Considering getting a new game...

[Mikeus Caesar]

Let me guess: Katabatic?

I take it occasionally play T2 as well? Are you a frequent player? btw, i went into town and got Sim City 4 today (bargain basement price, £9.99) and will get another main game to accompany it soon. As for Flight Sims, i don't really like them, and if i ever want to fly, i just pull Crimson Skies out of my box of old games.

[GonZ]

You have to play Mount&Blade! Download the demo from here: http://www.taleworlds.com/ superb fun. Better still the ful game comes in around £7!!!

[Mikeus Caesar]

Sorry, i can't play games like that. I'm a bit paranoid that if i play Internet games like the one you mentioned above, i'll somehow break the service limit for my Broadband connection. Although, how i'll ever completely use up a 20GB service limit in a month is beyond me. Heck, at my house, we prolly only use up about 20GB a year.

[ChaosLord]

Sorry, i can't play games like that. I'm a bit paranoid that if i play Internet games like the one you mentioned above, i'll somehow break the service limit for my Broadband connection. Although, how i'll ever completely use up a 20GB service limit in a month is beyond me. Heck, at my house, we prolly only use up about 20GB a year.

Mikeus, the game isn't played online. You just can't find it in stores yet so you have to dl it. The download is only something like 35mb so theres no way you'd come close to your 20gb limit getting it. You probably do more then that just with normal web surfing/gaming in a day. Mount & Blade really is worth a try.

[Kongamato]

You could try Painkiller. It has the "killing hordes of undead" stuff and is very well-made. Great variety, huge levels, excellent textures, cool enemies, terrible cutscenes, Havok physics, and on and on. You can get it for cheap, usually $20.00. In terms of sheer value, it is a great bargain.

It is a guilty little pleasure.

[Fragony]

You could try Painkiller.

Oh yes. Painkiller is AWESOME. It is really fun if you just want to cause a whole lot of bloody death. And every level you are treated with a very flashy bossfight that rival the metroid prime series in sheer coolness. These things are big!

[John86]

HL2 is good. Why not get the expansion pack to Sim City 4, its pretty good.

[Alrowan]

if you like world domination, or risk style strat games, i suggest Victoria, Europa Universalis 2, Hearts of Iron 2, or Crusader Kings, all games are made by the same company, who really are the kings of world domination grand strategy games. www.paradoxplaza.com is the website, very good games, as many here will agree

[Quietus]

You have to play Mount&Blade! Download the demo from here: http://www.taleworlds.com/ superb fun. Better still the ful game comes in around £7!!!

Yep, it's pretty much what have to try. Play as horsearcher! You can switch from Bow/Arrow to Shield/Sword back and forth during battles.

I have Sim City 4 Deluxe and I won't recommend it since it is practically broke. The only thing going for it is graphics which is a bit old by now. City to City pathfinding is absolutely broke. You have to design your highways real well so that your citizens will use them ( the majority will still go to the roads ).

Plus there is a solid cap on wealth distributions in the city. Also, once you've built a commercial site, it would be extremely tough to expand to other peripheries. I'll post my city soon. The trash system is bad as well.

I'll post a screenie of my city in a bit.

edit: Here's my city of Yayfungus. ~:D



This is the main city. There's a lot more cities in the periphery. If you look, it's difficult to develop other parts of the city since there's little traffic. Why? Pathfinding within the city is broke itself. City to city transportation is even more broke.

[Spartiate]

Let me see.

Homeworld 2
Anno 1503
Silent Hunter 3 (now THERE is micro-management)
Pirates
Republic the Revolution
Dawn of War 40K
RTW
MTW
STW
Caesar 3
Black and White
Championship Manager 03/04
Evil Genius

Those are my favourites but i have many that i install and un-install in the same day(like Imperial Glory) and many more not even out of their wrappers like Half-Life 2 and Ground Control 2.The TW series has just taken up most of my free gaming time since they arrived on the scene.All hail

[Mikeus Caesar]

Yep, it's pretty much what have to try. Play as horsearcher! You can switch from Bow/Arrow to Shield/Sword back and forth during battles.

