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 GrimDork wrote:
SNAP!

Banesword you have just made my day! Probably not *this* time around... but to know that there is a way to leave a kingdom and keep my holdings.... evilgrin

That way, I just need to find a castle, any castle, preferably near to a town I want to take and then not be given. I can fill the castle with hundreds of archers, many hundreds, remaining easy to pay due to the garrison half-price. Then when I take the town, if it isn't awarded to me... I can dump my entire army in it temporarily, nab large hordes of archers from the keep, and fill the town up with them

Cool, I'm sure something will fail/backfire, but to know that I can potentially break away the way I want to is great. Thanks

when I went independent I had 1 town, 2 castles and i think 4 villages and production thingies in 75% of towns. it worked out rather well as I also had my own knighthood order about half tooled up and knights of the ebon gauntlet in my castle. I'm now curb stomping the empire after taking about 1/4 of the sarleon holding and then declaring peace.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Goddammit, I hate exclusives. I finally see an ad for a game that looks vaguely interesting, an it's only on PS4.

Come to the Sony side... we're a bunch better than those silly Microsoft idiots

Just playing more 'Endless Space'. I was at the end of the other game with sheredyn and lost with them (ended in 2nd place when an opponent got an economic victory which is basically having a crap ton of money/dust on hand) and got bored and wanted to try cravers again. Funny how when you're beating the crap out of your enemies long enough they tend to give you a ridiculous amount of planets for leaving them alone for a while. It's just a little odd since sometimes they damage themselves more than you would by giving you all these nice planets you could've never grabbed during that whole cease fire. You have to leave them alone though (and have no choice in the matter) for about 20 or so turns during a cease fire.

It's pretty fun to have a numbers advantage with cravers and i'm using the knowledge gained for every dead enemy command point (dead enemy units have different command point amounts) to my full advantage. It's so much fun destroying enemy fleets and pooping out new scientific achievements every time. The only not fun part is when an enemy tries to run away and you can't kill them in time or if you can't capture more ground as cravers slowly devour all the planets they own. I also wish there was a way around the whole "can't improve relations beyond 'cold war' with other factions". Sadly there isn't but cravers have some nice abilities that help a ton.

I slightly wish i would've kept on the massed ships approach to go with the swarm tactics of the cravers but a few solid ships that kill everything is working well too. The knowledge gathering when destroying enemies is definitely my favorite bit though.

Still playing Spore, remembering why it frustrated me back in the day.

Gonna destroy the galaxy, I guess. That might make me feel a bit better.

Currently installing all the games from my childhood on my HD. I miss the days when CD cases came with the idea of an integrated product key and a installation soundtrack.

 SkavenLord wrote:
Got Deus Ex, Thief, and some other game called Divine Divinity. Deus Ex is... interesting. Not my favorite older game (that goes to System Shock 2), but the stealth stuff seems pretty cool. I have no idea what Thief is, other than it's supposedly good and also focuses on stealth. Divine Divinity, I have no idea what is at all other than something that looks an awful lot like Diablo.

For anyone looking for those games, each costs as much as a cup of coffee on the current Steam sale.

Well, prepare to be suprised by Divine Divinity, it's an old school RPG with amazing writing.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Goddammit, I hate exclusives. I finally see an ad for a game that looks vaguely interesting, an it's only on PS4.

Come to the Sony side... we're a bunch better than those silly Microsoft idiots

Lies and slander! Master Chief, show this person the way out!

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Goddammit, I hate exclusives. I finally see an ad for a game that looks vaguely interesting, an it's only on PS4.

Come to the Sony side... we're a bunch better than those silly Microsoft idiots

Nah, I don't even have an xbox. Although it's not out of some PCMR bs, but more in the line that I can't afford to get them right now. Although if I did get any consoles, I would probebly get a PS4 after I get a wiiu. Nothing on the xbox1 interests me right now.

Console war on dakka? FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT


Haven't touched my x360 since September when I built my first scratch built pc for myself. I'm quite happy with my Ivory Tower, you can keep your outdated boxes of crap. :p

My Dad in fallout 3 died. I also got from being a Very Evil and a Harbinger of War to Good and a Hero of the wastes in 90 minutes.

Finished off Moira's quest and am heading off to investigate the riverboat landing.

Part of me wants to replay Fallout 3, but another part doesn't want to deal with all the tweaks needed to get it running in Win 8.1, and the rest doesn't want to pay £16 for a GotY edition that came out 5 and a half or so years ago, of a game that originally came out a year before that.

I was thinking of buying a used GB advanced sp because mine broke a year ago, and I wanted to play some of my old Pokemon games. People are severely overvaluing those things. They are not worth $300. Even in box, I wouldn't pay that much. And some idiots are trying to sell them for upwards of $1K. I'm not paying over $60 for a used GBAsp (that's how much they sold for IIRC). I may have to use an emulator, irritatingly enough. I really don't want to have to do that.

Got gifted Wolfenstein The New Order, and I now wonder if the person that gave it to me secretly hates me. Because the game reeks! They even made shooting Nazis boring!

I'm back to playing Saints Row IV.

I've got to say, if it weren't for all the assorted 'gangsta' elements that still kick around in the game, I'd probably put it as one of the most simply fun games ever made. You start off with a Call of Duty / Zero Dark Thirty / Armaggedon mashup and it just gets more fun from there.

Right now I'm playing a mission that's a spoof of Metal Gear Solid. Including if/when you fail it, assorted cries of, "BOSS! BOSS! BOSS!"

 Trondheim wrote:
Got gifted Wolfenstein The New Order, and I now wonder if the person that gave it to me secretly hates me. Because the game reeks! They even made shooting Nazis boring!

