Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (6 Viewers)

[Bishop]

I just won the Stanley Cup in NHL '94 with the Hartford Whalers. It took most of the morning but I finally did it!!

 

[The Tick]

I just finished up Bioshock this weekend. As everyone said it was a good game and i really enjoyed it. The only problem was my fault in that I played it at easy, and it was just too easy, yet i still never turned it up. Really enjoyed the story though.

Looking for what I want to dig into next, and am thinking about running through some of the storylines in The Old Republic. I've never done an MMO before, and really am not interested in the MMOness of it, but thought it may be fun to just run through some of the storylines in there to get some star wars fun. Anyone done much with this game, is it worth playing for a bit? Any suggestions on your favorite class storylines?

Yea, we shoulda warned you - Bioshock is easy on hard so that sorta sucks.

I'm almost sure I could have wrenched the final guy to death...

 

[Insein]

I just finished up Bioshock this weekend. As everyone said it was a good game and i really enjoyed it. The only problem was my fault in that I played it at easy, and it was just too easy, yet i still never turned it up. Really enjoyed the story though.

Looking for what I want to dig into next, and am thinking about running through some of the storylines in The Old Republic. I've never done an MMO before, and really am not interested in the MMOness of it, but thought it may be fun to just run through some of the storylines in there to get some star wars fun. Anyone done much with this game, is it worth playing for a bit? Any suggestions on your favorite class storylines?

Yea, we shoulda warned you - Bioshock is easy on hard so that sorta sucks.

I'm almost sure I could have wrenched the final guy to death...

With the plasmid that ejects lightning on opponents when you're hit, you could have.

 

[Buckna]

Finished Episode 3-5 of the The Walking Dead game based on the comic. Really excellent writing and use of atmospere that got better as the game went, such a great story. I hesitate to call it a game as others have said, really more of a point and click or chose your own adventure type novel. The ending is open ended as well so really looking forward to the "2nd" season slated for later this year.

Some buddies got Dead Island: Riptide and are trying to convince me to play some co-op with them. Anybody played it? The first was a disappointment and almost unplayable on single player, but co-op wasn't as bad.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Just finished Mass Effect. A little clunky on the interface, particularly managing inventory and driving the Mako but still a very, very cool game. On to ME2

Was off for my brithday and spent about 8 hours on it today. Knocked out a lot of the storylines. Well, mostly loyalty missions and recruitment. I'm recruiting Tali now, the planet where your brain fries like an egg when you go out in the sun. Seems like it is going to be a pain.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Diablo III is up for presale now for the PS3.

This article talks about the presale and has a good video with a lot of game play footage. Looks fun!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/29/pre-order-diablo-iii-on-ps3-get-a-free-helmet?abthid=517eea61731aab3e0100002d

 

[NewlyRetired]

Dragons Dogma has been re-released as kind of a GOTY type edition.

Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen contains the original game, new equipment and gear, the new Dark Arisen content and a bunch of enhancements to game mechanics, menu systems etc.

Being sold for $37 on Amazon.

 

[Chaka]

Wow, ME2 is big. Played 5 hours and haven't even left the first system.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

 

[TxBuckeye]

Wow, ME2 is big. Played 5 hours and haven't even left the first system.

There doesn't seem to be as many systems as in ME1, to me anyways. I notice if I take my time going somewhere, I'll usually have a stack of missions when I get there. For instance, I have yet to make it to the Citadel and have at least half a dozen tasks to do when I finally get there. Loyalty missions, recruitments, side quests. The only annoying thing is most times, when you complete one, it kicks you back to the ship. So you have to dock again and start from square one. Oh, and I am over 20 hours in and feel like I haven't really touched the main story.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Beyond: Two Souls has been entered in the Tribeca Film Festival.

My, how far games have come. I'm really looking forward to that one.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

:SUBSCRIBE:

That's so awesome. Keep this up because that game is too hard for me.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

:SUBSCRIBE:

That's so awesome. Keep this up because that game is too hard for me.

Between the in game tutorial and a you tube new player series profiled on the Steam community page, it helps to understand things enough to get started.

