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#1 tester_guy
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I'm actually more concerned about these patches. Do you notice that even when you buy a disc copy of a game, there is already a patch as soon as you put the disc in? Some say this is DRM but some say that developers were sloppy and needed to fix lots of bugs after a games release. It could be both. The point is: disc copies don't even work very well or completely without an immediate patch downloaded from the Internet.

Let's say worse case scenario and there's a zombie apocalypse. You found a nice PC, the disc of your favorite game, and some energy you siphoned from a local gas station. You put the disc in to start your game and it says "searching for patch . . . please sign in with your amazing Uplay account" or something. That's when you scream "NNNOOOO . . . damn you dirty apes!"

Or say there is no DRM, but you need a patch to fix the millions of bugs that lazy developers wait until AFTER the game is released to fix. There used to be a time when games were shipped out almost as perfect as they can be. Those days are over. Developers ship a very well-polished beta and patch it to the final release with all the bug squashing. Skyrim programmers just said "eh, F it."

So even disc versions are incomplete copies of the games today. I wish it weren't that way, but there's nothing we can do.

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#2 tester_guy
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@nicecall said:

all "retro" indie crappy 8 bit looking games. they really annoy me. its 2014 and i don't want to be playing games that look worse then games on the nintendo 30 years ago.

Its lazy untalented people making games and classifying them as retro to justify their garbage gameplay and graphics... ya 30 years ago it was ok, actually probably very hard to make a game when you think of the primitive tools they had to use to program for games back then. Now all the backbone of programming tools are out there, graphics, even the physics, and yet they make these garbage games.

Theres almost too many AAA games out there to play, why waste time playing ugly, terrible playing "retro" garbage looking games. Flooding the game space with garbage throw away games really bugs me, reminds me of the Atari and Commodore days where pretty much every game was unplayable.

Sir, you have spoken my mind exactly about the recent resurgence of "retro" games. I think the last count was 50 billion hip cool retro platform jumping games, and they are ALL truly original and innovative (if today was 1982).

For me, the most over-done genre is first person shooters. Everyone and their mothers have a first person shooter that is completely original in the way you walk into a room and shoot things in the face. After that, the story takes you to another kind of room where you have to shoot more things in the face. The truly emotional and epic moment comes when you shoot a boss in the face in a forest environment. Seriously, there aren't that many things to shoot in the face before I get super bored. I think that's why I don't really finish many games anymore. I play for a few hours and then get kind of bored. Only open world games like Skyrim or DayZ or GTA can keep me entertained.

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#3  Edited By tester_guy
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@Jacanuk said:

@tester_guy said:

@Jacanuk said:

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Please don't ever buy Godus. I backed this game in its Kickstarter campaign thinking it was like Black and White without the creature, but it's one of the worse games I have ever played.

It's basically designed for touch-based tablets and there is a LOT of repetitive clicking. There are houses in the game and you have to click every single one to collect "belief", and there are literally hundreds of houses. The AI was programmed by a 1st week intern because villagers can't do anything without you controlling their every move. Terra forming with your Godly powers is a series of click or inaccurate dragging of the land. The graphics from the original Populus look better than this game. And the "card/achievement/research" system is plain confusing.

I wasted $25, so please save yours.

So people should´t buy a game because you were to "something" to read what the game was and is going to be?

Luckily i know most people on a forum like this is smart enough to make their own decision and not base it on someone's opinion that is clearly misguided and who bought a apple and gets angry because its a apple and not a orange.

Also as to the clicking, well next update will show if they listened and from their updates it looks like they have done some serious changes to that, so what about waiting until the game is finished and not 41% complete before yelling out like a 4year old.

Wait, why are you attacking me? haha

1) This is my opinion and I clearly stated why it is my OPINION. You might agree or disagree with my opinion, and that's fine. This is a "discussion forum" and opinions are the best ways to get a discussion going in a civil manner. I don't get why I am getting attacked, haha.

2) How is my opinion misguided? It is my opinion. I can misinformed, but I do not think I am because I have the game and played it for 15 hours. If any of the evidence I stated above is incorrect, please help correct me instead of attacking me unprovoked. Also about your analogy, it is more akin to Peter Molyneux shouted out that this fruit tastes amazingly and I bought a fruit. The fruit did not taste amazing. And now you're attacking me for having a stupid tongue that can't taste brilliance from Peter's teet. It's my tongue and my taste buds. Other people might not be the same as me, but I made this post stating MY opinion. If you do not agree, then you can post "I do not agree" and offer your own opinion without attacking me.

3) True that this is an incomplete game, but my opinions of this game are from its progress thus far.

4) How am I a four year old? I think I have been eloquent in my posts thus far. Also, I did not use all caps, so there was no yelling going on. You just seem to be taking this Godus game very personally. Are you, in fact, Peter Molyneux himself? Because if you are, then I need to tell you that Godus is a terrible game at this point in time.

Attacking? what i am doing is pointing out the flaws in your logic.

1) Ya, a misguided opinion based on almost no info at all, because at no point in its development has Godus been any where near something that could be described as a "Black&White - without the creatures" infact on the kickstarter campagin its clear that the inspiration is Populous. Also if you do follow gaming news, you would have remembered that 22cans at no point have had a agenda other than making quality games for mobile platforms.

