PC Gaming Discussion

[SmoothPancakes]

Ok, apparently they just hadn't updated the price yet. Crusader Kings II collection (includes all DLC except for three, which are an additional $3.50 total for all of those three) is now listed as $12.49, 75% off like the rest of Crusader Kings II. So I can get CKII collection, the remaining three DLC, and all the remaining unpurchased DLC for Total War: Shogun 2 for something like $24 or $26 combined. God I love this Summer Sale. Just chopped into a sizeable chunk of stuff I have wanted to buy, for a pittance of the price. All of that at full price would have ran $80 or $90.

[morsdraconis]

Ok, apparently they just hadn't updated the price yet. Crusader Kings II collection (includes all DLC except for three, which are an additional $3.50 total for all of those three) is now listed as $12.49, 75% off like the rest of Crusader Kings II. So I can get CKII collection, the remaining three DLC, and all the remaining unpurchased DLC for Total War: Shogun 2 for something like $24 or $26 combined. God I love this Summer Sale. Just chopped into a sizeable chunk of stuff I have wanted to buy, for a pittance of the price. All of that at full price would have ran $80 or $90.

Oh yeah man. I can't wait until my check clears the bank today (around 9am or so) so I can buy all the shit I want to buy.

[oweb26]

I can"t stop shopping on this steam sale!!!!!

[morsdraconis]

Well, my wallet is pretty significantly lighter after today having purchased these via the Steam sale:

Sega Collection
Trine 2
Ys Origins
Ys: The Oath in Felghana


Now just gotta wait for Endless Space to go on sale so I can stop pirating it.

[JBHuskers]

Well, my wallet is pretty significantly lighter after today having purchased these via the Steam sale:

Sega Collection
Trine 2
Ys Origins
Ys: The Oath in Felghana


Now just gotta wait for Endless Space to go on sale so I can stop pirating it.

Once Trine 2 was free for PS+ members, I got back into the first one to try to beat it quick so I can get to 2.

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[jaymo76]

Okay, I am embarrased to ask, but has anyone played the SIMS 3 PETS for PC??? The wife loves the Sims 3 series and she keeps bringing up how she would like to get the pets edition. If it's good, this could get me some brownie points which would mean free time to play NCAA.

[JBHuskers]

Okay, I am embarrased to ask, but has anyone played the SIMS 3 PETS for PC??? The wife loves the Sims 3 series and she keeps bringing up how she would like to get the pets edition. If it's good, this could get me some brownie points which would mean free time to play NCAA.

Don't be embarrassed. I have it on PS3 I like it.

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[jaymo76]

Don't be embarrassed. I have it on PS3 I like it.

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Well, maybe I will pick it up them as a surprise. Cheers!

[morsdraconis]

Don't be embarrassed at all. Sims 3 is fun stuff man though I don't know what the pets edition adds to the mix exactly, but it's definitely worth it since it's only $20 for a normally $40 expansion.

[oweb26]

Well, my wallet is pretty significantly lighter after today having purchased these via the Steam sale:

Sega Collection
Trine 2
Ys Origins
Ys: The Oath in Felghana


Now just gotta wait for Endless Space to go on sale so I can stop pirating it.

I was on the fence about trine 2 that the sidescroller correct? Man I thought long and hard about the sega collection but then I came to the decision that I wouldn't play half of those games.

I am thinking about getting medieval 2 because I am tired of keeping up with these disc I got about 3 years ago.

I picked up civ IV because I have been playing with a "questionable copy" of that for about 5 years (same ISO file). LOL

[JBHuskers]

I was on the fence about trine 2 that the sidescroller correct?

It's a side scroller, but it has more of a puzzle solving theme too it.

[morsdraconis]

Also ended up buying:

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes (cool action RPG that looks like it would be fun multiplayer)
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy (AWESOME looking FPS/RPG like Deus Ex)

[SmoothPancakes]

I think I have a much better understanding of Crusader Kings II now. I spent the entire evening reading the actual game manual in a PDF I downloaded from the Paradox forums. I also downloaded a in-depth guide that was made by one of the guys on the forum, but haven't gotten too much into it yet. I also just finished up the entire Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced tutorials in-game. Both the game manual and the tutorials combined definitely gave me a much better understanding of the basics of the game, where to find things in the game, and how to do things in the game.

Debating on starting up a new game tonight or waiting until tomorrow, and try to put everything I just learned to work and see if how well I do this time around in the game.

[SmoothPancakes]

Alright, the three levels of the in-game Tutorial, as well as reading through the 60 page game manual, I now definitely understand this game better. I still have the 140 page, player-created, in-depth guide to read, but I'm going to wait until I'm done with my current game.

I started a new game in Ireland, not even 20 years into it, already declared war on a neighboring county due to de jure claims that I had on it. Now that I finally knew what the hell I was doing, I was able to raise my own personal army, as well as have my vassals raise their levies, combined the multiple forces, whooped the enemy army's ass and laid siege to their city. While I was laying siege to their city, their remaining 140 or so soldiers went and tried to siege my city. It didn't work though since I had more defenders than they had attackers.

