Krovven wrote on May 1, 2013, 18:21:
Best to watch the gameplay videos of it to answer that question. I don't know how accurate my explanation would be, as I don't really dive into the intricacies of Sim building games.

With that said Anno games to me seem to thrive on efficient placement of resource buildings that ultimately means separating all resource and building types, thus not having an intermixed city at all. So as someone said, you are building an empire, not a city. The island maps of Anno lends itself to this design, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just different. It's not totally like the Caesar games, maybe just moreso with the focus on building the Trade empire, and later on in the game the bit of RTS combat that came into play. There are just more similarities to Caesar, than say SimCity.

Anno 2070 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFLhADYd3k

I realize I'm probably in the minority, but D3 wasn't a debacle in my opinion. They had issues for the first day (which a lot of game have). Sim City over a month later is still completely broken. People still have never gotten some of their cities back, some still losing cities. As people lose cities and abandon the game, it breaks regions which fucks over any other player in that region. The Ai is still badly broken and their 2.0 patch created more bugs than it fixed. I really wanted to be enticed to get SimCity, but I luckily didn't bite on pre-ordering that one.

bullet-worm wrote on May 1, 2013, 15:21:
Imagine CoD with Illumiroom. drooooolz.

jdreyer wrote on May 1, 2013, 14:16:
20,000 Darwin award candidates.

Ma Qing, a 39-year-old bookseller, said, "I think the chance to be part of the project is a cool way for me to change a dull daily life. Besides, the air on Mars must be much cleaner and easier to breathe."

Asmo wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 18:14:

Verno wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 16:07:
The game is like 4GB, don't sweat it.

For anyone else who had those AMD Never Settle keys, apparently they're giving people who participated a free copy of this, should be in your email soon.

Lol, fucking win, I got one of those on a card that I RMA'd (already registered the games before it started fucking up) in exchange for a second nvid 680...

Be a good bonus if this code shows up. X D

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It's pretty but it's not as pretty or as high quality as Guild Wars 2 if you're wanting to compare graphics OR art style. Animations are NO where near as good as GW2. Armor design is OK, metal armors can look pretty good. It was pretty cool as a wizard to have a David Bowie "Labyrinth" orb but that's literally the ONLY weapon you'll see and each one looks exactly alike... a floaty see-through ball.

I wouldn't call it immersive at all, though. Everything is instanced and the instance design is very corridor-ish. Even the "open-world" areas feel claustrophobic because of this and it's extremely clear where the zone boundries are.

By all means though, try it. It looks nice enough.. my biggest gripe with it was how trivial and devoid of requiring thought the content is. Remember those immersion breaking glitter paths in Fable 2/3? Yeah... this game is full of them.

netnerd85 wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 18:08:
Lol, you're crazy and paranoid. It's highly unlikely anyone would want a picture of you or your family. You have a bad view of the people around you mate.

Cutter wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 21:16:

mag wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 16:14:

Cutter wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 13:39:
In fact they're thinking autism is connected to innoculation shots being administered to children who are too young.

No.

Yes. Fact. You have proof otherwise? The world would love to hear it.