What video games have you been playing V: the return of the subtitle

[GoodSarmatian]

Interesting. If I get a computer able to handle it, I'll have to try it. The German version could be good practice, at least.

The requirements are slightly higher than in Skyrim, but really quite low for 2016. Of course, it doesn't look like a 2016 game.

I'm really surprised at how professional it feels. It's really a new game that just happens to share the same engine, some assets and some game mechanics with Skyrim.
You level up after gaining enough xp from combat, exploration and quests. You get perks and skill points, but you also need skill books to increase skills.

Spoiler :

Reminds me of Gothic when it was still good. Even the combat feels a bit different. Like it's faster. Healing magic and potions increase whats called arcanist fever and works like radiation in Fallout: first debuffs and eventually death unless removed with expensive potions. Food has no drawbacks, but only heals outside of combat. Prolonged heal spamming in battle is really not an option.

There's also no normal fast travel, but you can buy scrolls of teleportation to cities, or pay for a trip with these things that basically work like silt striders in Morrowind.

Spoiler :

Everybody who owns Skyrim and speaks German should download Enderal now. Everybody who owns Skyrim and doesn't speak German should download it when the english version is finished.

 

[Arakhor]

I never did play Nehrim either. That's probably something I should do eventually.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I never did play Nehrim either. That's probably something I should do eventually.

I never played Nehrim either because I could never really get into Obliovion. Enderal is the sequel, but so far the story is really easy to follow either way.

 

[Arakhor]

I played Oblivion a lot, but never Nehrim sadly. Maybe I should try it out some time.

 

[Lexicus]

I've just downloaded Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts, which I haven't played in some long while. I took advantage of the Steam sale to get another account to get them on, so I can play them online with my little brother which will be awesome because I moved to DC and we don't get to play games anymore.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm, Lemon's back.

 

[Omega124]

I've just downloaded Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts, which I haven't played in some long while. I took advantage of the Steam sale to get another account to get them on, so I can play them online with my little brother which will be awesome because I moved to DC and we don't get to play games anymore.

Still extending my offer to play CoH 1 or 2 with anyone who is interested.

 

[Lexicus]

I'd be down, I'm real rusty at Opposing Fronts though (me and by brother couldn't win a 2v2 against expert AIs last night). Steam acct is AshleySchafferBMW.

 

[cardgame]

I picked up CoH 2 in the steam sale, and I really suck at it. Would love to play some co op against ai omega

 

[Omega124]

KK. My steam name is GG.順子

 

[Phrossack]

Playing some MP M&B: Warband. Did pretty okay.

 

[jackelgull]

Have just gotten Victoria2, and so far I like this game, although playing as Germany, the constant DoWs from France over Alsace Lorraine have gotten annoying. That said it's not like I haven't gotten anything out of them. Since the Netherlands was a French ally (an oversight on my part, but I digress) and I did really well against them, I decided to take their Indonesian colonies as punishment. I think German oil problems are secure for the future, although I find this game's economic model kind of unrealistic in that it doesn't model the mercantile economic policies of the period very well. Part of the problem is that it is almost 100% a bad idea to raise tariffs, since it raises the tariffs for everything, even the things which you want to be imported cheaply (AKA demands your nation can't meet domestically). And then dear god being Japan and trying to conquer your way to westernization can be a nightmare when the demand for clipper convoys spike. The imperial navy for most of your primitive existence will consist of four boats sitting in the harbor at 5%. When I finally westernized, after building the basic factories (Cement, steel, glass, and fabric) I built a clipper shipyard, may it serve the needs of the IJN well.

 

[Ajidica]

I've been playing vanilla Medieval 2 as the HRE and I forgot how tedious empire management became once you got a lot of provinces. I have more cash than I know what to do with and my limiting factor is how many family members I have for my armies that don't have terrible loyalty who I'd rather not give a full stack of Armored Sergeants, Feudal Knights, Teutonic Knights, and Pavise Crossbows to.
France and Milan continued the proud CA tradition of absolutely braindead AI. I handily beat France in every single battle, have thirty more provinces then them (and they are good ones too, all of Northern Italy) and me offering a ceasefire gets it thrown in my face for being "Very Demanding" - even when I include an offering of 10k gold.
Poland and Hungary are getting uppity and keep invading me, but I'm loath to destroy them until the Mongols come as I'm planning to use them as a speedbump. Then I'll conquer them.

