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I have gotten as far as I ever have in Xcom Long war, the new update to the mod really fixed a lot of issues. But added a few new ones to...Notting like having to figth a map populated by hordes of Mutons and Mechtoids with a few pods of Sectoids just to spice things up. But thankfully I have just lost around 4 soldiers in total so I have a very wide pool of troops to lean on. That and Gaus weapons, mech troopers and other goodness. But damn! This game is beyound brutal at times.

I started Black Mesa. As someone who never played the original half life, it's an interesting experience.

Doing some assassin's creed black flag. FUN. I love that the mouse and keyboard combo is easy, just enjoying everything.

MKX on iOS. Very impatient for the XBOne release.

I reinstalled Reaper of Souls on my Xbox.

My Demon Hunter got loooooooooooooads better.

So, as mentioned a few pages back, I've been doing a "normal difficulty" (read that as: Nintendo Hard) One Year War playthrough on Gihren's Greed 5, as the Earth Federation...

Typically, the game kicks my butt by turn 11 (out of 100). Sometimes I make it as far as turn 15 before I'm forced to conceed I've been out-produced and my tech level is too low.

I don't know what happened. It's turn 36 and I've pushed the Zeon forces completely off of Earth, with nothing more advanced than mass-production Guntanks. I've only recently gotten the GM series unlocked (with a couple handfulls of GM Command Space-type units produced) and haven't had the chance to use them in combat yet. Yeah, I've produced a few Gundams, but they haven't been sent into battle that much. I'm about to launch an attack on Space Fortress Solomon with my first fleet of mobile suits and upgraded capital ships, and it looks like I can have this playthrough wrapped up by turn 50.

I've never done this good before. I mean, even on very easy difficulty, where the game hands you powerful mobile suits at level one and enough resources to mass produce everything in the tech tree a dozen times over, I've never done this good.

I wish I knew what I did, because I'd like to replicate the feat on another scenario (like one of the AEUG sccenarios).

Was foolish enough to play CoD: Ghosts because I picked it up super cheap. Loved the Modern Warfare games, should be nostalgic fun right?

Yuck. That storyline was horrendous and a slander on the name of one of the best NPCs from MW2.

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Was foolish enough to play CoD: Ghosts because I picked it up super cheap. Loved the Modern Warfare games, should be nostalgic fun right?

Yuck. That storyline was horrendous and a slander on the name of one of the best NPCs from MW2.

The AW story isn't much better, apart from evil Kevin spacey.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Was foolish enough to play CoD: Ghosts because I picked it up super cheap. Loved the Modern Warfare games, should be nostalgic fun right?

Yuck. That storyline was horrendous and a slander on the name of one of the best NPCs from MW2.

The AW story isn't much better, apart from evil Kevin spacey.

*Sigh*. Sad but expected. Is Black Ops II worth trying? I mostly play for the single player, as I loved it in the MW series, and liked Black Ops I.

 gunslingerpro wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Was foolish enough to play CoD: Ghosts because I picked it up super cheap. Loved the Modern Warfare games, should be nostalgic fun right?

Yuck. That storyline was horrendous and a slander on the name of one of the best NPCs from MW2.

The AW story isn't much better, apart from evil Kevin spacey.

*Sigh*. Sad but expected. Is Black Ops II worth trying? I mostly play for the single player, as I loved it in the MW series, and liked Black Ops I.

I gave up on Blops 2. If I wanted to achieve the ideal ending, which I tend to go for, I have to have a wiki open as there are several situations sprung upon you without notice that have an effect on the ending. Each one carries an element to the ending.

I will state, that the AW campaign has a mech mission which would work well with Flight of the Valkyries if it were sped up.


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It referring to the mission in this case.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I started Black Mesa. As someone who never played the original half life, it's an interesting experience.

How are you finding it? I have to say that I enjoyed it much more than Half LIfe

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I started Black Mesa. As someone who never played the original half life, it's an interesting experience.

How are you finding it? I have to say that I enjoyed it much more than Half LIfe

It's really good, it feels really polished and detailed. As good as actual valve-created games.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I started Black Mesa. As someone who never played the original half life, it's an interesting experience.

How are you finding it? I have to say that I enjoyed it much more than Half LIfe

It's really good, it feels really polished and detailed. As good as actual valve-created games.

What I liked about the game was the absolute moral ambiguity of the main character; you don't get to find out if you are there to rescue the personnel at Black Mesa or eliminate them. It's your choice.

Assassin's Creed Rogue.

Dark Souls 2, White Knight Chronicles 2 (though starting with 1), and Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen.

Got a hotseat game of Age of Wonders 3 going on with my sister.

Zombie elves and living elves = the best of friends, forever.

Playing Shadow of Mordor right now. Fun as hell.

There's a free day of endless legend and dungeon of the endless on steam. Both lots of fun. I was thinking of buying endless legend anyway, and I definitely am now. Probably pick up the other if it's not too expensive as well.

 Haight wrote:
Playing Shadow of Mordor right now. Fun as hell.

That's a fun game to.start with but it got repetitive fast for me.

Fight Orcs. Kill Orcs. Get loot and grow more powerful. Brainwash Orcs. Build an army. Kill big bad. Ad nauseam. I played through the vanilla campaign, and the Lord of the Hunt campaign, but then I quickly lost interest in the 2nd big dlc campaign in which you play as Celebrimbor. Didn't really feel like repeating the process a third time.

My biggest issue with the game is that it doesn't add any new lands to explore. I want to.visit Rhun and Khand. Maybe even Harad too. Exploring the same two regions over and over just makes the game feel.stale. At least add new regions of Mordor like Cirith Ungol and Minas Morgul.

