| 22 DEC 2010 at 11:08am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (22 DEC 2010 9:00am)
I only tried to play the tutorial, but I guess I'll skip it then.
*edit* The game works a lot better outside of the tutorial, but I just had a battle with no path to the enemy. The battlefield was cluttered with blocking terrain, so only ranged units could actually fight.
That's strange, and probably a coincidence. IIRC, you can actually choose to restart a battle, and it should give you a different terrain arrangement, since I seem to have noticed that the obstacles are generated randomly.
Let me know what you think of the game otherwise. It seems to be a bit simpler than Disciples 2, so I didn't really need the tutorial, which kept freezing for me. I found the battle visuals quite nice, I must say - do yourself a fave and play around with the battle seetings a bit. You can set all kinds of stuff like camera angle and so on.
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 22 DEC 2010 at 11:50am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | The game sure looks & sounds very nice, but I'm getting a very inconsistent frame rate. Suddenly the game can slow down to a crawl for no apparent reason.
I prefer the battles to those in Disciples 1 & 2, but I think that most creatures can take too much damage in it, making them needlessly drawn out. Also, the AI does not seem to prefer weaker targets, but will instead attack warriors even if they are within movement range of a mage or healer.
*edit* And it started to crash again. After doing a bit of research, there are apparently a few known problems regarding this game and certain nvidia cards.
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| 22 DEC 2010 at 2:34pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Oh no..- what a pity, Fnord. I should count myself lucky then that I don't seem to have any performance issues, since I also run an Nvidia. ..but then look how unlucky I was with ME and Arcania. I'll pick this up again soon, I think.
I hope they will issue a patch that will resolve your problems for you.
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 23 DEC 2010 at 4:45am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I plan to get a new computer next summer, so hopefully I'll be able to play the game then, if no new patches are released.
Pondering if I should pick up Ego Draconis instead. The game should have dropped quite a bit in price by now, at least in some stores.
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| 25 DEC 2010 at 1:48pm |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (20 DEC 2010 11:15pm)
Originally Posted By Inesrocks (20 DEC 2010 7:26pm)
By the way, I'm thinking of buying this one, what do you think? Any comments are very appreciated!
http://www.amazon.com/Seashell-1215N-PU17-BK-12-1-Inch-Netbook-Battery/dp/B0041G5XFQ
Intel Dual Core Atom D525 (1.8GHz);
Nvidia ION 2 graphics with 512mb dedicated video memory
12.1" WXGA (1366x76 LED screen;
2GB DDR3 RAM (2x1GB), 4GB Max
250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM);
No Optical Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (32 Bit)
HDMI out;
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n;
10/100 LAN;
0.3MP Webcam
These netbooks are quite cute, but I would really miss having an optical drive unless you already own a good library of downloadable games.
If I was in your situation if possible I would wait and try and save a bit more cash and then take a good look at something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AS7551G-6477-17-3-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B0041RSFBY/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1292883697&sr=1-7
and then be right back in the game.
thank you for your suggestion!
actually I'm now leaning towards this toshiba, I think it's a far better investment than buying a little netbook, and its also small (13.3') so still quite portable, which is what I need:
http://www.fnac.pt/Toshiba-Satellite-L635-12J-Computador-Portatil-Computador-Portatil/a327797
Toshiba Satellite L635-12J
Intel® Core™ i5-460M Dual-Core
2,53 GHz
RAM 4 GB DDR3-1066
500 GB
13,3 '
LED HD 1366x768
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5430
2235 MB (512mb)
Dolby® Advanced Audio
DVD±RW Double Layer
It has quite a decent graphic card, I think it could handle Witcher 2!
Anyway, i'll keep you posted!
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 25 DEC 2010 at 1:58pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Ooh, yay, that is good news Inesrocks! [smiley=clap.gif] I really hope you manage to find something that can play Witcher 2. I wonder if there'd be specials going on hardware after Xmas.. :
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 25 DEC 2010 at 5:16pm |
| Deleted User | I'm really excited right now. I've got all the components to upgrade my PC and 'Dead Space 2' comes out Jan 25th. Merry Christmas all!
