I do believe Nox multiplayer has been patched/modded by the community to run multiplayer games without the old westwood servers. Dunno if anyone is still playing though.

The funny part is, 2k publishes one of the most successful PC strategy games franchises, Civilization. So, did he just diss his own games?

The funny part is that the setting is nothing like the original X-Com games.

I have no idea why I forgot that series. You are absolutely right.

Strategy games not contemporary? Then why do you keep making Civ games, 2K? Stop beating around the bush and fess up that its all about the money here.

Western strategy development is alive and well on PC, but outside of Civilization I'll agree that there simply aren't any people developing them with large budgets.

Your not sure is a Joint Service Achievement Medal. The one blocked by his thumb LOOKS like an Outstanding Volunteer Service ribbon based on the ordering, but is hard to tell.

No offense, just was confused :)

I don't understand why you are lecturing me on consoles, as I never once advocated the abandonment of them. The OP was interested in getting into PC gaming and was worried about bad ports, I just told him how they might not even effect him. I own all of this gen's consoles myself, even though I do about 80% of my…

I see your first two sentences come up a lot with console gamers who aren't interested in PC gaming. You do realize that you can connect a computer to your 48 inch LCD, plug in an xbox controller, and the game is going to look and play exactly like a console game does? Not trying to be confrontational or anything,…

I'm going to be honest with you, many of the games that are bad ports are labeled this way because of their horrible controls with interfaces that do not support / make the best use of a mouse (and to a lesser extent, lack of better-than-xbox graphical options) rather than some major technical problem. For those of us…

I'm pretty sure it stems from the fact that in Japan, Demon's Souls was published by Sony (hence the PS3 exclusivity). They likely own the IP, and From has to distance themselves from it in order to make Dark Souls multiplatform.

Yeah, the rules that govern Dragon Age are a Bioware creation, they no longer use other people's rule sets. Even if the rules differ the execution is still similar. Old Republic cannot use such a round based system, because there are simply too many players playing at once. Imagine the attack delay caused by the…

KOTOR's battle system is not really all that unique. It basically uses turn-based pen & paper rpg rules (in KOTOR's case, the d20 system) and strings the combat rounds together to mimic real-time. It was a style used pretty extensively on the PC from the mid 1990s to early 2000s. Before Jade Empire and Mass Effect,…

Risk is pretty good, but Cosmic Encounter is much more effective at board game instigation. Less things to blame on dice, more to blame on friends :)

I wonder how often it will actually be used? Most trolls don't get off unless they see the tears of their victim. Also, as long as the Gravelord has nice drops, who cares?

Starcraft, not so much.

Am I the only one that finds it amusing how he uses comic book characters to say that video games make you fat and lazy?

Isn't it sites like Kotaku that say used game sales hurt the industry?

You've pretty much got the right of it Fahey, they're just going to keep trying until one of their schemes doesn't cause outrage. Capcom makes great games, but they have been making quite a few dick moves lately.