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Steadman 05/15/13 (Wed) 01:54:51 No.177277 [Reply]

Favorite mods for Mount & Blade: Warband?

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 09:01:02 No.177639

>>177277
Hey Steadman, I know you were looking forward to Darkfall Unholy Wars. How was that game?

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 12:31:54 No.177659

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>>177636

You're telling ME about WarRider?

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 16:32:33 No.177698

>>177659
Was it originally going to have dungeons? Looks pretty cool.

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 20:16:21 No.177837

>>177612
Day Z - Even worse.
Speaking of, how's that doing? Is there any endgame yet?

bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/22/13 (Wed) 21:22:42 No.177857

>>177837
>Day Z - Even worse.

Heh true. The zombies just run at you and you're suppose to defend yourself with your team mates. I say that because it's impossible to solo and since the servers are dead it doesn't help.

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christfag !IRoBOQheBg 05/21/13 (Tue) 08:54:00 No.177638 [Reply]

i had some first-world problems with my internet last night, the isp going down all over Belfast - and i thought, no worries, i'll just fire up Steam and play a game

thing is, even though i wanted to use the offline mode, steam said no because it couldn't sign in to the network to initialise offline - something about not having sign-in details stored on my PC

i thought this was pretty silly, but it made me think about all those games which require one to be online to play…and i think that's the most poop-headed move any company has ever implemented

but anyways; i was okay so don't worry - i just had a nice quiet evening instead

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 23:38:39 No.177743

>>177717
The vanilla game is amusing, but like all Elder Scrolls since Morrowind, it shines in its mods. I have played it much longer than any game deserves to be played. I just keep starting new and varied characters.

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 00:27:34 No.177746

>>177705
Not OP, but while Ulfric is a shithead, and I have always been a diehard Imperialist…THEY are the traitors. They have not just sided with filthy murderous Thalmor, they have given them full reign over the empire. It won't destroy the Empire, but it is enough to kick it hard in the teeth until the Thalmor slip up and show their true face to the Empire once more, so Humanity and Beastfolk can finally unite and rise against the Mer (Dark Elves and Orks are aiight).

It is a double insult to Tiber Septims' legacy, regardless of his divinity (hey, his shrine cures and blesses me…sounds like a deity to me.)

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 11:35:40 No.177788

>>177731
You too? I'm on Virgin and my butts are awful. The DL rates are solid but the bandwidth capping, poor uptime and shitty routers is a pain

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 11:37:52 No.177789

>>177746

Dark Elves are the sycophantic cousins of the Altmer, and their lore is the niggest of them all.

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 21:12:27 No.177853

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>>177746

You do realize that the Empire only agreed to the White-Gold Concordat as a temporary reprieve to rebuild forces before going back to war? Even Ulfric comes to figure this out and regret his rebellion when you kill him.

> tfw You realize instead of training able soldiers to use the voice to win a war with the Thalmor Ulfric rebelled against the Empire and weakened both it and Skyrim

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FatFuck!!umbehAyV6c 05/19/13 (Sun) 21:49:51 No.177545 [Reply]

You know why I can't get into many RTS games, /v/?

Because this was my first RTS game. War Wind came out in 1996 and it was hard as balls. You start off with limited units and mined for resources and such like typical RTS games, but if you wanted a better unit you had to TRAIN your previous units and slowly build up a decent army all while being assaulted nearly constantly from enemy attacks that only got more and more deadly as time went on. It seems pretty standard fare, but there were times when there was one and ONLY one correct way to win a map (and most were puzzle like in their creation) which meant you could spend hours implementing the wrong strategy to get utterly destroyed because you have focused on a few elite forces to get an early strike at the other side of the map.

All other RTS games were for scrubs to me.

What game did you play that soured your taste for other games in the same genre because others simply couldn't compare?

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Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 16:52:14 No.177602

>>177599
>Warcraft 3

It's a shame half the players on Battle.net were/are autists that only play Dota

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 16:10:28 No.177691

Red
Alert
2
still have it installed and play it ocasionally, prism tanks OP AS SHIT though

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 20:26:27 No.177840

>>177691
It is the most fun RTS there is.
Hands down.
Not the most skill dependent, or complicated, just the most fun.
I find it more fun to turtle and make fuckawesome bases and patrol routes personally, but that's just me.
Any RTS that rewards turtling and having intriquite basebuilding? I really liked making units patrol an area in a good group, or having walls surrounding my bases with the entry being guarded by a pillbox or a pair of deployed GIs.