After two or three years, my vassals were starting to get upset after multiple years of war and their levies continuously being raised the entire time, so I had enough gold that I called in a mercenary army, sent them to completely wipe out the remaining 100-some soldiers of the enemy army (the mercenary army was 1200 men strong, so it was over the second they showed up), and then sent them to combine with my forces. With the additional 1200 forces, the siege was only a month or two away from ending, the count of that land finally offered to surrender (he refused to surrender just a couple months earlier when I tried to demand it), and became my vassal.

Where I stand now, I have my chancellor trying to fabricate claims against another county, the count of Breify (or whatever the name of the county I conquered was) started pissing me off as he was still butt hurt about getting his ass whooped in war, so since I was unable to strip him of his title (was missing one out or six or seven requirement to do it), I threw his ass in prison, where he has been for the last year and a half. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with him. I could show forgiveness (and win some brownie points with my vassals) and release him and let him go free. While it could make my vassels all like me less, I could banish him from the land, getting rid of him while simultaneously stripping him of his title. I could execute him, which would piss my vassals off at me pretty good. Or I could just let him sit and rot in prison until he dies.

On the non-dungeons and death side, I did immediately solve my "lack of an heir to my dynasty" problem upon entering the game, arranging a marriage with a Princess from Tuscany. Gave me a son and a daughter before dying at the age of 21. Arranged another marriage, this time with someone from the French realm, so I currently have claims to Tuscany and French lands, in addition to the kingdom I'm trying to build in Ireland. Got another two daughters from the second marriage.



I will say, at first I was concerned the game only went from 1066 to 1453, it seemed like it would be over fast, mainly because I'm so used to both the Total War and Civilization series, where you have Summer/Winter and then a new year, or each turn was a new year, etc. CKII, having time advance one day at a time, I've already put over 2 hours into my current game, and I'm only maybe 10, 15 years tops into it, and that's from raising the advance time up to a fast speed to get through some quiet periods where I was just filling up my treasury before going to war. If I kept it at the lowest or second to lowest speed the entire time, I doubt I'd be even 5 years into the game at this point. So I'm very glad to see it's a slow, long, realistic advance over time, so that nearly 400 years of game length will actually take a long ass time and many hours to get all the way through (assuming my dynasty doesn't collapse and die before reaching 1453 ).

[morsdraconis]

See? That game sounds awesome as fuck, but the idea of de jure claims made my head spin and, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to raise a damn army or force my vassals to do the same. So, in the end, I ended up playing Civ 5 instead.


As a side note, think I finally have a bit of a clue of what the hell I'm doing in Endless Space. Decided to go with a straight up "I'm gonna fuck you up as quickly as possible with ships that are more badass than you" approach with my third game (after playing a good 100 turns and 50 turns in two previous games to get my shit straight). Ended up making my own faction instead of going with one of the normal ones (so I could max out various parts of my ship building to enable better defenses and ship customization) and I'm enjoying it so far. My empire is kinda pissed at me because I'm in a shitty part of the galaxy with shitty planet statistics, but they'll get over it once I get the "make everyone happy" sciences researched (another 30-40 turns or so).

[SmoothPancakes]

See? That game sounds awesome as fuck, but the idea of de jure claims made my head spin and, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to raise a damn army or force my vassals to do the same. So, in the end, I ended up playing Civ 5 instead.


As a side note, think I finally have a bit of a clue of what the hell I'm doing in Endless Space. Decided to go with a straight up "I'm gonna fuck you up as quickly as possible with ships that are more badass than you" approach with my third game (after playing a good 100 turns and 50 turns in two previous games to get my shit straight). Ended up making my own faction instead of going with one of the normal ones (so I could max out various parts of my ship building to enable better defenses and ship customization) and I'm enjoying it so far. My empire is kinda pissed at me because I'm in a shitty part of the galaxy with shitty planet statistics, but they'll get over it once I get the "make everyone happy" sciences researched (another 30-40 turns or so).

Yeah, that was what first made me want to get the game, because it sounded awesome as fuck. If you have the game, or still have the game, and are willing to give it another try, try doing what I did. Read the actual game manual the have in a PDF on the Paradox forums (I could also load it up to Google Docs if you want since I downloaded it), and then go through all the tutorials in all three levels (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced), and then give it another whirl. The manual combined with the tutorial really explains a lot and helps to understand most, if not all of the basics (and then some) of the game and how it works. After that, pretty much like what you've been doing with Endless Space, just playing and trying things (finding out what works and what doesn't work from a ruler standpoint, etc), getting that actual in-game experience, and the game starts to come together and you start to know exactly what you're doing in it.

It definitely is fun as hell and is just as awesome as it sounds after you pick up the basics and have figured out where everything is, what everything does, and what you're doing. Definitely glad I bought this yesterday morning.

[JeffHCross]

Fuck you guys and all your talk about games I don't have the PC or time to play.

[oweb26]

Fuck you guys and all your talk about games I don't have the PC or time to play.

I don't have alot of time but since they are so cheap I never feel bad if I don't play them that much.

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[Kingpin32]

Fuck you guys and all your talk about games I don't have the PC or time to play.

[oweb26]

Fuck you guys and all your talk about games I don't have the PC or time to play.

To prove how many games I don't play, now this is a little misleading because I own the entire half life series and as anyone is aware that is around 20 games within itself and I havent played them in years!!!! well before they started tracking.