I'm now playing Fallout 3 (which I've had for a year but couldnt play due to the multi core processor issue which I've recently fixed) and Atilla Total War.

Atelier Rorona Plus. It's positively saccharine so far which I honestly need right now.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
There's a free day of endless legend and dungeon of the endless on steam. Both lots of fun. I was thinking of buying endless legend anyway, and I definitely am now. Probably pick up the other if it's not too expensive as well.

Oh, nice. I've been wanting to try dungeon of the endless for a while now.

 toasteroven wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
There's a free day of endless legend and dungeon of the endless on steam. Both lots of fun. I was thinking of buying endless legend anyway, and I definitely am now. Probably pick up the other if it's not too expensive as well.

Oh, nice. I've been wanting to try dungeon of the endless for a while now.

Better be quick, only 19 hours left.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Haight wrote:
Playing Shadow of Mordor right now. Fun as hell.

That's a fun game to.start with but it got repetitive fast for me.

Fight Orcs. Kill Orcs. Get loot and grow more powerful. Brainwash Orcs. Build an army. Kill big bad. Ad nauseam. I played through the vanilla campaign, and the Lord of the Hunt campaign, but then I quickly lost interest in the 2nd big dlc campaign in which you play as Celebrimbor. Didn't really feel like repeating the process a third time.

My biggest issue with the game is that it doesn't add any new lands to explore. I want to.visit Rhun and Khand. Maybe even Harad too. Exploring the same two regions over and over just makes the game feel.stale. At least add new regions of Mordor like Cirith Ungol and Minas Morgul.

Here's a question- how often did you die?

Because I think a large part of the fun of that game is in the grudges and personal enmities you can form with recurring Orcs who manage to kill you and 'level up' on the experience, and people (like, surprisingly enough, Jesse Cox) who are good enough at it, or are playing at a lower difficulty level (if there are lower difficulty levels, don't know) than they need to, lose that aspect of the game.

Anvildude wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Haight wrote:
Playing Shadow of Mordor right now. Fun as hell.

That's a fun game to.start with but it got repetitive fast for me.

Fight Orcs. Kill Orcs. Get loot and grow more powerful. Brainwash Orcs. Build an army. Kill big bad. Ad nauseam. I played through the vanilla campaign, and the Lord of the Hunt campaign, but then I quickly lost interest in the 2nd big dlc campaign in which you play as Celebrimbor. Didn't really feel like repeating the process a third time.

My biggest issue with the game is that it doesn't add any new lands to explore. I want to.visit Rhun and Khand. Maybe even Harad too. Exploring the same two regions over and over just makes the game feel.stale. At least add new regions of Mordor like Cirith Ungol and Minas Morgul.

Here's a question- how often did you die?

Because I think a large part of the fun of that game is in the grudges and personal enmities you can form with recurring Orcs who manage to kill you and 'level up' on the experience, and people (like, surprisingly enough, Jesse Cox) who are good enough at it, or are playing at a lower difficulty level (if there are lower difficulty levels, don't know) than they need to, lose that aspect of the game.

Very good point.

While there is something rather amusing about having all abilities unlocked and just waltzing through Orcs by the dozen, turning half and just slaying the rest, I do miss the early parts of the game where the boss battles were actually a challenge and the bosses themselves could quickly get out of hand and become a real threat. Truly was the Nemesis system aptly named at that point, as I ended up getting into personal grudges against certain Orcs that would just not stay down.

Once I've finished my current play through, I plan on doing one that eschews all but the most essential upgrades, staying as low a 'level' as possible so the challenge remains. Playing as Lithariel also changes things a little, she does more damage but had less armour, so can't take anywhere near as many hits as Talion.


Must admit I'd like to see more of Middle Earth in the game. Udun is cool, Nurn is surprising (who knew Mordor was so temperate?), but I think somewhere like Harad or even Ithillien would change the dynamic of the game a lot.

Playing through the ME series, on ME3 now.

Also playing lots of WoW as usual.

And I am continuing to work on my Retribution mod, as well!

After playing Star Wars: Armada, I've had a real hankering to play, surprisingly, not Empire At War, which is the closest equivalent game but actually.... X-Wing Alliance.

Which is weird, cause playing X-Wing caused me to have no real desire to play it.

Anyhow, I had brought my joystick with me when I moved house so I could play Alliance, but didn't bring XWA. So the result? A trip to gog.com

Been getting back in to ME3 since two of my friends got it, so we're now running three-four person runs in multi. It's been quite nice.

Spent the weekend on ESO. They were having an event where beta testers could play without buying the core game. So I went back and took a look. They fixed *a lot* of the bugs, added a dye system (yay!) and tied it directly to the achievement system (booo!) and made it run more smoothly (only two crashes to desktop the whole weekend; if only GW2 were that stable). However, it still isn't that pretty to look at (GW2, which I run at a lower graphics setting looks much better, by comparison) and the combat isn't as fun as it is on other games. Only having 5 ability slots on your toolbar is a fething joke, considering how many active abilities you can get in ESO.

I suspect I won't be buying the game, even though it has moved to F2P.

 Compel wrote:
After playing Star Wars: Armada, I've had a real hankering to play, surprisingly, not Empire At War, which is the closest equivalent game but actually.... X-Wing Alliance.

Which is weird, cause playing X-Wing caused me to have no real desire to play it.

Anyhow, I had brought my joystick with me when I moved house so I could play Alliance, but didn't bring XWA. So the result? A trip to gog.com

There was a Star Wars game with a much better fleet combat element a while back called Rebellion. Unfortunately, the rest of the game wasn't as good, and it didn't do very well. I don't think it had multi-player, or a skirmish mode, which also didn't help.

Playing Diablo III again. Trying the Season thingie. Still not sure how it works.