Still learning thigns and their are many intricacies concerning strategies that I'm sure I'm still oblivious too but I've got the basic gist of it now.

 

[5Rings]

Wow, ME2 is big. Played 5 hours and haven't even left the first system.

There doesn't seem to be as many systems as in ME1, to me anyways. I notice if I take my time going somewhere, I'll usually have a stack of missions when I get there. For instance, I have yet to make it to the Citadel and have at least half a dozen tasks to do when I finally get there. Loyalty missions, recruitments, side quests. The only annoying thing is most times, when you complete one, it kicks you back to the ship. So you have to dock again and start from square one. Oh, and I am over 20 hours in and feel like I haven't really touched the main story.

The Citadel was my last stop before going after the Reapers. I recruited my crew and finished all the loyalty quests first, fwiw. I put a ton of time into ME2.

I got tired of the dang Mako lookin for rocks in ME1, but the planetary scans in ME2 is maddening. If you get to a "Poor" planet, do a real quick scan just to make sure there is not an Anomaly / side quest to do.

BTW--Chapter 29 in GOW Ascension is brutally tough. I spent an hour getting killed and quit. Never happened in GOW before. Then I read last night that they had a patch to fix the known difficulty issue on that part. Huh. GOW is always fun.

 

[TxBuckeye]

5Rings, on 01 May 2013 - 15:27, said:The Citadel was my last stop before going after the Reapers. I recruited my crew and finished all the loyalty quests first, fwiw. I put a ton of time into ME2. I got tired of the dang Mako lookin for rocks in ME1, but the planetary scans in ME2 is maddening. If you get to a "Poor" planet, do a real quick scan just to make sure there is not an Anomaly / side quest to do.

That's where I am. I finished the Tali mission and, as before, after recruiting three squad members, it forced me to do a main quest. So I had to do the one where you board the Collector's ship. Finished it up, then got the mission to go get the IFF. I chose the option to recruit more members so that I could go do the laundry list of things at the Citadel. By the way, I hate those floating crab things the Collector's have. I always try to go toe to toe and die a few times. Then I remember, move and strafe, duck for cover to recouperate, then go back at it. Eats a ton of ammo though.

 

[jwb]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

:SUBSCRIBE:

That's so awesome. Keep this up because that game is too hard for me.

Between the in game tutorial and a you tube new player series profiled on the Steam community page, it helps to understand things enough to get started.

Still learning thigns and their are many intricacies concerning strategies that I'm sure I'm still oblivious too but I've got the basic gist of it now.

I have found the key to games like this is to do exactly what you are doing - make your own story as you go, and set reasonable goals.

These types of games (Paradox makes this one, right?) are not your typical "conquer" type games.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

2nd Generation Duke started off his reign a little rough. He threw a Grand Hunt after his father's death because his father had thrown one every year where he wasn't at war. Unfortunately, in charging after a giant wolf to get a trophy he was maimed and crippled. A few months later while trying to pursue increasing his learning, he decided to take on the bulding of a flying machine. That didn't go so well either.

He recovered from that and was able to wrest control of two additional counties including one that was controlled by the only other Welch Duke. He now has enough counties to be able to form the Kingdom of Wales but if far short on the funds necessary. At one point his spymaster uncovered a plot by his eldest son's wife to have him killed. Although his son was not at fault, the guy was not the most talented in the world so when his spymaster also uncovered a plot by his 2nd eldest to kill the eldest son, he truned a blind eye. Now the Dynasty is set to go into much more competent hands.

Also interestingly enough, the son of the 21 year old that the first Duke had an affair with right before his death (not his son however) has grown up to be a prodigy. Talents and skills are off the chart. He's currently chancellor and probably like 10th in line for the throne, but good for the gene pool.

Since he's aging and unlikely to live much longer due to his hunting accident, I have him now focusing on building up the economic infrastructure so that hopefully his son can realize the first Duke's dream of a united Kingdon of Wales.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

:SUBSCRIBE:

That's so awesome. Keep this up because that game is too hard for me.

