What Video Games have you been playing #13 Now with CGA graphics!

[aimeeandbeatles]

I...played a lot of horse games.

 

[AdamCrock]

Oh it is fun until You play Witcher 3 .....

 

[Broken_Erika]

I...played a lot of horse games.

Ever played Japan World Cup 3?

 

[Snerk]

If sharing pics from ps4 was less fiddly I'd post some horse pictures from Red Dead Redemption 2, they nailed it, I can almost smell them.

But if we want to get real then we need something like this.

YES PLEASE!

 

[Zkribbler]

I've been trying to play Rise of Venice, but Paradox is smothering it with a drop menu to purchase Railway Empire. I have just fired off a seething to Paradox support.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Ever played Japan World Cup 3?

Nope.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It's the most realistic horse racing game ever!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just finished the video.

Yup, that works.

 

[Takhisis]

If you have Steam, please add Amaraiel to your friends list!

Please don't post when drunk, you don't want people like Syn-chan or myself to add you, now, do you?

 

[Syno]

Please. I've had Mary on my friends list for months. We've exchanged exactly one message in that time, and they consisted solely of a default Steam emoji. You could say I get around with a certain charm.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think Breen is angry.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just made this in Garry's Mod. I don't know why.

Spoiler :

Maybe to prove that not everything I do ends up in disaster.

 

[MaryKB]

Please. I've had Mary on my friends list for months. We've exchanged exactly one message in that time, and they consisted solely of a default Steam emoji. You could say I get around with a certain charm.

I'm always available to chat, you don't have to be a stranger!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Back when I played SimCity2000 obsessively (before I bought CivDOS!), if a fire broke out in any (forested) area with still-inadequate firefighting coverage, I would quickly carve a firebreak around it, so that it couldn't spread too far.

IIRC, bulldozing only cost $1 per tile, and roads cost $10 per tile, so it was often cheaper in the long run e.g. to tear up all the roads around a burning block/area (and re-lay them later) than to take the economic hit associated with letting the fire spread across a wider area.

Can you do anything like that on the DS-version?

I started bulldozing forests too! Unfortunately, in that save, I was so strapped for cash that I could only clear a bit of forest at a time but it is definitely an effective tactic. For whatever reason, in this version of SimCity, the fires don't tend to spread tree-to-tree in the forest very much which is helpful. I also found out that it was not the fires that were taking down my water towers and power plants. It turns out that if those buildings are oversubscribed, they'll randomly demolish themselves, so I need to do a better job of managing my power and water supplies. Unfortunately, the graphs that this version of the game comes with don't tell you any useful information, so you have to click on each individual building to see how heavily subscribed it is rather than looking at a graph to figure out the same information.

I did manage to build a huge metropolis yesterday though and I'm pretty proud of that. The city peaked at almost 400,000 people and covered every single tile on the map. Then, almost to the second that I filled in the last open tile in the map, six of my nuclear power plants exploded and now I'm done with that map.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I spent about an hour with The Outer Worlds last night. Early impressions, the artwork is a little cartoony, but it works. I was worried the color palette would be too bright, but so far it's alright. An early test of an RPG for me is to see whether I can handle potentially-violent encounters in another way. I set the game difficulty a little high and then made a character who sucks at fighting, and sure enough, the very first combat encounter killed me twice. So I looked for a way around. The Good News: I found a way around. The Bad News: I gained no XP or other rewards for 'solving' the encounter that way. You do get XP for using skills in dialogues and you get big XP for completing objectives, however you did it. I can't say whether a non-combat-focused character will progress as quickly as a gunfighter, but it looks like you can get through the story without being a total brute. I've only just started, though. There have been other games that've kicked me in the teeth after making me think a non-combat-focused character was viable.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I also found out that it was not the fires that were taking down my water towers and power plants. It turns out that if those buildings are oversubscribed, they'll randomly demolish themselves, so I need to do a better job of managing my power and water supplies.

In SimCity 2K, if you put down enough launch arcologies and wait until a certain year, you'll get a message about the exodus beginning. They're supposed to be launching into space, but the animation was just of them geting bulldozed. I thought they were exploding the first time it happened.

 

[Syno]

I'm always available to chat, you don't have to be a stranger!

But... but... my certain charm.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Using the stylus for long periods on with my DS really hurts my wrist so I began searching for <$5 copies of SimCity 3000 or 4. They're $10-20 everywhere I look. Oh well, carpel tunnel it is! I'm thinking of giving my SNES copy of SimCity (on the Wii) a go if only because my wrist can't take much more punishment.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

@hobbsyoyo if you have GOG, add them to your wishlist. I got SimCity 4 for pretty cheap when it was on sale. It goes on sale pretty frequent too.

 

[Syno]

Is 3000 on GOG?