Wow... wow... that's not cool.  

So if I wait a year or two, they'll release it as a "super duper gold" version or something, and have all three packaged as one?

Probably 2 or 3 years right? I mean they're not all planned to be released at the same time. So you'll probably get something like 1, then 2, then 1+2 together with some sort of extra, then 3, then the 3 together. Oh and then DLC because no publisher can live without DLC so maybe its something like this.

1. Part 1 box

2 DLC

3. Part 1 w/DLC box silver ed

4 Part 2 box

5 Part 2 DLC 

6 Part 1 w/ DLC and Part 2 box gold

7 Part 1 w/DLC and Part 2 w/ DLC Box platinum

8. Part 3 box

9. Part 3 DLC

10. Part 1 w/DLC and Part 2 w/DLC and part 3 titanium

11. Part 1-3 all DLC ultimate collection

Heh, I am not sure they are going to through in DLC or not but yeah I can see them stretching out releases for a few years before you get to catch them all... pokemon!

These days it seems EVERY game has DLC. They can do extra missions or multi-player maps. As long as you can download it and pay something for it, it's dlc.

Not that I mind at least having an option for it. And some games' DLC has been great!

Too much NASCAR Sim huh?  Maybe you could mod all the tracks and only turn right.  My wheel and pedals are in the closet for the time being...no DA, I won't sell em for 8 bucks.

I've found that while doming a console cuts down on dust and pet hair accumulation, it also tends to cause overheating issues. Perhaps removing sections of the dome and replacing them with washable air filters would work better, but I haven't had time to try it out yet.

(Really? Four pages and no one mentioned it? You guys are slacking.)

What errors? That he disagrees with your opinion over what the best control scheme is? What is fun is ultimately what is most important in a game. If you're going to claim to talk about the merits of different control schemes, you can't leave out fun. Winning doesn't matter if you're not having fun doing it.

^^

...and porn.

man i suck with quoting, and i cant be bothered to type it all again. let's just say that anyone that thinks the controller is equal to the mouse for FPS is wrong. that's not an opinion, its fact. its as much a fact as saying an F1 car is faster than your mum's hatchback.

Consoles may ironically doom themselves as their hardware becomes more and more advanced.  Take the PS3 at launch; $600.  Then you need a second controller, a memory card, and some games if you want it to actually do anything beyond play movies.  A decent gaming PC, which can do many functions before you even install games on it, can be built for around the same price.  Yes the prices on current gen consoles have come down, but what about next gen?  You could very easily be looking at a day where a new console costs just as much as building a gaming PC.  The console makers will have to throw more and more money at devs to keep games exclusive, as this is the only trump card they have over other platforms.

The next generation of consoles are very likely going to need to do more than play games if they want to remain competitive with PCs.

I don't know in your country, but PS2 costed that when it came out in mine, and it sold like pancakes...

Meh,

Lists are great I guess, but I wouldn't put GC2 in the top 100 either.  The game was ridiculously easy as the AI was uttely incompetent at both tactical and strategic fleet manuvering.

The open space design doomed it.

Of course that's just an opinion.  GC2 did innovate a little bit, but it didn't differentiate itself so far from the usual crop of space 4x games to make a huge impression on me.  Other than that I was really dissapointed that it wasn't more challenging and so I actually deleted it from the HD after a couple months.

I have high hopes for Elemental as well, but there are bound to be concerns as well.  I'm not in the beta, because I don't have the time I'd like to have, but from reading the journal entries I'm a bit frightened that perhaps the design goals have become too grand, and no matter how long it is kept in for polishing, it will never mange to fully integrate all the parts it needs to.  Of course I have GC2 as my measureing stick, and I feel GC2 failed there, so perhaps I am more down on SDs development model than I should be from one data point.

*shrug* I wish the project the best, and I'll likely purchase it anyway because I appreciate what Brad and SD are trying to do with their business model, I just fear that their games ultimately don't get it quite right for me.

To each their own.

Shadow Tongue,

What games can you think of that had a better AI developement than galciv 2?

(friendly question because you make a good point, at least about TA)

GC2 is getting up there in age though. I mean maybe I am asking a lot from developers, though I don't think so, but I expect newer games to advance to the point where old games start showing their age compared against them. I don't think it's would be an insult to GC2 in anyway to say that games that been released since are better in xyz area and to hope that Elemental exceeds it on several levels. Multiplayer will be important for me for Elemental for early adaption, for example, so for that aspect I have to look at games like Civ IV for comparison but I would expect it to go beyond what out there already.