Excommunicator
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So I thought I would get some impressions on the Codex on a recent purchase I made, and open up the experience to any suggestions, tips or comments from the Codex on the above mentioned games.
Long story short, I found an old gift card lying around ready to expire so I headed down to the store to see what I could get for $50. Basically from the limited selection available (of the 7 or so full aisles there, 6 were non-PC, the back of the very last aisle had PC games, half of which was all the Sims and Wow games anyway) and with a $50 card I was able to pick up The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Supreme Commander and Disciples 2 Gold (and with a buy 2 get 1 free deal it totalled at only $40, a rather good deal I thought)
So far the only one I have started playing is The Witcher (for very few minutes) and am still in the ruined keep area.
Quick Impressions: Visuals look nice but occasionally glitchy and inconsistent, fought 10-15 enemies and combat seems like it will be repetitive and boring but holding my opinion 'til later (do set the record straight if you have played), not a fan of all the Epic Action Cut Scenes, especially since I don't give a shit about any of the characters yet, also seems to have a slight vibe similar to Dragon Age although can't say for sure yet.
I am sure the Witcher has been discussed to death already on here (feel free to mention anything about it on the side though), but I was wondering particularly about the wider Codex opinion on the other two games, Disciples 2 Gold and Supreme Commander - both of which I bought pretty much on intuition. Supreme Commander I understand to be a modern RTS and Disciples 2 (which I am kinda most excited about) is a traditional TBS game right?
So what are the various opinions on these games? How many of you have played them? Are they good games? Replayable at all?
Are there any tips or suggestions that you could give me to help get into them or that would be good to know right from the start? Any major issues or game stopping bugs or necessary patches etc that I should be aware of?
tl;dr For those here just for the faggotry n lulz:
I am sure many of you have heard how overpriced games are here in Aus but here are a couple of examples: (keeping in mind the AUD is just slightly above the USD these days)
* Dragon Age priced at $70 AUD
* Call of Duty Black Ops priced at $90 AUD, which is pretty much typical for a new release here
* Alpha Protocol priced at... wait for it.. $95 AUD. FFS. Most expensive game on the shelf. (Dragon Age 2 was there for preorder but had no price) I thought Alpha Protocol didn’t even sell well, how the hell do they expect to be able to get rid of it at this price?
Oh and I noticed there were these little fluorescent post-it notes scattered all over the shelves where the store attendants (I assume) have gone and tried to “review” the games possibly in an attempt to sell them easier (it made it worse actually). They would have like 20 words written in barely legible handwriting for example for WoW they had:
Then I noticed the “review” for Sims 3 (which had more copies on the shelf than any other game there), and this is what it said exactly as it was written on the card:
What the fuck I don't even
I think Bettie may have been a Muslim though. I dunno, it was just the vibe that I got from the card.
Long story short, I found an old gift card lying around ready to expire so I headed down to the store to see what I could get for $50. Basically from the limited selection available (of the 7 or so full aisles there, 6 were non-PC, the back of the very last aisle had PC games, half of which was all the Sims and Wow games anyway) and with a $50 card I was able to pick up The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Supreme Commander and Disciples 2 Gold (and with a buy 2 get 1 free deal it totalled at only $40, a rather good deal I thought)
So far the only one I have started playing is The Witcher (for very few minutes) and am still in the ruined keep area.
Quick Impressions: Visuals look nice but occasionally glitchy and inconsistent, fought 10-15 enemies and combat seems like it will be repetitive and boring but holding my opinion 'til later (do set the record straight if you have played), not a fan of all the Epic Action Cut Scenes, especially since I don't give a shit about any of the characters yet, also seems to have a slight vibe similar to Dragon Age although can't say for sure yet.
I am sure the Witcher has been discussed to death already on here (feel free to mention anything about it on the side though), but I was wondering particularly about the wider Codex opinion on the other two games, Disciples 2 Gold and Supreme Commander - both of which I bought pretty much on intuition. Supreme Commander I understand to be a modern RTS and Disciples 2 (which I am kinda most excited about) is a traditional TBS game right?
So what are the various opinions on these games? How many of you have played them? Are they good games? Replayable at all?
Are there any tips or suggestions that you could give me to help get into them or that would be good to know right from the start? Any major issues or game stopping bugs or necessary patches etc that I should be aware of?
tl;dr For those here just for the faggotry n lulz:
I am sure many of you have heard how overpriced games are here in Aus but here are a couple of examples: (keeping in mind the AUD is just slightly above the USD these days)
* Dragon Age priced at $70 AUD
* Call of Duty Black Ops priced at $90 AUD, which is pretty much typical for a new release here
* Alpha Protocol priced at... wait for it.. $95 AUD. FFS. Most expensive game on the shelf. (Dragon Age 2 was there for preorder but had no price) I thought Alpha Protocol didn’t even sell well, how the hell do they expect to be able to get rid of it at this price?
Oh and I noticed there were these little fluorescent post-it notes scattered all over the shelves where the store attendants (I assume) have gone and tried to “review” the games possibly in an attempt to sell them easier (it made it worse actually). They would have like 20 words written in barely legible handwriting for example for WoW they had:
Wow has more players worldwide than any other making it the most popular online game ever.
Reviewed by *retard’s name here*
Then I noticed the “review” for Sims 3 (which had more copies on the shelf than any other game there), and this is what it said exactly as it was written on the card:
Personalise you caracter to the minor detait from the Roots of the hair to there eating habbits.
Reviewed by: Bettie
What the fuck I don't even
I think Bettie may have been a Muslim though. I dunno, it was just the vibe that I got from the card.