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

[Yeekim]

my three chickens are named Atilla the Hen, Cluck Norris, and Eggspresso.

Damn

 

[Akka]

Yeah, have to say that Aimee has a good head for thinking about hilarious names

 

[amadeus]

Still on Civ2 playing La Belle Epoque by Eivind IV. My goals wane between America as President Amadeus, the great protector of proto-Rothbardian liberty (low taxes, ideally none) or Russia as a ruthless fascist dictatorship under Czar Amadeus that will stamp out the German-Austrian menace once and for all!

Or I’m the benign King Amadeus of Britain who just needs to squash a bunch of colonial malcontents while keeping the Germans from overrunning France.

 

[H4run]

Atilla the Hen, Cluck Norris, and Eggspresso.

It cannot be better than that Attila the Hen, sound brutal yet lovely!

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I just now downloaded America's Army, which is free. I find the game confusing. I will mess with it a while longer.

 

[amadeus]

I just now downloaded America's Army, which is free. I find the game confusing. I will mess with it a while longer.

Isn’t that like 15 years old?

 

[Paul in Saudi]

It seems to be updated constantly. I am able to hook up with a good server here in Saudi, which is cool. But I do not understand what I am supposed to be doing. I think I will have to do the Basic Training thing.

 

[amadeus]

You’re in Saudi Arabia, you don’t know what to do, and you need to go through basic training?

Is this 1990? Is Gorby still a thing? I’m totally lost here.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Not really, it was half tongue-in-cheek. It's just not really the sort of game I'm into usually. It must reach some sort of design honeypot.

I used this mod to slow down the time to 10 mn per 10 s instead of 7 s, and it completely changed the feeling of the game.
I don't mind having to sleep, not only it's pretty normal (hard to have an active lifestyle without sleeping) but I find that it somehow make the game a bit like Civ : a day is a turn, in which you do all the routine stuff plus the stuff that depends on the situation. Give a good canvas for the game.

So I really wish I could mod 3DS games because Harvest Moon also suffers from a heavy dose of 'day rush', where you don't have time to do everything you want to do without a mad blitz from sunrise to sundown. I too wish I could slow it down at time and just enjoy farming instead of blazing through it to do get all my chores done in time.

I just now downloaded America's Army, which is free. I find the game confusing. I will mess with it a while longer.

My dad worked on that game for a bit! He's not a programmer, I think he was an advisor or something.

Isn’t that like 15 years old?

Is Civ2 older?

It seems to be updated constantly. I am able to hook up with a good server here in Saudi, which is cool. But I do not understand what I am supposed to be doing. I think I will have to do the Basic Training thing.

and you need to go through basic training?

Is this 1990? Is Gorby still a thing? I’m totally lost here.

The game itself is more of a simulation of army life than a straight FPS. You begin the game by going through a simulation of basic training.

 

[Arakhor]

To think that you're posting such heresy on a Civ forum. Of course Civ 2 is older.

 

[AdamCrock]

Civilization The mother of all games came out April 21 by a Great Prophet Sid Meier in 1991 .

 

[amadeus]

Is Civ2 older?

Coming up on 25 years! Don't fix what ain't broken!

 

[Synobun]

That's intersting, I found I couldn't get into Stardew Valley exactly because of the time system. It would be much more fun if you didn't have to sleep...

I don't see how, sleep is integral to progression. I can understand wanting longer days, or freezing time when you're in the mines or hunting for a time-specific rare collectible, but doing away with the day system entirely would be catastrophic.

I've posted this before but if you don't like Stardew right out the gate, it's a good idea to abandon it for a few months and then try again. I hated it the first time and got a refund, but the next year I tried again and now have ~70 or 80 hours in it.

 

[Lexicus]

I don't see how, sleep is integral to progression.

That's exactly what I'm criticizing.

 

[Synobun]

That's exactly what I'm criticizing.

Personally I think Civilization would be better if it didn't have turns

 

[AdamCrock]

That's exactly what I'm criticizing.

When a game entrances me I tend to forgo sleeping, eating and drinking in order to make progress. (the chief enemies of a video game player ) My needs seem unimportant in the light of progressing the storyline ! What is it about us humans that we like to hurt ourselves like that ?

 

[Lexicus]

Personally I think Civilization would be better if it didn't have turns

All I'm saying is that I like frontloading my skill-grinding in RPGs so I become comically overpowered. Stardew's system forces you into gradual progression and that just makes it less fun for me.

Civ being turn-based, incidentally, has the opposite effects, it means you can make decisions at your own pace instead of having to run around and do everything on a timer. Imagine if you had only 2 minutes to take every action during a turn in Civ, and if you failed to hit the end turn button by the two minute mark you would lose 5 military units and 100 gold. That's how Stardew Valley often feels to me.

 

[AdamCrock]

So it is not the prize that is valuable , it is the journey to it !!!

 

[Lexicus]

So it is not the prize that is valuable , it is the journey to it !!!

Sorta. But also the prize, when the prize is being able to two-shot the final boss.

 

[AdamCrock]

Sorta. But also the prize, when the prize is being able to two-shot the final boss.

By Odin You're right ! (scribble, scribble) noted