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Eschatos · 10-28-2013, 11:01 AM

(10-28-2013, 08:52 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [quote author=versus link=topic=52.msg272718#msg272718 date=1382891653]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yfMoIVTilo#t=47

Strategy games like Starcraft have really fallen victim to the micro arms race where you have to be able to do shit like this to compete. I'd really love it if they built a game where most of the micro is automated by default and winning comes down to actually having well designed bases and shit.
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micro exists to turn inferior forces into forces that can win, rather than every battle simply being "who has committed more units to this particular fight" while the players just watch
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Yea but this unit based warfare doesn't interest me. I'd prefer a more slowed down strategy+tactic based game. Take the board game of Go. You constantly have to be thinking on two levels - "who is winning this particular fight?" and "who is controlling the whole board?" I think that bigger dynamic is what is often missing from strategy games like Starcraft. I found it in Sons of Solar Empire but that game is a dangerous time sink.
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Turn based strategy is where it's at. Come play Dominions or Sword of the Stars.

Squishy3 · 10-28-2013, 02:51 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cyx6nWdFas

***HeK*** · 10-29-2013, 05:10 PM

Quote:Eyewitnesses reported that during last nightâs 9:15pm Real3D screening of Gravity, a lone man (later identified as retired ISS Commander Chris Hadfield) began muttering under his breath and chuckling to himself. By the 30-minute mark, Hadfield reportedly made numerous rude comments such as, âNice Soyuz procedure, Hollywood!â and âOh yeah, because thatâs what hypoxia as caused by rapid cabin decompression looks like you idiots!.â

âIt was the damndest thing,â recounted Isabelle Tremblay. âMy boyfriend and I were like, âwhat a jerkâ, and he went back to talk to him. But then he came back to our seats and he was like âIâm pretty sure that was that astronaut guy. You know, from the news.â So we just let him go. I mean, what do you do? An astronaut probably gets George Clooneyâs character struggles a little better than I do.â

Hadfieldâs alleged berating of the film continued unabated. During one crucial and deathly silent scene involving Sandra Bullockâs characterâs desperate attempt to reach her vessel and avoid dying in the void of space, the man who brought honour and fun to Canadian space exploration let out a long, piercing, and altogether perfect fart.

Eventually, theatre staff was notified, and the Canadian living legend was loudly removed from the cinema. Witnesses report that he did not go quietly. One patron recalled, âThe last thing I heard him yelling was, âHave you been to space? Because Iâve been to space!ââ

âBut heâs still a hero, I suppose.â

At press time, Commander Hadfieldâs family and friends were really hoping he never finds out about the 1996 horror classic: Leprechaun In Space.

http://www.thebeaverton.com/culture/item...ng-gravity