Mamoulian War

It is possible, if you have GOG game, and are using GOG Galaxy 1.1+

well, now I am confused... so many here plays Mad Max and it get's Reviews like this http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/09/whatever-youre-looking-for-in-a-mad-max-game-mad-max-isnt-it/ or this http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/09/mad-max-review/

After long break, I spent few more hours to continue in my Europa Universalis Campaign. If you are interested, you can read about it here https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page5

Well, After reading some people have trouble with manually updating the game, I have done some experiments. It looks, that the correct gog manual installation is running first the PoE 2.01 patch, and the running Winter March 2.01 patch. After this procedure, the game after launch correctly shows the version of the game as 2.01.0721 PX1 If you are using GOG galaxy as well, turn off autoupdate for PoE, despite being at correct version, Galaxy still wants to redownload whole 6GB of patches again!!! I hope this helps...

And this is why I love Japan! :-P http://www.siliconera.com/2015/09/04/omega-labyrinth-will-have-you-go-panty-collecting-in-dungeons-to-power-up/ You power up your characters by collecting panties in dungeons :-P

Well, it's done when it's done. I bet, that I want to play it as much as you, but storming their forums will not make the game release sooner I rather wait one more year for bug free release, than to play bug infested rushed game, which would deeply harm my enjoyment of the final product. As I know Obs for a long time, it will be neither of the two cases But I hope they will lean more toward the bug free one

Hello BAdler. I have installed PoE 2.0 and White March Part 1 from GoG. I just noticed that there are two updates available: One is PoE 2.01 and second one is WM 2.01. GoG Galaxy started to download 6GB patch automatically, but both of these patches when downloaded manualy are just 244MB in total. I have decided to do manual update, because my download speed is terrible. Do you know the answer, if I should apply both patches (with vanilla PoE first) or just the White March one? No words on GOG forums yet. Thank you.

Btw. Physical copy of PC MGS contains on the disk only Steam installer. So you might think about cancelling your preorder. You will have to download it anyway. http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/31/metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-pc-disc-only-contains-steam-installer/

Well, it is very special kind of game :-P. It is Japan comedy with lot of pantyshots, but I actually enjoyed the gameplay. There are only 3 games in main series though, and all of them have Vita remakes. Maybe that makes people think that they are soamming the releases on a daily basis. Other games are just spinoffs, because people love the characters a lot. There is no other game, where you play "flat and really dumb" main character So if you have problem with Japan being Japan, you will for sure hate the game. First was fun, but it has strange gameplay mechanics. Second completely overhauled the combat system, and the third expanded on it. If you would like to try, either go for Hymerdymension mk2 first or just buy the trilogy compilation on one disc. Either way, it is not game for everyone. Especially not for the the so called SJWs :-P Btw, the Vita remakes might be available on Steam as well. If you do not mind the service.

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/09/02/megadimension-neptunia-vii-arrives-in-north-america-and-europe-in-early-2016/ Another Neptunia game coming to the West soon :-P

British Museum had an gaming exhibition! http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/09/hearthstone-exhibited-as-modern-art-at-the-va-museum-in-london/ We're slowly getting there! :-P

Not much gaming news, but related. If you care about it, MS have stealthily pushed "Win10-like" updates to Win 7 and 8, which might infringe on your privacy. http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/09/microsoft-accused-of-adding-spy-features-to-windows-7-8/

Well if it is fan service to the typical tea-bagging Halo players, I will gladly pass the game

I was finally able to rewrite the last two parts of my Europa Universalis playthrough. I have found out, that I completely forgot about one quick war, which happened before the last big one. All fixed now :D You can check it out with pictures on the link below https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page4

The last FF game I liked was X, but IX was the last really good one. I loved IX a lot. I actually played it after X and X-2. When I played FFXII second time, to my surprise I somehow found it enjoyable as well. First playthrough was boring and I hated the gambit system. It looked like MMO to me. XIII was mediocre, but still I have kind of liked the game... There must be something wrong with me... XIII-2 was much better game, and I enjoyed it a lot. But Lightning Returns?... Even bigger disappointment for me than the Original Campaign of Neverwinter Nights... I wish I could forget about it Yes it makes sense, I feel the same, and from what I heard, lot of Final Fantasy fans as well...

We have state holiday here today, so I used the free time, to rewrite and add pictures to Parts 4, 5 and 6 of my EU sessions https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page3 I have found today, that will latest drivers, my PC has became capable of using ShadowPlay to record or stream. I have also found out, that 5 minutes of High quality recording uses 1,9GB of HDD :-/ Has any of you tried out to work with it? I am thinking, if it is worth to use in some cases while playing for example Lords of Xulima or other older games.

Some more news revealed about FFXV on PAX. http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xv-details-on-how-youll-get-to-cruise-on-the-regalia/ http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xvs-leviathan-revealed-to-be-female-and-concept-art-details/ http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xvs-release-date-will-be-announced-in-march-2016/ The game will be definitely released in 2016, but the more info they show, the more I am afraid it will be another boring singleplayer MMO walking simulator with sucky action combat like Lightning Returns:FFXIII Man it sold less copies then Bravely default on NDS for a reason FFS As I know myself, I am sucker into this franchise, so I will probably cave in and buy it despite all the warning signs... But at this point I am more anticipating the new Star Ocean 5 game from SE... IMO Namco Bandai already surpassed SE as a leading developer of true JRPGs with their Atelier and Tales of series, which makes me sad, but on the other hand, they gave me much more fun while playing their game in the last 5 years.

