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Pretty much any of the technology or building quotes from Alpha Centurai.

I had a computer failure a while back, and was left with a truly ancient laptop that someone had abandoned round my house years ago. The only thing it would run that I found was the original Master...

Guessing this is mainly a marketing thing - Frontier Developments is not a backroom operation (I know an animator who works there). I'm sure they have access to the finance if they need it (and...

No one said Spore yet? Or does it just go without saying.

I got excited about that game when it was first rumoured, and I though it was going to be a real evolution simulator that also somehow...

I think it is just the way that they give the bonus to-hit chance to aliens on classic. I believe its a flat +10% to hit chance, in which case it will be very noticeable when the base chance is low....

Chargebacks probably play a role. If you don't get what you pre-order you just call your card issuer and get them to return the funds. If the developer/publisher skips town then their payment...

This. And although I do like my holo targeting, being able to shoot twice is really really helpful...

Think I'm going to try the scope thing as well, which I've only been using for snipers. ...

Hmm, injured soldiers seem to get auto-stripped of their kit just fine for me. It is only when I take one out manually that I have an issue. Which is annoying but not massively so. Someone...

Now that is rose tinted I think :) Having to re-equip every soldier for every mission without any indication how much kit your soldiers' can carry without being overloaded is in any absolute sense...

I think that is really the nature of the beast. You can't make big changes in this sort of game without at least risking save game incompatibility.

Steam auto-updating and lack of rollback...

Actually their new DLC + patch system they brought in with CK2 kind of changes that. Play with all the patches definitely, but the paid-for DLC really isn't needed in the way expansions used to be,...

Check this out:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2964408

I'm using it and it is rock solid.



Reloading yes, but overwatch is on the 'Y' button.

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The game nicknamed my best sniper "Godfather", and my Assault guy "Wolverine".

The game is perhaps a little further away from the original than I'd hoped, but the nicknames (and being able to...

I've always been something of a heretic on this, and thought this game sounded pretty good when it was first announced. Not that I'm not much happier with the turn based one announced, but this game...

I've been playing it recently while listening to audio books... which might have something to do with the horrific casualties my pixeltrupen have been suffering :)

Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising...

I suspect that if it was only that, rational minds would be able to come to an agreement. You can't get investors for a drilling project when there is a threat of a military strike after all.
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only as a myth; a dark fable; a horror tale, told across the flickering embers of a midnight fire, wherever hardened space dogs gather to drink fermented vegetable products and compete in tales of...

Oh boy do I have a tale to tell. There was this game that cou...



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Bingo. These days I make a concerted effort not to be so petty, but I certainly have been in the past.

For example refusing to speak on the phone about an issue because the customer brought up...

Was going to post this. Digital items, including software, which have been opened are exempt.

One piece of advice, as someone who works in mail order/ecommerce. Quoting law at someone isn't a...

Overall favourite: Bioshock

Best cinematic: Dawn of War 2 - "This planet is ours, Witch!"

Honourable mention: The Void - the intro merges perfectly into the whole where am I? Who am I? What am...

There's a thread with cheat commands somewhere on the Paradox forums, which can speed things up a lot if that is what you want. Also playing a large kingdom or empire will give you significantly...

In no way a casual game, and intimidating to learn for someone who isn't familiar with the genre, but Crusader Kings 2 is the best game for meeting the "relationships and sex" requirement I can think...

Personally I play MMU (the HTTT version). The team always made a point that the MMP2 (the IN version) was a better representation of how they wanted the mod to be balanced, but I like some of the...

IIRC development of the mod stopped fairly soon early in the HTTT expansion lifecycle. It never made it to DW, and the HTTT version was more of a simple port from the IN one, than a proper full...