garion333

garion333

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Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything LittleTinyFrogs Forums

[quote who="Meryse" reply="75" id="3481809"] Just read that article and it's interesting. I thought maybe I should weigh in here on whether making a game which only allows you to play a male avatar is sexist. My answer is, it depends, but usually no. While I appreciate the opportunity to play a female protagonist, I am not too concerned if the only option is to play a male one. Some stories would need to be entirely re-written for the female protagonist, which could be very expensive

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Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything LittleTinyFrogs Forums

This thread has gone weird places. Anyway, I kept thinking about an article and discussion in the comments I encountered at NoHighScores (blog from ex-GameShark writers, most notably Bill Abner) and thought some of you might like it, Brad especially. It's a cogent and respectful debate about feminism. Just thought I'd point out it does happen, folks . Linking isn't working for me for some reason, so here: http://www.nohighscores.com/2014/06/11/maturity

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Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything LittleTinyFrogs Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="35" id="3481429"]You read in a great deal more into what I've written than what I've said. "you go on to be entirely tone deaf towards the experiences of others by belittling their experiences because they weren't as "tough" as what you went through." I said nothing of the kind. You even quote the word "tough". What I am saying is that a lot of the trash talk they ran into is, sadly, indicative of the toxic culture of t

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Reply to Any truth to the rumor on shacknews? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I, for one, am still here to support you guys and hope you're able to bring back some of those let go. Unfortunately you're a smaller developer and a deviation from the plan has led to people losing their jobs, while larger companies may have been able to absorb more of the blow, but in the end I'm happy you guys are still operational and committed. That will be paid back by people who recognize your goodwill towards us users ... and your own employees.

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Reply to So whose gonna get back into World In Conflict? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I enjoyed that game immensly for a rather short period of time. I played the hell out of it online until I got sick of no one cooperating and moved on. That and I found the game too shallow to satisfy my longterm interest (though I'm not saying it's a bad game).

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Reply to Fantasy Wars / Fantasy General Nostalgia in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Haha, nice to see a discussion about this and (the superior) Fantasy General. My take on Fantasy Wars is that it's a good enough game though it isn't ground breaking and exciting as it could be. King's Bounty: The Legend, which was basically a remake of . . . King's Bounty, but it had enough personality to give it a definite thumbs up from me. However, the Heroes of Might and Magic formula that King's Bounty sticks to is getting really, really old to me (though I'm still stoked for Di

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Reply to Is Galactic Civilizations 2 recommendable? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="4" id="2023697"]Depending on your taste in games, YES. If you get it, you have to get the expansions too. I couldn't possibly imagine playing Galactic Civilizations 2 without Twilight of the Arnor.[/quote] I second this motion. GalCiv with Arnor is a much deeper and interesting way to play with the differening tech trees for all the races.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II and its expansions in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

This is going to sound strange, but GalCiv feels less gamey to me than Civ. I have all three games (Sins, Civ, Gal Civ) and while GalCiv and Civ are more similar than Call of Duty and GalCiv, they're still distinctly different and have completely different play styles. If you do pick up GalCiv, you need all three expansions. The third expansion Twilight of Arnor adds so much to the game that it really does feel like GalCiv III to me. ;) You may be on a Stardock websit

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Be glad you didn't play the game on the 360, the Mako handled worse. All of the stuff involving the Mako was pretty useless. By that I mean the "nonlinear" exploration portions. Bland, boring and I stopped doing them after three or so. The main story is way more interesting and I didn't want to break it up with more floating over terrain in random directions. I only found the jump jets to be useful not to completely bottom out and kill myself. The Mako is pretty stupid overall

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="17" id="2000744"]I really wish the engine was better optimized for the pc. If I walk down a corridor there are 5 distinct lines on my screen where the textures get less and less detailed. I can't fathom why the computer wouldn't just display the best texture off until the horizon, it is certainly capable. Normally it wouldn't bother me as lots of games do this but the intervals are ridiculously short. Literally every 8 feet away from my character the texture

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="14" id="1998531"]The DLC doesn't work with the Steam release. If you use the content package it replaces the game exe which Steam can't handle. There was a texture bug that was fixed in the DLC but not in the standalone patch, you can fix this without the DLC but it requires jumping through a few hoops.[/quote] Ah, yes, I forgot they're still working on that. Gotcha. Glad the sound got fixed.

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="11" id="1998089"]Eep. I've messed with the registry before and lets just say the burned hand teaches best. [/quote] Well, a program like CCleaner isn't going to mess with anything significant. It just removes old entries. It's a very good program and I've never once had an issue from it, but it does give you the option of saving a backup before it removes/fixes anything so if something isn't right afterwards you just double click on the saved file and like m

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Reply to Vista is gone - but it went down kicking and screaming in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

For the record when I switched to Vista I actually got better performance except when running DX10 (duh). I waited until last spring and upgraded to 64bit and everything's been smooth going except for some audio driver issues (due to 64bit) and getting use to the gui layouts. Do you need to switch? Nope. But I've had no serious issues in the past nine months and rarely do I have any crashes and lockups. To be honest, I'm not sure I've even had a bsod, but I certainly haven't

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="9" id="1996516"]Can that be done from the add/remove menu of the control panel? because a lot of these sites that reccoment the older drivers also mention unsing Driver Cleaner which can horribly bork your PC up if you do it wrong. It seems like far too much trouble for one game. [/quote] Alright, let's see what we can do here. First things first, download whatever driver you want (usually the latest, but in your case . . . ). I recomm

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="dunkellic" reply="17" id="1993308"] Quoting garion333, reply 14 ....Mass Effect's story didn't really sink its claws into me, but I was hooked about halfway through and simply stopped doing side quests and the like (repetitve and dull as they were I didn't really miss them). disagree on the first, agree on the second part imo the main plot of mass effect is simply awesome, it´s just a really well made space opera with really cool

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Reply to Defense Grid: The Awakening in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'm just waiting for the price to drop. $20 seems a bit out of place for a tower defense game, regardless of how awesome it is. ;) [quote who="emotif" reply="8" id="1992089"]Wish I could get into the SoaSE or GalCiv or even EVE. Though all neat and expansive, it's just too much investment for me... you know?[/quote] I'm curious . . . why are you here if you don't play GalCiv or Sins . . . ? Do you use the Stardock apps . . . ? Just curious.

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Reply to Has Anyone played Mass Effect and What did you think? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Teal" reply="11" id="1992866"]sure how it would play. I have an older computer, 5 year old e-machine with good memory (2gb) and a 2.2 ghtz AMD chip [/quote] That's a single core cpu I'm assuming, which I wouldn't recommend for Mass Effect. The minimum required is a 2.0ghz. And you need a 6800gt or better, which, as Sole Soul said, we need more info on about your rig. If you run Sins on medium, you'll be on as low as the settings can go in ME. It's very, very hard o

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