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I suppose that is one way of looking at it, but there just isn't anything to be had from a fighting game if you aren't and good at it. At least when you fail at a strategy game, there tends to be interesting developments. But then again I am biased towards strategy games. Or at least I would quickly get annoyed with it. Incidentally there are a number of obscure hybrid games out there that try to combine strategy with something seemingly unrelated. Sierra came out with Birthright ages ago which is a fantasy strategy game in which your ruler went on adventures (in a Doom II engine I think). There is The Horde, which is an economic strategy game where you have to defend your farm plots in isometric action combat. And there is Hearthlands which is a city manager where you can leave the city limits to essentially play a game of Diablo to collect resources for your town and ultimately win the game. You might want to check them out if you are interested in this sort of thing.

The big problem here is this would be a niche of a niche. Both of these genres are already fairly small. You have a couple of big names for the 4X strategy games, namely Civilization and Stellaris, but most other strategy games like Endless Space 2, Hearts of Iron, or Age of Wonders 3 have small if dedicated user bases, and I suspect fighting games work much the same. Your target audience would be limited to those people who like both turn-based or pausable real-time strategy and fighting games, a rather strange intersection. Likely most of the people who enjoy strategy would get frustrated with the fighting game portion while those who like fighting games wouldn't want to deal with the strategy portion and just get down to the fighting. I myself absolutely love a good turn based strategy game, but cannot play Street Fighter to save my life. I would get immersed in your game up to the point where there was fighting to be had and then just hit a brick wall and proceed no further, ultimately giving up on the experience. This is why if a strategy game is going to have combat, it will be instanced turn based or real time combat. It is much more likely the people playing your turn based game will also enjoy turn based tactical combat than some random action game attached to it.

Yet another casualty. Add it to the list of other developers the company has swallowed and then disbanded: Microprose, Origin, Westwood, and Maxis just off the top of my head. Stop destroying developers that are more talented than yourself EA!

I haven't tried Windows 10 myself, I am a stubborn Windows 7 holdout and even disabled automatic Windows updates so Windows wouldn't reinstall the Windows 10 update nagware once I removed it, so I am not familiar with the particulars of Windows 10. However, certain properties like ads might be a consequence of the particular Windows install. I had ads that would be installed with Windows 98 everytime I had to use my IBM Aptiva recovery disk, and because I was running an IBM Aptiva I had to use said disk a lot. Once I started building my computers and using stand alone Windows OEM installations, however, I never saw an ad installed with the OS again. I hope that don't come standard on all Windows 10 installs, but I guess I won't find out until at least 2020.

I don't remember A Bug's Life being all that good or worthy of a sequel. Then again, I didn't think Toy Story was that good either and they made two more of those.

Just watch out for Ian Malcolm. He will let dinosaurs rampaging through your radio equipment leaving you stranded on the island while you and your friends get picked off one by one by the raptors. He will also steal your ammo so you can't defend yourself. And then you will have a bad day.

How can I travel faster than the speed of light?

Have you ever considered the fact that maybe it's The Sims that was the problem and not your PC. It's sort of like judging PC by the performance of Arkham Knight. It doesn't matter how good your PC is, if the developer didn't bother to program the game correctly it's going to run like crap no matter what kind of hardware you are running.

Its not just you Omega. Bethesda games have always been like this. Vast open worlds with little direction or focus. People play them for the shear size and scale of the games, but the design of the games themselves isn't very tight and the environments definitely get repetitive and samey after a while. And these games get constantly interrupted by crappy minigames like lockpicking and hacking as well as the constant inventory management (which the various crafting systems tend to contribute to). They're passable exploration games and the combat in the Fallout versions can be a lot of fun, but they do tend to wear on you after a while. Of these types of games, I have only ever managed to complete Fallout 3 (no expansions), the others I always got bored with after a while.

Graphics are important, but not necessarily in the way most people think. Graphics in video game are first and foremost a tool to both inform the player of the vary aspects of the game and its world and to immerse the player in the games fiction. They exist in service to the rest of the game. Possessing the most advanced graphics made available by current technology should never be the goal of graphics design in video games. It may very well be that a cartoony 2D sprite based design may be superior to high resolution 3D graphics because the sprites provide a clearer presentation, communicate information to the player more clearly and are just plain easier on the eyes. And if the graphics are making the video card chug by simulating advanced water refraction effects while player has to constantly pause I check an in game menu for pertinent information because he was unable to obtain that from the games' presentation, those graphics are poorly implemented no matter how advanced they are. Ultimately good graphics are dependent upon the context and needs of the game, and game that uses its graphics well will ultimately have superior graphics to one that merely attempts to use the most technologically advanced graphics available.

Yes. I had tried to get a couple of friends into it but they gave up after a few games. Its a same because the game seems balanced for multiple players, it is a bit to difficult for just a single player.

