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smr posted:Real-time Global World War II simulator?!?!?!?! The cold war game was poo poo, at least. The worst type of poo poo. The kind of poo poo that you might be willing to play for about ten minutes if you had made a dumb $500 wager with a soon-to-be-ex-friend to play the game for a minimum of half an hour. Even in constricted scenarios it tasted like poo poo, so it's not just a matter of the scope overwhelming you. Hearts of Iron is a fun, albeit buggy, series. Supreme Ruler is just such a lovely series that you wouldn't notice if there were bugs among all the poo poo.
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Ive been in the Supreme Ruler beta since SR2010 and the most fun I've ever had with the game was in the SR2010 beta playing multiplayer against the devs and using bugs in the game against them. The SR people ignore people; they have ignored my suggestions for about a decade now. I like supporting this sort of game and Canadian software developers but they have this attitude of "good enough" that really isn't good enough for me. Edit: Also they aren't even Grognard really. More like HOI for retards. Editx2: I'll still buy their retarded game. Baloogan fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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The developer for World in Flames is being very coy about the price on the Matrix forums, something tells me it's a doozy. I still can't believe it won't be downloadble in the year 2013, but hey, wargames.
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Woodchip posted:The developer for World in Flames is being very coy about the price on the Matrix forums, something tells me it's a doozy. I still can't believe it won't be downloadble in the year 2013, but hey, wargames. What. As for the price matrix has a policy about not releasing any price information for anything until the product is actually for sale.
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Woodchip posted:The developer for World in Flames is being very coy about the price on the Matrix forums, something tells me it's a doozy. I still can't believe it won't be downloadble in the year 2013, but hey, wargames. Are these guys for real? No AI, lovely graphics, and now you can only order it in a box? There's every indication that the manual is going to be think enough to be used in old-school police interrogations too.
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Looks like it will only be DL + physical. With a 9' x 21' map... If this is less than $200 I will be surprised.
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V for Vegas posted:Looks like it will only be DL + physical. With a 9' x 21' map... If this is less than $200 I will be surprised. Looks like the map is optional, but the manuals are mandatory and consist of three big hard cover books. Yeah it will be expensive as hell even compared to normal Matrix prices. (Fortunately World in Flames is a pretty bad game that I have no interest in!)
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Logicone posted:How do the old Close Combat games stack up? I've been interested ever since I played Close Combat: First to Fight on the Xbox ages ago, and learned that the other games in the series were far more tactical, and not a fairly poor FPS! For that matter, should I go for the remakes, or are the old ones still worth my time if I can find them/get them to work? I can't play those games before bed. The gunfire and the screams are just plain disturbing.
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V for Vegas posted:Looks like it will only be DL + physical. With a 9' x 21' map... If this is less than $200 I will be surprised. I refuse to believe that even Matrix Games is that stupid. There must be some mistake. If there isn't, hey ho for another thread on their forums where people criticize Matrix's business practices and Matrix goes "Well have you been selling wargames for fifteen years I think not  "
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One of the hardest things for a human being to do is admit that not only are they wrong but that they've been wrong for years. The longer Matrix exists, the more certain they'll get that their insane pricing strategies are actually legitimate. There is a very good reason why Pride is considered to be the most dangerous of the sins.
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I can assure you World in Flames will be bad and won't be worth the price. That's all I can tell you.
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The reason why I'm having trouble believing this one is because Matrix is actually PROUD about migrating early to online retailing, often bringing it up to say "See, we're not hidebound traditionalists, we adjust to the market so if we don't do something that means we looked it over closely and found that it's a bad idea!" Taking such an idiotic step backwards seems a little out of character for them given that, leaving aside the fact that it's such complete flaming stupidity that even Matrix seems unlikely to fall into it. So yeah, I figure there must have been some sort of misunderstanding because nobody is dumb enough to insist on physical copies only when selling online in this day and age...right?
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That and the AI is coming a year after. It really isn't good and I can't go into much more detail as you can guess why.