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 20:33:02 No.177841

>>177840
I like turtling and sending enemy after enemy into the meat grinder in Yuri's revenge.
hilarious to watch an entire army turn on itself, and then walk willingly into death

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 20:34:51 No.177842

>>177841
Allies have the most satisfying bases for me, but Yuri is a close second. If they had a more diverse building selection they would be #1.
I tried playing Epsilon Omega or whatever but I couldn't get it to work on W7.

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 10:43:01 No.177644 [Reply]

are there any good mmorpgs left?

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 16:34:57 No.177701

>>177644
Do you like Sandbox Survival RPG's?

Try Wurm Online, it's one of the best. It's what Minecraft was supposed to be and is the original game Notch was working on until he ditched it and made the dumbed down version you see today.

You might remember the game as having bad graphics but they recently re-did a ton of models, added new animations, and have been refining the graphics over the course of years. On maximum settings it's one of the best looking PC games around. It would be number one if the textures were higher-res.

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 03:11:28 No.177756

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Not really since DFO shut down in the states. Tera was fun for a few months, but I eventually cooled off on it because there wasn't enough variation in the fighting.

>friends keep trying to get me into DnD online and Star Trek
>absolutely nothing depends on the skill of the player, and instead rests entirely on how leveled your character is

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 12:51:20 No.177793

Dofus is f-n!
It's top-down tactical (like Final Fantasy Tactics)
The starting world is pretty good to get you addicted.
Also Wakfu might still be good (it was godlike in the beta) Player elected officials and stuff.

Steadman 05/22/13 (Wed) 13:12:03 No.177794

>>177700
no

>>177701
>>177701
lol WURM

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 14:24:13 No.177796

>>177794
What's wrong with D:UW?

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"HURR HURR OH GOD FUCK WE ARE SO RETARDED" - Electronic Art Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 11:59:34 No.177650 [Reply]

http://help.ea.com/article/ea-origin-unexpected-downtime

FUCKING hell, these fuckers made me seriously rage with their stupid broken login shit

It's nearly impossible to contact their support directly

I almost thought i've lost my origin account bcuz i couldn't reset my password, i panicked for 10 minutes straight until i saw that the direct website login worked with my normal password and then realized that my account wasn't actually hacked

FUCK

so ya

report in with ur origin rage here if u have any

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 13:51:35 No.177667

Xbox 1 vs Playstation 4.

I know which one I'm gonna pick

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 14:03:50 No.177670

>>177667
PC?

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 22:53:23 No.177740

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>>177665
Holy fucking banana balls

If this is legit then

wow just wow

should one laugh or cry at this

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 04:45:47 No.177764

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>Paying for EA games
>Giving money to satan

Anonymous 05/22/13 (Wed) 07:04:26 No.177775

>>177740
Yea its legit, they are outsourced to India. There are lots of these.

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 21:24:50 No.177734 [Reply]

crowdfarter.com

Nintendo poking fun at all the shitty crowdsourcing kickstarting bullshit, I thought it to be clever. What do you think?

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 21:37:32 No.177736

From your post I didn't realize that this was a Warioware promotion, and until I did I thought this was a retarded fart thing.

Anonymous ## Janitor 05/21/13 (Tue) 22:14:43 No.177738

>>>/v/177594

Please keep it to one thread.

Anonymous ## Mod 05/21/13 (Tue) 22:16:04 No.177739

Thread has been locked (and hence moved to >>>/lock/12939).

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Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 16:39:11 No.177706 [Reply]

What are some more obscure games you enjoy?

I'm getting into Throne Of Darkness, its an RPG where you lead a group of samurais and wreck shit.

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 17:29:05 No.177714

Halo Wars

Greatest console RTS of all time.

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 18:06:09 No.177720

That sounds really neat OP!

Here's mine:
Cataclysm DDA (Zombie apocalypse simulator)
Robot arena 2 (surprisingly fun robot wars game, shame there will never be more made)

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 19:19:28 No.177726

>>177714
I'm pretty sure that was Army Men.

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Penny Arcade: Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/20/13 (Mon) 18:38:29 No.177611 [Reply]

Penny Arcade are giving away Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3. This game is made from the same guys that made Cthulhu saves the world and Breath of Death VII.

