What are you playing? (Redux)

[Octavian]

Assassins Creed III

I like it. A worthy successor to Ass II and AssBro.

[Scipio]

Max Payne 3 and Dishonored.  Also Mark of the Ninja.

Pretty amazing games, especially at sale prices.  MP3 is multi-ficky-fick hard.

[Drakken]

I thought of that game as something like 12 0'clock high, a game no sane person could possibly complete.

After playing and tinkering with the game for a few turns, it still doesn't compare to 12 0'clock high or WITP:AE in terms of sheer micromanagement hell. Even when playing the Russian steamroller.

I'm starting to get a hold of things, so I could be able to start a AAR. It would just be a very, very, very long and slow one.

[Razgovory]

I thought of that game as something like 12 0'clock high, a game no sane person could possibly complete.

12 O'Clock High is relatively playable if you
- play as Allies
- just give general directives (attack refineries, attack targets in Hamburg area etc.)
- leave the rest to AI
- do something else while the turn is calculating

Playing as Germans or planning every bombing sortie yourself? Possibly more of a chore than playing WitPAE.

That's a lot of caveats for being "relatively playable".  I kinda admire an attempt do something like that, but you really only make a game for Ide and Arthur Harris.

[derspiess]

Got nostalgic and had time to kill so I did a playthrough of Fallout 3.  Went through & did some side quests I had neglected before, particularly in Point Lookout where I had originally just sped through the main storyline.  Was almost like playing a new game. 

Wish they'd get a new Fallout out to us soon

[mongers]

Fuck if I know.  I never bought that one.  I knew that one had train wreck written all over it.  In fact, I think trains played a major part in the game.

Oh, well the first one had a certain charm.

[Ed Anger]

Finally started playing X-Com. Gonna have all chick squads.

[Caliga]

Wish they'd get a new Fallout out to us soon

+1

[Tonitrus]

Finally started playing X-Com. Gonna have all chick squads.

And just one guy, who never fights, named "Charlie", right? 

[Ed Anger]

Finally started playing X-Com. Gonna have all chick squads.

And just one guy, who never fights, named "Charlie", right? 

[11B4V]

Wish they'd get a new Fallout out to us soon

+1

Fucking a skippy

[Razgovory]

Finally started playing X-Com. Gonna have all chick squads.

If you buy it off steam there actually an achievement for that.

[Razgovory]

Got nostalgic and had time to kill so I did a playthrough of Fallout 3.  Went through & did some side quests I had neglected before, particularly in Point Lookout where I had originally just sped through the main storyline.  Was almost like playing a new game. 

Wish they'd get a new Fallout out to us soon

Did you ever get New Vegas?  I'm playing through that one again right now.  A big improvement over Fallout 3.

[sbr]

I've got a pretty good CivV (with the new expansion) game going.  it is my first real attempt at CivV.

It is ~1820.  I am the US and I have 12 cities (3 are puppets). There are only 3 other civilizations left; Aztecs with 3 cities; Austria with 6 cities and Japan with 22 cities.  It's a continent map and I just discovered the Japs/Austrians in the last 100 years or so.  The Aztecs and I have shared one continent since the beginning.  I wiped out the Russians and Ottomans early on and have been pretty peaceful since, outside of a quick puppet/annex of a City State to see how that worked.

WWI just broke out.  Japan backstabbed and declared war on me; Austria and 4 of the 13 remaining City States up-held our friendship agreement/alliances and declared on Japan.  The Aztecs, who have hated me for a 1000 years now, jumped on me too.  The Aztecs are pitiful technologically, they are still running with Classic Era units-Jagaur Warriors and Composite Bowmen while I have cannons, riflemen and cavalry.  I am hoping to take the one Japanese city on my continent, then smash the Aztecs before the Japs can overwhelm me with quality and quantity.

[Grey Fox]

That's alot of cities! I've never gotten more then 6. Even tried a once city chalenge once.