What Video Games Have You Been Playing, Part 10: Or; A Shameful Display!

[Thorgalaeg]

Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns just released. Have been trying it but there are so many new things complicating everything... I am used to the dumbed down old hoi4 and bad habits are difficult to leave.

 

[tjs282]

Is it bad if I say I'm still playing and enjoying Civ3...?

Also my younger son decided earlier this week that he'd like to play LEGO Harry Potter with me again (after nearly a year of apparently no interest). What with one thing and another we didn't get to play until yesterday -- but we've now finished the latter 3 Chapters of Year 1 (The Restricted Section, The Forbidden Forest, and Face Of The Enemy).

 

[AdamCrock]

Did you punch the reporter? If you didn't, I'll be disappointed.

Than You'll be dissapointed ... I was playing a "charming" guy , I was all paragon and my "charm" skill was very high by the time she got to me so I answeared her questions without incident I'm afraid 5th Fleet approved and admiral said she came out as a raving lunatic back on earth if that's any consolation

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Darn.

Another video found in my FRAPS folder:

EDIT: This too

 

[AdamCrock]

Thank You guys for Your input on ME , much appreciated One of my favourite thing in part 1 is MAKO acrobatics ! I've managed to do 360 in the air - both horizontal and vertical, I've also managed to land on the roof (maybe even more often then I'd like )

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Well make the most of it, because it doesn't return for the sequels.

 

[Lexicus]

Got the game Dawn of Man on impulse yesterday and oh my gosh it's good I'm hooked

 

[dusters]

Started playing War of Omens - a card collectible game. It would be ok if there would be an actual playerbase. It got released on steam and has literally 20-30 active players on steam version of them game despite having 8.4/10 rating. I guess people don't like to grind. It is play to win.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Got the game Dawn of Man on impulse yesterday and oh my gosh it's good I'm hooked

I was looking hard at that over the weekend, but I've had such a bad time finding new games lately that I'm reluctant to buy anything I haven't tried first. I did like their other game, Planetbase.

 

[Lexicus]

It is emphatically worth getting.

 

[Hygro]

The multiplayer Diablo 1 hd mod “tchernobog” who wants to play

 

[Takhisis]

The only real Tchernobog is the one in Monolith Software's masterpiece from a quarter-century ago.

Is it bad if I say I'm still playing and enjoying Civ3...?

No. It is bad if you do not.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I guess my meds are working now because I just got this achievement in Audiosurf

The song was Foghat's "Slow Ride." That song is not a slow ride at all.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So I have these moments where I want to play somewhat mindlessly, and most assuredly do not want to load my save game of <whatever>, figure out where I left off, play a few turns or for some period of time hopefully progressing towards whatever the objective may be, and save the game again. I just want to play. Now. And be done when I'm done. I think it might be what is meant by the term 'casual game.' Windows installed card games are good for this I've found. But far better, and a throwback to the idle afternoons of my misspent youth wasted at The Electric Flipper arcade, is Epic Pinball.

The demo version was installed on my first IBM clone machine, and I have picked up that single table demo version a few times and pushed it through DOSBox on various machines. I just got the full twelve table version from GoG, with all the DOSBox antics preset. My mindless casual gaming moments will be much better exercise for my fingers now.

 

[cardgame]

Rocket League scratches that itch for me.

 

[PhroX]

Got the game Dawn of Man on impulse yesterday and oh my gosh it's good I'm hooked

Picked this up yesterday, and it's pretty fun so far. At least on the normal start + normal difficulty, the survival side of the game seems relatively sedate - I need to ensure stuff is being done to keep my people alive, but I've not had panicked resource shortages - which I tend to enjoy, and the steady drip of new stuff to do is keeping me engrossed in the "city" building side of it. I do find myself worrying somewhat about how the replayability and thus longevity of the game is, as I can't see that much more to do in the long term, but it was only £16, so I don't need all that much play time out of it to feel I've got my moneys worth.

 

[Lexicus]

Picked this up yesterday, and it's pretty fun so far. At least on the normal start + normal difficulty, the survival side of the game seems relatively sedate - I need to ensure stuff is being done to keep my people alive, but I've not had panicked resource shortages - which I tend to enjoy, and the steady drip of new stuff to do is keeping me engrossed in the "city" building side of it. I do find myself worrying somewhat about how the replayability and thus longevity of the game is, as I can't see that much more to do in the long term, but it was only £16, so I don't need all that much play time out of it to feel I've got my moneys worth.

I've played about 20 hours and I paid about 20 bucks so I'm pretty good on the money/playtime ratio already. Took me five playthroughs to get into the Bronze Age without neglecting any resources or important crafting. Previous playthroughs I messed up when some new mechanic was introduced by technology and I didn't know exactly what I was doing. On one of the later ones I simply overexpanded my crops and didn't have enough people to properly bring in the harvest, then I ran out of flint and ended up with only a few scythes so my people just started dropping like flies. In the second-to-last one I didn't prepare to build enough Spiritual buildings so my people's morale was slowly deteriorating, and I didn't have enough leather to move some megaliths back to camp to fix the problem. Of course, toward the end of that game I realized I could automate hunting so that largely solved my skin/leather problem in the next game which is also the most recent one.

I'm also a bit worried about replayability once I've got everything figured out, but there's something fun about just watching things unfold for now. I haven't gotten to the end of the tech tree either so that will at least keep me occupied for a little while longer. I might try some of the challenges or the harder map start when I feel finished with the current playthrough. I've started phasing out flint stuff for copper: interestingly plain copper is equal to flint for utility uses but inferior for fighting, you need bronze to get tools that are completely superior to flint.

Fighting hasn't been too difficult, the problem is the extremely stupid AI is not optimized for combat and so I often unnecessarily lose people, the problem is gathering up enough to repel the invaders and stopping them from wandering off and doing other stuff before the raiders actually get near you.

 

[PhroX]

I've just set up my first fields, and flint is definitely looking like a bottleneck - I'm always low on it. Hopefully getting mines will let me get more than just gathering. Every other resource seems OK for now, but I'll see how it goes.

 

[Lexicus]

Mines are built on the top of the flint deposits that you already have to mine (typically located on a mountain or hillside, as opposed to the ones where you just gather which are usually in lower-lying flatter ground) and give a reservoir of 50 instead of the 15 they have by default. I built I think 4 flint mines which gave me plenty, and now that I've got Bronze I intend to phase out flint completely pretty soon, I don't think I need it for anything anymore and bronze tools and weapons are completely superior.

I found that you really need to keep up and find new sources of flint when you get that "flint work area exhausted" popup. Neglecting that for too long is what made me run out of tools.

 

[PhroX]

That should definitely help, I'll aim to get the mining tech next...although I've already exhausted several of the mineable deposits near me. Guess my miners will be having a good healthy walk to work.