Between the in game tutorial and a you tube new player series profiled on the Steam community page, it helps to understand things enough to get started.

Still learning thigns and their are many intricacies concerning strategies that I'm sure I'm still oblivious too but I've got the basic gist of it now.

I have found the key to games like this is to do exactly what you are doing - make your own story as you go, and set reasonable goals.

These types of games (Paradox makes this one, right?) are not your typical "conquer" type games.

It is Paradox. You don't have to necessarily create your own story. The game does quite well at introducing lots of fun mini plots and twists.

 

[NCCommish]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

2nd Generation Duke started off his reign a little rough. He threw a Grand Hunt after his father's death because his father had thrown one every year where he wasn't at war. Unfortunately, in charging after a giant wolf to get a trophy he was maimed and crippled. A few months later while trying to pursue increasing his learning, he decided to take on the bulding of a flying machine. That didn't go so well either.

He recovered from that and was able to wrest control of two additional counties including one that was controlled by the only other Welch Duke. He now has enough counties to be able to form the Kingdom of Wales but if far short on the funds necessary. At one point his spymaster uncovered a plot by his eldest son's wife to have him killed. Although his son was not at fault, the guy was not the most talented in the world so when his spymaster also uncovered a plot by his 2nd eldest to kill the eldest son, he truned a blind eye. Now the Dynasty is set to go into much more competent hands.

Also interestingly enough, the son of the 21 year old that the first Duke had an affair with right before his death (not his son however) has grown up to be a prodigy. Talents and skills are off the chart. He's currently chancellor and probably like 10th in line for the throne, but good for the gene pool.

Since he's aging and unlikely to live much longer due to his hunting accident, I have him now focusing on building up the economic infrastructure so that hopefully his son can realize the first Duke's dream of a united Kingdon of Wales.

I had never heard of this game before but now my interest is definitely piqued.

 

[Drifter]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

2nd Generation Duke started off his reign a little rough. He threw a Grand Hunt after his father's death because his father had thrown one every year where he wasn't at war. Unfortunately, in charging after a giant wolf to get a trophy he was maimed and crippled. A few months later while trying to pursue increasing his learning, he decided to take on the bulding of a flying machine. That didn't go so well either.

He recovered from that and was able to wrest control of two additional counties including one that was controlled by the only other Welch Duke. He now has enough counties to be able to form the Kingdom of Wales but if far short on the funds necessary. At one point his spymaster uncovered a plot by his eldest son's wife to have him killed. Although his son was not at fault, the guy was not the most talented in the world so when his spymaster also uncovered a plot by his 2nd eldest to kill the eldest son, he truned a blind eye. Now the Dynasty is set to go into much more competent hands.

Also interestingly enough, the son of the 21 year old that the first Duke had an affair with right before his death (not his son however) has grown up to be a prodigy. Talents and skills are off the chart. He's currently chancellor and probably like 10th in line for the throne, but good for the gene pool.

Since he's aging and unlikely to live much longer due to his hunting accident, I have him now focusing on building up the economic infrastructure so that hopefully his son can realize the first Duke's dream of a united Kingdon of Wales.

Oh - and the bolden above was the beeyatch who was planning to kill the 2nd Duke so her husband could take over

 

[E Street Brat]

Help please.

I have a Gateway FX 6840-15E

i7-870

In order to run triple monitors I upgraded to a 750 watt psu and replaced the 5750 gpu with a 5850.

I'd like to run a 4th monitor off of the onboard graphics but I don't know how to enable it.

I know its in the BIOS but I've never dicked around with that stuff.

TIA

Good lord.

Got it!

I bought a USB Graphics adapter from Amazon. After a little tweaking in Eyefinity it's working like a champ.

 

[Mad Cow]

Help please.

I have a Gateway FX 6840-15E

i7-870

In order to run triple monitors I upgraded to a 750 watt psu and replaced the 5750 gpu with a 5850.

I'd like to run a 4th monitor off of the onboard graphics but I don't know how to enable it.

I know its in the BIOS but I've never dicked around with that stuff.

