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Steam: Hemingway_fe BF3: bird_law I play BLOPS2 and BF3 mostly. gently caress consoles.
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Anno 2070 does this weird thing where plunking down roads, houses, and setting tax rates is fun.
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Dec 28, 2012 00:04
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:Remember back when Gateway, HP, Compaq etc did those all in one home computer box sets? You'd go to Comp USA (lol) and your dad would buy this MASSIVE box that had a Pentium 3 Computer, CRT monitor, printer, scanner, keyboard etc for like $4,000. Then your dad would smugly tell everyone how fast word opens. Meanwhile you spend a week uninstalling like 3 gigs of bloatware, and then open the PC to find out you can not physically fit a graphics card in and there is one RAM slot. That's how my dad bought me my first desktop -- an eMachines.
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Dec 28, 2012 00:38
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DrCuntmuffins posted:Funny because a couple years ago I found an original IBM 5150 when i was a college kid/dumpster diver. poo poo still works but it's in storage now... loved playing with that thing, super coool hand built circuit boards and poo poo There's one of those white clamshell macbook 13-inchers floating around somewhere. The loving thing still works great but good god is that display atrocious. Screen tech has come a long way since 2007.
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Dec 28, 2012 02:45
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bengy81 posted:My surfing the internet on the couch computer is a 2008 model. It doesn't play nice with YouTube, and I can play all of 2 games on it, but I can't justify replacing it right now. See I have a 2011 macbook air now which serves as my youtube/internet machine/ I'll be selling that off for a retina MBP once school starts up. I really like macs as laptops but would never get them as a desktop. They're just too much of a locked-in experience.
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Dec 28, 2012 03:03
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Civ 5 is stealing all of my free time. Atilla the Hun is a real loving bitch. I can't go 10 turns without that prick back stabbing me.
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Dec 29, 2012 22:57
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WOMEN DESERVE RAPE posted:I can't go a game without nuking the French. One mistake by Napoleon back in Civ 4 and those baguette eating bastards have been stuck with flipper-babies ever since. Oh and playing Archipelago maps as the English is kinda like cheating, partially because the AI is still retarded about ocean combat. Haven't done any naval intensive maps yet. I'll have to do that next just to get better at naval poo poo. Made my Persians a bunch of jews. Hope they appreciate the irony.
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Dec 29, 2012 23:21
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WOMEN DESERVE RAPE posted:It's awesome to zerg the research early on and just maintain a screening force around Der Vaterland until you can bust out some of the naval goodies and wreck poo poo. It's the kind of game that you only leave war victories on, make a war religion, and have your people end up as basically the bastard children of the Mongols, Vikings, and WWII Japanese. In peace time, I'll keep a massive gold farm economy so that when war rolls around I can plus up units if they fall or buy some to alleviate units. Like the Hunn caught me off guard when I had no ranged units so I had to buy a few crossbow men which kept me good until I could upgrade catapults to trebuchets then cannons.
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Dec 29, 2012 23:40
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:I've had 12 hour games, easily. I'm on hour 4 of a game with at least another 4 hours to go. Part of the fun is working a long-term strategy or having it all fall to pieces only to bumfuck some other semi-workable plan into action.
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Dec 30, 2012 07:25
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:My best game ever came down to Ghandi vs Me. He kept attacking my borders, but just skirmishes, nothing that would really cause any real damage. Finally I said gently caress it, and sent the majority of my military in and hosed poo poo up. Goddamn. I haven't had any like those but the AI has always been set to "pussy rear end motherfucker". My battle with Atilla is still going on. The dude launches an attempt to wipe my civ off the map every 20 turns. There are no skirmishes; just straight up war. Bi-polar dude. Next game I'm gonna skip the first eras. Swords and poo poo are meh. Just want guns.
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Dec 30, 2012 07:30
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vacation in kabul posted:Anno 2070 has been a huge disappointment for me. Actually kind of hate it. It's really an acquired taste.
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Dec 30, 2012 22:02
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human being 01, HOLOCAUST 01 -- WILL NOT BE ATTENDING MATCH. DELAY FOR WX.
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Dec 31, 2012 01:39
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BULLETS CURE ISLAM posted:oh ok cool, wasn't sure what the game speed settings actually meant thanks Yea I play the game on quick turns. Forming a religion happens after you find a pantheon then either buy a great prophet with faith or one is born. When you have a GP, click the guy and in the bottom left vertical menu should be an option for founding a religion. Just lost a 9 hour game. Totally destroyed at the end. Welp!
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Dec 31, 2012 04:34
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Too busy spreading the word of Christ in Civ 5. Maybe another time for me.
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Dec 31, 2012 06:03
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Russia somehow squeaked by alright because of its idiot leader.
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Dec 31, 2012 08:00
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well looks like time to go make hamburger helper then,.
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Dec 31, 2012 08:10
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WHo plays Galactic Civ II?! I want a space 4x and Sword of the Stars II is like not good.
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Jan 5, 2013 04:15
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GD_American posted:I've played it a bunch. I loved it, kinda tired of it but will re-install sometime eventually. How's it compared to Civ 5 in terms of gameplay and systems?
