You'd forgotten me :'(

humantarget wrote:

J1m1 wrote:

I got it about a year ago for £5 on Steam.  I've play it for about an 2 hours and feel I've had enough. It's a bit.. meh.  Not the best of the series, in my opinion.

It's not even been out a year, haha.

Felt like a year...

Hello cuckoo you magnificent bastard

Why don't you all join the bear and badger steam group then - makes finding one and other a doddle, innit

Kow wrote:

FEAR 3 for 8€ on Steam. Anybody know if it's any good?

I paid a tenner and its worth it, as long as you enjoy the other two. Similar gunplay, but lack of scares.

Plus MECHS!

For some reason I have 3 3-day steam passes for Red Orchestra 2: GOTY if anyone's interested. Bored the arse off me quite frankly but if anyone wanted to give it a shot, give me a shout.

Anybody have/play the Total War games? I have pretty much all of them now and I just ordered Shogun 2, which is supposed to have a nifty multiplayer mode where you can play coop or competitively on the campaign map instead of just single battles of the previous games.

I'd quite like to have a "friendly" battle with a hooman because I'm trouncing the AI in Rome at least. It still has the capacity to surprise mind, and the la ter games seem to have somewhat smarter AI.

Monaco looks like its going to be a good'un:





Planetside 2 is looking epic too

Yeah Shogun hasn't arrived for me either, it was dispatched yesterday though so I think it should be here by Saturday.

The System Volume Information folder which contains system restore stuff i think, can take up a ton of space on your HDD. I can't remember how much mine used to be but i've seen comments on this useful page reporting hoooge amounts of space being taken up by the folder (some are over 100GB o_O).

Google "System Volume Information" to see how to find and gain access to it, and what to do with it. The folder may contain as much as the 32GB you need!

Being the latest Total War game it probably has a great tutorial. And the gameplay is great in all the TW games i've played, particularly the morale system. It does seem to be quite intimidating to newcomers, but it's not that difficult (does get harder with the really big battles with multiple units, but thats what the pause time button is for ) just requires a little patience and imagination.

I've not played Diablo 3, the online-only thing is a complete turn-off for me.

I don't play TW games on a higher difficulty than normal beacuse AFAIK I it doesn't make the AI any better it just lets the AI cheat and gives them extra bonuses in attack and whatnot. Not sure if that's exactly the case in Shogun 2 but I imagine it is.

That's a good vid, shows what a deep and good looking game it is, also check out the steampage screenshots. The perma-corpses have been a feature since at least Rome, and is one of my favourite things. I love having a huge battle or city assault and seeing the bodies of my vanquished foes litter the fields or the streets of a large city.

The vid also shows how important it is to break the opposing units morale. In Rome I always try to follow up my flame arrows with a good dose of wardogs, I haven't used incendiary pigs yet.

I think the morale system in Shogun 2 is the best yet. Not only can losing a general lose you a battle you were winning easily but it can also effect you for months.

Shogun 2 has finally arrived form play.com just 20mins ago weirdly, maybe the postie got the wrong address and a neighbor put it thru the letterbox. It's nice because I've just finished installing the extra ram and my 500gig hard drive.

Anyways I can't wait to play it, I hope it runs ok.

Edit: Oooh it has a paper manual, first time I've had one with a TW game. It's not extensive but it has KB shortcuts and game mode advice.

The AI between them is actually not that different. Though i'd still say Shogun because it looks so damn nice. Buy Rome if you end up playing Shogun to death.

Shogun AI gets retarded when it's being the attacker in a siege battle.

TO THE FIELD OF BATTLE.