Finished adding more content to me new site about my EU game https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page2 Parts 2 and 3 complete with pictures

I ended up home with stomach problems during last few days, so I have decided to redo the few things I have written here about my playthrough of Europa Universalis and add few of the pictures as well. I made a google sites web page, where, I have corrected few mistakes in chronological order of events and possible made few new, but yeah, **** happens It should be now much corresponding to the reality Anyway, if you'd like, feel free to check it out https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis Only the first part is rewritten yet. Feel free to leave here some insights if you wish. Unfortunately, I do not know how to enable commenting on the site for other people, without allowing them to edit whole page. If any of you have experience with it, please let me know, how to allow it. Thanks

I have EU2 as well I will play it later this year, because I have still pretty big backlog of games. And I really wanted to start with the oldest game The biggest thing I like already about EU2 is that you can choose from big number of countries compared to 8 in EU1. I will have to do lot of thinking before starting this one

Then I think I have made the right choice to start from the oldest one The learning curve should not be so steep as well, like if I would start right away with newer games

Haha, no worries I never played any Paradox game except CK1 for a brief time So it was big unknown for me. Once I have seen all of their older games for sale on GOG, so I decided to give it a try and start from the oldest And I am having a blast!!!

Manual says, that in EU 1 the Major Powers cannot be annexed (in Grand Campaign, Turkey is one of the Major Powers), so I would presume, that it is impossible to occupy their capital as well. Turkey is the only Major power which I have come so close to their capital, so I was never that close to victory over them.

Europa Universalis kind of LP Part 8 - Day 10: I started to play today, hoping that I would continue to build up my army and infrastructure, but almost immediately after the last peace-out France declared war to Spain, and Austria as a good alliance member, joined the fight as well. Spain was in Alliance with The Papal State and The Knights, so having the troops in Naples, I have attacked immediately The Papal State. After a while I have conquered the Apulia province and started moving to the Rome. Right after that, Turkish alliance and alliance of Netherlands declared war on me, too. First thing I have done, was defend against numerous Turkish troops and slowly retaliate Netherlands troops while they were sieging my provinces. Netherlands this time had sent in my way all of their troops, and I was for the first time outnumbered. Thankfully I had almost 4000 Ducats saved, so I built two big armies in Bohemia and Austria immediately, which pretty much saved my ass big time. After few struggles with Turks and their allies I besieged The Cyclades and Morea and offered them peace for both of these provinces. Having lost almost all of their land troops and some ships, they had no other option than to accept. With one of the enemies gone, I have let some troops to look out for rebells and moved all of my remaining troops, except one in Italy, against the super-big Netherlands army, which was ransacking my northern provinces. They already conquered three of them Meanwhile my Italian troop was helping out with sieging Rome, and after a few months, The Papal State was crushed, with Apulia going to me and Rome going to France. I was hoping to get both of them, but sometimes your plans are prone to fail I tried to go against The Knights as well. Their only province was on Rhodes Island was heavily fortified and there was almost no food, which meant that almost immediately after starting the siege, I lost half the my army and caused them almost no harm. I decided to retreat and after a while Spain offered me peace for 250 Ducats, which I rather accepted. With Spain out of the way, it was time to go all out against Netherlands. Thankfully France have weakened them a little bit near their borders, so I was able to rebuild all of my lost troops and sting their big army. With big casualties on both sides, I was able to destroy them and after another few months I got back all of my lost provinces as well. I spent more than 4000 Ducats to be able to recover from big loses, which Netherlands caused me. And I think, they lost almost as much. Both of us ended up really decimated, so this time, the only option I had was to offer them white peace and pay Denmark 250 Ducats to immediately cease fire, because they were allied with China, which was causing big havoc in my colonies on Malay peninsula . All in all, I think I have lost more than 150,000 soldiers in this war!!! Well time of peace arrived again, and in January, I got pretty big financial boost, because during this war, in my colony of Malacca was formed new very rich Center of Trade. This helped me with rebuilding some troops. I have checked the Relation standing with Venice and decided to give it little bit of boost as well. I was lucky and got up to 200 again. I checked them on month later, and to my surprise, the game offered me the option of diplomatic annexation, because they were my vassals for very long time. Little bit afraid I offered them to become part of my Reich, and they accepted. With this deal, seven Venice provinces have joined me. Spending big money on keeping good Relation with your allies is really worth it in this game. During this war I was also able to upgrade Singapore colony to city, and 500 natives, still living there have became citizens as well. I built small army there as well, to be more ready for defense, if China decides to harass me again. I also sent another 100 colonists to Phuket, and after arriving there, I have successfully founded one more colony in South East Asia. My personal goal of getting Turkey out of Europe has been fulfilled. The still have in Europe province of Thrace, but because it is their capital, the game does not allow to conquer it The plan for now, is to rebuild all of my armies, and to try to get as long peace as possible, because all the ex-Venice provinces will be prone to rebellions. It could be little bit hard this time, because after this annexation, I got into negative Relation with France, which might cause me some troubles in coming years. They grew pretty powerful in last few wars. Thankfully my Relation with Scotland, Spain and Denmark is pretty high now, so hopefully I will not be forced into all-out war again, like last time.

Ok, thanks for the quick answers I will think about creating account then. Now that I started to play more on PC again, I might find it useful