The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[mongers]

Started playing 'Forge of Empires' - strategy browser game heavily advertised a few years ago, I'm rather enjoying it, lots city design/building, production choices etc.

[Iormlund]

I've gotten some very mild queasiness if I get into a 3D FPS-type game after have been away from one for a while.  Readapt quickly though.

I have never been able to play them, nausea is just minutes away.

I've had that problem since Half-life 2. Widening the Field of View works for me. It seems developers have been narrowing it down to keep the amount of stuff on the screen low (and gain FPS).

[crazy canuck]

Started playing 'Forge of Empires' - strategy browser game heavily advertised a few years ago, I'm rather enjoying it, lots city design/building, production choices etc.

Some friendly advice, step away now.  It starts off innocuous enough but the business model is entirely based on getting you sucked in to an early game where the micro transactions are purely optional to the mid game where they start becoming important quality of life and game enhancing requirements.  Lots of people look at the time they have spent playing and justify a few dollars here are there to make their life in the game easier.

[FunkMonk]

So Red Dead Redemption 2 launches for the PC today, if you're one of the folks who've been waiting for the PC release.

I think you have to buy it through Rockstar or through Epic, though. Steam release is not until December.

[Syt]

I have a 3 week break in December. I might get it then.

But I have still too many other "big games" to get through. Witcher 3. AC: Origins and Odyssey. Etc.

[Razgovory]

I'm really hesitant to buy anything from the Epic store.  If I have a game on there I will likely just forget it.  That's what happens with the Origins store.

[mongers]

Started playing 'Forge of Empires' - strategy browser game heavily advertised a few years ago, I'm rather enjoying it, lots city design/building, production choices etc.

Some friendly advice, step away now.  It starts off innocuous enough but the business model is entirely based on getting you sucked in to an early game where the micro transactions are purely optional to the mid game where they start becoming important quality of life and game enhancing requirements.  Lots of people look at the time they have spent playing and justify a few dollars here are there to make their life in the game easier.

CC, thanks for the advice, I'll give it a while longer, as it's a harmless thing to have going on in the background whilst I read the web. 

[Tamas]

Famous last words

[mongers]

Famous last words

I'll get to the end of the iron age and give up then 

If this were a stand alone city builder game ala Caesar II I'd almost certainly pay for the game.

[Tamas]

So, is this new star wars game any good? You can get it already with Origin Premium.

[Iormlund]

So, is this new star wars game any good? You can get it already with Origin Premium.

Looked it up on Steam:

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
Requires 3rd-Party Account: EA Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)

Pass.

[Tamas]

Thanks, grandpa :p

What more concerns me are the review embargo and the exclusion of the game from the Origin Access 10 hours trial scheme. The latter with the cringe worthy excuse of avoiding spoilers.

The game must be pretty bad.

[celedhring]

The game looked utterly uninteresting in the previews I watched. YMMV.

[Zoupa]

Is this the fallen Jedi thing? It's impossible to tell from the previews.

I guess that was the point with EA.

[celedhring]

Gameplay-wise it looked like a Force Unleashed rehash.