melkathi

I have been curious about that myself.

And Zoraptor is successfull Only took three and a half hours for someone to get annoyed For me Steam turned out not to offer the user friendly service I would require, so while I own games on the platform, I will choose to buy on GoG instead whereever possible. I have been moving country rather often lately and Steam does not like that, locking me out of my Steam wallet every time. To unlock the funds in my Steam Wallet for use, customer support kindly explained to me that I would need to make a completly new purchase / add funds to my wallet with a new credit card from the new location each time I move. Simply put: "Pay us so you can access the credit you have with us". Erm... no thanks. I moved country four times in the past two years and will move again before the end of this year. I am not going to open up a new bank account, get a new credit card just because Steam decided that "In the past you paid with a credit card from a different country than your current IP. Make a purchase with a credit card from your current country to remove the region lock on your account."

Tried playing Borderlands 2 again. Game rubs me the wrong way though and just can't seem to enjoy it the way I did the previous one.

GMT+2 Melkathi = Melkathi very original I know I'll have to transfer to wahetever server we end up playing I guess. Or do we make new accounts? Edit: also, do we use any voice chat thingiemagickgadget?

Hey I'll try and make a couple of games. Will be out of town half of next week, but other than that. I'm not very experienced when it comes to LoL, but my fairly good characters are Soraka, Morgana, Cassiopeia and Annie... in that order I guess I am CET+1. So nearly same timezone as you two CETs.

I would have joined as Soraka, but you already have a priest

He means me

If they made some strange fairy tale rpg. Or an interesting Steampunk setting. Or something very punky cyberpunk. Or if they did a Tron RPG. Yeah, I'd play that. But franchises that I don't care for? Nah.

At least you are suggesting that they keep picking it back up Hi Melk I like Bioware and despite all this "Bioware Bashing" I guarantee you that almost every person on these forums who claims to dislike Bioware and that there games are sub-par will play Dragon Age 3 when its released. Mark my words I wont. And I think I proved that by not playing ME3 Sub-par... Bioware has entrenched itself in a specific niche, with a very specific style which does not appeal to me. It is far less a "bioware is bad" issue than the hordes of people who very vocaly will explain how they are perfect, which in turn will make those who disagree with that position to overly disagree. I do take offense when a "serious" gaming journalist drools over the consequences in Mass Effect and then discards the writing in Alpha Protocol as shallow for example. BACK ON TOPIC: ( ) I accidentally deleted my continuous game in Anno 2070. Warehouses full of resources. 2.12 million credits. A research town churning out prototypes... all gone... So I have to start a new game and get back countless hours of playtime.

At least you are suggesting that they keep picking it back up

He does that sometimes, doesn't he?

Played a bit more of Impire. It has still quite a number of bugs. The devs are actve on the forum which gives a bit of hope that they will fix them. Of course there was an unfortunate incident of a dev telling players to learn to play... and sporting a steam username "LOL y u mad tho". That did not help the studio. Obviously there have been tons of apoligies and a change in name... Game turns out to be far far froma Dungeon Keeper clone. It's an RTS witha small number of units. In that it is closer to Dawn of War 2 I guess. It is interesting and has great art style and attention to detail. It does need polish though. I don't regret getting it, but I cannot at the moment recommend it 100%. Then again, I would not recommend without at least some reservation buying Fallout 3 either because of the bugs inherent in nearly every Bethesda game So it's a fun little game. It has a reasonable price. It is deffinitly not what many people expect from it though and it does need a patch (which has been promised to come soon).

I'll do some more poking and searching for stop options next time it remember to bother me about it

I played that hard and fast. You may have noticed, the last mission spawns the highest level hero of each of the sphere mission chains (the reason why the third mission is important after all: it allows for more XP for the heroes). Your hero will very likely be so powerful that you can simply charge one wizard's capital and kill him, then recruit the hero of that sphere and move on like that. You may very well be able to kill off three oponents before the computer's armies are so big as to put a stop to that by threatening Merlin. The map is symmetrical. You can just decide ona direction, clockwise or anti clockwise, and circle around it hitting capital cities which wil be similarly positioned to your own. It has been many years, so my memory isn't 100% on this, but it may actually be possible to recruit one or two of the other heroes before the AI has time to do so.

You need to write a song about it and upload it to youtube. My personal youtube updates are getting boring

I think some of their units will be integrated into the theocrat class units.

Started playing "Impire" It's a dungeon keeper style game I guess. You build a dungeon. Heroes assault you. Your monsters kill them. The bad difference: rooms have preset blueprints. You can only rotate them and place them, but no deciding size like in dungeon keeper. The good new things: Baal, your character increases in level and gets upgrades hat actually have an effect on appearance (I just got bigger wings). You can raid the world above by sending units to target locations up there. It's nothing special really, just a unit traveling on the world map to a one room location where it fights some people. Still it adds a nice dimension to the game. Your imps actually have to work in rooms for the rooms to function. So one of your imps will have to work as a cook in the kitchen for example. In the training room, to be able to train a creature from level 2 to level 3 you have to first capture a hero and have him usd as a training dummy...

Nothing to do with Shadow Magic. Remember how between AoW and AoW2 they killed off the Lizardmen and Azrac? AoW3 they are killing off the Archons and turning them into undead. Probably to justify players being able to play an undead theocracy.

*Possible spoilers for those in the thread who haven't palyed the games* The people at Triumph did some fairly good work when it comes to evil characters. Meandor is a good example, but if you remember one of the Bonus missions in AoW2 had Karissa being chased by the conspirators because, even though evil, she refused to join them, seeing their plan as madness. And if Karissa recognizes you as power hungry and mad... well then that says a lot So since you are a fan, if you don't mind the spoilerish question, what is your opinion on the fate of the Archons in AoW3? And of course the evil campaign in the original AoW. That is probably the evil story I have enjoyed the most in any game.

I have one question running around in my head, hammering against the walls and shouting: Ask Bruce about this! Ask Bruce about this! So, what about the chef?

Well, if you do, I hope you'll enjoy them. As you can tell, it's one of those game series that managed to attract a following... even though they never were as big as some titles. Anything you need, you know where to find us

I can't really answer that without spoilers. Let's just say that playing all missions will have an effect on the last mission gameplay wise but not story wise. As games they are deffinitly worth it. I re-bought them on GoG though. I don't trust Steam as much when it comes to ensuring that old games are playable. I haven't replayed AoW2 yet. AoW1 in the GoG version works fine with wide screen though everything is a bit smaller than I am used to. http://imageshack.us/f/821/aow1007.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/f/210/aow1015.jpg/ I have a journal for my playthrough on another forum (need to update that soon with the newest entries): http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,3043.0.html

We should be able to see Meandor. Two thousand years shouldn't mean much to him at least. Julia has been the poster girl of the series. It will feel a bit wierd without her. But I am not sure the old characters will have a place in the third age. Orcs will also be strange if completly free of Karissa's influence. I'll kinda miss all those wizards. Except for Serena perhaps. Never could stand her.

I thought everything in the game was weak against that

Pretty much this. Then again it's the same bugs that were in Oblivion and before that in Morrowind. Bethesda is very protective of its bugs and is very keen to see nothing bad happening to them