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Article #716592Re: What Strategy Game For An Action & RPG Gamer ?
From: Xocyll
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:04
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:04
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"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:14:35 +0400, Trimble Bracegirdle <no-spam@never.spam> wrote: > >> Opinion at the moment is narrowing down to Civilization IV (not V) > >b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t > >(well, if someone likes cheating AI, "stack of doom", and other exploits, >then yes, he may say CivIV is better.) Uh you do realize that he was talking about HIS opinion of the various RTS games based on people's recommendations, right? >It is easy: check Steam's current player count top 100: > > >Current Players Peak Today Game > >119,111 250,751 Dota 2 >24,820 48,385 Team Fortress 2 >16,324 64,609 Football Manager 2013 >15,208 35,530 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim > >13,001 27,611 Sid Meier's Civilization V > >11,944 38,430 Counter-Strike: Source >11,749 42,629 Counter-Strike >8,329 34,031 Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer > > >try to find Civ 4 in the list ;) What does steam's player count have to do with whether a game is GOOD or not? Being on the list just means it's popular and if you think they're the same thing, the counter example is, well, most popular music on the radio. Popular does not equal good, nor does unpopular equal bad, although the inverses are usually true for games. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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X-Received: by 10.180.106.73 with SMTP id gs9mr728998wib.2.1362277777846; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:29:37 -0800 (PST) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g1ni43007wig.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.139.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: Re: What Strategy Game For An Action & RPG Gamer ? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:04:44 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: <jvtpi8duref8q4e194jkhksup8rpebuo04@4ax.com> References: <kgbq6i$igi$1@speranza.aioe.org> <kgh5qg$see$1@speranza.aioe.org> <op.ws3vzxs7owpbh0@obscureserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d61252602264b2527811f0d8eceb8d1d"; logging-data="8265"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/uvwJ/lpTUojUpbMmOe7nQ" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gqinTMjoJ9skHSfEo+C5T+2QHnI= Bytes: 2903 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit