What Games Are You Playing?

ive just finished Infamous with the good ending anyway might go back and do it with with the evil, but now im about 7 hours in to Star Ocean The Last Hope
 
still playing star ocean about 10 hours in which i doubt is anything lol considering its 3 discs long, but ive just started playing [PROTOTYPE] today could have gotten it yesterday but to lazy to go in to work lol when i needed to pop in today -had the week off =)-
 
Back on Empire: TW after leaving it for a while.

It ain't Medieval II that's for sure. My usual Total War "Tax & Spend (on Blitzkrieg)" economic plan doesn't appear to work anymore, mainly since I can't tax any cities I conquer at all because they don't like being occupied and rebel, forcing me to waste all my money on massive garrisons. I can't bring them around to my side by converting them either as your religious buildings only generate missionaries at a set rate, you can't train any more. My normal answer to this problem would be that handy little "exterminate population" button but... wait, why can't I slaughter the rebellious population of cities anymore dammit!?

Clearly the 1700's are no place for a genocidal maniac such as myself...
 
Instead I've taken to capturing territories, destroying all the infrastructure and allowing the town to riot for several turns before handing them back in return for money / peace, leaving the enemy with a pissed off population and forcing them to spend all their money on rebuilding so they can't train any more troops.

Unfortunately, this still doesn't get me much further on the road to world domination.
 
kupocake said:
A game about colonialism without an 'exterminate population' button? Surely there is some mistake.
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The portuguese didn't exterminate all the population, they rather sell trinkets and mirrors in exchange for that yellow rocks the natives had... Eventually, instead of killing them all, they decided to enslave them all. It's all the same fun, I guess... =/
 
i'm refusing to play empire till CA have created enough patches to move the game from beta mode to released mode.

honestly what kind of company releases a game before it's finished

anyway just bought star ocean so time to give it a whirl
 
Ryo Chan said:
i'm refusing to play empire till CA have created enough patches to move the game from beta mode to released mode.
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Hmm. I am hoping the next patch will address a few of the problems. The economy is about right, pretty hard but fair, the battles are fine since the first patch but controlling your society is just a nightmare. It takes ages to convert populations because of your limited supply of slow moving missionaries, you can't put down rebelling civilians in any other kind of effective way except for huge, expensive garrisons (even then you still can't make them happy enough to tax them) and you can fire ministers from your government, but you don't get to choose who replaces them.
 
nah battles were better pre-patch

the enemy just charge you now, insteado ff attacking from range, meaning they're instantly cut down

will be a great game once it's fixed, but by that time, the expansion will be ready at this rate.

tbh i only play it atm for the ship battles which i love on my super high graphics
 
Ryo Chan said:
the enemy just charge you now, insteado ff attacking from range, meaning they're instantly cut down
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Usually only if they attack you on the world map, which is how it should be. I got fed up with enemy armies aggressively attacking you on the world map only to sit there on the battle map and wait for you to come to them. In what way did they "attack" you?
 
ayase said:
Ryo Chan said:
the enemy just charge you now, insteado ff attacking from range, meaning they're instantly cut down
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Usually only if they attack you on the world map, which is how it should be. I got fed up with enemy armies aggressively attacking you on the world map only to sit there on the battle map and wait for you to come to them. In what way did they "attack" you?
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no i mean litterly charing into hand to hand

why would a rifler or granadeir go charging into hand to hand combat when they can shoot and throw granades?

may as well just give them all swords
 
Can't say I really noticed that. :?

Good point though, if true. Just another thing for CA to add to their to do list...
 
Final Fantasy V (PSX)
Finally starting to be able to play the older FFs.
I used to get absolutely no enjoyment out of anything before VI.
I guess I've grown or... something.

But I'm really enjoying it this time through.
 
iisan said:
Final Fantasy V (PSX)
Finally starting to be able to play the older FFs.
I used to get absolutely no enjoyment out of anything before VI.
I guess I've grown or... something.

But I'm really enjoying it this time through.
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I find it VERY hard to go back to the old FFs via the Playstation versions. They're just so poorly optimised. A lot more fun on a cartridge... so that's pretty much the GBA version or the (historically significant!) fan translation. I suppose the version of 5 isn't as bad as 6... but it still could be quicker.

I've been hanging on for a DS version of V for a while now. Don't think it's going to happen, which is a shame. I guess the charming character sprites would take up too much space as 3D models... shame.
 
kupocake said:
I've been hanging on for a DS version of V for a while now. Don't think it's going to happen, which is a shame. I guess the charming character sprites would take up too much space as 3D models... shame.
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According to the director of the DS remakes VI has higher priority than V. If anything gets announced I'd expect it soon, otherwise....
 
Lux-Pain. It's a visual novel-style adventure game with snatches of intriguing story hiding between reams and reams of banal dialogue (which, I might add, has been subject to a truly horrendous translation. Some of it barely makes sense). A surreal experience.
 
A Pirate I was meant to be... Trim the sails and roam the sea.

For anyone interested, Empire: Total War is half price on Steam for this weekend, and the patch comes out on Monday. You lucky people.

Edited for people who don't read back through my recent posts. :p
 
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