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^^ Just put the subs on, he's mastered the game pretty well.
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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reddishrecue
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I haven't been on this forum in a while and I have been playing some new games. I recently got Nintendo Switch 2 because I thought Zelda Fall of Hyrule would be out but what came out was Mario Kart World so far. I also have been playing Caesar 3, got promoted to Caesar and passed it! I also have been playing Cities Skyline 2. I also got to play Trials of Mana which I got to pass with Duran. I plan to get GTA to play online as well. I also have been playing Pharaoh which is like Caesar 3 but instead of being in Rome its in Egypt.
reddishrecue
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This game reminds me of Immortal Phoenix Rising which I also got to play even though I got to the last boss I haven't passed it yet.
amadeus
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Picked up OpenTTD again. This time in a multiplayer game.
Ordnael
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After a successful Kupe deity run on CIV VI I tried going Maya but map generation got me mad after endless reloads and some turns. If you don't get something to farm and plantations, forget about it!, if most of the 6 ideal city placements are tundra or desert or impossible because of mountains or water, forget about it! Back to Xenoblade Chronicles X!
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Let's see, over the past two months...
June was a lot of EU4, playing as Genoa. It's now in snowball mode as Italy, only coalitions and the need to keep Britain on my side (to help counter coalitions) are slowing me down at all. But it was fun early on, balancing those Aegean and Black Sea colonies' protection with local growth in Italy. Perhaps the key point was establishing naval superiority over Venice, at high cost, in an early war with them, and then continuing to build up the navy to protect against both Venetian and Ottoman attempts to control the Mediterranean. I also enjoyed an alliance with Spain for quite some time, which survived one conflict with them, only to eventual go down in flames as both of our ambitions grew. Oh well. I have Poland and France as vassals, and while Poland is somewhat reduced from their heights (they had one province when we vassalized them, since significantly restored) and France much reduced (they had two, and remain a shadow of their former selves), so I can survive Spain not being friendly.
July was mostly Out of the Park baseball, which I revisit every few years. Trying to lead the 1970s Cleveland Indians to better success than they had in real life, and I'm not sure if it's working. I started in '72, the year they acquired Gaylord Perry as their ace pitcher; as my almanac of team history notes, his excellent performance that year was one of the few bright spots of the season. Through trades I added Phil Niekro, the famed knuckleballer, and, mid-season, Luis Tiant, for a fairly good top three starting pitching group. But the last two pitching spots have been a revolving door, and the bullpen is known for giving up leads. My batters can manage to get hits, but have little power and not a lot of speed, so runs are a bit more elusive. I'm hoping next year, with the introduction of the designated hitter, helps a bit. We've got a power-hitting first baseman in Triple-A who will probably split DH duties with our .320-hitting (but low-power) current first baseman. There's some bullpen help on the horizon, too, with Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabovsky, another trade acquisition, posting a sub-1.00 ERA in triple A and likely to be a September call-up. But our only really promising starting pitching prospect, a guy named Eckersley, is still in single-A and a few years from the bigs.
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Lately I've also started a Rome II: Total War: Rise of Rome game. I'd never done that campaign and man, is it difficult. I chose Hard difficulty because regular Rome II is easy, but not this campaign! The game starts in 399 BC, with Rome at war with Veii. As Plutarch said, Veii was not inferior to Rome, either in number of arms or multitude of soldiers, and I could not gain the upper hand. Eventually, Veii took our port of Ostia, and we retook it, but could not mount an offensive, and then they took it again... finally, we decided to let Veii keep it and sent our dictator, Marcus Furius Camillus, to take the City of Veii. This he succeeded at, and in the meantime the defenders of Rome turned back Veii's attempt to take Rome, all while Veii's other town revolted to join the Etruscans at Tarchuna.
Sounds good, right? But to our south, the Volscians had declared war on us, and were becoming a juggernaut. The friendly Hernici were quickly conquered by them, and right after we repelled Veii from Rome, the Volscians attacked Rome, capturing all of it save the Capitoline Hill. Furius returned to Rome and repelled them, but by that point both of our cities were in disarray, the plebes were furious with the Senatorial ruling class, our wealth was depleted, and the Volscians had captured Ostia and were preparing to attack both Veii and Rome (again). Thus Furius was send to capture the Volscian capital, attempt to undermine them, and hopefully give us the upper hand.
