Share Your Recent Video Game Experiences
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:31 pm
So, in similar fashion to the "Latest Movies Watched/Books Read/Songs Listened To" threads, I thought video games could use its own, since the other threads' topics that concern video games are more built around listing your favourites, rather than sharing the personal experiences you've had with video games.
So, here you can share any particularly interesting or exciting experiences you've had in games, or pretty much just basically share your progress in games you enjoy with the other gamers on this forum. The event or experience in question doesn't have to be a recent one, but it'd probably be more interesting for others to read if you remembered the event well enough to be able to provide some interesting details on your experiences with the video games you've played.
To start us off, I've been playing probably one of my favourite games of all time Rome: Total War recently, and have gotten the furthest in the campaign I've ever been able to get. To those who don't know, Rome: Total War's campaign is a mix of Turn Based/Management strategy on the campaign map, which revolves around managing settlements, moving/assembling armies/fleets, balancing your factions budget, carrying out spying/assassination operations, and diplomacy among other things. The map comprises of most of Europe, some of northern Africa, and Eurasia/Western Asia and is set a few centuries before the common era started. Then there's a real-time strategy part for the battles of your armies, which is pretty straight forward, but not too simple that only might/numbers would guarantee victory.
I chose to play this campaign as the Roman faction Brutii. There are three main Roman family factions displayed in the game of which are the Brutii, Scipii, and Julii in the game which are all in alliance with each other and the SPQR which only controls Rome, but the allied Roman factions eventually come to vie for power by conquering Rome themselves which would probably have to be done by betraying the other Roman factions.
In this campaign I've come to the part where the game has notified me that I have the public's support in capturing Rome and removing the other Roman factions, but I haven't chosen to do so yet, because I don't want to stretch my armies thin by fighting on too many fronts. Though, I have deployed spys and assassins to carry out missions in my allies/enemies main cities/regions in the Italian regions.
The lands my faction has been able to conquer so far comprise of all of Greece's and Thrace's territories which resulted in those factions being wiped out. Those factions I had been at war with pretty much upon coming across them, but I've also taken all of the faction Macedon's territories because they chose to betray my faction. I've also taken all but one of Dacia's territories, as well as many of the Gaul's and Pontus'. I'm no longer at war with the Gaul, they're concerns now lay more with Britons advances into their territory, and Pontus' suffered a humiliating defeat trying to recapture Sardis, which resulted in my small army easily being able to capture their territory to the east of Sardis, as well as getting them to concede Nicomedia for a temporary ceasefire.
I'm unsure what exactly will lie ahead in my campaign, but if it comes to it, I feel I will probably be able to take on the other Roman factions if I need to, but I'll probably try to delay that until I have absolutely no other real threats to my empire. Pontus despite being one of the stronger factions still left in the game (Egypt, Briton, and Scipii being the other main contenders) will probably be easily manageable, but I won't re-initiate the war until half a dozen turns have passed or they choose to attack me. Briton isn't very worrisome for me now, due to them focusing their efforts mostly on the Gaul, Julii, and German factions. Egypt doesn't seem to be interested in going to war, though the Scipii may choose to attack them, in which case I'll try to snag a few of their territories, but they aren't currently much on my mind while planning my next moves for the game.
A little bit ago I was also enjoying playing the game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. The combat system is great. I've heard people compare it to the Batman/Arkham games combat system, but I'm pretty sure the Nemesis system and other aspects of Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor actually make the combat a bit more satisfying/complex than what I've seen from the Arkham games.
I've been able to depose all the Uruk War Chiefs in the starting area, and have unlocked the second area so far, but my playing of Middle-Earth: SoM has been put on hiatus for some time now, since my free time has shrunk over the past couple months and I've felt like spending more of it on Rome: Total War and other things rather than ME: SoM.
I'd really recommend ME: SoM to people who enjoy Middle-Earth lore, as well as Assassins Creed style traversing, (though don't expect to do really any sneaking through crowds like in AC, because there really aren't any opportunities to do so, though you can still be stealthy, just not like an Assassin blending in with the general public kind of stealthy,) and Batman/Arkham style combat, though, imo, the combat is actually better than the Arkham games.
So, here you can share any particularly interesting or exciting experiences you've had in games, or pretty much just basically share your progress in games you enjoy with the other gamers on this forum. The event or experience in question doesn't have to be a recent one, but it'd probably be more interesting for others to read if you remembered the event well enough to be able to provide some interesting details on your experiences with the video games you've played.
