BF2S Forums The "All Other Games" Chat Thread

I believe if a sufficiently large project is broken even a year from release, it's probably going to be broken upon release. Those little disclaimers you see in dev footage (apha/beta not representative of product at full release) are so often code for "we'll kinda/sorta fix after it's released. Meanwhile, make sure you get your pre-order in for the digital deluxe and season pass." In all my experience with patch-age video games, bug squashing is so often neglected as a priority, and bad documentation habits of programmers don't make it any easier to achieve.

Rome Remastered is so good. So so good. I was really critical of the UI changes at first but some of the additions are really nice and nothing is too bad though it can sometimes be confusing where to find the thing you need.

9/10

Favorite Roman?

I, Claudius is probably my favorite Rome-centric show.

What do you think of the remaster vs Rome 2?

I could look past everything but the ridiculously limited building slots. You should be able to build most of everything if you have the funds.

Fired up the old laptop and loaded up a frozen throne custom game. Legion TD!

fwp
me: *bother logging onto steam*
steam: *takes a minute to start* "there's an update and your client needs to restart"

I also hate that I have to uncheck "remember me" every time I log on. Why doesn't it just remember my preference for that? I know there's probably a command line parameter somewhere, but I don't feel like modifying a the shortcut for that.

Last night it was windows reminding me of the need to restart for an update. I clicked later. Look away for five seconds, it's signing off for a restart. Oh good, now to wait five minutes doing absolutely nothing.

I've talked about uplay annoyances before. Two uplay accounts (one made because I'd forgotten the original), both tied to steam. The last one I log into will be the one Steam puts any new games onto. I have the credentials for both uplay accounts, but ubisoft will not merge them or offer some other sort of solution. In order to avoid continually splitting my library, I've hidden the two steam games tied to the old uplay account, and so never log onto it anymore. Pretend it doesn't exist. What a solution.

I would not have this problem with a CD-ROM from 1997. Patch convenience is wonderful, but game services love screwing with ya. Get out of here with the spyware as well. Every dev and their mother implementing FOMO events. Who can keep up? Mario 3 didn't have one-time-only events where you have to grind to get a year-exclusive Santa hat or spreadfire fireflower before it's too late and they're gone for good.

Rome, alongside Napoleon, were the Total War games I enjoyed most. Tried to get into Shogun 2, but I think I had other stuff on my plate at the time. Never tried Three Kingdoms, or the Warhammer ones.

RTS has been getting some decent remasters as of late. One of the last I played was the C&C one. Good stuff, made with care.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2022-12-17 23:18:41)

I'm hoping Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun get remasters at some point.  I can't see EA not doing a remaster of RA2 at the very least, it was the high point of Westwood RTS games.

Also, the new Company of Heroes is looking pretty good, I'm surprised to see that they're even doing a console version of it too.

coh2 beat 1 eventually. aoe4 was solid on release. i dont need a coh3 but im watching it.

I'm kind of surprised to see Gotham Knights is already going for half off on Steam during this Winter sale, I've heard a lot of bad things though, and the gameplay and voice acting in particular both seem shitty to me compared to the Arkham games.

It still bothers me that accounts can't by license be passed to friends and family. Imagine if CD/DVD or cartridge games from days before key activations worked like that. "Sorry, into the void these go." I reckon by now the Steam accounts of some BF2S users have passed the 5-figure mark in terms of dollar value. But what an impermanent investment.

Steam probably skims enough off the top of game sales to account for like three individual sales on some competing platforms.

I don't know if there's a way to batch-enable all your games for sharing. Imagine having to do so for each of like 1000 games collected over nearly two decades, and more, moving forward. Blegh.

Another reason to share an account after death is so that someone can maybe leave an epitaph on your profile. Even if your games are left unplayed, at least people in the future won't see "5000 days since last online" and wonder if you're still in the land of the living. I've got some of those on my friends list and hope they just got busy with life or something. Also, probably a few who vanished during COVID.

Being interred with your digital riches like a modern-day Pharaoh, what a time to be alive.

Maybe eternity has PCs that can run Crysis.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2023-01-11 05:39:03)