Perhaps CK2 should go the direction of Victoria and EUIV and have country-specific events that lead in that direction.
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Perhaps CK2 should go the direction of Victoria and EUIV and have country-specific events that lead in that direction.
Haven't played those, but does that work well? I mean while, say, an empire isn't likely to disappear, ending up with entirely different emperors is very likely. And vassals too. And the borders. Wouldn't that influence a lot of the country specific events? I'm curious how well their approach works.
Borders in those 2 games are much more stable. And a lot of the rulers are pre-set. I guess that part can't be copied in CK2. Either way, it's not unreasonable to think that any emperor that unifies Germany, for instance, would face certain problems.
The way it tends to work is that once a country is created it can have a civil war but most civil wars end up changing the leader at the top, not breaking up the kingdom, so at the end of it you've got the same nation as before (just with a new or the original ruler reconfirmed). As an outsider a civil war is a great but risky opportunity to take some land as eg if you declare war against the rebels you need to defeat the rebels before their lord does, rather than defeat the original lord. But your war can be for nought as if the civil war ends then your war will end inconclusively too. Otherwise there's an independence war that can be fought cutting a nation or empire back towards its original size but destroying a title is almost impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
I find certain nations can be very unstable. In the vanilla 1066 scenario England can be unstable for a very long time, while in the new 769 scenario the Carolingian nations tend to break apart in my experience.
Loki - I'm not a big fan of pre-scripted events and I thought EU had moved away from that in its new iterations? I've not played EUIV anywhere near as much, but I thought it was more adaptive than say EUII which was very pre-scripted.
I've never managed to actually get into a paradox game. What do you, you know, do?
Conquer the world.
Never having played HOI (WWII simulation) I think of the other Paradox titles Crusader Kings is probably the easiest to get into. Victoria is a bit specialist and requires quite a bit of patience/learning curve, Europa Universalis is tougher to manage with Aggressive Expansion and harder-to-get Casus Belli requirements. CKII its quite easy to get a CB (especially with Old Gods expansion as the Norse) and you can just conquer the world if you want.
Just got my first game this year (trying this odd idea of playing the games I have rather than buying more I don't have time to play) - Dragon Age: Inquisition
I was close to buying that game on half a dozen occasions, but each time I come across some review that blasts some major element of gameplay...
Haven't tried it yet, TV is far more likely to have Disney Jr than PS4 on nowadays ;)
Will try to remember to post what I think once I've got far enough to judge an opinion.
Well, what I figured out: If you want to beat all the dragons, be prepared to switch out members of your party and have weaponry which targets the specific vulnerabilities. Without doing so, the later dragons are practically unbeatable. They're also optional, though.Quote:
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The main problem I read about is that tactical AI is absolutely awful, especially on higher difficulty levels.
Well, with the dragons you have to micro-manage quite a bit, even on normal. The guys always seem hellbent on standing either in front or directly behind a dragon.
They also apparently use their abilities on the wrong characters (whether friend or foe) and there's no way around that unlike in previous Dragon Age games.
Some of that they fixed - they don't dispel everything now :)Quote:
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Onlive is shutting down at the end of the month. Sony bought the service for the patents. So I started going through my collection on there of whatever games I got freely that I don't have on other services. Started with Dear Esther.
Ignoring the fact that it was incredibly stupid to think it was a good idea to stream a compressed version of a very visual game like Dear Esther on a service like Onlive... game is strange, dark and depressing. Calling it a game might be a little to kind too...
There is no perfect game but I sunk in 50+ hours and have no regrets.Quote:
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Is Tropico 5 any good? I enjoyed 4, and 5 is on sale on humble bundle for a few more hours.
No idea yet, but I'd expect so. 1-4 were all good, I'm getting 5 from Amanda at the end of the month but on PS4 which will be the first time I've had it on console rather than PC. So I can't give feedback yet sorry, but if you like the genre/series then I'd hope its good, not been disappointed by any of the series yet.
I'd like to see Tropico 2 (Pirate Cove) remade. That was a very fun game.
Crap, I got drunk and forgot to buy, and now the sale is over :(
I bought it, haven't played yet. Too bad about your drunken forgetfulness.
Bought it. Played it for about 2 hours, haven't gone back to it.Quote:
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Spent a couple of dozen hours on one of the previous versions, either 3 or 4, and quite liked it, but just couldn't get in to 5. Too samey maybe.
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Just started Interloper. Fun little RTS with a creative design.
This is ridiculously addictive. It was all I could do to come out of the game to post here.
Just seen the trailer for XCOM 2. Looks incredible!
I finally got around to buying X-COM Unknown with the summer sale, since I was able to pick it and the expansion up for $10. Haven't look at the series since playing Apocalypse in high school.
That's a great game Fuzzy! Have fun :)
Stupid X-COM. Stupid one-more-turn syndome. Stupid biological need for sleep.
The Wolf Among Us. It's pretty good, though the opening is stronger than the rest of episode 1. If you like story-driven stuff, I recommend picking it up while it's still dirt cheap.
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Aye X-COM is good.
Heroes of the Storm. F2P MOBA by Blizzard. No annoying last hit mechanic. Shared EXP and several map objectives leading to more teamwork required to win. FUN!!
Never got into the MOBA thing. My nephew loves them though.
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Wasteland 2 is sucking up my gaming time at the moment. Totally giving me the Jagged Alliance 2 vibe from what, 12 or 13 years ago, a game that I loved. Very nicely balanced this, I like the way the story progresses - the decisions you make dictate how the game pans out, the atmosphere and setting are excellent, the turn-based combat is great fun. All in all a polished game :up:
Destiny...still.
Got sucked back into LoL. I feel like I've got to relearn how to Kog'Maw.
I bought Mini Metro in the steam sale, and I am up to 40 hours now. It's fucking addictive as hell.
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You should play Heroes of the Storm! Not having to do the last hit dance makes it far more entertaining for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Echovirus
I'll probably be making a bit of time for it in the next few days. The lack of needing to worry about last hitting so much is exactly why ARAM is my preferred game mode anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
Apparently kotor ii got an update with controller support and steamworks (with the restored content mod :D) So probably will be playing that again. Hope they also give korot i controller support, they are good games for on the couch. And that they come with kotor iii of course :p