[Mentalist]

Dr. Usher, on 08 November 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

What I like about Sniper Elite V2 is that you can't point at someone's head, press a button, and score a perfect head shot. Most other games I've played don't really seem to mind gravity or wind, the bullets just fly straight and hit where ever the crosshair was pointing at. That's not sniping, that's arcade shooting. While I don't mind that, I've played my fair share of CoD, I'm attracted to the stealth-type sniper game Sniper Elite is.

Once you can afford them, sniper rifles in S.T.A.L.K.E.R are pretty fun. I'm not sure how well they modeled trajectory and all that, but there's definitely a ton of recoil and it's not your average popup gallery (most of the time)

[Usher]

Never mind the sniper rifles, I'm baking cookies.

[Satan]

Crustaceous Apt, on 08 November 2013 - 02:07 PM, said:

The worms are actually kind of awesome.

If you let the game run iddle while you're asleep or at work, when you come back they have accumulated many more cookies than you would have with out them. Supposedly they give back 10% more than they eat in total but for some reason it is more like 500%. When I leave it running for around 6-8 hours I usually get 250,000 trillion cookies when I pop them. It's pretty awesome.

I am starting to get a bit bored with it though now that there's nothing more than collecting heavenly cookies left. I really want the developer guy to release some higher building tiers and upgrades for when you build 150, 200, 500, 1000 buildings, etc.

Right-o! I'm 11 Antimatter condensers from reaching my stated goal (100 of everything - and 200 clickers and grandmas). Is there anything exiting to the game after that?

[Aptorian]

Not besides doing resets and getting faster and faster at buying buildings every time you gain more heavenly cookies.

If you want a good strategy to accumulate as many cookies as possible the fastest you should download the cookie monster script. It will keep track of the the gold cookies and how many cookies you need to have to get the frenzy + lucky bonuses.

[Felisin Fatter]

ADOM. Legendary rogue-like, now re-released to the public with (optional) graphics and music! Free download (it's officially beta, but it's very much a complete game).

http://www.ancardia.com/

[Tapper]

Sinking a lot of time into Football Manager 2014 currently, and I downloaded some new Skyrim mods, as well as having X: Rebirth lined up. Sadly, my initial sitdown with that game ended with a CTD when I parked the spaceship on the first base in the tutorial. The voice actor for the player also sounds like he makes his daily bread as a voice-over for US insurance commercials.

[Morgoth]

Got back to EU4, trying to found Russia as Muscowy. Morocco was fun for a while, but it sort of stagnated. Mainly because the AI is terrible at naval invasions, so I was never really threatened once I got my own Navy working.

Muscowy is much more fun. Iron Man really make decisions terrifying, especially as I'm surrounded on all sides by nations that hate my guts. I've tried to ally with the few Orthodox nations around, and though I've helped Serbia become a powerhouse, Georgia and Byzantium have pulled me into a number of destructive wars. My main issue is manpower. I field one of the largest armies in the world, but my manpower is not enough to refill the entire thing once. Continous wars against nations with a higher tech level really saps the manpower. And the war exhaustion cause uprisings that I can ill afford to deal with.

Denmark recently inherited both Sweden and Norway, which was, well, demoralizing. Thankfully, following a long war in Poland, Denmark broke down in a combined sucession and religious crisis (an uprising well funded by muscovite gold). Good thing too, they'd just fabricated a claim on Neva.

Might play some more League of Legends too, it's a quicker game to fit inbetween other engagements.

[Satan]

Tapper, on 20 November 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

Sinking a lot of time into Football Manager 2014 currently, and I downloaded some new Skyrim mods, as well as having X: Rebirth lined up. Sadly, my initial sitdown with that game ended with a CTD when I parked the spaceship on the first base in the tutorial. The voice actor for the player also sounds like he makes his daily bread as a voice-over for US insurance commercials.

I was very stoked about X: Rebirth for a while but early reviews and that you apparently can't play as any other ship than the starting one but a bit of a damper on the interest.

