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Oh yeah, any unit that creates another unit (like necromancers or dryads) are also seriously overpowered. Enemies seem to always go after summoned units first (then archers, then everything else) for whatever reason. Round 1 you summon 800 skeletons or plant monsters, watch as the enemy homes in like a missile, two rounds later it recharges and you make some more.
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Thanks for the advice, guys. I think I'll smush my troops up against a few stronger armies until they aren't viable any more and switch to an all-human army.
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cell posted:Thanks for the advice, guys. I think I'll smush my troops up against a few stronger armies until they aren't viable any more and switch to an all-human army. Since you're playing as a mage you might be interested in the frog princess found at the swamp. I also hope you're not getting your wife pregnant because babies seem nice early game but they take up space for some ridiculous items mid-game. When she's horny turn her into a zombie or give a big old slap in the face (ah, European game makers - I love you guys).
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I'm not ready to buy another game just yet, and I realize they aren't quite the same game, but I'm still wondering, which should I choose: a HoMM game (III seems to be the favorite), or King's Bounty? This is for someone who hasn't played either, ever, and would be coming to it brand new.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm not ready to buy another game just yet, and I realize they aren't quite the same game, but I'm still wondering, which should I choose: a HoMM game (III seems to be the favorite), or King's Bounty? Combat system is pretty similar (but different) on both, but they arent the same type of game. KB is a RPG with a tactical combat. HoMM is an strategy game with RPG elements. KB as a good story, its a long continuous game on which you will do quests, talk to NPCs, buy items, fight bosses, etc. HoMM is divided in campanigns, with negligible storyline, each divided in maps. You take cities, build on then with resourses you gather or the mines you taken produce, hire troops and heroes to lead then, etc. In short: pretty much the only thing in common with both is the similar tactical combat. Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jun 7, 2010 |
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I would personally start with HOMM III myself. While King's Bounty does start off with a tutorial, it also seems to make a lot of assumptions as to what you already know about the genre. HOMM III starts off slow enough that you can probably figure things out as you go without even reading the manual first, although that would probably help.
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Jun 7, 2010 23:52
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So it sounds like HoMM III is a bit like Jagged Alliance 2, in that you don't just participate in a static line of battles, but there's some map travel and battlefield choice, and some minor city/empire building and resource management involved. I'm going on a weird, sporadic strategy game binge for some reason, and buying far more games than I have hours to play them. Just recently: - bought Master of Orion pack - downloaded Alien Assault - downloaded Panzer General Forever - bought Jagged Alliance 2 - considering HoMM III The awesome thing is that just about all of these will run on a flash drive, and play well on a netbook of negligible power. It's just great you can pack all these great wars with you wherever you go.
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Luisfe posted:Seriously, Sacrifice is awesome. "Oh, so I am running out of Inquisitors/Royal Snakes/Knights? No problem! Just let me buy a bunch of archers/peasants and sort this out!" Sacrafice is on my shelf of games I need to beat, along with Giants:Citizen Kabuto and BG&E. Only problem is that Giants starts out so slow and I already played the first 4 hours about 6 times, same with BG&E which doesn't run that smoothly on my Machine. I got about halfway through Sacrafice before stopping. I just can't get a grasp on the interface really.
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Jun 8, 2010 01:24
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Welp Blood is an awesome shooter, feels like Duke Nukem mixed with Doom.
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Awesome Andy posted:Welp Blood is an awesome shooter, feels like Duke Nukem mixed with Doom. Blood was awesome. Needs a remake badly. The humor and setting was awesome, but they need to update the gameplay and make it not so hard!
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doctorfrog posted:So it sounds like HoMM III is a bit like Jagged Alliance 2, in that you don't just participate in a static line of battles, but there's some map travel and battlefield choice, and some minor city/empire building and resource management involved. Eh... not really. It's more like 4X games like Master of Magic or Age of Wonders than anything like JA2's campaign.
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doctorfrog posted:So it sounds like HoMM III is a bit like Jagged Alliance 2, in that you don't just participate in a static line of battles, but there's some map travel and battlefield choice, and some minor city/empire building and resource management involved. If you end up getting HoMM3, be sure to grab the fan-made In the Wake of Gods expansion. It adds a ton of stuff to the game, though I'd suggest playing through the vanilla version first to get used to it. There's also an HD patch, but it doesn't work with the GoG version just yet. It does recognize the WoG executable, though, so you can at least get it running with that if you want.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Eh... not really. It's more like 4X games like Master of Magic or Age of Wonders than anything like JA2's campaign. Exactly. City management is mostly buy buildings, using money and resourses like stone, wood, crystal, etc, one building a day. Building allows you to recruit troops (each troop has its building. You can recruit a fixed amount per week), to recruit heroes, to have better city defenses in sieges, teach spells to heroes, and have a money income. Then you assign troops to your heroes and go explore and win other cities and mines, gather resourses and power ups, fight neutral monster and enemy heroes. Map objectives varies, but is usually: kill you opponents by taking all their cities and killing their heroes. Kreeblah posted:If you end up getting HoMM3, be sure to grab the fan-made In the Wake of Gods expansion. It adds a ton of stuff to the game, though I'd suggest playing through the vanilla version first to get used to it. Dont really like WoG. I thinks it adds too much, taking away the chess-like simplicity that is a big part of the fun of Heroes.
