What are you playing? (Redux)

[Syt]

And a view from the hotel roof terrace.

[Jaron]

That looks like Oxnard.

[KRonn]

Whoah Syt, that Tropico pic is pretty nice looking!   

[Syt]

Thanks. That's at full details in 1920x1200.

[KRonn]

I checked with Gogamer.com to see if Tropico 3 was listed yet. Site shows October 20 as the release date, which I assume must be for N. America.

[Syt]

I checked with Gogamer.com to see if Tropico 3 was listed yet. Site shows October 20 as the release date, which I assume must be for N. America.

Yes, German/Austrian release was last friday.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Been playing Spelunky, a freeware dungeon-diving/Indiana-Jones wannabe game inspired by La-Mulana and roguelikes. Kinda fun, but hard.

[Octavian]

Empire Total war 1.4 as Spain.

By 1708 I decided to prepare for war against my ally Portugal. A year before I was ready to declare war the Brits declared war on me. I shrugged it of even though the British fleet was huge.

I managed to avoid the Portuguese army who was caught of guard and took Lisbon and thus destroyed them.

However then I noticed that the huge British fleet outside Gibraltar had unloaded John Churchil with a half stack of mixed British units. He quickly took Seville. I (who was having problems, despite my full stack army, with Portuguese riots, marched towards Seville and was defeated (auto resolved).

The next turn Churchill took Gibraltar and I, unable to reach Gibraltar that turn, marched into Portugal hoping to resolve the situation. I failed. A Portugeese rebel army sprung up and destroyed my entire royal army and then retook Portugal. I then made peace with the new Portuguese king paying a tribute of 2700.

[Seen]

And a view from the hotel roof terrace.
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Too many shacks 

[Syt]

A couple years later. The tourism center of my island is growing nicely; bananas and iron are going into export. USA and USSR are both funding me and people are happy. Basically this game is now about increasing happiness of my people, because moneywise I'm doing fine.

Of course the difficulty I picked wasn't too hard (stable island, decent prospects for resources and tourism, mostly level terrain, not too many random events - I had two cases of Lama Flu = quarantine and a tropical hurricane that killed 10 and destroyed a market).

[derspiess]

I finally received my copy of IL-2 Sturmovik (360) from Amazon Monday.  Cracked it open & am enjoying it so far.  It's way to easy to take down He-111's on "easy" but I couldn't figure out how to increase the difficulty.

Also for shits & gigs, picked up the predictably horrible "Terminator: Salvation" (360) on clearance from Target for $12.48.  Possibly the worst 3rd person shooter I've ever played.  As soon as I'm done with it & have mined all the achievements I can from it, I'm trading it in to Gamestop.  Just hope they still have the trade value set at $15 by that time

[DisturbedPervert]

Been playing Spelunky, a freeware dungeon-diving/Indiana-Jones wannabe game inspired by La-Mulana and roguelikes. Kinda fun, but hard.

This game is very hard.  I even died during the instructions   

[Winkelried]

A couple years later. The tourism center of my island is growing nicely; bananas and iron are going into export. USA and USSR are both funding me and people are happy. Basically this game is now about increasing happiness of my people, because moneywise I'm doing fine.


Of course the difficulty I picked wasn't too hard (stable island, decent prospects for resources and tourism, mostly level terrain, not too many random events - I had two cases of Lama Flu = quarantine and a tropical hurricane that killed 10 and destroyed a market).

High or even average stability takes away any reason to be mean to your people. I keep getting reelected without cheating.

Btw, I had a hurricane too. After the army finished rescue operations 7 intellectuals were found dead. The army immediately denied having had any part in this. 

[Ed Anger]

Got in game night last night with a couple we know. Risk and Monopoly (I won, suck on Boardwalk, Park Place and the railroads bitches!)

[Syt]

Monopoly (I won, suck on Boardwalk, Park Place and the railroads bitches!)

Did you accept non-monetary rent?