[MTS]

Morgoth, on 20 November 2013 - 10:50 AM, said:

Got back to EU4, trying to found Russia as Muscowy. Morocco was fun for a while, but it sort of stagnated. Mainly because the AI is terrible at naval invasions, so I was never really threatened once I got my own Navy working.

Muscowy is much more fun. Iron Man really make decisions terrifying, especially as I'm surrounded on all sides by nations that hate my guts. I've tried to ally with the few Orthodox nations around, and though I've helped Serbia become a powerhouse, Georgia and Byzantium have pulled me into a number of destructive wars. My main issue is manpower. I field one of the largest armies in the world, but my manpower is not enough to refill the entire thing once. Continous wars against nations with a higher tech level really saps the manpower. And the war exhaustion cause uprisings that I can ill afford to deal with.

Denmark recently inherited both Sweden and Norway, which was, well, demoralizing. Thankfully, following a long war in Poland, Denmark broke down in a combined sucession and religious crisis (an uprising well funded by muscovite gold). Good thing too, they'd just fabricated a claim on Neva.

Might play some more League of Legends too, it's a quicker game to fit inbetween other engagements.

Once you get going and can afford it, mercenaries are your friend. Although once you fill out your NIs manpower becomes less of an issue for Russia.

EUIV has been an ongoing obsession for me, I've put a stupid amount of hours into this game. My current game is as a united peninsular Tuscany, channeling all my focus into infrastructure and shaping geopolitics to my liking. The Iron Curtain of Tuscany (the Alps) has been an impassable barrier for a good century now, with literally millions of French, Spanish, Austrian, Russian and Turkish men perishing in the high mountain passes. Only ally is a resurrected Byzantium that is a bulwark against the Turk. Seriously, buildings are awesome, and a developed Italy is so rich I rival the Russians for manpower and exceed even the Spanish in wealth.

I love the Ironman setting in EUIV, it makes the games way more interesting (and terrifying ). They've recently introduced it into CKII as well.

[Rictus]

And, since all my games have been erased, I am going to install my early childhood friend: Gothic 2. I know it by heart, but there's such an atmosphere to this game that I can't help replaying it again and again. I love the dialogue when you're a mercenary, so snarky. Also, I've been eyeing a particular mod for a while: Velaya - Tale of a Warrior
Supposedly it contains up to forty hours of gameplay, so - combined with the expansion - I think i'm set for about two months.

[Satan]

Rictus, on 24 November 2013 - 07:10 PM, said:

And, since all my games have been erased, I am going to install my early childhood friend: Gothic 2. I know it by heart, but there's such an atmosphere to this game that I can't help replaying it again and again. I love the dialogue when you're a mercenary, so snarky. Also, I've been eyeing a particular mod for a while: Velaya - Tale of a Warrior
Supposedly it contains up to forty hours of gameplay, so - combined with the expansion - I think i'm set for about two months.

But for the terrible voice acting, that game would truly be one of the greats. The beginning of the game is about as unforgiving as Dark Souls. Which is a nice comparison, for the fighting system is almost as good as Dark Souls'. Shame the series went down hill from there.

I've been playing Spelunky these last couple of weeks. While I wouldn't characterise it as genius as others have, the fact that I - who initially doesn't care that much for platformers - am still playing it is telling. It doesn't captivate me as more immersive game types, but it's really good for the odd hour in between doing something else.

[Rictus]

Really? I thought the English voice acting was pretty good. I mean, it didn't bother me overmuch. But yes, I agree about that last part. As enjoyable as its OST is, Gothic 3 was a big step back, and let's not even mention that horrid fourth installment . . .

[Morgoth]

So, I manage to form Russia yesterda. Despite continous hostilities from both Mega-Lithuania and Kazan. Thankfully the Ottomans are too busy fighting the Mamluks and the Timurids to og North, and luckily Denmark collapsed into a continously rebelling mess.

Now, all I want is to westernize, but my king is aging and my heir is 0/2/1. Might be I should wait for his heir again, but that would be very risky.

[HoosierDaddy]

Iron Brigade.

Fun Tower defense/FPS.

