TGIF - F R I D A Y Gaming Thread - what's going down?

Toonces · August 04, 2012, 02:49:35 PM

My planned shopping trip for the day just got cancelled unexpectedly (go me ;D ) so I bought Dawnguard just now. It's installing. I probably won't get to it this afternoon- I'm going to go diving or something outside- but I'll log some time on it tonight and post impressions later...morning for you east coasters most likely.

LongBlade · August 04, 2012, 05:09:10 PM

Quote from: Toonces on August 04, 2012, 02:49:35 PM
My planned shopping trip for the day just got cancelled unexpectedly (go me ;D ) so I bought Dawnguard just now. It's installing. I probably won't get to it this afternoon- I'm going to go diving or something outside- but I'll log some time on it tonight and post impressions later...morning for you east coasters most likely.

Thanks, Toonces. I can see from the product page on Steam that there are some significant upgrades - it looks like a kind of flying has been introduced, along with new faces and stuff. My question is whether there has really be $20 worth of content added, and if so, in what way?

Toonces · August 04, 2012, 06:36:18 PM

Yes, it seems the price tag of $20 really has a lot of people chuffed. I have to be honest, I'm not completely understanding the uproar. Sure, on the face of it $20 might seem a lot for DLC. Yet, I think it seems high mostly because games have gotten so cheap to pick up on sales and such. Seriously, $20 for another 10+ hours of gameplay and several new features seems very reasonable in my opinion.

At any rate, any analysis I make of the cost/benefit is going to be skewed. Even before I see it I'm already of the opinion that it is worth it.

LongBlade · August 04, 2012, 06:38:51 PM

Quote from: Toonces on August 04, 2012, 06:36:18 PM
Yes, it seems the price tag of $20 really has a lot of people chuffed. I have to be honest, I'm not completely understanding the uproar. Sure, on the face of it $20 might seem a lot for DLC. Yet, I think it seems high mostly because games have gotten so cheap to pick up on sales and such. Seriously, $20 for another 10+ hours of gameplay and several new features seems very reasonable in my opinion.

At any rate, any analysis I make of the cost/benefit is going to be skewed. Even before I see it I'm already of the opinion that it is worth it.

I'm not afraid of $20 DLC - I've paid $20 for an expansion pack, and so long as the the value is there, I don't care what it's called.

I'm unlikely to buy this - having played the heck out of Skyrim, I'm pretty well done with it. Not terribly interested in going back there. But that's just me. When I'm done with a game, I'm done.

Jack Nastyface · August 04, 2012, 09:09:45 PM

If anyone is still paying attention...having completed the original Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis campaign in Veteran mode, I should be able to finish the last few missions of Resistance this weekend.

Gusington · August 05, 2012, 01:25:59 PM

20.00 still seems high to me until Toonces comes back and describes how fantastic Dawnguard is. And that is from a guy who routinely goes back to previously played titles.

Toonces · August 05, 2012, 02:10:07 PM

I didn't play enough last night to give honest "first impressions" because I think I need to spend at least another hour with it before it opens up. I'll keep you posted.

meadbelly · August 05, 2012, 02:18:48 PM

Quote from: undercovergeek on August 03, 2012, 04:59:20 AM
After a **** week at work and Undercover Junior going on holiday with her mum, its 'tension release weekend' with a gaming buddy, which roughly translated means, 20-30 bottles of Crabbies, 2 bottles of Irish to drop into the crabbies, a joint of beef fillet, cooked slowly and converted into beef sandwiches whilst playing MW3 and GRFS on PS3 til stupidly early, a few hours sleep, a full english breakfast and it starts all over again til Monday morning when we drag our asses back to work. Im 40 and hope i never grow out of this!

For the moments of sobriety today, theres still a bit of work to do on CMFI (only just occurred to me i have it for free!)

im intrigued by the new PON patch - need a weekend of solitude for that

2 new CMBN/CW PBEMS having joined a gaming club website

and a quick go on NWAC which i find very relaxing and enjoyable

Have a good weekend all

I want to be your friend. :)

undercovergeek · August 05, 2012, 03:11:53 PM

lol youre welcome MB - gaming has come to a close - chilling on sofa with tea and biccies - had some epic maps, had some shocking maps - all in all a good gaming weekend - back to CK2 and NWAC next week

Greybriar · August 05, 2012, 03:24:26 PM

Yesterday I had a craving flung on me to play Railroad Tycoon II, so I played a couple of scenarios in the campaign. Today I got curious enough about Fortune Winds: Ancient Trader that I bought, downloaded, installed and played it.

Huw the Poo · August 05, 2012, 03:28:46 PM

Quote from: undercovergeek on August 05, 2012, 03:11:53 PM
lol youre welcome MB - gaming has come to a close - chilling on sofa with tea and biccies - had some epic maps, had some shocking maps - all in all a good gaming weekend - back to CK2 and NWAC next week

See the Warlock multiplayer thread, mate. ;)

MengJiao · August 06, 2012, 08:54:47 AM

Quote from: Jack Nastyface on August 04, 2012, 09:09:45 PM
If anyone is still paying attention...having completed the original Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis campaign in Veteran mode, I should be able to finish the last few missions of Resistance this weekend.

Wow! Very cool.

I did as planned in DCCB: redeployed the Soviet 6th Army, did a fighting withdrawal from the Kerch Peninsula, sank an Italian S-Boat off Roumania, bombarded the stuffing out of the Luftwaffe around the Sea of Azov, broke through north of Kharkov, destroyed most of the 23rd PZ up there as well as 2 Hungarian Divisions and Two German divisions. Of course, since it is May 1942, STAVKA isn't firing on all cylinders so I might not even take Kharkov before the Germans punch a hole somewhere and I have to go defensive. Right now STAVKA rates the battle as rather a low-prestige level 7 offensive and I was lucky to get 100 extra fighters out of them before my Political Points went so low that I can barely replace bad Army Commanders with mediocre Army Commanders.

Meanwhile, Fontenoy turned up and I'll post about that in the Wargames section

Fetrik · August 06, 2012, 10:47:47 AM

I saw a couple of vids of Victoria 2 and bought it with the expansion on the GG sale and played a bit as the Chinese empire as a learning game. Good fun.

W8taminute · August 06, 2012, 12:34:30 PM

Almost finished with Mass Effect. I also had an itch for some CiV on my computer. Something I haven't done in a long time. Played the mod called R.E.D. WW2 Europe edition. I highly recommend this mod for those of you who enjoyed the HOI series as a lot of the features of that game have been implemented in turn based form in CiV.

Arctic Blast · August 06, 2012, 01:41:35 PM

Ended up with a hankering to replay Alpha Protocol. I played it for about 10 hours yesterday. :D

TGIF - F R I D A Y Gaming Thread - what's going down?

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