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ImPureAwesome posted:I haven't played as much of CK2 so I'm sure others can give you examples of that. In CK2 you can sacrifice the pope on a burning pyre in the name of Odin, bring Asia under the iron heel of an incest mandatory Zoroastrian empire, and/or fight off a Mongol invasion, multiple Muslim jihads, and the full force of the superpowered Aztec legions all at the same time. In EU4 you can watch numbers go up, sigh heavily, and/or reminisce about playing CK2. There is only one choice.
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It seems as though there are actually two choices in one. Also I'm pretty sure Planetary Annihilation has been fixed enough to be worth a full game price. At least in my opinion. It's been getting updates left and right. If it hasn't been fixed already it will soon. The game is totally a pick up and play sort of game. You either go in for a quick fight or get sucked in and conquer galaxies all night. Provided some game breaking poo poo doesn't happen... I've been rather lucky. NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Democracy 3 is on my wishlist and 66 percent off, but I don't have the funds to buy the game at the moment. However, my account has $1.75 on it and I see the Extremism DLC is on sale for $1.69. Am I able to buy the DLC without buying the game, so that the DLC will be available to me when I finally buy the game? \/ \/ Thanks for the advice! DONE I Am Frick fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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The Machinima Man posted:Democracy 3 is on my wishlist, but I don't have the funds to buy the game at the moment. Buy it as a gift, put it in your inventory.
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BobTheJanitor posted:So is Planetary Annihilation worth 15 bucks? Or is it still in glorified beta? Offline mode yet? Kind of worrying when a game goes from 50 bucks to on sale for 15 bucks in a matter of days. Is this a sign that they're throwing the profits in a suitcase and making a break for it? I don't foresee their new Kickstarter getting funded. Fool me twice, and all that. I'm gonna use the same analogy I used somewhere else. They promised they were gonna run a marathon and then when they got to 5km they went "OK, I finished my 5k, I'm done!".
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Mokinokaro posted:If you set up a second steam library location, you SHOULD be able to copy the files and then tell steam to "download" them to the new drive to fix the registry entries. Ddraig posted:Create a new steam library on the drive you want the game (if one doesn't already exist) Thank you both! This worked perfectly.
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CK2 has a ton of stupid little sidequests you can do. I also accidentally cucked myself. SynthOrange posted:My Petty King got the option to give his daughter in law a tumble.  Also family tragedy. Sorry son but you did try stab me and all your brothers to death.
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I haven't watched a single episode of falling skies, but I noticed that Falling skies game looks kind of similer to the newer xcom game. Is it any good? I'm not asking if it lives up the quality of enemy unknown, cause I'm sure it doesn't, but I was wondering if it's still fun in it's own right?
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LibbyM posted:I haven't watched a single episode of falling skies, but I noticed that Falling skies game looks kind of similer to the newer xcom game. Is it any good? I'm not asking if it lives up the quality of enemy unknown, cause I'm sure it doesn't, but I was wondering if it's still fun in it's own right? I just wish someone would make an xcom-style game of Necromunda already or at least a knock-off if they can't get the rights.
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There's been a bunch of attempts to fan-make one that always predicatably peter out when exiting the "wishing" phase, but the main obstacle is that GW both doesn't know how to monetise anything if it doesn't involve selling a plastic miniature and doesn't realise that if you let someone build a good game regardless of the property ruleset you've licensed them then they can sell thousands of digital miniatures for you.
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LibbyM posted:I haven't watched a single episode of falling skies, but I noticed that Falling skies game looks kind of similer to the newer xcom game. Is it any good? I'm not asking if it lives up the quality of enemy unknown, cause I'm sure it doesn't, but I was wondering if it's still fun in it's own right? Falling Skies is a show that appears to be set in Gaza except the Palestinians are all Americans and Israel came from another galaxy. It's produced by Spielberg.
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Sherlock Holmes is telling me my video card is unsupported and won't run. I'm on a bootcamped mbp with iris pro HD 5200. Is there a work around or a way to get a refund?