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Tomn posted:I refuse to believe that even Matrix Games is that stupid. There must be some mistake. The next project is going to be a PC port of The Campaign for North Africa! In order to maintain the gameplay-hours-to-dollars ratio despite the 300 dollar asking price, the player still has to do all the book-keeping himself! Necroneocon posted:I can assure you World in Flames will be bad and won't be worth the price. That's all I can tell you. You're playing WiF right now, aren't you?
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I'd love to see a conversion of Totaler Krieg/Dai Senso into a videogame instead of World in Flames but that seems unlikely to happen.
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Tomn posted:So yeah, I figure there must have been some sort of misunderstanding because nobody is dumb enough to insist on physical copies only when selling online in this day and age...right? Someone is always dumb enough. ALWAYS Never, ever expect that nobody would be dumb enough to do something because the universe will take that as a challenge and you will lose.
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Tekopo posted:I'd love to see a conversion of Totaler Krieg/Dai Senso into a videogame instead of World in Flames but that seems unlikely to happen. A conversion in the sense that Battle of the Bulge iOS is a conversion or Unity of Command is a conversion or SSI's Clash of Steel is a conversion would be sweet, indeed. B-17 Queen of the Skies on iOS/Android with a bunch of spiffy graphics would also be a perfect Progress Quest-ish time-waster.
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gradenko_2000 posted:A conversion in the sense that Battle of the Bulge iOS is a conversion or Unity of Command is a conversion or SSI's Clash of Steel is a conversion would be sweet, indeed.
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After all this time I was hoping Matrix WiF would be worth buying. I can't find my copy of the old CWiF, and I haven't had space to play the board game for a decade. I should have known better after following the Matrix forum for years.
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Axis Empires/Dai Senso is an actual good game to port, unlike World in Flames. It's a game where you can actually track things yourself and isn't a bloated mess. It has some wonkiness but would be a great computer game. But hey, World in Flames has a billion expansions!
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mllaneza posted:I can't play those games before bed. The gunfire and the screams are just plain disturbing. Now I'm suddenly not so sure I could even play them! I'm the kind of person that the first time I used a flamethrower on someone in Call of Duty: World at War, I had to put down my controller and not come back to it for a few days. In the meantime, I've been curious about Command: Modern Air Naval Operations - I was and still am a huge junkie for Naval warfare after I cut my teeth on Jane's Fleet Command and Naval War: Arctic Circle, and I was thinking about picking up Harpoon - would I be better off getting Command, despite it's higher price point? I'm mainly wary since I've heard bad things about the need to micro heavily and how poor ground operations are.
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I do a weekly stream of Command game play; if you want to see the game in action. I also keep recordings of past broadcasts on YouTube. I don't actually work for Matrix Games; I'm just a little obsessed with naval combat simulations. If Harpoon's interface didn't make my eyes bleed I would have been streaming Harpoon. And if Naval North War Artic whatever was a good game I'd be playing that too; I still can't believe that its 2013 and someone made a game that you can't save while you play.
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*coughs and does a wiggly hand signal* Baloogan posted:I do a weekly stream of Command game play; if you want to see the game in action. I also keep recordings of past broadcasts on YouTube. Are your streams/recordings like tutorials? That would help me out a lot. I really like the game and I've spoken with the dev a lot and he's a sweet guy so thats why I caved into the price.
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Necroneocon posted:Are your streams/recordings like tutorials? That would help me out a lot. I really like the game and I've spoken with the dev a lot and he's a sweet guy so thats why I caved into the price. I have a bunch of tutorials: Air Tutorial Sub Tutorial ASuW Tutorial (surface combat) Editor Tutorial The majority of my videos are examples of the way I like to play Command. I just make poo poo up as I go along. For example I really wanted to sim F-35Bs over Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. The F-35s get their poo poo pushed in by the Chinese, then the Chinese get owned by a DDG-1000. Marines land off of 3 LCAC hovercraft and with the help of some super cobras they take Guadalcanal!
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http://www.matrixgames.com/news/1263/Order.of.Battle:.Pacific.takes.off! The developers of Matrix's newest game announcement has one of the most unfortunate names yet.
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Never heard of Matrix Games, but holy poo poo batman! When I read a preview of a board or computer game, the first sentence I want to see sure isn't "Start with three massive Hard-bound Books, two to teach you how to play"..
