What Video Games Have You Been Playing #15: Computer not on fire yet? Better add more mods!

[aimeeandbeatles]

I see fire.

 

[civvver]

oh man don't tempt me with that crack cocaine that is heroes of might and magic. I won't sleep for days if I start playing that again.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You should play it.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

oh man don't tempt me with that crack cocaine that is heroes of might and magic. I won't sleep for days if I start playing that again.

Remember, anonymity is key to the program. HoMM Anonymous only works if you work it.

 

[Takhisis]

Just for you

Best. Valentine's. From a gamer girl. Ever.

oh man don't tempt me with that crack cocaine that is heroes of might and magic. I won't sleep for days if I start playing that again.

The only way I managed to deal with Might and Magic games back in the day was to simply not have any copies lying around.

 

[cardgame]

I made it to the Three Kingdoms stage of the game in Total War: You'll Never Guess How Many Kingdoms.

A bit anticlimactic since it happened automatically and the Kingdom of Song is pathetic, the mountain bandit Zhang is almost as big as he is. Wu is very big and scary though, controlling about half the south and the other half is still deserted so they could and probably will expand to 80-90% of the south by the time I consolidate Liu Biao and Yuan Shao's (Kingdom of Song) territories, which still only leaves me with about 60-70% of the north. If you haven't guessed, I'm Shu, or Shu-Han.

 

[Senethro]

In both my 3K games it was Liu Bei, Cao Cao and whoever inherited the Sun family's holdings, because they may have like 5 unique characters but they cannot stay alive.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

CIV4 has a fantastic 3 kingdoms mod. I remember spending more time playing it than I care to admit.

 

[cardgame]

Oh yes, forgot to mention that's who I started as, Liu Bei. His Yi Archers are more like yeet archers, they're incredibly good. I mostly combined ~6 archer units with 4-6 cavalry, at least 4 of those being shock cavalry and just barely enough infantry to hold the line, usually 2 spear guard (with a shield) and 4 militia swordsmen with shields, to survive the enemy's archers while I either sniped them or rode them down. Lancer cav is kind of OP since it's also anti-cavalry in itself...

 

[Senethro]

Yeah, not dissimilar to how I did it. Archers make the kills, a bare few spears to cover the archers, a bunch of fire Cav to ensure that you don't fall asleep.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I built my first ever highway network in SimCity 3000. I usually stick to roads, subways and trains but for some reason I decided to experiment with highways and I spent a lot of time building it out. Then I accidentally deleted half my city and I had not saved in a few hours.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Meanwhile, in Zoo Tycoon I place a single bush and then save the game.

 

[cardgame]

autosaves are essential

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Unless you're playing Oblivion/Skyrim/probably other Bethesda games that use that engine, because the autosaves there can eventually destabilize the game.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Unless you're playing Oblivion/Skyrim/probably other Bethesda games that use that engine, because the autosaves there can eventually destabilize the game.

"Will" would probably be more accurate than "can" there, and I think "eventually" can just be dropped out because it implies that it isn't going to be happening pretty much immediately.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I know Oblivion eventually does destabilize after you play it long enough, because A-Bomb will prevent you from being able to open any doors. But it's easily fixed with a hex editor.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I know Oblivion eventually does destabilize after you play it long enough, because A-Bomb will prevent you from being able to open any doors. But it's easily fixed with a hex editor.

The majority of problems that are "due to the engine and just cannot be patched" according to BethSoft have, in fact, been patched by modders.

Meanwhile, with the fall of the final alien base Planet has been united under the Spartan banner. So my standard game rotation of RPG (currently The Bard's Tale) simulation (currently X3AP) and strategy (?) has a hole in it. I'm torn between Colonization, some version of Europa Universalis, or Fallen Enchantress.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A fun thing to do is to look up any Skyrim quest on UESPWiki, go down to bugs, and see how many of them have "this bug is fixed by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch." Would end up getting liver failure if it was a drinking game.

I still love the 60+ FPS physics glitch causing the horse cart to go crazy though.

 

[Lexicus]

When I first played Skyrim SE on this PC I got a bug where the cart in the initial cutscene was just going haywire, spinning and rotating which was fixed when I uninstalled the Immersive Armors and Weapons mod. I think it was because that mod gives Ulfric Stormcloak some special armor.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

A fun thing to do is to look up any Skyrim quest on UESPWiki, go down to bugs, and see how many of them have "this bug is fixed by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch." Would end up getting liver failure if it was a drinking game.

I still love the 60+ FPS physics glitch causing the horse cart to go crazy though.

If you want a good drinking game find documented bugs that modders fixed in Oblivion and play "did Bethsoft incorporate this fix this in Fallout 3?" How about Skyrim?