TIA

Good lord.

Got it!

I bought a USB Graphics adapter from Amazon. After a little tweaking in Eyefinity it's working like a champ.

Help please.

I have a Gateway FX 6840-15E

i7-870

In order to run triple monitors I upgraded to a 750 watt psu and replaced the 5750 gpu with a 5850.

I'd like to run a 4th monitor off of the onboard graphics but I don't know how to enable it.

I know its in the BIOS but I've never dicked around with that stuff.

TIA

Good lord.

Got it!

I bought a USB Graphics adapter from Amazon. After a little tweaking in Eyefinity it's working like a champ.

Why on earth do you want 4? I have a 3 X 28" LCD setup at home and that is plenty for me. The 4th is going to be desktop capable only, anyway, with a USB adapter.

 

[E Street Brat]

Help please.

I have a Gateway FX 6840-15E

i7-870

In order to run triple monitors I upgraded to a 750 watt psu and replaced the 5750 gpu with a 5850.

I'd like to run a 4th monitor off of the onboard graphics but I don't know how to enable it.

I know its in the BIOS but I've never dicked around with that stuff.

TIA

Good lord.

Got it!

I bought a USB Graphics adapter from Amazon. After a little tweaking in Eyefinity it's working like a champ.

>>

Help please.

I have a Gateway FX 6840-15E

i7-870

In order to run triple monitors I upgraded to a 750 watt psu and replaced the 5750 gpu with a 5850.

I'd like to run a 4th monitor off of the onboard graphics but I don't know how to enable it.

I know its in the BIOS but I've never dicked around with that stuff.

TIA

Good lord.

Got it!

I bought a USB Graphics adapter from Amazon. After a little tweaking in Eyefinity it's working like a champ.

Why on earth do you want 4? I have a 3 X 28" LCD setup at home and that is plenty for me. The 4th is going to be desktop capable only, anyway, with a USB adapter.

I wanted it for iraicing. Not for regular gaming.

I have 3x1x 23 inchers for the simulator and the 4th is on top to run a timing/scoring/telemetry program

It looks like this, http://http://www.sim-racing.co.uk/images/3+1monitors-on-obutto-sim-racing-rig.jpg minus the Obutto. My next project is buying a bucket seat from something small and sporty like a Mazda MX3 and build a pvc cockpit.

Stupid links

http://www.sim-racing.co.uk/images/3+1monitors-on-obutto-sim-racing-rig.jpg

 

[WampusCat43]

Anyone who enjoys turn-based strategy games might like Eador. It's $20 on Steam and is basically HOMM on steroids.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

2nd Generation Duke started off his reign a little rough. He threw a Grand Hunt after his father's death because his father had thrown one every year where he wasn't at war. Unfortunately, in charging after a giant wolf to get a trophy he was maimed and crippled. A few months later while trying to pursue increasing his learning, he decided to take on the bulding of a flying machine. That didn't go so well either.

He recovered from that and was able to wrest control of two additional counties including one that was controlled by the only other Welch Duke. He now has enough counties to be able to form the Kingdom of Wales but if far short on the funds necessary. At one point his spymaster uncovered a plot by his eldest son's wife to have him killed. Although his son was not at fault, the guy was not the most talented in the world so when his spymaster also uncovered a plot by his 2nd eldest to kill the eldest son, he truned a blind eye. Now the Dynasty is set to go into much more competent hands.

Also interestingly enough, the son of the 21 year old that the first Duke had an affair with right before his death (not his son however) has grown up to be a prodigy. Talents and skills are off the chart. He's currently chancellor and probably like 10th in line for the throne, but good for the gene pool.

Since he's aging and unlikely to live much longer due to his hunting accident, I have him now focusing on building up the economic infrastructure so that hopefully his son can realize the first Duke's dream of a united Kingdon of Wales.

Oh - and the bolden above was the beeyatch who was planning to kill the 2nd Duke so her husband could take over

This game sounds awesome, but it also sounds like my wife would instadivorce me if I ever sunk the time needed to play this.

