Last game you played and rate it

[resistanze]

Finally making time for the Mass Effect games.





RIP, Mordin.

You'll forget all about him by the end, don't worry.

[resistanze]

Tough call for me between Vice City and San Andreas. I mean Vice City was such a leap forward from an already incredible GTA III, but the gang wars in San Andreas are some of the greatest SP gaming ever done. I wish Vice City had the AK47 from San Andreas too; assault rifles suck on VC. Time period is funny as though.

Still have no idea how they took that incredible series and made such a boring game in IV. GTAIV was basically

driving
driving
driving
nothing's happening
driving
nothing's happening
go shoot someone, mission completed
driving back to apartment
driving
Roman wants to play darts

Vice City is still my favourite, encapsulated by the awesome 80s soundtrack. I borrowed it from a friend back in 2002 X-Mas break (damn, I was in high school) and finished it in like 4-5 days.

[vander]

Xcom: 9.3/10. Amazing game. GotY for me for 2012.

yeah, Xcom was the 2nd to last game I played. consuming, couldn't stop playing and then when I finally did I couldn't stop thinking about how I'd do it better next time.

9/10

[Bynumite]

Tough call for me between Vice City and San Andreas. I mean Vice City was such a leap forward from an already incredible GTA III, but the gang wars in San Andreas are some of the greatest SP gaming ever done. I wish Vice City had the AK47 from San Andreas too; assault rifles suck on VC. Time period is funny as though.

Still have no idea how they took that incredible series and made such a boring game in IV. GTAIV was basically

driving
driving
driving
nothing's happening
driving
nothing's happening
go shoot someone, mission completed
driving back to apartment
driving
Roman wants to play darts

The thing about GTA IV is that Rockstar decided to take the realistic, serious approach with the story, driving, side missions etc. I'm not saying GTA has to be like Saint's Row, you running around naked beating people up with dildos and spraying them with (that's doing too much imo) but to me the last gen GTA's had a unique sense of humor and gave you more freedom to around outside the missions while still managing to tell a good story. From what i've seen so far, GTA V seems to be going back to its roots.

I recently bought the GTA trilogy for the Xbox and Vice City still is number 1 in my book but San Andreas is definitely a close 2nd. The city, era and soundtrack are perfect and Tommy Vercetti is a true badass that embraces his psychotic behavior instead of going emo everytime he takes a break from mass murdering like a certain eastern euro main character.

I'll be all over that , the day Rockstar releases an HD remake of the last gen trilogy with improved graphics and tweaked gameplay.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The game is ridiculously hard to beat on immortal and deity level. I am only on Emperor currently and am owning it. Once I bump up the difficulty to the next level, it becomes damn near impossible. Deity.... forget it.

You have to take advantage of the fact that the AI makes so much money and sell them . Take that money for early expansion, city state needs, and most importantly sicking one AI on another.

If you are having issues try some easy mode civs like france, china, mayan, ethiopian, arabia. China has libraries that make you money and the second best UU in the game. Get philosophy for the national college and bee line for machinery for profit. France is just tons of free culture early, gets strong mid and late game UU. Mayans are OP if you can bee line theology. Ethiopia is a tall empire dream and easy religion. The UB of arabia is free money all game long and the UU is powerful.

Key is to get at least 4 luxuries and at least 4 cities by turn 60 at the very most. You need 8 archers by turn 80 or you will get overrun the AI likes to send a lot of units on deity. Oh and dont bother for wonders unless you have a GE. GL but it is doable.

[xellos88330]

You have to take advantage of the fact that the AI makes so much money and sell them . Take that money for early expansion, city state needs, and most importantly sicking one AI on another.

If you are having issues try some easy mode civs like france, china, mayan, ethiopian, arabia. China has libraries that make you money and the second best UU in the game. Get philosophy for the national college and bee line for machinery for profit. France is just tons of free culture early, gets strong mid and late game UU. Mayans are OP if you can bee line theology. Ethiopia is a tall empire dream and easy religion. The UB of arabia is free money all game long and the UU is powerful.

