An "Amiga emulator"? Is that an AI girlfriend?
What Video Games Have You Been Playing? Five-and-Twenty: I Used to Play, But then I Took an Arrow to the Knee
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You can vote for All New World of Lemmings on GOG Dreamlist, but it doesn't look like there's a convenient way to buy and play it. My guess would be licensing issues, though it could be technical. There are a number of good old games that I'm surprised haven't been made available via GOG, such as Sid Meier's Civilization. There are whole fansites dedicated to that series, you'd think it would have an audience.
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Insanity is a funny thing. In many cases, it's in the eye of the beholder, and the situation can impact what is sane and not as well. If you met someone who thought they were descended from the gods and declared they were going to go conquer an empire, you might think they weren't well grounded. But that description fits one of the best known figures in history - Alexander the Great.
A few more years into my Old World game, the Divine Insane Queen Vipsania's character has become a bit clearer. The divinity? She is descended from Alexander the Great's sister, and thus, from Olympias and from Achilles. If Alexander the Great is descended from a god, so is Queen Vipsania of Rome, if slightly less so due to a few more generations in between. The insanity? Perhaps it is calculated insanity. The type where you keep your enemies off balance by behaving in a predictable way, but behind it all, there's a method to the madness.
How to gain the trust necessary to seize the throne through regicide? Years of dedicated, successful service to the crown.
How to make your advisors less sure of their position and more willing to work hard to keep theirs? That horse serving as Chancellor is doing a pretty good job, if more so through secondary effects than through its direct actions.
The strategy of intentionally losing a city? The generals scoffed, but it gave time for a decent force to be assembled, and the counterattack to retake it nullified the Greek presence in the area.
And now, Vipsania has personally led the conquest of another Macedonian city, and all of a sudden, what first looked to be insane - and is still decidedly a bad thing if you were among those murdered - is starting to look more like genius. Perhaps Sempronia really was wrong to bypass Vipsania in the succession.
It could all come crashing down. Vipsania, in her confidence, refused the offer of the new King of Macedon to call a truce. Carthage is acting suspiciously like they are scouting out our territory while building up their navy, and some believe that despite the current gains, not accepting the truce offer could be a fatal flaw. But what sort of megalomaniac decides to play it cautious, and who commits regicide to take the crown who isn't a megalomaniac? Vipsania's successors may or may not rule with a steady hand and play the long game, but for now, Rome is in for a wild ride.
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Insanity is a funny thing. In many cases, it's in the eye of the beholder, and the situation can impact what is sane and not as well. If you met someone who thought they were descended from the gods and declared they were going to go conquer an empire, you might think they weren't well grounded. But that description fits one of the best known figures in history - Alexander the Great.
A few more years into my Old World game, the Divine Insane Queen Vipsania's character has become a bit clearer. The divinity? She is descended from Alexander the Great's sister, and thus, from Olympias and from Achilles. If Alexander the Great is descended from a god, so is Queen Vipsania of Rome, if slightly less so due to a few more generations in between. The insanity? Perhaps it is calculated insanity. The type where you keep your enemies off balance by behaving in a predictable way, but behind it all, there's a method to the madness.
How to gain the trust necessary to seize the throne through regicide? Years of dedicated, successful service to the crown.
How to make your advisors less sure of their position and more willing to work hard to keep theirs? That horse serving as Chancellor is doing a pretty good job, if more so through secondary effects than through its direct actions.
The strategy of intentionally losing a city? The generals scoffed, but it gave time for a decent force to be assembled, and the counterattack to retake it nullified the Greek presence in the area.
And now, Vipsania has personally led the conquest of another Macedonian city, and all of a sudden, what first looked to be insane - and is still decidedly a bad thing if you were among those murdered - is starting to look more like genius. Perhaps Sempronia really was wrong to bypass Vipsania in the succession.
It could all come crashing down. Vipsania, in her confidence, refused the offer of the new King of Macedon to call a truce. Carthage is acting suspiciously like they are scouting out our territory while building up their navy, and some believe that despite the current gains, not accepting the truce offer could be a fatal flaw. But what sort of megalomaniac decides to play it cautious, and who commits regicide to take the crown who isn't a megalomaniac? Vipsania's successors may or may not rule with a steady hand and play the long game, but for now, Rome is in for a wild ride.
Thorgalaeg
Deity
LoL, the Commodore Amiga was the best personal computer in the late 80s early 90s. Much better than any girlfriend.An "Amiga emulator"? Is that an AI girlfriend?
BTW, tried WH40k Space Marine 2. Nice graphics, but it's just only good for mashing the mouse.
I do wish I hadn't thrown out my old A500 and (even more) A1200 and all the disks and things. But there just wasn't room to store them two decades ago, particularly the bulky monitor. It can all be emulated now, even on my ancient MacBook, but it's not quite the same...
Bonyduck Campersang
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Played Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Afraid to say I didn't have a blast. Nice setting though
Plains-Cow
Best Resource; Always Wins
I played a game of CIV IV today and had a lot of fun!
Lexicus
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Space Marine 2 is a 5, the koog approves
Klaus Hergersheimer
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I like playing Civ 4 and then have to fight a war and then I stop b/c I'm just not good at them. That's usually how it goes.
Maybe I'll try on settler difficulty next time.
