Comments on: Gamersgate Top 10 analysis

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By: Nordstream

Nordstream — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:56:45 +0000

-”EUIII is a lot of fun (think Mediaeval: Total War with more strategic depth and no tactical battles), but the lack of a goal structure put me off after a while. I had no real metric to judge how I was doing. It would probably benefit from something like Total War’s missions. Well worth a download, though, especially if you like open-ended strategy.”

The second EU3 expansion, In Nomine due for release this spring/summer, will introduce (among other things, like rebels-with-a-cause) dynamic context-sensitive missions, somewhat analogous to the ones in EU1 (I don’t know how TW handles missions as I never spent much time in their horrible campaign mode).

In Nomine “sneak-peak” archive:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350491

And if you have only played vanilla EU3, the Magna Mundi mod is a must-try:
http://www.terranova.dk/viewforum.php?f=78
(Magna Mundi for EU3, MM Gold for the NA expansion, and eventually, MM Platinum for In Nomine)

Lightbulb: Yes, they took out the victory points in EU3. There’s a prestige scale ranging from -100 to +100 though, but you need to continuously “fight” to keep it high, since there’s a constant 5% decay/normalization towards 0.

By: Lightbulb

Lightbulb — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:56:25 +0000

Ginger Yellow – EU2 has victory points. Did they take those out for EU3? Also you know how you doing via this simple flow chart:

Am i dead? Yes = I have lost
Am i dying? Yes = I am losing
Am i not dying? Yes = I am doing well

I love paradox games. I played quite alot of EU2 over the Easter holidays. Can’t wait to give EU:Rome a go, looks really fun and its set in one of my favourite historical periods. :)

Should be soooooo much better than Rome Total War anyway…

By: terry

terry — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:46:13 +0000

I’m fairly surprised that Puzzle Quest is missing from this chart, the dominance of Paradox games aside.

By: Noc

Noc — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:46:29 +0000

Whoops. I read it as “Top sales as of last week.” I’m not sure why.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:32:47 +0000

Sniff.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:59 +0000

We’re just here for the pretty pictures, Kieron.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:08:47 +0000

I did say it was the last week’s sales in the second line of the article, guys.

By: groovychainsaw

groovychainsaw — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:27:21 +0000

I’m going to say pathalogic got into the charts because i linked it during the pathologic review! I changed the charts! Wooo….
Wonder what else i can influence in this way… /Evil laugh

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:58:26 +0000

EUIII is a lot of fun (think Mediaeval: Total War with more strategic depth and no tactical battles), but the lack of a goal structure put me off after a while. I had no real metric to judge how I was doing. It would probably benefit from something like Total War’s missions. Well worth a download, though, especially if you like open-ended strategy.

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:10:10 +0000

Noc: This is the chart for the last week. Obviously Pathologic is not in their overall top ten. :)

Also, you can always view the latest ten games that’s been purchased at GamersGate, and yeah, Pathologic has been showing up a lot lately.

(also, paying attention to the latest purchases, it’s obvious that GamersGate is selling a lot of games – and the fact that these are all niche market titles makes this even more impressive)

By: Noc

Noc — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:03:54 +0000

Would it be possible to query Gamersgate, and find out if Pathologic’s position in the charts is due to an otherwise inexplicable purchasing blitz in the past week or so?

Or if it’s been genuinely successful in Gamersgate’s corner of the niche market?