Key is to get at least 4 luxuries and at least 4 cities by turn 60 at the very most. You need 8 archers by turn 80 or you will get overrun the AI likes to send a lot of units on deity. Oh and dont bother for wonders unless you have a GE. GL but it is doable.

My problem really isn't science or money. I always go for the national college quickly, and I normally have decent cash flow. The problem that I have been running into is multiple civilizations ganging up on me and never negotiating peace. My past 5 or 6 tries, I have been simultaneously attacked by 3 civs. I try to make peace but I ALWAYS get the response of "We still have business to settle". This is even when I am slaughtering all their troops. With the amount of troops they are sending I have yet to discover other civs on other continents to keep trade going, my tile improvements are being destroyed all the time so I couldn't trade even if I met someone. Eventually as the game goes on I run out of money, units and am not able to generate nearly enough production to maintain an effective fighting force. Thank you for the advice though. Are these strategies for standard turns or epic? I play on epic and marathon turns. Does it even matter?

Oh and I prefer using the Koreans. They are great for tall science.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

My problem really isn't science or money. I always go for the national college quickly, and I normally have decent cash flow. The problem that I have been running into is multiple civilizations ganging up on me and never negotiating peace. My past 5 or 6 tries, I have been simultaneously attacked by 3 civs. I try to make peace but I ALWAYS get the response of "We still have business to settle". This is even when I am slaughtering all their troops. With the amount of troops they are sending I have yet to discover other civs on other continents to keep trade going, my tile improvements are being destroyed all the time so I couldn't trade even if I met someone. Eventually as the game goes on I run out of money, units and am not able to generate nearly enough production to maintain an effective fighting force. Thank you for the advice though. Are these strategies for standard turns or epic? I play on epic and marathon turns. Does it even matter?

Oh and I prefer using the Koreans. They are great for tall science.

If you are having production issues try metal casting early. Switch from growth to as many hammers as you can get without starving cities and build workshops. Any city with 2 or more stone sources you want stoneworks. Same for horses/sheep/cow and stables. Those should be prioritized.

Are you micromanaging your cities? I go full bore on city growth until I get get below 5 happiness once my initial expansion is out. That is unless I am building priority buildings such as the above. Are you building your own tile improvements as well? The AI is not very efficient at either on default.

A lot of it comes down to where youre seeded at as well. If you only have say 4 total luxuries and no doubles then you aren't going to get any cash flow. On standard the amount you can get is 240 per if they are neutral i forget wha is at marathon and epic but it is more. 50 for a horse but that goes up as well. If you have say two double of luxuries or just a ton of happiness to sell 2 anyway you can sell them for 480 gold every 30 turns. That should be plenty.

Dealing with the AI is something you have to be proactive with. You need to use that money to either placate them or better yet get them to go to war with one of the other guys. For example if Genghis starts next to you then you can bet that he is going to come after you. You can either give him luxuries at a discount 209 is the first threshold on standard. Taht could get him off you. Better yet you can give him cash or a luxury to go fight someone else. Let them go to war for 30 turns or so and then invade him yourself. You get your luxury back and half of his unit are dead. The other civ will love you too. It's stuff like that you have to exploit.

Regardless, civfanatics is a great place to look up various strats for deity. It's a pita and it requires some good RNG so you get a starting area that allow you to win. At this point it sounds like you would get some satisfaction though. It can be frustrating. Getting to turn 100 and knowing you have no shot is depressing.

A good opening strat is here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487

And my brother plays GW2 and he said try http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/ to find events and http://gw2lfg.com/ to find groups.

I didn't even get into policy order but check out the forums there and you will find a lot of ideas. GL, mang.

[Venti Quattro]

FIFA 13. 0/10 because I got scored on with a 90' goal

[NASpurs]

FIFA 13. 0/10 because I got scored on with a 90' goal

was it the comp or another player?

