ORIGINAL: Scott_WAR
ORIGINAL: diablo1
ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish
Let us not forget the time Erik has to spend baby-sitting us. There again what better way could he have to spend those "extra" hours?[:)][:)][:)]
You mean when he's not sitting in his pile of gold and silver like Donald Ducks grandpa tossing it over his head over and over screaming "I'm Rish!", "I'm Rish!", I'm Rish!"
Its Scrooge McDuck man,.............
Now about the BftB game and its price, and the greed that causes games to be overcharged for. I will NEVER pay $80 for a game that is the same as many other games out there. I will pay $80 for a game thats unique,...and BftB is far from unique. Is it a good game? yeah, but thats no reason to charge extra. Is it polished? yes, but again that should be the standard,...not something you charge extra for. Is there anything that really warrants a price tag of $80? Judging from the demo,...no,...not at all.
WitP is a game that is worth extra money, its a unique game, that you arent going to find anywhere else. BftB is just another RTS game among countless other RTS games.
"WitP is a game that is worth extra money, its a unique game, that you arent going to find anywhere else."
Priceless. WitP is also likely the most anal computer wargame ever made as well. Likely only capable of being compared with ASL Advanced Squad Leader for magnitude level of omg anal levels of detail only the truly obsessed could want.
I own both games by the way, so it's not like I am just saying things I can't know.
I also own BftB and consider it a great deal more playable than WitP will ever manage to be.
I suspect if given a chance, I'd rather I was never hooked on ASL and also never bought WitP. Great designs to be sure, just not overly playable ones. Nauseating sums of detail that with some effort might have been rendered likely more playable if not for how some of wargaming value mind numbing detail over all at the price of everything else too.
WitP is no more worth the 80 bucks I spent than BftB was. Both cost me 80 bucks, one is likely going to remain mostly unplayed for being more in line with just wanting something I know will be brutally accurate, should I ever have virtually nothing else to do and no life so I could spend the required incredible sums of time needed to play it.
If you look over at Gamesquad, home of the largest density I can think of of ASLer, you will also find, that like WitP, they too likely scorn anything non ASL, and can't fathom while anyone would want to play anything else, not that the day is long enough for them to actually think there is time enough for anything else.
I also don't seem to play my ASL as much as I would like.
Is BftB worth 80 bucks?
Well let's just say that a great many shitty 40 something wargames from numerous other companies likely were not worth 40 bucks or 40 cents. They were not worth 40 bucks and they were not worth 20 bucks and they were not worth 9.99 either. Which might explain why they were in the bargain bin where often all you get is garbage.
So when you DO find a decent game for 40 bucks, rejoice, be happy. Because it likely was worth more too. But IT was the fluke, not the 80 dollar wargame.
