[Jakovasaurus]

Morgoth, on 20 August 2013 - 05:11 PM, said:

I just finished Gone Home.

Buy this game.

And play it alone, with a good sound system.

Gone Home is up next for my indie game summer relief. I've read good things.

Have you played Papers, Please? My family has died a few time (by Dec. 4th I think). I've started over a few times and on my best run made it as far as where you need to diffuse a bomb. I'm a cold hearted asshole in the game and deny anyone who's papers are not in order. Even if they are a wife visiting her husband for the first time in years. Hey, if I get docked credits my family will starve and die of disease. The full body scans in the game are unsettling.

[rhulad]

Been playing a lot of ADOM lately, possibly the most frustrating rogue like ever made.

[Macros]

Need two more provences (first.time back in weeks was last night) and Ive got a great army way out in Scipii territory with no one to stop then rolling shit up.
theyre trying to push into Segestica again but I have my hero level general there stocked and ready to knock the shit out of them

[MTS]

Gah, EU IV is swallowing up my life. My first game I started out as a Japanese daimyo aiming to unite Japan, and having done that handily now I'm trying to recreate the Japanese Empire circa 1942. Right now I have colonies all across the south Pacific, and I control Korea, Manchuria, the Phillipines and most of Brunei, as well as a couple of colonies in Australia and New Zealand (shame I couldn't invade the crap out of Darwin - I settled for Brisbane instead ). Once I finish doing that maybe I'll tangle with Spain in Mexico, as I haven't met any Western powers in my neck of the woods yet, other than a scripted event where the Portuguese and Dutch discovered Japan. I'll need my empire to do that though, I'm well behind the major colonial powers in tech and economy, and Spain has most of South America, while France and Britain are duking it out for North America and the Caribbean. I might need the challenge though, Japans not nearly as challenging as I though it would be. It seems the AI is utterly incapable of keeping a unified China functioning, and the hordes are too busy fighting in Central Asia to pose much of a threat. Still addictively awesome though.

[Morgoth]

They're also pretty bad at naval invasions, which is why my Morocco Ironman game is still going strong.

[MTS]

I've started a Byzantium Ironman game and holy moly, is this hard. I've had to restart a half dozen times so far, and the longest I've managed to survive is 1472, when I made a stupid mistake and declared war without my maintenance sliders being at full. My current strategy is building galleys as fast as I can, then waiting for the Ottomans to retreat back into Anatolia and blockading the strait. Declaring war for Albania, I then support Greek nationalist rebels in Greece, Naxos and Rhodes so when they enforce their demands I get their provinces for free while I concentrate on Bulgaria. Requires a lot of luck, the main ones being getting a good admiral first up and having Greek nationalists show up before the Ottomans convert any Greek provinces to Islam. I will persevere though!

[Morgoth]

Pray that that Mameluks decide to expand north rather than east and west. In my Morocco game The Mamluks, With aid from Austria, forced the Ottomans to release the Byzantines. I think they were as surprised as I was.

[Rictus]

It's time to play the first Gothic game again - this time with original German voices. Not that I understand much but there's no need to, as I know the first two games by heart...

[MTS]

Morgoth, on 28 August 2013 - 07:02 AM, said:

Pray that that Mameluks decide to expand north rather than east and west. In my Morocco game The Mamluks, With aid from Austria, forced the Ottomans to release the Byzantines. I think they were as surprised as I was.

Haha did they survive very long?

The year is 1458 now and I've got most of Greece and the Balkans (bar two provinces in Bulgaria and the ever-elusive Ottoman capital in Greece), as well as all of the islands and Trebizond (Mamluks made Venice give me Crete after they crushed their invasion of Cyprus, and funded rebels handed me Naxos, Rhodes and Corfu). I've been having a mixed time of it since surviving the first ten years though. Serbia tried to drag me into a war with Bosnia and Hungary, which I was forced to decline because my truce with the Ottomans was expiring and I didn't have the manpower to take Hungary in a war. In retrospect I should have accepted and then peace'd out immediately because Serbia broke their alliance with me and lost two provinces to Bosnia and Hungary. Not being allied to anybody, the Ottomans then pounced and took the rest of Serbia. Damn you Ironman!

Managed to ally myself with Hungary who seemed to be enough of a threat to keep the Ottomans from declaring war on me. During that time I was able to build up my navy to more than match theirs and my army almost equal them. In the meantime the Ottomans were expanding into Armenia and her ally Crimea had gotten a coastal foothold in Moldavia, giving Crimea (and thus her ally the Ottomans) direct military access to my provinces, voiding the Bosphorus strategy. My ally Hungary then decided she wanted a piece of my vassal Wallachia, which forced me to fight Hungary to a standstill, which severely sapped my manpower. The Mameluks then surprisingly approached me with an alliance offer, which I accepted. Probably about a week later they then dragged me into a war with the Ottomans, which would be fantastic normally, but the Mameluk AI seems incapable of besieging anything and is happy to just swan around in Anatolia while the Ottomans march through Crimea to attack me. I haven't seen the Mameluks even go near the Ottomans, and the latter seem oddly fixated on me only, even though I'm not the aggressor. I've held them off because their stacks have had to march separately, but a 25k stack of Bulgarian nationalists spawned on top of my army as I was marching through a province and all but destroyed it. Now I have literally no manpower left and am thinking of peaceing out (warscore 8% [mainly due to blockades]) because Crimea have finished off their war in Georgia and have turned their eyes towards me now.