As long as you have to run it through Uplay, Ubisoft has already screwed it up. I has gotten to the point where I don't buy Ubisoft products because I just outright despise Uplay.

These projects actually sound like they would be a lot of fun. My high school never had us building electric cars or wiring circuit boards, I was stuck with boring projects like the protective egg drop cage. The worst project really weren't about what you were doing but who you had to work with anyway. I had some projects were I was assigned to work with people I wanted to strangle in their sleep before the project was completed. Because for some reason you just couldn't be permitted to work with people you actually like as you might actually come to enjoy your school work.

I have never been a fan of Apple products. They are way too proprietary. You end up paying a premium for computers and other electronic devices that are unable to work with the vast majority of software available without resorting to things like dual booting setups, emulators or jail breaking. As overbearing as Microsoft can be, they got nothing on Apple. With a PC OS I can run just about any piece of software on random assemblages of hardware with no real problems.

I would personally recommend against Asus for a gaming PC. Their machines are hi-spec but their quality leaves much to be desired. Every one of their products I have owned has ended up having some kind of problem. My recommendation for PC hardware is MSI. Not only are the specs good, but their hardware has always been rock solid. If you can drop a grand, MSI makes complete desktops now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MS5LIK7/ref=asc_df_B01MS5LIK75005699?ascsubtag=s1496100976892qqe2a52417&tag=52417_iceleadscom-20&creative=395261&creativeASIN=B01MS5LIK7&linkCode=asn Granted I have only ever bought MSI components but they have never done me wrong. Also, MSI has excellent customer service (Asus customer service is passable), you get humans almost immediately when calling them and they are very good at working out any problems you might have.

I tried the new 8 value test:

Why must every game be adapted to 3D. There are plenty of wildly successful 2D platformers on Steam now a days, and they are taken seriously. Just take a look at games like Ori and the Blind Forest, games like that still old up despite the existence of 3D games. Games should be transitioned to 3D for a reason above and beyond that fact that all the AAA developers are doing it. If there are no real good ideas on what to do with Sonic upon transitioning it to 3D, then it shouldn't be transitioned to 3D. Using older technology or techniques isn't regressive simply because they are older. Game developers should use whatever tools work best for the game that they are developing, not whatever happens to be the most recently developed tool. And games can be made bigger without switching to 3D, just compared say Super Mario 3 to Super Mario 1, its a much bigger game but its still a 2D platformer.

The fix to the Sonic franchise is simple, go back to 2d platforming. Those are the circumstances under which Sonic actually worked and all of Sonic's mechanics were built around a 2d platformer. To get him to do what he did in the 2d games, mainly running really fast and avoiding hazards, in 3d Sonic had to more a less be put on a weird sort of autopilot. The 3d games thus break down into two sections, the autopilot running sections that require almost no input from the player and mediocre 3d platforming combat segments that don't stand out in any way versus other platformers. Sonic just doesn't work in 3d, put him back in the environment he was built for and the Sonic games would be fun again.

I main Pharah, D. Va and Tolbjorn. Jetpacks for the win. A major problem I have with quick match is people like to go offense and sniper heavy, even when the team desperately needs another tank or healer. I hate it when you could have a near perfect team comp if only somebody will run an additional tank or healer but instead the last one or two players pick characters like Tracer, Genji or Widow.

I am a fan of the classics: Elton Jon - Saturday Night is Alright for Fighting Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer Golden Earring - Twilight Zone ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man Bill Joel - Piano Man

Well I live about 45 minutes from the Baltimore Convention Center so I will probably be there.

Domino's isn't even fit for human consumption as far as I am concerned, and this is even after the marketing campaign several years back were their owner claimed they had "reformed." Best as I can tell, their reformed involved just drenching their pizzas in enough strong spices to choke a horse to conceal the actual flavor of the pizza itself. The pies themselves are still as awful as ever. Haven't found any real good pizza joints since I moved. Before then their was a chain in Florida that made good pizza called Hungry Howies. I really haven't had any good pizzas since I moved, the only two chains around are Dominos and Papa Johns (better than Dominos but that is not saying much) and I haven't found any good local joints.

We have known the Earth is round long before Magellan. The idea is at least as old as 5th century (BC) Greece.

Are flat Earth theories really that prominent though? Maybe I am just in the wrong circles but I barely even hear about them. I know there is a Flat Earth Society but they have been around for ages.

Star Trek Generations is basically just a network of plot holes that they somehow made a film out of. The villain's means of entering the Nexus, the behavior of the Nexus itself, Picard's use of the Nexus' time traveling properties, the fight with the Klingons, even the decision to bury Kirk under some rocks. None of it really makes any sense. Its my personal choice for worst Star Trek movie, yes even worse than Final Frontier and Nemesis (which also has a lot of plot holes).