Recent content by Bostur

What Guppy says. I would just like to mention that in the remake the journal entries are actually included in the game as hyperlinks - wooo :-o It probably doesn't help new players much, but for people who played it back in the days it makes the game a little bit more convenient. Youtube has...

I wish there would be screenshots of people actually playing the game. With HUD and buttons and little circles beneath the characters. That says a lot more about the game. Not directly aimed at DA, most games release these UI-less screenshots that mostly look the same no matter what type of game...

I hope you don't mind me linkifying your screenshot: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zgy8y/quick_update_on_the_status_of_gabe_newells_ama/

Civ5 has such a strong starting bias that moving the settler rarely is worth it. If I'm inland and can see the ocean, or move to a hill I may do it, but more often than not I just settle on the spot. The game even seems to take faction bonuses into account when generating the starting terrain...

I started playing by doing the bank robbery mission, without knowing it was a DLC mission. At that point I had high hopes for the game because that was great as an early simple mission. However after three chapters of storyline missions I got more and more disappointed. The areas are very linear...

Indeed, the new thing is not the open development process. The new thing is that it has become acceptable to put a price tag on these kinds of products. I don't buy into early access games myself, mostly because I don't want to spoil a potentially good game by playing it in an unfinished...

Indeed. Fallen Enchantress has way more depth in that regard, but received little media attention. And of course the golden oldie Age of Wonders was also very good. AFAIK there is another sequel for AoW underway that could turn out very interesting. In comparison Warlock had some serious bugs...

I'll wait for some reviews before I get excited. I was very disappointed with the first one, being a huge MoM fan.

CA was one of the more flawed of Sid's games, but I certainly had a lot of fun with it. On high difficulty levels, the wiretapping requires very quick thinking, and the combat sequences are risky and deadly. The UI and gameplay is clunky for sure, but there is quite a lot of depth underneath...

I find that this is generally a good idea to do in strategy games in general. It's easy to lose track of overall goals when focusing on the micromanagement. Games have a compact time scale, so we don't get the same time off to change perspective as we would in real life. I also like those...

There can be only two, more precisely Thief and Thief 2. Admittedly Mark of the Ninja does a pretty good job at it as well. And it's nice to see that the genre can work in 2D as well. Yeah I think storyline and NPC dialogue is integral to the genre. Without these a game can have good stealth...

Hmm memories are tricksy things. When I have seen people criticize the remake, I have wondered what the differences are. I only noticed slight changes to the upgrade system of military units, and of course the founding father system. The economy seems almost the same to me, except for some...

Thats some really good background info there. It's lacking sources though. Is it from Alien Crossfire? I never played that, only a mod for Civ4 that included it. Whenever a leader is defeated there is a painful looking video. I wonder if that depicts nerve stapling...

I think you need to upgrade the firmware. Maybe dogs don't orient themselves according to magnetic fields, but choose the side of something that is dry. If I had to poop next to a tree or in high grass, I would choose a spot that wouldn't make me wet. Or maybe they prefer the moist side for...

One of the great things about SMAC is that they leave a lot of detail open for the player's imagination. Many of the interludes and descriptions of secret projects are small snippets taken out of context. It allows the player to let the imagination run free trying to fill in the blanks. I...