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The Fake Shemp

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Re: Halo Wars demo is up
« Reply #60 on: February 21, 2009, 10:39:08 AM »
I'll buy it once it hits $20.
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Fragamemnon

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Re: Halo Wars demo is up
« Reply #61 on: February 21, 2009, 02:23:06 PM »
I went through some of the reviews on Metacritic this morning over my cup of tea, it's interesting how the lower range of scores were from genre veterans pointing out that the game's really simple for an RTS, with the higher reviews basically apologizing for its simplicity due to the fact that its a console game, so it magically needs to be simpler.

Halo Wars is a simple RTS for simple people.  :tophat
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Re: Halo Wars demo is up
« Reply #62 on: February 21, 2009, 03:18:33 PM »
I enjoyed the demo, don't plan on getting the game (if there were no games coming out near it, I'd check it out) and I admit that I haven't been big into RTS games for a couple years now (I do own CoH, which I need to play someday), but the way people (both critics and on the forum) talk about this game is so bizarre.  On the recent 1upyours(Listenup, w/e) the sole defender of the game was essentially saying "I like it because I've always been ignorant towards the genre", then goes on to say things like "this is how an RTS on consoles should be".  Both those comments just confuse me so much; it's not like he is the only one saying these things, it seems like a lot of people are echoing them.  All it seems like to me is that they're dumbing down the RTS formula enough to fit it onto consoles, not designing it for the consoles.  Both Pikmin and Full Spectrum Warrior seemed to have the right idea going for them with how to make an RTS for consoles.

The Sceneman

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Re: Halo Wars demo is up
« Reply #63 on: February 21, 2009, 04:50:56 PM »
LB works great for me since I am not an RTS player.

1.  Select all units
2.  ATTACK
3.  ???
4.  Profit!

keep the distinguished mentally-challenged gaming age shit off this forum plz
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