The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

Well, I was travelling and forgot to cancel my Uplay free trial in time. So I guess I'll be playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint (sp?) for a month.

I understand it's ridiculously overwrought with microtransactions, and requires always online in SP?

[Tamas]

IDK, I played it during the open beta, I think it is awesome. I really liked Wildlands and this is the same just better and even prettier.

Sure you have to be online, but, hey, its 2019

And yes the main mission hub has players walking around IIRC like an MMO but contextually they are fellow survivors of your unit so it is not a big deal, and you won't encounter anyone in the open world unless you are teamed up. So I just ignore it.

I also ignore PVP so I really don't care/know how the microtransactions work.

[The Brain]

IDK, I played it during the open beta, I think it is awesome. I really liked Wildlands and this is the same just better and even prettier.

Sounds nice. I loved Wildlands.

[Syt]

Yikes, reviews for the new Close Combat game are not kind. The 2nd part of RPS's review details its shortcomings: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/04/wot-i-think-close-combat-the-bloody-first/

[FunkMonk]

Destiny 2 is F2P now on all platforms if you're looking for a solid shootmans game. Cross save is possible now too. Last night I got tired of sitting at the computer in our office so I plopped down on the couch in the living room and continued my character's progress on PS4.

[Syt]

I've been thinking a few hours into Unity of Command since the weekend. I'm not sure I actually enjoy it much. It feels more like a puzzle game than a strategy game, esp. if you try to get brilliant victories.

[Habbaku]

Unfortunately, it is definitely a puzzle game series. I liked it, but it's not especially deep or interesting.

[Syt]

I mean Panzer General and its clones are also often more of a puzzle game, but it feels more free form, and more forgiving, and makes for good beer/pretzels fodder. UoC feels like solving a sudoku.

[Berkut]

A couple Matrix Games I am...intrigued by:

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/shadow-empire-is-announced

No idea what the time frame is on that though, but it is a neat idea.

This one:

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/warplan-will-be-released-on-october-24th

Is coming out this month. I am interested primarily because if the designers dev diaries. He has the right mindset, in that he looks at a game like this as a set of interesting and/or difficult choices, and how to present them to the player.

No idea if he can execute those ideas well, of course. But I am very interested...

[mongers]

I mean Panzer General and its clones are also often more of a puzzle game, but it feels more free form, and more forgiving, and makes for good beer/pretzels fodder. UoC feels like solving a sudoku.

Thanks, so that's why I didn't get on with it.

[Syt]

The concepts for Humankind, a Civ-like from the Endless Space/Legends makers look very interesting to me:

https://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-humankind-the-sega-backed-civ-killer-from-the-endless-legend-devs/

[Syt]

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/warplan-will-be-released-on-october-24th

Is coming out this month. I am interested primarily because if the designers dev diaries. He has the right mindset, in that he looks at a game like this as a set of interesting and/or difficult choices, and how to present them to the player.

No idea if he can execute those ideas well, of course. But I am very interested...

I'm so far not sure why I would buy this when I have the Strategic Command: War in Europe and World at War.

[crazy canuck]

Shadow Empire looks like it will be great.  I think I will wait to hear what Berkut thinks of Warplan before buying.

Humankind is definitely something I will be looking at when it is released.

Thanks to both of you for noting them 

[Berkut]

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/warplan-will-be-released-on-october-24th

Is coming out this month. I am interested primarily because if the designers dev diaries. He has the right mindset, in that he looks at a game like this as a set of interesting and/or difficult choices, and how to present them to the player.

No idea if he can execute those ideas well, of course. But I am very interested...

I'm so far not sure why I would buy this when I have the Strategic Command: War in Europe and World at War.

SC is good, but in the end fails for me. It is too gimmicky, and too prone to being beatable by just playing the system. You see that with AARs where people are conquering the world and such.

I found that after the first play through, I was playing the system, rather than the war. So I haven't even picked it up again in a long time.

[crazy canuck]

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/warplan-will-be-released-on-october-24th

Is coming out this month. I am interested primarily because if the designers dev diaries. He has the right mindset, in that he looks at a game like this as a set of interesting and/or difficult choices, and how to present them to the player.

No idea if he can execute those ideas well, of course. But I am very interested...

I'm so far not sure why I would buy this when I have the Strategic Command: War in Europe and World at War.

SC is good, but in the end fails for me. It is too gimmicky, and too prone to being beatable by just playing the system. You see that with AARs where people are conquering the world and such.

I found that after the first play through, I was playing the system, rather than the war. So I haven't even picked it up again in a long time.

Also I was reading the designer's posts and he decided to build this game after building a mod for SC - he wanted a game that did all the things that SC and other computer games didn't have.  I am more intrigued now.  I hope he was able to execute his plans.