2) Ehmm, i covered it a bit above, but its misguided because you're coming in here telling people not to buy a game that's 41% complete and has been "released" as a early access beta, and yes we can argue that it does feel more alpha then beta but last i checked developers can choose to call their game what ever they want, Alpha/Beta still means a incomplete game. And complaining over a incomplete game is just insane, you have a game not even half finished and something that will probably change a few times before its a finished product.

It my ears it actually sounds like its more a hate towards Peter M than anything rational.

3) Good, but your opinion is not "hey this game is incomplete but so far its crap, so wait for a few updates before buying it" its " Do not buy" and that ticks me the wrong way because as you clearly know its a incomplete game still very much in development.

4) The tone and way you describe the game reminds me of a kid easy as that.

So what about we wait and see what comes out closer to release than complaining over a product that clearly is marked "Not complete"

Please re-read your original post. It was very hostile.

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#4  Edited By tester_guy
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@Jacanuk said:

@tester_guy said:

Please don't ever buy Godus. I backed this game in its Kickstarter campaign thinking it was like Black and White without the creature, but it's one of the worse games I have ever played.

It's basically designed for touch-based tablets and there is a LOT of repetitive clicking. There are houses in the game and you have to click every single one to collect "belief", and there are literally hundreds of houses. The AI was programmed by a 1st week intern because villagers can't do anything without you controlling their every move. Terra forming with your Godly powers is a series of click or inaccurate dragging of the land. The graphics from the original Populus look better than this game. And the "card/achievement/research" system is plain confusing.

I wasted $25, so please save yours.

So people should´t buy a game because you were to "something" to read what the game was and is going to be?

Luckily i know most people on a forum like this is smart enough to make their own decision and not base it on someone's opinion that is clearly misguided and who bought a apple and gets angry because its a apple and not a orange.

Also as to the clicking, well next update will show if they listened and from their updates it looks like they have done some serious changes to that, so what about waiting until the game is finished and not 41% complete before yelling out like a 4year old.

Wait, why are you attacking me? haha

1) This is my opinion and I clearly stated why it is my OPINION. You might agree or disagree with my opinion, and that's fine. This is a "discussion forum" and opinions are the best ways to get a discussion going in a civil manner. I don't get why I am getting attacked, haha.

2) How is my opinion misguided? It is my opinion. I can misinformed, but I do not think I am because I have the game and played it for 15 hours. If any of the evidence I stated above is incorrect, please help correct me instead of attacking me unprovoked. Also about your analogy, it is more akin to Peter Molyneux shouted out that this fruit tastes amazingly and I bought a fruit. The fruit did not taste amazing. And now you're attacking me for having a stupid tongue that can't taste brilliance from Peter's teet. It's my tongue and my taste buds. Other people might not be the same as me, but I made this post stating MY opinion. If you do not agree, then you can post "I do not agree" and offer your own opinion without attacking me.

3) True that this is an incomplete game, but my opinions of this game are from its progress thus far.

4) How am I a four year old? I think I have been eloquent in my posts thus far. Also, I did not use all caps, so there was no yelling going on. You just seem to be taking this Godus game very personally. Are you, in fact, Peter Molyneux himself? Because if you are, then I need to tell you that Godus is a terrible game at this point in time.

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#5 tester_guy
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@ZZoMBiE13: Okay. Fair point. This is an incomplete game. I will specify that people should not spend their money on the game at its current stage. I cannot speak about its quality when it is complete.

So do NOT spend your money on the game at THIS point in time. The game might turn out to be the Citizen Kane of video games in the future, but I am doubting that possibility.

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#6 tester_guy
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The specs on both the PS4 and Xbox One look very similar. But I think the PS4 is faster because it doesn't run two completely different operating systems at the same time. The Xbox One takes about 2 GB of its available RAM to make sure players can switch to live TV or Skype any time they want, so that special brew of Windows 8 is always running in the background. RAM does make a difference in things like screen resolution.

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#7 tester_guy
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Please don't ever buy Godus. I backed this game in its Kickstarter campaign thinking it was like Black and White without the creature, but it's one of the worse games I have ever played.

It's basically designed for touch-based tablets and there is a LOT of repetitive clicking. There are houses in the game and you have to click every single one to collect "belief", and there are literally hundreds of houses. The AI was programmed by a 1st week intern because villagers can't do anything without you controlling their every move. Terra forming with your Godly powers is a series of click or inaccurate dragging of the land. The graphics from the original Populus look better than this game. And the "card/achievement/research" system is plain confusing.

I wasted $25, so please save yours.

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@lilkarlh666: This is the shortest and most apt description of Steam machines:

Imagine paying $700 for a computer that can't run Windows and can only play maybe about a dozen not very famous indie games.

Revolutionary indeed.

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#9 tester_guy
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Even though 6v6 does sound kind of low I think if the maps and weapons were designed specifically for that number of players then everything should work out smoothly. If they made it 64v64, then that would have probably taken completely different map designs. It really would change the dynamic of the games.

I guess the developers were trying to go for a more "intimate" setting with each round.

And who knows, they can always release DLC with bigger maps with more players. So everyone can just calm down.

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#10 tester_guy
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Hmm, I think I have had the same issue in the past with 2-3 other computers.

For some reason when it beeps, it means that the two little plastic "switches that snap tight on the RAM to keep it from going loose" were not completely snapped in place. When those switches are not completely snapped into place, then the computer won't start up and you will only hear beeps. Try making sure you pushed the RAM all the way in the slot so that the switches make a snapping sound or feeling (use your best judgement, don't literally push so hard you snap something). Let me know if this helps.

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