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Bought Civ 5 today. Tomorrow I have to be up at 6. This is not going to end well.
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mecka wrote:Bought Civ 5 today. Tomorrow I have to be up at 6. This is not going to end well.
lol how'd ya go? i want to play confuser games again. stupid being busy.
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OK Civ 5... feels too simplistic. The game boils down to fewer aspects than the others in the series. No espionage (WTF), no religion (which, frankly, should have been expanded and tweaked instead of removed). The city management aspect of the game feels heaps more fiddly and requires shitloads more micro to make the most out of your resources. I dislike using gold to buy everything - cheapens the strategy behind the game. I found myself putting up heaps and heaps of Trading Posts (particularly on Jungle, where they get a +2 science bonus eventually) and then spamming Banks and Markets + mo money = quick buying of fuckin everything.

Combat is HEAPS better though. The hex grid and lack of unit stacking makes for heaps more tactical maneuvering. If your unit is stronger than another unit it WILL beat it (no more caravel vs battleship upset bullshit here).

It's a shame because I thought they almost got the balance perfect with Civ 4. If they had implemented the hex grid and combat system into Civ 4 and upgraded the graphics I would have been well chuffed. Unfortunately I'm not completely convinced. The game is still fun but... not as much as it could be.

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Yeah, after nearly playing through one game I actually got a little bored.

I still don't really miss religion, but no espionage is a bit weird.

It definitely feels a little stripped back. Hopefully they release some new game mechanics in dlc or something...
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sounds like they need an equivalent of a beyond the sword upgrade - perhaps part of a tactical sales plan?
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More on Civ 5. Its started to grow on me but only because im an ultra-warlike aggressive player. The AI doesnt really know how to lay seige to cities which is my only new gripe. City-states are mildly overpowered, especially Maritime ones with their food bonus. Become allies with two of those and you never need to worry about feeding your cities and can concentrate on units, gold and science production.

They really need to rethink each civs abiliies. Seriously, the Ottomans get a 25% chance to capture Barbarian sea units on defeat? WTF
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i have no idea what u are talking about Oli, but I love reading your posts on this game...
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Kaiproject wrote:BC2 owns
mouse is the only way to play
and yeah its reasonably gfx intensive i have a recent midrange card and it runs sweet
Damn... finished BC2. Behind 'God of War III' it's the next best game I've had the pleasure of playing on PS3.

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There's a virus on my server :(

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almost every folder has this problem. Hmmm, I think it came from somebody's lappy or something. Anyway, does anyone know if a mac anti-virus (like avast) will fix this?? or will it only work locally? or will I need a windows machine to fix it? fecking annoying... disgust
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^ haha thats gold clearly someone was mega bored with their assignment/thesis/research
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bahahaha

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Loving the hell out of PS3 online. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 rocks.
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We bought Kinect for xbox yesterday and Dance Central. Its quite fun!

I also picked up Mass Effect 2 and Fallout 3 for cheapsies and more srs gaming.
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so hooked on SC2
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HELP!

I have a Maxtor 500Gb hard drive which has all of my music, movies, photo files on.

It's not working and I have gig tomorrow for most of the day at an outdoor event and I need to get access - mind you, I'd really like to not lose all of my music too!

It fires up when the power is plugged in, it flashes once with the light and you can hear the fan starting up and something working inside and then it just stops.

have tried two different power cables and two different USB cables and nothing has changed.

anyone experienced anything similar and can maybe shed some light on this for me?
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pull the drive out and stick it into another enclosure. if it still does not work you might be in trouble.

as long as the hard drive itself is not making any strange scraping noises etc you could use a tool to try and fix. but firstly, go get another enclosure ($10-$20 max) and try that out.
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yep what Hugh said, same thing happened to mine, but it was fixed with a new case...
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I'd just like to say Black Ops is rubbish. Overhyped and riding on the success of MW2 in my opinion. Multiplayer has some cool new features but that's it. It's still entertaining but not nearly as good as MW2..
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eN wrote:I'd just like to say Black Ops is rubbish. Overhyped and riding on the success of MW2 in my opinion. Multiplayer has some cool new features but that's it. It's still entertaining but not nearly as good as MW2..

I really like Black Ops. Single player is rad with a cool story, and multi is a massive improvement on MW2.
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fooishbar wrote:assassin's creed: brotherhood. end of.
Def gonna have to pick that up eventually, but my list of "must play games" is really starting to pile up. Just got on to Fable 3, then i've still got Fallout NV...

My gamerscore did crack the 60k mark last week though, so fuck you all.
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Red Faction: Armageddon. OMG :shock:

I absolutely love Red Faction: Guerilla this looks even better. Magnet Gun! BOOM.

Its out in March 2011

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Kaiproject wrote:they're all shit BFBC2 ftw
My word.

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tekken 6 story mode is awesome, just like a newer version of double dragon... good fun
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Bioware are expected to announce Mass Effect 3 this weekend, I might wee a little
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quick wrote:tekken 6 story mode is awesome, just like a newer version of double dragon... good fun
WORD. Really loved that. I got 1000/1000 on that game.
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mecka wrote:Bioware are expected to announce Mass Effect 3 this weekend, I might wee a little
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Hardy wrote:
quick wrote:tekken 6 story mode is awesome, just like a newer version of double dragon... good fun
WORD. Really loved that. I got 1000/1000 on that game.
nightmare train was hella hard... took me ages, and finally won when devil Jin jumped off the edge lol
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quick wrote:
Hardy wrote:
quick wrote:tekken 6 story mode is awesome, just like a newer version of double dragon... good fun
WORD. Really loved that. I got 1000/1000 on that game.
nightmare train was hella hard... took me ages, and finally won when devil Jin jumped off the edge lol
That level took me fucking AGES. Smashed controllers aplenty. I'm pretty sure I had to do like you and wait til the CPU commited suicide. Fuck it, a win's a win!
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Hardy wrote:
mecka wrote:Bioware are expected to announce Mass Effect 3 this weekend, I might wee a little
:spoof:
I'm half way through mass effect 2 its such an awesome game.
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yeah just ignore dude.
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morgs :roll: noob
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morgs in torrent fail shocker.

Mass Effect 3

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Use utorrent and IP filtering. Google search should show u how. U can just download a list of known tracking Ips and it blocks em.
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mecka wrote:morgs in torrent fail shocker.

Mass Effect 3

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

so Mass Effect as a franchise has been taken over by independent UK film-makers and Guy Ritchie to make Mass Effect 3 aka Lock Stock and Two Smoking Plasma Rifles?

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PS I'm playing Halo Reach. its mad.
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Where do you peeps order games from online? Who are the cheapest?
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Come on you faggots, help a brother out!
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I generally get my pc games through Steam.
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Hardy wrote:Come on you faggots, help a brother out!
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