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I doubt it; most places have a caveat emptor policy since system requirements are listed clearly. Alternatively--and I wouldn't know 'cause I don't know the Sherlock Holmes system specs--if your hardware should meet the specifications and still doesn't run, I wouldn't doubt that you have a good case for that refund.
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BobTheJanitor posted:So is Planetary Annihilation worth 15 bucks? Or is it still in glorified beta? Offline mode yet? Kind of worrying when a game goes from 50 bucks to on sale for 15 bucks in a matter of days. Is this a sign that they're throwing the profits in a suitcase and making a break for it? I don't foresee their new Kickstarter getting funded. Fool me twice, and all that. $15 gets you Supreme Commander Forged Alliance which by all accounts is the better game.
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LibbyM posted:I haven't watched a single episode of falling skies, but I noticed that Falling skies game looks kind of similer to the newer xcom game. Is it any good? I'm not asking if it lives up the quality of enemy unknown, cause I'm sure it doesn't, but I was wondering if it's still fun in it's own right? By all accounts it's not just similar, it's a COMPLETE clone, right down to even sharing some of the weirder bugs, like line-of-sight being super screwy on elevations. Literally every menu is copy-pasted visually. It's also a really janky, low-budget clone. Looks and sounds like a PS2 game in places.
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Ragingsheep posted:$15 gets you Supreme Commander Forged Alliance which by all accounts is the better game. And if you've already played Supreme Commander to death is it an acceptable single player substitute or not worth it yet?
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VodeAndreas posted:And if you've already played Supreme Commander to death is it an acceptable single player substitute or not worth it yet? Forged Alliance is well worth your time, and superior to the original in every way.
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A few random Mordor thoughts: > Whoever pointed out that playing over-cautiously is for chumps was dead-on. I had been stealthing everywhere, but then I started doing poo poo because it looked awesome, like releasing a carador in the middle of a stronghold, watching it chew up some orcs, jumping on it's back, promptly riding it into a wall and getting crushed by the twenty orcs who surrounded me when someone sounded the alarm before finally being killed by my nemesis who had already killed me twice before and then I had killed him, so I don't even know what's up with that because then on the Army screen I watched the power number tick up over the image of his prone corpse. Then I got XP for dying. Anyway, that was a hell of a lot more fun. > having read no reviews of the game beyond the ones in this thread, I still think the game is pretty loving fantastic. > The review calling Rangerdude a terrorist is fine, that's like totally standard literary criticism practice applied to games, and just because you don't like the implications or you don't agree with that reading doesn't make it an invalid reading of the text/game. > gently caress having an archer for a nemesis. ARGH.
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Occultatio posted:> The review calling Rangerdude a terrorist is fine, that's like totally standard literary criticism practice applied to games, and just because you don't like the implications or you don't agree with that reading doesn't make it an invalid reading of the text/game. The game even pretty much says it outright. Talion and Iggy Pop talk about it a few times, wondering that they're possibly crossing the line between 'righteous vengeance' and 'this is what bad guys do, isn't it?'. Terror, chaos and crushing the will of your foes is kinda morally questionable, and the game fully acknowledges it.
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Well, I'll keep my eye out for Falling Skies to be 5 dollars someday.
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Hey, does the Falling Skies game has the 1-year-old girl that's been aged to look like 21? It's like the counter-anime game if she's in it.
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I've never played Supreme Commander, even though I own 1, 2 and FA on Steam. But by golly, I wish the original Total Annihilation would come to Steam. I lost so many hours to that game.
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So, I'm finally getting into Brutal Legend and the RTS system just reared its head for the first time and uh... it's clumsy and awful and lovely. Does it get any better somehow?
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Deakul posted:So, I'm finally getting into Brutal Legend and the RTS system just reared its head for the first time and uh... it's clumsy and awful and lovely. No, sir, it does not.
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Deakul posted:So, I'm finally getting into Brutal Legend and the RTS system just reared its head for the first time and uh... it's clumsy and awful and lovely. Nope, it's also a significant portion of the rest of the game. Not all of it, but a lot.
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Deakul posted:So, I'm finally getting into Brutal Legend and the RTS system just reared its head for the first time and uh... it's clumsy and awful and lovely. Your problem is that you're playing it as an RTS. It's not. The only strategy should be to say "Everything in that direction must die!" while you do doughnuts on the corpses of your enemies while shooting rockets.
