Dateyourgame: Attila’s community blog about Video Game – Walkthrough – Gameplay – Reviews – Tips and Tricks

Hello to the dateyourgame community,

I am GamersDen22 and this is my first medieval total war 2 chronicle  and as you can see i am playing as the faction spain. I decided to do this because Spain is a very strategically placed country. This is because it is near north Africa so there is lots of room for expansion there and then to the east there’s France and after that The Holy Roman Empire. To start of with i decided to take the nearby town of Valencia for the following reason

1) it would make a good addition to my empire
2) it was a mission so i would get rewarded for taking this town
3) it would make a good distraction if i was to go to was with the moors or France.

So the first assault of the town didn’t go well at all as you can seen i lost the battle. But this weakend the enemy and so that my quickly put together army easily swept aside the rest of the reachable army and even tho i didn’t play the battle i won the region. I had to quickly end the video there because it was coming to to the youtube time limit of 10 mins. But i decided to sake the town so that i got a firm amount of money from that and so that the public order was high and i would start collection taxes from that settlement quickly.  I hope you enjoy this video and i am sorry for the bad quality ill try to make it better next time.

As you can see I’m starting on my second chronicles. My first one was with England and now I’m doing one with Denmark. The episodes will be available late August 2009. Enjoy the trailer!

The unofficial theme of the hitman series. The music is recorded from hitman blood money. I have mixed the music with some still footage of 47 on the last level of blood money Requiem.

47 shows us what he can do on the dance floor. Footage from the game hitman blood money

Spore galactic adventures is the first expansion (if you count out the cute & Creepy pack ) and it does what any expansion should it expands the experience of the gameplay as well as adding a lot of stuff while all the new captain parts are great I was kinda hoping for some new parts for the creators but hey the adventure creator makes up for it.

I still had my issues with the limitations especially in the limitation of acts …but when you realize it …you can make larger adventures except in parts and by parts I mean think of it as making your own episodic content

making these and sharing them are is a blast and you learn all sorts of ways to make things for instance trying to make a spaceship out of building parts.

Now I did have some issues while the settings for your creatures are quite deep as to how they will react and act during that act and or move ….now I had some issues where characters where they are suppose to be friendly in one act and the bad in the next …i cant seem to attack them cause they are still in friendly stance even though they are attacking me.

There’s also times for when I made my city in the sky adventure where characters don’t seem to move at all when they are on a building or something .
And the AI sometimes screws up on the set paths .

But all of these are issues that I believe will be fixed in a patch or something .

But still what game in which you get a lot of creative options you DON’T have some issues , the adventures that will come from the spore community I’m sure will be great.

And yes I know I said im gonna review Paraworld next but this was a lot faster to do and I had to put out something last week .

Till next time

I left my cine-editor series aside for a long time, but now i got time again to work with the cine-editor so here’s episode 4 of my Machinima/Cine-editor series called The Mongol Invasion.
This episode doesn’t contain much fighting but is the start of the actual story. At the start I added some historical background of my Papal States campaign so that people who never watched it could follow and people who can’t quite remember what happened in that campaign have their memory refreshed.
You get to meet the characters that will play an important role in the next episodes and learn about the plan to stop the mongol invasion. The previous episodes were actually more an introduction, now the real story starts and there will be a lot more character depth.
Please enjoy

Now here a quite interesting use for the Freespace engine….a starfox mod…yes although this one does seem to be more on the sim side then the original which was arcade. I am quite looking forward to it and….I do hope that they put in the do a barrel roll line in there cause it certainly wouldn’t be starfox without that in my opinion without further ado here the trailer for it an do note that i found this today :P

This tutorial deals with how to build your first city within a new region. The tutorial is specifically tailored towards beginners of sim city 4 who have perhaps only just started playing the game. There may be afew tips experienced players may also take away from it.

Over my years playing Sim City, I have been sent many messages from players going bankrupt during the building of their first city. If you follow this tutorial, and build in the way I show you, you will not go bankrupt. The city that you create with this tutorial will be an excellent platform that you can use to start building the rest of your region.

It’s not the most elegant of cities, however in my opinion, it is probably the best way to start off your region. Your first city will have a low level of education, so you should concentrate on facilitating dirty and manufactuing industry. Building a ’square layer’ of industry around the outskirt of your city will provide you with all the industry you require. It also sufficiently segregates the pollution and ensures you can export products from your city quickly and easily. You don’t need much commercial in your first city because your sims do not have the education to demand it.

Don’t forget my ’strips technique’ of building will reduce commute time through all areas of your city too.

