Computer games.

[RFUS]

Dragon age 1 and 2 are great. 3 is baaad.

Actually agree with you for once!

The consensus is generally 1 = great, 2 = bad, 3 = good or even great

Personally I loved 2. The character interactions were spot on and it had heart. It was let down with some reused assets etc but I still loved it. 1 of course is amazing. But 3 (Inquisition) on paper looked great, yet in reality it felt like it was made by the publisher or an accounting team rather than a developer passionate about the project. The majority of the characters were bland and forgettable, the game was technically huge but mostly uninteresting and littered with tedious fetch quests, and the character interactions were sparse. 1 and 2 felt like worlds I could get lost in with characters I wanted to know more about, but try as I might, I never got into Inquisition. I finished it eventually but give me an imperfect game with soul over a polished one without one, any day of the week.

 

[Mickey]

That is what scares me a little. 700 pounds for a PC is well out of my budget even buying every month towards it. I was hoping to go around 400, realistically 500 and come the summer if i come into a bit of additional cash i could pile it into it and knock a few things off the list so to speak.

Considering the new xbox is going to be around 300, i don't want to trade off the cost for essentially i won't get the benefit of if that makes sense? I won't use the pc anything different than a console, and only want the long term game savings and benefits of the mod community for games. I don't want a COMPUTER, i want a console. Except i want the additional benefits of it being a pc rather than a xbox.

You could always go second hand. For 400 you'd probably get a 2nd/3rd gen i7, maybe a gtx 570/670 get you gaming at 1080p.

 

[Dylan]

That is what scares me a little. 700 pounds for a PC is well out of my budget even buying every month towards it. I was hoping to go around 400, realistically 500 and come the summer if i come into a bit of additional cash i could pile it into it and knock a few things off the list so to speak.

Considering the new xbox is going to be around 300, i don't want to trade off the cost for essentially i won't get the benefit of if that makes sense? I won't use the pc anything different than a console, and only want the long term game savings and benefits of the mod community for games. I don't want a COMPUTER, i want a console. Except i want the additional benefits of it being a pc rather than a xbox.

Pentium Dual Core, with hyper-threading, 8GB RAM and a GTX 1050 for 521GBP

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...ylake-micro-atx-ddr4-gaming-pc-fs-152-og.html

But that is about as cheap as you want to go. I would be loathe to buy a pre-built from somewhere like Curries. Gonna be made from cheap parts basically made out of solder that will melt the second you power it up.

 

[longers]

this game looks deep.

 

[Tubey]

No Man's Sky reduced to £12.99 on the PlayStation store.

e.g. the price it should have been on release.

 

[ijjysmith]

No Man's Sky reduced to £12.99 on the PlayStation store.

e.g. the price it should have been on release.

Only for a week though!

 

[Kenshin]

Only for a week though!

It probably means it will be free on playstation plus next month with chargeable DLC to come

 

[Efcjake]

Finally got my head around Crusader Kings 2 to manage a somewhat decent game file. In 4 generations I went from Petty King of Mumu to King of Eire.

Some of my personal highlights include:

• Learning valuable lessons about not sleeping with my son's wife.
• Nervy few years when my main character died and left me with an heir that was only about 7 years old
• Arranging a betrothal between that heir and another petty Queen in Breton. Only to come of age a month after she got imprisoned in a revolt.

 

[Sy-]

Agreed. This will be the only Call of Duty I think I'll ever buy on release.

Tempted to do the pre-order for private beta?

 

[ijjysmith]

Tempted to do the pre-order for private beta?

Doubt it. Those betas are usually online only aren't they?

I'd never play it online. Be arsed getting my bum kicked by 12 year olds!

 

[ClausThomsen]

Finally got my head around Crusader Kings 2 to manage a somewhat decent game file. In 4 generations I went from Petty King of Mumu to King of Eire.

Some of my personal highlights include:

• Learning valuable lessons about not sleeping with my son's wife.
• Nervy few years when my main character died and left me with an heir that was only about 7 years old
• Arranging a betrothal between that heir and another petty Queen in Breton. Only to come of age a month after she got imprisoned in a revolt.

Great game. Takes some time to learn and the number of times I granted someone a Duchy and they were suddenly independent instead of a vassal got hugely annoying till I knew what I was doing. The game could be a lot more user friendly in terms of actually telling you the possible consequences of certain actions.

Ireland's a good place to start as it's fairly easy to get strong enough to take a neighbouring county or two and from there on in you're much stronger than the rest of the various Irish petty kingdoms. Unite Ireland and then with a bit of good marrying you can get into Wales or Scotland (or warfare if they splinter into smaller factions) before eventually England and the Empire of Britannia.

 

[Efcjake]

Great game. Takes some time to learn and the number of times I granted someone a Duchy and they were suddenly independent instead of a vassal got hugely annoying till I knew what I was doing. The game could be a lot more user friendly in terms of actually telling you the possible consequences of certain actions.

Ireland's a good place to start as it's fairly easy to get strong enough to take a neighbouring county or two and from there on in you're much stronger than the rest of the various Irish petty kingdoms. Unite Ireland and then with a bit of good marrying you can get into Wales or Scotland (or warfare if they splinter into smaller factions) before eventually England and the Empire of Britannia.

I think my nephew is King of Alba(Scotland) right now. I have a weak claim to the kingdom of England but they'd batter me right now.

I think I'm going to try and take over Scotland and swoop south.

I've finally had to start giving away some of my counties, my demesne is 8 right now but I hold all the ducal titles in Ireland at least and all of the capital counties.

I'm eager to play it tonight now that I'm up and running.

 

[Sy-]

Doubt it. Those betas are usually online only aren't they?

I'd never play it online. Be arsed getting my bum kicked by 12 year olds!

Hah true, I'm too long in the tooth for the pace of COD online nowdays.

 

[ijjysmith]

Hah true, I'm too long in the tooth for the pace of COD online nowdays.

I'm pretty woeful at FPS games full stop.

Tried the Battlefield 1 Beta and just got rinsed all the time.

I'll buy it, play the story mode on easy and be happy!

 

[ClausThomsen]

I think my nephew is King of Alba(Scotland) right now. I have a weak claim to the kingdom of England but they'd batter me right now.
I think I'm going to try and take over Scotland and swoop south.
I've finally had to start giving away some of my counties, my demesne is 8 right now but I hold all the ducal titles in Ireland at least and all of the capital counties.
I'm eager to play it tonight now that I'm up and running.

Once I am a King I tend to only keep a couple of Duchys. I give the small baronies to minor characters and look for good stewards or family members to grant the capitals to (Unless they have horrible stats). The best stewards get a Duchy as well but no more than one county so they can't get too strong as they can't call up the full levy of their smaller Baron vassals.

There is an advantage to handing quite a few titles to one character though as you then only have to keep that one vassal onside. It's a chore to keep lots of individual vassals sweet. Especially at Empire level when you maybe need to start handing out Kingdoms.