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Seeing as the game starts out terribly, here you have parts 2 AND 3.

Dead Space 3 has the single shittiest plot I've seen for a long time, and it's a pain to endure the game...
..but it's also intense and difficult, a perfect Ironman material!

@mainiac - You are what you eat, they say!
..wait, what?

Cause I voted for Scotland.

Your point?

Yes, it is this time of the year once again. The first two games were stomped by us, both ending with no deaths (although the first one wasn't named an Ironman) and endless quantities of money and medpacks in the storage. This time, it won't be as pretty...
This time, the game was meant to be difficult by those lazy, unwashed Devs. This time, we try the impossible.


What can you expect from me :
- Talking over all the cut-scenes. ALL the time.
- Complaining about the game
- Ignoring the game's events and talking about something completely different
- Poor grammar, pounded into the ground even further as time goes by
- Curse words, a whole fucking lot of them
- Terribly insensitive jokes, and unintelligible references
- 100% commitment to beating the game with no deaths, on the toughest difficulty, without any knowledge about it from sources other than this very playthrough. No demo's, no trailers, no videos, no reviews. Just a few rumors and complains, that the Internet was flooding with after the game was released.

I expect bets on when, where and how will we die to start right about.. now. 
Note how the parts do not have titles. This is an attempt to make your experience as miserable as mine... Just kiddin'


The game is supposedly ~15-20 hours long, and deadlier than the last one for sure.

I generally don't watch or comment on a lot of LP's, but I have to say I've been getting a lot of entertainment out of your's Stworca.

Great, now i'm under even more pressure! (cheers!)

So, summing up this poll, and everyone except the winner from the last one, we have :

- 2 games of Prospector
- A game of Dwarf Fortress
- A game of ToME

DF i don't look forward too, due to my very poor understanding of that roguelike. We will, however, endure the hardship, by strangling everyone with our engraved pig tail loincloth (the picture shows dwarves and dwarves in pig tail, the dwarves talk with the dwarves)

After that i'll do either another Cata run, or one of the "OTHER" games. I think it was a Tie between IVAN and Nethack.
Then the poll will reset, unless one of the above (Prospector, DF, ToME, Other) gets a crushing support, prolonging its lifetime by a few more attempts (what happened with Cata, which outnumbered all other votes combined 3:1)

We shall see.

LobsterTrawler Missions for everyone!

I hereby enlist as Barry the Baptist. Explosives! Explosives as far as the eye can see!

There is a reason why CK2 was the biggest success of Paradox, it's the game that gives you the most options.

For being a game of world-scope, EU is rather simple (shallow even). It's still a great game, mind you, but mostly so, because there is no competition that works on similar scope.
Vici - despite everything that I've believed before - is all about managing population, and while it excels at this role (and gives you many more options than EU) still lacks variety.
HoI series have no diplomacy (working one) whatsoever, and economy can be forgotten when playing some countries, it does bring the best military experience from all Paradox games, though. Rolling those panzerbrigades and coordinating encirclements with tactical bombing is something that not only overshadows, but puts to shame combat in EU, Vici and CK put together.

CK2 isn't a game about a country, it's a game about a family. It gives you the most windows to explore and exploit, and a truly rewarding and always fairly challenging experience (in the sense that you can always easily lose). There are no German gods of war, for whom losing HoI is nigh impossible (as player). There are no Pommies from EU, who can safely focus on whatever they want, and will forever remain safe and strong... and finally.. the same Brits, who just CANNOT loose in Viki, as it's simply impossible. You start with most of the known world under control.

In CK2 a random shadowy douchebag from some backwater shed in the middle of nowhere, can decide that it's in his best interest for you to DIE, and you will. There is no world conquest (it' possible, but it wont hold) and the threats come from within, more often than outside. Your own family members. Your fucking butler, even. It's the only game of Paradox that has working and interesting diplomacy, and while i have 100+ hours in every game mentioned above, CK2 takes the cake and eats it.

Just keep in mind, that - just like every paradox game - CK2 is crud without the expansions.

Europe is usually the best pic, because it just takes so many satelites to get the bonus otherwise, and all those big-piles-of-cash countries over there are easier to control that way.

I'd recommend using one of the dozen balance mods, as vanilla game is borked.