What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[SS-18 ICBM]

Just arrived at the Hong Kong hub. One look at the map reminded me of the amount of things to do in this game.

 

[caketastydelish]

Just finished Assassin's Creed IV. Now onto Deus Ex, then have a backlog of Splinter Cell (came with my video card) and Alan Wake.

How does Assassin's Creed IV compare to III? I have III but never played IV. I might add Assassin's Creed IV to my gamefly que depending on how it is.

 

[Arakhor]

IV is much better than III. It's less bloated, not as buggy and the ancestor is a much more interesting character.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh my god I loved that game. I think that was my first experience with far out pseudo-mythology stuff like Atlantis and what not. I was around 11 or 12 at the time.

And this was back when you had to go to libraries and such to indulge your random inquisitory impulses. I couldn't just google "atlantis" after beating the game... kids these days!

Choose Your Own Adventure games didn't come with a manual… now, Herr Kruptsch, we meet again.

 

[illram]

How does Assassin's Creed IV compare to III? I have III but never played IV. I might add Assassin's Creed IV to my gamefly que depending on how it is.

Never played III but everyone says IV is better, because I was considering going back and playing III.

Honestly just the pirate-aspect of IV could be a game in and of itself. On my PC (760 gfx card) the graphics are amazing, utterly jaw dropping. My wife, who hates video games, actually said "wow that's really beautiful" at a moment when I was happily sailing along into the sunset on a calm sea whilst my merry band of pirates sung their pirate ballads. You can really get lost in that element of the game, it's great if you're into that sort of immersiveness.

Floating around in the ocean battling man o wars and sending my fleets across the ocean to trade is fun stuff and I would consider buying a whole separate game that expanded on this alone.

 

[caketastydelish]

Never played III but everyone says IV is better, because I was considering going back and playing III.

Honestly just the pirate-aspect of IV could be a game in and of itself. On my PC (760 gfx card) the graphics are amazing, utterly jaw dropping. My wife, who hates video games, actually said "wow that's really beautiful" at a moment when I was happily sailing along into the sunset on a calm sea whilst my merry band of pirates sung their pirate ballads. You can really get lost in that element of the game, it's great if you're into that sort of immersiveness.

Floating around in the ocean battling man o wars and sending my fleets across the ocean to trade is fun stuff and I would consider buying a whole separate game that expanded on this alone.

III also has some naval missions, but apparently I take it not as much as IV. I generally don't buy games unless they have a multiplayer, but I'll have to at least rent this one. It has lots of acclaim and lots of people like yourself say it's good.

 

[Phrossack]

For once I'm playing something other than New Vegas: I'm playing Red Faction: Guerrilla again. I get a sick pleasure out of bleeding an enemy dry through a guerrilla war, swatting aircraft out of the sky with shoulder-launched rockets, and blowing up buildings with car bombs.

 

[cybrxkhan]

More running through pastoral, rustic wonderland in Oblivion.

What more do I need to say?

 

[caketastydelish]

Finally beat the campaign of Battlefield 4 on PS4. Ending was surprising, and I liked how they let you choose what happens at the last part.

Tomorrow after I've had more sleep I'll start the multiplayer of the game.

 

[Civ'ed]

More running through pastoral, rustic wonderland in Oblivion.

What more do I need to say?

Hackdirt is also pastoral and rustic

 

[Light Cleric]

I like how I'm finally installing KOTOR. I'm only 300 years late to the party!

Fun fact: apparently Train Heist in Payday 2 is literally impossible without stealthing on Death Wish. You have 15 seconds to escape...which is less than the time the boat takes to get there, so you fail.

 

[Zack]

I like how I'm finally installing KOTOR. I'm only 300 years late to the party!

Great game, although I remember it being a buggy mess when playing it.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I've gotten back into Mount and Blade: Warband, forgot how much fun it is to loot and pillage!

 

[Phrossack]

I've gotten back into Mount and Blade: Warband, forgot how much fun it is to loot and pillage!

