Oct is the month of RTS expansions!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 3, 2006, 2:17 am

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade 10/9/06 -- Easily my most anticipated RTS expansion in memory. The depth and leader customization looks to add untold hours of gameplay to this legendary RTS.

Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption 10/16/06 -- game was pretty unbalanced, but the graphics/sound effects are great and the game had a reasonable amount of depth for a Star Wars game.

Age of Empires 3: The Warcheifs 10/17/06 -- I really like Age of Empires 3. Play-wise, it was kind of a replay of Age of Mythology, but once again, the graphics and sound effects add a lot to this RTS game for me. The expansion looks like fun to me.

Add to this the DVDs I'll be picking up (X-Men 3, Slither, Nacho Libre, An American Haunting, possibly Over the Hedge/Monster House/Art School Confidential) and you have one of the most expensive media months of the year for me.

October is making up for the past 3 lackluster months for home entertainment. Well, with the exception of Company of Heros that is! I wonder when they will have an expansion for that...

noel · Post by **noel** » October 3, 2006, 2:29 am

Yeah there are finally a bunch of PC releases coming out. RTS and also:

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Splinter Cell : Double Agent

Battlefield 2142

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 3, 2006, 2:36 am

Yeah, BF 2142 looks like a lot of fun too. Not sure of the system requirements, but I can run BF 2 well enough. I just didn't get too much playtime out of BF 2 and I hesitate to get the new one. Especially if it's just 10 maps or something equally inusulting for 50$.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » October 3, 2006, 9:53 am

DARK CRUSADE is a must fer me!

Maybe even Alliance so i can spank Noel with Powerman! (It's online right?)

Post by **Sylvus** » October 3, 2006, 10:41 am

When does Ultimate Alliance come out?

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 3, 2006, 11:40 am

10/24/06 for the Ultimate Alliance. That's for all platforms and PC as well.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 3, 2006, 2:37 pm

Medieval II deserves honorary mention, even though it's not an expansion. November third, I believe. I will be at the F'ing door waiting for that one.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 3, 2006, 4:06 pm

Total War is the only RTS-ish game in years that I actually play.

Too many RTS's went the C&C route of WAY too much fucking complexity.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » October 3, 2006, 7:28 pm

I agree massively with the previous 2 posters.

massively.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 3, 2006, 11:32 pm

Total War games are to gaming what Tool is to music, in terms of fan, uh, fanaticism.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 4, 2006, 2:09 pm

And speaking of Medieval II...

Totalwar.com wrote:Today we can reveal the Minimum System Requirements for Medieval II: Total War. Are you ready for battle?

Minimum System Requirements:

English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP.

Celeron 1.8GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor.
512MB RAM.
8x Speed DVD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers.
11.0 Gigs of uncompressed free hard disk space.
100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers.
100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers.
DirectX® 9.0c.
128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 support and the latest drivers.
Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible.
Monitor must be able to display 1024x768 resolution or above.

Fuck.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » October 4, 2006, 2:37 pm

It will be worth it.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 5, 2006, 11:38 am

I still find it sad that you can't do Multiplayer Campaigns yet that allow for MP battles. I am interested in doing some online battles but I am not as fanatical as those who are in clans and such.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 5, 2006, 12:20 pm

Company of Heroes took 6G or so and that was by far the most I have ever needed for any game. Funny that TW2 almost doubles that. Granted, it's all relative now. 11G just isn't too bad in the era of Terabyte Drives. It better come on 2 DVDs though. The thought of having to install 9 or 10 CDs is not something I look forward too. If they have a DVD version, but it costs more money, then I will skip it until it's in the cheapie bin.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 5, 2006, 2:09 pm

I haven't seen many games that don't offer a DVD box, or where it costs more then the CD version in a long while.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » October 5, 2006, 2:16 pm

Damn i love living in a country where the game distributers have figured out that DVDs exist, to they only come rarely come on CDs.

miir · Post by **miir** » October 5, 2006, 4:15 pm

masteen wrote:I haven't seen many games that don't offer a DVD box, or where it costs more then the CD version in a long while.

How many games do you actually buy?

I know many games still come on only CD... and while it's becoming less and less common, a lot of distributors still like to slap some worthless shit in the box and put some worthless extras on the DVD and charge $10-15 more.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 5, 2006, 4:41 pm

Madden 2007 came on DVD.

Post by **Sylvus** » October 5, 2006, 5:24 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:Company of Heroes... It better come on 2 DVDs though. The thought of having to install 9 or 10 CDs is not something I look forward too. If they have a DVD version, but it costs more money, then I will skip it until it's in the cheapie bin.

Did your Company of Heroes come on CD or DVD?

I was in a hurry when I stopped at the store, just grabbed the box and when I got home and it was 5 or 6 CDs I was kind of disappointed. Did they release it in both formats?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » October 5, 2006, 5:28 pm

Sylvus wrote:
Fairweather Pure wrote:Company of Heroes... It better come on 2 DVDs though. The thought of having to install 9 or 10 CDs is not something I look forward too. If they have a DVD version, but it costs more money, then I will skip it until it's in the cheapie bin.
Did your Company of Heroes come on CD or DVD?

I was in a hurry when I stopped at the store, just grabbed the box and when I got home and it was 5 or 6 CDs I was kind of disappointed. Did they release it in both formats?

the "limited edition" was on DVD. I cannot remember the normal edition. I thought it was DVD as well.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 5, 2006, 5:34 pm

Company of Heroes took 6G or so and that was by far the most I have ever needed for any game.

4G on CoH. On my drive, FEAR and Oblivion are both bigger.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 6, 2006, 12:34 am

The CoH Limited addition was DVD only for 10$ or so more. The regular package was CD only. Btw, I like the fact that I do not have to have the CD in the tray in order to play the game. Every game should do this by default.

Minimum Spec on the CoH box is 6.5 Gigs, but they recommend having 1G of free space. It's install on my system is only 3.93G. I just looked at the specs and assumed...

WoW is 6G on my sytem, currently my largest game.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 6, 2006, 11:36 am

Speaking of Alexander...

When I try to run it now, a window pops up with the header "Trial Expired." It says "Your temporary key has expired. If you believe this message is in error, please contact the program's author."

It gives three options to click - Enter Key, Cancel, and Visit Website.

I'd gladly enter the key, except they didn't give a fucking key for the game since it was downloaded from the goddamn website.

I've reinstalled, I've contacted tech support, I've posted on the forums, I've checked FAQs. Nothing's working and nobody's responding. It wasn't a "trial" that I was running... I purchased the $15 game just like everybody else. What what what why?

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 17, 2006, 2:23 pm

Medieval II demo

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » October 20, 2006, 2:10 pm

Did anybody play the demo? I didn't like it.