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Gameplay Most of the game takes place in a spaceship shown from a third-person overhead perspective. The player has the option of engaging in both combat and trade. Players fly around in one of hundreds of star systems, which are connected to each other by hyperlinks. A spaceship can move between star systems along the hyperlinks by engaging its hyperdrive. ... The series prescribes very little limitation as to what the player can do. They can choose which missions to follow and which governments to form a good relationship with or to be entirely neutral. They can choose to be a trader or a mercenary or an asteroid miner among a number of things or a combination of several.

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Well EU3 isn't really that hardcore. It's just hardcore enough to not sell too well... but most gamers (mostly people who play total war) I've talked too don't find it too hard. Apparently it did best of all the games that paradox have made. One of their other games is called Victoria which is set between 1836 and ww1. NOW that is a hardcore game. You have to manage your countries industrialisation... change policies in an attempt to change the type of government your country has (whether you want more liberal... or your going for a radical dictatorship). Try and attract immigrants... or try and stop them from leaving ETC. As well as managing an economy semi properly... where you must either subsidise or tarriff various things (construction of roads... research etc) and where you don't get certain things at tech levels... tech levels just allow them to happen and they require inventers to actually be made avaliable. have never played it though... and apparently it was a commercial flop but theres a lot of fanbois at the forums

Just tried the EU:Rome demo... hmm a bit abstract and boring for me. EU3 is much better IMO. BTW theres an expansion coming out for EU3 really soon where theres missions for various things (e.g. comepleting the reconquista) so that should make the game a fair bit more interesting (apparently the AI actually responds to these things too). Can't wait to play that.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Well EU3 isn't really that hardcore. It's just hardcore enough to not sell too well... but most gamers (mostly people who play total war) I've talked too don't find it too hard. Apparently it did best of all the games that paradox have made. One of their other games is called Victoria which is set between 1836 and ww1. NOW that is a hardcore game. You have to manage your countries industrialisation... change policies in an attempt to change the type of government your country has (whether you want more liberal... or your going for a radical dictatorship). Try and attract immigrants... or try and stop them from leaving ETC. As well as managing an economy semi properly... where you must either subsidise or tarriff various things (construction of roads... research etc) and where you don't get certain things at tech levels... tech levels just allow them to happen and they require inventers to actually be made avaliable. have never played it though... and apparently it was a commercial flop but theres a lot of fanbois at the forums Just tried the EU:Rome demo... hmm a bit abstract and boring for me. EU3 is much better IMO. BTW theres an expansion coming out for EU3 really soon where theres missions for various things (e.g. comepleting the reconquista) so that should make the game a fair bit more interesting (apparently the AI actually responds to these things too). Can't wait to play that.

Did you ever play EU2? I think if EU3 had the combat system of EU2 where you don't have the stupid regiment system, it'd be the best strategy game ever. I get so fucking tired of chasing around 1 regiment armies that just instantly retreat making them indestructible. Victoria, though, holy shit. I've been playing that game on and off ever since it came out (something like 3 years ago) and I'm still finding things I didn't know I could do. It didn't sell too well at all, but, no questions asked, it is the deepest game I've ever played and I think that's the reason for the low sales; it's almost too deep at times.

EU:Rome looks pretty good. I'm really dissapointed in the regiment based armies approach they stuck with, but it fits better with this time period thanks to the Crusader Kings-ish(another Paradox game) character system they implemented. I have a big feeling it's going to be a lot like Crusader Kings, though, in the sense that it's going to need about a years worth of patches and tweeks before it becomes the game it should be. But, judging from the demo, it should still be a lot of fun.

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How unknown is "The Incredible Machine"?

Now that's a fun little game right there

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Originally posted by Spam How unknown is "The Incredible Machine"? Now that's a fun little game right there

Now THERE'S a game I haven't heard mentioned in a loooooong time. A real mind-bender.

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Originally posted by Audigy7 Did you ever play EU2? I think if EU3 had the combat system of EU2 where you don't have the stupid regiment system, it'd be the best strategy game ever. I get so fucking tired of chasing around 1 regiment armies that just instantly retreat making them indestructible. Victoria, though, holy shit. I've been playing that game on and off ever since it came out (something like 3 years ago) and I'm still finding things I didn't know I could do. It didn't sell too well at all, but, no questions asked, it is the deepest game I've ever played and I think that's the reason for the low sales; it's almost too deep at times. EU:Rome looks pretty good. I'm really dissapointed in the regiment based armies approach they stuck with, but it fits better with this time period thanks to the Crusader Kings-ish(another Paradox game) character system they implemented. I have a big feeling it's going to be a lot like Crusader Kings, though, in the sense that it's going to need about a years worth of patches and tweeks before it becomes the game it should be. But, judging from the demo, it should still be a lot of fun.

Never played EU2... sounds worse though. It'd be great to have an AAR with an elected style government (like Roma). It'd be great because of how someone can be elected... and then someone else is but then the first person is again.

EU:Rome 1.1 patch notes: You can no longer retreat in the first 5 days of battle
WOO!

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I'm bumping this thread after remembering some cool games I used to play way back in grade school.





In the Hunt (PSone)

An underwater shooting game. How many of these exist? You were a submarine blasting your way through underwater fortresses, marinas, and crazy ass factories with all sorts of wicked, Japanese-themed stuff. This was among the first PSone games released (I wanna say it made an appearance on the Saturn as well). If you can find this, it'll probably run you 75 cents. Check it out, some of the bosses are crazy.




Project Overkill (PSone)

I couldn't find any gameplay pictures for this (only looked for about 3 seconds though), but this was a top-down game where you controlled a dude that basically killed everything in his path. For the time, this game was hysterically violent. I specifically remember the audio being very well-done, showing once and for all the necessity of gaming on a CD-rom vs. a cartridge.



Open Ice (PSone)

An arcade port, this game was essentially NBA Jam on ice...meaning, it kicked all kinds of ass. I believe this game was the precursor to Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey on the N64, a much more popular game. A very fun game to play with friends.



NBA Hang Time (N64)

I STILL play this game all the time. Absolutely hilarious, especially with 4 people playing and everyone with a custom character. It doesn't get much more fun than this.

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The graphics on that In the Hunt game look remarkably like Metal Slug, and even the gameplay judging from the pics looks like metal slug. Indeed if the game is anything like metal slug it must be awesome.

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Originally posted by Moongoose The graphics on that In the Hunt game look remarkably like Metal Slug, and even the gameplay judging from the pics looks like metal slug. Indeed if the game is anything like metal slug it must be awesome.

Very good on noticing the similarity. I didn't even consider that. The game moves a TAD bit slower than the Metal Slug games, but its by such a small amount that you wouldn't notice the difference. If you dig the Slug games, you'd love In the Hunt.

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