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Hm… not much going on here lately. 5 months ago. 😛
I actually haven’t been playing PC games for almost a decade. The last games I was playing as I resigned myself to a laptop for travelling purposes were Sins of a Solar Empire and Age of wonders.
I went out and bought a used 360 and PS3 about 10 and 8 years ago respectively, but I had to make a decision with the new systems coming out. Since I didn’t like their options and I heard THe Roberts brothers were on the move again, I decided to sell my systems and build my own PC again.
So, at the moment, I’m playing these games.
Star Citizen
EoC – to enjoy the story and practice my flying for SC.
And a little gem I found for 60% off this weekend on steam. Windward.
I’m also looking forward to No Man’s Sky this fall.This used to be one of several threads that everyone would post in after registering… good job finding it!
I have been playing I-War 1 some more, and Railroad Tycoon 2: The Three Continents demo, on an XP virtual machine. (For some reason my XP host can’t play them, even though it used to be able to play RT2.)
I was on the Space Sim Central forum recently, and heard of a game called Shores of Hazeron. It has a monthly payment method and low quality graphics, so I a not going to buy it, but the game is quite unique. You start out on your home planet with almost nothing, build a city, and eventually become the emperor of a giant inter galactic empire with a huge space fleet at your disposal. You have to design the ships, and they are nice and big. The ship editor and a very limited single-player game mode are available without paying, so technically I have been playing it. Some people consider this to be a near-perfect space game.
At the same time, I was reminded about Oolite, and have been playing it a little.
In addition, I just bought a second copy of Farming Simulator 2013 so that I can play multiplayer with my family.
It feels good to be using this thread again.
P.S. It took me over a year to play through I-War 2, and many others, including the admin, have never played through.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
That sounds like a cool game. I have to pick and choose the games I play. I don’t want to get sucked up into too many. lol And I’m really liking the current trend of non-linear games popping up.
I’m also finding that after 6 or 7 hours of playing. Windward is actually a really good little game for $10. It’s normally $30. 😛 And it’s pretty multiplayer friendly.
I wonder if I’ll get through the entire game. 😛 I usually complete the games I purchase.
Has anyone else taken the Star Citizen plunge? I know the alpha isn’t even near to being a full game, but what they have so far is pretty impressive. Having 10-15 people get into and run around inside the larger ships and fill it’s crew spots and then have to repel hostile boarders was probably one of the coolest moments I’ve experienced in the game.
As for how windward plays here is a cool video play along of the game.
hahaha!!! wrong URL. I fixed it.
Windward looks pretty cool.
I have no plans for Star Citizen. It looks really good, but also really expensive. I am waiting for Limit Theory to come out. This game fuels my programmer side as much as my gamer side. :cheer:
I have to pick and choose the games I play. I don’t want to get sucked up into too many.
Definitely. I have more games than I could ever play already. 😛
Shares of Hazeron costs $10 per month, which adds up to $120 per year. It s far more expensive then most games, and is not even considered a “finished” game.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
Currently I play an imperial butt-ton of World of Warships, as well as Elite: Dangerous, and Stardew Valley. I’m not bothering with SC for now. I tried it on a free-fly week, and the game was so unbelievably buggy that I couldn’t even get into a ship that ordinarily is $40. The physics would glitch out and I’d be bouncing oddly inside the ship until I’d finally manage to get out through one of the walls. I wasn’t impressed at all, even though it’s just an alpha. 😐
I’m not nearly as enamored with sandbox/open world space games as others are. LT will be cheaper than other space games, and the community is amazing, and there are things that game can do that no other game can. So I’ll be getting that one when it’s released. Really though, I’m starting to get nostalgic for the hordes of space games in the nineties that all had linear story lines, especially I-War2. The space game I’m really waiting for is my own.–IronDuke
P.S. I saw someone say it took them over a year to complete I-War2 the first time, so I’ll list my numbers as well. :whistle: It took me nine months the first time. I was seven starting and finished when I was eight. I played it on a ’99 black Dell laptop that was below the minimum specifications, using a regular keyboard I plugged into the PS2 port. I played it five days a week for hours every day. I think I ended up putting well over a thousand hours into the game before finishing it. By now I probably have over ten thousand hours. Playthroughs take me two weeks now, as I can simply blaze through the combat missions.
/pointlessramblingbrag
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂Sounds cool. I’m sort of old. lol. So my first space sim was WCIII in 94? I think. I was blown away. It was so cool.
As far as SC goes. It’s understandable if you want to wait. Especially if you’re not really into sandbox games. But, I can tell you that in the last patch, you don’t bounce around inside the ships anymore. I had the same problem with both of my ships. But now he sort of latches on and then makes himself stand on the floor in the ship. And your head doesn’t poke out of the hull as much.
As I said, one of the coolest moments of the game so far is when about 15 of us manned one of the larger ships and took it out on missions. Pretty impressive. =)
I’m only 22, myself. I think I was the same age as young Cal when I first played I-War 2, too. I was so shit at the game, it’s not even funny. Couldn’t even get past the starting missions with the Storm Petrel. 😆
Nowadays, I actually play a variety of games, but other than I-War 2, I’ve recently played Hearts of Iron IV, Freedom Planet, Warthunder, Oblivion, Sid Meier’s Pirates, the Lego Star Wars games, and various others. The only types of game I really don’t like are MMOs and horror. I never really got the appeal of those.
Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.
I have started playing the Command and Conquer games recently. I love the immense amount of tactics in the game. The first game I got was actually a mod called Dawn of the Tiberium Age. The mod works on Windows 8 without virtualization; it is quite up to date. In skirmish and multiplayer, you can play as the sides from both the Tiberium wars series and the Red Alert series. They are surprisingly well matched.
So when I first started the game up, I clicked on “New Campaign”. And then I selected the first campaign on the list. Makes sense, right? Well, I didn’t see the tutorial missions down below, and the campaign’s difficulty level was ranked “very hard”. It is definitely hard. However, this pushed me to realize the amount of strategy required to master the game.
I have been playing it with my brother in LAN mode, fighting various AI opponents. I can only imagine fighting a person who had been playing C&C for most of their life.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
Three and a half years later, and I am still playing DTA…
I am now one of the best PvP players, I have a YouTube channel dedicated mostly to the game, I am a leader in the community, and I am making new maps for the game.
Also I no longer have to imagine what it is like to fight a person who has been playing C&C their whole life, because I have done it.
My how things have changed.Anyways, I have also been playing a racing game called Flatout… I find it exhilarating. I have also been playing some other games here and there… but nothing major, as work has been keeping me pretty busy.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
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