What Video Games Have You Been Playing, Part 10: Or; A Shameful Display!

[Synobun]

Uninstalling Far Cry 2 just starts the game. Funny joke, Ubisoft.

 

[cardgame]

I had some amazing games of 11 table tennis with someone else who just bought the game minutes ago. We are very evenly matched

 

[Ajidica]

Far Cry 2 is more of a Driving While Being Shot At By Men In Technicals Simulator than anything resembling an actually fun video game so far.

Hey, I enjoyed the game. It actually is the reason I got interesting in African politics (and Cold War Africa in specific).
But yeah, the game has problems. As @EgonSpengler noted, the game can't decide whether it wants to be an open world RPG or a straight FPS, to its everlasting detriment. It has a good soundtrack, environments that are still beautiful, and a great sense of realism.

I've been playing Divinity OS 2 lately in my first playthrough of the Definitive Edition, and I got to say, it took an already excellent game and made it even better. Tweaks to skills and talents help flesh out the number of viable character builds, and overall things got rebalanced so they aren't quite as swingy. I'm actually looking forward to Act 2 now. In the past it was subject to a really nasty power spike, but it was evened out apparently.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I had some amazing games of 11 table tennis with someone else who just bought the game minutes ago. We are very evenly matched

Bought the game minutes ago...so, equally terrible?

 

[Takhisis]

Uninstalling Far Cry 2 just starts the game. Funny joke, Ubisoft.

Given that you're using Windows, isn't there an ‘uninstall program’ option somewhere in Windows' lack-of-control panel?

 

[cardgame]

Bought the game minutes ago...so, equally terrible?

Precisely! And by playing together I figured out a wicked cut-serve and he is getting the hang of the fastball serve and spike.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Anybody played Lords of the Fallen? Reviews seem to fall into two categories, with the largest being "ugh, this isn't Dark Souls, I want my money back," and the smaller group being "urinate on the Dark Souls fan bois, this is a great game." That set of reviews inclines me to think that if you don't have some nostalgia driven wrong expectations it's probably pretty good, and for under five bucks it seems hard to go wrong. Still, I already probably own more games that I've never played than games that I have, and it seems like really if I got rid of everything but Civ IV and X3 I'd still be set for life, so even at five bucks I'm a hard sell.

But if someone I know says it's great I'll likely buy it.

 

[Ajidica]

Anybody played Lords of the Fallen? Reviews seem to fall into two categories, with the largest being "ugh, this isn't Dark Souls, I want my money back," and the smaller group being "urinate on the Dark Souls fan bois, this is a great game." That set of reviews inclines me to think that if you don't have some nostalgia driven wrong expectations it's probably pretty good, and for under five bucks it seems hard to go wrong. Still, I already probably own more games that I've never played than games that I have, and it seems like really if I got rid of everything but Civ IV and X3 I'd still be set for life, so even at five bucks I'm a hard sell.

Never played it, but a friend did and his takeaway was basically if you like Dark Souls, you'll like Lords of the Fallen. It isn't a great game, but nothing hideously bad about it.

 

[Synobun]

It's OK. I played it at a friend's. Buggy, mediocre. Maybe it's worth $5, depending on how you value time vs. money. I was pretty done with it after an hour and a half.

 

[Dachs]

The starting position in the "Europe" campaign looks really messy, too many generals and not enough units. I'm thinking the best move initially might be to defend France's borders in Europe while staking everything on landing Napoleon in England with a full stack. Should be easy to avoid the Royal Navy, the problem I'm anticipating is constant revolt from the English population tying up my forces there and leading to problems on the Continent as Prussia declares war a few turns into the campaign.

If anyone has played Napoleon I'm curious to hear how you approached the European campaign. As it's my first playthrough of the game I'm playing on Normal battle difficulty and Hard campaign difficulty.

I also killed the British first. If you like, you can puppet them to avoid having to garrison the island.

Like @cardgame says, you can create a barrier of puppet states to shield your own borders from attack and dramatically reduce your garrison requirements. Only issue, of course, is that those territories are no longer potentially productive provinces for you, although they do still count as owned provinces for the purpose of conquest requirements. I went with annexing everything OTL French Empire annexed and turning everything else into puppets, but you can obviously go much further than that if you like.

 

[Lexicus]

It doesn't seem possible to both garrison conquered territory enough to prevent rebellions and be able to fight the enemy in the field. Same problem I had playing Empire as Prussia: it seemed impossible to make any conquests stick.

 

[cardgame]

You don't need to gobble gobble gobble, just take it a bit slower. You are already the strongest faction in the game, might as well give Russia a chance to mobilize something.

 

[Dachs]

It doesn't seem possible to both garrison conquered territory enough to prevent rebellions and be able to fight the enemy in the field. Same problem I had playing Empire as Prussia: it seemed impossible to make any conquests stick.

That's mostly true of larger territories like London, Vienna, Berlin and so on. (Which makes them excellent candidates for puppeting - so long as they're the last territory remaining to the enemy.) Smaller ones are relatively easy to take and hold.

 

[Lexicus]

Does transporting troops by sea work similarly to older TW games, ie, one ship can transport a full stack of land units?

 

[Phrossack]

In Fall of the Samurai, my Kotetsu ships are eating enemy wooden ships alive with their glorious high-explosive shells. Everything burns and dies under their iron gaze, then pops like a firecracker.

I love it.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I had a strange game of Civilization VI. I was playing as Australia. The nearest city state was Toronto. My closest neighbour was England, who was constantly declaring war on me. My closest ally was Scotland.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I had a strange game of Civilization VI. I was playing as Australia. The nearest city state was Toronto. My closest neighbour was England, who was constantly declaring war on me. My closest ally was Scotland.

As a neutral observer, I like to just sit back with a beer and sandwich whenever England and Australia go to war.

Spoiler :

 

[Lexicus]

I had a strange game of Civilization VI. I was playing as Australia. The nearest city state was Toronto. My closest neighbour was England, who was constantly declaring war on me. My closest ally was Scotland.

Is Scotland actually in the game or is that modded in?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Is Scotland actually in the game or is that modded in?

Scotland / Robert the Bruce was included in Rise & Fall. They build golf courses.

 

[Lexicus]

Scotland / Robert the Bruce was included in Rise & Fall. They build golf courses.

And - let me guess - still one civilization each for "India", "China," and so on.