 

[OC Zed]

Dove into Crusader Kings 2 this weekend. Really digging the intricacy of it and especially like that it's not heavy graphics so it can run on my laptop.

I've been playing as a Welch Duke because the Kingdoms were just too damn big to learn on. This way, I have a smaller number of counties and vassals to deal with and although I'm not swimming in money and am unlikely to take over the world, I can focus on learning the game.

My self-set goal is to unite Wales under my dukedom and am making good progress towards that end. I've also married by daughters into Danish and Scotting royalty and have married the King of England's sister to my grandson. Was especially impressed when my spymaster uncovered a plot by one of my useless sons to knock me off as the gavelkind succession laws had him as heir to one of my counties and I had kicked him off my council some time ago for someone more competent. I imprisioned him and then banished him and promptly gave the county to one of my other son's to rule as one of my vassals.

So my first generation Duke died at the ripe old age of 61, but just days after illicitly bedding the 21 year old widow of his grandson, who years earier had rebelled against him before our hero imprisoned and had him assasinated on the sly. How's that for going out on top?

2nd Generation Duke started off his reign a little rough. He threw a Grand Hunt after his father's death because his father had thrown one every year where he wasn't at war. Unfortunately, in charging after a giant wolf to get a trophy he was maimed and crippled. A few months later while trying to pursue increasing his learning, he decided to take on the bulding of a flying machine. That didn't go so well either.

He recovered from that and was able to wrest control of two additional counties including one that was controlled by the only other Welch Duke. He now has enough counties to be able to form the Kingdom of Wales but if far short on the funds necessary. At one point his spymaster uncovered a plot by his eldest son's wife to have him killed. Although his son was not at fault, the guy was not the most talented in the world so when his spymaster also uncovered a plot by his 2nd eldest to kill the eldest son, he truned a blind eye. Now the Dynasty is set to go into much more competent hands.

Also interestingly enough, the son of the 21 year old that the first Duke had an affair with right before his death (not his son however) has grown up to be a prodigy. Talents and skills are off the chart. He's currently chancellor and probably like 10th in line for the throne, but good for the gene pool.

Since he's aging and unlikely to live much longer due to his hunting accident, I have him now focusing on building up the economic infrastructure so that hopefully his son can realize the first Duke's dream of a united Kingdon of Wales.

I had never heard of this game before but now my interest is definitely piqued.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

I can't help but kill pretty much all enemies in Dishonored.

 

[TLEF316]

Decided to give crusader kings a shot. Obviously the learning curve is super steep. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.

My BIL got attacked by one of our neighbors and I couldn't figure out how to do anything about it. Then my sister was #####ing about the fact that she wasn't married. Then I get attacked, but can't declare war against the guy who did it. My wife popped out 2 more sons, but I eventually got rolled.

Gonna take a while to figure out what the #### I'm doing.

 

[OC Zed]

Decided to give crusader kings a shot. Obviously the learning curve is super steep. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.

My BIL got attacked by one of our neighbors and I couldn't figure out how to do anything about it. Then my sister was #####ing about the fact that she wasn't married. Then I get attacked, but can't declare war against the guy who did it. My wife popped out 2 more sons, but I eventually got rolled.

Gonna take a while to figure out what the #### I'm doing.

This game sounds so ####ing awesome. I love these posts.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Okay, I finished my Classic difficulty XCOM playthrough. I think I'm done with this game for a little while at least due to burnout. Moreover, I really don't see myself doing a Classic Ironman run (holy hell that would be hard, like starting over from scratch again and again and again hard) and I'm not sure I have the motivation to try Impossible.

I definitely got $30 of value out of this and I might pick it back up again later, but that's it for now. The bummer is that I don't have anything cheap waiting for me. Should have bought Tomb Raider when it was on sale this weekend.

