Thread for Gamers VIII: Revenge of the Sh**

[Imperializt Russia]

God this OP is horribly insufficient.

I demand bi-weekly console wars! Unique character interpretations written in book report form! The entire history of the Final Fantasy franchise and a well written thesis as to why it is secretly a metaphor for the Vietnam War! A real gamer would poop these things out at the slightest provocation!

Quit talking out you ass. It's clearly an allegory for the American Invasion of Grenada.

But then it would be over in three days, not fourteen million fucking hours.

[Gristol-Serkonos]

Is anyone having issues on the puzzle portion of the Best Left Forgotten quest in Fallout 4: Far Harbor?

Every time I fall off the map by accident, I go on an infinite loading loop.

I don't mind the settlement building system, but the way it is forced to the player irritates the fuck out of me. Should've just copied Mass Effect 3's simulation instead.

[Corrian]

How'd you find it?

My dad. In fact, I've only played with my sister and my dad before so far.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

How'd you find it?

My dad. In fact, I've only played with my sister and my dad before so far.

Maybe I should've clarified that by 'How'd you find it?' I was asking did you enjoy it

[Frenline Delpha]

Been playing a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 lately. Its so mindlessly entertaining.

Also OP should add links to the old threads.

THat is my first game that I ever remember playing. I would fucking love to get my hands on that. Or RCT3.

[Wisconsin9]

Been playing a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 lately. Its so mindlessly entertaining.

Also OP should add links to the old threads.

THat is my first game that I ever remember playing. I would fucking love to get my hands on that. Or RCT3.

God damn, it's been ages since I thought about RCT2. I loved that game. Hell, I just straight-up loved tycoon games. RCT3 and Zoo Tycoon were my favorites, although I also have fond memories of Carnival Cruise Line Tycoon and Mall of America Tycoon, which were probably pretty stupid but six-year-old me don't give no shits.

[Imperializt Russia]

Great news if you wanted to play World in Conflict and were sad it got pulled from Steam, it's on sale on GoG!
https://www.gog.com/game/world_in_confl ... te_edition

Only for the next 2 hours!
(Expires 5am GMT/midnight EST)

Beyond Good & Evil is in the same sale.

[The Corparation]

Been playing a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 lately. Its so mindlessly entertaining.

Also OP should add links to the old threads.

THat is my first game that I ever remember playing. I would fucking love to get my hands on that. Or RCT3.

RCT3 was garbage. Also for RCT2 I strongly recommend downloading Openrct2. It's a fan made update which fixes various bugs, adjusts some of the in game limits and also resolves some of the compatibility issues caused by the game being 14 years old. It requires a RCT2 install, but you can get the game for dirt cheap these days.

[Imperializt Russia]

I've just realised that since I bought these games through GoG, they won't be downloaded or launched through the Steam client.
Consider my OCD duly triggered.

I went for WiC (includes Soviet Assault), Beyond Good & Evil and also Brutal Legend, because it looks fun enough and it's 90% off.

[The first Galactic Republic]

Doesn't steam let you add non-steam games to your library? You can launch them from there.

[Imperializt Russia]

Aha!

Yes, I just spied that option as well.

Still gonna install the GoG launcher so that it's easier to download the games - WiC is split into three parts for no real reason (seems to be base setup, base game, Soviet Assault expansion judging by filesizes), and I can't be bothered with that.

Annoyingly, unlike with Humble, I don't seem to be able to just get a key for the games.
WiC is no longer on Steam, hence why I need GoG, but BG&E and Brutal Legend are both available on Steam. I assume this is because Humble is selling you keys to a Steam game.

[Imperial isa]

Great news if you wanted to play World in Conflict and were sad it got pulled from Steam, it's on sale on GoG!
https://www.gog.com/game/world_in_confl ... te_edition

Only for the next 2 hours!
(Expires 5am GMT/midnight EST)

Beyond Good & Evil is in the same sale.

They pulled it from steam when ?

[Corrian]

Maybe I should've clarified that by 'How'd you find it?' I was asking did you enjoy it

Yup! Haven't played as much as I'd like to, though. It's rather time consuming.

[Corrian]

I won Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3, and Zoo Tycoon 1, and 2, and various expansions for almost all of these, all on CD. They were pretty much my childhood.