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I still have my Compaq portable 286.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
I have a Dynalogic Hyperion
Plains-Cow
Best Resource; Always Wins
Have you thought about posting on the CIV IV boards? There's still quite an active community there. I'm a part of shadow games there too lately.
Bonyduck Campersang
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Returned to CK2 after a long time. Playing as the Marzoban (Duke) of Bost in modern-day Afghanistan, as vassal to the Saffarid Shah. After about a decade of doing nothing I forced a claim on Bhakkar and attacked the Habbari kingdom of Sindh. As soon as my forces reached Kalat, the war ended on a White Peace because the Shah of Sindh had been couped. Using console commands I gave myself the money and Faith I had lost due to declaration of war, declared war again, called on two of my allies, as soon as our forces reach Kalat the war ends because my liege has entered Sindh's side as a defender against some invading Hindu duchy. My soldiers haven't even returned to Bost before I receive an ultimatum from my liege to give up Bost or face war. So war it is.
Going really swell
Going really swell
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
I tend to rate CK2 higher than subsequent Paradox games, as it did have that reasonable degree of personal engagement/characterisation that serves to anchor the player in the game; as well, it has had the benefit of many years of modded content prior to things drying up in 2020/21 when CK3 emerged.
As for myself, patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
As for myself, patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Have been playing Bannerlord 2, as a diversion for Satisfactory which was eating my life.
So started a campaign with Mario of the Brothers clan to find my footing. And got destroyed.
Second campaign, Colin McCloudy, of the clan McCloudy.
And it worked. Now Bannerlord is eating my life. First thought it was a little grindy, but then I managed to get my own kingdom (McCloudy with a chance of Reign), got a few towns under my belt, convinced some lords to join me, repelling enemy armies non-stop, improving my towns ... oh crap, it's 3 am already and Aserai and Vlandia are attacking me at the same time!?
Also Fian Champions are beasts and I love 'em.
So started a campaign with Mario of the Brothers clan to find my footing. And got destroyed.
Second campaign, Colin McCloudy, of the clan McCloudy.
And it worked. Now Bannerlord is eating my life. First thought it was a little grindy, but then I managed to get my own kingdom (McCloudy with a chance of Reign), got a few towns under my belt, convinced some lords to join me, repelling enemy armies non-stop, improving my towns ... oh crap, it's 3 am already and Aserai and Vlandia are attacking me at the same time!?
Also Fian Champions are beasts and I love 'em.
It is 3:15 AM in Tokyo and you posted above 15 minutes ago?
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
That's a really cryptic question
It's the equivalent of one more turn. One more battle. Noticing it's 3 am, about to go to bed and then get the notification: you're about to get bumrushed.
Voidwalkin
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I like the Bannerlord expansion too.
I escaped a buncha grind by declaring war on every faction except Aseria and hijacking their ships. Sanala quickly becomes a prosperous and resource starved city and i rapidly made an obscene amount of money by selling vast quantities of material there. The city is always hungry for everything and I made myself its only wholesale supplier.
Piracy is pretty effortless in the game, especially if playing as a Nord. Speed bonuses at sea, catch every ship, 30% more loot. Early game financial crunch is easily overcome, while building stewardship rapidly via storage of every food type at bulk quantity in the high carry capacity boat, enabling rapid escape of the early-game military hard check, party size.
I specced my character to develop into a fine infantry captain - tons of bonuses to sword and shield troops. I find infantry underrated; no need for hard to find, expensive warhorses, and with a planned character, infantry is overwhelming, especially when moving into the late game, full of siege assaults - disposable infantrymen become effortlessly replaceable killing machines, providing relief from attrition.
I escaped a buncha grind by declaring war on every faction except Aseria and hijacking their ships. Sanala quickly becomes a prosperous and resource starved city and i rapidly made an obscene amount of money by selling vast quantities of material there. The city is always hungry for everything and I made myself its only wholesale supplier.
Piracy is pretty effortless in the game, especially if playing as a Nord. Speed bonuses at sea, catch every ship, 30% more loot. Early game financial crunch is easily overcome, while building stewardship rapidly via storage of every food type at bulk quantity in the high carry capacity boat, enabling rapid escape of the early-game military hard check, party size.
I specced my character to develop into a fine infantry captain - tons of bonuses to sword and shield troops. I find infantry underrated; no need for hard to find, expensive warhorses, and with a planned character, infantry is overwhelming, especially when moving into the late game, full of siege assaults - disposable infantrymen become effortlessly replaceable killing machines, providing relief from attrition.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
I didn't even go for the WS expansion, I bought the base game on a 50% discount.
I went as Battanian (because they always get beat up) and the narrative for me is to reinstate the Battanian empire. Which worked, I got all the Battanian towns. Then I completed the Bannerlord and vowed to erase the Empire.
Problem: Vlandia and Aserai keep waging war against me. Not a problem: the Khuzait is beating up the empire for me
I went as Battanian (because they always get beat up) and the narrative for me is to reinstate the Battanian empire. Which worked, I got all the Battanian towns. Then I completed the Bannerlord and vowed to erase the Empire.
Problem: Vlandia and Aserai keep waging war against me. Not a problem: the Khuzait is beating up the empire for me
Thorgalaeg
Deity
Damn, will have to install that thing again. Problem is i get bored before the interesting part with the politics and such begins.
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