Yeah, I mean I would prefer to play this on PC. But I have a 360 so I might as well use it sometimes. Unless the PC version is going to have some extra features, I have no problem just getting this tomorrow and not months from now.
Hell, I'd pro'lly end up playing it with my 360 controller on my PC anyways.
First off: I think that the delay is a necessary evil of releasing a game on the XBLA (microsoft doesn't want you to buy it on the PC and neglect their console). Second: it's not "Months from now", it's less than a month from the console release date.
Yeah, I mean I would prefer to play this on PC. But I have a 360 so I might as well use it sometimes. Unless the PC version is going to have some extra features, I have no problem just getting this tomorrow and not months from now.
Hell, I'd pro'lly end up playing it with my 360 controller on my PC anyways.
First off: I think that the delay is a necessary evil of releasing a game on the XBLA (microsoft doesn't want you to buy it on the PC and neglect their console). Second: it's not "Months from now", it's less than a month from the console release date.
read the preview, kinda dissapointed that it's actually a puzzler and not a sandbox game.
Still looks incredible though.
I have read that once you complete a mission you get to play that level in sandbox mode (with the powers earned up to that point).
Yeah now that I have it (only played the first few levels though) I have to say that it is pretty damn cool. My only complaint is that it lacks the epic feeling you want from god games. Probably unavoidable for a downloadable title though. I wonder if Eric Chahl ever played Populous: the Beginning.
Who am I kidding, no one played populous the beginning
I've played this for a few hours, and it's awesome. On he first lava map (sort of gameplay spoilers)
I kept on burning my first village because I was spending too much time trying to get 100% vegetation and the lava creep eventually reached the village, and I couldn't build walls that lasted long enough
The atmosphere of the game is stunning, though, and I really enjoy the world mythology.
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited July 2011
Played half the maps yesterday (I think) and it's very fun and neat.
Courtesy spoilered:
I really liked the second map the best, the first one with multiple totems. The island I left did not look anything like the island I started on, how the rivers work with transporting soil is very cool. I ended up having the delta and the rivers totally reroute and completely change the landscape of the map, it was where I though the power over nature felt really tangible. I haven't had as much fun with the rest of the maps, but I was kind of semi rushing through them. I'll go back later today and do them more properly.
Yeah, I mean I would prefer to play this on PC. But I have a 360 so I might as well use it sometimes. Unless the PC version is going to have some extra features, I have no problem just getting this tomorrow and not months from now.
Hell, I'd pro'lly end up playing it with my 360 controller on my PC anyways.
First off: I think that the delay is a necessary evil of releasing a game on the XBLA (microsoft doesn't want you to buy it on the PC and neglect their console). Second: it's not "Months from now", it's less than a month from the console release date.
read the preview, kinda dissapointed that it's actually a puzzler and not a sandbox game.
Still looks incredible though.
I have read that once you complete a mission you get to play that level in sandbox mode (with the powers earned up to that point).
Yeah now that I have it (only played the first few levels though) I have to say that it is pretty damn cool. My only complaint is that it lacks the epic feeling you want from god games. Probably unavoidable for a downloadable title though. I wonder if Eric Chahl ever played Populous: the Beginning.
Who am I kidding, no one played populous the beginning
First off: I think that the delay is a necessary evil of releasing a game on the XBLA (microsoft doesn't want you to buy it on the PC and neglect their console).
Every year they promise that THIS is the year they'll stop treating PC gamers like dirt and every year they just keep on truckin'.
one thing i will say, is man fire sucks so bad. once a fire starts spreading it's really hard to put out, especially if you've got a lot of vegetation around. one village was about to catch fire so i grabbed a ball of water and tossed it on them, but then the water finished off the rest of the village by washing them away (whoops).
i really love the RB zoom function. it's fun to say, jellify a huge tsunami wave, and then watch right as it unfreezes and comes crashing down on a shore next to my little dudes.
some of the later levels are just brutal. the one i'm sorta stuck on now is
the huge active volcano with the totems on each side of it, and the add in that it also starts flooding randomly too. so i have to somehow make a village in 30 seconds, get them safe from both those things, and then somehow guide them around the volcano to the other totems. this one is quite difficult.
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Yeah but with Steam I can continue to play in offline mode if my internet connection goes out. With Ubisoft's FUCK YOUR SHIT™ DRM in the game, if you internet connection goes out then you get booted from the game without being able to save.
jesus christ, this second to last mission is fucking crazy
the volcano seriously starts to fuck your shit up after like, 5 minutes. i dunno how i'm supposed to get to each totem and protect them when it just up and shits lava every where. i work the whole time just to control the volcano, and then that EXPLODES and a huge crater fills with more lava, which fills quickly and spills everywhere. then, lava pours in from every side. it turns out the whole damn thing is inside a volcano. i have to figure out how to get to each totem quicker because they give you so little time... and i don't eve know how to get 100% vegetation with all that lava...
