What Video Games Have You Been Playing #11: I should go

[Phrossack]

Playing Rome 2 made me want to go back and play Rome 1 as the Scythian hordes. They have a slow start because their infantry is limited to archers and basic axemen (and they don't start with the ability to recruit axemen) so instead of storming cities you have to sit and wait to siege them out. Just conquered Thrace and investing my profits into recruiting some Sarmatian Nobles before invading Dacia.

I got sucked back into playing the poor Odrysian Kingdom. This time, I weathered the plagues that ALWAYS hit your only starting army and town and together with Tylis, managed to destroy Macedon. Eventually Tylis fell to the Triballi, so I conquered them too. Long story and one shameful savescum later, I'm at war with Rome, Colchis, Saba, Pergamon, Cimmeria, Bithynia, and the Suebi. I've crushed the Romans in Pannonia and Noricum with an obnoxious swarm of peltasts and cavalry, bur I foolishly razed the city of Noreia rather than sacking it. Now it would cost me a lot to rebuild, and meanwhile I'm getting swamped with armies, so I should probably abandon it and fight elsewhere. Sparta holds much of Greece and the Balkans but is crumbling under Roman and Syracusan attacks, while my Scythian friends are losing ground to the Suebi. Odrysia has good skirmishers, decent assault infantry and cavalry, and not much else, so I'm in quite a pickle.

 

[Commodore]

I'm jealous. I've been trying to get my wife to watch me play The Last of Us for years as it's a very scary zombie game with an amazing story that she'd love.

Just play it whenever she is around and see if it draws her in. That's how I got my wife to start watching me play with the Mass Effect trilogy.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler :

Well, this is awkward.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The gameboy LCD display used some kind of cheap bio material and all of them are destroyed by exposure to sunlight and time.
It was one way Nintendo was able to manufacture them cheap but well there not designed to last. Those were the days of Japanese consumer electronic culture
But Nintendo should know better by now, it weird because the buttons are all designed for excessive use and wear while other parts are made to save costs and weight.

Nintendo has backed down now that they are faced with class action lawsuits and are offering to repair joycons for free.

 

[warpus]

I have a friend who was really really really into mario tennis. He wore off all my plastic thumb thingies for my n64 controllers. They're all off so now the controllers aren't usable, and the friend in question is a moron who doesn't understand common decency and that he should just have replaced the controllers

Anyway, just a rant

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The right hinge on my Nintendo 3DS XL has a giant crack in it, and a piece of plastic came right off. It's a common problem. It's not covered by warranty (so I'd have to pay a crap of money for Nintendo to fix it) and fixing it myself by replacing the casing requires more dexterity than I have.

Apparently Nintendo isn't doing factory repairs for the original 3DS XL. That stinks, especially since my R/L bumper buttons are broken too.

I didn't even throw it around or anything stupid. I was always careful with it.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Long Dark: Unpleasant Valley

Spoiler :

Motherlover caught me by surprise. YOU HEAR ME, FURBALL? I'M COMING FOR YOU. AND ONLY ONE OF US IS WALKIN' AWAY.

Spoiler :

 

[H4run]

Just finish Yakuza 0, if not for a awful lots of cliche conversation, scenes and speeches, this game will be so epic. The ending kind a disappointing, I don't know how they build a careful story brick by brick then can turn it into a total anti climax.

 

[Commodore]

I've been playing Battle of Tallarn on my phone at work and I would say it's probably one of the best mobile games I've ever played. The biggest drawback though is that you can only play the tutorial for free and have to pay $1.99 for each of the three story campaigns. On the plus side though, there aren't endless ads like in other mobile games.

It's a fun little turn based tactics games centered around tank warfare that's good for killing some downtime. There is a PC port available on Steam, but I've heard this game doesn't make the jump from mobile to PC very gracefully.

 

[H4run]

I've been playing Battle of Tallarn on my phone at work and I would say it's probably one of the best mobile games I've ever played. The biggest drawback though is that you can only play the tutorial for free and have to pay $1.99 for each of the three story campaigns. On the plus side though, there aren't endless ads like in other mobile games.

