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*** Official Video Game Thread ***
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Steed Train
Clive Wilson
Huge sale on steam at the moment. Just picked up Rome Total War + Expansions and Medieval Total War + Expansions for under £5. You can get the whole back catalogue for 80% off too. Only on for next 12 hours
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Endless Space.
Civ in space. With additional micromanagement options.
Totally addictive, it's possible to waste hours and hours sitting there thinking 'oh i'll just do this one last thing'..
That said The AI is currently lacking, so it's more a game to play with mates, if you have a week or so free.. 8-[
Civ in space. With additional micromanagement options.
Totally addictive, it's possible to waste hours and hours sitting there thinking 'oh i'll just do this one last thing'..
That said The AI is currently lacking, so it's more a game to play with mates, if you have a week or so free.. 8-[
linnet_spur
Pascal Chimbonda
Do you mean autumn?
You know, Fall is originally a term used in England. It pre-dates Autumn
WookieD
Didier Zokora
And gay predates happy. Times change you queer person.
edgey-the-yid
Gheorge Popescu
Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial
It’s in the game. We’re delighted to announce that @EASports will be the Club’s new official video game partner
Also WHL is finally on FIFA!!! R.I.P PES
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im trying to play Arma II online - but it looks like this :
toying around with the in game graphics settings doesn't seem to change anything - is it a graphics card problem ? i have run my system through Can You Run It ? (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx) and it's saying im good to go
the game runs fine when offline
toying around with the in game graphics settings doesn't seem to change anything - is it a graphics card problem ? i have run my system through Can You Run It ? (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx) and it's saying im good to go
the game runs fine when offline
edgey-the-yid
Gheorge Popescu
Did anyone else pick up Football Manager 12 for a 5er in the Steam Summer Sale?
I usually spend an absolute forune in the Steam holiday sales but this yr only spent 10! Most of the games Im after now are not out yet
I usually spend an absolute forune in the Steam holiday sales but this yr only spent 10! Most of the games Im after now are not out yet
uksb
Jamie Redknapp
im trying to play Arma II online - but it looks like this :
toying around with the in game graphics settings doesn't seem to change anything - is it a graphics card problem ? i have run my system through Can You Run It ? (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx) and it's saying im good to go
the game runs fine when offline
I'm not sure about Arma 2 itself, but I know a mod for it (called DayZ) has night and day depending on when you're playing it.
it is the DayZ mod im trying to play - but i don't think it's a case of it just being dark as it's night time on the game as it's FAR too dark - literally pure black screen - there seems to be no color at all which makes me think it's a graphics related problem
papaspur
Kasey Keller
I don't know if any of you have heard of Guild Wars 2, but I just played the beta a bunch over the weekend (release is about a month away).
Basically, it's an MMO without any subscription fees, so you just purchase it once and that's all the money you have to spend on it (unlike WoW, etc.)
I won't go into all the classes you can play as, suffice it to say I played as an engineer up to level 20 and it was a lot of fun.
However, I do want to mention the World vs World game mode because it was insanely fun. Each server is its own faction, and there will always be 3 servers battling it out over an enormous map full of different capture points. The battles in WvW can range anywhere from tiny 8-on-8 skirmishes to all-out sieges that can have 50+ players per faction battling it out for a keep.
I am not going to go into much detail since there is A LOT to it and you'd be better off watching a youtube video explaining it. Instead, I'll just recount my experience.
Each faction gets a spawn point on the map, which roughly corresponds to the points on a triangle. There are capture points littered throughout the map in key locations, and they vary from supply camps (these produce supply which is used to repair walls, purchase upgrades and build siege equipment) to towers to keeps. Supply camps don't offer much in the way of defense, and are easily turned over by a small band of players.
When I entered the map, I went to the tower that was under attack by the two other factions. One faction started building a few trebuchets and ballistae to batter down the tower's walls since their frontal assaults failed numerous times. I tried to get a small group of players together to flank their siege equipment and hopefully destroy it. Instead, we ran into a group of enemies trying to flank our tower, but after we destroyed them, we rushed to their siege equipment and tried to destroy as much of it as we could.