 

[Insein]

Okay, I finished my Classic difficulty XCOM playthrough. I think I'm done with this game for a little while at least due to burnout. Moreover, I really don't see myself doing a Classic Ironman run (holy hell that would be hard, like starting over from scratch again and again and again hard) and I'm not sure I have the motivation to try Impossible. I definitely got $30 of value out of this and I might pick it back up again later, but that's it for now. The bummer is that I don't have anything cheap waiting for me. Should have bought Tomb Raider when it was on sale this weekend.

that is the one Knock found on the new game versus the old game. Replayability is not nearly as good.

 

[OC Zed]

Best Buy has a sale on Bioshock: Infinite this week for $45.

 

[streamkeeper]

Decided to give crusader kings a shot. Obviously the learning curve is super steep. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.

My BIL got attacked by one of our neighbors and I couldn't figure out how to do anything about it. Then my sister was #####ing about the fact that she wasn't married. Then I get attacked, but can't declare war against the guy who did it. My wife popped out 2 more sons, but I eventually got rolled.

Gonna take a while to figure out what the #### I'm doing.

This game sounds so ####ing awesome. I love these posts.

ok then, I stumbled onto CK2 about a month ago. I have a long history with Paradox games,but recently I have been scared of them since I have a family to feed.

I married my oldest son to the oldest daughter of the Hungarian king. In order to ensure I would inherit their lands I had to assassinate my wife's younger brother. I thought I was safe because the king's wife was 40 something and they had no other male heirs. The king then put the queen in prison and petitioned the Pope for divorce, which was granted. He then proceeded to marry a young thing and produce a new male heir by age 50. I of course attempted to assassinate this son also, but this time I was caught. My wife now plots against me with her father. I cannot get my queen to sleep with me so she will not produce a heir, and because of this game I cannot get my real wife to sleep with me either.

My dynasty is in ruin.

 

[TxBuckeye]

I cruised my ship around for about 40 minutes today and mined some minerals on a few different planets.

 

[OC Zed]

CK2 gameplay sessions sound much more cool than ME gameplay sessions.

 

[Mad Cow]

Decided to give crusader kings a shot. Obviously the learning curve is super steep. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. My BIL got attacked by one of our neighbors and I couldn't figure out how to do anything about it. Then my sister was #####ing about the fact that she wasn't married. Then I get attacked, but can't declare war against the guy who did it. My wife popped out 2 more sons, but I eventually got rolled. Gonna take a while to figure out what the #### I'm doing.

This game sounds so ####ing awesome. I love these posts.

ok then, I stumbled onto CK2 about a month ago. I have a long history with Paradox games,but recently I have been scared of them since I have a family to feed. I married my oldest son to the oldest daughter of the Hungarian king. In order to ensure I would inherit their lands I had to assassinate my wife's younger brother. I thought I was safe because the king's wife was 40 something and they had no other male heirs. The king then put the queen in prison and petitioned the Pope for divorce, which was granted. He then proceeded to marry a young thing and produce a new male heir by age 50. I of course attempted to assassinate this son also, but this time I was caught. My wife now plots against me with her father. I cannot get my queen to sleep with me so she will not produce a heir, and because of this game I cannot get my real wife to sleep with me either.My dynasty is in ruin.

Jefe, you want the woman? You take the woman.

 

[TxBuckeye]

CK2 gameplay sessions sound much more cool than ME gameplay sessions.

Yea, shooting aliens and exploring alien ships gets boring after awhile. I'd much rather be trying to have kids and keep my in-laws happy.

 

[NCCommish]

Decided to give crusader kings a shot. Obviously the learning curve is super steep. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.

My BIL got attacked by one of our neighbors and I couldn't figure out how to do anything about it. Then my sister was #####ing about the fact that she wasn't married. Then I get attacked, but can't declare war against the guy who did it. My wife popped out 2 more sons, but I eventually got rolled.

Gonna take a while to figure out what the #### I'm doing.

This game sounds so ####ing awesome. I love these posts.

ok then, I stumbled onto CK2 about a month ago. I have a long history with Paradox games,but recently I have been scared of them since I have a family to feed.