To start us off, I've been playing probably one of my favourite games of all time Rome: Total War recently, and have gotten the furthest in the campaign I've ever been able to get. To those who don't know, Rome: Total War's campaign is a mix of Turn Based/Management strategy on the campaign map, which revolves around managing settlements, moving/assembling armies/fleets, balancing your factions budget, carrying out spying/assassination operations, and diplomacy among other things. The map comprises of most of Europe, some of northern Africa, and Eurasia/Western Asia and is set a few centuries before the common era started. Then there's a real-time strategy part for the battles of your armies, which is pretty straight forward, but not too simple that only might/numbers would guarantee victory.
I chose to play this campaign as the Roman faction Brutii. There are three main Roman family factions displayed in the game of which are the Brutii, Scipii, and Julii in the game which are all in alliance with each other and the SPQR which only controls Rome, but the allied Roman factions eventually come to vie for power by conquering Rome themselves which would probably have to be done by betraying the other Roman factions.
In this campaign I've come to the part where the game has notified me that I have the public's support in capturing Rome and removing the other Roman factions, but I haven't chosen to do so yet, because I don't want to stretch my armies thin by fighting on too many fronts. Though, I have deployed spys and assassins to carry out missions in my allies/enemies main cities/regions in the Italian regions.
The lands my faction has been able to conquer so far comprise of all of Greece's and Thrace's territories which resulted in those factions being wiped out. Those factions I had been at war with pretty much upon coming across them, but I've also taken all of the faction Macedon's territories because they chose to betray my faction. I've also taken all but one of Dacia's territories, as well as many of the Gaul's and Pontus'. I'm no longer at war with the Gaul, they're concerns now lay more with Britons advances into their territory, and Pontus' suffered a humiliating defeat trying to recapture Sardis, which resulted in my small army easily being able to capture their territory to the east of Sardis, as well as getting them to concede Nicomedia for a temporary ceasefire.
I'm unsure what exactly will lie ahead in my campaign, but if it comes to it, I feel I will probably be able to take on the other Roman factions if I need to, but I'll probably try to delay that until I have absolutely no other real threats to my empire. Pontus despite being one of the stronger factions still left in the game (Egypt, Briton, and Scipii being the other main contenders) will probably be easily manageable, but I won't re-initiate the war until half a dozen turns have passed or they choose to attack me. Briton isn't very worrisome for me now, due to them focusing their efforts mostly on the Gaul, Julii, and German factions. Egypt doesn't seem to be interested in going to war, though the Scipii may choose to attack them, in which case I'll try to snag a few of their territories, but they aren't currently much on my mind while planning my next moves for the game.
A little bit ago I was also enjoying playing the game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. The combat system is great. I've heard people compare it to the Batman/Arkham games combat system, but I'm pretty sure the Nemesis system and other aspects of Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor actually make the combat a bit more satisfying/complex than what I've seen from the Arkham games.
I've been able to depose all the Uruk War Chiefs in the starting area, and have unlocked the second area so far, but my playing of Middle-Earth: SoM has been put on hiatus for some time now, since my free time has shrunk over the past couple months and I've felt like spending more of it on Rome: Total War and other things rather than ME: SoM.
I'd really recommend ME: SoM to people who enjoy Middle-Earth lore, as well as Assassins Creed style traversing, (though don't expect to do really any sneaking through crowds like in AC, because there really aren't any opportunities to do so, though you can still be stealthy, just not like an Assassin blending in with the general public kind of stealthy,) and Batman/Arkham style combat, though, imo, the combat is actually better than the Arkham games.
Darth Vader doesn't sound at all like he does in the movies! His dialogue is sometimes rather silly too. If you play this game and hear Darth Vader speak, and then compare his voice to how it sounded in the Original Trilogy & Star Wars Rebels, it's very different. By the way if you're a Star Wars fan and haven't seen Rebels, I highly recommend it. Darth Vader is voiced by James Earl Jones and sounds exactly like he does in the movies! 
I want to play as the Twi'lek lady right now! 
Does anyone know some kind of clever strategy to quickly reach level 50? Fortunately I did progress from level 1 to level 5 in just one day of playing, so maybe it's not that difficult.
