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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Sunday, September 30, 2007, 03:40:43 PM
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The Sid Meier game. Was only $10 at Target. They also had FEAR for $15, but I held off. The Gold edition of FEAR was $25 and if I wait a bit longer it'll get cheaper and then I can have the expansion as well. Plus I didn't have all that much cash on me.
Oh yeah, and Titan Quest for $10 so if you're interested in that, go scope it out at your local target. Usually if a game is clearanced at one here, all the ones here are also clearencing. Maybe it regional, but possibly national.
So...yeah, I be buildin' trains n' shit.
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I always wanted to try that.
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I got Titan Quest a few months ago but it doesn't seem to work on my machine. None of the textures work.
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I always wanted to try that.
Its pretty sweet. The hardcore dogged it because Sid made it simpler and brightly colored, as opposed to what PopTop was doing with the Railroad Tycoon series (ie, more realism, more trains). So far I'm messing with the Tabletop mode, which is pretty much like a big trainset so you can build and do whatever you want with no pressure or costs.
You get a home town that has a station and a little track. You build more track to connect towns and transfer goods between them. People, mail, paper, food, and just general stuff to move about. You also have industries that arent towns. A lumber mill cuts trees and produces lumber. Get the lumber to a town that produces paper and make money. Move the paper to a town that has a newspaper and make even more.
In SP you have AI (and theres multi but god I imagine thats slow) that is trying to do the same. You cant use rails that you didnt build. But just because you don't own the rails doesn't mean you cant make money off them. So your rival built rails connecting a lumber mill to a town that makes paper, you can buy the paper factory and make money off of it. Then theres new technologies that you can own that grants you a monopoly for 10 years. Is it worth it? Can you live without it 10 years (when it becomes open to anyone)? The idea is to eventually buy out all your competitors and rule the rails.
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Sounds pretty fun. I may have to track that one down eventually. I think trains are kind of interesting, I just generally hate people that like trains (they seem to invariably be complete tools that never made it past the fifth grade), but the actual business part of the game I think is what draws me to it. It sounds entertaining.
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Sadly, I had to uninstall this until later. The game is far more demanding of your system than its visuals would indicate. Its not an ugly game or poorly optimized, but when laying track the track, terrain, and cities are all dynamically altered. Plus having a bunch of trains with a bunch of cars picking up and dropping off cargo...it gets pretty busy. Eats RAM like nothing else.
So I shall pass my time with OpenTTD and Simutrans.