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[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="23" id="2925288"]Seems like a suckers bet to buy any Valve game at day 1. Not because the game will be bad, I imagine it will be pretty fun, but because it will probably be on sale for 25-50% this summer and 75% off during Christmas. It's a single player game, so there's really no rush to own to day 1 IMO.[/quote] But it has some new multiplayer elements. And day 1 DLC. Looks like I won't be spending a dime on this af

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="33" id="2924499"] I figured by buying the Gold edition, at least the core game would be patched and playable. And perhaps I could just avoid the expansion if it broke things too badly. [/quote] My 2 cents, I wouldn't bother. I forget where along the way Impulse was made necessary for install, but paying any sort of money for half a game is a waste. Pick up Sword of the Stars or something else instead. GC2 is a good game,

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

There are plenty of PC games that don't shove spikes up your... well, you know. Don't give up hope, just vote with your wallet and let the dev's know why you didn't buy their game. It's not dieing, but it's going through a major change. There will always be good games that are DRM free though, and many games get the DRM stripped from them as they mature (Which is when I finally purchase them.) DRM is a way of preventing se

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="23" id="2924064"]hmm, that's not how I understood it. Maybe I'll have to try it and see what happens. Or maybe if Island Dog is reading this thread he can clarify. [/quote] I would bet $1000, nay, $1000000 internet dollars* that it still requires an activation. That's how I've read and understood it, and as long as my wife doesn't pop into the thread and argue against me I should be right. 8) Perhaps on t

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="21" id="2924056"]The point of Impulse Anywhere is for offline installation of games that you own on Impulse. [/quote] But you need an Impulse account to have the offline Impulse version. My understanding is that upon re installation, you still need to activate the game. You can just get an activation key from any other computer and transfer it over. Thus defeating the OP's intents. Otherwise, worst DRM ever.</p

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="18" id="2924050"] I am sorry to say that I will not be purchasing anymore Stardock games :~([/quote] I have the disc versions of all 3, and need impulse to get them up to speed. Archived versions perform the exact same in my experience. I can install dread lords without needing Impulse, but can't patch or update it. And playing Dread Lords v1.00 isn't worth the install time. In any case, welcome to the war for gamer's rights. 8)

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="16" id="2924037"] I could download, patch and burn and still have enough time to request in writing that my Impulse account be closed before gamestop can add my customer info to its database. [/quote] When you try to reinstall, you'll need to run Impulse again to validate it, so you're not saving yourself from Gamestop. [quote who="Zeta1127" reply="15" id="2924036"]T

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

There was an ultimate edition I believe that had them all, but not patched. You'll still need Impulse, regardless if you get the boxed version of GCII or not. Even if they were patched up to date. You could archive the games and patches on a disk after installing them as mentioned above and save yourself from the redownloading fees from gamestop in the future though. 8)

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="zorven" reply="2" id="2923052"]from Wikipedia: was released at North American retail and on Stardock's online subscription service, TotalGaming.net, on February 21, 2006[/quote] I must be thinking of the first GalCiv then. I remember playing it in 2003 (year I graduated) so one of them was out. In any case, $30 for a 5 year old game and it's expansions. What a deal. 8) I bought them all new, including the Collector&#

Reply to GalCiv II–Ultimate Edition On Sale This Weekend in PC Gaming Sins Forums

$30 for a 9 year old game and it's expansions. What a deal. 8)

Reply to So what have you been gaming lately? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="SumoX" reply="45" id="2921356"]I just polished off S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl last night. Man, that game fell off in terms of fun at the end. Clear Sky sort of had the same problem, but I don't care what anyone says- Clear Sky was the better game. I got one of the bad endings because I didn't feel like doing one minor task in an extremely annoying area (Pripyat). [/quote] The only task in Pripyat for SoC that I can remember is [spoiler a

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So, will these accounts be banned or just allowed to continue posting these threads?

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Lots of spam posts recently. Any chance these viral accounts being banned?

