The "I Got A New Game!" Thread

[Double A]

Never played a Gothic game, I've heard mostly negative things about them, especially 3.

 

[The_J]

You can probably compare Gothic 1, 2 and 3 with MoO 1, 2 and 3 ^^.
They more or less rebooted the series with Risen, because they screwed it with 3 (...and because they lost the right on the name...). But 1 and 2 are excellent games.

You just have to live with the fact that the story will not be very deep, but the atmosphere will be quite nice, and that exploring the world can be very interesting.

IMHO the series is better than the Elder Scrolls, because the world is less generic, and the dialogues and quests are overall better.

 

[Maniacal]

Gothic 3 isn't bad with the community patches. Risen 2 has a decent voodoo system but is otherwise awful and the combat is dumbed down.

 

[Double A]

Risen's voice acting is actually really, really good, and hanging out in the bandit camp has been my favorite part of the game so far. Combat, as of right now, fighting whatevers in the swamps... is eye-gouging. I'm level three and I have no idea why a couple of freakin wolves or a giant worm thing are next to impossible to kill without abusing level geometry, but anything with a weakening prefix takes three hits at the most to stab to death. Also, bows are useless right now. It's like I'm using throwing stars, both from a range and damage perspective. Is a mage actually able to kill things at this point in the game, or is everything so polarized?

 

[The_J]

You should be able to play the game as all 3 "classes", but I've only done it myself as bandit, so no idea .

And yeah, it's hard, but that's how it is .
Will be better later. At some point you'll be able to storm into a small castle full of skeletons or gnomes, without having to worry much about your health .
Doesn't mean everything will be easy. An ogre will always be hard.

Gothic 3 isn't bad with the community patches.

Let's say it's stable...
Good is too strong. The game does really not have any form of story, and that's really a problem for a RPG. I don't have high standards for a story, I can be satisfied with "evil whatever tries to destroy the world. Go and kill him", but not even that is really present in Gothic 3.

 

[Maniacal]

From what I've seen and read/heard, PB has never been very good at stories, including Risen.

 

[Double A]

From what I can tell, the story is kind of not there, but the voice acting has honestly made up for it. The characters actually have emotions!

 

[The_J]

Yeah, the atmosphere . It's even better in G1 and 2, because you there had some buddies with whom you regularly interacted, which is sadly a bit missing in Risen :/.

The story itself fits into the 2 sentence description which I had above, but since you have to do quite some things to get to the end, you don't notice it that strong.
Same for the "collect X amount of stuff" missions, some of them hide what they are relatively good.

From what I've seen and read/heard, PB has never been very good at stories, including Risen.

But G3 is definitely the worst thing in these regards.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Got the 1st and 2nd Mass Effect games. Got to get that perfect save going.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I got LSD: Dream Emulator

 

[vypernight]

Just got Tropico 4, though I haven't had much time to do more than the tutorials and mess around with the avatar traits.

 

[salty mud]

Bought Anno 2070, will play it tomorrow once I have a bit of respite from my exams. I've wanted it since it came out, so I jumped on the chance to get it half price during the Steam sale.

 

[GoodGame]

Yeah, I got this too. It's a great game, but my personal shortcomings are making it difficult for me to do very well. I suck at micro, so when I try to handle both micro and tactics both of those things suffer. In, say, Command and Conquer games I could bypass that by turtling, but you can't really turtle in CoH - at least, not effectively - so my results are kinda bad.

Turtling is possible in CoH but you'd have to micro the sight radii and weapon radii of the different units. Like using snipers with hold fire orders to sight for mortar and machine gun units.

 

[Dachs]

Turtling is possible in CoH but you'd have to micro the sight radii and weapon radii of the different units. Like using snipers with hold fire orders to sight for mortar and machine gun units.

Yeah, it seems more efficient to just learn how to not do that.

 

[Luckymoose]

CoHs is easier than C&C. You just spam infantry until you can spam tanks and spearhead.

 

[Double A]

Sounds fairly historically accurate.

 

[cardgame]

Picked up European War 2. Very casual, yet fun game that is essentially a mix of Risk and Axis and Allies: Europe.

Spoiler :

EU3 fans may enjoy the fact that it features Paradox's strongest feature: wonky borders.

Spoiler :

Later on Italy controlled the same strip, all the way up to the Atlantic. Madness

Oh and that's Allied Norway in Germany.

Apologies for size, I like to play in fullscreen.

 

[Dachs]

CoHs is easier than C&C. You just spam infantry until you can spam tanks and spearhead.

"Spearhead" is a rather odd word choice there.

 

[remake20]

Have any of you played Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble? It looks like an interesting game, but I was wondering if anyone had any opinions.

 

[Set]

Reluctant to click on above link while on a school computer

What is it?