I also owned Roller Coaster Factory 2....

Honestly, I also played a lot of SimCity 3000 (mostly to make wildfires for some reason, we need a game with better wildfires now), and Sim City 4, though I don't think I ever got good at any of those, because a kid doesn't exactly know how to manage a city.

[Frenline Delpha]

I won Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3, and Zoo Tycoon 1, and 2, and various expansions for almost all of these, all on CD. They were pretty much my childhood.

I also owned Roller Coaster Factory 2....

Honestly, I also played a lot of SimCity 3000 (mostly to make wildfires for some reason, we need a game with better wildfires now), and Sim City 4, though I don't think I ever got good at any of those, because a kid doesn't exactly know how to manage a city.

I would always wait 'til my park got to a decent size in RCT2, and then I would just use the scroll wheel to watch the balloons fly into the clouds and pop. I would literally do that for hours. I was easily amused back then.

[Licana]

God this OP is horribly insufficient.

I demand bi-weekly console wars! Unique character interpretations written in book report form! The entire history of the Final Fantasy franchise and a well written thesis as to why it is secretly a metaphor for the Vietnam War! A real gamer would poop these things out at the slightest provocation!

Quit talking out you ass. It's clearly an allegory for the American Invasion of Grenada.

ur a grenada

[Imperializt Russia]

Great news if you wanted to play World in Conflict and were sad it got pulled from Steam, it's on sale on GoG!
https://www.gog.com/game/world_in_confl ... te_edition

Only for the next 2 hours!
(Expires 5am GMT/midnight EST)

Beyond Good & Evil is in the same sale.

They pulled it from steam when ?

I noticed it a year or two ago, when it no longer had a price on my wishlist, along with Shellshock 2: Blood Trails.

Officially, support was no longer provided. It was a Sierra game, so I think that's probably what "happened" to it, given it was lost to the bowels of Activision.

[The Huskar Social Union]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/09/12/an-update-on-the-last-guardian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhz1YGf-Hok

The last Guardian got delayed again.

Im, im shocked... wait no im not.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

Maybe I should've clarified that by 'How'd you find it?' I was asking did you enjoy it

Yup! Haven't played as much as I'd like to, though. It's rather time consuming.

That it is.

My average game time per session is usually 4-5 hours, although it can get as low as 3.

[Corrian]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/09/12/an-update-on-the-last-guardian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhz1YGf-Hok

The last Guardian got delayed again.

Im, im shocked... wait no im not.

Forgot I wanted to post that.

[Ardavia]

*gets bored of looking at muddy grey assault gun all the time I'm playing*

also comes with soundtrack

[Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502]

Finally bit the bullet and got Wargame: ALB. Is it a good idea to spawn entire tank armies my in my first time out?

[Ardavia]

Finally bit the bullet and got Wargame: ALB. Is it a good idea to spawn entire tank armies my in my first time out?

not really

you'll at least want some air defense units against helicopters, artillery to lay smokescreens and suppress enemy units, and infantry for contesting towns and shit, to back them up

recce is useful too

just spamming tanks without supporting assets means they'll get badly wrecked trying to root out ATGMs and enemy armor hiding in forests, infantry in towns is incredibly costly to take on with tanks, and so on

I'd write a long post, but eh, just have this

it's a handy guide to everything Wargame

[Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502]

Finally bit the bullet and got Wargame: ALB. Is it a good idea to spawn entire tank armies my in my first time out?

not really

you'll at least want some air defense units against helicopters, artillery to lay smokescreens and suppress enemy units, and infantry for contesting towns and shit, to back them up

recce is useful too

just spamming tanks without supporting assets means they'll get badly wrecked trying to root out ATGMs and enemy armor hiding in forests, infantry in towns is incredibly costly to take on with tanks, and so on
Neat.

How easy is it to encircle your enemies in ALB? I'm sure the tutorials are super easy mode but I enjoy penetrating their defenses in one spot and tying them down with another attack in a different spot. Cue encirclement.
I'd write a long post, but eh, just have this

it's a handy guide to everything Wargame

[Imperializt Russia]

I never encircled anyone in EE, though I never tried. I found the enemy, and I killed him.

If you can get around their flanks, you can exploit the often grossly reduced armour values of an enemy tank unit. Best achieved when laying ambush etc.