I married my oldest son to the oldest daughter of the Hungarian king. In order to ensure I would inherit their lands I had to assassinate my wife's younger brother. I thought I was safe because the king's wife was 40 something and they had no other male heirs. The king then put the queen in prison and petitioned the Pope for divorce, which was granted. He then proceeded to marry a young thing and produce a new male heir by age 50. I of course attempted to assassinate this son also, but this time I was caught. My wife now plots against me with her father. I cannot get my queen to sleep with me so she will not produce a heir, and because of this game I cannot get my real wife to sleep with me either.

My dynasty is in ruin.

I hate to but I have to.

 

[NCCommish]

CK2 gameplay sessions sound much more cool than ME gameplay sessions.

I have been trying to figure out what to do after Skyrim. I think I may have found it.

 

[Pick]

Okay, I finished my Classic difficulty XCOM playthrough. I think I'm done with this game for a little while at least due to burnout. Moreover, I really don't see myself doing a Classic Ironman run (holy hell that would be hard, like starting over from scratch again and again and again hard) and I'm not sure I have the motivation to try Impossible.

I definitely got $30 of value out of this and I might pick it back up again later, but that's it for now. The bummer is that I don't have anything cheap waiting for me. Should have bought Tomb Raider when it was on sale this weekend.

I thought that as well but was back within hours.

However, I did draw the line at impossible. Have not tried that at all.

 

[Pick]

I tried the demo of CK2 and was blown away by it (not in a good way). Don't know if I got the micro-skills for that game.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Pick, on 03 May 2013 - 08:22, said:I thought that as well but was back within hours. However, I did draw the line at impossible. Have not tried that at all.

I enjoyed Impossible mode. After playing Classic for awhile, you'll find it no longer is a challenge. But the bugs really do make Impossible unplayable. That's what actually made me give up on the game and trade it in.

 

[Dexter]

I bought the four game God of War pack from game stop. I'm working my way through the first game. So far it's a fun button masher.

I believe GoW 1 was released for the PS2 so they touched up the graphics. What's weird is the game looks better than the cut scenes.

 

[Buckna]

Saw Tomb Raider on special at Amazon yesterday so I had a moment of weakness and ordered it. Not that I won't regret it, I just don't have much time for games lately. I've got a couple on my shelf gathering dust I haven't finished. and one or two I haven't even started like Assassin's Creed 3.

Crusader Kings sounds awesome. I sunk hours and hours into Civilization type games and other 4X type games, I shudder at the thought of me getting into another addictive type game like that.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Walmart 2/$30 deal.

Some decent titles. I wonder if we'll see some blowout prices of good games the closer we get to the launch of the next Xbox and PS4.

 

[shadyridr]

Bioshock Infinite is fun dont get me wrong but the combat is fairly boring. And I dont get the point of the vending machines. You never need to buy health or amo cuz they give to you like its going out of style. Good game, not the classic all the reviews gave it. I actually think all the reviews gave it a nearly perfect rating because of the awesome story, atmosphere, and graphics which I agree is incredible. But the gameplay is kind of boring and has been done countless times before. I liked Tomb Raider better

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Bioshock Infinite is fun dont get me wrong but the combat is fairly boring. And I dont get the point of the vending machines. You never need to buy health or amo cuz they give to you like its going out of style. Good game, not the classic all the reviews gave it. I actually think all the reviews gave it a nearly perfect rating because of the awesome story, atmosphere, and graphics which I agree is incredible. But the gameplay is kind of boring and has been done countless times before. I liked Tomb Raider better

My feelings exactly. Including liking Tomb Raider better.

 

[madshot31]

Bioshock Infinite is fun dont get me wrong but the combat is fairly boring. And I dont get the point of the vending machines. You never need to buy health or amo cuz they give to you like its going out of style. Good game, not the classic all the reviews gave it. I actually think all the reviews gave it a nearly perfect rating because of the awesome story, atmosphere, and graphics which I agree is incredible. But the gameplay is kind of boring and has been done countless times before. I liked Tomb Raider better

Just wondering but what difficulty do you play on? BioShock gamea are the type of games that have always felt stale to me on easy and normal but really shine on hard.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I played Infinite on hard. It was easy until it became impossible. Then it was just frustrating.