For those with the full game: is there a mode with just a big ass island, loads of villages to be set up and plenty of random obstacles/disasters going off to keep me occupied?
I'm buying when i've got money regardless, but that'd be awesome
well i finished it, and the last level was pretty nice and easy compared to the few before that. i really love this game, but man can it be frustrating when you goof up. i managed to bang out 100% vegetation on it on my first time through. what really helped me was realizing that, once you 'open' the door that ends the level, you can't lose it. so even if you lost every village, the door stays open for you to finish. so, if you have the level done my advice is stick around finish the vegetation spreading, because some of them are a hassle to get under control.
For those with the full game: is there a mode with just a big ass island, loads of villages to be set up and plenty of random obstacles/disasters going off to keep me occupied?
I'm buying when i've got money regardless, but that'd be awesome
Unfortunately, no, at least not in the opening selection of modes.
Hooray.
Well I've finished, that was a very fun game and the last level was nice and sandboxy. My favorite part was probably something that happened in the Tears of Stone level:
The one that starts with lots of lava and once you get all the totems starts raining. I got to the end of it and was just messing around, one of my villages was in a deep crater left by all the lava. Turns out they were able to flood themselves because every time they repelled the water it bounced of the crater walls back at them so eventually they wiped themselves out. Now this would have been fine and pretty easy to fix except that the volcano began erupting again, the town I had moved to the volcano's crater did not survive this event. The world went from lush and green to a burning hellscape very quickly. The totem to the far right was the only one that really escaped unharmed because there was a river cutting them off from the rest of the map. I managed to save all of them though, even the one that was almost completely covered by lava in the volcano.
I can't even get over to the other island very easily. The water seems to wash away my sand bridges and there is so little sand!
Any good amounts of sand in the level?
I heard there is a water protection kite. Where is it?
I MUST HAVE INFINITE EARTH! Also, what does engulf all do?
What a good game.
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DomhnallMinty D. Vision!ScotlandRegistered Userregular
edited July 2011
Machismo!
To the left of your starting village, and across a thin stretch of water, there's an island with a water protection kite and a totem. Get the kite, make a village and after that you just need to slowly get the other two totems. Jellified water is really useful here because it'll give you another 60 seconds to move stuff around once the tide starts coming in.
The second last level is ridiculously tough though; I have no idea how I'm going to get 100% vegtation on it.. So are a few of the challenges.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
Bottom line: straight from the horse's mouth it doesn't have the always on DRM.
I've played a couple of the levels and I'm loving this game but yeah, you really have to keep in mind the consequences of your actions. That level where you first encounter the plants that your dudes can't go near led me to wash out the final totem with water, only to spend a crazy amount of time trying to divert all the water sources that popped up. It was satisfying when it finally did work, though.
To the left of your starting village, and across a thin stretch of water, there's an island with a water protection kite and a totem. Get the kite, make a village and after that you just need to slowly get the other two totems. Jellified water is really useful here because it'll give you another 60 seconds to move stuff around once the tide starts coming in.
The second last level is ridiculously tough though; I have no idea how I'm going to get 100% vegtation on it.. So are a few of the challenges.
some tips for that level if you want them:
i always build the closest village first and grab the water power, but before you can focus on that you have to move the exploding trees to the left side of the volcano so when it goes off the lava runs to the left instead of right at your first village.
i found that the easiest way to make sure they survive both the floods and the lava is to move the villages away from both. grab some lava and add land to the far side of the crater, away from the volcano. once you have enough landmass, move the totem there. i try to make it high up as possible so it doesn't get washed away by the rain. from there i spent most of the time fixing the volcano to protect the villages, and then go get evaporate totem next. once you have evaporate you can send people to every totem and spread vegetation pretty much everywhere. the lava starts pouring in once you get infinite earth, so save that one for last.
The fire tree water tree concept is the most obnoxious thing. I want to move more sand and water around, but now I'm on this stage and I just hate hate hate it. I'm youtubing it so I can see something more interesting.
I loved the demo right up until the tidal wave. My mans won't go to the 'don't get tsunamied' totem until I have a path made (I have no idea why, they'll head for other shit as soon as I need them to and just wait at barriers) and then their stubby little legs don't move fast enough to get there and back before they get themselves obliterated.
The fire tree water tree concept is the most obnoxious thing. I want to move more sand and water around, but now I'm on this stage and I just hate hate hate it. I'm youtubing it so I can see something more interesting.
