What Are You Playing?

[anglatzara]

I have a soft spot for Paradox Entertainment as they are the successor company to the company I worked for for the first four years of my working life, but their games are far too complex for me, I simply do not have the patience to deal with the learning curve. These days I only play role-playing games and boardgames.

Wait, you design video games?  I don't think I knew that.

No, the precursor to Paradox Entertainment published tabletop games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Games

What games are you playing now?

D&D 5e mostly. When it comes to boardgames, Terraforming Mars, Star Realms, and Arkham Horror LCG are the ones that most often get to the table.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Nice!  I'd love to hear about your D&D game -- your character if you're playing or your campaign if you're running it.

In my campaign, I started off running the party through Lost Mines of Phandelver, during which they joined the Harpers, and since then they've solved a mystery about missing townsfolk in nearby Triboar (a false hydra!), then uncovered a Zhentarim network, and now they're going to the Underdark to stop a drow invasion.  It's been a fun campaign, starting with a classic module adventure, then turning into a detective story, then a spy story, and now a military story.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Oh speaking of Paradox games! Have y'all heard of City Skylines? It's a city management game with the usual complexity of a Paradox game. People have made some pretty cool stuff with it. If anyone wants to build a Talossan City-State, that's your platform

I have almost bought Skylines multiple times.  There's a guy on YouTube who does videos about traffic flow design, and YouTube keeps recommending his stuff to me and it's bizarrely interesting.

[esbornatfiglheu]

I also play skylines, but and currently taking a break to head back to 8 bit land.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I also play skylines, but and currently taking a break to head back to 8 bit land.

Oh yeah?  What NES are you playing?  My eldest has been playing a lot of 90s educational games on an emulator I set up on a Raspberry Pi.

[Françal I. Lux]

Oh speaking of Paradox games! Have y'all heard of City Skylines? It's a city management game with the usual complexity of a Paradox game. People have made some pretty cool stuff with it. If anyone wants to build a Talossan City-State, that's your platform

I have almost bought Skylines multiple times.  There's a guy on YouTube who does videos about traffic flow design, and YouTube keeps recommending his stuff to me and it's bizarrely interesting.

Oh yeah, the simulations and all the little things you can do with traffic, zoning, etc. will keep you busy for a long while. Plus, with mods you can download, it can get even more detailed. It is really satisfying though to built a really big city and just sitting there watching it take care of itself—then the city starts to tank for some arcane reason and you're back in it stressing again lol

[Danihel Txechescu]

Oh speaking of Paradox games! Have y'all heard of City Skylines? It's a city management game with the usual complexity of a Paradox game. People have made some pretty cool stuff with it. If anyone wants to build a Talossan City-State, that's your platform

I have almost bought Skylines multiple times.  There's a guy on YouTube who does videos about traffic flow design, and YouTube keeps recommending his stuff to me and it's bizarrely interesting.

My time is very limited already. Why would you do this to me?!

[Tierçéu Rôibeardescù]

I have been playing a fair bit of prison architect.... or as I call it "2020 simulator"...Haha Corona humour xD

[Éovart Andrinescù]

Chess, of late... and I completely suck  ;D

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I have been playing a fair bit of prison architect.... or as I call it "2020 simulator"...Haha Corona humour xD

I didn't even know this was a game.  You simulate operating a prison?

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

I used to play D&D paper and dice game, then i graduated to World of Warcraft online but that got too expensive for me, so i tried Civilization VI because a friend got me a free copy, couldn't play online version but that was ok since i am a bit of a loner anyway, when i got a new computer i lost that game and sadly my friend who got me free games passed away (covid) so i tried a few free online games and i found out i am not smart enough to play games against other people so now i don't play any games.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I used to play D&D paper and dice game, then i graduated to World of Warcraft online but that got too expensive for me, so i tried Civilization VI because a friend got me a free copy, couldn't play online version but that was ok since i am a bit of a loner anyway, when i got a new computer i lost that game and sadly my friend who got me free games passed away (covid) so i tried a few free online games and i found out i am not smart enough to play games against other people so now i don't play any games.

D&D isn't competitive, and it's still around :)

[Tierçéu Rôibeardescù]

I have been playing a fair bit of prison architect.... or as I call it "2020 simulator"...Haha Corona humour xD

I didn't even know this was a game.  You simulate operating a prison?

building and managing a prison, yes. It's also a paradox game.