If you're into mods, I recommend the Brytenwalda and AD1257 mods. Brytenwalda's set in Britain in 636 AD, with Angles, Saxons, Irish, Picts, Britons, and Jutes. You can be a pagan pirate lord who sails across the coasts in his longboat raiding villages and monasteries. It's a lot of fun, and there's even naval combat, though it's either very simple or buggy. Dena Pirates and Frankish Raiders replace Sea Raiders. They're extremely powerful, but if you defeat them, capture some, persuade them to join you, and then garrison them in your castle or a lair you built that first night so they can't escape, they'll provide you with excellent if expensive heavy infantry. There are lots of other features, too, like unique, named weapons (including Hrunting and Gae Bolga), formations, ambushes, hunting, camp followers, camps, banners, war horns, optional realistic combat, shield bashing, salt mines and quarries where you can put slaves to work, and a lot besides.

AD1257 is set in basically the M2TW map minus the Americas. Lots of factions, crusading orders, crusades, more realistic damage and armor, tons of different and reasonably accurate arms and armor, an awesome system of building and managing manors, peasant rebellions, improved textures, landscapes, and sound effects, nomadic Mongol camps, and so on. It's really good, too.

 

[Joecoolyo]

If you're into mods, I recommend the Brytenwalda and AD1257 mods. Brytenwalda's set in Britain in 636 AD, with Angles, Saxons, Irish, Picts, Britons, and Jutes. You can be a pagan pirate lord who sails across the coasts in his longboat raiding villages and monasteries. It's a lot of fun, and there's even naval combat, though it's either very simple or buggy. Dena Pirates and Frankish Raiders replace Sea Raiders. They're extremely powerful, but if you defeat them, capture some, persuade them to join you, and then garrison them in your castle or a lair you built that first night so they can't escape, they'll provide you with excellent if expensive heavy infantry. There are lots of other features, too, like unique, named weapons (including Hrunting and Gae Bolga), formations, ambushes, hunting, camp followers, camps, banners, war horns, optional realistic combat, shield bashing, salt mines and quarries where you can put slaves to work, and a lot besides.

AD1257 is set in basically the M2TW map minus the Americas. Lots of factions, crusading orders, crusades, more realistic damage and armor, tons of different and reasonably accurate arms and armor, an awesome system of building and managing manors, peasant rebellions, improved textures, landscapes, and sound effects, nomadic Mongol camps, and so on. It's really good, too.

Yeah, imma do a mod run-through after doing a vanilla one. I've tried Brytenwalda before, that one was rock hard, though it was really in depth so I'd like to try it again.

AD1257 also seems pretty cool now that you mention it, I'll definitely try it out at some point. Maybe after doing a run through using the Floris Modpack in the vanilla setting.

 

[Darth Caesar]

I like how I'm finally installing KOTOR. I'm only 300 years late to the party!

That's one of my favorite games ever.

 

[Civ'ed]

While we're at discussing warband mods...
Gekokujo is a mod set during the Sengoku Jidai, with all the fun stuff that comes with it.
There's Prophesy of Pendor, which is very difficult, and Perisno, which is slightly-less-lbut-still-quite difficult. These are set in their own worlds.
There's the 16th Century Northern hemisphere mod, which while having a spotty (sometimes even french) translation (modmaker is Chinese) is actually quite fun.
And then there's mods like fall of tradition (basically warband but with added arquebuses for Rhodok troops), Blood and Steel (which adds massive armies, a massive amount of weapons, but also massive undead hordes which are ever-so-slightly OP.)
As for multiplayer, the Napoleonic Wars DLC, as well as the Full Invasion 2 mod, are quite good.

 

[H4run]

Silverstag is the best mods for warband, now I'm back playing warband with Silverstag, the recruitment system is quite crucial, once you tried it you just can't play other mods anymore.

 

[cardgame]

Silverstag? Haven't actually heard of that one at all... must be new, I take it?

Sword of Damocles still takes the gold for me, but right now I've been investing heavily into STALKER: Call of Pripyat (Misery 2.1)

 

[Phrossack]

Huh, I've heard of Sword of Damocles, Silverstag, and Prophesy of Pendor, but I don't know anything about them. How much in the way of fantasy elements do they have, if any? If they have fantasy, is there any way for me to set up some kind of magic-less purely human army to exterminate all fantasy elements from the world?