I call that a FRIDAY, the best I ever had!

Kushan · April 12, 2014, 11:35:22 AM

Not much time for gaming this weekend. Been in a gaming slump this week. Probably play some more Diablo 3 if I time. Its the only game this week that's been able to hold my attention for longer the 5 minutes. Like to get around to CK2 with the new patch (the one from this week) or maybe with the GOT mod, but I'll probably put that off until next weekend.

MetalDog · April 12, 2014, 01:56:56 PM

Just finished mowing the lawn. Just need to make a short trip to town and then it's gaming unlimited! Like to get my Warlock MP on with Tuna and W8taminute. Would also like to play some Civ IV MP. but, I've run into a patch problem. It says I have to download patch 3.19. I do, then I get kicked back to the menu. Go back in to MP and it tells me I have to download the patch again. Any ideas? Will look over at Civfanatics, too.

Found what I was looking for at Civfanatics.

Rizik6 · April 12, 2014, 04:51:51 PM

Between AoW3 and Diablo 3: RoS I've had more fantasy gaming than I'm used to. I'd like to get back to some hexes and tanks.

bbmike · April 12, 2014, 06:08:35 PM

Mostly Aow3. But the new Beyond Earth news has me wanting to play Alpha Centauri again!

TacticalWargames · April 12, 2014, 09:09:32 PM

Metal Dog I find either Dominions 4 or Fallen Enchantress Legendary heroes the best fantasy x4 games. Though I haven't played Warlock 2 and I have played the first one and it was OK..neither rubbish nor superb...just a decent game.

I've been playing mostly CMRT (Playing the Red Hordes as the Germans I witnessed the best intense action I've seen in the CMx2 series so far) and WOFF.

MetalDog · April 12, 2014, 10:17:38 PM

I've always thought, from what I've read here, Dominions would be right up my alley. Haven't tried it yet.

mikeck · April 12, 2014, 11:29:12 PM

Dominions is an amazing game. There is not much "city building" though. In each province you can build a temple or a fort. The depth comes from all of the different spells, al of the different units and how they all work together. I don't think there is a deeper game around. And it's depth and complexity is not just from micromanagement. It's about how you craft you armies, what types of spells you use, items you craft, how you arrange your armies for combat and monitoring your dominion.

I've never seen anyone disappointed with the complexity of the game.maybe the graphics but not the meat. Just don't expect a traditional city building/empire building game with different buildings creating different units

MetalDog · April 13, 2014, 12:32:30 AM

I'm ok with no city building. I like being able to specialize my armies. Is there a demo or accepted 'Let's Play...," on YouTube?

Anguille · April 13, 2014, 02:17:16 AM

Not much time for gaming. Still.

- TW battles Shogun on my tablet
- Spartan
- Master of Orion III
- Grand Ages Rome
- some pbem games

Nefaro · April 13, 2014, 05:52:41 AM

Quote from: MetalDog on April 13, 2014, 12:32:30 AM
I'm ok with no city building. I like being able to specialize my armies. Is there a demo or accepted 'Let's Play...," on YouTube?

There are a few gameplay vids on YouTube.

This series seems to explain the game system quite a bit as he plays:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMIQfYIkrjA&list=PLM7yEwbhGUooISDlRy9rcQ0__senFxmHc

Should be helpful for beginners.

Note: I posted the raw YouTube link so that you can just advance through each part of the series; it has them in order on the right. The first one is just customizing the god & nation you'll be playing, so the meat of the game starts in later episodes.

MetalDog · April 13, 2014, 08:46:58 AM

Thanks, Nefaro. I'll have a look.

W8taminute · April 13, 2014, 10:22:43 AM

Quote from: MetalDog on April 12, 2014, 01:56:56 PM
... Like to get my Warlock MP on with Tuna and W8taminute. ...

I'll be around later on this evening if you guys are free. I spent yesterday stressing over the gubment reaching into my wallet and extracting 75 billion dollars from it so I was not a happy person yesterday. But we had my parents and brother over for coffee and desert later on so at least the day ended nicely.

Tuna · April 13, 2014, 10:43:13 AM

Quote from: W8taminute on April 13, 2014, 10:22:43 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on April 12, 2014, 01:56:56 PM
... Like to get my Warlock MP on with Tuna and W8taminute. ...

I'll be around later on this evening if you guys are free. I spent yesterday stressing over the gubment reaching into my wallet and extracting 75 billion dollars from it so I was not a happy person yesterday. But we had my parents and brother over for coffee and desert later on so at least the day ended nicely.

That's ok.. I didn't see MD on at all (his new PC must run Steam in 'stealth' mode ;) )

I ended up doing an X-Plane flight and catching up on some of DVR'd shows.

MetalDog · April 13, 2014, 12:02:00 PM

The only Steam game I have loaded is Warlock. I played mostly 'Do Chores,' all day yesterday. Wasn't on until night time. Then it was a solo Civ game I have going. Tiny map. I'm Stalin against Hannibal and Boudicca. Pangaea, Conquest, on Prince. It's 2004 and I joined Boudicca's ongoing war with Hannibal. I cover the west of the map, Boudicca the east, with Hannibal in between. Research is just about even. I just got Industrialism a few turns ago to get Tanks and my army was already largest on the board. I've taken Leptis, Hippo and the capitol, Carthage. He hasn't been able to muster a defense and I am going to try and wipe him off the map before I stop. Then it's consolidate my gains for twenty or thirty turns and rebuild the army. Then it's Boudicca's turn. Hope to have it done in less than 500 Turns.

Martok · April 13, 2014, 03:34:41 PM

A new patch came out for Crusader Kings II (supposedly it fixes most of the stuff the last update broke), so I fired that up for a little while earlier today.