Stronghold 3
From what I have seen in dev trailers and media, the game will be a canonical story from that of the first Stronghold game, the story apparently takes of where the arch villain of the first game "the Wolf" was killed or rather presumed such, returning on a march of revenge.
Much of the media shows new features like that of daytime passage to night and vice verse, using the game engine Trinigy Vision Engine that was used in Settlers 7 & Arcania: Gothic 4 to name a few, thus the game uses Havok Physics Engine which was used in games like Company of Heroes, Fallout 3, TES4:Oblivion and Starcraft 2 and Portal 2 to mention a few selected games.
So far the game sounds like a wining concept and building on my own experience with Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold 2, It would not surprise me if lessons learnt from what worked and what did not in the game series might make this a heavy seller and a major attraction to castle builder fans and newcomers to the series.
I don't remember if it was after a year or just how long after I had played stronghold 2 for several month on end that I took the guts to contact Firefly studios about if there would be a Stronghold 3 to be seen in the coming years, the answer back then was that they were busy with another project that for the moment slips my mind... but conclude that a new installment of the series would possibly be in development in a few years time and here we are now a few years later and just 24 hours of its release on Steam.
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3 has seen a lot of good response and bad responses in social media, most of the more common talk is the EA retraction of some digital titles on Steam in favor of its own Origin platform, many seem to think of the Origin client app as rather buggy and less intresting or useful to the consumer and feels more like a DRM infected inbetween client rather then what I believe EA was aiming for a Launchpad application with secured login and digital store for unlocking access to other games.
To me Origin is just a lite version of steam with limitation and feels like it was rushed into competition with Steam and Impulse when it should have made a bigger name for itself before it began kicking at Steam and removing titles instead of co-releasing on both platforms at once, though I see that Battlefield 3 having a browser based interaction interface before entering the game itself would cause a major delay and a lot of work to make it compatible with steam...
Anyway back to Battlefield 3.
From my own experience and the luck I have had with being in multiple beta and alpha versions of Battlefield games among most proudly Battlefield 2142, which was a reason me and a few friends invested in setting up a Battlefield 2142 dedicated server with the GSP I am still a customer at *wink* where we ran under the tag [BLYFRI] for a time until we could not keep up payments and had other issues at hand.
The frostbite 2 engine use in Battlefield 3 is indeed impressive and makes the game great, I myself would prefer the old Battlefield 2/2142 graphics, though I think that is because of nostalgia.
What I found to be a good addition is the suppression feature, now at least you can include tactics based on suppressive fire where a support infantry can suppress the enemy making it harder for the enemy to hit your friends advancing from cover to cover to get to the objective, though this type of gameplay is unheard of in games below professional gamers or those who are prone to good teamwork.
I like that they have once again included Jets into Battlefield, kind of missed them since the jets in battlefield 2, though i was never a good pilot due to less experience or practice with the jets in battlefield 2 mostly cause they were always the first to be taken, much like attack helicopters in bad company 2 and so on.
I am hoping to see a lot of interesting battles in the future with Battlefield 3 as well as on the stamfaste.se server, even though its limited to 24 slots I still think it will be good for a low ping server and if funds increase I can always increase the amount of slots on the contract.
Anyways I shant be dragging on any longer I have more things to do and some preparing for the Stronghold 3 release :D
Stronghold 3
From what I have seen in dev trailers and media, the game will be a canonical story from that of the first Stronghold game, the story apparently takes of where the arch villain of the first game “the Wolf” was killed or rather presumed such, returning on a march of revenge.
Much of the media shows new features like that of daytime passage to night and vice verse, using the game engine Trinigy Vision Engine that was used in Settlers 7 & Arcania: Gothic 4 to name a few, thus the game uses Havok Physics Engine which was used in games like Company of Heroes, Fallout 3, TES4:Oblivion and Starcraft 2 and Portal 2 to mention a few selected games.
So far the game sounds like a wining concept and building on my own experience with Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold 2, It would not surprise me if lessons learnt from what worked and what did not in the game series might make this a heavy seller and a major attraction to castle builder fans and newcomers to the series.
I don’t remember if it was after a year or just how long after I had played stronghold 2 for several month on end that I took the guts to contact Firefly studios about if there would be a Stronghold 3 to be seen in the coming years, the answer back then was that they were busy with another project that for the moment slips my mind… but conclude that a new installment of the series would possibly be in development in a few years time and here we are now a few years later and just 24 hours of its release on Steam.
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3 has seen a lot of good response and bad responses in social media, most of the more common talk is the EA retraction of some digital titles on Steam in favor of its own Origin platform, many seem to think of the Origin client app as rather buggy and less intresting or useful to the consumer and feels more like a DRM infected inbetween client rather then what I believe EA was aiming for a Launchpad application with secured login and digital store for unlocking access to other games.
To me Origin is just a lite version of steam with limitation and feels like it was rushed into competition with Steam and Impulse when it should have made a bigger name for itself before it began kicking at Steam and removing titles instead of co-releasing on both platforms at once, though I see that Battlefield 3 having a browser based interaction interface before entering the game itself would cause a major delay and a lot of work to make it compatible with steam…
Anyway back to Battlefield 3.
From my own experience and the luck I have had with being in multiple beta and alpha versions of Battlefield games among most proudly Battlefield 2142, which was a reason me and a few friends invested in setting up a Battlefield 2142 dedicated server with the GSP I am still a customer at *wink* where we ran under the tag [BLYFRI] for a time until we could not keep up payments and had other issues at hand.
The frostbite 2 engine use in Battlefield 3 is indeed impressive and makes the game great, I myself would prefer the old Battlefield 2/2142 graphics, though I think that is because of nostalgia.
What I found to be a good addition is the suppression feature, now at least you can include tactics based on suppressive fire where a support infantry can suppress the enemy making it harder for the enemy to hit your friends advancing from cover to cover to get to the objective, though this type of gameplay is unheard of in games below professional gamers or those who are prone to good teamwork.
I like that they have once again included Jets into Battlefield, kind of missed them since the jets in battlefield 2, though i was never a good pilot due to less experience or practice with the jets in battlefield 2 mostly cause they were always the first to be taken, much like attack helicopters in bad company 2 and so on.
I am hoping to see a lot of interesting battles in the future with Battlefield 3 as well as on the stamfaste.se server, even though its limited to 24 slots I still think it will be good for a low ping server and if funds increase I can always increase the amount of slots on the contract.
Anyways I shant be dragging on any longer I have more things to do and some preparing for the Stronghold 3 release 
