warren

As I think everyone knows, the CoH IP could be used to craft an amazing TV show.

All you need is a giant blue simpleton with a unique battle cry and you've got a winner.

It's all OK. The only thing the video proves is that Druids needed a nerf back in '04. They've been fully rebalanced twice since then.

No need to panic, it's just dated evidence.

Babylonian:
[i] One thing they absolutely nailed was the SOUNDTRACK. I never played Stubbs once, but I listen to that album at least a few times a month. Man, it's great.

I don't understand how they didn't mention that in this article, because as far as I'm concerned, the game's music is the one area in which the game could be considered an absolute success. [/i]

I'm willing to bet that the Stubbs Soundtrack wasn't mentioned at all because Seropian and Wideload didn't have anything at all to do with it.

From what I've heard, Seropian wasn't even in favor of doing the Soundtrack until after it had been finished. All of the impetus to create a Stubbs Soundtrack came from the publisher (Aspyr Media) who wasn't mentioned once in the entire article.

onetruping-- More on topic, I think Aspyr's service will be great, provided they adjust the cost of the games appropriately. If they are doing digital distribution, they can avoid the packaging costs and whatnot associated with more mainstream publishing. It might even provide an outlet for the smaller gaming companies to get more face time, like Spiderweb Software, Ambrosia, and such.

Unfortunately, Aspyr probably won't be allowed to reduce the prices for the games due to retailer agreements.

However, it will probably allow smaller developers and games to get good Mac distribution.

Aspyr is selling product to a market that's 3% of the PC market (and that's assuming that the same percentage of mac users are gamers, which is doubtful). Since you sound like a customer, are you going to turn your nose up at a company that's finding a way for you to get games that your local retailers don't want to carry?

I'm also kind of curious as to which games you bought were "poorly supported half-baked products that work flakily (if at all.)" Every Aspyr Mac game that I've played in the last few years has been as good or better than the PC game when played on an equivalent machine.