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Erico

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Is it recommended to play Call of Priyapat without playing the original STALKER?

Also, any impressions on the co-op mode for Wings of Prey DLC?
 
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Gvaz

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Mr. Hyde said:
How good will Call of Pripyat run at 1080P using a Nvidia 8800 GTS G92/Q6600 @ 3GHZ and 4 gigs of ram? I want to run it with complete. I know I can't use the extreme option but will it run okay with the normal complete? I played part of SoC back in the day and enjoyed it, although the quests felt a bit repetitive. CoP always interested me, though.
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Not at max, that's for sure.

I have an HD4890 1GB, a phenom II x3 720 @ 3.2 and 8gb of ram (less important) at 1920x1200 and I can put almost everything at max for 30-40 fps if I recall correctly. It's been a while but it was playable.

For yours, I'd say medium low.
 
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smokeandmirrors

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Does anyone know how well Civ 5 runs on the new macbook pros? My brother bought one recently, and wants to play it. He's got the i7 @2.9ghz, 4gb ram and intel hd 3000. I know the integrated graphics are fairly shitty, but it should run. The question is, how well?
 
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Fragamemnon

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Drek said:
Sure you can beat it other ways, but you're always avoiding the most obvious and easiest solution to everything at that point. Not to mention that the game is just filled with tons of dead space where you click "end turn" waiting for resolution.
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I can agree with this. If you go space/culture in this game, then the last 100 or so turns are dreadfully boring. I did a culture game on Emperor for a CFC HOF challenge game over the weekend and the entire late Ren era to the end of the game-quite a few turns, was just me slamming the next turn button. There wasn't any kind of optimization or decision tree that could be done here at that point, unlike Civ4 (where you could honestly turn off tech and go pure culture after getting Liberalism OR go Mass Media culture win, there were good reasons for going both ways.)

They did some really interesting things with the diplomacy system but it didn't result in some massive leap forward in CPU AI and other than the visuals its a big step back from Civ4.
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Just to clarify-by "interesting", that means "removed entirely". There is no diplomacy in Civ V, the diplomacy screens and UI elements in the game are merely vestigial in nature, the appendix for the great colon of Civilization V. At any point the diplomatic condition can and will be overridden by hard scripted AI behaviors and triggers, which makes the entire system pointless. As long as you know how the AI programming will react to a situation, you can accurately judge what the AI may or may not to next. If you trust the diplomacy screens to help you determine the range of future AI actions, you will be confounded by what actually happens.

It is absolutely the best Civ game to enter the series.
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Civ IV: Beyond the Sword is the alpha and the omega. You get to be the best of a game series when other members of said series use you as the reference point when comparing the other games. Everyone who plays Civ uses Civ4:BtS as that as the standard to which other entries are compared against.
 
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Petrie

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NIN90 said:
Yes, you should hate it despite playing 12 hours in one day and loving it. You hate it so much!!
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I can regret it based on expecting to be able to get tons more enjoyment out of it, and all this talk of it not being deep enough for that.
 
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Drek

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Sblargh said:
Bullshit post, Gaf.
Civ 5 is as addictive as civ can get. I play the civ series since the second one and it is always easy to win at the (durh) lower difficulty. That is how this game works: lower difficulty is a kind of sandbox where the AI is nicer and stuff is cheaper; then you learn the basics and start going your way up.
It is more user friendly because it is more user friendly, i.e., UI is cleaner, more information on the same screen, less systems that affect and are affected by more stuff, game don't hijack you and force to make decisions in the order it wants, etc.

It has its balance issues, it is being patched a lot; you may not like it, but don't pretend that is because your brain is so big it don't fit the puny game.
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Nothing to do with my brain being too big for it. I'm not the most fantastic Civ player of all time and don't pretend to be. You say less systems that affect and are affected by more stuff, but what it turns into is knowing how to handle those few key elements at any difficulty level and then walking to easy victory.

And while militaristic strategies have always been one of the stronger tactics in a Civ game it is an overwhelmingly powerful strategy in Civ5.

Maybe with expansions and further patching it'll develop into a game worthy of its promise, but if someone is actually into 4x strat games or wants to get into them I can't see how you'd recommend Civ5 over Civ4 Complete.

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While there's definitely some things I really miss from Civ4 (trade routes, religion, diplomatic relations), it's not like Civ4 doesn't have its fair share of flaws as well: micro-management hell in large empires, somewhat crappy interface, and atrocious combat mechanics.

I like both, I play both. It'd be interesting to see a Civ6 with the best of both combined, I guess we'll have to wait a few more years for that though.
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Its not like Civ5 has good combat mechanics itself. Its better than Civ4 but its only marginally better and still has a lot of room left for improvement.

