Video & PC Game Discussion

Horizons wrote: Improved "Age of Empires"?

Much less nation-building. Mostly conquering. You can't even build towns and stuff; you just upgrade strongholds. There are also these awkward text-based adventures...

Back to Final Fantasy VIII, which I probably would have finished by now if I really understood the junction system. 

Gamemako wrote: James wrote: I've been playing Age of Empires again.  The very first one. Gamemako, have you played the new DA2 DLC yet?  Most people are saying it's much better than the original game.  I've downloaded and installed it... I just want to finish more of the main game first before doing it.  Especially as the final boss is ridiculously hard (harder than Meredith, I gather). 3. The final boss for DA2 was a pathetic joke. Zero challenge to a 30-minute war of attrition.

Truefax

In fact DA2 in general was mostly a joke, except for trying to fight the dragon without any ranged firepower

Keep in mind that one person's 3-4 is another person's 2.  I mean, Portal took me under 2 hours to beat on my first runthrough...

Even so I'd rather not pay money for something 3 hours long.

Weren't you the one who just complained about people you think haven't played it telling you how long it is?

Gamemako wrote:

A little late here as the deal ends in 3.5 hours, but it's $3.75 on steam right now.

Henry Plainview wrote: I wasn't going to play Diablo 3 anyway, but I think it's great that Blizzard says because people will buy it anyway and f**k you, that's why.

The Activision/Blizzard merger is going to hurt this game immensely, but I guess that's what happens when a company who knows f**k all about a game gets tasked with creating a sequel.

Skyrim Collectors Edition announced.

$149 USD, comes with 12" plastic statue, paper map, art book and 'making of' DVD.

Probably gonna have to pass on this, since it'll likely be >200$ AUD, since new games retail for 109$ in store here.

And 200$ AUD it is. NOPE

Edited by progkidjoel - August 05 2011 at 22:35

Not even I would buy that. Still haven't watched the collector's edition DVD from Oblivion.

Still trying to conquer Brittania. There are so many armies that will just plain mutilate me, then there are fights like this...



...where my decrepit army, rated at 27% of the strength of the most powerful to 45% for my opponent, utterly crushes them. Why, you might ask? Balance can be pretty bad at times. I almost won a battle once against a vastly-superior opponent, but they had two units of Unseelie Archers left. They just kited my cavalry to death (they run as fast as knights in the first place, which is silly) and crushed my remaining army. Archers and sages are stupid-overpowered. The battle above was won by using a single sage to wipe out 4 units of Welsh Bowmen, each in an instant with a single Lightning spell, and then two other units (some Heavy Pikemen and some Welsh Infantry). With no archers, they were stuck crossing a bridge into my King's Guards, who are hyper-armored knights, while my sage just waited for his cooldown and instantly struck down another unit. Seriously, at least 250 of those 345 total kills are credit to one man.