Now that I've written it out, it's actually been mostly bad from '54 onwards.

[tiam]

Just loaded up farcry 3 for the first time.

[Macros]

The Julii rule supreme, the scipii tried to steal a few of my undermanned cities, heroic victories ensued, except in one, but one of my armies was enroute to relieve the siege and I was able to fight back in.

Cant wait for Rome two, if I enjoy it anyway near as much as rome I'll be a happy bunny.

Preatorian calvary, Charge!!

[tiam]

Macros, on 29 August 2013 - 08:20 AM, said:

The Julii rule supreme, the scipii tried to steal a few of my undermanned cities, heroic victories ensued, except in one, but one of my armies was enroute to relieve the siege and I was able to fight back in.

Cant wait for Rome two, if I enjoy it anyway near as much as rome I'll be a happy bunny.

Preatorian calvary, Charge!!

Have you got a rig good enough?

Farcry 3 seems decent. Opening sequence was ok and the mechanics seem sound. The tier system seems odd with a mix of all 3 categories being needed for a decent stealth build rather than focusing solely on the stealth branch.

[Defiance]

Picked up Diablo 3 for the first time in over a year. Been playing on and off a bit with a friend and it's actually been pretty fun. The loot is still kind of blah (need more fun effects!) and there's a few other things I miss from Diablo 2, but overall the game is much better than when it was released. The addition of Nephalem Valor, Paragon Levels, Monster Power, and Ubers have made playing inferno pretty enjoyable. I laugh when I see people whining about how D2's endgame was better. 5 minute Mephisto runs, seriously?

The expansion sounds promising. It seems like they've been taking steps in the right direction ever since Jay Wilson was moved off the team. Having randomized exteriors and loot with unique effects is the right way to go, plus being able to allocate stat points for each paragon level sounds interesting. Was disappointed that they didn't bring back the necromancer, though. The witch doctor just isn't the same, and it would have been the perfect time given the death theme. Plus it's a great counterbalance to the Crusader. Hopefully the writing is better as well, though I'm not counting on it. Warcraft 3 was the last Blizzard game I played where the story didn't make me cringe.

It probably won't be a day one purchase, but I'm sure I'll pick it up at some point.

Also been playing a bit of Guild Wars 2 again. Kind of worn out on my mesmer, but I enjoy the environments so if nothing else I'll probably just play the game until I get 100% map completion.

[Macros]

Theyve had Rome 2 running on computers older than mine, they made an effort to cut back the requirements after shogun 2 afaik.

I *think* I'm running with about 4g of ram and 2g video card. Ign article suggests it can run on low settings on 2g ram with 512video card.

i know there's a way to check my specs via the run feature in windows. Is it msconfig I type in?

[Rictus]

I think it's dxdiag but don't quote me on that.

And I'm once again back to Pirates of the Caribbean - with the newest Build 14 Beta 3 mod, naturally. Guess I'll grab me a boat and start raiding. It's amazing the stuff modders can pack into an otherwise mediocre game. A half dozen storylines or more, false flags, loads of new ship types, geographically accurate map. 'Mazing, I tell ye.

[Silencer]

Easier to go through control panel and system information, for most purposes.

[Macros]

ok, off the control panel apparently I have:
an i7 2670QCM @2.20ghz

6GB Ram

64 bit os

where do I find my graphics card?

ETA is an nvidia geforce 555 relevant?

ETA AGAIN< from website:

Minimum:
OS: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
Memory: 2GB RAM
Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive: 35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Recommended:
OS: Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
DirectX®:11
Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

This post has been edited by Macros: 30 August 2013 - 07:48 PM

[Imperial Historian]

That should be more than good enough Macros. Reports are that the engine is massively optimised, so I think most PCs that handle shogun will have no trouble, min specs for shogun were very similar, only difference being slightly more HD space required, and slightly bigger graphics card (though shogun really needed at least 1GB to run properly, though it claimed it could manage on 256).

I'm going to need to clear out some space on my solid state though if it needs 35GB RAM. Btw it is now available to preload on steam.

[Silencer]

Sounds like you'll be fine, Maccy. (You can usually get more detailed info about your graphics card from the Windows Experience Index -> View and print detailed system information option.

Heck, the Windows Experience Index is stupid, but it can give you a good idea of your computer's strengths and weakness. For example, everything I have is a 7.9 out of 7.9, except my CPU which loses points because it's a core i5 not an i7, though fundamentally for gaming my CPU is as good if not better than the i7, so yeah.

[Macros]

I saw a 5.something mentioned, will check later when I'm on the laptop. I cut a few corners when I ordered it because I wasn't that flush