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This video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix myself a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm a really shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I could introduce myself. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she had a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I wanted the best for her and I harbored no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seemed happy with her boyfriend, so I didn't bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it. I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already since I first saw her. Besides, I am quite happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wanted to live some other life without me in it, so I said, "Okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness." My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally couldn''t take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, "you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get myself a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got so distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video." She said, "You know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer." So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.

Wow. Just wow. First gotta thank you forvthe inclusion of the making of section to give better perspective on what kind of work need to be put for a trilogy of retrospective to be done. And second, the awesome stuff you come up eith this vid since i love how inquisition delved with it's story making it one of the best story i've ever experienced on.

Lol the companion quests part is dumb as hell

Curious the game's marketing focused so much on the Arishok duel when the game's combat mechanics... well... they're obviously not designed with duels like that in mind. So from gameplay's perspective it's a bit of a nothingburger of a battle.

Find just two things from all of this that bothered me . Artillery don't have lethal bombardment. Only bombers. Only reason to use artillery/cavalry for me is if you try wage industrial war beacuse you don't have coal for railroads or you don't have oil. Bomber have same functions of artillery but way better. I just can't see the reason to use artillery in late game. The other i wonder is the idea that entertainers is useless and is always the best idea to use slider - you said that slider is cost 1 currency ? It is not - it is cost a lot and you losing lot of money hindering whole empire just because one city have unhappiness because it is not have marketplace yet. Using entertainer just to finish a marketplace may lose some shields and commerce but using slider will lead to losing much more. Now I always use the slider when i have general unhappiness problem because of population and lack of luxuries but for a random single city?

I hope you do the veilgaurd.

I hope veilguard is as good.

A 4 hour video about my favorite game ever from someone I've never heard of?? Yes please. TH-cam algorithm hitting tonight.

I noticed a significant decrease in the difficulty of the game when using spells to evenly distribute damage and mana between characters in a large team (from 5 to 8 members).

i just realized... is the science advisor supposed to be sid meier??? xD

The way you feel about Pachacuti, I feel the same about that sarcastic bully Hiawatha. I know he's just an algorithm, but I know he hates me

I was 12 when i was given this game as a birthday gift. id never played a fantasy game before then so this was my first one. im now 35 and i still play this regularly with my brothers in 3 player coop mode. even so far as I basically have become the DM for our campaign, making adjustments to maps and even making new ones from scratch just so we got more stuff to fight. My brother only bought it because of the hot woman on the cover of the Order of Dawn CD Case. lmao. best purchase he ever made tbh.

Loved this. Loved DAI too - means a lot as in the early days of my daughters life I was playing it none stop as she loved the music. Thank you for this, I loved seeing your take on the game and the lore - it always amazes me how my experiences in DA are echoed by other fans. Recommend this video for newbies waiting for DA4

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My first playthrough was a breeze. It only took about 40hrs and I used a sealth dual dagger rogue and let the companions just do their own thing. I took Solas, iron bull, and Cassandra so I could sneak around and get massive back stab damage, use caltrops to slow and poison, then spinning slash then Teleport slash back into stealth. All the while they get aggroed on my knights and Solas heals from afar while I pick off small mobs and wait for my cooldowns. Jaws of Haakon was a wild difficulty spike though.

Are you playing this on Windows 10 I could never get it to work on modern Windows.

This was my first 4X game.

Civilization 2 already had scenario's with new technology trees and units. - alien invasion - napoleon - WW2 - dinosaurs - USA vs Sovjet (starts with a few fired nukes) -...

It's kind of crazy that in the original SpellForce 3 campaign, your party is composed of the most evil characters Eo has ever seen. And it’s hard to like them, especially Isgrimm, who is already showing reckless abuse of power.

42:00 but most of all, the AI doesn't build and field enough artillery correctly, If you want to win at the higher levels you need artillery, lots of artillery. Captured artillery is great, no maintenance cost.

great saga, totally unbalanced but I will always come back to it. The main issue is that (and this ironically happens in SF3 as well to an extent) if you have a decent build you just have an easier time cleaning the map solo, because you don't trigger the endless spawning of enemies.

Oh no you do the reviewer voice the whole time 😂

just bought it and was blown away by how good it is, it's everything i imagined Warcraft 4 would be like, the RTS controls are very responsive and intuitive.

I really like this game, but the systems are so opaque. I trust both you and Suede, but I don't get why the luxury slider is preferable to entertainers. If I have one or two cities in the middle and late game that are always 1-2 frowny faces away from revolt, then why spend a ton of gold for them when the rest of my cities are fine? Also with the research slider, it's better to have research buildings? Counting up the the beakers in the early game is fine, but after a dozen or so cities, it gets very tiresome trying to micromanage everything. Speaking of research, are beakers an independent variable in cities in that they aren't directly affected by geography? I ask because I'm unsure if I should build libraries in every city to get more research, or if it becomes negligible. How many beakers will shave off one turn of research? I figure I could test this, but the later the game goes on, the more variables get introduced, making it harder to establish a hard metric.

