[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

But seriously, take everything.

[Morgoth]

Go everywhere. Get the golem dlc. Play as a mage or rogue for optimal destruction.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Also get the dlc that gives you a storage chest, it is hugely helpful.

Just get all the dlc

[Gothos]

Having quite a bit of fun with Risen 3: Titan Lords. It's not a Gothic 1 remake, but the next best thing, I guess! Cool game.

[Aptorian]

I have begun playing Dark Messiah: Of Might and Magic.

I am surprised at how much I like this game so I wanted to hear if anyone else have played this game and what they thought of it before I invest more time in it.

It's been laying around in my Steam library for at least 5 years now I think. I got it in some kind of bundle if I recall correctly. I remember starting it up, thinking it looked interesting and then never getting around to playing it. I have been going through my backlog in Steam and was actually just going to put this in my "Done" category but now it has my attention.

It's made with the Source engine so it feels and looks like a medieval Half-life game. It has a really interesting physics and combat system. For example, you can kick people into spikes or fires or lift barrels and throw them at people. This game from 2006 some how manages to feel more satisfying than Skyrim.

[Kanubis]

I certainly enjoyed it back in the day Apt. I do pick it up every couple of years because it's still pretty playable.

Like the say, the environment kills add something to it. It's nice that you get some dramatic scenery changes during the game to, feels like quite the epic journey by the end.

To answer your basic question, unless I really have my rose-tinted specs on it's worth the time of a playthrough, yes.

[Tapper]

Been playing a lot of EU 4 lately.
Also started Divinity: Original Sin. It is a pleasant throwback to stuff like Icewind Dale and The Temple of Elemental Evil.

Also did a little bit of Castle Story - but that game feels umfinished, which is not surprising for a Greenlit game in beta.

[Gothos]

Tapper, on 23 August 2014 - 08:16 PM, said:

Been playing a lot of EU 4 lately.

Pray tell! What where with what effect?

[Tapper]

Gothos, on 24 August 2014 - 08:00 AM, said:

Tapper, on 23 August 2014 - 08:16 PM, said:

Been playing a lot of EU 4 lately.

Pray tell! What where with what effect?

Poland to see if I like the new Elective Monarch mechanic. I don't, but I want the achievements so will have to plan for it.

Muscovy just long enough to get the Russia achievement. Then I westernized (finished in 1524 before the time of Troubles) and realized that since 1.7 it doesn't set the Unit Type to Western, only modifies the tech speed. So I'd fucked myself and abandoned my save.

Now back to my pet peeve, Austria. Playing it very slow, and that helps. Goal is forming the empire and then wreaking havoc all over Europe. It's 1470 and I have 2 vassal electors, three other OPMs, Hungary as an ally (first time I saw that!) and Burgundy's gone, so this could be a good save but for the fact that my heir has a weak claim (but good stats) Not sure what will happen there.

Still want to attempt a world conquest, although apparently that is super hard now, especially after the unit changes/ Westernization.

[Gothos]

Russia is a lot more fun to form as Novgorod (or, you know, Ryazan or Tver or Yaroslavl, but that's crazy talk!). Remove muscovite!

WC is... well, I haven't tried it myself. Don't think I will either. Toooo muuuuch of a hassle.

[Wolfdrop]

Gothos, on 21 August 2014 - 05:55 AM, said:

Having quite a bit of fun with Risen 3: Titan Lords. It's not a Gothic 1 remake, but the next best thing, I guess! Cool game.

Awesome! I thought I was the only person that enjoyed the Risen series. Played the first two a few times and just picked up the third today.

The series gets a lot of flak, but they're great once you get into them and get over the fact that its not a AAA title, but an old school RPG made by a team of around 20 people.

I hope Jaffar returns. He was a gnome with a hat who basically had "fuck" in almost every sentence somewhere because he learned to speak from listening to pirates.

[Tapper]

Gothos, on 24 August 2014 - 10:39 PM, said:

Russia is a lot more fun to form as Novgorod (or, you know, Ryazan or Tver or Yaroslavl, but that's crazy talk!). Remove muscovite!

WC is... well, I haven't tried it myself. Don't think I will either. Toooo muuuuch of a hassle.

The WC is partly why I picked Muscovy. National Ideas and coring cost reductions work very well for them and being able to go from east to west makes conquering Europe a lot less of a headache than as France, I hoped. Lithuania certainly has a penchant for falling apart, I noticed.

[Gothos]

Tapper, on 25 August 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Gothos, on 24 August 2014 - 10:39 PM, said:

Russia is a lot more fun to form as Novgorod (or, you know, Ryazan or Tver or Yaroslavl, but that's crazy talk!). Remove muscovite!

WC is... well, I haven't tried it myself. Don't think I will either. Toooo muuuuch of a hassle.

The WC is partly why I picked Muscovy. National Ideas and coring cost reductions work very well for them and being able to go from east to west makes conquering Europe a lot less of a headache than as France, I hoped. Lithuania certainly has a penchant for falling apart, I noticed.

