The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Scipio]

Sunless Sea is a fun little time-waster.

[Syt]

Recently I thought about streaming Ultimate General: Civil War or American Civil War II, but I think in the current climate I'd rather not.

[The Brain]

Is Ultimate General any good?

[Syt]

Haven't played much yet. The Historical Gamer plays it a lot on YT, though: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehistoricalgamer

[Razgovory]

Is Ultimate General any good?

Yes.

[Tamas]

The new XCOM2 expansion is calling to me... has anyone tried it yet and can tell me that it sucks and I shouldn't buy it?

[Grey Fox]

Tried the Destiny 2 open beta for PC.

A smooth 60 fps (sometimes more) on my quite old rig as put a game I had no interest in onto my radar.

[Zoupa]

The new XCOM2 expansion is calling to me... has anyone tried it yet and can tell me that it sucks and I shouldn't buy it?

Metacritic has it at 88 I think... That being said I haven't tried it myself. I'm cheap.

[Tamas]

The new XCOM2 expansion is calling to me... has anyone tried it yet and can tell me that it sucks and I shouldn't buy it?

Metacritic has it at 88 I think... That being said I haven't tried it myself. I'm cheap.

It's pretty great.

Had a resource raid mission that not only had the twist of having a bit of a race for containers as aliens would be airlifting them out gradually, but it involved a lot of zombies, sorry I mean The Lost, regular aliens, plus one of the Chosen villains. In a middle of city environment. A 3-way massacre. I had an 87% chance to finish off the Chosen and probably win the map but I missed, and I got killed off.

There are some performance improvements, new mission types and changes to existing ones, new maps, the NPC factions offer variety, there are off-map mission to send your people to, there is a bond system between soldiers to micro manage a bit if you are so inclined, there is extra story and chrome, and I am only 1.5 months in...

They truly threw everything and the kitchen sink into it. I would recommend newcomers to play without the expac as all the options must be overwhelming when you are new to it all, but if you have seen the base campaign, this is a great refreshing of the game. I am as addicted as I was when the game first came out.

[Scipio]

UnEpic. Pretty fun Metroidvania game. Lots of metagaming references.

[Razgovory]

Just played through Prey.  The game is kind of weird.  It's a remake of a game from about 10 years ago, except it has absolutely nothing to do with the previous game.  I'm baffled as to why they would spend the money on a licence of a game few people remember and that only average to begin with.  What the game actually is, is System Shock 2.  You are on a space ship full of monsters, the monsters have killed the crew or turned them into monsters, you read people's emails and audio logs, you level up abilities and gain magic powers and you hit people with a big wrench.

The game is also alternate history.  John F Kennedy wasn't assassinated in 1963 and the result was that we now have anti-gravity and giant space stations.  On the other hand the Soviet Union is still here and there are space aliens.  The space aliens are kinda lame.  They look like scribbles and wander around aimlessly in the fancy office of the space station.  Some of them can turn into inanimate objects to ambush you which never stops being annoying.

Still, I put 30 hours into it, which is more than most games.

[CountDeMoney]

You certainly knocked the shit out of those achievements on Steam with it.

[Liep]

Finished Far Cry 4, as entertaining as 3 but with a little disappointing finish. Went full Amira, because.

[KRonn]

I've been playing the game Banished. Simple to play, kind of until you figure it out, else you probably tend to expand too fast and your population starves. Lots of excellent fan created expansions for it. It's really a cool game, not overly complex for the times I want a less complicated or tedious game to play, but there's plenty enough to it to give some fun and challenge.

[jimmy olsen]

I've been playing the game Banished. Simple to play, kind of until you figure it out, else you probably tend to expand too fast and your population starves. Lots of excellent fan created expansions for it. It's really a cool game, not overly complex for the times I want a less complicated or tedious game to play, but there's plenty enough to it to give some fun and challenge.

Woah! KRonn, long time no see! Hope you're doing well.