Huh, from what I have heard of it, it was supposed to have been good. Nostalgia perhaps?

Pretty much just World of Tanks at the moment.

 Trondheim wrote:
Got gifted Wolfenstein The New Order, and I now wonder if the person that gave it to me secretly hates me. Because the game reeks! They even made shooting Nazis boring!

That game was fantastic. Not sure how you can think it was boring.

Final Fantasy 1 on my Android

Been playing a bit more payday, and some starbound. Also someone roped me in to playing tera online, idk how I feel about it, but I DO know how I feel about its installation (I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it [...] AND I WANT IT TO DIE).


Also pyeatt, your sig is mesmerizing for some reason...

I've been on a Diablo III kick for awhile. I got my Witch Doctor to level 70 at the end of Season 1, and will probably try a Crusader for Season 2.

Bouncing around about a dirty dozen differing games, from Binding of Isaac Rebirth to Warband, WOW, I feel like some dayz, but I don't want to play KOS with a buncha hackers. Just killing time before GTA 5 comes out.

I played some more Prophesy of Pendor today... ok some doesn't really cover it, I think I played it almost literally all day. =/

It was a day off, and it's not like I didn't take the kiddo and run around outside for awhile (it was sunny and warm-ish here), but.... yeah that was a lot of mount and blade =/

On the bright side, I managed to take a castle, get it awarded to me, found a chapter of the Knights of the Dragon, join said chapter, go from squire to knight within said chapter, get married to the lady my character has been courting for a good while now (apparently even if you sneak around, pissing off the father, if relation to him is high enough he will still tell you to visit her during a feast...sometimes), take a town, get awarded the town, help take another town, capture a unique spawn and trade his freedom for a qualis gem... turning that in for a potion should net me 30 str for the bestest gear woot, and I've taken one more castle but I won't install a garrison unless they give it to me... so I guess I'll be squatting on that property till the war is over whenever I play next.

The takeaway from all of this, I would say, is twofold. Going to your castle/town steward and ordering a baggage train is amazing. It's a +30 morale 'food' that comes in 250/250 instead of the 50/50 or whatever most food comes with. The other thing is that you should never fight alone. Not when you can suggest a course of action: follow me I have a plan.... maybe 2-4 lords, get a posse of maybe 800-1000 guys and most sieges or random fights go a lot easier, especially useful for chasing down the unique spawns to harvest qualis gems, or just clear them out of your lands.

 carlos13th wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Got gifted Wolfenstein The New Order, and I now wonder if the person that gave it to me secretly hates me. Because the game reeks! They even made shooting Nazis boring!

That game was fantastic. Not sure how you can think it was boring.

Oh I dunno, very poor AI even worse combat and a story that even by FPS standards really blows helps. But ones prefrefences may vary

 GrimDork wrote:
I played some more Prophesy of Pendor today... ok some doesn't really cover it, I think I played it almost literally all day. =/

It was a day off, and it's not like I didn't take the kiddo and run around outside for awhile (it was sunny and warm-ish here), but.... yeah that was a lot of mount and blade =/

On the bright side, I managed to take a castle, get it awarded to me, found a chapter of the Knights of the Dragon, join said chapter, go from squire to knight within said chapter, get married to the lady my character has been courting for a good while now (apparently even if you sneak around, pissing off the father, if relation to him is high enough he will still tell you to visit her during a feast...sometimes), take a town, get awarded the town, help take another town, capture a unique spawn and trade his freedom for a qualis gem... turning that in for a potion should net me 30 str for the bestest gear woot, and I've taken one more castle but I won't install a garrison unless they give it to me... so I guess I'll be squatting on that property till the war is over whenever I play next.

The takeaway from all of this, I would say, is twofold. Going to your castle/town steward and ordering a baggage train is amazing. It's a +30 morale 'food' that comes in 250/250 instead of the 50/50 or whatever most food comes with. The other thing is that you should never fight alone. Not when you can suggest a course of action: follow me I have a plan.... maybe 2-4 lords, get a posse of maybe 800-1000 guys and most sieges or random fights go a lot easier, especially useful for chasing down the unique spawns to harvest qualis gems, or just clear them out of your lands.

That Gem could have gotten you into the Noldor fort! And gotten you the best troops in the game!

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Got gifted Wolfenstein The New Order, and I now wonder if the person that gave it to me secretly hates me. Because the game reeks! They even made shooting Nazis boring!

Huh, from what I have heard of it, it was supposed to have been good. Nostalgia perhaps?

No nostialgia played no part in it, playing a glorified errand boy, having to run around finding lost wedding rings and missing welding tools. That and the absolut lack of decent music killed it for me

Picked up what I think is the last good CoD, Modern Warfare 2, yesterday on 360 for £1.99. It's nice to play something brainless after all the frustration caused by Warhammer Quest.

I'm semi-tempted to buy Diablo 3 because I can't get D2 to work on my iMac. No matter what I try

Finished up 'Endless Space' with the Cravers and totally just won an expansion victory by taking tons of territory from my enemies. It was rather fun.

Yeah that's another use for the gem. My realm is currently at war though and my rep with noldor isn't high enough to go to that place. Almost. Just have to catch and release another rare spawn. I'll need the str boost to wear noldor armor anyway.

I just played the first half hour of FFXIII. The visuals are good, but the combat seems too simple. It's weird controlling only one person, and it's mostly just repeatedly hitting the mouse button with auto attack. I'm only half an hour in though.

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
Picked up what I think is the last good CoD, Modern Warfare 2, yesterday on 360 for £1.99. It's nice to play something brainless after all the frustration caused by Warhammer Quest.

If you got it for PC...does it run fine? Sadly, I wanted to play it again after a while and I have weird sound problems (muffled voices), making the game unenjoyable :(