Reply to Okay ladies and gents, I just read about Sims Medieval at Game Spot. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

My better half loves it as well, but I had a harder time getting into it. It's not that it's bad, it's quirky and pretty much exactly what I expected from my limited runs with the other Sims games. I don't like how almost everything is done off-screen (but I realize that that's how The Sims works), or that you couldn't design your own buildings, or that I had to reset everything after I had depleted my quest points and finished my Ambition. Worst of all, on the s

Reply to Shopping for a New Computer in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="10" id="2908136"]$300 for a decent gaming rig? .... Yes, easy....as long as your gaming stays with 'Solitaire'. Spend double that and you'll get a half-decent Graphic Card. You 'may' need a little more than that....you know, like a computer and stuff....[/quote] $300 can get you a great graphics card. A $600 price tag for a GPU is meant solely to entice the unintelligent with more money than sense. You can build

Reply to Carmack says Direct3D is better than OpenGL in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="GG_Crew" reply="12" id="2903982"] Sure enough, right there in the middle of the top row are some numbers that strongly support your claim: 56% of the Steam respondents are using DX10 (which also implies Win7/Vista). Go, go, DX10![/quote] I don't think that is a good representation of the market. You're not getting the entirety of Steam Users in that survey, and less than half the people I know who frequently play PC games want anything to do with

Reply to EA Forum Bans stop you from playing games? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

There were some screencaps on other forums of people being banned (with actually very little wrong in their posts.) Other pics showedmoderator's warning players that their bans will affect their ability to play. I'd look for them, but I'm lazy. They've been reposted on /v/ often enough though. If you have everything installed already, then you're temporarily okay from the ban. But you can't ever reinstall the game. Or if you're the type that likes overpriced

Reply to [Q&A] Unlimited Resource Mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Post #16. January 12, 2009 Post #17. March 11, 2011 Just one day shy of 2 years and 2 months. Impressive. 8)

Reply to Dead Island - Ever been deeply disturbed by a video game trailer? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The PC's almost have to be immune, as it becomes a 1 hit-game over scenario. I'm still looking forward to the game, and I hope it's at least half as emotionally wrenching as the trailer posted above.

Reply to Dead Island - Ever been deeply disturbed by a video game trailer? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="1" id="2889941"]Strange as this may sound, I couldn't watch the trailer. It was too freaky for me.[/quote] It's definitely got an emotional tug. Since I'm such a sucker for them, it's probably just the musical score, but the trailer instantly drew me in and made me have an emotional connection to the well animated characters. I'm hoping for a similar sad, graphic game, filled with hopelessness and fear. Having t

Dead Island - Ever been deeply disturbed by a video game trailer? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I'm a big Zombie nut, so I've been watching for Dead Island. I hadn't seen a thread about it here so I figured I'd see if anyone else had anything worthwhile to add about the game. Here's a trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=lZqrG1bdGtg&annotation_id=annotation_352844 (That's the original, "Tarantino" version)

Reply to Crysis 2 Leaked in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Halo 3 and Halo Reach were both leaked months early. The actual games. Not betas. The 360 must be in its death throes if their blockbuster title is leaked, since the beta of an decent FPS on the PC leaked is a mighty deathblow! There are actually a lot of console games leaked early. PC gaming deterioration has much more to do with the attitude of the up and coming gamers, and the types of games they buy, regardless of their quality, than with any amount of piracy. Game

Reply to More Interplay Classics on Impulse: Earthworm Jim! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Better than Steam, yes. Good deal, not even almost.

Reply to More Interplay Classics on Impulse: Earthworm Jim! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Impulse: Earthworm Jim - $10 Earthworm Jim 2 - $10 Earthworm Jim 3D - $15 Good Old Games: www.GOG.com Earthworm Jim 1 & 2 - $6 Earthworm Jim 3D - $6 Another awesome deal from Impulse. [e digicons]:'([/e] &nbsp

Reply to Classic Interplay Games Arrive on Impulse in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I thought Bethesda bought the entire Fallout IP, which is why they have a lawsuit with Interplay at the moment (Since they licensed them to make a MMO but everything has since fallen apart.) In any case, it doesn't really matter as whomever is in charge of the price points obviously is just banking on people not caring about wasting their money through Impulse.