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Jun 8, 2010 02:56
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Your clarifications are only serving to make me want to purchase this game more.
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doctorfrog posted:Your clarifications are only serving to make me want to purchase this game more. I dont think you will regret. Its a true classic every startegy gamer should try.
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How are the fan made WOG campaigns for HOMM3? I thought about trying them out a while ago seeing as I love HOMM3 but have played all the dev made campaigns, but normally fan made campaigns stink. Anyone have any relevant experience?
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Jun 8, 2010 04:04
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AGH. Playing Assassin's Creed 2 gave me a hankering to play PoP, and GoG let the sale go to midnight tonite. Curse you poor impulse control. 
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AxeManiac posted:Blood was awesome. Needs a remake badly. The humor and setting was awesome, but they need to update the gameplay and make it not so hard! If Monolith made a new Blood game it would probably get a lot more attention than the gigantic "Meh" garnered by F3AR.
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Verizian posted:If Monolith made a new Blood game it would probably get a lot more attention than the gigantic "Meh" garnered by F3AR. Monolith isn't making Fear 3 so we just might see a new Blood game (yeah right) (it better be nolf 3)
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Condemned 3. (Goddamnit make Blood 3 you bastards. Call it Blood 2 and pretend the second game didn't happen.)
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Didn't they unregister the Blood computer game trademark recently? Well, WB did, so I'm not sure how this translates to Monolith. So I don't think we'll ever see Blood 3. 
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doctorfrog posted:Your clarifications are only serving to make me want to purchase this game more. It's HoMM3. If you like that sort of thing, you really can't go wrong. Frankly, I'm sorry your childhood was barren of HoMM3 hotseat games. I'm sure they're the reason I like multiplayer games, even though I hate Heroes and all games like it as a result, now.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Monolith isn't making Fear 3 so we just might see a new Blood game (yeah right) (it better be nolf 3) It could be SHOGO 2. They did promise a sequel at the end of the first game, and there's that one guy wearin a SHOGO 2 shirt in FEAR 2.
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There are demos of all the HoMM games, just go and play them for a while if you want to know if they're worth buying.
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Panzer General 3D: Assault is now on GOG for $9.99.
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Blodskur posted:Panzer General 3D: Assault is now on GOG for $9.99. Does anyone know how this compares to Panzer General 1+2?
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Agh, my controller that I know works with PoP died. Wall jumping with a mouse and keyboard is evil.
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AxeManiac posted:Blood was awesome. Needs a remake badly. The humor and setting was awesome, but they need to update the gameplay and make it not so hard! loving pussy 
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SwissCM posted:loving pussy I cheated playing Duke Nukem 3D, I like games, just not that good at them! Makes me wish these old games would be released with trainers and cheats and all that. I loved those. Cheating owns.
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sethsez posted:Does anyone know how this compares to Panzer General 1+2?
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AxeManiac posted:Blood was awesome. Needs a remake badly. The humor and setting was awesome, but they need to update the gameplay and make it not so hard! In all fairness, I consider myself pretty exceptional at FPS games, and on the hardest or next to hardest difficulty on Blood, I remember actually running out of ammo a few times and getting myself out of some sticky situations. If I couldn't I'd just reload a previous save. Then again, I'm Mr. has-to-kill-everything-and-go-everywhere-110%-OCD-completionist, which is also why I have such a big backlog of games I'll never play.
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Zachack posted:Not as good. That said, here's hoping this means an eventual release of PG1/2/FG/PeoG. In the meantime, there's PGForever (depending on your stance on abandonware and remakes of abandonware). http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88752 doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 9, 2010 |
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Charles Martel posted:In all fairness, I consider myself pretty exceptional at FPS games, and on the hardest or next to hardest difficulty on Blood, I remember actually running out of ammo a few times and getting myself out of some sticky situations. If I couldn't I'd just reload a previous save. You had to play the first half of the game with nothing but a pitch fork, didn't you? poo poo was hard!
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is the site down right now? https://www.gog.com
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Cable posted:is the site down right now? I was about to ask if anyone else couldn't get the site to load. Maybe they're preparing the launch of EA's back catalogue!! 
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Charles Martel posted:I was about to ask if anyone else couldn't get the site to load. Would you stop taunting my dreams? EA still owns a fairly large catalog of DOS games that I weep over  Site's also back up if it was down earlier. Now to look away before I buy Outcast.
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Has anyone tried the (or an alternative) high resolution add-on for Outcast. The last time tried this game vanilla I was sad to see it didn't appear go past 640x480. Ten years later I'm sure my PC could handle up to 1024x768 but the option isn't there.
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Jun 9, 2010 11:06
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I just want Shogun: Total War working on vista. I'd pay for that.
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I would love to get Dungeon keeper 1 and or 2. They've never really made anything quite the same although evil genius is similar and fun. Bullfrog had so many amazing titles back in the day.
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Charles Martel posted:I was about to ask if anyone else couldn't get the site to load. It's working now, and you can get Princess Cleavage for $9.99.
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