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[edit] Flint's Face

Does anyone else think that Flint looks a lot like Michael O'Hare from Babylon 5? Chronolegion 17:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AquaNox 2

I would suggest that AquaNox 2 be made its own article, and that the 'stub' tag remain on this article as referring to AquaNox 1. I am not familiar with the games [Go random page!], so please account for that when weighing this advice. Tigerhawkvok 10:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I also think the games should be separated. However, this would mean that the two articles would have to be expanded significantly. Wish I could find my AquaNox manual - it has a historical timeline of Aqua, including the events of Archimedean Dynasty. Chronolegion 12:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I actually think that we should merge Aquanoxes with Achimedian Dynasty. I don't think that these games will ever get an article similar to those of Oblivion or Diablo II. One big page for the world of Aqua would make a bit more sense than having 3 articles consisting of one line each.~~MaxGrin 15:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Angel's Tears

Was Angel's Tears really supposed to be a sequel to AquaNox 2? There wasn't much revealed on the homepage before the game was put on hold. Chronolegion 13:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I know what you mean, but we barely have any information about ToA at all. I guess we can suppose that it'll be, alternatively could have been, a sequel. As far as I'm concerned it's not even developed anymore, however it's a mere belief and I can't cite any sources.~~MaxGrin 15:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
It seems strange for a sequel to be developed on a different platform than the originals. It's difficult to make a stand-alone that also works as part of a larger story. Chronolegion 17:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I know what you mean. As far as I'm concerned the issue has been raised by the few fans Aquanox has, but lets face it, the series are duying out and they're probably trying to get the best out of it. Guess we'll have to lend a PS2 from someone now. Here's a trailer of AN3: [1]. What I find bizarre though, is the fact that some pages say that it's already been released, other state that it will be released and gamespot doesn't even suggest the release date yet.~~MaxGrin 14:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
If it was released, I'm sure the official website would have mentioned it. Since I live in the US, it's entirely possible that it could've been released in Europe, and I just haven't heard of it. Chronolegion 15:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Germany here, the problem is though, there are no reviews of it on the net. Even more so, it can't be found on Amazon.de nor anywhere else, save one solo product on Ebay. Even if it was a total failure, it would have some reports due to the fact that it's a member of the series, however this doesn't seem to be the fact.~~MaxGrin 09:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] InfoBox for Aquanox 1

Okey, now we've got a problem here and frankly I don't have a solution for it, yet. That CVG Infobox for Aquanox surely looks pretty, but the tiny blank space, it creates, doesn't. I'm arguing if we should remove it temporarily, i.e. place it here, for the sake of the article looking 'normal'. Unless I can find a way of aligning it to the left, we'll have to choose between the beauty of infobox or the prettiness of the whole.~~MaxGrin 15:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archimdean Dynasty

Hello people I still got the manual for Archimedean Dynasty. I written the story about aqua but not sure what to put... Any ideas??? —The preceding Drahgo 23:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

You know, Concept and History of Aqua are quite identical. Shouldn't we merge them?~~MaxGrin 17:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes I think it is best to. Drahgo 23:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Please, feel free to submit more material to the concept section though. Eventually, if it grows to big, we can seperate the two. I've only got the manual from AN1 and it's rather slim.~~MaxGrin 23:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archimdean gameplay problem

Some peope cannot play archimedean dynasty on newer computer as AD require VESA graphics to play the game. The way to solve this is dosbox. Anyone solved a way around this? I used ATI Radeon graphics card and it doesn't work with it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.247.233.85 (talk) 19:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

I've got a copy of AD and played quite a few games on DosBox before, yet I never got this game to run. It just crashes at the start.
If played without dosbox, it will display black screen and will not run, however, with dosbox you can run it but you will need a dos extender if the game crashes on the HUB.
The only way to play it is on DOSBOX but the problem is that the game will be slower to play. Unfortunately, bluebyte is no longer available therefore there is no patch for windows XP nor graphics card.--Drahgo 11:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I have found the solution that causes the game not to load is that Windows XP does not support VESA. To play, download NOLFB from [2] and follow the instructions. Now I am happy ^_^--Drahgo 20:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requirements outside the infobox

We place the requirements outside the infobox in order to keep them more or less parallel to their respective articles. The amount of space taken away by the infobox simply outmatches that of the composed text. Thus, for the sake of having a good overview and a pleasant visual design we refrain from making the infoboxes too large (by putting the sys.reqs. elsewhere).~~MaxGrin 22:44, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Ahh didn't think of that, thansk for the revert. So when there is more compose text on the games, the system requirement can be place in the info box then? --Drahgo 11:20, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
That's the big idea. As you might noticed the references are also pasted into the text instead of being linked to the bottom of the article. Same reason.~~MaxGrin 13:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Fixed an oddity

The article said this after the EnTrOx info:

(In fact, "oxygen" is an incorrect term, as pure oxygen becomes toxic under pressure; instead, humans breathe a special gas mixture of helium and oxygen, produced and supplied exclusively by EnTrOx; as such, nobody is willing to attack them lest they be left without air).

How's it an incorrect term in any case? He has the facts right, but it still doesn't change the fact that they based their name on Oxygen. I snipped it out, simply because I don't see the relevance in it. Sybaronde (talk) 09:56, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The uniqueness of Aquanox

I have a hard time swallowing this part about Aquanox:

"As the sole member of the series, the game includes a vast amount of true information on oceans, such as origins of different species, their specifics and man's adaptation to submarine life. The games manual consist of two chapters explaining various terms and facts that have been mentioned through out the course of the story"

First of all, the manual for Aquanox 2 has almost identical two chapters about the same topics. Secondly, Archimedean Dynasty also utilized plenty of real-world information, such as the importance of proper breathing gas mixtures in high pressure environments and the existence of ecosystems around hot vents which are based on chemosynthesis. I do admit much less of that was explained in the manual for AD.82.128.184.246 (talk) 00:55, 30 April 2008 (UTC)