Kamamura_CZ

Kamamura_CZ

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Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I would like to announce that I officially resign. I simply cannot muster the will to play on. Last turn I had a plan that depended on my mage casting fire storm, while others will try to hold position. Even though he had enough gems to cast the spell, he chose not to. Therefore, I lost my most valuable elites. The spell that should strike half of the enemy fire vulnerable army killed just 374 of 1600+ troops. Few things ever work the way they supposed to, often for very obscure reasons. Plea

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Reply to Is Mount and Blade worth it? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I spent a lot of time with the game, most of it in Multiplayer Warband. It's a reasonable medieval combat simulator, and the cavalry implementation is actually the best I ever saw. I even rather like the graphics, but hate the combat animations which were obviously made by someone who does not know a lot about swordplay. Other than that, the multiplayer really suffers from an archaic scoring system (you are rewarded only for kills, not for teamwork or objectives), and lack o

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Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Exactly - like that last battle with Lanka. Where is that Fire Arrows spell I ordered? Nowhere in sight. My elite mage has decided he will try something more elaborate, and knocked himself out. And those arrows that should have been a flaming infreno of death for enemy undead just harmlessly rattled against the bare, bleached bones. Dear Ezekiel spent most of the battle unconscious too - but what a surprise, I got a message after the battle that he has a son, a Nephilim commander. One never c

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Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

This game never ceases to amaze me with its quirk. I have two recalled heroes as mummies, both have some strange kind of leprosy. It did not make any problems until they found themselves in a battle, and they infected one another (I thought it was the same kind of mummy-related leprosy? Compatible-like?). I did not even know undead could suffer from diseases like that - but wonderloss would probably describe not as a classical leprosy, but as a kind of undead structural integrity failure ;-)<

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Reply to ETA for E:FE Beta? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Ad ETA - I hope they will make it before the coming oil crash. There will be a lot of warfare, dying, food and energy scarcity afterwards, so not much time and resources for gaming. EDIT: Oh, I get it now. The Fallen Enchantress universe will be the post-crash world. Neat. I like it.

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Reply to [v1.4] AI broken and game still too difficult in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Das123 - which basically exploits the AI. A human player would not attack your defended town, but sent many weak, mobile raiders to raid your vulnerable resources. He would eventually force you to chase him around, eliminating the advantage of your fortress.

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Reply to The Witcher 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I hate old school RPGs (the dungeon crawlers) and I love Witcher (both the books and the games). Why? Because RPG genre is one of the most sterile, rigid and mouldy of them all - class stereotypes, and repetetive, repetetive, repetetive pointles combat, unimaginative storilines (find artefact A to stop wizard B from destroying the world. Meh) Why is RPG combat pointless? Because it has no lasting consequences. Most injuries can be healed with silly potions right in the middle of the c

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Reply to Unarmed Suggestion in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

If tiger style ninjutsu is in (can't spoil anything with that), then I DEMAND Praying Mantis style. You can't basically have any cheesy movie/game without it. Don't forget the wise 160years old monks who can teach it in a week for a bowl of rice!

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Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

That is indeed a major inconvenience. With a fully committed ally, wonderlosses' treehugging empire would already be in splinters. I suspected you chose to fatten while I bled though, and wanted to punish you for abandoning me in the war. If someone plays instead of you, the intended punishment will fall on an innocent head!

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Reply to Unarmed Suggestion in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Well, in a fantasy world, it's hard to establish what is silly and what isn't. You can argue that fireball can be as silly as unarmed combat. Fantasy genre is a hodge-podge of various mythologies - the taste usually varies greatly. But when you look at those mythologies, you will find a lot of "silly" elements. In Mahabharata, the five brothers often used uprooted trees as weapons - how silly is that? Herakles often fought unarmed. Ilia Muromec from Russ

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Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

It's easy - manufacturers go with the failsafe settings so that they have to deal with as few complaints as possible. It's not only disks - horrible default 60Hz refresh rate back in the days of CRT, etc. If you are a power-user you will go through all the settings yourself in detail anyway. If you are a casual user, you won't probably mind (or recognize) slower performance.

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Reply to Deus Ex: Human Revolution - First Review in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well, the game also looks like an ugly street urchin, compared to Witcher 2. BTW what combat system? Chronicles of Riddick had a good combat system - you could make various attacks, you could block, you could counter.Mount and Blade has a combat system. Combat systems are about timing, blocking, dodging, and attack variety. All this is absent from the game, it's close combat is identical to Pacman. And finally - the ending sucks big time. Four buttons, four flavors of pseudo

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Reply to Deus Ex: Human Revolution - First Review in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I still can't understand how people can consider this type of gameplay good, in 2011. The close combat system is similar to Riddick - except that the whole combat system is missing, only the takedown animations remain. The game is poorly optimized (console RAM limit), and constantly loads something from disk, even though I have 8GB of RAM. Comared to Arma 2 that simulates whole battlefield, these static, dead levels should run much smoother. BTW did I mention that the hacking minigame suc

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Reply to Deus Ex: Human Revolution - First Review in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

For me, the game is a mild disappointment. The only interesting area is the story and the gameworld lore - both are superb. Even the characters are interesting. However, from purely gameplay perspective, the game is mediocre. It suffers heavy consolitis in all the worst aspect we know it. The cover system among them, the game tries to guess what you want to do, often ducking the wrong direction. There is no melee combat system whatsoever - you just press the button and animation plays

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