[xellos88330]

If you are having production issues try metal casting early. Switch from growth to as many hammers as you can get without starving cities and build workshops. Any city with 2 or more stone sources you want stoneworks. Same for horses/sheep/cow and stables. Those should be prioritized.

Are you micromanaging your cities? I go full bore on city growth until I get get below 5 happiness once my initial expansion is out. That is unless I am building priority buildings such as the above. Are you building your own tile improvements as well? The AI is not very efficient at either on default.

A lot of it comes down to where youre seeded at as well. If you only have say 4 total luxuries and no doubles then you aren't going to get any cash flow. On standard the amount you can get is 240 per if they are neutral i forget wha is at marathon and epic but it is more. 50 for a horse but that goes up as well. If you have say two double of luxuries or just a ton of happiness to sell 2 anyway you can sell them for 480 gold every 30 turns. That should be plenty.

Dealing with the AI is something you have to be proactive with. You need to use that money to either placate them or better yet get them to go to war with one of the other guys. For example if Genghis starts next to you then you can bet that he is going to come after you. You can either give him luxuries at a discount 209 is the first threshold on standard. Taht could get him off you. Better yet you can give him cash or a luxury to go fight someone else. Let them go to war for 30 turns or so and then invade him yourself. You get your luxury back and half of his unit are dead. The other civ will love you too. It's stuff like that you have to exploit.

Regardless, civfanatics is a great place to look up various strats for deity. It's a pita and it requires some good RNG so you get a starting area that allow you to win. At this point it sounds like you would get some satisfaction though. It can be frustrating. Getting to turn 100 and knowing you have no shot is depressing.

A good opening strat is here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487

And my brother plays GW2 and he said try http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/ to find events and http://gw2lfg.com/ to find groups.

I didn't even get into policy order but check out the forums there and you will find a lot of ideas. GL, mang.

I have it now. I just needed to work on the diplomatic end of things. I am doing extremely well now because I am paying off the warmongers (Japan, Mongolia, Atilla) and having them declare war on each other. I never did that before. Those guys will often go to war really cheaply. I had NO clue that they would go to war for just 1 luxury. Now that I know that, I think I am ready for diety. Thanks a lot for your help!!!

[NASpurs]

I played Vanquish free on that PSN+ service. It's a Japanese take on the Gears of War series type games with typical Japanese clichés (cigarette smoking hero for one). It's not a bad game but it does have its gimmicks like thrusting all over the area (you're in a specialized suit that makes you superhuman) and bullet time. It has a ton of different weapons mostly good than bad so you won't get tired of the shooting and they're upgradable with the typical kinds of upgrades (more damage, more bullet capacity etc). The story is pretty meh. It's a good game to kill time I guess (5 or 6 hrs long).

7/10

[NASpurs]

Malicious 8/10

Some sick japanese made game.

Hard but addictive as .

I downloaded it free on PSN + and haven't touched it. Watching the vid kind of reminds me what if God of War was made into a beat'em up/slasher and the answer would be this game.

[resistanze]

FIFA 13. 0/10 because I got scored on with a 90' goal

This has happened to me twice with the AI on legendary mode. It's maddening - they go into another mode in the last 2 minutes. This also happens when you go ahead, suddenly they're impossible to tackle and they can just run over your defenders.

It was 100x worse in FIFA 12.

[NASpurs]

That's never has happened to me but that's probably because legendary mode would beat the out of me. I need to find some youtube vids of this. Sounds hilarious.

[resistanze]

That's never has happened to me but that's probably because legendary mode would beat the out of me. I need to find some youtube vids of this. Sounds hilarious.

It's pretty funny. Your players also seem to lose the ability to pass in Legendary mode as well. It makes for a fun challenge at times, or a ridiculous fustrating mess at other times.

