in both design and gameplay, how many parents are going to happily pay a monthly fee for "little Jimmy" to play an online MMO I don't...

I totally agree with this article and thread, but especially this part, back in the day me and my friends would play quake 2 on the PS1 well into the night on a mid sized CRT TV and it was strain-o-vision experience, yet we did it time and time again cos nothing beats shooting your mate in the...

Not sure how rare it is but it certainly wasnt mainstream when it came out, and is regarded as the first true RTS, Herzog Zwei on the megadrive. Still got it at home lost the manual tho :( do have all my passcodes for all the beaten levels to make up for it.

My launch day PS2 is still happy to play should it be asked tho these days it's pretty much just a dvd player. The amount of hours I played on that awesome machine is mindblowing. Happy Birthday.

That is a fair point that they have not acted in a particularly adult manner about it. But to be banned for exploiting means that they specifically knew what was causing the bug. You cannot exploit a system unless you know the cause. Blizzard were able to work out the cause, that much is...

Normally I tend to only lurk around these forums and don't post but personally I feel the need to defend Ensidia here. Why? cos i give a sh*t about them? Not really, but, as a WoW player I respect the amount of time and effort they put into a game. When I heard about the ban and the reasons...

Fishy I'm thinking more like squidy...... As has been said already it did seem a little slow to start as if they were all just there to pick a big pay check but weren't totally convinced that it was a good idea. But it did definately pick up as the episode goes on. Will be interesting to...