Steam/PC Mega Thread

[The Lusophone]

It's no X-Com, which remains the best squad shooter strategy type thing, but it's pretty good.

[MDK]

Crusader Kings II complete collection is on steam for 18 quid.

Should I? How hard is this game to get into?

[The Lusophone]

Regardless of how hard the game is to get into (and I didn't really find it that hard), for £18 that's almost bargain of the century status.

[TKz]

It's not easy at all. You have to learn the systems from the ground up, pretty much. We're talking a few hours of tutorial at least. It's not like Civ where you can pretty easily pick things up, make mistakes on easier difficulties and overcome them for next time. It's a great game and I don't regret the money I spent on it, but after about 17 hours I took a break for a while. Once I came back, I couldn't remember some of the more intricate systems and there was no way I was putting in tutorial time to learn them all over again.

If there's a cheaper option where you just get the base game, pick that up. I've seen it for under £10 in the past. Try it out. If you get into enough of the core content, the DLC will be worth the full price. I mean, there's only like four bits you really need anyway and they're rarely more than a fiver each.

[MDK]

Oh well, I bought it

I was only gonna waste that money on a pizza or something, oh well

[Quom]

It's not easy at all. You have to learn the systems from the ground up, pretty much. We're talking a few hours of tutorial at least. It's not like Civ where you can pretty easily pick things up, make mistakes on easier difficulties and overcome them for next time. It's a great game and I don't regret the money I spent on it, but after about 17 hours I took a break for a while. Once I came back, I couldn't remember some of the more intricate systems and there was no way I was putting in tutorial time to learn them all over again.

If there's a cheaper option where you just get the base game, pick that up. I've seen it for under £10 in the past. Try it out. If you get into enough of the core content, the DLC will be worth the full price. I mean, there's only like four bits you really need anyway and they're rarely more than a fiver each.

Especially when they then changed all the mechanics when new bits of DLC came out. I went from kind of understanding it almost to being so lost that I just gave up completely.

[apsham]

Being able to pick it all up at that price is excellent - almost entirely because dynamics did change as DLC was added.

[TKz]

Welp, Facebook just purchased Oculus Rift. Zuckerbergs post about it seemed to focus entirely on using the tech for social application rather than gaming.

Oh well. There goes any hype I had for that.

EDIT: Aaaaand I guess I'm not the only one, Notch just announced that he's scrapping a deal to bring Minecraft to Rift because "facebook creeps me out".

[King Ellis]

It's like I'm really on my virtual farm, you guys!

Would you have to look down at your pockets to pay for microtransactions?

[The Lusophone]

Nope, just bend over.

[Plubby]

Welp, Facebook just purchased Oculus Rift. Zuckerbergs post about it seemed to focus entirely on using the tech for social application rather than gaming.

Oh well. There goes any hype I had for that.

EDIT: Aaaaand I guess I'm not the only one, Notch just announced that he's scrapping a deal to bring Minecraft to Rift because "facebook creeps me out".

You hipster, Ticklez.

Also - I don't know how i'd feel about getting dat ass ninja'd by a creeper in VR. I may actually just poop my pants.

Oh well, I bought it

I was only gonna waste that money on a pizza or something, oh well

Get someone experienced to tutor you through it. I had a really good tutor who was happy to answer even the most mind-bendingly stupid questions to help me through it.

[Bobfoc]

I've heard good things about this set of Crusader Kings II videos. They lay things out much more simply than the in-game tutorials, without dropping you head-first into all the technical jargon without prior explanation. Alternatively, there's this written guide.

[apsham]

This may sound stupid, but I found out a lot about Crusader Kings II by save editing my character a lot of money and messing around from there. You'll last longer and you'll be able to get out of some issues with tons of cash, meaning you'll get further into a game and experience more.

Maybe not the best way to go about it, but eh - worked for me.

[Bobfoc]

That sounds like a reasonable way to get to grips with the basic mechanics of the game. After that, it would be a case of learning how to manage your economy correctly, but at least you'd know what the things you were spending your money on were supposed to actually do, as opposed to leaping in blindly.

[The Lusophone]

Man, why would you even need to save edit to give yourself cash? Just press that weird key in the top left of the keyboard and type cash then press enter. Boom instant 5k.

Same with piety and prestige.

Oh, realised what I came in here to say. CK2 is like £7 atm

[Bobfoc]

Or less if you press that weird key in the top left of the keyboard and type cash then press enter.

[apsham]

Didn't realize there were codes, huh.

[Sousa]

And if you type in DNCLIP you can walk through wallsWales.

[MDK]

Okay, Goat Simulator is amazing, I urge you all to get it

[Regia]

You mean this one?

Also. He says there is a gameplay trailer coming out this month!

Here would be said trailer. It's....erm....something.