Im pretty sure that it is explained by Warden Riordan that Archdemon dies becouse unlike darkspawn wardens still have their souls which to destruction of both Warden and ArchDemon when its soul transfers to nearest tainted living being

You are wrong: there are lots of books outside the game series

Experience in Spellforce 2 is given for the quests only, there is no sence to grind mobs

Hearing Suede talk about the MP scene gives the old Uncle describing a huge battle that happened in the field kids usually play in. from growing up with the game i never imagined so much lore for a Civ game that's rather overlooked by the latter entries. I gotta give thanks to both you and Suede for shedding some very insightful tips and mechanical knowledge in a game that i played often but even now are still learning to play challengingly

How much I played this game as a kid back in 2005-2008? After 16 or so years I can still hear dwarf yelling: "My AXE is getting impatient!" or Brannigen yelling: "Don't just stand there! Kill something!" This game gave me so many fond memories.

I LOVED Civ I and II and III. but Civ IV felt like such a deviation, such a change, that I could go no further. I am stuck on CIV III. I wish I could download somewhere the ability to play ww2 Europe in CIV III.

Inquisition was the best. Origins can get boring quickly, your characters just stand there 🤷

Man, I loved this game back in the day, thought now it is quite hard to get back to (with having Civ 4, 5 & 6, Old World or Humankind in the library). The best thing about it was graphics, unit designs, sounds & animation and diplomacy, which often resulted in world wars near end game (which is almost non existent in my current games). The worst things about Civ 3 were mostly the corruption system (making distant cities from capital/forbidden city unusable), transporting units through bodies of water and the fact that units had to fight each battle to the death (also I never was a fan of 'stacks of doom'). The AI was somewhat better then today, but there was really big room for improvement there. Civ 4 delivered on that, but had other issues, for which I couldn't transition for a looooong time after it came out.

You know nothing JBJett

The music, the ambience, the addiction of kill monster after monster, with a linear story which is here just an excuse to maintain us exploring that immense world without loading screens. I remember stop my travels to just admire those 3D landscapes, so deep and live, by that time was incredible, and even today still difficult to make such kind of games, in fact, they are mostly the exception.

But you can see how many turns it takes to finish the research?

Fascism is never useful in real life, only destructive.

"Fascism... just kinda sucks" yes it does

Some commenters here are too concerned about why people love this game. This game is tied for the best of the series, the other being 4. I would love 4 more if it had the sprite art style and the evolving leaders that 3 did. But I have yet to dislike any game in the series. They’re all fantastic.

Its interesting to hear your perspective because i move so slowly in this game that none issues of base pushing with heros because even on normal difficulty i tended to wait until i had a 200 pop army because even with all artifact tier items my first push in the siege of the iron ones forge i used the orcs their titans and tier 3 units and lost a massice amounts of units and had to retreat cause even the titan died and needed to regroup a second round of recruitment to finish it off cause i literally boxed the ai into the fortress at the southern half of the map lol ok just saw how much changed with soul harvest because i did get them in reforced

I actually brought ianna to the island and she actually has dialog about dul and says hes got darkness in him

1:16:52 i don't recognise this game. what is it?

This guy has no idea what is he talking about. This game was MASSIVE SUCCESS IN Europe People are playing it to this day and it's still been the best representation of RTS-RPG mixture ever since apart from Warcraft 3. lol

So underrated 😢

Weird, I exclusively played fascism in my late game and absolutely wrecked other players, I've never seen a review of civ3 but I remember it being extremely overpowered.

I love this game flaws and all because of its gameplay, the cool stuff I can do and the music is nice

You dont start as a runemage

It’s been a while since I first saw this video, and I’m still blown away by the quality of your analysis. Wherever you are (whether that be working on another video or just focusing on life), I hope you’re doing well, and I’d love to see more stuff from you in the future. You have the potential to be one of the best creators in this genre.

While I really liked this video overall, and the general mindset you used about when you should or shouldn't commit to an offensive war, you had a pretty major oversight in the combat section that drastically alters the math in use. The fortification bonus. You know that thing you can do to units to lock them in place to protect your cities or remove the from the turn management? That provides a +25% defensive multiplier. You can check Civilopedia under Defender Combat Bonus, the first Structural Bonus if you don't believe me. As a result, most of the comparisons you used are not, in fact, accurate. A spearman doesn't defend with 2, it's 2.5, a pikeman isn't 3, it's 3.75, and a musket isn't 4, it's 5. As a result, the offensive bonuses are much smaller than you calculated, and the defensive ones are much more drastic. A musket against a knight, or a spear against a horse aren't fair fights, but heavily in the defender's favor, only offset by the retreat ability, while a pike against a knight or a medieval infantry is very close to being fair. I mention this because fortification is by far the most common and reliable defensive bonus you'll come across. It's going to be present in any siege and most open battles, so it needs to be accounted for.

Love your videos man. I would love to hear your thoghts on the current state of the game. Hope you're doing alright and still making vids