I will say empire management is a lot nicer in Attila with provinces and in-field replenishment. I no longer have 30+ single unit armies heading back to get retrained or top up the full army.
I think the combat AI is better in Attila. In Attila the AI has actually managed to execute a couple half-decent flank charges and threatened encirclements that gave me a moderately decent battle (although that could be because the ERE gets crap cavalry at the start). M2 AI hasn't really gotten the hang of things and seems to believe that sending Genoese Crossbows and catapults to take on a shock cavalry heavy army is a good idea. (Around 40 dead Teutonic Knights, dead Milanese army. I'd call that a fair trade.)

 

[Phrossack]

I've been playing vanilla Medieval 2 as the HRE and I forgot how tedious empire management became once you got a lot of provinces. I have more cash than I know what to do with and my limiting factor is how many family members I have for my armies that don't have terrible loyalty who I'd rather not give a full stack of Armored Sergeants, Feudal Knights, Teutonic Knights, and Pavise Crossbows to.
France and Milan continued the proud CA tradition of absolutely braindead AI. I handily beat France in every single battle, have thirty more provinces then them (and they are good ones too, all of Northern Italy) and me offering a ceasefire gets it thrown in my face for being "Very Demanding" - even when I include an offering of 10k gold.
Poland and Hungary are getting uppity and keep invading me, but I'm loath to destroy them until the Mongols come as I'm planning to use them as a speedbump. Then I'll conquer them.

I will say empire management is a lot nicer in Attila with provinces and in-field replenishment. I no longer have 30+ single unit armies heading back to get retrained or top up the full army.
I think the combat AI is better in Attila. In Attila the AI has actually managed to execute a couple half-decent flank charges and threatened encirclements that gave me a moderately decent battle (although that could be because the ERE gets crap cavalry at the start). M2 AI hasn't really gotten the hang of things and seems to believe that sending Genoese Crossbows and catapults to take on a shock cavalry heavy army is a good idea. (Around 40 dead Teutonic Knights, dead Milanese army. I'd call that a fair trade.)

Ah, I remember those days. Through careful recruitment and construction, I got the guild headquarters for the Swordsmiths, Horse Breeders, and Teutonic Knights. Add a Master Armorer and the highest level jousting field, and I could recruit multiple units of gold-chevron Teutonic Knights with full plate and upgraded weapons. They were unstoppable.

And this being a Total War game, everyone hates you all the time and will attack for no reason until you have conquered them.

When I get large numbers of elderly, disloyal, incompetent, or otherwise less than useful generals, I like combining them into a single army that I call the Wild Bunch. I throw them at every enemy field army in sight, figuring that they'll eliminate my enemies or die trying, which is a win-win, really. And since it's an army of general's bodyguards, it hits like a tsunami.

 

[Snerk]

Anybody played Verdun? Is it good? Battlefield 1 had given me a hankering for some WW1 action. But on closer inspected, BF1 seems to have very little to do with WWI. Seems more like Dice made a game that is a WW1 skin for BF4. Which is very disappointing.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

So this weekend I decided to start a couple of new Skyrim games, essentially just to mess around with the character creation options. After I'd done so I discovered that the save file for my main character that I've had for about 4 years now no longer exists. So yeah... that was fun. Never playing that game again I guess.

 

[Arakhor]

Not that it helps you now of course, but I backed up all my Oblivion saves from years back so that I could restore them when I wished. Maybe look into doing that in future?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I know. I don't really back anything up and in the even of a hard drive crash I realise I'll be rather vexed to say the least. But still, I've never known another game to randomly overwrite hard saves at will like that. Bit annoying, but 2 days have passed now and I think I'm over it

 

[Arakhor]

Fair enough. My most common source of saves failing is changing my mod set-up, so those lovingly-archived saves from 5-8 years back are almost entirely useless anyway.

 

[cardgame]

Verdun is fun, kind of janky controls and weak movement system, and the trench fighting often devolves into camping/sniping (bolt actions) so just know what to expect going in. Watch a gameplay video on YT and see if it's your kind of thing. Extremely different from say BF 1942.