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Jan 5, 2013 04:20
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GD_American posted:I played Civ 5 for two days and deleted it. I am capital N- Not A Fan. That sold me. I loving hate the diplomacy in Civ 5. It's so basic.
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Jan 5, 2013 04:40
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Veins McGee posted:That's essentially how trading works in Civ 4 or 5. You put up what you want to trade or what you want from them, ask the computer what they'll accept, and either accept or decline their offer. The whole diplomacy thing in Civ 5 irritated me because I could put a few units on the border which would trigger, "ARE YOU GOING TO STEAM ROLL ME?!?!" but if the AI did the same, I couldn't question them. I've also had an AI that had a defense pact with actually help me out either.
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Jan 5, 2013 06:43
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Veins McGee posted:Yeah, Civ 4/5 diplomacy sucks and is needlessly opaque. The lot of these 4X games lack in some key area. I'm not that upset what with the Steam sale since I paid maybe ~40 bucks for like several of them. Sword of the Stars II could be so loving amazing if it wasn't for some seriously bone-headed game design.
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Jan 5, 2013 06:47
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GD_American posted:Civ V sucked badly enough to anger me. What didn't you like about Civ 5?
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Jan 5, 2013 07:09
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GD_American posted:The city-state dynamic is dumb, artificial and the NPC players are incredibly stupidly unforgiving if you ever decide to take one out. OK so how big of a micro-management nightmare is Civ IV then compared to V? I Like V and all especially with the expansion pack but, like you said, the city-state thing is dumb and I don't like unstacked units. Is there a limit to how many units can be in one hex?
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Jan 5, 2013 07:23
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Civ IV: Complete Edition is 7.50 on Amazon. Someone tell me if it's a micro management nightmare or not.
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Jan 5, 2013 07:48
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Bought. Thanks for helping me blow my paycheck!
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Jan 5, 2013 07:53
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GD_American posted:Civ IV+BTS and GalCiv II are pretty much all you'll need for a good long while if you play 4x. Well now I'm set. Now with my sudden influx of cash, I can probably nab a laptop for school and replace this old macbook air that I've been using. Pretty sure my productivity will drop immensely if I can sneak turns in between classes.
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Jan 5, 2013 08:07
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Y'all were not kidding about GalCivII. Holy poo poo is that game cool. It can be tailored to anything. So awesome.
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Jan 5, 2013 09:30
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Novalogic was the poo poo. Commanche and Armored Fist were awesome. I'd love a modern update on both of them.
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Jan 6, 2013 08:36
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I gave Guild Wars 2 a shot. It was...not my favorite.
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Jan 6, 2013 23:00
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Command & Conquer for best RTS series ever? Red Alert 2 was pretty much massive tank force followed by Mig-29 attacks. That's how I played anyhow.
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Jan 6, 2013 23:23
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Blacklight: Retribution is a really good F2P shooter. You can spend money for weapons and gear or just play a few hours every week to earn enough in-game cred to rent the poo poo for anywhere from an hour to a week. Essentially, once you earn a few thousand credits (5-6 hours of play) while continuing to play it once or twice a week, you can run with the same gear without dropping a penny.
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Jan 21, 2013 23:35
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I played ME1-liked it enough. For both ME2 and 3, I put about 15 hours in, enjoyed my time, then just stopped playing it outright. I'd like to finish off the series at some point. Those games weren't very compelling to me once the ooh shiny new shoot-y bits thrill wore off.
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Jan 26, 2013 05:59
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:X-Com is 25 bucks right now on Amazon, and I got a 5 dollar credit I can use on it. Game is so good do it now.
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Jan 26, 2013 07:32
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:It's done. Downloading now. Happy that the game is Steamworks. I had a lot of fun with it for the time I played it. Avoid the Games thread about it since the goon majority believes that an Ironman Classic playthrough is the pure and Godly way to experience X-Com. I guess that's cool if you enjoy random bullshit AI dice rolls that wipe out an experienced squad in one fell swoop or arbitrary difficulty. With that being said, play on normal first to get a hang on everything. It's some super difficult if you ever played a strategy game in any capacity. There's a mod or so out there that changes the values of the dice roll poo poo to where the game actually plays out more fairly.
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Jan 26, 2013 08:32
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Snipers. Use the poo poo out of your snipers.
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Jan 26, 2013 08:45
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Vasudus posted:Also don't name your soldiers until they're at least LTs or CPTs Or better yet name them after ex-girlfriends if you're down for a super goony coping mechanism good time.
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Jan 26, 2013 09:02
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AB posted:Anybody stoked for Dead Space 3? I don't like horror/scary games.  Pretty stoked for Aliens: Colonial Marines and the new Company of Heroes whenever that gets a release date.
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Jan 27, 2013 05:34
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vacation in kabul posted:That Joystiq article reminded me that Relic exists which reminds me of Homeworld. I've never spent so much time being disappointed by a game I don't think. Uh what? Homeworld was awesome.
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Jan 27, 2013 05:57
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Did anyone pick up Crysis 3? I have it for the PC but have yet to even touch it.
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Vasudus posted:It's better to think of FC3 as not actually having an ending, and you just run around murdering dudes and killing tigers with flamethrowers for all eternity. goon stuff -- I legit felt bad for Liza. Some of the characters were really well-done with mocap and dialogue.
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