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 Post subject: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:38 pm 
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Out on the 21st, looks like a real winner...except it's "powered by steamworks", even the store-bought copy. I may just buy the game and install a "steam-free" version.

Yeah it's not that bad of DRM, but it's still DRM.

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:51 am 
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I think I'm going to get it but I ended up buying Mod Nation Racers last week because it came with Little Big Planet for free, and my girlfriend whose really not much of a gamer, wanted to play both so I may be tied up with those for a bit.

I also need to borrow Uncharted 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 from peeps here at work. :?


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:03 pm 
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Well apparently Future Shop was sold out even though the website says they have stock.

Whatever, I'd only get to play it for a couple nights before I go to another wedding in Ottawa.

Next week!

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:13 pm 
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Well I managed to get the only copy left in any Future SHop in Halifax, only because I was in the area.

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:25 am 
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I had to stop off at MicMac Mall yesterday and I thought I'd go into EB Games and get this but it looks like they might be sold out as well because I saw no mention of it in the entire store. :(


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:55 am 
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The EB in Bayer's lake has about a 6' wide spot set aside for PC games. I don't think they give a crap about them anymore.

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:46 am 
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yeah the game store in the shopping center has this one tiny little rack that can fit about 4 games across on it. Sad.

Consoles are fine but they dont compete with a pc when it comes to eye candy.


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:49 pm 
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CMDR Steve-O wrote:
The EB in Bayer's lake has about a 6' wide spot set aside for PC games. I don't think they give a crap about them anymore.


Ya that's the same from the one in MicMac but StarCraft had their own rack so I was thinking this one might as well but no dice.

The FS in Dartmouth Crossing had 3 copies left when I went in before lunch though so I was able to get one.


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:00 pm 
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Did I mention the cracked version works online...

Oh yeah this is my first post in this thread....

Well...

Now you know you wasted your hard earned money lol...

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:26 am 
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I'm waiting until they actually release a significant patch to play it again.

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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
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CMDR Steve-O wrote:
The EB in Bayer's lake has about a 6' wide spot set aside for PC games. I don't think they give a crap about them anymore.



I only buy PC games from Steam now, I can't be bothered to even step foot in a EB/Gamespot anymore.


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:59 am 
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CMDR Steve-O wrote:
I'm waiting until they actually release a significant patch to play it again.


I'm not finding it too bad but I hate that you can't seem to skip that intro movie when you start the game until about 30 seconds in to it. I messaged a friend and he was getting the same thing AND his textures were coming out kind of screwy... Luckily I haven't had any of that yet.

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Did I mention the cracked version works online...

Oh yeah this is my first post in this thread....

Well...

Now you know you wasted your hard earned money lol...


You could make that argument any time you pay for something instead of stealing it so I don't think it's a very good point. :roll: I assume you buy computer parts from MysteryByte right? Well, last time I checked their store had windows, so why didn't you just smash them at night and loot the place and save your hard earned money?


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:15 am 
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I am leaning toward his meaning being try before you buy.

Which is how it sounded to me. I dont pirate games. I buy the ones I want to play. If there is a game I am curious about, I would probably download a version to test but buy it if I wanted it to play online.


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 Post subject: Re: Civ 5!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:13 am 
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There is a thing you can put into an ini file in the game (civfanatics forum has it somewhere) that skips the intro videos.

I put the game down to a 1920x1080 window and the videos do now appear, so it's just a problem of the devs not knowing/caring about super duper triplescreen rez. Although it's a TWIMTBP NV game, so I don't know if it has the same problems on a comparable 3 screen setup (Surround Vision?) from team green.

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