PC Games Sales Thread - Page 134

On July 13 2012 07:34 Probe1 wrote:
Empire TW was fine. It got a lot of hate because for the first year or so there were ridiculously bad bugs (CTDs and the AI didn't know how to utilize naval invasions so if you picked England it was like a free win campaign). Napoleon TW was fun but despite being marketed as a new game, it's just an expansion pack to ETW. (It is stand alone however, but very similar to ETW)

Rome being the third oldest of the series may sound bad but Brood War is still one of the greatest RTS games ever made and all this time hasn't changed it. RTW is a fantastic game.

Shogun 2 for $7.50 is a good deal. It's enjoyable although imo not as great as RTW and M2TW.

Basically, all the true expansions for TW games are must have. Barbarian Invasion for RTW, Kingdoms for M2TW; absolutely needed. Where it gets murky is the DLC. A lot of them are just stupid reskins on old units with tweaked stats-not worth more than $0.25

The collection of Shogun 2 TW games for only 20$ is a really good deal. Fall of the Samauri is good fun, RotS is kinda crap but eh I guess worth $2.50 and S2TW is definitely worth $7.50

On July 13 2012 08:50 L3gendary wrote:


I didn't know Napoleon tw was a standalone. Should I bother with Empire at all then? I'm thinking of getting Napoleon and the Shogun 2 pack. A friend of mine has M2 and i could probably torrent or buy Rome later if I'm enjoying the series.

Regarding graphics, it's not a big deal to me I mostly play bw myself lol, but all things being equal i'd rather have the better graphics. I don't know anything about the turn based aspect of these games and I thought that's what the game was mostly about, so i'm kinda surprised no one is commenting about them. I guess it's all fairly the same throughout the series? All I know is that they introduced navel combat with Empire.

On July 13 2012 09:00 Bluelightz wrote:


afaik Napoleon is only Europe while Empire spans the whole fucking world.

Getting Dungeons of Dredmor, Indie Game Movie or something like that, Dwarfs?!, Empire: Total War, +others :O

On July 13 2012 07:59 Serelitz wrote:


If you get Rome, get Barbarian Invasion but don't bother with Alexander. Not too up to date for the others.

Napoleon/Empire play a bit differently, partially the gunpowder/naval combat. Especially Empire felt overly complicated to me, whereas Rome was fun to manage campaign wise. I would get either Medieval 2, Shogun 2 or Rome if I were you.

On July 13 2012 06:25 Reaps wrote:
Anyone know if the new age of empires online is any good? not really heard much about it.

On July 13 2012 08:07 Kipsate wrote:
fuck, the community choose saints row instead of batman city



Also I snatched Deus Ex luckily!

On July 13 2012 10:25 LaNague wrote:
warlock master of the arcane is on flash sale, its a turn based majesty with AI opponents.
It is a mix between elven lagacy and civ 5, meaning that there are some empire building aspects, but its mostly focused on units, their upgrades and combat.
The AI lacks a lot of thought, but the gameplay is fun enough to make it worth it 7 euro, especially for majesty fans.

If you set the difficulty to hightest and view AI opponents as addidional monster lairs, it really is majesty 2 in turn based mode with 3 playable factions.

On July 13 2012 06:39 SRBNikola wrote:


You mean Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi Knight has like best multiplayer ever, but idk if its still getting played, so many memories with that game xD, are there battlefront in boundle ? If so its worth.

EDIT1: Yep, SW one looks good.

On July 13 2012 11:20 Taku wrote:
Uuuguh waiting for ARMA2 to go on sale

On July 13 2012 11:18 Serpico wrote:
How good is galactive 2? I get the civ comparisons, but is it as good as the high reviews say? Thanks. Also is the stardock requirement a one time thing or do you have to start the stardock launcher every time to play? Wondering if I can run through steam.

On July 13 2012 11:28 Terrakin wrote:

what are you talking about it is on sale! 20% may not seem like much but I don't think we'll see it go lower for the duration of the steam summer sale event... would be really cool though if it did

On July 13 2012 11:34 LaNague wrote:



It has good mechanics to stop you from spamming colonies (cities) - like in civ they cost you more than they produce early on. Every civ has their own tech tree and strengths. combat is based on rock paper scissor, there are 3 damage types and 3 defence types. You can (and have to) create your own ships, you can even design their appereance them if you care.
Plantes have between 5-20+ slots where you can build improvements like in civ games, but you dont work tiles.
There are however asteroids to exploit, special planet boni and special ressources in space that you have to conquer and hold to get a bonus. Combat is also automatic like in civ.
AI is a challenge, even at non-cheating difficulties.

i cant see glaring flaws with this game, its at least as fun as civ4 imo.



If you happen to buy it, they changed the combat system in the later expansions in a way that the first campaigns difficulty is vastly increased, skip it and play the latest campaign if you want to play campaign, because the latest campaign starts as if a new player would play the game, not a veteran that allready played for 2 years-








Arma 2...i doubt they go lower. People buy the game nayways for the dayZ mod, so why would they lower the price to half amd lose money?