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In hindsight, using highly explosive weapons in an enclosed area isn't the best idea.
What Video Games Have You Been Playing #11: I should go
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In hindsight, using highly explosive weapons in an enclosed area isn't the best idea.
Yeah, although there's sadly no mission in which giant sharks actually do try to bite anybody's genitalia off.I did that yesterday !Mission "G-Spotlight". All of the film studios missions were really fun ! Took me several tries though. Droping flyers from a plane was the easiest and "G-spotlight" the hardest , all-in-all they're really fun to play.
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Evolution is now out as a video game. It's supposed to be free to try, but if so, I can't find that feature. The Flight and Climate extensions of the board game are not yet out.
When does the Steam summer sale begin?
When does the Steam summer sale begin?
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You don't need to build a lot of taverns, just build enough to get an Assassin guild HQ in a city and build all your assassins there. They wreck havoc by themselves and give you tons of dread.
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Pokemon Ultra Moon improves on Pokemon X & Y in every way. They made a lot of 'quality of life' type improvements where they enhanced the UI and made the game easier to play and interact with. The graphics are noticeably better and the pacing has been tight. Being two years younger than X & Y also means it has a more active online trading/battling community. It does not have stereoscopic 3D at all which sucks but to be honest, they didn't really do a great job with 3D in X & Y so it's not a big deal.
Battling in Pokemon Go is a drag but it's tied to a lot of the missions you have to complete to get rare Pokemon. It's just not fun. You have at most two attacks and you basically tap the screen furiously for 2 to 5 minutes until it is over. I know they are catering to a mobile (literally and platform-wise) audience but it's tedious and annoying.
Battling in Pokemon Go is a drag but it's tied to a lot of the missions you have to complete to get rare Pokemon. It's just not fun. You have at most two attacks and you basically tap the screen furiously for 2 to 5 minutes until it is over. I know they are catering to a mobile (literally and platform-wise) audience but it's tedious and annoying.
Would anyone like to play Civilization 6 cooperatively on Monday?
Are you somewhere in the Philippines where there's no difference between summer and winter?Egad. I've been diddled.
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I would love to if not for the fact that I don't own and not yet play civ 6
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Played some Democracy 3. I'd played previously as the U.S. and wasn't a fan - there just wasn't enough politics, and no negotiation - but this time tried as the UK and enjoyed it more. For some reason the UK starts in a really poor position in the game, but the challenge made it more fun. I still eventually got to the point that the economy was humming along, and there wasn't much to do, but I'm glad I tried a different country.
Also played some EU4, and fought another long, drawn-out, griding war with the Ottomans as Ryazan. After five or six years of warfare, I thought I might finally have them on the ropes, when they somehow recruit 60,000 more men - and not all mercenaries, either. In the end, I had to settle for about 4000 gold in tribute, less than about 5000 that I could have received earlier - but still have not managed to take a single province. The ability of the Ottomans to withstand losses is staggering. Their alliance took losses of nearly half a million in the war, 50% higher than the Ryazanian-Commonwealth alliance, and they still weren't spent. Meanwhile I have an army of no more than 20,000, and no manpower; at least the Commonwealth is doing better.
So why pick a fight with the Ottomans? Well, because now that the Mamluks are history, it's better to fight them together than to fight them individually. And at this point, my hope is to defeat them economically. After the last war, they were more than 5000 gold in debt. Now they're more than 14000 gold in debt. So the hope is that after another slugfest or two, they'll go broke, and then some combination of a Polish-Lithuanian-Russian invasion, rebels, and their other neighbors seeing an opportunity will bring them down.
But still, it's 1675, and the Ottomans near their peak are scary. They definitely aren't the sick man of Europe yet.
Also played some EU4, and fought another long, drawn-out, griding war with the Ottomans as Ryazan. After five or six years of warfare, I thought I might finally have them on the ropes, when they somehow recruit 60,000 more men - and not all mercenaries, either. In the end, I had to settle for about 4000 gold in tribute, less than about 5000 that I could have received earlier - but still have not managed to take a single province. The ability of the Ottomans to withstand losses is staggering. Their alliance took losses of nearly half a million in the war, 50% higher than the Ryazanian-Commonwealth alliance, and they still weren't spent. Meanwhile I have an army of no more than 20,000, and no manpower; at least the Commonwealth is doing better.
