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Offline Rincewind  
#1 Posted : 10 September 2010 02:48:39(UTC)
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got a virus on my computer that means i basicly had to re-format my hard drive and loose everything i had on there *cries*
so all my films, pictures, game progress gone.. Luckily i had all my music backed up on an external hard drive so its not been a total loss....

anyway, i now have windows 7 as a way of making me feel better, and i do like it a lot, its like ive got a brand new computer now i don't have Vista hogging all the RAM.. and only my main point.... am reloading games onto it and have discovered some classic games ive not played in ages... mainly sins of a solar empire... a truely fantastic game, with brilliant aims and freeware ambitions for it as well...
whch has got me thinking... Does anyone know of any good mods or fun add on's for games? Obviously games like Europa universalis 3 is more prone to modding than total war (and ive just got total war napoleon as well, which is possibly the best of the recent batch as it brings battles back into it and scraps a lot of seiges, making it more fun).
oh also has anyone seen my copy of mass effect as ive lot it.
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Offline Captain Insano  
#2 Posted : 10 September 2010 15:47:26(UTC)
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The moral of the story is...dont download porn.

Sad to hear about losing all your stuff, I am paranoid about losing my pictures and stuff. My PC just died and luckily it's just the boot files that are stuffed and not the whole thing so I can retrieve everything.

I am getting a RAM upgrade so hopefully I will be able to crank out Empire Total War properly. When you say 'more prone to modding' do you mean that it's easier to upgrade than the Total War series? There are some very good mods floating around, dunno about EU3
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#3 Posted : 10 September 2010 19:50:56(UTC)
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no porn involved..... was a music file someone sent me over facebook...

just general mods that are fun.... not used any total war mods ever, EU3 mods ive got are the whole world and the mundai one which combined give you a time line of 1399 to 2010 and fill in all the wastelands with actual provencies.

are there any good total war mods?

also if you like empire, i really really would get napoleon as its blown me away.
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Oh you know, hunting elephants
Offline Captain Insano  
#4 Posted : 10 September 2010 20:49:53(UTC)
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The only Total War mods I can recommend are for the Medieval and Rome era. If your still kicking around with these then for Rome there is Europa Barbarorum and Invasio Julianorum (three campaigns around the time of Julianus) two of the most realistc mods going around for the series and there is Broken Cresent (mostly about the Crusades). In fact I will just direct you to twcenter.net, there are mods for E:TW and I think there are a couple released already for N:TW.

I played Empire once and due to the general crappiness of my machine, it ran like a pig even on the most basic settings so I put it away. Hopefully now with my upgrade things will improve.
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Offline Rincewind  
#5 Posted : 11 September 2010 00:58:45(UTC)
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Empire got ver very annoying with the amount of seiges you had to go through... but realistic of the time frame i suppose.... Napoleon has free'd it all up again and you can get some bloody hard running battles going against the AI.
cool site, thanks for that...
might dust of Rome now and give that another bash.
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#6 Posted : 19 September 2010 04:00:02(UTC)
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That's why I stopped playing Total War games after Medieval 1, they just became about sieges, which aren't as fun to play as open field engagements.

Anyway, PC is up the shitter too! YAY! Has been for over a week now. Stupid motherboard fried.
Offline Rincewind  
#7 Posted : 19 September 2010 08:31:05(UTC)
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i'd give napoleon a crack, as it is a lot of fun...

just bought left for dead 1 and 2 for £15 in a steam sale.... alongside everysingle star wars jedi knight game for £3
thats enough gaming pleasure to see me through for a year or so!
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Offline Gildermershina  
#8 Posted : 19 September 2010 09:45:30(UTC)
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Yay the L4Ds. I also got that Jedi Knight pack, but I kind of wish I hadn't, because only a couple of them are really playable in any meaningful way today.
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#9 Posted : 19 September 2010 20:15:41(UTC)
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i know..... only jedi outcast 2 and jedi academy in my opinion were worth it.... but both are very veyr good games i used to own for consoles... so its nice to have them again and so cheep as well!
I hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they are like:
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Oh you know, hunting elephants
Offline Gildermershina  
#10 Posted : 20 September 2010 00:44:34(UTC)
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i know..... only jedi outcast 2 and jedi academy in my opinion were worth it.... but both are very veyr good games i used to own for consoles... so its nice to have them again and so cheep as well!


Yeah, trying to play the original Dark Forces just makes me so glad Quake happened. And I don't even like Quake.
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Offline forkboy  
#11 Posted : 20 September 2010 00:55:42(UTC)
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Rincewind wrote:
i know..... only jedi outcast 2 and jedi academy in my opinion were worth it.... but both are very veyr good games i used to own for consoles... so its nice to have them again and so cheep as well!

Got those two when they first came out. A lot of fun. Especially Jedi Academy from what I remember, because don't you create your own character, rather than play as Kyle Katarn?
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#12 Posted : 20 September 2010 01:54:47(UTC)
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yes you do..... right from scratch... you also have the option to tr to the dark side half way through i think.... not started playing it again yet!
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#13 Posted : 20 September 2010 03:09:13(UTC)
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Ah the joy of embracing the darkside. Gives me a tingly feeling inside.
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#14 Posted : 20 September 2010 19:22:47(UTC)
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Anyway, PC is up the shitter too! YAY! Has been for over a week now. Stupid motherboard fried.


Mine has been up the shitter for nearly three weeks. I did not think it would take this long for the guy who made it for me to reinstall windows to a new harddrive and install additional RAM modules.
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Offline Gildermershina  
#15 Posted : 21 September 2010 04:10:36(UTC)
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Maybe I'm in the minority here, but for me, PC maintenance is fun. Not so nice when a hard drive craps out on you, but that aside, I like building computers and tweaking and tuning them.
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Offline Rincewind  
#16 Posted : 21 September 2010 07:48:30(UTC)
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hard to do when its a dell studio laptop though...

having said that, if anyone knows of a way for me to upgrade my video card on my laptop im all ears!
I hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they are like:
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Oh you know, hunting elephants
Offline Gildermershina  
#17 Posted : 21 September 2010 08:18:51(UTC)
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hard to do when its a dell studio laptop though...

having said that, if anyone knows of a way for me to upgrade my video card on my laptop im all ears!


There have been upgradable laptop video cards in the past. But 99% of the time, you're pretty much screwed.
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Offline forkboy  
#18 Posted : 21 September 2010 09:21:05(UTC)
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Dells are fucking shit.

That is all I have to add.
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