You all probably know about the Community promotion grant and the plan to sponsor games for users here. The idea is to sponsor copies of a brand new high-profile game to users here, in exchange the users should ask & answer questions about this game. We need to decide on the first game we try this pretty soon, we are targeting one game in May/June to try it out.
The question now is which game to target, we want to target the most promising game, it should be a high-profile release to attract more people to this site
The Witcher is probably an excellent choice, since its pretty open ended isn't it? Or at least gives users a lot of choice with which they might need help
@IvoFlipse I'm biased, because I've registered for the Witcher 2. But I also think that RPGs have a lot of potential for questions here. They often have an enormous amount of content and we can squeeze a lot of questions out of them, see e.g. Fallout New Vegas.
@Fabian I think bias is good, because we want you to actually invest some time in the game and ask as many decent questions you can come up with
I think the Witcher would be a good game for multiple users, as @badp points out Alice and Brink might be better for a single user. Given there's only so many questions you can have during the game
unless we need/want more, but then you would have to convince others to pitch in. but given the 'requirements' of asking several questions, they would actually have to want to play the game
@badp - I'm trying to think of a synonym for your proposed "Tactics" tag; There are often times when "Tactics" seems almost hillariously over-focused on winning. I think we need something simpler, because "Tactics" and "Game-Mechanics" still have a little bit of a null area that neither of them sufficiently cover.
I'll let the meeting resume. Also, @RavenDreamer, you expressed interest in the promotion so might as well note whether you're opting in or out of the immediate game choice we're having now.
@Mana Summer's awesome... I can... sit in a building 8 hours a day, every day, working on an application that it looks increasingly like it'll never ship.
@badp Yes... on 2Fort, I usually take sewer in, bridge out. Doublecross is a little different, but the lower-bridge route there still makes you ridiculously vulnerable to Pyro airblasts.
Don't forget in 2fort that you can also run across the top of the bridge (as Scout anyway)
Man if cash is being distributed I'm creating 10 more accounts under fake names. They will all contribute productively until they get the money, and then disappear with it
Alright, I'll make one last check later tonight, then we'll start prepping the purchases unless someone comes with a brilliant idea before I head to bed tonight.
I'm sorry, I haven't played it, but I hear in order to play GTA4 for PC, you need: 1. A Steam account. 2. A Games for Windows Live account. 3. A Rockstar Club account.
There are companies that still care about PC gamers. Valve and Blizzard being the most well known examples. Then you have companies on the other side that support PC gamers solely because they think they can make a quick buck. The most well known companies there being EA and (I think) 2K Games.
Minisentries are my soldiers' nemesis. Damn tiny, dealing damage slowly but surely, inexpensive to replace, those darn things are more annoying then they're supposed to.
How to counter them?
Accents are one thing, but the number of profs I had who barely spoke English was saddening. I remember getting a big question "wrong" on an exam because the professor didn't understand the words
Ha, best quote I've seen today: 'When people ask me "Plz" just because it's shorter than "Please" I feel perfectly justified to answer "No" because it's shorter then "Yes"'
I once had this game on a demo CD, In which you had 4 kinds of vehicles, Jeep, Minelayer, Tank and Helicopter. The Jeep was used to capture the flag and return to your base. All 4 vehicles were stored in an underground bunker. When your vehicle was destroyed, a skull appeared saying HA. HA. HA :...
I'm doing a little bit of research and I'm hoping you fellow gamers can help me track down any games, other than Diplomacy (online version here), in the console/PC/mobile-verse that employ all or some of the mechanics in Diplomacy (rules, short form). Examples I'm looking for:
Simultaneous orde...
I can shoot pigs, sheep and cows with a bow when they're in minecarts, but I'm having difficulty shooting chicken. Is it even possible? I can only hit the minecart.
Bah, I was about to poke @ThomasMcDonald telling him LessPop is stranded in the Birmingham airport right now. Then he clarified it's Birmingham, Alabama.
everytime I try to start stunt rally via the command prompt I get following error..
./stuntrally: error while loading shared libraries: libOgreMain.so.1.7.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
any ideas???
Minisentries are my soldiers' nemesis. Damn tiny, dealing damage slowly but surely, inexpensive to replace, those darn things are more annoying then they're supposed to.
How to counter them?
I'm doing a little bit of research and I'm hoping you fellow gamers can help me track down any games, other than Diplomacy (online version here), in the console/PC/mobile-verse that employ all or some of the mechanics in Diplomacy (rules, short form). Examples I'm looking for:
Simultaneous orde...
I can shoot pigs, sheep and cows with a bow when they're in minecarts, but I'm having difficulty shooting chicken. Is it even possible? I can only hit the minecart.
everytime I try to start stunt rally via the command prompt I get following error..
./stuntrally: error while loading shared libraries: libOgreMain.so.1.7.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
any ideas???