So why pick a fight with the Ottomans? Well, because now that the Mamluks are history, it's better to fight them together than to fight them individually. And at this point, my hope is to defeat them economically. After the last war, they were more than 5000 gold in debt. Now they're more than 14000 gold in debt. So the hope is that after another slugfest or two, they'll go broke, and then some combination of a Polish-Lithuanian-Russian invasion, rebels, and their other neighbors seeing an opportunity will bring them down.
But still, it's 1675, and the Ottomans near their peak are scary. They definitely aren't the sick man of Europe yet.
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In summer obviously.
Spoiler :
Steam sales arent that amazing anymore since the advent of numerous CDkeys stores with heavily discounted games nearly all year round.
I wish Steam would step up its sales a notch higher, as many of the game sales now fall short of these CDkey stores.
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My ff4 playthrough in my phone is a blast! what a fun game, it surely has better storyline than ff7, and I really like the anti hero main character, they can surely redone the storyline and makes it flow more naturally. surprisingly there are also dragon quest, ff6, chrono trigger, ff tactics, valkyrie profile, chaos ring 3 and ff9 in playstore, and many niche rpgs by Kemco that currently adapted for nintendo switch. Android game future look really promising
I've been playing Green Hell for a few days now. It's a great stick collecting simulator. I would recommend it to everyone who is interested in small sticks, regular sticks, long sticks, logs and the occasional plank. Just be aware of leeches, snakes and various larvae that burrow under your skin.
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I decided to start a Civ VI game this weekend. Emperor-Epic-Huge Continents. A random start awarded me Rome; kind of boring, but okay. The free Monuments and roads are really useful, but they're passive and automatic, not something you use. Any UU that doesn't have a special ability is pretty much just for historical flavor, since I can win any war I'm prepared to fight anyway. I only rarely use the Legion's ability to construct a Fort. The Roman Bath's best feature is the low construction cost, for being a Unique District. Normally I'm loathe to build a city without fresh water, but the cheap aqueduct gives me more freedom to put cities in odd places.
Mods: Walls for City States; Community Quick User Interface; a city names list randomizer, so you don't always get the same names, after your capital; Great Person portraits;
The map start put me on the north coast of a large continent, with lots of flat land and an unholy amount of cattle, and competition only to my south: Victoria's England and Mali. I had some room to grow, so I decided to play peacefully. Victoria was very conciliatory - I later learned she was throwing elbows with Arabia and Brazil to her south - but Mansa Musa declared war on me. I was planning to leave him alone, but now the former Kingdom of Mali is a beautiful, mountainous province of the Republic of Rome, bringing wool, fufu and some of the world's foremost centers of philosophy and mathematics. Actually, the local grain is rice, so I guess the fufu is really congee. I've never had fufu, but I do like congee.
Mods: Walls for City States; Community Quick User Interface; a city names list randomizer, so you don't always get the same names, after your capital; Great Person portraits;
The map start put me on the north coast of a large continent, with lots of flat land and an unholy amount of cattle, and competition only to my south: Victoria's England and Mali. I had some room to grow, so I decided to play peacefully. Victoria was very conciliatory - I later learned she was throwing elbows with Arabia and Brazil to her south - but Mansa Musa declared war on me. I was planning to leave him alone, but now the former Kingdom of Mali is a beautiful, mountainous province of the Republic of Rome, bringing wool, fufu and some of the world's foremost centers of philosophy and mathematics. Actually, the local grain is rice, so I guess the fufu is really congee. I've never had fufu, but I do like congee.
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Coincidentally enough, I just wrapped a CivIV game as Spain where the war to end all wars involved me and my vassals stomping Julius Caesar and his Mali minion into submission, while England stood by and watched.
This is historically (probably accidentally, given that it's a video game) accurate.
They had several cycles of waxing and waning power. They could have been utterly exterminated in Timur's time but they weren't. In the late 17th century they had enough power to reach the gates of Vienna and then the Hasburgs and (some of) the Germans and the Poles launched a counterattack and then Russia joined in too and the Ottomans started losing ground, but even then it took over two more centuries for the dynasty to actually be dethroned.
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