I'm very much looking forward to an eventual Civ6, but thats because early previews of Civ5 looked to be that game. The Civ Revolutions games were good console and handheld titles that offered some nice streamlining of the Civ experience that could have definitely improved the main series. But instead of augmenting a core game akin to Civ4 with the ease of use in CivRev it feels like they started with CivRev and built more complexity into it. Its not what I'd sit down and play on PC if I had the choice between it and Civ4. Or Galactic Civilizations II. Or Any Total War game. Its a damn hard game to recommend with the quality of other PC strategy games on the market, not the least of which being the complete edition of its predecessor.
 
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Sgt.Pepper

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Notrollious said:
Does anyone know how well Civ 5 runs on the new macbook pros? My brother bought one recently, and wants to play it. He's got the i7 @2.9ghz, 4gb ram and intel hd 3000. I know the integrated graphics are fairly shitty, but it should run. The question is, how well?
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It will run fine, I'm running an integrated Intel card and it runs fine. Civ V is pretty optimized in that regard.
 
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Lothars

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SteveWinwood said:
I like it alot, but its definitely not better than IV.
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It's not right now but I have no doubt it will be with an expansion, just like Civ IV was so much better with beyond the sword.
 
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nephilimdj

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LastWindow said:
A few days ago there was a Star Wars mod released for a Call of Duty game. Is it for the first Modern Warfare?
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Yes but its 700MB, so its not server side download, so it was pretty much dead on release.

Zombie and Promod are the 2 main mods.
 
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Stallion Free

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Basileus777 said:
Is Beat Hazard Ultra any good? I bought the game last year and enjoyed it, but stopped playing after there wasn't anything left to unlock.
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They revamped everything and there is now a perks system in place which is a lot more interesting. There are also new weapons for the ship and co-op online which is hella sweet.
 
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clav

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Is Beat Hazard Ultra any good?

I did not like the original and really regret buying it.

Does that DLC make it any better?
 
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echoshifting

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Drek said:
Maybe with expansions and further patching it'll develop into a game worthy of its promise, but if someone is actually into 4x strat games or wants to get into them I can't see how you'd recommend Civ5 over Civ4 Complete.
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New game, just like the old game....people said the exact same thing about Civ IV when it first came out. People weren't really falling all over themselves to embrace it until it had two expansions under its belt.
 
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Curufinwe

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The demo of Beat Hazard wasn't recognizing the triggers on my my 360 pad, but that must me because I'm still using the old XBCD drivers. But I can map the four power-ups to LB, RB, L3 and R3 so I'm going to buy it.
 
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Quadrophenic

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Is it a bad idea to get Guild Wars: Eye of the North without first playing Guild Wars Trilogy?

I don't think I'd have time to play through all 4 games, and I know Eye of the North has the Hall of Monuments which will transfer over to GW2....so I was thinking of just getting that. Thoughts?

Edit: nevermind, Eye of the North requires you already have one of the other GW. lol.
 
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Lanbeast

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mug said:
Ok, I'm torn between Braid and Terraria - I've only played the demo for Braid and haven't tried out Terraria. How's the gaf community for that game?
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I liked Braid for the first playthrough. But, grab a friend and get Terraria. I put 65 or so hours into it and I'm just waiting for another patch until jump back in.
 
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sixghost

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Jzero15 said:
Do you guys think it will get lower than $3.33 ?
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Poker Night was like $1 in the TellTale sale a week ago.

Anyway, I've never played Deus Ex 1, GAF. I know people love it unconditionally, but would it hold up for someone who has 0 nostalgia for the series? I played Invisible War on the Xbox and didn't enjoy it.
 
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Salsa

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SteveWinwood said:
I like it alot, but its definitely not better than IV.
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I guess it just depends on what you like about IV.

It still has the stuff i loved, they got rid of some of the fat and they added much needed grids (the spam you could pull off in combat in IV was terrible), im happy.
 
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Sgt.Pepper

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echoshifting said:
New game, just like the old game....people said the exact same thing about Civ IV when it first came out. People weren't really falling all over themselves to embrace it until it had two expansions under its belt.
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Weren't people saying that Civ IV didn't compared to Civ III when it came out? How did that turn on.

Jzero, the game was at $2.50 when it came on Steam, and at $1 something on the Telltale sale, so yes.
 
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MrNyarlathotep

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So I'm assuming that Guild Wars trilogy is a lot better value if you don't live in the UK?

Because given its age, 50% off at £12.50 isn't that good a deal.
 
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PaulLFC

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My experience of the Beat Hazard demo with the Shatter soundtrack...

"Shoot some asteroids... this isn't too ba-OMG WTF IS GOING ON THERE'S EFFECTS EVERYWHERE WHAT IS HAPPENING" ... and that was just on 50% 'intensity'.
 
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Benedict

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And Yet It Moves doesn't work for me.
Just gives me a black screen.
somebody else having the same problem?
Solution?

I have installed the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package that developer said should help but nothing...

Stupid crap indie-game that sucks.l
 
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