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What Video Games Have You Been Playing, Part 10: Or; A Shameful Display!
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I thought Audiosurf couldn't handle songs longer than 10 minutes. Maybe it's 15, then.
Anyway, uphills are boring, if you want real craziness I have a pure downhill race song (Party With Pinkie VIP) of 5 minutes that gets up to like 150,000 points for gold edition. It's pretty ridic.
on-topic though I have started a new game of Rome II as Carthage, implementing a lot of stuff I learned from my Seleucia and Rome games, and I have done incredibly well compared to my last Carthage attempt. I focused all of my effort on building up my infrastructures to max out income, and all of my military on Sicily so I captured Syracuse very quickly, have looted Cosentia (Rome's southern-most settlement) twice, and have liberated Magna Grecia in Taras. Completely disbanding my Iberian army and ignoring building upgrades there and in Morocco gave me enough cash for mercenaries and to fully upgrade my Corsica and Africa provinces, so now I'm relatively rich and can build armies in Iberia.
Anyway, uphills are boring, if you want real craziness I have a pure downhill race song (Party With Pinkie VIP) of 5 minutes that gets up to like 150,000 points for gold edition. It's pretty ridic.
on-topic though I have started a new game of Rome II as Carthage, implementing a lot of stuff I learned from my Seleucia and Rome games, and I have done incredibly well compared to my last Carthage attempt. I focused all of my effort on building up my infrastructures to max out income, and all of my military on Sicily so I captured Syracuse very quickly, have looted Cosentia (Rome's southern-most settlement) twice, and have liberated Magna Grecia in Taras. Completely disbanding my Iberian army and ignoring building upgrades there and in Morocco gave me enough cash for mercenaries and to fully upgrade my Corsica and Africa provinces, so now I'm relatively rich and can build armies in Iberia.
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Play with me.
Download is a few minutes of pure insanity followed by several minutes of ambient music.
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It's actually an hour. I know this because around with generating different length tracks in Audacity and swapping around the generated .ash files from them to see what would happen.
Well, I do always crank the empire number to the max.
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I typically play Stellaris with the AI empire slider on about 75% of max, with default habitable worlds but only 1 guaranteed and if I'm doing a run with no conquests, I'll usually have 6-10 planets by 100 years in. Some will likely have pretty bad habitability, but since 2.2, those are probably actually worth colonising - POP upkeep on them is higher, but growth speed, the most important thing in the game, is not affected - and you can eventually terraform them anyway even if inhabited. Getting 3-4 science ships out surveying early is key, along with agressively claiming chokepoint systems to lock up your real estate. And of course, if I'm actually going out and taking other people's worlds, it's easy to get a lot more.
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All this talk really makes me want to get Distant Worlds and Stellaris but I have to wait until they are on sail. I'm scratching that itch with Sword of the Stars but I've played it so many times I'm bored with it. How similar are those two games to Sword of the Stars?
Stellaris certainly is on offer, but you'll need to visit the Paradox store instead.
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Am I correct that the Paradox Store digital product is laden with DRM akin to Valve's? If so I'd wait for GoG to put it on sale again. It comes up pretty regularly.
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Cool...though the Steam versions of their games obviously are exceptions to that.
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Does it have those crazy fast red tunnels where the camera kind of shifts over to one side? I have a lot of trouble with those because it really throws off my depth perception and I can't tell where the blocks are.
Since they sell Steam keys on their own store as well, it's wroth keeping an eye on their store, even if you only have Steam games. Of course, now they sell certain things on GOG too and gearing up towards selling Steam-free products direct from their store.
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Even when you get a Paradox game on Steam, I'm pretty sure you can run them outside of Steam. You can copy the game folder elsewhere on your system, then run the exe directly. Or at least this used to work - haven't tried with the last couple of releases.
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When I get a Paradox game, or anything else for that matter, on Steam you can be fairly certain that hell has frozen over.
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Didn't Hell in Michigan recently freeze over?
Unless i specify otherwise, always assume I am referring to California...in this case, Hell, California. It has been paved over, but never frozen over.
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It's not just Paradise that got paved over then.
Paradise got incinerated. Hell actually did get paved over. Hell, California; population three, was a roadside "town" consisting of a gas station, a motel, and the house the owner/operator of the gas station lived in along US highway...95? Maybe? Not Route 66...southern route that connected LA to Phoenix. Anyway... When the interstate went through one side ran along the old highway roadbed, and the other side ran right over the "town." It saved the expense of an overpass and offramps and such.
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