I've... seen things you Escapists wouldn't believe... Russian Gunships on fire off the shoulder of Italy. I watched LAZER beams glitter in the void near K.S.S Dawn. All those... conquests... will be lost in Steam, like tears... in... rain.
Time... to release Half Life 3...
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I also saw myself slaughter half of my family to put my grandson as the Count of Western Iceland. We shall begin as we mean to go on!
Before I launch into my stories, this thread is two fold. If you have any amazing story from a game, preferably a Grand Strategy or a Mount 'n' Blade style game, but if the story is awesome, who cares what game it came from? And the second fold is that I must ask if anyone has any tips or guides for Crusader Kings 2? I've started and have had a lot of fun, but I'm finding it hard to either not get curb stomped from being small, or not get backstabbed from being big. Hrumph.
Right, so I recently picked up all of the Crusader Kings 2 DLC and the game itself on Humble Bundle for an amazing deal. I've been watching it for a while now, as one of those games I'll eventually get to. And I love it! However, I've always heard passing stories of how brutal it can get, so I steeled myself for it.
What I didn't expect was to get frustrated with the state of the levies in Western Iceland, one of my two territories, and then proceed to organise a plot involving all of my court members, their Spymaster and their Councillor which ending up giving me something along the lines of 400% plot success chance. I killed the lord after a billion goddamn tries, and then his 12 year old son took the place. I killed him with a loose arrow in a hunt, which then resulted in his ZERO year old brother taking the place of Count. I didn't even pause as I sent the nurse to smother him in his bed.
It was only after I then took the province and gave it to my grandson, I realised that I just gave a birthday present in the form of the entire west Iceland which was taken from my grandsons two cousins and his uncle, after brutally murdering all of them, that I took pause and went - shit, I'm a fucked up kinda king.
Then proceeded to become lustful, start banging my daughter in law who was literally the greatest character in the game, who then was impregnating many times over by me as my son thought he was getting a ton of kids. Then I killed my wife so I could spend more time with my daughter in law and eventually got her to help me take some of France as my own.
When I got curb stomped by some Frenchies and bought some Scottish mercs in a panic who turned on me in my capital and took it.
Well shit. What a crazy game. I said as I loaded it back-up, this time aiming to make Scotland the world's leader and crush those bastard English!
Time... to release Half Life 3...
...
I also saw myself slaughter half of my family to put my grandson as the Count of Western Iceland. We shall begin as we mean to go on!
Before I launch into my stories, this thread is two fold. If you have any amazing story from a game, preferably a Grand Strategy or a Mount 'n' Blade style game, but if the story is awesome, who cares what game it came from? And the second fold is that I must ask if anyone has any tips or guides for Crusader Kings 2? I've started and have had a lot of fun, but I'm finding it hard to either not get curb stomped from being small, or not get backstabbed from being big. Hrumph.
Right, so I recently picked up all of the Crusader Kings 2 DLC and the game itself on Humble Bundle for an amazing deal. I've been watching it for a while now, as one of those games I'll eventually get to. And I love it! However, I've always heard passing stories of how brutal it can get, so I steeled myself for it.
What I didn't expect was to get frustrated with the state of the levies in Western Iceland, one of my two territories, and then proceed to organise a plot involving all of my court members, their Spymaster and their Councillor which ending up giving me something along the lines of 400% plot success chance. I killed the lord after a billion goddamn tries, and then his 12 year old son took the place. I killed him with a loose arrow in a hunt, which then resulted in his ZERO year old brother taking the place of Count. I didn't even pause as I sent the nurse to smother him in his bed.
It was only after I then took the province and gave it to my grandson, I realised that I just gave a birthday present in the form of the entire west Iceland which was taken from my grandsons two cousins and his uncle, after brutally murdering all of them, that I took pause and went - shit, I'm a fucked up kinda king.
Then proceeded to become lustful, start banging my daughter in law who was literally the greatest character in the game, who then was impregnating many times over by me as my son thought he was getting a ton of kids. Then I killed my wife so I could spend more time with my daughter in law and eventually got her to help me take some of France as my own.
When I got curb stomped by some Frenchies and bought some Scottish mercs in a panic who turned on me in my capital and took it.
Well shit. What a crazy game. I said as I loaded it back-up, this time aiming to make Scotland the world's leader and crush those bastard English!