@Grendeldef in a soft whisper: "Play standard with me and we will have fun doing the content you don't usually do and piling up the loot. Maybe you will want to borrow a HH belt....."
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What Video Games Have You Been Playing? #23: Lost in Shalebridge Cradle
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Is SimCity4 non-trash?
Looking at the specs for City Skylines 2, my computer can run it (system req: 4GB Vram, with 6GB recommended), but I don't like the extravagance - seems to be more of a "look at the 3d city as if it is a game's intro" instead of a game feel.
Looking at the specs for City Skylines 2, my computer can run it (system req: 4GB Vram, with 6GB recommended), but I don't like the extravagance - seems to be more of a "look at the 3d city as if it is a game's intro" instead of a game feel.
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Cities Skylines 2 seems to be getting tepid and mixed reviews, but at this point, I'm reluctant to play any new game until maybe a year after release. It seems like a game's "full" release now is more like its extended end-user beta test. Even the CS2 developers admit the game didn't hit their performance targets.
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Cities: Skylines 2 will be the best PC city-building simulator … eventually
Although Cities: Skylines 2 is a thorough city-building simulator, performance issues make it tough to recommend right at release.
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Cities: Skylines 2 review: "Its promise is completely overshadowed by its technical problems"
Cities: Skylines 2 offers the foundation of a world-class city-building game, with a wide array of features, smart quality-of-life improvements, and a genuinely impressive simulation to help bring your town to life. But its promise is completely overshadowed by its technical problems, dragging a...
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Fallout 4: Survival. Still only level 15, and still in the Northwest quadrant of the map. I'm enjoying having to use a pipe rifle and a hodgepodge of regular armor pieces. I look and feel like a schmuck, and I'm having to be careful about which missions I try to do, but I kind of like that.
I cleared out Starlight Drive-In over the weekend, and then sat there staring at it for about 20 minutes. I have no friggin' idea what to build there. Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Sunshine Tidings and Abernathy Farm all have existing structures that you can tidy up and add to. Starlight is an almost complete blank slate. I Googled for some ideas, and it seems like most people build enormous, elaborate towns there, which I don't want to do. It's not really in a very critical location, either. Greygarden is the most likely place from which to explore Cambridge; after that, you're across the river and getting back without Fast Travel is kind of a chore. I might just skip it and use it as just a waystation for my caravans, put in some workbenches and assign 3 or 4 well-armed Settlers as caretakers.
The mod I'm using that allows Settlers to be killed produced an unfortunate casualty: The cat who lives at Abernathy Farm was killed by Raiders.
I cleared out Starlight Drive-In over the weekend, and then sat there staring at it for about 20 minutes. I have no friggin' idea what to build there. Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Sunshine Tidings and Abernathy Farm all have existing structures that you can tidy up and add to. Starlight is an almost complete blank slate. I Googled for some ideas, and it seems like most people build enormous, elaborate towns there, which I don't want to do. It's not really in a very critical location, either. Greygarden is the most likely place from which to explore Cambridge; after that, you're across the river and getting back without Fast Travel is kind of a chore. I might just skip it and use it as just a waystation for my caravans, put in some workbenches and assign 3 or 4 well-armed Settlers as caretakers.
The mod I'm using that allows Settlers to be killed produced an unfortunate casualty: The cat who lives at Abernathy Farm was killed by Raiders.
GenMarshall
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Just received Cities Skylines II, I’m still playing with the graphic settings to have a balance of a decent FPS and not having it look like hot garbage when I have a closer look at street level (I think the LODs is drunk since sometimes I get a low resolution building/street when up close and flickering shadows when the sun moves).
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I recently finished Suzerain. Highly recommended for anyone who's a politics or public policy junkie. You play as the newly-elected president of a country that has a lot of challenges, but also some promise. The economy's in a recession, there are tensions with a minority ethnicity who's been repressed for a while (but also launched some terrorist attacks against the majority ethnicity back in the day), the market has recently been privatized but that means there are powerful oligarchs who got industries for below-market rates, parts of your infrastructure are antiquated, and your powerful neighbor has started to rattle its saber. As well as various other situations that may or may not be an issue depending on which part of the public you ask; even on the situations where most sides agree there is an issue, they rarely agree on what the solution is, and your coffers, while boosted by the privatizations, are not unlimited.
