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

[Timsup2nothin]

The great 'RPG style' Rome TW game is really working out. My expansion was severely inhibited by my AI generals being totally wasteful with my troops. After every battle, win or lose, they had to return to a sufficiently developed town to retrain, and they absolutely could not take a settlement unless they could just hold the full term siege. My one general (me) couldn't be everywhere.

So the civil war didn't start until the known world was under Roman and Egyptian control...plus the Scythians in northern Asia. The Brutii outnumber me more than two to one. With only one general who can fight without having to fall back and retool the war is not going spectacularly...to say the least.

Overall, I'd say the challenge level is as advertised. I'm wondering if I am going to win.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I think I'm just gonna cast a frenzy spell on Glarthir. I've managed to survive 3 days in Skingrad so far.

Is it the first offense?

I get that

Eh.... just talk to him once and then never meet him behind the church at midnight (or whatever the next quest step is). He never bothers you again. What's the big deal?

I feel like a dick if I don't "help" him and would rather just finish that quest.

But, more importantly, it's fun being paranoid and trying to avoid him.

I just meet him behind the church every time I pass through town and tell him 'nope'. Eventually he attacks me and I waste him. Then I move into his house. Nice pad.

Yeah, I usually do that or lie once just for the lulz and let th guards take care of him.

Flaming would probably get you two infraction points.

Aw man. :|

 

[Takhisis]

The great 'RPG style' Rome TW game is really working out. My expansion was severely inhibited by my AI generals being totally wasteful with my troops. After every battle, win or lose, they had to return to a sufficiently developed town to retrain, and they absolutely could not take a settlement unless they could just hold the full term siege. My one general (me) couldn't be everywhere.

So the civil war didn't start until the known world was under Roman and Egyptian control...plus the Scythians in northern Asia. The Brutii outnumber me more than two to one. With only one general who can fight without having to fall back and retool the war is not going spectacularly...to say the least.

Overall, I'd say the challenge level is as advertised. I'm wondering if I am going to win.

Perhaps you could use some Legates. Congratulations on such a wonderful idea.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Perhaps you could use some Legates. Congratulations on such a wonderful idea.

I really hadn't realized how drastically the auto resolve changes things. I go in with a full stack, about 1500 troops, against a full stack of 2000 barbarians...I come out with 1200 and the enemy army routes out of existence. I can take on a second stack in the same turn with good effect. My lame generals go in with 1500 troops against a stack of 2000 and they usually "win"...but they come out with 800-900 troops and so do the barbarians.

 

[Commodore]

I really hadn't realized how drastically the auto resolve changes things. I go in with a full stack, about 1500 troops, against a full stack of 2000 barbarians...I come out with 1200 and the enemy army routes out of existence. I can take on a second stack in the same turn with good effect. My lame generals go in with 1500 troops against a stack of 2000 and they usually "win"...but they come out with 800-900 troops and so do the barbarians.

Yep, one of the few games where auto-resolve actually yields worse results than fighting battles yourself. Usually in games like this the AI is vastly more competent than a human player could ever be.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I started playing Banished over the weekend. It's surprisingly engrossing.

 

[Mise]

I started playing Banished over the weekend. It's surprisingly engrossing.

I played it for a few hours but I can't say it hooked me. I mean, for the time I was playing it it was kind of fun, but it doesn't make me want to play it again. I guess my problem is I don't really know why nothing's happening in my village! Like when one family steals all the wood and everyone else freezes. It's like, just put some back. Or you there, you, -- yes, you, don't turn around, you know who I'm talking to -- you, break into that guy's house and steal some wood back. Also, how does a lumberjack not have enough wood?! Just go out with your axe and make it happen! Ugh...

 

[Commodore]

I am taking a bit of a break from X3 (thanks Tim for getting me hooked on that game BTW) to go back and actually finish Fallout: New Vegas. I started over and redesigned my character to specialize in sniping, but with minimal "social graces" (meaning low charisma and low intelligence). I have been using a modified Varmint Rifle to great effect so far, but I just found the Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle and now I am virtually untouchable. I haven't decided how I am going to side with yet, but I am leaning towards the NCR for this playthrough.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I played it for a few hours but I can't say it hooked me. I mean, for the time I was playing it it was kind of fun, but it doesn't make me want to play it again. I guess my problem is I don't really know why nothing's happening in my village! Like when one family steals all the wood and everyone else freezes. It's like, just put some back. Or you there, you, -- yes, you, don't turn around, you know who I'm talking to -- you, break into that guy's house and steal some wood back. Also, how does a lumberjack not have enough wood?! Just go out with your axe and make it happen! Ugh...

