Napoleon: Total War (Not an Expansion for Empire)

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DGuller

#30
August 28, 2009, 02:05:19 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 01:51:48 PM
:cool:

My point is basically that game reviews are utterly worthless and it's painfully obvious they slant them in order to keep their advertisers (who are producing the very games they review) happy.

I think the movie critic industry has some sort of self-policing to avoid this situation, and it needs to be adopted by the game review community.
Agreed.  It's very sad to see game reviews bought with such a total lack of subtlety.

Caliga

#31
August 28, 2009, 02:08:59 PM
Also this is why P'dox games usually get 'horrible' reviews (i.e. reviews of less than 90 ;) )... because P'dox likely does not buy ad space on places like Gamespot.
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Syt

#32
August 28, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
This thread has inspired me to finally give Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition a fair try.
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Kleves

#33
August 28, 2009, 02:57:17 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 11:38:52 AM
Am I the only person who has Empire and actually likes it?  :huh:
I like it, but it's not as good as it could have (or should have) been.
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#34
August 28, 2009, 03:01:02 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 01:51:48 PM
:cool:

My point is basically that game reviews are utterly worthless and it's painfully obvious they slant them in order to keep their advertisers (who are producing the very games they review) happy.

For most of the gaming mags, I think the self-policing comes when they are forced into bankruptcy.

Ed Anger

#35
August 28, 2009, 03:02:30 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 11:38:52 AM
Am I the only person who has Empire and actually likes it?  :huh:

I enjoyed it until I invaded Europe with 3 Indian stacks. Then it got silly.
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Viking

#36
August 28, 2009, 03:53:02 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 28, 2009, 10:25:17 AM
I have SS 6.2 RC4, not SS 6.1.  SS 6.2 nixed a lot of the exploits, and also kicks some cash to AI every turn for every territory they own.  That makes a big difference. 

It's also actually very hard to keep peace in 6.2, because you're forced to have a much smaller army than the AI, and thus look like an easy target.  You'll be DOWed easily, and you'll have a hard time making peace (although it's possible in some cases).

I also hate burning cities, and in fact my whole strategy revolves around getting them to grow very quickly.  Nothing is more annoying than being stock with a frontier city that's way behind the curve.  I actually go full chivalry, doing anything within reason to turn my every general into a saint, so that my cities and castles would grow like mushrooms.

I tried 6.2 and to be completely honest I have better things to do than to defend against three assaults on my three frontier towns each turn by a stack consisting of 10 spearmen 5 archers and one or two mounted seargents. The sheer monotony defeated me. Other annoying things is the change in the autoresolve function which means I have to fight all the mundane boring fights that I usually autoresolve to stave off the mindnumbing repetetiveness of slaughtering spearmen and peasant archers.
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#37
August 28, 2009, 05:18:38 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 28, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
This thread has inspired me to finally give Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition a fair try.

If you like it well enough, both Berkut and I have it and I think Tamas or Delirium also have a copy.  We could set up some decent MP...
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Josquius

#38
August 28, 2009, 06:08:14 PM
I second the lack of enthusiasm.

Though I must say I haven't entirely given Empire a fair go, it ran very very slow on my rather old computer. When I get my super new computer in a year or two i'll try it again.
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Razgovory

#39
August 29, 2009, 03:48:44 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 02:08:59 PM
Also this is why P'dox games usually get 'horrible' reviews (i.e. reviews of less than 90 ;) )... because P'dox likely does not buy ad space on places like Gamespot.

HOI3 got an 95 so they must have bought something.
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Razgovory

#40
August 29, 2009, 03:49:56 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 02:08:59 PM
Also this is why P'dox games usually get 'horrible' reviews (i.e. reviews of less than 90 ;) )... because P'dox likely does not buy ad space on places like Gamespot.

It got an 85 so they must have bought something.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Tamas

#41
August 29, 2009, 03:52:39 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on August 28, 2009, 05:18:38 PM
Quote from: Syt on August 28, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
This thread has inspired me to finally give Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition a fair try.

If you like it well enough, both Berkut and I have it and I think Tamas or Delirium also have a copy.  We could set up some decent MP...

Hm, I might be interested, yes.

Caliga

#42
August 29, 2009, 07:29:51 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 29, 2009, 03:49:56 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 02:08:59 PM
Also this is why P'dox games usually get 'horrible' reviews (i.e. reviews of less than 90 ;) )... because P'dox likely does not buy ad space on places like Gamespot.

It got an 85 so they must have bought something.
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Sahib

#43
August 29, 2009, 11:41:45 AM
Quote from: Fate on August 27, 2009, 05:27:57 AM
I'll buy this. If I keep supporting this company, eventually they'll make Shogun II...

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Razgovory

#44
August 29, 2009, 01:25:19 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 29, 2009, 07:29:51 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 29, 2009, 03:49:56 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2009, 02:08:59 PM
Also this is why P'dox games usually get 'horrible' reviews (i.e. reviews of less than 90 ;) )... because P'dox likely does not buy ad space on places like Gamespot.

It got an 85 so they must have bought something.
Young man you should be in bed at 3:48 AM.

It got a 75 so they must have bought something
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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