Here, he met something he couldn't do. Although the Volscians suffered high losses, Furius was forced to retreat, and his army was soon vanquished. There were no reserves of any size, the Volscians were marching on our cities, and all hope looked lost.
But a hope emerged - from Etruria. Tarchuna was willing to declare war on the Volscians, for about half of our meager treasury. We readily agreed, and within months, Ostia was Etruscan, but friendly-Etruscan. Thanks to that, we had a bit of time to prepare before the Volscians attacked Veii, where we committed our entire army and it was very nearly a disaster. But one of our consuls, Medillinus, pulled a rabbit out of the hat of the chaotic battlefield and saved the day. Soon thereafter, Tarchuna helped us push the Volscians back from both Veii and Rome, conquered two more of their cities, and now, a year or two later, we've rebuilt, our cities have calmed down, and we're preparing to march into the Sabine mountains to take two cities than the Volscians took in that area. That will give us a countryside that, hopefully, will allow us to become a regional power, and not just a city-state scrambling for its mere existence.
Now there is the issue that we've helped Tarchuna become the dominant regional power. But at least, unlike the Volscians, they are a friendly dominant regional power.
June was a lot of EU4, playing as Genoa. It's now in snowball mode as Italy, only coalitions and the need to keep Britain on my side (to help counter coalitions) are slowing me down at all. But it was fun early on, balancing those Aegean and Black Sea colonies' protection with local growth in Italy. Perhaps the key point was establishing naval superiority over Venice, at high cost, in an early war with them, and then continuing to build up the navy to protect against both Venetian and Ottoman attempts to control the Mediterranean. I also enjoyed an alliance with Spain for quite some time, which survived one conflict with them, only to eventual go down in flames as both of our ambitions grew. Oh well. I have Poland and France as vassals, and while Poland is somewhat reduced from their heights (they had one province when we vassalized them, since significantly restored) and France much reduced (they had two, and remain a shadow of their former selves), so I can survive Spain not being friendly.
July was mostly Out of the Park baseball, which I revisit every few years. Trying to lead the 1970s Cleveland Indians to better success than they had in real life, and I'm not sure if it's working. I started in '72, the year they acquired Gaylord Perry as their ace pitcher; as my almanac of team history notes, his excellent performance that year was one of the few bright spots of the season. Through trades I added Phil Niekro, the famed knuckleballer, and, mid-season, Luis Tiant, for a fairly good top three starting pitching group. But the last two pitching spots have been a revolving door, and the bullpen is known for giving up leads. My batters can manage to get hits, but have little power and not a lot of speed, so runs are a bit more elusive. I'm hoping next year, with the introduction of the designated hitter, helps a bit. We've got a power-hitting first baseman in Triple-A who will probably split DH duties with our .320-hitting (but low-power) current first baseman. There's some bullpen help on the horizon, too, with Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabovsky, another trade acquisition, posting a sub-1.00 ERA in triple A and likely to be a September call-up. But our only really promising starting pitching prospect, a guy named Eckersley, is still in single-A and a few years from the bigs.
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Lately I've also started a Rome II: Total War: Rise of Rome game. I'd never done that campaign and man, is it difficult. I chose Hard difficulty because regular Rome II is easy, but not this campaign! The game starts in 399 BC, with Rome at war with Veii. As Plutarch said, Veii was not inferior to Rome, either in number of arms or multitude of soldiers, and I could not gain the upper hand. Eventually, Veii took our port of Ostia, and we retook it, but could not mount an offensive, and then they took it again... finally, we decided to let Veii keep it and sent our dictator, Marcus Furius Camillus, to take the City of Veii. This he succeeded at, and in the meantime the defenders of Rome turned back Veii's attempt to take Rome, all while Veii's other town revolted to join the Etruscans at Tarchuna.
Sounds good, right? But to our south, the Volscians had declared war on us, and were becoming a juggernaut. The friendly Hernici were quickly conquered by them, and right after we repelled Veii from Rome, the Volscians attacked Rome, capturing all of it save the Capitoline Hill. Furius returned to Rome and repelled them, but by that point both of our cities were in disarray, the plebes were furious with the Senatorial ruling class, our wealth was depleted, and the Volscians had captured Ostia and were preparing to attack both Veii and Rome (again). Thus Furius was send to capture the Volscian capital, attempt to undermine them, and hopefully give us the upper hand.