Strange, I haven't had anything like that happen. I've started using a mod that slows aging to 1 year per year, which I think has some unintended effects. Like, nobody's died in 35 years. The game's difficulty settings don't seem to do anything beyond your starting position, so even though I have disasters enabled, they happen only once in a blue moon. I'm also trying Colonial Charter, which adds a whole lot of stuff.

I am taking a bit of a break from X3 (thanks Tim for getting me hooked on that game BTW) to go back and actually finish Fallout: New Vegas. I started over and redesigned my character to specialize in sniping, but with minimal "social graces" (meaning low charisma and low intelligence). I have been using a modified Varmint Rifle to great effect so far, but I just found the Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle and now I am virtually untouchable. I haven't decided how I am going to side with yet, but I am leaning towards the NCR for this playthrough.

Playing the stealthy sniper is basically God Mode in that game, and the Gobi gun is excellent. You'll need a few mines and a backup gun, like a 10mm SMG or a plasma pistol, but you'll handle almost anything.

For some reason, PC games can't figure out how to balance snipers properly. If PC games were to be believed, every modern army should consist mainly of snipers in ghillie suits. The other night in Far Cry 3, I took out twelve guys about as fast as I could aim and fire. I've never served in the military, but I'm pretty sure that's not how things really are.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I am melee. And considering making an unarmed 9 luck character later on, because why not.

 

[Farm Boy]

For some reason, PC games can't figure out how to balance snipers properly.

There is difficulty now that games are usually designed both for consoles and PC. What is balanced with analog stick input is not necessarily balanced with mouse input, particularly amongst the hardcore pvp gaming crowd. Not that it was balanced before the port-o-matic 9000 games.

 

[Commodore]

Playing the stealthy sniper is basically God Mode in that game, and the Gobi gun is excellent. You'll need a few mines and a backup gun, like a 10mm SMG or a plasma pistol, but you'll handle almost anything.

Right now I have a Service Rifle as my backup weapon, but so far whenever an enemy gets too close for sniping (usually in an indoor environment) I just use VATS with my Gobi rifle to take care of them. It's worked like a charm so far.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Snipers being overpowered has such a long history in gaming it might as well be a cardinal rule. I played Counter Strike not very long after it first came out and even then sniper rifles were OP, everyone always complained about the "AWP whores".

 

[Phrossack]

Right now I have a Service Rifle as my backup weapon, but so far whenever an enemy gets too close for sniping (usually in an indoor environment) I just use VATS with my Gobi rifle to take care of them. It's worked like a charm so far.

I've never bothered much with sniper rifles in New Vegas. They tend to be fragile and not that good for close range. The Survivalist's Rifle and the All-American, on the other hand, are killing machines able to handle combat at any range. Or a fully-upgraded laser rifle with tons of laser-centric perks, if I'm playing an Energy Weapons build.

 

[Farm Boy]

Snipers being overpowered has such a long history in gaming it might as well be a cardinal rule. I played Counter Strike not very long after it first came out and even then sniper rifles were OP, everyone always complained about the "AWP whores".

Back when I had the ping of a university student and the reaction times of a 19 year old it was more than worth it to see the fear on the other team that came from the nearly silent headshot of a scout rifle when they were all packing AWPs. Pump shotgun kills had a similar effect on enemies rounding corners.

 

[SamSniped]

Snipers being overpowered has such a long history in gaming it might as well be a cardinal rule. I played Counter Strike not very long after it first came out and even then sniper rifles were OP, everyone always complained about the "AWP whores".

They merely had the AWPer hand in the game.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Back when I had the ping of a university student and the reaction times of a 19 year old it was more than worth it to see the fear on the other team that came from the nearly silent headshot of a scout rifle when they were all packing AWPs. Pump shotgun kills had a similar effect on enemies rounding corners.

The pump shotgun was my favorite weapon. Pretty cheap too which allowed me to splurge on the big machine gun every now and then. I was not a smart man, all of the least effective weapons in the game ended up being my favorites.

 

[Farm Boy]

Pump shotgun worked, but not on every map. Once people had enough cash for Kevlar most rounds you needed to start aiming for the legs. Used it more than anything else. It wasn't glock bad.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

I liked the glock

 

[Farm Boy]

CS hipster.