4x and Grandstrategy games have over time become my real love I have played a lot of games in this gerne such as the CIV series, Stellaris, Total War and many smaller titles. What are your favourite 4x games ? Maybe share a couple of words about them. Otherwise what are you playing on this lovely day
Bought Rogue Trader last week and I’m having a blast playing through as a psyker pyromancer focused on crit hits and damage output. The combat is great fun and the presentation is worthy of 40k’s ridiculous ostentation. They gave me a herald servo-skull that announces me as I walk the port for fucks sake
One of the funnier parts of the game is choosing the Iconoclast options in dialogue which is basically being a humanist. Going down and telling the officer in charge of my freight line to actually give my workers enough food to be healthy and loyal instead of using starvation as a motivational and suppression tactic just confuses the absolute hell out of him.
One of the funnier parts of the game is choosing the Iconoclast options in dialogue which is basically being a humanist.
Abelard, bring me my copy of the Communist Manifesto.
Perfect reading after I assist Eogunn in making a Robocop 2/cyber-Frankenstein who immediately goes insane
Suzerain. I’m only on turn 2 so uuuuuh I’m early in but my first impression is it’s pretty fun, scratches a specific itch that I can put a name to. I guess it reminds me of a very specific kind of old PC game?
What if a paradox game was a visual novel.
That’s the one!
Oh Suzerain is fun. The spin-off is worth it if you liked the main game.
You mean the dlc campaign?
Yep
I finished Mina the Hollower a few days ago so still recuping from that. Looking for a game to play next. Maybe MiSide or Symphony of the Night.
Oh how did you feel about that game ? How long did it take ? Was it hard ?
I also finished Mina a couple of days ago. Took me 32 hours, I did do lots of side stuff though. It was a bit difficult at the start due to having to figure out the mechanics, then it got easier because of RPG power creep, and then the stretch towards the final boss is a more difficult again.
It’s also difficult to find the path to new areas sometimes.
Overall enjoyed the difficulty, I’d say playing through Mina is about as difficult as getting the basic/bad ending in Hollow Knight (i.e. not counting the more difficult “secret” boss of HK nor the DLC). But unlike that game, Mina has lots of ways to tweak the difficulty.
I recommend Mina wholeheartedly, the basic mechanics are fun and the level design is excellent. Good mix of platforming, combat, exploration and puzzles.
I thought the game was great. It took me less than 20 hours. I am not a completionist. The only thing I make sure to do is to beat all the bosses.
I’d say the game is difficult. It is an old school kind of game. It uses retro graphics, storytelling is quite simple. So it places heavy emphasis on the combat and platforming. The mechanics are tight and responsive so it is a difficult but fair kind of game. I personally found the combat to be easier. The platforming is the difficult part and annoying at times. In this respect it is similar to Shovel Knight, their previous game. But it has a ton of accessibility modifiers to make the game easier or harder.
Interesting. I played the OG Shovelknight quite far but dropped it towards the end cause it got to hard for me.
This game will definitely feel exhausting too. I had to play it in short-ish sessions over about a week. If I had tried to complete it in three or four days I’d have burnt out for sure.
I get it zero parades, communism is bad. Now can we get back to the disaster lesbianism?
Tamriel Rebuilt: its really fun, bigger version of morrowind with more interesting npcs and questlines sprinkled all over. Been doing a House Hlaalu run cuz the latest update adds the capital of House Hlaalu and added tons of hlaalu content
Soo, its Sunday. Im about to continue my game of Endless Legend 2, which has been in Early Access for about 8 months now.
Im still not sure how I feel about Endless Legend 2. Ive always preferred the Endless space games over the fantasy ones. That said, its a well-made game, and I really like the map expansion mechanic. You start on an island, and the ocean slowly retreats, opening up new parts of the map along with new pathways, dungeons, resources, and other goodies. Its a really cool idea.
Amplitude did a great job with the faction design. The factions are an interesting mix of sci-fi and fantasy, and the game looks and sounds great. I need to spend more time with it before I can make up my mind, but I think I’ll finish my first campaign today with the Kin of Sheredyn. They’re stranded spacefaring humans with a strong focus on defense and also serve as the tutorial faction.
Only thing I found weak in Endless Legend 2 … I feel like writing doesnt live up to the rest of the game ? But the writing has been critizied by other people than me.
I might play Zephon (postapocalyptic 4x) after EL2 or go for a second game of Endless Legend 2 with a different faction and maybe a higher difficulty.
Now Zephon is a 4x game where the writing really evokes feelings imho.
EDIT OK victory at last. Conquest victory which is a lot less impressive when you realize this was 1 v 1 tutorial game but it was an okayish first testrun.
Mouse game.
The Legend of Zelda: Secrets of the Past, a snes zelda rom hack. It’s fun to revisit new worlds in older games.
Getting closer to finishing 2024: Mosaic Retrospective, and also realizing it’s probably not good for me…
Also hoping to get some FTB Stoneblock 3 in. I’ve tried and burn it on it before, but I think if I try to take it slow and and build a nice base with room for plenty of machines I’ll be okay
Lastly, I’ve got the itch for another New Vegas run. I think I want to try thrown weapons only, but I’m on the fence about including explosives in that or not in case that makes it too easy. Thoughts?
KSP again. Trying to figure out brachistochrone trajectories, but the timing is tough.
I still can’t get over how good this game looks with all the amazing mods people keep making for such an old game. The death of KSP 2 really rebirthed KSP modding.
I need more RAM, but those prices are fucking wild.
brachistochrone
holy no wonder I tapped out of KSP
Its pretty intuitive as a concept.
Steep angle = More fall = More fast
The issue, I imagine, Is implementation.implementation was always my issue in ksp lmao
You can always use MechJeb training wheels
That’s really just for when you have far future tech mods where you end up with like 10m dv
I’m still playing between Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road (an anime soccer game from Level 5) and Dynasty Warriors 8 and 9 Empires on Switch 1.
IE:VR is due for an update this week on the 11th along with a myriad of content and fixes, including their launch into their own official tournament mode. That being said, as much as I am unfortunately beholded to this series since I got into it when I was in high school, this game has been a roller coaster of controversy and just baffling game designs. I won’t go into it too much because I am too lazy to type out everything at the moment but it has been quite the ride.
As for Dynasty Warriors, I am just working through balancing character creation and just playing the actual Empires mode for recreation. Nothing scratches my itch than reshaping ancient China with a bunch of made-up characters.
been playing some unicorn overlord on eden, interesting fantasy real time tactics thing from the people that made 13 sentinels aegis rim
(do not click the “download game” button, scroll to the links near the bottom)
Installed Project Quarm, which is a private Everquest server that goes up to Planes of Power with some additional QoL improvements, and been playing that as a bard. The community is pretty chill and the vibe is “older millennials just having a beer after work” type shit.
And Path of Exile 2 a little.
Through a bunch of steps that felt like casting black magic, I managed to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines installed on Linux and then was able to install the Clan Quest Mod on it. It’s been surprisingly stable, with the only issue so far being a weird memory bug that causes some odd behavior after playing for a few hours, but that’s easily fixed by just saving and restarting the game. It’s been a blast to return to the game, I really can’t believe it runs so well on Linux. I never got the chance to check out Clan Quest 4 before I switched over from Windows, so I’m excited to get to the big addition which is supposedly a whole 5th act set in East LA which focuses on the Sabbat.
Just finished 007 First Light. Its quite good. Still going back to LMDF mode in RE9, and I keep playing BF6 as well. Would love to go back to Helldivers 2 but the devs cant stop messing up every single patch.
