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Red Dead Redemption: Finished, waiting for Undead Nightmare pack

bout time

How do I add you guys?
Says I need your character ID to, not only your nickname?

My is Ondskan/319

If you've got TF2, hell any steam game, we should play some time. Steam ID is firebat1690 to anybody who's interested. I'm also in the #fallout steam group.

Superhaze wrote:Playing Victoria 2 with Transvaal. Occupied most of portugals territories in africa, and colonized most of the congo and zambia. Currently fighting some 400,000 Anarchist rebels, and half my army cannot be trusted as they are not boers, and thus, potential rebels. Balancing this shit on a knife-edge, while staying old-school anti-socialist is tough as hell. :/

The rebellion noise gets completely out of hand. I abandon games as the 20th century approaches because constantly smiting down the heathen unbelievers as they rise up [bi-monthly] by the half-millions [literally] gets to be pretty damn annoying when I'm trying to slap a foreign nation across the face.

I played a game as Texas, was saved by the United States, didn't join, conquered the confederacy, fought Mexico, got Oregon and Washington, then became a state to the union. Started from the last point as the United States with the republic of Texas joining, and I just formed the entirety of the continental United States without going to war, no infamy, and nobody pissed off at me.

Keeping the peace is a bitch! I gave up as the british colonized asia (!) including japan, korea, india and motherfucking china and subsequently decided to crush some boers in africa with no casu-belli. The brits are assholes.

I think there is a bit of an issue with rebellions as well. First you have waves upon waves of anarchists, then socialists, then fascists etc. They never seem to have trouble getting more people to join their rebellion even if i tax them 0% (zero percent) and they have a high life quality, free education and all kinds of social benefits. But NO! they still demand to vote. Still demand to have a free press and all kinds of other reforms. I mean, even the goddamn fascists arent happy with my presidential dictatorship.

As I understand, the latest patch is supposed to fix this, but I have yet to give it a full proper go, so I'm unsure if it actually fixes the rabid masses.


I did try texas once. got raped by the mexicans and surrendered after only a few years. It was embarrasing.

Maybe they just don't like you.

I see you havent ventured into the world of Paradox games.

I have not. Is the game very good, though? Seems like it is.

Superhaze wrote:I see you havent ventured into the world of Paradox games.

I could never manage. I think I installed one once and I got afraid and closed my computer.

Tell me if the rebellions bug is fixed, I'll try it.

Paradox makes some of the best games out there, and that's huge considering how frustrating they can be for lack of quality control. They're one of the few companies that can cast a wide net with intent in game development and actually catch a hell of a lot in it [albeit buggy].

Also, paradox is rilly the only studio that doesnt dumb its chit down.

True. They definitely streamline things as new games are released, but really the major changes from HOI/HOI2/HOI3 are all removing shit elements or just improving on them and increasing the functionality/visibility of others. It's still as complex, just a bit easier to digest and handle.

They're the last game company that releases a manual that is a novel unto itself.

mothafookin streamlined?

HoI 3 is the only game I have ever played that I thought was to complex, to big, to massive for its own good.

It is soooo not streamlined. You have to in detail form every little command-unit-ladder-thingy if you want to rape the AI on some decent difficulty as Germany or an even smaller country.


Are you seriously saying that HoI3 is easier to digest than HoI1? Have you actually payed the game? Gawd...

Serious? HoI 3 was fucking awesome. Just man up and play the game a few times and you will love it.

There is so much awesome in that game I dont even know where to begin. Army structure, research, terrain and supplylines, night-bombing raids and battle-fleet action in the north sea.

Fuck it, I'm installing HoI again. Fallout will have to wait.

I don't actuall have the full game and I feel bad for playing a pirated version. But I tried the demo and it was just to complicated. I know there are these AI things that can handle alot for you but I don't know how to demand units from the AI for example if I let it build.

It's really the most encompassing game ever to be made. I once had a dream about a game like this ALSO incuding a FPS version while you are fighting battles :p I see I might have wanted to much ^^
It would be great for long multiplayer sessions but now I'm not talking about 6 players vs each other.

I'm talking about like 6 players per nation vs 6 other nations with 6 players per nation O_o
They really outdid themselves.

Maybe one day when I get alot of free time I'll take it up.
The AI seems quite competent to. I'm pretty good in HoI2 but they seem to have improved here.

Meh.
Do you know any other grandstrategy games that are good?
I'm also interested in something like Panzer General or Strategic Commander or Battle of Wesnoth if you got anything.

I have to admit that after I started playing HoI 2 I never bothered with finding another grand strategy game. It just covers everything.

Have you played Achtung Panzer: Karkov? I found the game mechanics to be somewhat counter intuitive, and I kept playing it like it was Company of Heroes, resulting in me getting killed in droves by ambushes. Its probably a very good game, but never got into it as much as I wanted to.

Cant think of any similar ones, but go to paradoxplaza.com and they have a list of all their releases including complete games based on the HoI 2 engine, they look great, but havent had the time to try them yet. Im also looking forward to Supreme Ruler: Cold War as I still have fun installing superpower 2 and creating havoc with my terror-cells. One time I got france to nuke Algeria because I framed Algeria for a massive spree of terrorist bombing in france. Good times.

Achtung panzer seems similiar to theatre to war and that stuff does seem cool. But it might be to heavy for my computer. It overheats so easily in long gaming sessions.


Im ashamed to say Ive never played company of heroes. I should try that. It really seems cool. Can you play online?[/quote]