[Françal I. Lux]

Been playing a lot of Total War Shogun 2 lately. Haven't played that game in so long, but can't beat the battle simulations! I'm excited for Warhammer 3

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I haven't been playing a game recently but I have been watching some gameplay of Stellaris by a group called The Templin Institute. Is anyone familiar with them?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Been playing a lot of Total War Shogun 2 lately. Haven't played that game in so long, but can't beat the battle simulations! I'm excited for Warhammer 3

I used to love Rome: Total War.  That's one of those games that I really enjoy, even though I am terrible at it (I am generally pretty terrible at video games, though).  Does the Shogun one have a lot of resource management, or is it focused on the battles entirely?

[Françal I. Lux]

Been playing a lot of Total War Shogun 2 lately. Haven't played that game in so long, but can't beat the battle simulations! I'm excited for Warhammer 3

I used to love Rome: Total War.  That's one of those games that I really enjoy, even though I am terrible at it (I am generally pretty terrible at video games, though).  Does the Shogun one have a lot of resource management, or is it focused on the battles entirely?

Umm I'd say it's about the same but Shogun 2 still maintains that old Total War play mechanics. I do focus more on battles on that though. It's a smaller map since it's just Japan. I'm going through this Japanese history craze right now and these kind of games just feed on my obsession!

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

I started playing Minecraft again a few days ago (on PC this time; before I had never played anything except pocket edition).

I honestly believe Minecraft is the best videogame of the last 20 years. A postmodern approach to the Sandbox genre, a philosophical statement even.

I am addicted to the idle/incremental genre - I never should have started Cookie Clicker back in '13.

I eschew shoot-em-ups.  My dexterity is awful, and I hate shooting stuff in a 'realistic setting'.  Had a Windows machine, I'd be online playing Age of Empires 2 until daybreak most nights.

In about 2007 through ca. 2012-ish, I was somewhat big into WoW.  I was never able to get into raiding, but had some amazing times.

I love anything empire-building/city-management.

Nice! I play Runescape (now Oldschool Runescape) since 2006, so I understand what you mean.
Age of Empires II Handbook is what I read before going to bed everyday from 2001-2003. I have over 300 hours on Steam between regular and HD editions. I loove AoE2.

Oh speaking of Paradox games! Have y'all heard of City Skylines? It's a city management game with the usual complexity of a Paradox game. People have made some pretty cool stuff with it. If anyone wants to build a Talossan City-State, that's your platform

I played SimCity in NES, then 3000 and then SimCity4. I found Skylines to be too complicated because I am so very used to the SimCity franchise. I am playing SimCity4 in 2023 and I have Skylines on Steam but never really gave it a try. I will put in my bucket list.

I used to play D&D paper and dice game, then i graduated to World of Warcraft ... I lost that game and sadly my friend who got me free games passed away (covid) so i tried a few free online games and i found out i am not smart enough to play games against other people so now i don't play any games.

Playing against people online is never fun. Specially if, as you said, you're a loner. I can get you a direct link to CiV-IV/Civ-V if you'd want (:

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

Minecraft:
Starting a Town with your buddy and having a "neighbor" town 3 minutes across the forest with some other friends and making a railroad system to send stuff to each other everynight while all of you go to sleep to skip the night is a very soothing feeling.

I rememberd I tried to do an economic system simulator with my friends before they all got tired of it and started using cheats.

Age of Empires 2

It was my first approach to real time strategy games. I've always been a very fast typer so I had my shortcuts mastered. I remember the only time my friends could beat me was when they all forget about their own towns and came to my town and started to build 4 towers, I managed to destroy 1 but no one can fight 4 towers in the first 5 minutes of the game. That was my first ragequit haha.

Sims - SimCity

I have a soft spot for Maxis Games.

Mound and Blade (Warband - Bannerlord)

For me, this was the ultimate strategic sandbox game. You're just you, there are a lot of Factions you can join, if you play your cards right, travel behind other Lords, gather an army and start working around, you can get yourself a Town, granted by a King or taken by force to the weakest faction so you can stand the backlash. Traveling around, swapping items and making money, hiring mercenaries and making people join your cause was fun.


Civilization.
I tried Civilization once and got my ass kicked by Ghandi so that was it for me.


Now I'm trying to finish Cuphead, finally.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3.