Craster wrote:
Civ4 needs a decent 3D card. Civ4 Colonisation needs a fairly beefy 3D card.
Just a shame Civ4Col is utterly broken then.
Zio wrote:
Am I wrong in massively preferring the new Colonization over Civ IV? Even if it is BASTARD FUCKING HARD?
But there's the thing: It's not hard, it's broken. It's possible to win it on the hardest difficulty in something like 30 turns. The AI is weak, and the only difficuly comes from the revolution. Which scales according to liberty bell production, so in order to win, just don't produce them.
Civ4:BtS, on the other hand, is excellent.
myp wrote:
markg wrote:
I don't even prefer playing FPSs with a keyboard and mouse any more. I had thought of the console pad as an acceptable compromise but I after going back I actually prefer it.
Yep, same here.
Anyway, recent experiences with PC gaming. I recently noticed Dawn of War was a rather nice looking LIVE enabled game, so I downloaded the demo, and asked one reliable forumite if it was any good. He said yes, and the demo ran fine on my laptop (Which was bought for programming games, so has a fairly good spec for a laptop), so I ordered it from Play (10 english sponds.)
While waiting for that, I got bored, and so tried the Company of heroes demo. Which ran well, and seemed fun - despite having more units and base stuff - so I bought it from steam. 4 hours later, it downloaded. The game would barely run at 1fps, even on lowest settings (despite the demo running comfortably on the exact same mission) Every time I tried to run it,it bitched that SP1 wasn't installed - despite the fact that I had installed it - and this meant various texture bandwidth problems. Checked DX, and I wasn't using the debug version, which is a common oops.
So I ended up reinstalling windows. And then spending something like 8 hours updating windows sp1 installed, sp2 installed.
Then steam, and finally CoH. And it
still doesn't run anywhere near as smoothly as it did on the demo. Reducing all the settings works well enough.
Anyway, having gone through all that, Dawn of war 2 arrives yesterday. Install... load.... hang. rinse, repeat, repeat. 3 hours of playing around later, and it finally works. But not up to the standards of the demo again. Sigh. Indeed, it completely drops out of playable frame rates upon reaching the first jump pack guy.
Looks like I'm going to have to use my desktop for that. Despite the laptop having easily good enough specifications.
Man, I can see why people prefer PC gaming when a year old gaming laptop performs so well...
The games are good, but the infrastructure leaves an awful lot to be desired when you're used to "Insert game, play game"
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Anyway, my favorite games of the last few years were PC exclusives:
STALKER
Space Rangers 2 (this is the direction i want pc games to go, it's just crazy)
Fantasy Wars
Total War games
CIV IV
Surprise: a man who owns a PC and a Wii has PC games as his favourite games.
Meanwhile, a man who owns a PC, XBox360, PS3 and Wii has PC XBox360 games and PS3 games as his favourite recent games.
And a man who only owns an Xbox360 has XBox360 games as his recent favourite games.
And Chinny has GX4000 games as his favourite games.