Mr. Tact wrote on May 3, 2013, 08:45:
I've haven't gotten around to watching Firefly (it's in the Netflix queue), and frankly at this point there is no way it can live up to the hype so many people have given it. Which only increases my hesitation to watch it.

HorrorScope wrote on May 3, 2013, 11:07:

Ah no. Borderlands is their flagship franchise, like Elder Scrolls/Fallout engine is what makes Bethesda. If everything else fails, they live on easily due to that.

Darks wrote on May 3, 2013, 10:40:
Really Verno? I didn't compare it, I used it as a reference to what's happens in the gaming industry as a whole. Learn to know the difference to a comparison and a reference.

The only good thing about this is that the next studio will think twice before showing ice cream through the glass and then putting shit on the cone. Money spent on this bs is better spent on the game.

Darks wrote on May 3, 2013, 10:18:
Take the new Bioshock infinity for example. The removed something like 2 games worth of levels from the game. I don't hear anyone bitching about that.

Alamar wrote on May 2, 2013, 11:37:
I picked up my 3DSXL from Walmart a few months back, when Castlevania came out, for $30 off, so it doesn't sound so clear cut as Nintendo saying 'no'... And I see the price back up at $200, so it wasn't a price drop (across the board).

Creston wrote on May 2, 2013, 10:56:
Yeah, that reeks of some big-time arrogance there. I'm stunned that Amazon would actively link a competitor's product rather than the one you were looking at. They must be really pissed at Nintendo.

Mr. Tact wrote on May 2, 2013, 09:35:
Well, as I said, I built a queue of 107 movies I wanted to see -- all available on DVD, and seven were available via streaming. Is 107 enough for a "good queue"?

My current queue is 156 (movies and tv shows) with another 54 in the "to be released" section. Unfortunately, since I don't have streaming turned on, I'd have to go through them individually to determine how many are available for streaming.

avianflu wrote on May 2, 2013, 09:33:
V, I hear that Amazon wanted to discount the prices of nintendo hardware by 10 bucks or so and Nintendo said "no." Amazon already does this with the Sony and MS consoles and it seems to benefit all concerned. Ultimately Nintendo is shooting itself in the foot when they do things like this because the demand for their current products isn't that great to warrant price-fixing (which is essentially what Nintendo is doing).

Mr. Tact wrote on May 2, 2013, 08:53:
I don't expect them to have everything either. But if the best they can do is 6% of what I'm interested in seeing, than streaming isn't viable. Not for me anyway...

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