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Grog designers really have no clue. Instead of making games easier to play they just tack on ever more irrelevant poo poo that adds nothing to the game.
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Tias posted:Never heard of Matrix Games, but holy poo poo batman! When I read a preview of a board or computer game, the first sentence I want to see sure isn't "Start with three massive Hard-bound Books, two to teach you how to play".. Yeaaah; kind of the entire point of computer games is to remove the neccessity to read massive books worth of information. The computer does all the complex calculations for you that is why we play computer games. If I want to do it all manually I'll go play Warhammer or something (which I totally do because I am a goony goon), I specifically play vidjeo games so I don't have to read and memorize massive volumes of text. Sometimes you want to manage the individual ammo allocation of every soldier in your ten million man army for maximum effectiveness, other times you just want to point over thereish and say "Go conquer that for me." Computer games are for the latter.
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Baloogan posted:I have a bunch of tutorials: Thanks so much! Will watch them! gradenko_2000 posted:http://www.matrixgames.com/news/1263/Order.of.Battle:.Pacific.takes.off! I guess the true joke is. What do you call a game with: quote:Classic turn based, hex based gameplay with an intuitive UI and great depth. The Aristocrats!
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Tomn posted:The reason why I'm having trouble believing this one is because Matrix is actually PROUD about migrating early to online retailing, often bringing it up to say "See, we're not hidebound traditionalists, we adjust to the market so if we don't do something that means we looked it over closely and found that it's a bad idea!" Taking such an idiotic step backwards seems a little out of character for them given that, leaving aside the fact that it's such complete flaming stupidity that even Matrix seems unlikely to fall into it. My understanding was that it had something to do with their agreement with adg. After the mess they made of Empires in Arms, I don't see how this will possibly end well.
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If anyone's still playing WITE, I noticed that a beta patch was released this month, which fixes the Lvov pocket opening and cheesy Luftwaffe fuel airdrop tactics, and adds an option to turn the 1941-1942 First Winter rules to be really mild. And the weekly deal is War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition for 49.99 USD and War Plan Orange for 19.99 USD. The AI in the latter tends to navel gaze at times, but it does mean that the edge is really taken off on having to obsessively micro-manage everything, plus you don't have to deal with production even as Japan. gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Oct 28, 2013 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:If anyone's still playing WITE, I noticed that a beta patch was released this month, which fixes the Lvov pocket opening and cheesy Luftwaffe fuel airdrop tactics, and adds an option to turn the 1941-1942 First Winter rules to be really mild. Huh I thought they were done updating until wite2, guess I'm giving this a run.
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quote:War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition for 49.99 USD This is a must buy. I consider WITP AE one of the finest videogames in all of history.
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I would exercise caution with WPO. It's an alright game but hasn't been patched or updated since early 2006. It doesn't include any of the changes or upgrades to the engine that came with the later WitP patches and WitP: AE. As such, it has a pretty rough surface combat system, among other things, which is a shame for a game totally focused on surface combat. I'd still be happy to break it out for a PBEM if any of you buy it though.
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Baloogan posted:This is a must buy. I consider WITP AE one of the finest videogames in all of history. I've got a question about how the digital version of WITP:AE works. Do you have to maintain an account at a website? Can you download unlimited times or just once? Do you download an installer you can back up yourself? Is there any kind of DRM? Basically, how close is it to being as easy as Steam. Thanks in advance.
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pthighs posted:I've got a question about how the digital version of WITP:AE works. Do you have to maintain an account at a website? Can you download unlimited times or just once? Do you download an installer you can back up yourself? Is there any kind of DRM? Basically, how close is it to being as easy as Steam. All games on matrix work the same. You buy the game and are given a serial number and a download link, you need the serial number to install the game and if you move the installation to a new computer you will need it to patch the game. Besides installing and patching the games never phone home and can be played without an internet connection forever. The download link works for iirc 3 days, after that you can email Matrix support and they will email you a new link within a day to download the game again. You can request as many links as you like for as long as you like, but each individual download link only works for a few days.
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For those of you who are interested in SPACE, Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager apparently releases tomorrow. http://www.slitherine.com/games/BA_SPM_Pc There is no demo, no press, no pricing info, 8 pictures.
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