[Reck]

I downloaded it free on PSN + and haven't touched it. Watching the vid kind of reminds me what if God of War was made into a beat'em up/slasher and the answer would be this game.

That is exactly why I downloaded it.

It takes some getting use to but once you get the hand of it and get the first powerup (depending on whom you choose to fight first), you'll love it.

[Reck]

I played Vanquish free on that PSN+ service. It's a Japanese take on the Gears of War series type games with typical Japanese clichés (cigarette smoking hero for one). It's not a bad game but it does have its gimmicks like thrusting all over the area (you're in a specialized suit that makes you superhuman) and bullet time. It has a ton of different weapons mostly good than bad so you won't get tired of the shooting and they're upgradable with the typical kinds of upgrades (more damage, more bullet capacity etc). The story is pretty meh. It's a good game to kill time I guess (5 or 6 hrs long).

7/10

I was about to download that game but went with Darksiders instead.

Vanquish looks cool but I thought it was too Halo like so I passed.

What's your PSN handle btw?

[Captivus]

I play a lot of games, so Im going to rate some of the posted here, so people get a second opinion.
- FTL 5/10. Fun at the beginning but gets boring, specially when you have to do things in a certain way to gets extra ships.
- Skyrim: as an RPG fan, this game is great. 10/10
- GTA San Andreas is one of the best games ever, another 10/10
- Deus Ex: too linear for my taste...6/10

If you like indie games, Binding of Isaac is just amazing. Addictive as .
I also like to play Crusaders Kings 2. Great diplomatic engine, an as soon as you feel part of the world it becomes amazing.

[Xevious]

The Witcher 2

7/10

It was good, but it didn't knock my socks off.

[symple19]

The Witcher 2

7/10

It was good, but it didn't knock my socks off.

Witcher 3 will be open world http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/the-...-3-first-look/

Loved the first two, just not sure it can approach Skyrim for the open world RPG crown

[Venti Quattro]

Played mobile games today...

7 Little Words - 9/10
4 Pics 1 Word - 7.5/10

[NASpurs]

I was about to download that game but went with Darksiders instead.

Vanquish looks cool but I thought it was too Halo like so I passed.

What's your PSN handle btw?

It's nasax2000 tbh. Add me and I'll add you back.

I don't know if it's still there on PSN + but Spec Ops The Line is pretty cool as well. Although I should add a disclaimer that I'm just 40 minutes into the game.

[Reck]

It's nasax2000 tbh. Add me and I'll add you back.

I don't know if it's still there on PSN + but Spec Ops The Line is pretty cool as well. Although I should add a disclaimer that I'm just 40 minutes into the game.

Turning my PS3 on. I'll add you in a sec.

Yeah I did see Spec Ops in the store but I've heard nothing but negative feedbacks from it so I stayed away from that.

[NASpurs]

Turning my PS3 on. I'll add you in a sec.

Yeah I did see Spec Ops in the store but I've heard nothing but negative feedbacks from it so I stayed away from that.

Really? On Metacritic, it has a 78/100 from reviews and 80/100 from fans. I'm 3/4 done and it's actually been good so far. It's not a game changer, mold breaker type of game but it's a decent shooter if you ever get bored. Yeah I'm not giving it a great endorsement but it's not because it's a bad game... it's one of those games that it's decent/good. You know what? For being free on PSN+, I recommend it. But if I had to pay $60 on it, I more than likely wouldn't recommend it.

[Reck]

Really? On Metacritic, it has a 78/100 from reviews and 80/100 from fans. I'm 3/4 done and it's actually been good so far. It's not a game changer, mold breaker type of game but it's a decent shooter if you ever get bored. Yeah I'm not giving it a great endorsement but it's not because it's a bad game... it's one of those games that it's decent/good. You know what? For being free on PSN+, I recommend it. But if I had to pay $60 on it, I more than likely wouldn't recommend it.

I may be misremembering things then.

Must've been one of the Medal of Honor games.