Favorite CD game for PC?

[Lil_man_dood]

My favourite game would be none other than... Morrowind! Anyone else?

[˙·٠•●Motherloader●•٠·˙]

IT's better on xbox. And worms 4 mayhem.

[Sperry]

AOE II Expanded. Vive.

[Shadow Crest]

Half-life.

I would have Half-life 2, but my computer won't be able to play it :(

[UnseeingEye]

Either Half Life 2 or World of Warcraft.

[Icetetter]

counter-strike..

[UnseeingEye]

Dang it, I knew I forgot something, and by that I mean Counterstrike.

[Icetetter]

hl2 is great. sadly my comp cant handle it well.

[XGEN-CRaZeD]

Doom 2:Hell on Earth

[Homer43]

IT's better on xbox.

not in my opinion .... hmmm best cd game... where do i start.

starcraft brood war, counter strike, hl2, counter strike source, call of duty uo, brothers in arms.

[˙·٠•●Motherloader●•٠·˙]

battlefield 2

[Homer43]

battlefield 2

overhyped but still pretty good

[Lil_man_dood]

Man I wanna play WoW (World of Warcraft).

[Icetetter]

what you guys think of america's army?

[Zip]

AOE II Expanded. Vive.
Same, are you on the Zone? My username there is Pyro_Shroom

[˙·٠•●Motherloader●•٠·˙]

IT's all right. NOt noob friendly. And it takes a long time to download.

Edit: What is your fav weapon class? I personaly like to be an automatic rifleman.

[Hijacker27]

Has to be Warcraft 3... such an amazing game.

[Homer43]

what you guys think of america's army?

a very beautiful game, one of the best.

my favorite class is special forces or on a map without them a rifleman... its just so fun to mow people down with my rifle.

[Forsaken_13]

Halo 2 is good but Guild Wars is better.

[Sperry]

Same, are you on the Zone? My username there is Pyro_ShroomNope. I want to beat the game through and through before I play others. Wait a few scored years.

[theryman]

Eh, I've always liked BF1942. And Tiberian Sun.

EDIT
AOE II Expanded. Vive.

As in, all expansions? I only got conquerers..

[Zip]

Nope. I want to beat the game through and through before I play others. Wait a few scored years.

The AI in AoK:TC is easy to beat once you get used to it, other people tend to think up strategies and move their units around the map better than the AI does. Plus people adapt to the changing conditions better than the AI.

So, what campaign are you on now?

EDIT: There's only one expansion for AoK Theryman.

[theryman]

Eh? Isn't AOE age of Empires? There are two- Conqeurers edition and Age of Kings.

[Zip]

AoE is Age of Empires
AoE 2 is Age of Empires 2
AoK is Age of Kings
AoK is the subtitle of AoE 2
AoK:TC or AoC is Age of Kings: The Conquerors

AoK (AoE2) is the original game, AoK:TC is the Expansion for it.

[Sperry]

The AI in AoK:TC is easy to beat once you get used to it, other people tend to think up strategies and move their units around the map better than the AI does. Plus people adapt to the changing conditions better than the AI.

So, what campaign are you on now?Yeah, the whole, fighting thing, it can get a bit sad. Oh well. That's AI for you.

The only campaign I haven't beaten (unless I did since I made that thread so long ago, in which case I've forgotten and it doesn't matter) is Lepanto. That is, on standard. Still haven't gotten around to upping to hardest- squabble around doing randoms too oft.

I was rather close to being able to play AOM, but, lo and behold, my computer invented yet another idiot error. Vive crappy P2. Vive.

[Zip]

It might not just be the processor, if you have a good video card it'll most likely make up for the processor. My processor meets the processor reqs for AoM, I can play the demo but at slower speeds, I need a 3d video card to make it go faster.

The hardest and hard AI are exactly the same as the moderate AI, only in hard mode the wolves are more aggressive. In hardest mode the AI is allowed to use the resource cheats and they build towers.

It's very funny when you own half the map in random having destroyed 2 of the 4 original AIs with few trebuchets being defended by halbs and paladins.

[The Prodigal]

1: Starcraft, Starcraft Broodwar (Archons kick ***!)
2: Heroes of Might and Magic III (Archangels kick ***!)
3: Diablo (My Rogue kicks ***!)

[Homer43]

1: Starcraft, Starcraft Broodwar (Archons kick ***!)
3: Diablo (My Rogue kicks ***!)

hoorah.... archons arent good against a terran with a decent science vessel tactic (emp = 10 health)

[eatmorchikin6464]

IT's all right. NOt noob friendly. And it takes a long time to download.

Edit: What is your fav weapon class? I personaly like to be an automatic rifleman.

LMAO! N00b, you only have the demo. It's called assualt class also. Medic is the best, gets you the most points. I have the full version and it's alot of fun. Frustrating many a times though.

[Halo007]

Doom3 and Soldier of fortune 2

[The Prodigal]

Yes homer I know but they rock anyway. Simply 'cause they look cool.
But a good drop would be Reavers and Archons. Templars too.

[Halo007]

what you guys think of america's army?Very realistic combat.

[Sperry]

It might not just be the processor, if you have a good video card it'll most likely make up for the processor. My processor meets the processor reqs for AoM, I can play the demo but at slower speeds, I need a 3d video card to make it go faster.

The hardest and hard AI are exactly the same as the moderate AI, only in hard mode the wolves are more aggressive. In hardest mode the AI is allowed to use the resource cheats and they build towers.

It's very funny when you own half the map in random having destroyed 2 of the 4 original AIs with few trebuchets being defended by halbs and paladins.The only reason it recognized it for the first time was because of the memory I got for it- which is still sad, to say the least. As for the graphics card, that's why- too old for the game to understand.

Towers? That's generally the strategy of the Standards who die first. :P Alas- I've only doubled on the Europe Conquerors. Must... double... others...

In regard to halbardiers and paladins, why? Ruddy waste of money if you ask me. A rabble of monks and 100 Longbowmen can uber kill. Yay for cowardly fighting.

[Zip]

Well in normal games monks get slaughtered fast, and paladins would make quick work of the longbowmans. Plus, most arrow units can't destroy buildings as fast as melee units...

The paladins I send in to get swift kills and raid most of the time, the trebuchets are defended by mostly halbardiers and some paladins.

I know I beat a friend of mine in a DM after he had the upper hand on a gold rush map by claiming the center and getting lots of gold, I had run out of gold and started collecting relics and after built around 3 trebs being defended by an army of only 20 halberdiers. I ended the game swiftly after I had claimed the center.
*I have the recorded game if you want it.

[Sperry]

If the monks are well protected and you do controlled battle (not just clicking agressive and hoping for the best), the longbowmen can take out the oncoming paladins rather quickly. As for trebuchets, they're nice- but if you get in a tight spot, it's a lot safer to use Petards (groups- not inidivduals).

Wow. This has turned into such a nerdy chat. Heh.

[Zip]

Custom scenarios can train you to also focus on your battles too, like the part where people put their archers on stand ground around their monks to keep paladins away. In theory it'll probably work, but that depends on how many paladins the opponent sends in, and how much the player even cares about an archer army.

I know that I would probably just run by the army towards your base to kill off any villagers not behind walls and then destroy a gate to enter the town to kill off more villagers. I still like trebuchets though, petards get killed off too fast by the people I play with.

Nerdy chat maybe, but that depends on where the discussion is taking place.

[Sperry]

It's ironic, one of the strategies suggested in most AOE game guides is to not focus on the battle- to go about the map and be extra sure there are no stray villagers. Pfft.

From my experience, it's always worked- regardless of the size of the army sent in (of course, if it gets large enough, that won't work too well :P). Sure, some guys will die, but since Longbowmen are considerably less expensive and don't need food, you can build more villagers to accomodate, and trade if the map runs dry.

Yeah, that's a good strategy, ignoring soldiers. It can backfire though, non AI's will react a lot more... tactically sound, and try to route you and the like.

As for the petards, in a run I lose about a third of them before I do substantial damage, and obviously they all end up dead, but you never have to worry about being brutally defeated (army-wise), as there's no trudger that needs to retreat. The soldiers can get out if they have to, and lower losses.

[Impulse]

The original Roller Coaster Tycoon by Hasbro Interative is a classic.

[Shadow Crest]

anyone have AOM? (Age of Mythology for those who don't know)

[Zip]

I just tested it, 70 monks and 103 Elite Longbowman against 100 Frank Paladins will have the paladins win. I was controlling the British Longbowman army and I used a patrol trick to keep the paladins away from the monks. Both players were in imperial, I highly doubt that there would have been enough room for a mistake that'll let the paladins lose because there were over 20 left over from the battle.

Yes, longbows are cheaper to make, but at the cost of castles, you would need to have gotten a lot of stone to be able to make enough castles to keep up with a player that has stables all over the map creating a paladin army in a matter of minutes. The trebuchets are just a way to save unit deaths if the opponent has several castles in the same area.

Btw: You know how the AI sucks, even on hardest mode it is incapable of sending a grouped assault army against an opponent, it'll send each unit one by one or in groups of 10 or something.

[Sperry]

The French win at everything. :P

That is what I assumed a number too great for overall victory, paladins have more than twice the health of a longbowman. It will also vary, of course, on the skill of either player (if they send in the paladins and control them properly), the way the rest of the game has gone (early access to stone, which proves vital to the British), and of course luck.

In regard to the 70 monks, that's 70 attempted conversions- including distance (time for the paladins to reach them), time for slaying and the sheer amount- you're bound to get at least a quarter of his army.

Well, whatever. The British have a great fighting force when they get the upper hand, but their weakness is getting it, what you described.

As for the several castles, that's usually a result of the concentrated area of assault- any human or AI will build defenses strong where they are attacked. Find another door, perhaps? Siege Onagers can do marvels in the woods.

The most any AI sent at me in a game was on Moderate, the one guy sent in groups of 20 at 5 minute intervals. A fine example of the computer's desperation and strategy. Of course, it was also an example of the British weakness/strength- slaughtered then outnumbering. Yipee. :P

[Zip]

As for the several castles, that's usually a result of the concentrated area of assault- any human or AI will build defenses strong where they are attacked. Find another door, perhaps? Siege Onagers can do marvels in the woods.

Well there is no other way around it if the castles are actually in their base around their TC. :p People also normally close off/defend choke points before they're attacked too.

I consider longbows and archers more as defense units because of the low HP they have, they're normally better behind a meatshield of pikes, paladins and walls.

I just ran another test with 80 Longbows and 40 pikes in a boxed formation, in the first wave of 40 paladins, I still had many pikes and barely any archer deaths. In the second wave of 40 paladins, all the pikes were killed and the longbows reduced to around 40. Then with the remaining 20 paladins the AI had, he slaughtered all the archers with 5 paladins left over from the battle. So if it were a good player the archer/pike army would have been killed by the 100 paladin army in one go.

Britons are good for booming, with the sheep harvesting bonus that they get. They're also good for kills with their longbow army, but require siege to take out most attacking buildings. The monk army is what I've never seen in multiplayer much, except in DM. a longbow attack army should have pikemen in their ranks, because the weakness of archers is calavry and pikemen make quick work of horses.

If I ever end up playing in a game against you, and you send monks, I'll wipe them out first because they're annoying when they convert and they're easy kills. If you send petards, my castles are probably going to be in trouble, so a couple paladins have to be defending the chokepoints. If you keep archers behind walls, the wall should be defended with melee units too incase of a petard/seige ram/trebuchet assault.

[Sperry]

Well there is no other way around it if the castles are actually in their base around their TC. People also normally close off/defend choke points before they're attacked too. And they continue to survive because even with 5 treb's, a decent level, it takes several shots to down it. So long as a dozen petards are successful in reaching the base, it's down- regardless of nearby's.I consider longbows and archers more as defense units because of the low HP they have, they're normally better behind a meatshield of pikes, paladins and walls.Their low HP is a huge disadvantage once they're right into combat. That's why, as we've mentioned, they can get hammered by horses. But still, having 100, even when guarded by less than half that amount of paladins/halbardiers, they can do some critical damage and not get touched too much.Britons are good for booming, with the sheep harvesting bonus that they get. They're also good for kills with their longbow army, but require siege to take out most attacking buildings. The monk army is what I've never seen in multiplayer much, except in DM. a longbow attack army should have pikemen in their ranks, because the weakness of archers is calavry and pikemen make quick work of horses.
A monk army, though higly victim to oncoming enemies, can prove highly advantageous. They can inter-heal one another, and convert just about everything that comes their way. They also provide a distinct defense- while the paladins and such are working them down, longbows could then slaughter the horses (who are preoccupied with tearing away at the countless monks). Let's suppose that there's an army of 40 monks and 100 longbowmen- against 100 paladins. If the paladins go to the monks, most if not all of them will be killed. The longbowmen, however, will survive with minimal casualties from the first part of the battle. That'll end up with around four strikes of divided fire in paladin casualties- which translates to about a quarter of the paladins killed. After that, it takes about the same amount of time to kill archers as monks, so the end casualties would be about... complete losses for the brits with less than half the paladins surviving- accounting for luck, time before assault, possible conversions and marching errors (getting "stuck"). The price of that battle is heavy for both sides, and if the British have more resources, specifically gold, the losses are well worth it.If I ever end up playing in a game against you, and you send monks, I'll wipe them out first because they're annoying when they convert and they're easy kills. If you send petards, my castles are probably going to be in trouble, so a couple paladins have to be defending the chokepoints. If you keep archers behind walls, the wall should be defended with melee units too incase of a petard/seige ram/trebuchet assault.In regard to paladins and castles, a full set of 40 petards can take down at least two castles when hindered. Unguarded, at least three can be destroyed. They cost lots of food, but that's why the Brits love sheep.

[Homer43]

LMAO! N00b, you only have the demo. It's called assualt class also. Medic is the best, gets you the most points. I have the full version and it's alot of fun. Frustrating many a times though.

wtf are u talking about, it IS called the automatic rifleman because he has a SAW and the abbreviation for the class is AR, and healing someone while being a medic only gives you about 50 points each 7 round match

[Zip]

Which is why I'm normally a boomer, :p. Don't brits normally only get up to pikemen?

In the army of archers vs paladins, unless that's the only way into someone's base people will normally try avoid the massive unit battles.

We'll see what strategy plays better once you go to multiplayer. You do have the patches right?

[Sperry]

I'm not sure- whenever I play brits I defend archers with petards+castles or paladins+monks. The defenses don't really do anything, they just keep the wee ones alive. I find pikemen irritable, and even against Persians, they're rather tedious.

Yes, we will. :P Of course, leave it up to me to have a crappy computer. It doesn't like working.

[Kerry]

Hmm.. I like SC, and used to be big into Diablo I and II... WoW is an awesome game, but i haven't gotten the chance to get addicted to it.

I know you guys are going to laugh at me, but my favrite PC game is The Sims.

[Lil_man_dood]

The Sims is awesome! Its almost as good as Morrowind.

[spammyspam]

I liked the Sims, too, but I prefer the Roller Coaster Tycoon series.

[Homer43]

I used to play Diablo 2 with my family all day long and still play some Starcraft now... The Sims is a good game because of the openness of it, you can become a criminal or become a computer hacker and everything in between.

[Kerry]

Yea, but the only thing i dislike about the sims is you have to buy the original (39.99) and then all the expansions (19.99+ each).

Sure it was fun to gain new wallpapers or things for your character to do, but it turned out to be a lot of money in the long run.

[Lil_man_dood]

Diablo 2 is pretty fun also.

[Homer43]

Yea, but the only thing i dislike about the sims is you have to buy the original (39.99) and then all the expansions (19.99+ each).

