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 malfred wrote:
XCOM Long War mod.

You fought against it hard Malfred....but it got you again.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 malfred wrote:
XCOM Long War mod.

You fought against it hard Malfred....but it got you again.

The dark side will always have it way

...Huh. I may buy those games.

I'm sure I can't run Styx, and it seems kind of assassin's creed/thief which I don't necessarily need more of right now (even if it is a good title of that type), though that Of Orcs and Men sounds pretty interesting.

World of Warships.

Yesterday I managed to ram some BURNING LOVE into an Air Carrier. I didn't even need to ram but I had to . Damn, I love my Kongou so much, a Battlecruiser with big cannons and 30 knots of speed is so awesome

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships.

Yesterday I managed to ram some BURNING LOVE into an Air Carrier. I didn't even need to ram but I had to . Damn, I love my Kongou so much, a Battlecruiser with big cannons and 30 knots of speed is so awesome

Oooh My

I swear, "Kongou is Love, Kongou is Life". I have so much more fun with her than with the Fuso. In another game, I just went full speed ahead to protect a Carrier and a cruiser under attack by 3 cruisers and a battleship, I sink 2 cruisers and the battleship and I remain alive until the end of the game.

BURNING LOVE!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships.

Yesterday I managed to ram some BURNING LOVE into an Air Carrier. I didn't even need to ram but I had to . Damn, I love my Kongou so much, a Battlecruiser with big cannons and 30 knots of speed is so awesome

Oooh My

I'm going to pretend you said that in the George Takei way and probably nothing will make me change my mind of that.

Is there even another way to say "oh my"?

It always pleases me greatly when one of the other factions in Beyond Earth actually gets it together long enough to attack me.

This time, it was Brasilia. He had a massive army, and I'd been neglecting my military as usual, so it was even a close thing for a couple of turns! Since I was not neglecting my economy or research, however, that changed.

And after I burned his cities and forced him into a humiliating peace, he asked if I wanted to renew our old open borders agreement.

Ah yes, the old turn-based AI "Alright, you got me fair and square. No way I can fight back now. What do you say we put all this behind us, let bygones be bygones, and go back to being pals, eh?" diplomacy. Usually preceding their "Oops, I accidentally besieged your city again; oh how silly of me!" declarations of war, followed by their ruthless destruction when you get fed up enough of it.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Ah yes, the old turn-based AI "Alright, you got me fair and square. No way I can fight back now. What do you say we put all this behind us, let bygones be bygones, and go back to being pals, eh?" diplomacy. Usually preceding their "Oops, I accidentally besieged your city again; oh how silly of me!" declarations of war, followed by their ruthless destruction when you get fed up enough of it.

Omg total war and Galactic Civilizations 3 (at least in early access) are so guilty of this. At least in Endless Space if things start to spiral downward for the opponent after they attack you they offer you some of their planets permanently in return for not killing them for a period of time.

As far as that xenonauts game i never updated on since the last post i managed to beat it just fine. I had 8 of the 12 soldiers manage to live the temple ship assault, assassinate the alien leader and evac before being overrun by reapers (basically xcom chrysallids). Stupidly i lost one guy due to shotgunning a small power plant without knowing how large it would explode if at all. The super heavy weapon was a lot of fun to use mass destroying reapers where they kept coming out but the ethereal equivalent leader kept terrifying my guys a bit to the extent some couldn't shoot too well. It was rather funny how towards the end all i really had left in the way of weapons was mostly just pistols but they were somewhat effective. I sniped their leader twice to kill him. Funny how they go down fairly easily.

As far as Galactic Civilizations 3 goes i'd say the game is doing much better but for the most part the game is Gal Civ 2 with better graphics honestly. There are new features like a dodge speed combat ability and later on carriers that have interceptors (kind of like the protoss ones in starcraft but these can actually attack as well it seems). I also can't get over how in gal civ 3 if you have much influence at all (which is usually easy) then your influence tends to expand and envelop the A.I. planets which forces them to rebel and join you. Usually this is all you really need to win. Of the 3 games i've played recently influence has won me the game each time even with malevolent factions being so great at warfare the influence just seems to win it in the end. Perhaps i need more computer opponents? I've also found Gal Civ 3 to crash on my computer when i'm about to invade some worlds. Some features in gal civ 2 have yet to be seen as well. For instance i have yet to see spies if they even exist anymore. Perhaps there's another way to see what an enemy planet has on it.

If you really want something visually impressive and great in gameplay then go for Endless Space. The faction abilities are often more extreme than the ones in gal civ 3 as it currently stands. It definitely has a lot of new features in comparison.

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I kind of hope gal civ 3 does better. Half of the research is still missing esp. stuff that has to deal with ideology or artifact research. It's kind of like gal civ 2 except with both more and less features. Currently i'm not too impressed after playing 'Endless Space'. Oddly enough i'm addicted though. Anyway it'll probably be a couple months or more when the full version comes out and then i can give a full opinion of it.

