Cities X(X)L at least has interesting terrain. Most SC2013 plots are flat and if they're not flat they're bereft of everything but grass. Ideally I'd want a mix between SC4s terrain 'painting' tools and SC2000s terrain generation tools. First generate a terrain (I don't always have a complete landscape in mind, so a…

If it turns out to be good, let's hope that word of mouth makes up for that.

Cool. Can't wait to get my hand on the PC version so I can try this myself.

I haven't played the game, but is it possible out of the box to control birds? Or is this some mod for the console version? I'd expect it for PC, but not for console.

In Five Armies nothing, but they could've put it at the end of Desolation.

Some games offer non-Steam version on Humble, but yeah if he's going to recommend any AAA games through that Humble storefront, he's basically telling people to go to Steam for a game. So it is indeed a bit hypocritical. Only thing I can imagine what moving curating from Steam to this site accomplishes is that his…

I wonder, how do you make low-res graphics like those baddies? Did they make a larger texture and then compressed/shrunk it down so it looks as blurry as in the video?

Getting 8.5mb/s in the Netherlands.

I was actually wondering if Smaug would speak in 3, because he was rampaging silently for minutes upon minutes. Really made him a random monster, instead of a big part of the story.

Boy, old PC games often have such bad controls/UI or even both. It also made them feel hard, even though it wasn't actual challenge but rather non-intuitive design.

Affirmative.

Wasn't a port as it was developed at the same time as the other versions.

With the low market share of Macs for gamers (3.46% according to the Steam Hardware Survey) it is naive to expect support for the majority of games (as its a lot of work for little gain). It is however not too much to ask, because otherwise the situation would never change. It probably won't change, but that's another…

I liked it a lot. On par with the Pixar films.

I think most pirates are students or teens with little disposable income.

I replayed the level that this came a lot. So I heard this a lot. No issue listening to it now. Shows how awesome it is.

Here's how it works: when you first start a game, you can create your dynasty (complete with heraldry), then build and name your first ruler. Then, in very RPG-like fashion, you can give that ruler a "class", focusing on stuff like leadership in wars or stewardship skills, and whatever you choose will give that ruler…

Mods are really big for Paradox's grand strategy games such as CK2 and EU4. They're massively downloaded and few play without at least some that correct issues of the base game. It's possible to play entirely without, but few do. I mean there are dozens of articles on various gaming sites on the Game of Thrones mod…

This is an issue that can't be justified morally, but can be explained psychologically. It's all about 'moving with the pack.' When your friends have a new game and you can't afford it, if you pirate it, it's not just because you want to play the game but also because you don't want to be the odd one out. You want to…

The issue with this one is that this version will quickly lose ground to the full cracked version on the torrent trackers.