This same group of players and I basically went on assaults behind enemy lines to cut off their supply routes and force the enemy to retreat from the front lines to tend to business at home.
Eventually, we joined up with the main army which was trying to assault a keep, which is basically an ultra-fortified version of a tower. We did not have much luck until we finally got some catapults right up against their wall which didn't have many defenses and after a good 10-minute battering, the walls were finally down (this was after trying again and again to rush their front gate only to fail each time). Once inside the keep's outer walls, we cleared out the few defenders cut between the inner and outer walls and another 10 minutes of battering the inner walls finally saw us take the keep. All in all, it probably took our faction at least 3 hours of besieging the damn keep to claim it. Once a tower/keep is in your possession, you can spend money on upgrades to increase its defenses (burning oil, cannons).
Sorry for the long post, but I had such a great time playing it and I thought some of you might be interested in this type of game. My only complaint is that there can be a lot of running around because when you die, you can only spawn back in your main base or another keep that you capture.
Basically, it's an MMO without any subscription fees, so you just purchase it once and that's all the money you have to spend on it (unlike WoW, etc.)
I won't go into all the classes you can play as, suffice it to say I played as an engineer up to level 20 and it was a lot of fun.
However, I do want to mention the World vs World game mode because it was insanely fun. Each server is its own faction, and there will always be 3 servers battling it out over an enormous map full of different capture points. The battles in WvW can range anywhere from tiny 8-on-8 skirmishes to all-out sieges that can have 50+ players per faction battling it out for a keep.
I am not going to go into much detail since there is A LOT to it and you'd be better off watching a youtube video explaining it. Instead, I'll just recount my experience.
Each faction gets a spawn point on the map, which roughly corresponds to the points on a triangle. There are capture points littered throughout the map in key locations, and they vary from supply camps (these produce supply which is used to repair walls, purchase upgrades and build siege equipment) to towers to keeps. Supply camps don't offer much in the way of defense, and are easily turned over by a small band of players.
When I entered the map, I went to the tower that was under attack by the two other factions. One faction started building a few trebuchets and ballistae to batter down the tower's walls since their frontal assaults failed numerous times. I tried to get a small group of players together to flank their siege equipment and hopefully destroy it. Instead, we ran into a group of enemies trying to flank our tower, but after we destroyed them, we rushed to their siege equipment and tried to destroy as much of it as we could.
This same group of players and I basically went on assaults behind enemy lines to cut off their supply routes and force the enemy to retreat from the front lines to tend to business at home.
Eventually, we joined up with the main army which was trying to assault a keep, which is basically an ultra-fortified version of a tower. We did not have much luck until we finally got some catapults right up against their wall which didn't have many defenses and after a good 10-minute battering, the walls were finally down (this was after trying again and again to rush their front gate only to fail each time). Once inside the keep's outer walls, we cleared out the few defenders cut between the inner and outer walls and another 10 minutes of battering the inner walls finally saw us take the keep. All in all, it probably took our faction at least 3 hours of besieging the damn keep to claim it. Once a tower/keep is in your possession, you can spend money on upgrades to increase its defenses (burning oil, cannons).
Sorry for the long post, but I had such a great time playing it and I thought some of you might be interested in this type of game. My only complaint is that there can be a lot of running around because when you die, you can only spawn back in your main base or another keep that you capture.
uksb
Jamie Redknapp
Well I haven't played it, but I've definitely read that the game does go literally pitch black at night.
[video=youtube;c638kVO-XPk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c638kVO-XPk[/video]
is this game free to play? looks good
WookieD
Didier Zokora
Android-Based Game Console Closing Out Record-Breaking Kickstarter Campaign
Tired of feeling boxed in by your game console? Then rush over to Kickstarter and get ready to throw your money at the screen. Ouya (pronounced “ooo-yah!”), the widely publicized new platform, is an open game console built on Android that supports free-to-play games and is getting close to completing its campaign to take its prototype to production scale.