Just remember that, when you have maxed out the city – somewhere where I got to at the end, start a new city and use those road connections. If there is one thing you take away from this tutorial is that making road connections is the key to making the really great citys, so keep making the cities, keep connecting them, and keep on going back to upgrade them.

As said before, I am not stating this is the only way you should build your first city, however it works for me. The strips method may be a little boring to some people, however it’s efficient, significantly helps with city building, and I challenge anyone to come up with a better method without using cheats or mods.

I hope you find this tutorial helpful and I look forward to hearing your feedback

Welcome to the written portion of the Overlord 2 review for DYG hope you enjoy it .

A game like Overlord 2 is undoubtedly one of those game that isn’t exactly THE BEST but is rather close up there , by not only being fun but also adding its own style and charm ….and even yes it is sorta like pikmin….its in my eyes from what I know of and seen of pikmin .better.

Overlord 2 is an overall improvement over the original , the story starts out by Gnarl telling you that the minions have been scouring the lands for a new Overlord , since at the ending of raising hell one can see one of the mistresses pregnant , so you start out as a child in the small town of Nordberg there’s almost something Fable 2′ish to it.

Once you manage to escape the now new power in the land namely the Glorious empire that has put a ban on all things magic…and guess what you have magic in your veins , now I guess one can think of these guys as nazis of magic but whatever the reason once you escape them and get frozen your minions take you towards your new underground tower where they raise you up till your old enough to start bashing baby seals .
As mentioned in the video review the games story is still interesting just like the first one and the expansion .

Gameplay has been overall improved with not just making the minions even more fun to use , one of the main new features are the mounts the mounts are what they imply mountable animals , sadly the even though there are 3 mount types for various colors they aren’t used as much as you do the wolves so that’s a bit disappointing but its still fun when you do use them , this game is a lot more focused on minions and their ability’s sure most of the puzzles are still based on what color minion you have but this time their a bit more challenging and requier’s a bit more active role , some minions like the blues can now blink through enemy’s if you guide them through it or to clear away the magic radiation in the tower wastelands area .

2 Additional gameplay mechanic’s are the catapult sections and the ships sections , while they are both fun and enjoyable the game doesn’t implement the ship as much as I had initially hoped for hell they could have made a ship battle between the elf’s and the empire and you could have boarded an empire ship with a catapult and there you go you get the best of both worlds .

The spells have pretty much been revamped instead of having a fireball as your first magic spell you get a lighting attack initially this isn’t very usefull against enemy’s , but the alternative use for it is so much better you can now actually take control over slaves , people and citizens and turn them into….your slaves ( double loss for the slaves then he he ) , while in an area that isnt a town you’ve already conquer’d these slaves serve as cannon fodder to distract the enemy until you can kill them , while in a conquer’d town you have a hundred citizens that can be either turned into slaves or be killed since instead of being evil and somewhat evil you choose between being EVIL and REALLY evil ( in other words being dominant or being chaotic ).
The light RPG mehanics are present but expanded this time by having the ability to upgrade your minion’s hives , but the forging is a bit more streamlined this time around but lost a bit of a personal touch to it though .

As mentioned in the video review the game , the new enemy’s also pose a whole new level of challenge where I hardly died in the original I found it rather difficult to survive as many times in this one , since the formation ability gives the empire units almost ridiculous defensive boost until you kill their commander that is which adds a somewhat more tactical thought to the game .

One of the more fun aspects is still the ability to turn your tower or domain of evil more comfy , this time you have a lot more options by having 3 different mistresses ( one being a ghost …so that’s akward if you please her into bed ) whoever you choose to be first mistress you get her set of stuff of course you can change between mistresses to mix it up as much as you like .

The graphics and art design is even better then the original , with small animations touches in both minions and the animations…in all of this both video and this text I forgot to mention that the humor is still present , weather it be the fat …and almost scary fairy’s to the large emphasis on killing baby seals it still retains the same humor as the original although , some of the best lines are still delivers by Gnarl although there aren’t as many of them ( in my opinion ) as there were in the original .
For some reason the minion AI doesn’t seem as effect when it comes to bringing back stuff in the original after they break something they pick it up and put it on or bring it to you but in this one there were more then enough times where I had to send out another minion to pick it up , but the minion AI besides on that aspect is an improvement .

Overall this Overlord is an improvement over his predecessor ….and he didn’t lock himself in an eternal abyss , but like its predecessor it isn’t a perfect game but its still good….erh bad EVIL fun

Check in again when I review Paraworld .