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Gonna wait a few years until there's a battle chest of all three games, then beat the first handful of levels and use cheats on the rest. I don't have any interest in the multiplayer.

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I auto-resolve all battles in Total War :3

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I didn't know Myth was something worth playing. I just re-sold a sealed copy of it a month or two ago.

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It's an invisibility watch that only turns on when you take damage (you have to have it out, though), and it leaves a fake body (which tends to be glitchy and give yo away). You take considerably less damage on the first hit and when invisible, and it's true invisibility (bumping into people doesn't make you show up). You can burn while invisible, but clocking will extinguish you if you are burning. You get 8 seconds, and it makes a really loud noise when you de-clock. You can only use it when it's fully charged, and you can't fill your meter with ammo dumps. The loud de-clock (a nerf, of course) makes it hard to use these days, but it's still my favorite way of playing the spy.
Uh, that was a lot more involved then I realized.


Talk about Starcraft, guys.

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Man, what's with the hate? The human campaign in Warcraft III is probably the best Blizzard's made.

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Man, I'm all up on the RTS games now, and I figured I should check this bugger out if I'm going to tell people to play DOWII instead so I watched a couple of replays. Guys, what the EFF? This game is for serious some crazy nonsense. From what I can tell, it takes upwards of 10 minutes for anyone to get in an engagement, and when you do, everything dies in two seconds flat. I was all up watching this business and I will tell you right now that it makes no sense.

To be fair, it took me 10 hours to learn how to play DOWII and I've put a lot more time into it now and I'm still terrible.

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Oh man, this discussion is already fun! I'm not giving you 10 seconds, though! 5 at the most.

I think when you say 'strategy' you really mean tactics. I mean, if I'm about to use DOWII as an example (and I will), the game is heavily tactical. Depending on the map, the first engagement happens anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute thirty in, with the average being about 45 seconds to a minute. Squads are about to last a lot longer than units in SC2, and they have a built-in retreat button, so there's obviously a different emphasis going down. Tactics are generally the battles themselves, and strategy is how they are linked together and the logistic behind it all, but on a wider scale, it's more about understanding and manipulating the game's economy. Strategy itself only really comes in in how you do that and what dudes you build.

I would argue, from my understanding (about an hour of watching games full disclosure) that SC2 is much more of a strategy game.


I still say that this is some hardcore nonsense, though! These dudes are about to do hundreds of things a minute, I can't tell what even is going on.

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Hmm, I'll have to think about this one.

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I guess that's fair enough, but I'm not sure if it makes for riveting television. Apparently it does.