Sure it was fun to gain new wallpapers or things for your character to do, but it turned out to be a lot of money in the long run.

Yeah, I'd always just get the expansions from my brother after he bought them so the price was no big deal to me :) I am amazed at how many expansions they actually came out with for the game.

[Kerry]

Yea... I had the original, hot date, unleashed, vacation, house party, and livin large...

[Homer43]

Sounds like what I had, have you played The Sims 2 yet?

[Kerry]

Nope... Not enough time :-P

[Homer43]

It's a lot different than the first one but is also quite the same... It's pretty good.

[Kerry]

I need a faster comp anyways, I don't think mine would run it very fast. It would lag like crazy. It does for WoW :-P

[Homer43]

I would play WoW if it didn't have the monthly fees on it.

[the real king]

GTA:SA dvd version, and HL2. IT OWNZ

[Homer43]

HL2s graphics knocked me off my seat but I never liked GTA.

[The Brown Cow]

Halflife 2 Is insanely cool, and I wish I had a computer that could run it or a friend who lived closer.

[Kerry]

I love GTA: SA... Me and my bf 100%'ed the game!

[Shadow Crest]

I just got that for Xbox.

GTA SA is insane!

[Kerry]

The flight controlls on Xbox suck to be honest... It is so hard to fly a plane.. It is SO much easier on PS2

[Shadow Crest]

Same with the drive-by controls.

I hate the black and white buttons.

[jason]

I love GTA: SA... Me and my bf 100%'ed the game!

Ahh, I did that many months ago =)
Anywho,
I play Gunz:the duel International Edition.
Guild Wars
Call of duty as soon as my video card gets into my PC.
A couple others games..

GTA:SA isn't a hard game. Wait, so Kerreh, You were invited in for coffee from
all of your 5 Girlfriends. And your boyfriend didn't min... Oh, wait nevermind.
The GTA franchine as a whole simply relies that the players will just dilly-daddle around.. Once you start the missions it isn't hard =)

[theryman]

Drvieby's are very difficult, but as long as you don't completely suck at life, the flying isn't very hard after a bit of practice.

[Shadow Crest]

Flying isn't too bad for me; it's the drive-by.
mostly because of Black and White.

[Homer43]

I finished Vice City but have no desire to get SA anytime soon.

[The_Arbiter]

Blizzard games and I'm pretty much set... Starcraft: Brood War... Diablo II: LOD...

[Lil_man_dood]

Blizzard games and I'm pretty much set... Starcraft: Brood War... Diablo II: LOD... Yeah, Blizzard games are awesome, but Morrowind is better.

[Homer43]

FPS games are best, followed by RPG, and shortly followed by RTS.

[Grunteh]

GO HALO! i think this is a filler

[Karl]

Spore, and that hasn't even been released yet.

[the real king]

People who dont have san andreas: Get it now. Because its going to be ahrd to get now.

[Sperry]

Not in Canada. Vive Petite America.

[Coheed]

/em agrees with Naborr. Spore just looks insane.

[theryman]

Spore, and that hasn't even been released yet.

Holy Crap, you heard of that, too!?!?! I can't wait: fall 2006. My computer probably won't be able to run it, though.

Also, I've started playing Civ3. It's pretty fun.

[Coheed]

I like the AOE games. Age of Empires three looks great, I've also been playing Sid Meiers Pirates! Great game.

[theryman]

Coheed, have you seen the develepors movie about Spore yet? I'l try to find it...

EDIT:
Heres the link. To see the movie, you have to have an account, but you can lie about everything. Even e-mail, as you don't need to confirm.

http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/gdctv/

[Coheed]

I haven't seen anything about it really. Just the article about it in the latest Game Informer, I was quite amazed.

[theryman]

Just posted it. Look up.

[Coheed]

I just finished watching it and I'm amazed. I had no idea it would be that....awesome I guess. The fact that you could build everything to your liking is so cool. Sucks that its going to take a year or so to come out though.

[Ginny12321]

My favorite games would have to be morrowind and AoE 2. I played diablo 2 for a long time, but i stopped that a while ago.