The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[viper37]

AoE3:DE will have Swedes??!?

I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

Sadly, there is now world conquest mode

[Josquius]

I've been playing Horace.
Rather great 2D platformer/love letter to the 80s.

[Syt]

Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/654890/Grand_Tactician_The_Civil_War_18611865/

Comes out 21st August.

So, anyone tried this yet?

It seems to not be very polished and the AI not very good yet, so I'm waiting for now.

[Razgovory]

Control came out on Steam last week.  It is the first game in a long while where I actually cared about the story.  I do enjoy weird fiction.

[The Brain]

I watched a playthrough of God of War 4, minus routine combat and travel. It's a good story well told.

[Syt]

Paging BarristerBoy - a retro game set in early 1900s Canada (Free Demo!):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

The Crimson Diamond is an EGA text parser mystery adventure game where you play as amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple. Nancy is born and raised in the Toronto, Canada, where she works as a clerk for the Royal Canadian Museum. She dreams of attending university to study geology and mineralogy, and she's prepared to venture into the unknown to achieve her goals!

Follow Nancy as she travels north to the fictional ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in the area. Eavesdrop on conversations to learn more about the eccentric cast of characters who find themselves gathered at Crimson Lodge. Explore the lodge and its environs to evaluate the diamond claim, and maybe solve a mystery or two along the way! The Crimson Diamond is a cozy mystery that encourages reading and engaging in the story over devious arcade challenges.

- Explore Crimson Lodge and the surrounding wilderness
- Listen and talk to a cast of characters with different personalities and motivations.
- Uncover secrets, discover hidden areas, solve mysteries!

[Barrister]

Silly game - there is no Royal Canadian Museum.

[The Brain]

Born in the Toronto?

[The Brain]

I wish I could press ESC to skip indigestion.

[11B4V]

The graphics are stunning.

[Oexmelin]

Also, wasn't BB a geology major?

[Barrister]

Also, wasn't BB a geology major?

I'll give you the long story since you're in academia...

My major was technically in Environmental Science, however it was only the second year of that degree being offered and there was no separate department of environmental science.  I had to take a mish-mash of courses in ecology, biology and the like.  You also had to pick a "specialization" (because there really weren't enough environmental-type courses).  Mine was in geology.  But anyways between my required geology courses, and the geology "electives" I had to take because they were prerequisites to courses I was required to take, I spent way more time in the geology building than anywhere else, so I usually just told people I got a geology degree.

And then I got a co-op work experience job at an actual mining company (then HBM&S, now HudBay Minerals) in Flin Flon, hated it, and signed up to write the LSAT.

[Valmy]

BB would never play a game set in Ontario anyway.

[Caliga]

Flin Flon

dumb name for a town 

[Syt]

Trailer for Regiments, a WW3 game published by MicroProse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7MNFk0eSM&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=MicroProse

Looks like Wargame: European Escalation, which leaves me unimpressed. Didn't care about those games, or Steel Division, because it's way too fast paced for my tastes.