Lobstereview Forthcoming! Tagged so I don't get coughed.
Tease.
I want to see screen shots of a giant pet lobster!
I remember beating my tiger till he was bruised and fell over onto a building and crushed it.
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As long as you can make your creature eat poop, I'll play it!
So far so good and it has some of the most beautiful graphics in certain places. You must have preordered because I didnt get no stinkin lion. I had an ape a cow or a wolf - and I think a lion. I chose the wolf - can you really focus on physical training... My wolf likes to lay around a lot and play with his teddy bear and entertain the villagers. He occaionally kicks the ball around. I have even finished the second island, but it is fun. That being said - it can be slooowww so patience in this game is a virtue... Its nice to have time to just watch your people do things at time. By the way - do they sleep automatically - or do I have to do something special?
I preordered the game, where do I get me extra animal?
This is entirely off-topic, but i'd like to make clear that, if I should ever meet Lobster, at this point, i'm just about expecting to meet a hyperactive, blue-haired 8-year old boy with a cape.
So I snagged this over the weekend, having nothing better to do, and have played it for about two hours, skipping over the tutorial. My one question is this: Is my graphics card not good enough?
Reason I ask is that I can't really see the people if I'm zoomed out to any significant degree. I have severe popup issues with them and it makes it extremely difficult to play the game. My town has a large number of people, but I can rarely see them. My card is an ATI 9600 Pro. Not top of the line, but I didn't think it would really cause me any problems.
Useful degree would be, I'm in the first island after saving some Greeks and the town is rather small. If I zoom out to a point that I can see most of the city, which is just the 3 major buildings a couple of fields and some houses I am unable to see most of the citizens. I guess I could try dropping the quality to see if that helps, but it will make me cry. Either that or try and get a better video card, which would probably hurt more.
I'll play some more tonight and see if I get used to it. I'm still getting used to the hand being kind of wonky about where it wants to pick stuff up from, it seems a bit inaccurate.
I haven't played long enough to have an opinion yet. I'm mostly looking forward to beating the hell out of my stupid pet and making it the ultimate weapon!!!!!1!1!!!
Too bad the patch makes your save games useless...
Played some more last night. I'm getting used to the controls now and the issue I was having with the people not showing up where I wanted isn't so bad anymore. I've been teaching my lion to help build my cities and gather supplies, he's also quite good at entertaining the villagers. I'm not sure I like the tribute system for upgrading my animal, I wish he would just get better as he keeps doing the tasks.
Otherwise, pretty good so far.
I have the Advanced Soldier set and the creature Lightning Miracle, but he kicked ass and cast lightning on my enemies without me switching his AI off Free Will or showing him how to use lightning.
That sounds great, I wonder if players can make their own AI sets and transfer them around?
Haven't gotten to a point where I've needed my creature to kick ass, but I did just start the big Norse island, so I'm thinking I'll be starting him up on that pretty soon. I want him to help out around the city and defend/attack when I need him to. Raising any kind of army is evil, but I don't think I'll be going on any military conquests. Perhaps when I play through a second time and be totally evil I'll do that.
I'm still early in the game, but it definitely seems more engaging than the original. I have not started with the creature yet, since I want to dedicate a few hours to it, and time is short at the moment.
The army stuff definitely helps. It seems like the AI is better now, I'm spending less time worrying about resources and more time playing the "big picture" game. So far, anyway.
I forget, could your civilians gather resources in the first game? I seem to recall picking up a lot of damn trees and watering way too many crops.
I think I finally taught my animal where to take a dump, now he fertilizes trees instead of buildings and people. I've also been trying to teach him to work out, but it's been goofy trying to praise him for it, the hand keeps taking whatever it is he is holding. I also had him eat poop, then I beat the hell out of him for it, he won't eat it anymore. Did the same with villagers. Seems like it would be confusing for me to tell him to do something then wail on him for it, but he's learning I guess.
The one activity where the monster seems to have a wide array of specific, trainable options is... sh*tting. He wants to sh*t on everything. People, buildings, fields, trees... You can encourage or discourage any and all.
Thank goodness they did not forget the important things in life; everyone needs a poop-tossing monkey.
I'm close to finishing the fourth island (Japanese) and I'm enjoying the game. I'm having some difficulty with influence though. I got migrants from all but three of the villages but I can never seem to finish the other guy off and get his last, main city. It says I have enough influence to capture his populace with my awesomeness and the green arrows show as moving in my direction but they never leave. I'll probably end up frustrated and just kick the crap out of him with my army.
Is there any way to gain direct control of a city without invading it? People just leave and come to my city, but I'd like to run the other towns as well...
Is there any way to gain direct control of a city without invading it? People just leave and come to my city, but I'd like to run the other towns as well...
On the third island it seems that when they leave their villages you can't cap the remaining buildings with troops but you can on the fourth (Japanese) island. After people migrated I could send a small troop to capture the town and dump villagers in there to re-populate it.
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