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Extraction Point started out pretty easy, but now they are throwing tons of soldiers at me at once, and these guys do not mess around. I've died in the same scene 4 times now.
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I had tried it once in MP, but 3 months after starting, the game was still completely undecided and I had to find a sub to end it as I was going on vacation.quozl wrote: I'm being recruited to play Space Empires IV. I've never played. Anyone here want to join?
Unfortunately, the time commitment is too high for me to play these days, but the game really offers endless customization opportunities (and quite a lot of micromanagement).
I think it is one of the best 4X, especially in MP.
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Also, on a whim, I re-installed Alien Shooter TD, which takes the excellent Alien Shooter formula and turns it into a tower defense game. It's really cool, and challenging as well. If you have not played Alien Shooter and Alien Shooter 2, they are Diablo-esque games that focus on obliterating tons of bug-like aliens. They are extremely fun and can be obtained for cheap during a Steam sale. Warning - avoid the Zombie Shooter franchise. They inexplicably suck. I don't know how they bungled such a slam dunk.
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This game, I decided to take on the ruler of Mecca and Medina, toiling along in the Fatimid Empire. The extra income from the pilgrimage sites really super charges you to be much stronger than a normal emir.
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The traditional advice is to start in Ireland like the tutorial does (do the tutorial!). I think starting as a count or duke in any bigger stable-ish kingdom is a good start. Plenty of room to just quietly learn the ropes and being under a liege will give you a good perspective on what is going on under you when you do become a duke/king. And it gives you way fewer potentially game ruining decisions and keeps the relevant cast of characters lower, so lower mental overhead.
There's no real wrong way to approach CKIII, my only counterintuitive suggestion is to play through things that seem like a big L, that's when a lot of my best games have occurred. Sometimes you end up in a shitty situation or inherit a real fucking talentless turd of a ruler and doing damage control and spending the next ruler or two coming back is pretty special gaming---often you can.
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Speaking of which, lots of Civilization VI lately.
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"Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter"
I find that very liberating because it frees me from trying to be efficient or feel bad about doing badly. I can just poke at it and explore it while still having clear things I can do that will progress my position.
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It's pretty nice that the game "forces" you to try tons of effective combos to power up. Took about 25 hours and was a ton of fun while it lasted.
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Elden Ring looks cool. It also looks like all the other From games, in that they quickly piss me off and make me quit.
update: first couple of hours with Divinity are very fun and cool. Plus, there is an Arena mode that is essentially a team based minis skirmish. Awesome! There is also an actual GM mode like the old Neverwinter had. Not sure if I'll ever get to that, but it's cool that it's there.
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hotseatgames wrote: Elden Ring looks cool. It also looks like all the other From games, in that they quickly piss me off and make me quit.
They certainly have a brand, it's true. I still can't quite believe their particular schtick somehow became insanely popular...
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hotseatgames wrote: I bought Divinity: Original Sin 2. Never finished the first one, or really got that far, but this one has looked good to me for a long time. It was on sale so I figured why not.
Elden Ring looks cool. It also looks like all the other From games, in that they quickly piss me off and make me quit.
update: first couple of hours with Divinity are very fun and cool. Plus, there is an Arena mode that is essentially a team based minis skirmish. Awesome! There is also an actual GM mode like the old Neverwinter had. Not sure if I'll ever get to that, but it's cool that it's there.
I have D:OS2 on Switch, which is really not the right way to play. I think it really wants to do online co-op, almost everyone I know who really loves the game says that is what pushed them over the top. For me I think the game became a little too much like XCOM for me, in that it was more a series of tactical battles connected by roleplaying elements. I'm not great at tactical gameplay in the first place, but I think mostly it just killed the pacing for me. You know how people complain about combat taking forever in later editions of D&D? That's how I eventually felt about D:OS2 after like 20 hours. Like, a couple little monsters show up and I need to jump into another turn-based battle.
I know a lot of people really are buying what D:OS2 is selling, and that's fine. But it really made me appreciate the speed of real-time-with-pause combat. That method has plenty of its own problems too, but at least its quick.
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