What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[gay_Aleks]

So, I've recently thinking of playing Football Manager or a game similar to it. Which one is most accessible and fun?

 

[Hygro]

Still playing Starcraft 2. Reached platinum 1v1. Would like to achieve diamond by the end of my first ladder season this november. My three member clan, Gangstas N'Space, is gold in all three combinations of 2v2, and with a fourth friend for 4v4, the four of us platinum 1v1ers are... silver

It's been super fun jumping into Starcraft with two of my good homeys all at the same time. This game has had positive effects on my life as well. For one thing, analogizing life choices via Starcraft makes a lot more sense than via macroeconomics which I'd been doing the past two years

If anyone is in the America realm, holler at ya boi.

 

[PhroX]

So, I've recently thinking of playing Football Manager or a game similar to it. Which one is most accessible and fun?

The problem with games like FM is that "accesible" and "fun" don't seem to go hand-in-hand that often. I mean, FM14 is a phenomenally enjoyable game for me, but it's not that accesible. On the other hand, things like the (now dead and unmourned) FIFA manager were much more accesible, but I wouldn't really call it that fun (unless you consider setting the price of pies in the club shop to be more important than football). It seem that getting the kind of detail and realism that makes managing teams enjoyable involves a certain level of impenetrablity.

I suppose for a balance between the two, maybe look at some of the older FMs. 2007 is generally well regarded as being (by the standards of the series) relatively easy to pick up and play, particularly if you can find some good tactics to download rather than trying to learn the tactical side from scratch, while being reasonably in-depth and at least vaguely resembling football (which is not something you could ever accuse FIFA Manager's match engine of being...). For a more recent one, 2012 was the last before a major re-write of the ME which added a lot to the complexity and realism, at the cost of user-friendliness.

 

[Mise]

The handheld/mobile versions of FM are designed to be pick-up-and-play, but really you're just buying and selling players, setting a team, then clicking "go" at the end of the day. They're fun and cheap, though, so might be worth a shot if it's your first time playing a FM game. I do think it's worth the investment of time and effort into figuring out how to play FM proper though.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I got lost trying to get somewhere in Tropico Skyrim today and got ambushed by random outlaws/animals several times, so that was actually kinda exciting, especially when a gorilla ape thing (replacement for the troll) jumped me and I almost died. Going around with a rifle is pretty fun, bows I've always found boring, and magic can be too cheap sometimes, so a rifle is a good balance between both.

 

[Hygro]

Made 1st place platinum 2v2 with my homey tonight

DIAMOND! DIAMOND!

 

[Tahuti]

Now playing Divinity: Original Sin.

50 hours and still no resolution, and it still feels as if I am half-way!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I downloaded the new version of Europa Barbarorum 2 the other day, so it's back to M2TW for a bit.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I downloaded the new version of Europa Barbarorum 2 the other day, so it's back to M2TW for a bit.

I did play a bit of the old EB, though I think my only substantial game was as Saba.

My brother played it a lot, though, he really had a fun time as the Saka Rouka.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

For one thing, analogizing life choices via Starcraft makes a lot more sense than via macroeconomics which I'd been doing the past two years

As if analogizing economic choices to macroeconomics wasn't cringe-worthy enough.

 

[Hygro]

As if analogizing economic choices to macroeconomics wasn't cringe-worthy enough.

It's not

Then again European universities don't really teach macroecon, they teach microeconomics designed to explain the whole economy. It's part of the problem. So I could see your disapproval.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Really, never heard that one before.
Why would you say that?

I (more or less) attended Macro, Micro and International economics classes. And I swear they did teach different things ^^

 

[Hygro]

Not to keep it offtopic, but outside of England, most of the syllabi I've seen in european unis teach DSGE/microfoundational macroeconomics rather than keynesian macro. You might have had a different experience.

 

[Phrossack]

I downloaded the new version of Europa Barbarorum 2 the other day, so it's back to M2TW for a bit.

Ooh, I may have to get that! M2TW is an all-time favorite of mine, largely due to the mods, and I've never played a game set in the classical era before.

Lately it's been Star Wars: Empire at War and a Mount & Blade: Warband mod set in Japan in 1568. It's unfortunately almost impossible for me to establish a unified Ainu state in it in my Emishi horse archer playthrough. Even my mighty bow and voluminous beard cannot push the Wajin back and make the Ainu better fighters. But my samurai playthrough is going pretty well.

 

[Hygro]

whoa mount and blade warband in the 16th century japan sounds amazing.

 

[Phrossack]

whoa mount and blade warband in the 16th century japan sounds amazing.

It's good. I'd like to mix in some other mods if I knew how to improve the sound effects and textures and enable the player to launch an Ainu reconquista, but I like it. It already includes the Diplomacy, improved terrain, and Freelancer mods, so that's nice. Guns are deadly but not dominant, and archery is losing out to guns but still has a place.

 

[Civ'ed]

Ooh, I may have to get that! M2TW is an all-time favorite of mine, largely due to the mods, and I've never played a game set in the classical era before.

Lately it's been Star Wars: Empire at War and a Mount & Blade: Warband mod set in Japan in 1568. It's unfortunately almost impossible for me to establish a unified Ainu state in it in my Emishi horse archer playthrough. Even my mighty bow and voluminous beard cannot push the Wajin back and make the Ainu better fighters. But my samurai playthrough is going pretty well.

Is the mod gekokoujo (or however it's written)?
Gekokoujo has ainu?

 

[cardgame]

Hooked into Starsector again. Hegemony/Mayorate combo of kinetic rocket Enforcers and Azrael missile cruisers is ridiculously fun.

 

[Farm Boy]

Heavily modded Mount and Blade just gets so busy. Vanilla has the implacable walls of Rhodoks standing on castle walls looking at you goin, "Yea, there is no good solution to this. Good luck."

 

[Tahuti]

Not to keep it offtopic, but outside of England, most of the syllabi I've seen in european unis teach DSGE/microfoundational macroeconomics rather than keynesian macro. You might have had a different experience.

The Euro countries tend to follow a very orthodox form of Monetarism that makes America seem like a Communist state, so that may have trinkled down (pun intended) to academia.