Here, he met something he couldn't do. Although the Volscians suffered high losses, Furius was forced to retreat, and his army was soon vanquished. There were no reserves of any size, the Volscians were marching on our cities, and all hope looked lost.
But a hope emerged - from Etruria. Tarchuna was willing to declare war on the Volscians, for about half of our meager treasury. We readily agreed, and within months, Ostia was Etruscan, but friendly-Etruscan. Thanks to that, we had a bit of time to prepare before the Volscians attacked Veii, where we committed our entire army and it was very nearly a disaster. But one of our consuls, Medillinus, pulled a rabbit out of the hat of the chaotic battlefield and saved the day. Soon thereafter, Tarchuna helped us push the Volscians back from both Veii and Rome, conquered two more of their cities, and now, a year or two later, we've rebuilt, our cities have calmed down, and we're preparing to march into the Sabine mountains to take two cities than the Volscians took in that area. That will give us a countryside that, hopefully, will allow us to become a regional power, and not just a city-state scrambling for its mere existence.
Now there is the issue that we've helped Tarchuna become the dominant regional power. But at least, unlike the Volscians, they are a friendly dominant regional power.
bene_legionary
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Ever since my flatmate got a Wii for the flat, so much Mario Kart Wii (and so much swearing...)
For me, the problem with Odyssey was the idiotic story.
I was hoping I might be able to pick a side in the war. Instead I was prodded to just massacre soldiers of both sides for... I don't even recall why.
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From the team that made TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, a new Marvel beat-em-up -
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Thorgalaeg
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None, maybe some airline flight with MSFS2024 but I wouldn't call that a game in the usual sense. It seems i have lost my taste for games (again).
Gori the Grey
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My last game of Civ 5, my capital only had one copy of one lux. I've never seen that before. I didn't even realize it at first. I was out of the game and I said, "I know I've got truffles; what else do I have?" (That's how routine it is to get one copy of one lux and two copies of another in your starting location.) So when I fired it up and looked, the answer was "nothing; and not only that, you've only got one truffle."
But I'd gotten kind of invested in the civ, so I decided to gut it out (I've re-rolled on flimsier pretexts than that). All that much more glorious if I do win! Conquered a first capital, but lack of money always haunted me (troop upgrades, e.g.) and I could attach that directly to the missing two instances of some other lux that I should have had.
But I'd gotten kind of invested in the civ, so I decided to gut it out (I've re-rolled on flimsier pretexts than that). All that much more glorious if I do win! Conquered a first capital, but lack of money always haunted me (troop upgrades, e.g.) and I could attach that directly to the missing two instances of some other lux that I should have had.
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Lexicus
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In my day we started in Tundra without metals! And we liked it!
dusters
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Titan Quest 2 Early access is out for 30 euros. Gonna try it soon.
Gori the Grey
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Oh, but speaking of which, this capital also proved to not have horses and not have iron.
Who knows, maybe it would have proved to be the coal capital of the world or something, but I never got that far.
reddishrecue
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I just recently used the Xbox game pass on my new laptop and I've been using a few games..
I started out with Cities: Skyline 2 and played it a few for a few hours. I got 2 local airports a seaport and 1 international airport. They are all well funded and I have residences business and industries all generating me income every month. I got highways, bus routes and railways for transporting both supplies in and out of the local airports and other railways that transport citizens through the city. They actually have passengers since there are a lot of busy congested intersections in this city. I have all resources getting mined and extracted. I also have lumber and farms that grow other resources as well.
I also got to play Octo path traveler which I was able to pass and see every character's ending. It took me about two weeks of playing but it was a very wonderful tale of people that travel and each have their own unique story to tell. I also couldn't get off the Xbox for hours to finish it off. There's a scholar, a merchant, a thief, a clergy member and other people that have their own unique jobs that can be shared with each other. This was what I learned was new to me because I couldn't pass the game without looking at chat GPT and simply levelling up. I had to use the AI to beat the AI in other words to get to win. I found out that the characters can use secondary jobs that can be shared with each other if their shrines were found. I had leveled up to level 70 on my main character before I used the AI to win and then it was an easy breeze.
