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True, but they are franchises now.
I'm playing through Fallout: New Vegas again, this time with a bunch of mods enabled. I'd forgotten how big that game is compared to FO3. I like FO3 more, but New Vegas seems to have more content.
I need to pick up some new games while I'm in the States.
The only mod I usually throw in is a SR-25 and my own bunker on FONV. That way I have a place to actually store stuff.
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I'd do BF4 with you guys but between AC4, XCOM Enemy Within and State of Decay combined with work and finals coming up, I'm a bit swamped as it is. Have only now gotten to be able to play some XCOM with this nice holiday weekend.
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My live gamertag is Poko1238, yeah I know its retarded but its an old nickname. Feel free to shoot me a friend request or Ill shoot you one either way.
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How is BF4 guys?
Most of you probably don't play strategy games, bit for those who do:
Do not buy Total War: Rome II unless it is on sale, preferably with a deep discount (I picked up mine for 50% off). They are already up to Patch 7 with 8 AND 9 in development. In some respects it is way better than TW: Shogun II, but in others it fails. The combat scenes are bad and the campaign map has several painful bugs and crashes. The battle UI is arguably worse than in previous installments. Later I'll post a video with another guy's critique for those interested.
It will probably be a great game if they work out the kinks.
Is it me, or do games feel like you're paying $60 for a Beta?
Do not buy Total War: Rome II unless it is on sale, preferably with a deep discount (I picked up mine for 50% off). They are already up to Patch 7 with 8 AND 9 in development. In some respects it is way better than TW: Shogun II, but in others it fails. The combat scenes are bad and the campaign map has several painful bugs and crashes. The battle UI is arguably worse than in previous installments. Later I'll post a video with another guy's critique for those interested.
It will probably be a great game if they work out the kinks.
Is it me, or do games feel like you're paying $60 for a Beta?
I'm in TW: Rome II I agree, lots of crashes and bugs. There are several parts of the new version that I like over the old ones. For example, the limitation on number of armies you can field and the standing garrisons. The original was all about who could build "stacks of doom" the fastest. This one at least has some strategic limitations.
On the down side, I have one city, Medlhun, that every single battle takes forever to manually control because it pauses every time a scorpion shoots an arrow/bolt. I got in a situation where the nearby faction was attacking it every round with one or two units against my fully equipped army. It took like half an hour to kill them off each round, and when I finally got to the point where I just hit automatic, they ran my army off like it wasn't even there. Very painful.
and yes, you are paying $60 for a beta. Games get to market as fast as they can, just like many other types of software, and worry about fixing bugs in later releases. Any time you buy a new release game, you are pretty much paying to be in the public beta.
The video I mentioned. 37 minutes long, but the guy does a really good job with it. Not just his examples and critiques, but he's entertaining as well. Heads up, it is NSFW.
I was against the army limit at first, but I've grown to like it. The meat of the game though are the battles and they are so bad I auto-resolve and even that lacks a method to the madness. It seems arbitrary at times as to who will win and why. Naval combat is covered very well in the video. I tried his "fleet of plebes" idea and sadly it works well until the late game....if you can make it that far. I'm at a point where it crashes every other turn.
Spies and champions are quite effective, but I haven't found much of a use for diplomats. Art imitating life of late it seems....
The whole "public beta" concept is why I rarely buy new games anymore. I usually wait for a sale on Steam. Civ 5 took far too many patches to work well, Rome II is up to 7 with many glaring failures left, Hearts of Iron 3 is a great game now...after a year of public beta. I'm glad Steam finally opened up an Amazon-style user review section because that's saved me from making a purchase or two. I look forward to some games, but if I pay full price I'll still wait a week or two.
I was against the army limit at first, but I've grown to like it. The meat of the game though are the battles and they are so bad I auto-resolve and even that lacks a method to the madness. It seems arbitrary at times as to who will win and why. Naval combat is covered very well in the video. I tried his "fleet of plebes" idea and sadly it works well until the late game....if you can make it that far. I'm at a point where it crashes every other turn.
Spies and champions are quite effective, but I haven't found much of a use for diplomats. Art imitating life of late it seems....
The whole "public beta" concept is why I rarely buy new games anymore. I usually wait for a sale on Steam. Civ 5 took far too many patches to work well, Rome II is up to 7 with many glaring failures left, Hearts of Iron 3 is a great game now...after a year of public beta. I'm glad Steam finally opened up an Amazon-style user review section because that's saved me from making a purchase or two. I look forward to some games, but if I pay full price I'll still wait a week or two.
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Wow...that was a really good, entertaining an detailed review.
pretty good critique. I've run into the single combat issue a few times. I had a battle where I had pretty much my whole army left and the AI had his General. Heavy pikes in a square formation against a screaming horde of swords and skirmishers broken into three groups to attack from three sides at the same time (he was backed up against the sea). The pikes won because the horde would only attack 1 on 1. I'd have one of his guys surrounded by 10 of mine and my guys would sit there and take him on one at a time. He won that battle... 68 v 620 and he killed them all, only losing one of his guys before mine all ran away.
As for diplomats, I use them as assassins and not much else. They run around the map killing off Generals with more than one star (Rank 2+). They do a pretty good job of killing off generals without instantly setting you to war with the faction, even on a critical failure. Spies and Champions need to be nerfed. I was in a war with two factions and they both sent their entire set of spies and champs to one town and repeatedly burnt it. Even after I finally got rid of the unending siege of arsonists, it still took another 20 turns for the town to get back to normal.
As for diplomats, I use them as assassins and not much else. They run around the map killing off Generals with more than one star (Rank 2+). They do a pretty good job of killing off generals without instantly setting you to war with the faction, even on a critical failure. Spies and Champions need to be nerfed. I was in a war with two factions and they both sent their entire set of spies and champs to one town and repeatedly burnt it. Even after I finally got rid of the unending siege of arsonists, it still took another 20 turns for the town to get back to normal.
I've been playing a lot of Napoleon lately (with Darth Mod). Rome II doesn't appeal since it seems that every release TCA seem to fuck things up even more than the last game...
STO's got bugs.... but at least it's free... lol
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Did you ever get a chance to pick BF4 up? Great game, I am also addicted to Breach&Clear on the iPod/iPad!
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Not yet...wanting to though
Joining the early access on this one, looks great, but problems with the kiddies wanting to kill everyone they see even though coop is the way to go.
