General Videogame Thread

Nebuchadnezzar said:
Everything but the video card unfortunately. I've got an integrated Intel chip, its not really a gaming laptop....
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It's not video card intensive as mainly your looking at stats like you would on football manager. You should be ok. It's a slow running game anyway and not CPU you intensive
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Welcome to the world of Crusader Kings!!

Just little random stuff like that can absolutely ruin your kingdom.

The best/worst one which happened to me was in CK2.

Had a nice little kingdom where Estonia and Latvia are now. Everything was going great apart from I have no sons but had a daughter. My and my wife were both in 40's and she had turned into a lunatic and had caught the pox. I needed sons for my succession so I had my wife secretly bumped off and I banished my daughter.

Got married again to a younger wife and had 2 sons. Brilliant. I was in my late fifties and everything going great until my daughter had somehow managed to marry The Head of The Byzantine Empire! And she pressed a claim against me.

There was nothing I could do. I had around 4500 troops and she had around 25000. I tried to form an alliance with the holy Roman empire but the pope refused as my first wife died in mysterious circumstances so I tried to change the succession laws but that was taking 3 years and in that time my daughter had laid siege to my castle, had my 2 wife and my son's captured and executed and during the siege I died of old age. No heirs to carry on so game over.

I was gutted but at the same time I was laughing about the way it came about from my first wife becoming a lunatic.

It's just stuff like that which makes CK so compelling. Every time you play it it's always different.

Lisbeth, Princess Of Estonia. I will never forgive you!!
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Reading this has sold the game to me. Although you put hours in and end in defeat, I absolutely love this about games.

Seems to have an element of Stellaris is to it where you make one fuck up and its night night.

I'll be buying it right now :)
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
I'm unsure to be honest with you - i'm really shit with computers outside of a very basic level of knowledge.
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Hahahaha fair enough pal, just for future reference CEX sell that graphics card for a tenner. The point I am making is that it's a very low spec game to get to play, I'd give it a chance it will probably play on your laptop.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Cheers - I may look into getting it soon. The posts on here sound too good to ignore the game!
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If you are buying on Steam, you can get a full refund if you have only played a few hours on it, virtually no questions asked. I do that on loads of games that I decide I don't like - but one of the options you can select is "game doesn't work on my pc" and they will refund your card. So there's no harm in trying it.
 
Vicious111 said:
Reading this has sold the game to me. Although you put hours in and end in defeat, I absolutely love this about games.

Seems to have an element of Stellaris is to it where you make one fuck up and its night night.

I'll be buying it right now :)
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Yeah Stellaris and CK3 are both made by Paradox games so in some ways they are similar.

I do like Stellaris however what I've found with Stellaris is that once you have got your emprie to a certain size you are pretty much unstoppable and can wreck everything in the galaxy. It's only until the end game crisis starts things get a bit tricky but even then if you have got the right modifiers and alliances it's not too difficult.

What I love about CK is that your playing as family and not an emprie. Yeah looking after your kingdom/Empire is important making sure your family stays alive for 400/600 years is the really important thing or else it's game over!

Plus the randomness is unmatched. Like my empire which fell to pieces. I was doing great for 75 years until my wife turned into a lunatic!! Stuff like that doesn't really happen in Stellaris. I feel it's a very set path in that game where as CK your always on edge and thinking about the future as you just don't know what's going to happen. Every game is different where Stellaris feels the same
 
Finally hopped aboard the 144Hz train (Well, 165Hz on this monitor). It definitely is a huge jump up in smoothness. Depends on what kind of games you play to a point, and definitely how high your mouse sensitivity is (I suspect people will sky high mouse sens will notice the improvements more), but even basic stuff like scrolling Bluemoon is snappier. If you've ever gone from console 30FPS to PC 60FPS, think of something similar. Worth the upgrade IMO.
 
adrianr said:
Finally hopped aboard the 144Hz train (Well, 165Hz on this monitor). It definitely is a huge jump up in smoothness. Depends on what kind of games you play to a point, and definitely how high your mouse sensitivity is (I suspect people will sky high mouse sens will notice the improvements more), but even basic stuff like scrolling Bluemoon is snappier. If you've ever gone from console 30FPS to PC 60FPS, think of something similar. Worth the upgrade IMO.
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You can never go back from 144hz or above, Valorant with 200fps and gsync turned on is flawless.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
This is for @blueinsa as well

CK2 is free to play on steam so you have nothing to lose, however it doesn't hold your hand and you will need to go online to look at guides. Its also over 8 years old and it looks it! The interface is all over the place.

CK3 is included in xbox game pass for PC and you can pick up the 1st month for £1 so again nothing to lose.

CK3 looks miles better and although still incredibly complex it does a much better job of explaining the basics but again it can be a struggle to learn as there is so many layers. Coming from Civ you may have a slight advantage.

I posted a few videos for @SWP's back and @ultimateharold to take a look at a couple of pages back and i gave a few tips. The videos are really helpful

It can be really frustrating as you'll make loads of mistakes at first(even i have and ive got around 400 hours in CK2 which is nothing really!) but if you stick with and you get through the steep learning curve you'll find its one of the greatest games you will ever play
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I've just bought it... wish me luck!
 
Will definitely give the CK3 a go, big Stellaris fan and it’s £1 on the game pass.
I loved the Star Trek mod for stellaris, spent 200 hours on it in March - May during lockdown.
 
Spent a few hundred hours in CK2 back in the day so CK3 is placed firmly on the Steam wishlist. But I really can't let go of the marvelous MS Flight Simulator. I started using the FSEconomy addon/plugin which adds a whole new roleplaying dimension to the game. Began by renting some Cessna 172s and then some Beechcraft Barons and made enough cash to get a lease deal on a Cessna 208. I'm now flying on the US West coast where the forest fires are making the visibility hopeless on the small airstrips so I'm moving further north towards Canada.

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DruntBlunt said:
Spent a few hundred hours in CK2 back in the day so CK3 is placed firmly on the Steam wishlist. But I really can't let go of the marvelous MS Flight Simulator. I started using the FSEconomy addon/plugin which adds a whole new roleplaying dimension to the game. Began by renting some Cessna 172s and then some Beechcraft Barons and made enough cash to get a lease deal on a Cessna 208. I'm now flying on the US West coast where the forest fires are making the visibility hopeless on the small airstrips so I'm moving further north towards Canada.

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looks like you’re heading west to me matey.
 
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