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| 26 DEC 2010 at 6:37pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Now I'm getting sidetracked again I planed to spend the evening playing Divinity 2, but for some reason I could not get fading suns out of my mind (the pen & paper RPG), and now I've spent a few hours playing Emperor of the fading suns, an old (1997) grand strategy game. Amazing how much fun these old strategy games can be.
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| 26 DEC 2010 at 9:09pm |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | alright, so I got good news! i'm now writing in my new laptop, the toshiba I spoke about in my last post.
I ran some tests to see whether my graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430, 512MB) was good or not, and it passed games like the newest Call of Duty, GTA IV and Crysis, so I should be okay with the new games that will be coming in the next months, even if I have to play some in low resolution.
As for now, I need to recover saves from the games I was playing before all this happened. I still want to finish them before I start playing new games. I may have to start Jade Empire over, but I hope I can find saves for Sherlock Holmes and Gray Matter!
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 26 DEC 2010 at 9:50pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Wow, that's nice, Ines! Crysis, eh? I'm impressed! Well, good luck with all your catching up!
As for me, I'm still enjoying my stint as a dragon in Divinity 2. [smiley=thumbs.gif]
Oh, and Masher, that's good news, it means we'll be seeing you for Witcher 2 too, I'm guessing!
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 27 DEC 2010 at 12:54am |
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Status : Offline | If it runs Crysis, you are in good hands with the new compy indeed, congrats...and happy gaming..hope you get back to Jade Empire..how far along are you ? i love that game. Time to replay it soonish.
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| 27 DEC 2010 at 7:38am |
XerNosamSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | On of my Top 10 gaming moments was when I updated my rig this past year, loaded up Crysis, and it ran like heaven on Ultra settings. It's still better looking that most stuff that's released, and seeing it in all it's glory is truly breathtaking (um, as far as gaming goes).
I've been running around Sacred 2's Ancaria for the past 24 hours (not total time; it's been spread over the past week ) I cannot believe this game didn't get more attention - other than the camera that takes some getting used to, it's a gorgeous and well made game. The details make you stop and take a look around every 10 feet, and armor/weapon varieties are splendid! It's a tad easy so far, but I can tell I've barely scratched the surface.
I think ActionRPG is slowly but surely making it's way up the ladder as my favorite genre, overtaking FPS's just a smidge.
Playing: Skyrim: Dragonborn/Dawnguard; Torchlight 2; To The Moon; Far Cry 3
Finished: HomeFront; Far Cry 3; Dishonored
Always Playing: Half Life 2
Looking Forward To: BioShock: Infinite
Reading: BioShock: Rapture; SW: Revan
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| 27 DEC 2010 at 11:21am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By krexfoster (27 DEC 2010 7:38am)
On of my Top 10 gaming moments was when I updated my rig this past year, loaded up Crysis, and it ran like heaven on Ultra settings. It's still better looking that most stuff that's released, and seeing it in all it's glory is truly breathtaking (um, as far as gaming goes).
I've been running around Sacred 2's Ancaria for the past 24 hours (not total time; it's been spread over the past week ) I cannot believe this game didn't get more attention - other than the camera that takes some getting used to, it's a gorgeous and well made game. The details make you stop and take a look around every 10 feet, and armor/weapon varieties are splendid! It's a tad easy so far, but I can tell I've barely scratched the surface.
I think ActionRPG is slowly but surely making it's way up the ladder as my favorite genre, overtaking FPS's just a smidge.
What really killed Sacred 2 for me right there, was the inability to keep gamesaves. As it is, Divinity 2, which I'm playing at the moment has only about 60 - 100 slots (ok, I didn't count exactly how many, but it's definitley less than 100 or at most 100) ; but I came to my limit quite a while ago already, and it really irks me that I'm forced to delete some older saves just to be able to save nowadays. I'm already having to delete my lvl 11 saves, and I'm only currently only lvl 19. >
So, with Sacred 2 having Zero saves that you can keep... um. So if I make a big mistake I'm either sc***d, or I have to start right from scratch again? ...and if I haven't played for a long time and want to refresh my memory about something earlier on in the game, I can't... No thanks..
