Widescreen Gaming Forum

I'm happy about hexes instead of squares. It'll feel a little weird for a Civ game -- more like one of the old Avalon Hill board games -- but I'm eager to see how that change works.

What I just don't know about yet... no stacking.

That's going to be a huuuuuuuge change -- will it feel ...

The big difference between the original and the sequel for me was the loss of the intelligence that suffused pretty much every location of the original. Invisible War felt like a port of a console game made by people who played the first game and (for the most part) only remembered the actiony bits ...

Depends on the game, really. What I want most from a turn-based strategy game (that would be "strategy") isn't what I want most from a simulation or pure shooter, etc.

If I had to pick one general form of gameplay that appeals most to me, though, I'd have to go with something that didn't appear ...

Ultima Underworld (remix)
Ultima Underworld 2 (remix)
System Shock (remix)
System Shock 2
Deus Ex
BioShock (orchestral tracks)
Sim City 4 Deluxe
The Sims 1
Civ IV (opening menu and "modern classical" John Adams tracks)
No One Lives Forever
Oblivion (especially the "atmosphere ...

I've really been enjoying using the Creature Creator -- I even plunked down the cash for the almost-complete version.

That said... Vert-? Sigh.

Am I the only one who's disappointed at the prospect that Spore itself may turn out to be yet another Vert- game? Did I only dream the response to ...

Gamasutra is reporting (at http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17352) that BioWare is slightly redesigning Mass Effect to release it for the PC in May of 2008.

... PC-oriented optimizations include fully customizable controls designed for the PC, high-resolution visuals ...

Portal for me.

It's the most remarkable balancing of action, problem-solving and storytelling I've seen in many years of computer gaming. Lose any one of those, and it's just another game like games we've seen before; integrate them all as elegantly as Portal did and you wind up with a uniquely ...

Hmm -- I guess I should add that I wasn't checking because I wanted to register the name!

I had an idea for a web service some time back. When I checked WHOIS to see if it was taken, not only was the most obvious form taken, so was every close approximation. In a number of cases, they appeared ...

You know what's really sad?

According to the WHOIS at Network Solutions, someone called "1&1 Internet, Inc." out of Pennsylvania registered the domain name "tallscreengamingforum.com" on August 25, 2007.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=tallscreengamingforum.com ...

Perfect -- thanks muchly!

I was reading over the FAQ (since I was about to give it as a link to some folks interested in widescreen gaming) when I noticed something funny: there's no definition given for "hor+" and "vert-" and the variations on these terms that describe widescreen implementations.

Could the FAQ be ...