I have Sim City 4 Deluxe and I won't recommend it since it is practically broke. The only thing going for it is graphics which is a bit old by now. City to City pathfinding is absolutely broke. You have to design your highways real well so that your citizens will use them ( the majority will still go to the roads ).

Plus there is a solid cap on wealth distributions in the city. Also, once you've built a commercial site, it would be extremely tough to expand to other peripheries. I'll post my city soon. The trash system is bad as well.

I'll post a screenie of my city in a bit.

edit: Here's my city of Yayfungus. ~:D



This is the main city. There's a lot more cities in the periphery. If you look, it's difficult to develop other parts of the city since there's little traffic. Why? Pathfinding within the city is broke itself. City to city transportation is even more broke.

You appear to have a Motorway. Do you happen to know how to build Cloverleaf junctions for the motorway? I don't have a clue. And pathfinding in the city doesn't appear to be broken. Works fine for me. And city-to-city transportation works fine, and is quite handy, as dumping my sims on a train to a nearby city takes alot of pressure off the city roads. I take it though that it's only broken in SC4 Deluxe, because i have the original, and it works fine. And the Graphics aren't that dated. Compared to even the best games out there, the graphics are amazing, and so is the attention to detail. It may be over a year old, but the graphics will satisfy most graphics whores.

[Quietus]

You appear to have a Motorway. Do you happen to know how to build Cloverleaf junctions for the motorway? I don't have a clue. And pathfinding in the city doesn't appear to be broken. Works fine for me. And city-to-city transportation works fine, and is quite handy, as dumping my sims on a train to a nearby city takes alot of pressure off the city roads. I take it though that it's only broken in SC4 Deluxe, because i have the original, and it works fine. And the Graphics aren't that dated. Compared to even the best games out there, the graphics are amazing, and so is the attention to detail. It may be over a year old, but the graphics will satisfy most graphics whores.

SC4 Deluxe is the original game with the Rush Hour expansion pack. There's a lot that's not in the original.

You just need to plop down the cloverleaf next to the highway and the you will get an overlapping image, meaning it is good to go.

The cloverleaf is huge (takes up alot of space along with the highway) and it is aesthetically bad-looking that's why I don't use them. So, when you start a city you have to have the cloverleaf in mind from the get-go or else you'll be destroying lots of structures later on.

I use a lot of bus stops and commuters go from City A to City B to City C to City D just to get to City A destination then they complain the commute is too long. Also a couple of blocks commute is also long to the Sims and they abandon the buildings because of that.

I don't want to ruin your experience, because you are having fun, so I'm gonna stop there. But there's a lot of 'design flaws' in the game (kinda like RTW diplomacy).

It's fun to drive around your built-up city though.

Lastly, go for the high tech industries. Avoid the Dirty and Manufacturing industries.

edit: My bad. Driving around your city is limited to the expansion pack.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Lastly, go for the high tech industries. Avoid the Dirty and Manufacturing industries.

I did that right from the start. I boosted up education funding to max, and then built an industrial sector. Any dirt/manufacturing industry was instantly destroyed, until eventually my sims got clever and started building high tech. It also helps to put taxes for low and medium wealth industry up to about 15% and putting taxes for high wealth industry down to 1%, so it attracts High Tech. Btw, i got my first skyscraper last night! It's a large high wealth Residential, called The Hogan. It's huge.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Heheh, look, here is my pride and joy - Pert County!



The date is 2015 and population is (i think) 32000. As you can see, the first few skyscrapers are popping up, and if you look in the top corner, you can see the High Tech industry. To the west is the large city of Jipian (population 13000) which is connected to Pert by rail and road. To the east is the city of Riverton (population 25000) which is yet to be connected to Pert, but has some impressive bridges going across the River Tithel. I'll post a picture of my entire map later, it's quite impressive.