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#1 NumenDivinum
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I'm really sorry to hear about your dad.Ken1a



Yeah, it's unfortunate but I try to be optimistic about it. I appreciate the concern and I've come to terms with it the best that I can.

Lords of the Realms is a great series,your dad must have known that game inside out. Sometimes I find myself rushing through games,rather than taking the time to really understand all the fine details of units,upgrades etc...

I've got friends who've played the original Age of Empires for years...they say it's got everything they need.

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Yep, that was the perfect game for him I think and it certainly was a good one. It wasn't short either which is why I was so suprised to see him beat it so many times. That's cool about your friends and AOE, I really do subscribe to the same philosophy that good games are timeless. Graphics don't matter to me, it's the content that's important. That's why I in my opinion we're not seeing the same amount of classics as we once did.
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#2 NumenDivinum
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Another one that you might want to try is Dawn of War, though DoW 2 is pretty close to it's release.

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S'alright, I usually like to try the earlier games in any series before I'll play the sequels any way. I'm like that with movies and albums as well.

Glad to see you like HoMM :, my favourite ones are HoMM 3, HoMM 4 The Gathering Stormand all HoMM 5 games (that I sold last year :( but tomorrow my copy of the complete collection should arrive >:D)DanielDust


You know I seem to have mistook HoMM for Lords of Magic, however that happened. I did indeed enjoy the game though it appears it wasn't recieved that well when it came out. I'll have to check out Heroes then as well as these other games.

LoL my father was the one that got me into gamig. I was like "wow tiger(top down game with a space shuttle that all the enemies com from the front), awesome, black and white @_@". Then he started going in different countries and getting games like Blackthorne (Blizzard), Diablo, Wolfenstein, Red Alert, Red Alert 2 and many others :). I just watched him all the time and after a while he couldn't play because of me :). I had some long nights with Diablo 2 and my father :) we played till almost 3 AM.

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That's awesome man. Isn't it great having those kinds of memories? It really speaks volumes about the power of video games, I really think they're more then just a wasteful pastime like most people seem to. They're really important to me in more ways then one.
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#3 NumenDivinum
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Thanks DanielDust, I'll definitely look into those though I already have Heroes of Might and Magic. Love it to death. Also, I don't mind the RTT games either. I loved Myth and Myth II and those had no resources or building from what I remember.

It sounds like you might like Age of Empires III(one of my favorites) or Medieval2:Total War. I like the ****of a lot of the older games as well.I still play Age of Mythology and Rise of Nations.Ken1a



I'll check those out as well, though I've already got Medieval 2. Awesome awesome game.

That's great you and your dad played rts together,my dad always thought they were a huge waste of time. Its a shame more parents don't realize how in depth many of the games are,it might change their opinion

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Yeah my dad was a gamer since the NES days but when the controllers got a little too complicated for him I guess he decided he'd get a PC and fell in love with RTS. He's gone now unfortunately, he died last year but I've got fond memories of the time we spent playing Lord of the Realms 2. He played that game for years on end, it didn't matter to him how outdated it looked or how many times he beat it. I'd go over every once in a while and he'd have it installed again.
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I really hope it does good but it's hard to say what measure of success it will see even if it is a good game. To a lot of younger players Duke Nukem isn't that relevant anymore. It's been so many years since we've seen him in anything. I hope it does good though personally. Me and a close friend still play Total Meltdown every now and again.
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I grew up playing RTS, in truth even when I was a young kid at the time the SNES and the Genesis were getting pretty big and everyone was raving about them, I wasn't as interested in them as everyone else. I guess I'd have to say my dad did it to me. He loved RTS as well, and growing up taking turn playing RTS with my dad was really how we bonded. I would watch him play in his old age and look at how he would adress certain problems and losses within the games and through that I got better and better at them. I loved the time involved and feeling of having outsmarting the opponent rather then out reflexing them like in Quake.

Some games I grew up playing were Warcraft 1 and 2, Command and Conquer, the Lords of the Realm games, Caesar 2, the Civilization games etc and I even played most of the good ones that came out in the late 90's and early 2000 like the AOE games, Starcraft, Homeworld and the later C & C's. But as consoles were getting bigger with 64 and PSX I started picking up on those because I only spent a little time with my dad every other week and being so young I couldn't have a PC of my own. I sort of weened myself out of the RTS world for a while, and even when I finally did obtain my own PC I was still stuck in a console mentality playing mostly action games which the release of the first Half Life probably didn't help any.

I got back into them somewhat but only the older ones that I loved so much when I was younger. I still play Lords of the Realm II and me and a friend I know play Warcraft 2 Bnet edition every once in a while but I'm curious and looking for newer RTS titles to try out. The newest RTS that I've played would probably be Warcraft 3. I'm open to any suggestions, but I'm really looking for games that reflect the gameplay elements of the earlier games that I mentioned, I hear a lot of newer RTS games are being dumbed down and I don't want to waste my money on anything that's inferior by gameplay standards.


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Oblivion's story was generic and lifeless, the level scaling made leveling useless, the fast travel and compass made everything easy as hell to find and all the quest's were "Go to objective A, kill monster B and/or bring back item B." with little to no variation. Of course they mixed that up a bit with Shivering Isles, but the level scaling was so game defeating that after fully completing Oblivion I just couldn't stomach it.

Fable had a generic story too, but at least it had charm. It was far too linear, didn't have the family features in it like had been suggested, and it was a lot more stylistic then Oblivion so while Oblivion certainly has better graphics I think Fable was a lot more fun to look at. Even the backgrounds at time had an oustanding amount of detail to them.

Both games are shallow RPG's at best. Fable get's the nudge in my opinion simply because the experience was more memorable in my opinion.
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I haven't played a solidly scary game since Condemned. I will admit that I've turned corners in COD4 before and come face to face with an enemy which has startled me so hard before that it hurts my chest and I scream, haha. I guess I'm easily startled.
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SSX Tricky was classic and it's not backwards compatible. Neither is Defjam: Fight for New York, and they've got the first Prince of Persia on their backwards compatability list but not the second and third one and that was a very popular series. Other then I can't really complain, though there are some games that are in working order yet have problems, like Red Dead Revolver and Deathrow.

Red Dead Revolver has a glitch in it where if you get to close to one of the bosses it locks up, which is annoying but it's possible to pass it without it happening, and Deathrow has some graphical glitches in the menu's and some general music problems.
So I'm sure there are others on the list that aren't playing correctly, and there may even be games on the list that have potentially game breaking flaws to them but I'm not aware of any myself.

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The only problem I had with the review was that the con's are hard to navigate menu's (which is really only the upgrade menu, and it's not nearly as annoying as he lets on.) and "little problems that build up in the end." .... that's such a grey area. The point of a Con section is to TELL people what the con's are, not just say "it has a bunch of small problems that I wish I could tell you but .... **** I'm busy." which is how I took that. Laziness. And little problems and one hard to navigate menu (that's not hard to navigate at all when you get around the learning curve.) isnt enough to drop it to an 8.5.

I disagree with his opinion, I think Mass Effect is probably one of the best Action/Rpg hybrids ever, and some developers *cough* bethesda *cough* should take some damn notes.
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I've killed 2 consecutive people before, I've killed hammer wielders in close range combat by simply jumping and gunning, I've killed snipers by using cover and calling for supressing fire from team mates ...

All of this stuff isn't exactly definite. It's all circumstance. Not to mention, if you break it down almost every FPS with a death match type of thing is a modified game of rock-paper-scissors ... that's not just Halo. You have to know what's going on, and use the best resources that are close to you. If you don't well ... you die and that's the nature of warfare. Game or not.