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Deakul posted:So, I'm finally getting into Brutal Legend and the RTS system just reared its head for the first time and uh... it's clumsy and awful and lovely. now you know why people don't like brutal legend.
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Brutal Legend unfortunately blows, and it's not because of the trope around here of "play it like a brawler, not an RTS". It's because it has awful, cludgy, unresponsive gameplay, horrible driving controls, and annoying central mechanics.
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Well, because I love the world and the music and the hacking and slashing... I'll try to not treat it like an RTS and do Ddraig posted:Your problem is that you're playing it as an RTS. It's not. Good thing the seemingly OP pre-order axe and guitar were free upgrades. I don't mind the driving and the general fighting mechanics, it's the lovely radial menus and the need to do QTE-rhythm games mid-combat for buffs and shiz and the fact that you can't control troops ala Sacrifice with drag and select boxes and hot keys and traditional RTS stuff really. It's also really hard to tell who's who when fights are going on cause both sides look the same. If it really bothers me, I'll probably just ignore that crap and do the side quests and just drive around while blasting the amaaaaaaazing soundtrack until I get bored.
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Dominic White posted:The game even pretty much says it outright. Talion and Iggy Pop talk about it a few times, wondering that they're possibly crossing the line between 'righteous vengeance' and 'this is what bad guys do, isn't it?'. Terror, chaos and crushing the will of your foes is kinda morally questionable, and the game fully acknowledges it. Somewhere in the Appendices, for your character it openly says "You are the monster for the monsters". You're pretty much a boogeyman...that gets laughed at if you were shanked the right way, or ran off like a wuss. 
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I liked RTS parts of Brutal Legend, it is the sequel to Sacrifice that I have always wanted  Morter posted:Somewhere in the Appendices, for your character it openly says "You are the monster for the monsters". You're pretty much a boogeyman...that gets laughed at if you were shanked the right way, or ran off like a wuss. I Am Legend is a good book and Shadow of Mordor is a good game.
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Sacrifice should NOT have Brutal Legend compared to it. Sacrifice was an amazing game. Brutal Legend was so hit or miss it could play the Cubs for the world series and be a toss up.
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I really wanted to like Brutal Legend, but it wasn't even the RTS components that killed it for me. It was how clunky the controls felt. Especially the camera.
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SynthOrange posted:If they left out the RTS bits it'd have been a much better game. Allegedly Tim Schafer wanted the game to be solely RTS, but the publisher refused unless there was more open world action-adventure stuff, and he complained it relentlessly after the fact.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Forged Alliance is well worth your time, and superior to the original in every way. I meant with regards to Planetary Annihilation sorry. I agree that Forged Alliance is fantastic and gives lots of fun for messing around in skirmishes.
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pentyne posted:Allegedly Tim Schafer wanted the game to be solely RTS, but the publisher refused unless there was more open world action-adventure stuff, and he complained it relentlessly after the fact. He also denied this rumor. He said the general design of Brutal Legend was pretty much what he wanted. Maybe he wanted a little more RTS stuff but he also wanted a big action adventure component in it.
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Shadow of Mordor seems to have captured this gameplay loop that works really well with the open world setting that the game has, and I hope other devs making open world games take notice. Last one I really liked was Black Flag. Exploring the open world and getting sidetracked by stuff that isn't simply just collectibles is something I wish most devs would stop doing. Shadow of Mordor also runs into the problem where the story missions are actually worse than just getting lost on tangents in the open world, which is also something Black Flag did for me while sailing the Caribbean.
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Sober posted:Shadow of Mordor seems to have captured this gameplay loop that works really well with the open world setting that the game has, and I hope other devs making open world games take notice. Last one I really liked was Black Flag. I finally broke down and bought the deluxe pack from Nuuvem and it gave me the pre-order bonuses too. I thought AC4's open world was extremely repetitive and the entire main campaign was mostly escort/follow missions so basically I'm hoping SoM is nothing like it. EDIT: Also Brutal Legend owned really fuckin hard in a ton of ways, sorry nerds.
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