For only $99, backers will receive their own Ouya console and one controller scheduled to be delivered in March of next year.
Less than three days remain in the record-breaking project and backers have raised close to $7 million to disrupt the game console market. Once posted on Kickstarter, it raised $1 million in less than 9 hours and $2.5 million after its first day, knocking crowdfunded gaming’s poster child Double Fine out of top place.
Even before crossing the project’s finish line, Ouya has made deals to deliver content from live video streaming company Twitch TV, OnLive (delivering games like Final Fantasy), Clear Channel’s live streaming radio service iHeartRadio, and Vevo, which has had great success with delivering music videos on YouTube. Ouya even has its first exclusive gaming content, prequel episodes to Human Element from Robotoki.
It’ll even have Minecraft.
Tired of feeling boxed in by your game console? Then rush over to Kickstarter and get ready to throw your money at the screen. Ouya (pronounced “ooo-yah!”), the widely publicized new platform, is an open game console built on Android that supports free-to-play games and is getting close to completing its campaign to take its prototype to production scale.
For only $99, backers will receive their own Ouya console and one controller scheduled to be delivered in March of next year.
Less than three days remain in the record-breaking project and backers have raised close to $7 million to disrupt the game console market. Once posted on Kickstarter, it raised $1 million in less than 9 hours and $2.5 million after its first day, knocking crowdfunded gaming’s poster child Double Fine out of top place.
Even before crossing the project’s finish line, Ouya has made deals to deliver content from live video streaming company Twitch TV, OnLive (delivering games like Final Fantasy), Clear Channel’s live streaming radio service iHeartRadio, and Vevo, which has had great success with delivering music videos on YouTube. Ouya even has its first exclusive gaming content, prequel episodes to Human Element from Robotoki.
It’ll even have Minecraft.
Full Story Here:
http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/0...ing-out-record-breaking-kickstarter-campaign/
Tired of feeling boxed in by your game console? Then rush over to Kickstarter and get ready to throw your money at the screen. Ouya (pronounced “ooo-yah!”), the widely publicized new platform, is an open game console built on Android that supports free-to-play games and is getting close to completing its campaign to take its prototype to production scale.
For only $99, backers will receive their own Ouya console and one controller scheduled to be delivered in March of next year.
Less than three days remain in the record-breaking project and backers have raised close to $7 million to disrupt the game console market. Once posted on Kickstarter, it raised $1 million in less than 9 hours and $2.5 million after its first day, knocking crowdfunded gaming’s poster child Double Fine out of top place.
Even before crossing the project’s finish line, Ouya has made deals to deliver content from live video streaming company Twitch TV, OnLive (delivering games like Final Fantasy), Clear Channel’s live streaming radio service iHeartRadio, and Vevo, which has had great success with delivering music videos on YouTube. Ouya even has its first exclusive gaming content, prequel episodes to Human Element from Robotoki.
It’ll even have Minecraft.
Tired of feeling boxed in by your game console? Then rush over to Kickstarter and get ready to throw your money at the screen. Ouya (pronounced “ooo-yah!”), the widely publicized new platform, is an open game console built on Android that supports free-to-play games and is getting close to completing its campaign to take its prototype to production scale.
For only $99, backers will receive their own Ouya console and one controller scheduled to be delivered in March of next year.
Less than three days remain in the record-breaking project and backers have raised close to $7 million to disrupt the game console market. Once posted on Kickstarter, it raised $1 million in less than 9 hours and $2.5 million after its first day, knocking crowdfunded gaming’s poster child Double Fine out of top place.
Even before crossing the project’s finish line, Ouya has made deals to deliver content from live video streaming company Twitch TV, OnLive (delivering games like Final Fantasy), Clear Channel’s live streaming radio service iHeartRadio, and Vevo, which has had great success with delivering music videos on YouTube. Ouya even has its first exclusive gaming content, prequel episodes to Human Element from Robotoki.
It’ll even have Minecraft.
Full Story Here:
http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/0...ing-out-record-breaking-kickstarter-campaign/