One warning is that it's a cross between a trading game and a top-down space combat shooter, but with a great number of branching plots and sidequests. If you don't like elements of either of these, try something else.
It's also real-time. The only way i could make the game playable was to edit everything to move 5x slower. Sigh.
Perfect 10 for concept, but it loses points for the execution.
I know the point you're trying to make, Macs aren't THAT expensive when compared to PCs, but the price to performance ratio is still way off. No to mention the fact that Mac hardware ties you to Apple, whereas with a PC I can alway buy expanstions or upgrades from anyone. The value stills seems to be in the PC world.
Which part of USB, PC-100 Memory, IDE or SCSI, PCI, etc "tie you to Apple"?
Expansions and upgrades are very easy to get for New World mac hardware, from multiple vendors. I just don't get this gripe.
I can deal with the plausibility of the presence of female soldiers,
It's not just plausibility. One of the things I thought this movie did well was show that women were a significant part of the war effort.
The romantic scenes were obnoxious, but also go back in part to the (stated in the film) idea that people didn't know if they were going to be alive tomorrow, so they (almost desperately) enjoyed the few good times available to them.
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One warning is that it's a cross between a trading game and a top-down space combat shooter, but with a great number of branching plots and sidequests. If you don't like elements of either of these, try something else.
It's also real-time. The only way i could make the game playable was to edit everything to move 5x slower. Sigh.
Perfect 10 for concept, but it loses points for the execution.
I know the point you're trying to make, Macs aren't THAT expensive when compared to PCs, but the price to performance ratio is still way off. No to mention the fact that Mac hardware ties you to Apple, whereas with a PC I can alway buy expanstions or upgrades from anyone. The value stills seems to be in the PC world.
Which part of USB, PC-100 Memory, IDE or SCSI, PCI, etc "tie you to Apple"?
Expansions and upgrades are very easy to get for New World mac hardware, from multiple vendors. I just don't get this gripe.
I can deal with the plausibility of the presence of female soldiers,
It's not just plausibility. One of the things I thought this movie did well was show that women were a significant part of the war effort.
The romantic scenes were obnoxious, but also go back in part to the (stated in the film) idea that people didn't know if they were going to be alive tomorrow, so they (almost desperately) enjoyed the few good times available to them.