I bought this game once from a value bin. It didn't work in XP or compatibility mode and needed quicktime 2 or something.

I think it's a blizzard one. I'm assuming starcraft. It's "hugely popular". and "No, not that one, the other one" implying that it's one of two. I PRAY its starcraft.

Stardock actually has done a few pretty ingenious things with the release of the game. They've also made it possible to purchase the game online and download and play it while you wait for your boxed copy to arrive. That's such a relief because none of my nearby retailers had any copies in stock. I hope that more companies follow suit with this!

My whole perspective is that the crux of his argument -- that it should be illegal to sell M-rated games to minors, is a valid one... but the way that he went around it is so bass-ackwards and ludicrous that it makes the argument itself seem invalid.

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Whatever happened to DoD: Source? Part of the Silver pack that was touted for so long?

And now we get to share the pain with the mac users.

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I'd say that's pretty critical of it

I agree with nin. I never used steam before the day prior to HL2's release, and I am wholeheartedly in support of it. Now, I know you can burn out the big cache file that you download, but is that the only way to make a backup of things you do download? Otherwise, yeah, I can just log into steam again and re-download everything.
And at 5MB/s? Yeah, I can deal with that.

it's beta -- that's what people do during beta. Give them time to fix it.

There are a handful of absolutely amazing ones out there now. I'm feeling too lazy to find links that I didn't memorize right now, but here are a few worthy of mention:

Alien Swarm: http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm
To me this feels like a mix between Syndicate and Aliens. Check out the video, it gives you a small taste.

Deathball: http://www.deathball.net
If you have played ProBall for Quake 3, you're in for a treat! Take Bombing Run, remove all weapons except for an impact hammer-style weapon, and put it in a field arena with a keeper, and it's deathball!

Red Orchestra: too lazy to find link but check it out
One of the best WWII-style mods I've seen out there. I'm extremely impressed with the weapon variety and level design. Check out the pre-release trailer on their website.

Unwheel: no link
WTF?! Unreal Racing? How cool! Put this next to Unreal Golf and you've got yourself a good time

This is just a few -- looking forward to Neotokyo, too!

"A WW2 First Person tactical action shooter featuring three characters with different abilities and skills"

and

"Players
1 - 8 Players"

just like
" Play as 3 different Commandos characters with different gameplay styles."

and

"Play online against seven of your friends in a variety of Multiplayer modes"

I know it's probably just like TFC or something, but the release just caught me as funny.

In all seriousness, I'm really stoked about a new Commandos game.

How about they release more games that don't suck. That'd be a solution.

I tell you what I think:

I have some sort of "gamer's A.D.D.". I rarely play the games I buy for more than 20 hours, and I'm always buying new ones. For $50 a game, that's a lot. If this service works the way its intended, I'd have a better bang per buck ratio, and over time Id beat the system cost overhead.

To me, if it works as it should, I may actually consider getting one. Depends on the titles, though.

My biggest complaint is that the interface is hardly polished. I would have liked to have seen better fonts, more graphical buttons, better displays, etc, etc.

The interface appears as if it were still beta.

I think this is all well and good as long as the people who made the game "Myth" turn and sue Mythic afterward.

stupid double post.
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As for multiplayer...
The storyline is really centered around one character. It's extremely difficult to make a game like this multiplayer. In order for you to make this game multiplayer, you would, moreso than NWN, have to develop an entire, robust worldbuilder setup for this. Unfortunately, do to the perspective of the game, this would be extremely challenging, and unless they dumbed down the engine, making the environments less tiered and more blocky (ie built in pieces and thus pieced together a-la halo) it'd be extremely difficult to pull off WELL.

If you can't enjoy purely single player games, then don't even bother -- this game isn't for you. It's for someone who can dig a fantastic storyline by themselves... while it would be cool to have a MP SW game like NWN, the way that this plays -- it's kind of impossible. A top-down SW RPG -- now THAT'd be cool.

That was Vivendi's fault. They said "you have to downsize" -- what were they going to do, get rid of Valve? Hahaha

and onto what I think about the gameplay:

I personally liked T2 better because it put more of an emphasis on team play than T1 did. To me, T1 was a lot easier to cowboy. You couldn't do that in T2. To some that was bad, to some it was good. I enjoyed it. I DID think it could have been faster, though (I liked base++)

Does anyone get the nagging feeling that this thing might get cancelled before 'Q4 2004'? It just feels like it's skating on thin ice... *shrugs*

Absolutely not. Unless Vivendi sells its game unit and Sierra goes belly up, I can guarantee it will not be canned before then. There is too big a following of the Tribes franchise for this to happen.