Muscovy wouldn't be my first pick for WC, nor the second or third. It'd be France (supreme force, better vassal annexation), Ottos (prime starting position, a whopping 33% coring cost reduction, great events and free claims) and England (if you can win the HYW - England + France is basically unstoppable if you can keep the PU going)

[Tapper]

Gothos, on 26 August 2014 - 05:40 AM, said:

Tapper, on 25 August 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Gothos, on 24 August 2014 - 10:39 PM, said:

Russia is a lot more fun to form as Novgorod (or, you know, Ryazan or Tver or Yaroslavl, but that's crazy talk!). Remove muscovite!

WC is... well, I haven't tried it myself. Don't think I will either. Toooo muuuuch of a hassle.

The WC is partly why I picked Muscovy. National Ideas and coring cost reductions work very well for them and being able to go from east to west makes conquering Europe a lot less of a headache than as France, I hoped. Lithuania certainly has a penchant for falling apart, I noticed.

Muscovy wouldn't be my first pick for WC, nor the second or third. It'd be France (supreme force, better vassal annexation), Ottos (prime starting position, a whopping 33% coring cost reduction, great events and free claims) and England (if you can win the HYW - England + France is basically unstoppable if you can keep the PU going)

My problem with France is that within no time, you're coalition-ed all around. I agree that for building a juggernaut of rampage, it is probably the best nation but it is going to take too long to break out of the claws of Austria, England, Castille and friends.

Ottoman... y'know, I always thought the tech penalty was bigger than 125%... might try. Never played them before either.

England I am undecided about. I find it a fairly boring nation all in all, and the way to win the HYW through the Military Acccess/Scorched Earth strategy is a bit of an exploit imho. But maybe I should give it a go.

[Gothos]

Tapper, on 26 August 2014 - 08:12 AM, said:

Gothos, on 26 August 2014 - 05:40 AM, said:

Tapper, on 25 August 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Gothos, on 24 August 2014 - 10:39 PM, said:

Russia is a lot more fun to form as Novgorod (or, you know, Ryazan or Tver or Yaroslavl, but that's crazy talk!). Remove muscovite!

WC is... well, I haven't tried it myself. Don't think I will either. Toooo muuuuch of a hassle.

The WC is partly why I picked Muscovy. National Ideas and coring cost reductions work very well for them and being able to go from east to west makes conquering Europe a lot less of a headache than as France, I hoped. Lithuania certainly has a penchant for falling apart, I noticed.

Muscovy wouldn't be my first pick for WC, nor the second or third. It'd be France (supreme force, better vassal annexation), Ottos (prime starting position, a whopping 33% coring cost reduction, great events and free claims) and England (if you can win the HYW - England + France is basically unstoppable if you can keep the PU going)

My problem with France is that within no time, you're coalition-ed all around. I agree that for building a juggernaut of rampage, it is probably the best nation but it is going to take too long to break out of the claws of Austria, England, Castille and friends.

Ottoman... y'know, I always thought the tech penalty was bigger than 125%... might try. Never played them before either.

England I am undecided about. I find it a fairly boring nation all in all, and the way to win the HYW through the Military Acccess/Scorched Earth strategy is a bit of an exploit imho. But maybe I should give it a go.

Scorched Earth is fairly useless nowdays, sadly. As for France and coalitions - yeah, and the worst part about coalition wars is that you can only take a tiny amount of land in such a war, while getting the warscore up considerably is a pain in the arse. I've got myself bogged down in my latest France game with a coalition consisting of almost the entire HRE, England, Portugal, Castille, Brittany, Burgundy and Aragon... even when I wipe the floor with their armies it's a total pain. Think you should eat england and castille first before heading for HRE land and alternate fronts by going to north africa and maybe against the Turk inbetween your european wars.

Man, coalitions suck arse.

[Tiste Simeon]

Gothos, on 14 August 2014 - 03:13 PM, said:

Take every item you see, talk to everyone you can. Roll mage and wtfpwn everything in your path. Or roll rogue and do the Cunning focused built to also wtfpwn everything in your path.

"Roll?" I chose warrior and have a rogue and mage in my party. Should I not have done that?

[Gothos]

uh, that's an axiom, tisteon. roll, reroll, create, make...

[Tiste Simeon]

Ah. I'm not as prolific as you, G.

[Aptorian]

You bought your son those murder simulators!? I am outraged!

Or not. Whatever.

I know that smaller groups of people usually cling to older versions of multiplayer games but I couldn't tell you what the numbers are. Keep in mind that COD has become almost seasonal, in that the core audience migrate from game to game every year. If I recall correctly, MW3s multiplayer was not very popular but people loved Black Ops.

What platform are you playing on?

Regarding the singleplayer, I would advice playing MW1 and 2 before playing three since the third is a sort of end to a trilogy of events.

Black Ops is just a cool story. Probably my favorite in the franchise.

This post has been edited by Demon of High House Decay: 06 September 2014 - 03:49 AM

[Primateus]

I've started playing Assassin's Creed: Black FLAARRGGHH!!