[Silencer]

So, been playing Black Flag recently. Pretty fun. No ability to take other ships and use them in place of your own - just about the only thing in this game which is lacking, really. Especially now that I've (because of bonus "digital deluxe edition" content, naturally) decked my ship out in Black Sails, with the Black Ship's figurehead, and have the main character strutting around in Captain Morgan's outfit (best outfit in the game, imo, as it actually makes you look like a PIRATE, rather than an Assassin with some modified colours/bits - though some of the vanilla game options are OK, nothing stands up to looking this legit...), so it actually feels like an awesome pirate game right at the moment. I've also become ridiculously more confident now that I'm in this getup with cool sails. Doesn't change the difficulty at all, of course, I just now *expect* to clear the deck of X enemies shortly after swinging over there to board, rather than thinking it *might* happen. XD

Game is fun. They need to drop the Asssasin angle, though, it's pointless. And allow changing your ship, in more ways than just upgrading it allows (hull colour, and again, the ability to take other ships). Never mind the arbitrary way your ship can go from like ten to twenty five cannons. O.o Seems like there would be a logistical trade-off, or a hull integrity issue if you fired all of those at once. >.< Thus why you should be able to take larger ships.
And while they're at it, they should have had more ship types. Gunboat, Schooner, Brig, Frigate, Man'o'War is just a *bit* on the limited/repetitive side.

...then again, what I really want is a modern, fully 3D, awesome graphics and first-person, fully-realized-towns version of Sid Meier's Pirates!, so maybe I'm just being demanding. In the absence of that, however, I'll take this happily.

[Aptorian]

I've been playing AC4 the last couple days as well. Unless I come across some other new game that blows my mind I can safely say that this is my game of the year. They're compltely shitting all over story and lore of the series but god damn if they didn't manage to improve absolutely everything about the game since AC3.

Ignoring the assassin stuff, the pirating and exploration and hunting, etc. is absolutely captivating. I've been splitting my time between unlocking new abilities through the story and focusing on expanding my fleet. I'm up to 11 ships now, most of them in the frigate class or higher.

This is easily my favorite game since AC1.

[Traveller]

I agree, it really is so much better than the last plot heavy games. It is a bit too easy, and the enemy AI is decidedly balanced towards the idiotic, but it's still so much fun.

I now have a diving bell, so all those wrecks now need exploring.

Love the way those Great Whites and Whales burst out right next to the boat. The way the Killer Whale charges is cool too, bow wave and all.

[Dolmen 2.0]

I'm playing some games that missed me earlier. tw Are on special reccomendation from Extracredits aaaand the forums.

Playing Eador Genisis (Biggest Time sink)

and Crusader Kings (...Of my abnegation universe)

Those games are pretty good but also forever long.

Been grinding DarkSouls and the more I play it the better the experience. I have to appreciate how Bandai and Namco got such a solid gaming premise together. But we already have a thread for this. needless to say I love it. Then we have

Mark of the Ninja.

I have not played something this surprisingly good in a while. It may possibly have better "stealth mechanics" than almost all the games of the genre released last year. Sure the story is a little basic as is the actual game but Playing this made me reminesce on all I missed from games like Metal Gear, Assasins Creed, splinter cell and thief, both awesome titles, but not as "stealth" as they could be.

That said I have not played either AC3 or AC4 and hope to mow through them both this christmas. I REALLY hope this new wave of stealth games take a lesson from mark of the ninja. I agree with the reviews, this is what the genre is all about.

[tiam]

Been playing alot of Darksiders 2. The plot is surprisingly good and I actually care about the lore though it seems Darksiders 3 is never going to happen.

[Aptorian]

Dolmen+, on 27 November 2013 - 08:18 PM, said:

That said I have not played either AC3 or AC4 and hope to mow through them both this christmas. I REALLY hope this new wave of stealth games take a lesson from mark of the ninja. I agree with the reviews, this is what the genre is all about.

If you're the type that plays AC for the collectibles and have to complete every single activity it will probably take you a hundred hours to finish AC4.