Trials of Mana
This game I used to play on the SNES but I got to play it in 3D this time and it was fun. It was kind of easy and remembering all the neat stuff from the SNES made it easy for me to understand it. There was one main boss that I haven't gotten to which I used to fear during the SNES called the Black Rabite which is in the Dragon's nest and I haven't faced it but I think its still really powerful. I once found it on the SNES and it did beat me really bad. I dont intend to go look for it though. I guess I should but I'm satisfied overall by passing the whole game itself.
I also been playing Starcraft on battle.net, Fortnight, NBA 2k25 on the PS5 and Mario Kart World on the Nintendo Switch 2.
I started out with Cities: Skyline 2 and played it a few for a few hours. I got 2 local airports a seaport and 1 international airport. They are all well funded and I have residences business and industries all generating me income every month. I got highways, bus routes and railways for transporting both supplies in and out of the local airports and other railways that transport citizens through the city. They actually have passengers since there are a lot of busy congested intersections in this city. I have all resources getting mined and extracted. I also have lumber and farms that grow other resources as well.
I also got to play Octo path traveler which I was able to pass and see every character's ending. It took me about two weeks of playing but it was a very wonderful tale of people that travel and each have their own unique story to tell. I also couldn't get off the Xbox for hours to finish it off. There's a scholar, a merchant, a thief, a clergy member and other people that have their own unique jobs that can be shared with each other. This was what I learned was new to me because I couldn't pass the game without looking at chat GPT and simply levelling up. I had to use the AI to beat the AI in other words to get to win. I found out that the characters can use secondary jobs that can be shared with each other if their shrines were found. I had leveled up to level 70 on my main character before I used the AI to win and then it was an easy breeze.
Trials of Mana
This game I used to play on the SNES but I got to play it in 3D this time and it was fun. It was kind of easy and remembering all the neat stuff from the SNES made it easy for me to understand it. There was one main boss that I haven't gotten to which I used to fear during the SNES called the Black Rabite which is in the Dragon's nest and I haven't faced it but I think its still really powerful. I once found it on the SNES and it did beat me really bad. I dont intend to go look for it though. I guess I should but I'm satisfied overall by passing the whole game itself.
I also been playing Starcraft on battle.net, Fortnight, NBA 2k25 on the PS5 and Mario Kart World on the Nintendo Switch 2.
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I have been playing Kenshi on and off for the past few months, and the experience has probably put me off any other open-world RPG. I picked up Skyrim in between, but dropped it after a few hours because it simply can't compare to the absolute freedom that Kenshi gives you. Between the two, Kenshi is the only game that can actually claim to be open-world.
You start off as an unarmed nobody in a battered outpost with a few ducats in your pocket and nothing else. That's all. The game just throws you out into the harsh, unforgiving world. At the most the game explains a few mechanics and suggests some actions you can take, but beyond that you're on your own. It's up to you to survive in a world where you're just another character, there's no Chosen One here. In fact a lot of characters will go out of their way to be mean to you at the start when you're no better than a dirty thieving beggar, and interactions in Skyrim feel lovey-dovey in contrast.
There is no storyline in Kenshi, no quests to follow. You are fully in control of your own destiny. You can choose to join the slave raiders, amassing a fortune by rounding up poor unfortunates and selling them at your nearest slave market. Or you can live as a merchant, venturing from land to land to sell exotic and sometimes forbidden goods while you battle brigands who try to plunder you. Or you can set up a farm and grow crops and sell your produce. Or you can set up a smithery to craft weapons and armour. Or you can just wander the land, exploring the weird and post-apocalyptic world of Kenshi and meeting with its various races and factions. Or you can do all of them, and more, once you have enough 'cats to hire other desperates to join your band.
Right now I've completed an impromptu circumference around the world of Kenshi with my motley crew of humans, Sheks and an emancipated Hive slave. It's a miracle anyone is even alive, though we lost one member while wading in the southern coasts (but not too bad a loss, because we hired two more mates later on in the journey). At one point, more characters were out for the count than could be carried by the still standing members of the party, and we had to just stand there besides the ocean for several in-game hours waiting for the others to recover, praying that yet another group of robbers, cannibals, fish-men, crabs or robot didn't stumble on us there and then. Later on I tried to trek through dry land instead of hugging the coast (the pro of being near the ocean means enemies will stop attacking if you swim far away enough, but the con is that the acid will slowly eat away your body the longer you stay there), but literally everywhere I tried to go we just got massacred by a surprisingly diverse cast of pluguglies. In the end I decided to go on hugging the coast. I actually cried when we finally reached our first town since we set off from the desert in the south-west, it felt like heaven to be able to sleep without having to constantly get up and change base to avoid any marauding enemies (sleeping is important because it heals you faster).
