What game are you playing?

[Dussicar]

I'm playing Age of Empires III, which was stolen from my mom's work... because her boss bought A video card for his PERSONAL computer... and he doesn't have kids... so, the game came to where it would be used... hehehe

(to be honest, haven't played it yet... but thinkin' about it.)

Once you've played enough, you MUST give us a full report as to what you think. I'm kind of kicking around the idea of picking it up but I am a little leary to do so.

 

[nessonite1]

Outlaw Golf 2 ^^

 

[Canadian Ninja1]

Just finished up Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance as well as reading all the supports that went into the game. Next up, finishing up the supports in FE7/Rekka/US Fire Emblem and completing FE4/Seisen/Genealogy of the Holy War.

 

[SF85]

I've recently gone back to my PS1 games. FF7 and FF9 for me at the moment.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Total Anihilation: Kingdoms? I've never heard of that one. I only played the original and the Core contingency expansion. I really wish someone would pick up that licence again. As a matter of fact, it's funny you mentioned that game as I was raving about how much fun it was to play to a friend a few days ago. I should go and see if I can pick up an old copy from somebody. I really want to play that again.

As for Empire at war, I have to say that my favourite unit is the Slave 1. You are correct about the general tactics, though. It's pretty much defend, build up, send armada out to destroy, wash, rinse, repeat.

Meh. I'm more of a lightsaber man, myself. Nintendo hinted that their new Wii system might end up pumping out a Star Wars game. Which, with that new hand control, will allow a player to physically mimic sword movements. Just like a VR system.

Yeah, Kingdoms is fantasy style. There are four kindgoms lead by four different monarchs (they are all siblings to eachother), and they each have their own distinct units and structures.

Each army represents, through their units, one of the elements.

Aramon represents Earth, and it has the best land units.

Veruna represents Water, and has the best naval units.

Zhon represents Air, and has the best air force.

And Taros represents Fire, and is the most magical of the four.

All all balanced in their own way and have a little bit of everything, but each of them has distinct advantages over the others in one more more categories.

There is also a patch/upgrade you can download for added scenarios, units, and maps. It's called the Darien Crusades.

There was also an expansion pack called the Iron Plague, but it was never available when I bought this game because I bought it (unknowingly and ironically) soon after the company collapsed and stopped distribution.

The Iron Plague featured new units and a new army.

Here's a link. Note that the site is dead and not up to date, so don't bother downloading anything from it:

http://www.fileuniverse.com/Total_Annihilation_Mirror/ta-kingdoms/index.html

However, fans have kept the game semi-alive by creating new patches for it.

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I'm a lightsaber man too, but that will only be worth it if the movements are realistic, are given fine control, and you're able to create your own fighting style or something and the system will sync with your movements.

I doubt it will be that advanced. It will probably only allow basic guard, strike, and thrust movements. While the idea will be revolutionary, the game itself will probably fall short somehow of the original concept.

 

[TheChameleon]

Well, the Wii is supposed to sync with your movements quite well, I read a thing on this game thats coming out right when the sytem is...

the game's called... Red something... I dont' remember, but the guy who was playing held the controller sideways to fire his gun "gangsta style" just for kicks, and the guy IN THE GAME held his gun sideways.

maybe it was just a lil' programming piece they threw in, but I'm pretty sure that you'll have quite the lucid control scheme in game.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

"Supposed to" and "pretty sure" isn't good enough for me. Not that I'm interesting in buying a new console, but I wouldn't buy one based purely on promises and conjecture.

It's their job to hype their products and get people set to commit to a purchase before release.

Its better to just wait until the console is out in the North American market and tested by the consumer than to commit to buying something shown off by a japanese business man at a convention or something. The thrill of being one of the first (which is never really true since thousands are buying the same time you are) to own a new system isn't worth possibly pissing away your money on something that may disappoint or fails to deliver exactly what it said it would. Or, worse yet, you bet on the wrong pony.

Thats my logic anyway.