melkathi

Haven't played any wargame since Tom Clancy's EndWar. Which was very much fun shouting commands into the mic - when the voice recognition understood what I was saying. Before that I played a bit of S.W.I.N.E.

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I now know how Stannis must have felt. As I mentioned, when Duke Moray rebelled against the crown, I spend the whole rebellion holding out in my keep, under siege. Now I'm not going to start a discussion on how realistic it is that 1400 attackers laying siege to 1300 defenders have only 100 casualties while the defenders are decimated... But the rebellion was put down. Of all the king's vassals, I was the one who suffered the most from the rebellion. What does the git do? A few years later he starts a plot to assassinate me... Serves him right that he was then overthrown by the Duchess Moray... First thing that happens after? The old king's son, now Duke of Albany, appoints me his chancelor and upon his death I am appointed regent for his son. Now to figure out what I can do as Regent. I now feel like Tyrion btw...

Started a game. Shorty McLeod, Earl of Artholl. Shortly after the game began, the Duke of Moray, my direct neighbour, created a faction in favour of eclectic monarchy and before hardly anyone had time to join, presented an ultimatum and declared war on the king of Scottland. The king called the levies and went to subjugate Ross, while the Duke of Moray let his army south to lay siege to me. the earl of Fife created a faction in support of Moray and declared war on Scotland, but as Moray had already rebelled and wasn't part of Scotland, the Casus Beli was invalidated right away so Fife could revolt - for no lack of trying - he declared war 5 times, each invalidated right away. Meanwhile I was under siege. I couldn't actually do anything. I couldn't join the rebelion as I couldn't swear allegiance to Moray, being a de jure vassal of someone else. I could also not try a counter-attack, as I had no Casus Beli - being under siege by a rebel army during a civil war not being reason for hostilities apparently. This whole situation produced a realistic response in my character and he became "stressed". I seriously don't see how this game can be getting so much praise.

It wasn't on sale when I checked. :/

At uni we had students quite often show up during lectures to ask if they could hand out their survey in the last 5 minutes. Can't remember how many I filled in

Happy birthday

That's Telltale: they grabbed all the IPs people just love and thus can creat average games and still get praise Though Sam and Max does have some great humour and I am looking forward to Fables.

Got carried away playing the final mission in the monthly in Anno 2070. When I finally beat it it was 7AM. Good thing its Sunday. Got a real shock watching my stats for the mission. 16 hours 47 minutes play time.... seeing how I played from around midnight to 7AM that kinda seemed odd. Game calculates how long it would have taken if it had been played at normal speed. Since I played a lot on fast forward, my actual 2 hours during the day and 7 hours at night were turned into over 16 hours in-game time Silly silly

I think you just called BruceVC fat. I mean, refering to him as "a bunch" ? Uncalled for. Really uncalled for

I started with a duchy (Saxony). I'd prefer to start as tiny as possible to truly manage to rise to power from humble-ish beginnings. Though at the moment I am more inclined to just start a new dynasty in The Guild. At least that game I understand what is going on

I'm sure you understood what he meant though. It's the internet. Understanding is like facts: manipulated to suit the poster's view

See, if that happened to me, I'd have three women not talking to me Though they may form a political party adn run in the next election with the slogan "Nothing is wrong. We aren't angry. But the thing that isn't wrong and the anger we are so not feeling are all Melkathi's fault". Decided to draw some teddy bears. For some reason all the pencils on my drawing table are wierd types: two 3Hs, two 3Bs, a 4H, a 6B and two Fs. What happened to the good ol' HB?

First impression of the game isn't all that positive. The ridiculous tutorial that states: "These are the additions since the previous game" does not help to improve my mood. Making a tutorial and then aim it at the people who already know the series It took a couple of minutes for me to break the tutorial; take it and run it against a wall, causing it such severe blunt trauma that it had to be taken to hospital with a severe concussion. After it got patched up (alt ctrl delete) I was nice to it and decided to avoid breaking it again. Not that it did much more than saying "Hi! This button here is called that" yay. Those tooltips I can get during the normal game... The game started and I was greeted by message spam: 30 messages on who supports who as heir to the Holy Roman Empire. Then armies started to move all over the place. Of course there were no messages about what my direct neighbours were up to. One province bordering to mine turned red. I would assume that meant we were at war, but who knows. At the same time, an army moved towards the province of a vassal of mine. I decided to raise my levies and send them there. My brother in law apparently did the same and we slaughtered the invaders. The provinces that army came from turned red as well with a note "holy war". Yay! I said to myself and send my armies on. One to aid a neighbouring province that was under siege by the pagans and one for a counterattack. My armies just stood there. Apparently I too had to declare war, it wasn't enough that they had attacked me. I tried to declare war but could not. The reason? I was not allowed to declare war while having raised my levies. So if I get attacked, I must raise my armies to defend, but to then press the enemy back I have to disband my armies to declare war? Errrrrrr.... this sounds as if something went seriously wrong with the game. I'll leave it for now and will give it another go at a later point.

DLCs too? Everything except the last one with them pagans

Its Saint's Row. It's all about blowing things up. Why should the Fourth Wall be spared? And if itsn't the Saints bashing it in with a big, purple nsfw object, then it would probably be Professor Genki turning it into a Murder Time - Fun Time attraction.

75% Off on Steam as of right now

It's a paradox deal until the 24th. So wait just before the weekend ends to see if it goes cheaper

As a citizen of the state in which something is rotten, I was certain you would know

[Curtains open: Enter Hurlshot stage right] Hurlshot: Alas, Mike! I know him well, Bruce: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath thumped me over the head a thousand times with a hockey stick

*waits patiently for Hurlshot to bring undisputable proof that he does in fact know Mike*

Yeah might as well wait through the paradox weekend and see how prices are going.

I have heard this said before. I can't remember that battle though. At all. So for me it must have been easy with Katarina kitted out.

Rajani is probably the worst part of the game. I think she is part of the reason why I didn't get far on my second playthrough.

Your patience paid off: TW2 70% off today.