I am finally back at the outpost I spawned at the start of the game. I'm hoping to pick some safe fights to improve my little band's skills so we can go hunting for Beak Thing eggs in the marshes. Those eggs will fetch you a fortune if you can get your hands on them, but you'll have to go through an entire family of Beak Things first. The only way I was able to get those eggs was when a Hive caravan I had linked up with stumbled onto a nest, and the guards made short work of the Things. I sold off all the eggs I could to the caravan leader, until he ran out of money. I then just carried as many eggs I could to nearest Hive village, where I bankrupted yet another Hive trader. There were still a lot of eggs left back at the nest, but I didn't trust myself to go all the way there and back in one piece. This time I've bought a Pack Beast, one of Kenshi's two beasts of burden, and with a well-trained band of friends and a bunch of hired mercs if necessary, I'm hoping to haul a prince's ransom. And after that, I'm going to pay another visit to the southern coasts, I've got some social calls to keep...
You start off as an unarmed nobody in a battered outpost with a few ducats in your pocket and nothing else. That's all. The game just throws you out into the harsh, unforgiving world. At the most the game explains a few mechanics and suggests some actions you can take, but beyond that you're on your own. It's up to you to survive in a world where you're just another character, there's no Chosen One here. In fact a lot of characters will go out of their way to be mean to you at the start when you're no better than a dirty thieving beggar, and interactions in Skyrim feel lovey-dovey in contrast.
There is no storyline in Kenshi, no quests to follow. You are fully in control of your own destiny. You can choose to join the slave raiders, amassing a fortune by rounding up poor unfortunates and selling them at your nearest slave market. Or you can live as a merchant, venturing from land to land to sell exotic and sometimes forbidden goods while you battle brigands who try to plunder you. Or you can set up a farm and grow crops and sell your produce. Or you can set up a smithery to craft weapons and armour. Or you can just wander the land, exploring the weird and post-apocalyptic world of Kenshi and meeting with its various races and factions. Or you can do all of them, and more, once you have enough 'cats to hire other desperates to join your band.
Right now I've completed an impromptu circumference around the world of Kenshi with my motley crew of humans, Sheks and an emancipated Hive slave. It's a miracle anyone is even alive, though we lost one member while wading in the southern coasts (but not too bad a loss, because we hired two more mates later on in the journey). At one point, more characters were out for the count than could be carried by the still standing members of the party, and we had to just stand there besides the ocean for several in-game hours waiting for the others to recover, praying that yet another group of robbers, cannibals, fish-men, crabs or robot didn't stumble on us there and then. Later on I tried to trek through dry land instead of hugging the coast (the pro of being near the ocean means enemies will stop attacking if you swim far away enough, but the con is that the acid will slowly eat away your body the longer you stay there), but literally everywhere I tried to go we just got massacred by a surprisingly diverse cast of pluguglies. In the end I decided to go on hugging the coast. I actually cried when we finally reached our first town since we set off from the desert in the south-west, it felt like heaven to be able to sleep without having to constantly get up and change base to avoid any marauding enemies (sleeping is important because it heals you faster).
I am finally back at the outpost I spawned at the start of the game. I'm hoping to pick some safe fights to improve my little band's skills so we can go hunting for Beak Thing eggs in the marshes. Those eggs will fetch you a fortune if you can get your hands on them, but you'll have to go through an entire family of Beak Things first. The only way I was able to get those eggs was when a Hive caravan I had linked up with stumbled onto a nest, and the guards made short work of the Things. I sold off all the eggs I could to the caravan leader, until he ran out of money. I then just carried as many eggs I could to nearest Hive village, where I bankrupted yet another Hive trader. There were still a lot of eggs left back at the nest, but I didn't trust myself to go all the way there and back in one piece. This time I've bought a Pack Beast, one of Kenshi's two beasts of burden, and with a well-trained band of friends and a bunch of hired mercs if necessary, I'm hoping to haul a prince's ransom. And after that, I'm going to pay another visit to the southern coasts, I've got some social calls to keep...
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