It's the best political simulator I've found because it shows you the personal side of things as well, and everyone has opinions. Your ministers, the newspapers (of various political stripes), seeing the world yourself through various events, your own family which is also affected by your stressful new job. Most political simulators are lever-pullers, this one shows you the often-unintended consequences, and despite the considerable powers the constitution invests in you, also requires negotiation at some points. It's difficult. Some games are criticized as being unfairly difficult, but I think that would be unfair in this case, even though I'm not sure it's possible to win, i.e. be re-elected. Rather, "exhaustingly difficult" would be more accurate, and I think that's by design. To be sure, there are occasional moments of triumph, a major project being completed, or an investment finally paying off, your policies reaping some rewards. But there are always more challenges, always something that's not going well, especially if you were just on the brink of thinking things were finally going all right for a change. Such is life in the Maroon Palace.
It's the best political simulator I've found because it shows you the personal side of things as well, and everyone has opinions. Your ministers, the newspapers (of various political stripes), seeing the world yourself through various events, your own family which is also affected by your stressful new job. Most political simulators are lever-pullers, this one shows you the often-unintended consequences, and despite the considerable powers the constitution invests in you, also requires negotiation at some points. It's difficult. Some games are criticized as being unfairly difficult, but I think that would be unfair in this case, even though I'm not sure it's possible to win, i.e. be re-elected. Rather, "exhaustingly difficult" would be more accurate, and I think that's by design. To be sure, there are occasional moments of triumph, a major project being completed, or an investment finally paying off, your policies reaping some rewards. But there are always more challenges, always something that's not going well, especially if you were just on the brink of thinking things were finally going all right for a change. Such is life in the Maroon Palace.
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I have a demo of Suzerain on my phone, seems to be a text based game, with multiple choice, is that the one ? Or is there another ?
You want gfx? This is the 70s ^^
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No, no looks quite good enough for a game on a phone, could be there is another version, something that will test your new gaming rig to the limit idk 
Text is suitable for a political simulation.
Text is suitable for a political simulation.
aimeeandbeatles
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I've been playing Paleo Pines, which is kind of like a horse game but you have dinosaurs instead.
Look how tiny it is!
Look how tiny it is!
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@Grendeldef The end of season events include cool ones that are not voided! Lake of Kalandra and Sentinel. One week only And it is in standard! No SSF or HC version though, but you could play it as though it were SSF. I liked Kalandra and Sentinel has recombinators, so together it should be a very fun event.
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And it is in standard! No SSF or HC version though, but you could play it as though it were SSF. I liked Kalandra and Sentinel has recombinators, so together it should be a very fun event.
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My quaint little village (They Are Billions), one day before the zombie horde would arrive ^^
It was easily defeated, though. In the previous scenario I had to deal with upwards of 5000 zombies. I doubt that in this one it will get quite as bad...
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I hated the region system. I wanted to see the whole city.
Also the reach of public buildings is quite complicated.
Still 75h+
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Fallout 4: Survival. Still only level 15, and still in the Northwest quadrant of the map. I'm enjoying having to use a pipe rifle and a hodgepodge of regular armor pieces. I look and feel like a schmuck, and I'm having to be careful about which missions I try to do, but I kind of like that.
I cleared out Starlight Drive-In over the weekend, and then sat there staring at it for about 20 minutes. I have no friggin' idea what to build there. Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Sunshine Tidings and Abernathy Farm all have existing structures that you can tidy up and add to. Starlight is an almost complete blank slate. I Googled for some ideas, and it seems like most people build enormous, elaborate towns there, which I don't want to do. It's not really in a very critical location, either. Greygarden is the most likely place from which to explore Cambridge; after that, you're across the river and getting back without Fast Travel is kind of a chore. I might just skip it and use it as just a waystation for my caravans, put in some workbenches and assign 3 or 4 well-armed Settlers as caretakers.
The mod I'm using that allows Settlers to be killed produced an unfortunate casualty: The cat who lives at Abernathy Farm was killed by Raiders.
Don't build anything. Live off the land push to hangmans alley.
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