And that savepoint system that is similar to that of Titan Quest where you have to run to a savepoint before you can go to sleep for the night or you lose the evening's progress.. grrr! [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 28 DEC 2010 at 3:59pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Please, please nooo... [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
I deleted a bunch of saves a while ago so I would have save space again; so I didn't notice that for the last 2 hours it wasn't saving again, and now I got killed, so I have to replay the past 2 hours of gameplay..... [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
I hate the person who thought so few saves would be enough...--UGHHHH [smiley=cry.gif] [smiley=cry.gif] [smiley=cry.gif]
/me bangs her head against the wall...
Um, ok - we're talking Divinity 2 here..
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 12:38am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Horrible indeed, you can never have enough save slots, when will developers learn?!!! :-/
Limiting save slots doesn't make a game more challenging.
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 2:37am |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (28 DEC 2010 3:58pm)
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Please, please nooo... [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
I deleted a bunch of saves a while ago so I would have save space again; so I didn't notice that for the last 2 hours it wasn't saving again, and now I got killed, so I have to replay the past 2 hours of gameplay..... [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
I hate the person who thought so few saves would be enough...--UGHHHH [smiley=cry.gif] [smiley=cry.gif] [smiley=cry.gif]
/me bangs her head against the wall...
Um, ok - we're talking Divinity 2 here..
Do you use quicksave/load? Playing through the game a bit I tend to quicksave a lot, after a fight or when I find something cool/before a mindread.
Only use the big save slots after a long dialogue tree or quest.
Least you didn't get corrupt saves like before lol.
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 7:11am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | The thing is, if you at least KNOW there are limited saves, then you play a bit more conservatively and use a more conservative save strategy, you know? If I'd known from the start of the game that there were limited saves, I would have overwritten my saves more, but since in both Morrowind and Oblivion (and possibly ME?) your saves start going to corrupt if you keep overwriting them, I didn't overwrite because I thought one had unlimited saves.
The biggest problem for me with this is, that I didn't realise my games weren't being saved. Now that I looked more carefully, it does give you a message to say that saves are full and the save was unsuccessful but that message looks so similar to the message that says the save was successful, that I never paid attention and didn't notice..
Anyway, yes, thanks Stiler, I am now using the quicksave slot for before battles and the bigger slots only before big decisions.
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 9:18am |
StormseyeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I just, as of about 10 minutes ago, finished Batman: AA. Wow. That's all I can say, and I rarely say it about games anymore, sadly. Wow. If I had to pick what I consider to be a perfect action game, it would be this. Fantastic. Someday I'll go back and do all the riddles.
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 10:02am |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Can't wait for Batman AC, it's going to be awesome. Having the whole city open to you. The CG trailer was completely awesome as well and captured the feel from the first game.
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 11:25am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Ah, Batman AA. Why didn't I remember about that earlier. I bought it quite a while ago because everyone said it was so awesome, and then I didn't have time to play it until I started gaming again a few days ago, and I'd clean forgotten about it.
I was going to go on with an AG after Div 2, but I think it's going to have to be Batman!
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 12:47pm |
StormseyeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Oh, do! It's a trip and a half. Can't stop thinking about it. Now I'm trying to figure out what to go on to next that won't be a complete disappointment in its wake!
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| 29 DEC 2010 at 2:44pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Stormseye (29 DEC 2010 12:47pm)
Oh, do! It's a trip and a half. Can't stop thinking about it. Now I'm trying to figure out what to go on to next that won't be a complete disappointment in its wake!
I will! [smiley=thumbup.gif] Yes, you might have a problem there.. Maybe change pace and play an AG ?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 30 DEC 2010 at 12:40am |
StormseyeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Stiler, wow, thanks for pointing that out. It does look awesome. I don't follow what's new, happening, and coming so much anymore, but that looks great.
Traveller, yup, think I'll dig back into Rhiannon after letting it sit for a week or two. I'm not very far into it yet. Finished the first chapter and then go sidetracked.
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| 30 DEC 2010 at 12:17pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | If you enjoyed Batman AA, then (if you have a GC or a Wii) you really should check out Metroid prime. Batman AA feels like a mix between that game & Tenchu (PSX), leaning more towards the metroid side of things.
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