It's free, but you have to activate the code on Steam. Grab it now as it's only for today.

http://penny-arcade.com/static/rainslick-giveaway

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:00:30 No.177614

Coolio, I have it.
What sorta game is it/

bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:48:03 No.177615

>>177614
It's like a retro SNES JRPG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQN7Hoy7mA

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 14:55:49 No.177684

>We're all out of codes. Thanks for playing!
fug

bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/21/13 (Tue) 19:01:10 No.177723

>>177684
Apparently it was possible to get multiple codes by redoing the captcha. I'm pretty sure someone out there collected a lot of spare codes.

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 19:12:19 No.177725

>>177723
I collected enough for everyone who was in the steam group chat, but the site sometimes gave duplicate codes so no can do.

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Anonymous 05/18/13 (Sat) 17:45:27 No.177476 [Reply]

http://www.easternfront.org/

Anyone here playing this?

I'm looking forward to the introduction of the german Ostheer, because slaughtering masses of soviets with the SS Panzerkorps can become boring pretty quick.

Unfortunately they don't support the retail version anymore and all CoH players need to move to Steam to continue playing multiplayer though.

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Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 03:53:22 No.177505

>>177478

This.
Steam has ruined gaming for me.

The only multiplayer I play nowadays is Enemy Territory and some games on Tunngle.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 04:09:54 No.177510

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Soon you're going to be getting random drops for hats (or in this case, cards) on Steam when you play a game whether you like it or not. And it's going to give you a little colorful notification each time too.

Did I mention they raped how Steam profiles look? See image.

I just want to enjoy video games, Steam. I don't want to participate in your fucking random drop regime and 'level-up'.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 19:16:34 No.177537

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>>177510
That's weird, it doesn't look like that for me at all. Are you viewing from their website by chance?

>>177505
Be glad that Steam is more popular than Origin. It's the lesser of two evils. Valve loves us.

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 06:12:40 No.177566

>>177478
Would you play Dune 2000 with me?
:3

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 14:05:34 No.177671

>>177537
both are awful junk software
i do not see how steam was ever an attractive option

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Steam Shit Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:50:37 No.177617 [Reply]

WTF is this? It's been like this for the last 10 minutes.

How the hell can something that updates every other day still be such a piece of crap?

bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:52:24 No.177618

It's a weird glitch. Exit Steam and restart it. Should work.

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:59:16 No.177620

>>177618

Oh hey, thanks! :D

bizarf!!xvNLZkg.Hc 05/21/13 (Tue) 10:22:47 No.177642

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>>177620
No problem pal.

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Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 08:24:42 No.177573 [Reply]

>this game
>STILL not released
>"overgrowth development video #129383129319090, pre-order plz!"

If development was going to take this long they should have announced it later, not show us every little development aspect of the game via videos over the course of 3+ years. I feel like I played the game already after watching these videos for so long.

Does anyone else just not care anymore?

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Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 09:30:28 No.177582

>every update has a playable alpha package that pre-orderers can play
>because of how complex the game is compared to other shitty indie games it takes more than two months to make
>OP doesn't even want to play it and still bitches while the rest of us run around wolf'ing it up on poor helpless rabbits

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 18:21:41 No.177610

>If development was going to take this long they should have announced it later

No, the game's development is being funded by preorders. They should announce it the instant people are willing to pay for preorders to play the alpha builds.

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 19:55:30 No.177619

They make significant strides and changes every week, plus David is a fucking coding genius so why would you NOT want these videos?

Plus I have gotten something like three other games for free due to preordering it already with the contests they enter occasionally. Stay butt blasted.

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 20:05:50 No.177621

>>177619
>reciever
>that board game
>ninja one
Those three right? or was the board game free?

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 00:25:22 No.177628

>>177621

Low Light Combat
Lugaru HD
Overgrowth Alpha
Receiver

Yeah, so 4.

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Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 05:02:47 No.177556 [Reply]

Is Farmville a good game? Have any of you actually played it? What if it's really good?

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Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 16:45:12 No.177600

It's not good and it's barely a game. It is a Pyramid scheme to get you to beg your friends to play so you can move forward, and if I may put on my /new/ hat, it's how Facebook gets permission to look through your data legally.