It's a fun little turn based tactics games centered around tank warfare that's good for killing some downtime. There is a PC port available on Steam, but I've heard this game doesn't make the jump from mobile to PC very gracefully.

6 usd for a complete game, non iap, non ad game, is a cheap price. It will be a good reference for me whenever I unable to touch my laptop for a long time again.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Long Dark: Unpleasant Valley

I haven't found the bear yet, but I did stumble onto the Pleasant Valley prepper's cache. Not the one that's always there; the one that moves around. I'd never found it before. It had a nice selection of stuff. A revolver, which I guess I don't really need, some food and water, two hatchets, a couple of sweaters, a storm lantern with 2 jerrycans of fuel, a bed, a workbench with 2 sets of tools, and a bunch of food. I guess I have to assume whoever I'm stealing from won't be coming back for it. The only thing these bunkers lack is a stove for boiling water, but there are some rocks around that I can probably use to shelter a fire. It's also not too far from the little pond on the east side of the map (and I'd forgotten that the little pond has an ice-fishing hut).

 

[Commodore]

6 usd for a complete game, non iap, non ad game, is a cheap price. It will be a good reference for me whenever I unable to touch my laptop for a long time again.

There's actually a fourth story campaign I missed initially, so it's $8 for the full game. Still not bad and I believe still cheaper than the PC port that isn't as good.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Apparently Nintendo isn't doing factory repairs for the original 3DS XL. That stinks, especially since my R/L bumper buttons are broken too.
I didn't even throw it around or anything stupid. I was always careful with it.

Just youtube it, those buttons are easy to replace and you can buy replacement parts
You have to be careful and take it very slow if your doing it for the first time.

I have an DSlite for advance wars when Iam in the toilet.
Honestly Nintendo could just get Intelligence systems to make another Advance Wars game its been like years now.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Just youtube it, those buttons are easy to replace and you can buy replacement parts
You have to be careful and take it very slow if your doing it for the first time.

I don't have the fine motor skills necessary to do it.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I don't have the fine motor skills necessary to do it.

OK I remembered wrong, if you want to replace the L/R switchs it requires removal of the top screen, in order to access everything. which is a complete disassembly probably a good 30mins work.
But you can pop open the top left and right switchs to check the internal switches mechanism without dissembling your 3ds.

L / R Shoulder Button $12
https://au.grandado.com/products/ni...5Yj9wEUmbarkXspGxtSspLR3vnt4jUoxoCi2MQAvD_BwE

 

[H4run]

I'm jealous. I've been trying to get my wife to watch me play The Last of Us for years as it's a very scary zombie game with an amazing story that she'd love.

Tell the summary to her first and tell her how the game is so "her", and you always think she going to love it. Then let your wife decide when you going to start playing, then play, if it is a replay let her hold the controller you just watch her playing. My wife was a person that think game was a huge wasting time, but now we have countless of game hour for civilization 4 hotseat with or without mod, include playing colonization together, man that's so much fun.

 

[Commodore]

I don't think I can express just how much I hate Dragon Age Origins. Every quest is so painstakingly long that by the time I get to the end of it, I really don't care about the outcome. The worst offender, of course, being the the main quest in the Circle of Magi.

Told my wife that I just can't play it anymore and shes either going to have to watch a Let's Play on YouTube or learn to play herself if she wants the rest of the story.

 

[H4run]

I cannot finish DAO either, I get so bored, and I know what will happened at the end of the road.

There is mod to skip circle of magi, good quality quest but for a replay it can be, yeah, too much.

 

[Commodore]

Now that I think about it, the first three Mass Effect games are the only games from Bioware that I actually like.

Baldur's Gate, KOTOR, Dragon Age, etc. I just have not enjoyed. I think maybe it's because I hate RPGs, and Mass Effect was the least RPGish of all their franchises.

 

[Akka]

I think maybe it's because I hate RPGs

That's blasphemous !