The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Fragony]

Beyond Good and Evil. Still don't understand why this game failed, but like the other charmer Enslaved it did. What is wrong with you people. It is really a terrific game and the developers must be heartbroken nobody bought it.

[Voigtkampf]

Was a great game, I recall my ex-gf loved it. She even looked a little bit like that main journalist chick, Jade, was it not?

[Montmorency]

EU3 Complete - that is, without Divine Wind and Heir to the Throne.

Which mods should I use? Most seem to require Divine Wind. I've tried MEIOU, but it seems broken. (I followed the instructions.)

[CountArach]

EU3 Complete - that is, without Divine Wind and Heir to the Throne.

Which mods should I use? Most seem to require Divine Wind. I've tried MEIOU, but it seems broken. (I followed the instructions.)

Have you played Magna Mundi? It is HttT, but there is an earlier version still available I believe which is very stable.

[Fragony]

Was a great game, I recall my ex-gf loved it. She even looked a little bit like that main journalist chick, Jade, was it not?

Yep. If you liked it you will probably also like Enslaved, criminally overlooked game with the same sort of charm and sense of wonder. It isn't all that fun to play but I really fell in love with the characters.

[Montmorency]

Have you played Magna Mundi? It is HttT, but there is an earlier version still available I believe which is very stable.

All download links to apparently compatible versions are broken.

Interesting: Some conquer the UK as Portugal. I become vassal to Portugal as the UK - by 1437.

[Montmorency]

Excuse me for the belaborement, but I felt this was too striking not to relate: Portugal managed to drag me - as a junior partner in the personal union - into a war with France, Castille - so much for our alliance and great relations - the Ottomans, Naples, Savoy, the Golden Horde, and the Timurids, all at once. It took a decade before I realized that the white peace was not coming, that Portugal would never negotiate and Castille/France would never take on its North African empire for fear of my navy (#3 at 23 ships!).

I pored over the console codes, and eventually realized that the only way to break the union and make a separate peace - no alternatives through cheats forthcoming - would be to ruin relations with Portugal and console-kill their king. The trick cost me the provinces in Scotland & Ireland which I had gained from France over the war. In fact, I had to attack Portugal to get them, though they were originally won by the blood of English men. My war-score was negative, all said. Not surprising given that Portugal had got itself totally occupied by France and Castille. Ultimately, peace cost me an exclave in SW France and 700 ducks. A grueling experience, to say the least.

What forced my hand and precipitated this was the mounting War Exhaustion. The provinces were all boiling! Taking on pretenders and zealots is the worst sort of micromanagement - and a decade after the fact, my tech and colonial pursuits are still critically stunted due to my attention constantly being focused on the rebel spam. Fool Joao IV - did he expect our 40K to match the COALITION'S 200+K? France and Castille alone had triple our ground force.

In the present day: many more revolts to come, and Ireland may need to be abandoned as the French shipped in 57 regiments after the war's end.

Really, how common could it be for a player to take over a continent with a minor in this one?

[Xiahou]

I grabbed the Pick 5 - Pay $10 promo over at GOG. One of the games I picked was Symphony. On the surface, it's your standard top-down space shoot'em up. But the twist is that it scans you music library and the levels are created based on what song you choose. Your songs/levels can then unlock more weapons and the more score you rack up, the more upgrades you can buy.

It makes a very basic game... fascinating. It's very easy to suck up vast quantities of time as I keep seeing songs in my library that I want to play on- each one intended as the last before I stop....

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Fragony]

What the que? This is apparently running on the good ol'ps3, that is freaking amazingly goodlooking http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-ground-zeroes