I did not like the first fire tree level. I ended up scrapping away all the dirt from around the fire trees so the fires wouldn't spread before I even made my first village. I don't think I ever used water trees for controlling fire, to me they were always stupid things that flooded my village when lava got close.
Never got very far because it was only a demo and I was poor and young, but it was still fun!
I had Populous on SNES, of all things. I remember the first time I realized I could re-skin everything to look Japanese. That was a good day.
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
I cannot wait until this game hits pc.
I've been lurking in the shadows absorbing every video of this game I could get my grubby slavish hands on.
I'm gonna fiddle with so much stuff oh yeah.
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
I'm much more interested in Terra-formation than pretending I'm The Almighty. Is this game for me?
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DomhnallMinty D. Vision!ScotlandRegistered Userregular
Finished! Also thanks for the tip for the second last level H Jay but I already finished it. I have absolutely zero doubt that if I did it your way it would have been a lot easier. It got pretty frantic for quite a while there.
Has anyone got any tips for the Nitro challenge? I need to do that one, one other and the last three I unlocked after the Movements territory.
Nitro is the one with a forest fire moving towards your village and you only have explosive trees to defend yourself with. There's two large lakes up at the mountain.
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First off: I think that the delay is a necessary evil of releasing a game on the XBLA (microsoft doesn't want you to buy it on the PC and neglect their console). Second: it's not "Months from now", it's less than a month from the console release date.
I have read that once you complete a mission you get to play that level in sandbox mode (with the powers earned up to that point).
Yeah now that I have it (only played the first few levels though) I have to say that it is pretty damn cool. My only complaint is that it lacks the epic feeling you want from god games. Probably unavoidable for a downloadable title though. I wonder if Eric Chahl ever played Populous: the Beginning.
Who am I kidding, no one played populous the beginning
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Never got very far because it was only a demo and I was poor and young, but it was still fun!
The atmosphere of the game is stunning, though, and I really enjoy the world mythology.
Courtesy spoilered:
I loved that game.
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
Now I'm in the desert.
Wait, that's not good news...
i really love the RB zoom function. it's fun to say, jellify a huge tsunami wave, and then watch right as it unfreezes and comes crashing down on a shore next to my little dudes.
some of the later levels are just brutal. the one i'm sorta stuck on now is
Looks like I'll be legally buying the game and then immediately circumventing the DRM as per usual, then!
Is it worse than Dawn of War 2 using Windows Live? Because that doesn't bother me at all.
Though for a while, I thought my coworker was playing DoW2 on xbox and went looking for it all over the place.
Two DRMs for the price of one.
For those with the full game: is there a mode with just a big ass island, loads of villages to be set up and plenty of random obstacles/disasters going off to keep me occupied?
I'm buying when i've got money regardless, but that'd be awesome
Unfortunately, no, at least not in the opening selection of modes.
Well I've finished, that was a very fun game and the last level was nice and sandboxy. My favorite part was probably something that happened in the Tears of Stone level:
Any advice?
Any good amounts of sand in the level?
I heard there is a water protection kite. Where is it?
I MUST HAVE INFINITE EARTH! Also, what does engulf all do?
What a good game.
The second last level is ridiculously tough though; I have no idea how I'm going to get 100% vegtation on it.. So are a few of the challenges.
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Bottom line: straight from the horse's mouth it doesn't have the always on DRM.
I've played a couple of the levels and I'm loving this game but yeah, you really have to keep in mind the consequences of your actions. That level where you first encounter the plants that your dudes can't go near led me to wash out the final totem with water, only to spend a crazy amount of time trying to divert all the water sources that popped up. It was satisfying when it finally did work, though.
some tips for that level if you want them:
i found that the easiest way to make sure they survive both the floods and the lava is to move the villages away from both. grab some lava and add land to the far side of the crater, away from the volcano. once you have enough landmass, move the totem there. i try to make it high up as possible so it doesn't get washed away by the rain. from there i spent most of the time fixing the volcano to protect the villages, and then go get evaporate totem next. once you have evaporate you can send people to every totem and spread vegetation pretty much everywhere. the lava starts pouring in once you get infinite earth, so save that one for last.
I did not like the first fire tree level. I ended up scrapping away all the dirt from around the fire trees so the fires wouldn't spread before I even made my first village. I don't think I ever used water trees for controlling fire, to me they were always stupid things that flooded my village when lava got close.
I had Populous on SNES, of all things. I remember the first time I realized I could re-skin everything to look Japanese. That was a good day.
I've been lurking in the shadows absorbing every video of this game I could get my grubby slavish hands on.
I'm gonna fiddle with so much stuff oh yeah.
Has anyone got any tips for the Nitro challenge? I need to do that one, one other and the last three I unlocked after the Movements territory.
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