I would guess that they're making as second series because your opinion isn't the only one that matters. Judging from the comments preceding yours, you should see that not everyone agrees that it was crap. I thought it was a bit uneven, but it got pretty good towards the end as they were building up their own mythology, and I generally liked it.
The problem with D2D is that since they use modified executables for the games they sell and they're not the games' primary distributor, they tend to lag behind when releasing patches (or just don't release them at all). At least with Steam, you know that Valve will distribute patches as soon as they're available.
I had to re-intall windows on my PC last week. To re-install my steam games, all I had to do was to re-install Steam itself (a quick download, followed by a quick install), sign in and select the games I wanted to re-install from the list. It took a few hours to get them all in (HL2 is a pretty big download) but the next morning I was up and running again.
Yes, you have to trust that Valve won't fuck up and lose your account but when it works, it couldn't be much simpler than that...
I don't especially mind if MasterCard and GE know that I just bought a brand new toaster. That was a transaction with a third party and I'm used to the fact that it leaves a trace.
On the other hand, I would consider it an invasion of privacy if the toaster reported back to GE every time I make toast, no matter what they want the information for. That is just not something they need to know, and once I bring the toaster home, I expect to be able to use it in private.
I had a perfectly legitimate reason to use a NO-CD crask with CivIII. I was playing it on a Motion Computing tablet PC that has no built-in CD (or DVD) drive. I wasn't going to log around an external drive just to be able to play the game on the tablet.
Playing Civ with a stylus on a tablet PC was a joy. Too bad this new version won't run on the tablet's rather basic gfx chip.
I've been playing CivIII on a motion computing tablet PC and it feels like the game was made for it. Moving your units around with the stylus is just perfect.
But I don't see how you could port a game like Civ to something as small as a DS or a PSP. You need the bigger screen to see enough of the map and your overlays. I can't imagine playing CivIII (or IV) on something smaller than a 1024x768, 12" screen.
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I would guess that they're making as second series because your opinion isn't the only one that matters. Judging from the comments preceding yours, you should see that not everyone agrees that it was crap. I thought it was a bit uneven, but it got pretty good towards the end as they were building up their own mythology, and I generally liked it.
Nevermind the ads. Copyrighted and offensive videos are pretty much all I use youtube for. If you take them away, why would I come back?
The problem with D2D is that since they use modified executables for the games they sell and they're not the games' primary distributor, they tend to lag behind when releasing patches (or just don't release them at all). At least with Steam, you know that Valve will distribute patches as soon as they're available.
I had to re-intall windows on my PC last week. To re-install my steam games, all I had to do was to re-install Steam itself (a quick download, followed by a quick install), sign in and select the games I wanted to re-install from the list. It took a few hours to get them all in (HL2 is a pretty big download) but the next morning I was up and running again. Yes, you have to trust that Valve won't fuck up and lose your account but when it works, it couldn't be much simpler than that...
I don't especially mind if MasterCard and GE know that I just bought a brand new toaster. That was a transaction with a third party and I'm used to the fact that it leaves a trace.
On the other hand, I would consider it an invasion of privacy if the toaster reported back to GE every time I make toast, no matter what they want the information for. That is just not something they need to know, and once I bring the toaster home, I expect to be able to use it in private.
I had a perfectly legitimate reason to use a NO-CD crask with CivIII. I was playing it on a Motion Computing tablet PC that has no built-in CD (or DVD) drive. I wasn't going to log around an external drive just to be able to play the game on the tablet. Playing Civ with a stylus on a tablet PC was a joy. Too bad this new version won't run on the tablet's rather basic gfx chip.
I've been playing CivIII on a motion computing tablet PC and it feels like the game was made for it. Moving your units around with the stylus is just perfect. But I don't see how you could port a game like Civ to something as small as a DS or a PSP. You need the bigger screen to see enough of the map and your overlays. I can't imagine playing CivIII (or IV) on something smaller than a 1024x768, 12" screen.