A note to all of you to never buy early access ever! It's alpha or beta test level at best.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
World of Warships.

Yesterday I managed to ram some BURNING LOVE into an Air Carrier. I didn't even need to ram but I had to . Damn, I love my Kongou so much, a Battlecruiser with big cannons and 30 knots of speed is so awesome

Oooh My

I'm going to pretend you said that in the George Takei way and probably nothing will make me change my mind of that.

That would be the intention, yes

I played through dead money, quite fun, and not that hard. Although that might have something to do with me going into it with a level 27 stealth based character. The +5 max level thing appears to have been chosen perfectly though. I came out at level 33.

Slightly off topic, but I love how nintedo has been pushing indie games lately. They are even adding one of my favorite games I play on my laptop on my ride home from college, race the sun.

Decided to try my hands at Company Of Heros 2 after the last ptach, and well for once it seems Relic managed to do their job, even it if the results has given me a few grey hairs duirng the day.
But now it feels sooo rewarding to mow down Ivan witha few well placed Mg42s and supporting mortar fire.

Project Zomboid, where bringing three hundred bullets with you for a short trip to loot a police station isn't enough... Thinking about it now I must have gone through at least double that after the multiple trips back to my safehouse (all the ammo I had for three different types of pistols and two rilfes). OK that's not really how you're supposed to play the game, but I really wanted to hit up that place's armoury (which wound up giving me about the same number of bullets as I'd used, but also a bunch of higher end gear instead of the civilian grade stuff I was using).

...Yeah that game really needs to hurry about allow for custom gun/clothes sprites anyhow.

Pillars of Eternity. As every upright citizen should do.

Finally got Shadow Of Mordor, and it's pretty bloody epic! Great graphics, combat lifted from Arkham (brilliant) but far more brutal, and the Nemesis system is so engaging. After just a few hours of gameplay, I've already established two or three real archenemies among the Orc ranks. One has a ruined face and metal mask after I chucked him through a fire, another has managed to turn up a few times when I was near dead from other attacks, so levelled quickly without actually doing much, which is annoying!

Yes, it craps all over the LotR lore to an extent even I don't like, but I'm willing to overlook that for the gameplay. Killing Orcs has never been more fun!

I haven't really been playing anything recently. My Shotgun playthrough of New Vegas has paused until I can find a list somewhere of the best way to play through the game to not only get an NCR victory, but complete as many quests as possible during it. There are so many quests in NV that, if done at the wrong time, pretty much make it impossible to do others you could have done first, and there are a good few other quests you might never purposefully come across.

The issue is that nobody seems to have compiled such a list. The closest references I have are Many a True Nerd's NV playthroughs, but I'm not a fan of re-watching several tens of 20 minute to 40 or so minute videos just to put together a questing order.

I've also been DotAing a little, but I'm still guff at it, and queueing alone tends to drop more smurfs and random good players against me than people of similar skill (or lack thereof) so I never really improve that much.

I'm considering getting back into WoW (now heirlooms are back in it), or even Path of Exile (the only top-down RPG I actually like).

Why would you do a Completionist Run of a Bethesda game? That's practically madness.

RE Revelations 2. Pretty dang fun, some cool story moments

Anvildude wrote:
Why would you do a Completionist Run of a Bethesda game? That's practically madness.

Isn't that reason enough?

Playing some Clash of Clans while listening to the latest episode of Lady to Lady. Next up I'm gonna look through my Steam library to see what I haven't touched yet... maybe Shadowrun Returns...

Battlefield hardline. its alright

Just chilling with a combo of UFO, Carmageddon, War Thunder and Cataclysm.

Bloodborne - obvious answer is very obvious

Clash of Clans, Medieval 2: Total War, and Skyrim.

Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

More Shadow of Mordor today. Dealt with my biggest nemeses early on, after a while gathering Intel on their weaknesses (gotta love a top level boss you can't touch in melee or range but can one hit with a Stealth Attack!), but...

Literally as I typed this, one of the worst has come back! I've beat him up, burned him, shattered his mind with magic and stabbed him through the eye. Now he turns up with bandages all over his face, and even more pissed off (perhaps understandably now) and ready for round. 5, I think!

This game is great!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is your favourite ship so far?

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Pillars of Eternity and World of Warships.

WoW open beta shouldn't be too far off, so I don't think I'll be unlocking that many ships until then, tier VIII Battleship already takes a massive ammount of XP.

PoE is just... wow... what a fething awesome game.

What is your favourite ship so far?

Kongō is love, Kongō is life. BURNING LOVE, FTW!


In all seriousness, besides loving the KanColle character, it was a very happy coincidence how Kongō IS my favorite ship so far: It's a battleship with cannons that manage to give one hell of a fight to both Fusos and Nagatos (and annihilate both cruisers and destroyers, ofc), her AA is top notch for tier V and her speed, oh man, a battleship with 30 knots of speed? It's heaven. I manage to dodge torpedos much easier with my burning love dispenser than with the slowpoke the Nagato is.