@blakeyrat said:
@dhromed said:@blakeyrat said:Stars!My god.
Memories.
I didn't even understand what the hell that game was about. I got bored with the lack of pictures.
The AI in that game was a bitch. All it did was built dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of medium-sized colony ships and spread out like a freakin' virus across the whole galaxy. It defeated you not because it was particularly intelligent, but because you got sick and tired of it taking 4 hours every goddamned turn just blunting the invasion of AI ships.
The best was playing against a friend and laying minefields around his planets, haha. Mines were brutal in that game, and pretty cheap.
Space Empires IV ate my life. SE V nibbled a bit at my life, but I never really got that feeling again. (blurry eyed SE marathon sessions with 2 hour turns micomanaging all your planets.)
On the other hand, Civ V will be out in a few months, so my life is pretty much pwned anyway.
Also fallout 3 is only 25 bucks now on steam, which means that as of last weekend I now both own the PS3 version and steam version. My observation having now experienced both controller and mouse and keyboard is that it almost totally changed the game. Now I'm not a console FPS player, It just annoys me having to wiggle the stick to vaguely target some enemy and have the console do the rest when I'm pulling the trigger. Especially since I used to play unreal tournament insta gib, in which targeting vaguely in the direction of your target is about as efficient as standing still.
Which is another thing you do a lot in console FPS games.
But wait, I wasn't planning to rant about console FPS games. Fallout 3 in terms of interface is just made for the console, however I actually enjoy the game a lot more with mouse and keyboard. I used to rely a lot on VATS on the console, and that's fine. But it slows down the game. Or perhaps playing with K&M speeds up the game because you can just point and click, i dunno. But I was amazed by how much quicker I progressed troughout the game while playing with keyboard and mouse.
I think dhromed is doing things the wrong way around though. If he had started with ME1&2, perhaps after that dragon age and THEN played fallout 3, he would have played at least 4 games this year. (especially ME1 and 2 are riddiculously short. Bought them from steam when they where cheaper and played them out in the same weekend. I mean WTF)