Who's with me? I go by owook.

I got that sinking feeling we're talking about some kind of momrororgpggg

I'll wait until it's a) cheaper, and b) you don't run into this kind of crap when you pay $60+ for a piece of software:



24855 days is about, what, 70 years?

I'll vote with my dollars, thanks. Not worth it for me to pay a premium for that.

I activated at lunch yesterday, had 0 wait. Is that a screen cap from like 12:05am yesterday?

Posted By: batterpunts24855 sounds like an integer overflow fuckup rather than an actual waiting time, but maybe I misestimate.

In seconds: 2147483640
Power of 2: 2147483648

You are correct sir. Their estimated time doesn't show the 8s, BUT IT'S THERE.

This hurts me in my hurty place so bad I'm seriously tempted to drop a couple Gs for a system to play this on.

It's my birthday on Friday. That's a good enough reason, right?

Then again, I'm in love with Fallout 3.

This is a game where you look at maps and decide how you're going to blow the whole thing up.

Orc management panels are a positive good when deployed in the service of blowing shit up.

I have purchased a new machine. Starcraft will be mine.

Posted By: scotorc management panels

What?

orc peons are notoriously lazy and require serious management, usually with a beatstick.

Darwinia has that, but then you have to manage the managers, so...

So, what's so special about Starcraft, really? Is it a different experience from things like AoE and C&C?

Because here's the deal: I don't like RTS mostly because there's too much shit to keep track of, and I'm personally very poor at that. The reason I love Fallout but hate WoW/Lineage, despite them employing the same principles, is that Fallout 3 is simpler and more manageable to my mind. It has the same, but less of it.

Similarly, there was this old Playstation (I) game called Wargames where you'd get like two or three units at the start of a map and that's it. I enjoy doing more with less.

Unless it's Zerg, in which case I can imagine the fun of swamping the enemy in fucktons of units.

fuck... I thought fallout was supposed to be a run and jump game and now you are implying that there is city planning and wheat rationing involved.

wow does not have orc management panels or boar meat requisition tables.

you might enjoy the campaign in SC2 wil, but the online competitive stuff is dominated by asians with insane twitch reflexes who will have an entire army descending on you before you've had time to build a barracks. it's rough.

Butterpants - WORLD OF Warcraft is a totally different animal from Warcraft 1/2/3.

You will probably have the same annoyance with Starcraft, it also annoys me, but it really only an issue when you play matches against korean kids. The campaign is actually very involved and entertaining (where you go on missions and story unfolds and you're playing against scripted AI). The live PVP vs friends who are not world experts is fun too. You can play in a slower mode so you can actually react before getting roflstomped.

Posted By: scotso... is fallout about running and jumping, or what?

does the main character step on turtles to progress? Y/N

Yes.

Turtles.

Rather, the turtles step on him, but it employs the same principle, so to speak.

It's also about shooting. Lots and lots of shooting. Also V.A.T.S., which is basically like, "Hey game, target that fellow" -> GAME PAUSES -> You click on the left leg and confirm. An animation plays out where you hit the guy's left leg. Or not-- depending on your personal stats such as weapons skill, weapon condition, level, perks etc.

You are free to ignore that feature, though, but I like it, because it conserves ammo due to lack of gangsta-style More Dakka shootouts and, unfairly, deals more damage.

GAH still can't get this to run. Actually. I can't even get the blizzard downloader.app to run to even install the goddamn game. What a fucking waste of $60. I should have just stole the game.