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 16:57:37 No.177604

>>177556

>Making corporate logos on a data harvesting site

I FEEL LIKE IM WEARING THE GLASSES FROM THEY LIVE FOR CHRISTS SAKE!

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 17:13:23 No.177605

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>>177604

THIS IS YOUR GOD

Bloodbathbro!TSA1sQGvyw 05/21/13 (Tue) 00:11:11 No.177626

>>177556

I played it when it first came out, I found it kind of fun. That being said your crops grow in real time and used to take a day to mature, so once you "farmed" for like 2 minutes you had jack shit to do.

Then they started adding in the whole interaction thing and it became what it is.

With all of that being said, it has no "fun" aspect with exception to the fact you feel like you're building something.

Anonymous 05/21/13 (Tue) 00:23:38 No.177627

When it first came out I made a very simple looking black man.

Then I would go onto other peoples farms and try to sell them watermelon and cotton.

Then I got banned, even though my friends found it hilarious.

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Anonymous 05/17/13 (Fri) 15:57:55 No.177426 [Reply]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/05/17/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-to-get-pc-release/

>Hideo Kojima has revealed that Konami will be bringing Platinum’s emo-cyborg starring, ridiculous subtitle containing, third-person action slasher Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to PCs. He made the announcement on the Hideradio podcast.

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FatFuck!!umbehAyV6c 05/18/13 (Sat) 16:45:11 No.177467

>>177452

>Jack!
>ROSE!

It's like I am having to sit through fucking Titanic all over again.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 10:10:25 No.177520

>>177467
The Titanic was a masterpiece of movie making and the romance genre you shut your whore mouth

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 07:51:16 No.177568

>>177520
He's pretty much known to be a mindless pleb. Leave him and he will cause no harm

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 09:34:24 No.177583

>>177452
he also does cartwheels and runs around naked

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 18:14:18 No.177609

>>177452
>Raiden was a murder machine before he hit puberty.

That's just some stupid shit you heard in a codec conversation. The series never does anything to earn the reputation a claim like that requires. In fact the series generally does the opposite: Every aspect of Raiden oozes some kid completely detached from real violence. Practically the first thing he says is that he is proud of VR violence and thinks it makes him a real man. He goes on to live in somebody's shadow while trying to man up. By the time of MGS4, he has undergone excessive surgery and fights as though he doesn't give a shit about dying, again because he's trying to live up to Snake. None of this coincides and in fact contradicts a kid who got fucked up murdering a bunch of people. And no "forgetting your past" doesn't count because humans don't do that to that extent, that's just a cover the writer made up because he ass was hanging out.

Shit like this is why people hate MGS2 fans, none of them actually put any thought into the supposedly amazing plot.

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Anonymous 05/18/13 (Sat) 20:42:37 No.177484 [Reply]

New Elder Scrolls Online video, fuckers:

http://youtu.be/ST9D_P0d_Oc

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Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 04:35:28 No.177511

>>177506
Yeah, I've been keeping my eye on Daggerfall XL. Aside from Arena its the only one I haven't played and just want an updated graphics version.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 07:34:03 No.177519

>>177511
Arena was great and I was stuck on it from start to finish, even in 2012. Truly a game that has aged well. Looking into the future I would have never been able to tell Skyrim evolved from it, more like devolved.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 13:07:58 No.177529

>>177519
I think that is true of all modern gaming. The companies are catering to lowest common denominator markets, and intentionally weakening their product of the interest of making it 'accessible', which just means easy and therefore boring.

I haven't seen something like true Elder Scrolls and Ultima Underworld in a long time.

Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 18:14:24 No.177535

in what way other than graphics is this better than maplestory?

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 08:41:01 No.177580

>>177535
You can't even compare those games. It's apples and oranges. You either prefer one or the other.

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Anonymous 05/19/13 (Sun) 20:23:26 No.177541 [Reply]

What are some good examples of "classy" computer games? I am thinking of something in the atmospheric vein of The Last Express, Ultima VII, Conquests, Sakura Taisen, The Last Blade and so forth. Games for Aristocrats of the Soul. now Im just fucking with you

Are there any other games with a certain refined aura or such?

Anonymous!!LVyyLJ1KVU 05/19/13 (Sun) 22:05:57 No.177548

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Duke Nukem 3D

Anonymous 05/20/13 (Mon) 05:01:32 No.177555

The Sims (original)

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