What game are you playing?

[Lethevich]

Looking forward to: Carmageddon remake. The original is one of the few racing games that didn't feel low on content for me, as there was a lot of room to just mess around in the levels rather than race the same tracks over and over. In a way it was a precursor to GTA's level of driving for fun.

[ibanezmonster]

Played most of it so far...

Seems like the levels are a mixture of previous Sonic levels. They remain somewhat familiar, yet mixing disparate elements together gives them a more elusive character. Also, the 3D-ish elements happen to be pretty useless. Overall, I like it, though the springs are frustrating. I ended up turning it off after this one level with a giant maze that won't let you go in the right direction.

[Tapio Dimitriyevich Shostakovich]

Dwarf Fortress, I must be crazy. Took me some hours to actually be able to understand 1/1000 of what it's capable of... That game is teh arts. I play it with Phoebus graphics set btw. So funny One of my dwarves got visited by a female dwarf: "Hi I'm your old love from the mountains - lets discuss our situation".

"The brilliance of Dwarf Fortress" - on NYT.

[ibanezmonster]

Dwarf Fortress, I must be crazy.

Anyone who plays that game is crazy. 


I've been playing this all day:


Man, this is so fun. 
The last SimCity I used to play was SimCity 2000, many years ago (and the original before that).

SimCity 5 should come out next year, and it looks like it'll be amazing. This stuff brings to mind so many possible game/simulator scenarios...

[bwv 1080]

did yall see this - 10 year game of Civilization II

http://imgur.com/a/rAnZs
I've been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was already well into the distant future. I then thought that it might be interesting to see just how far into the future I could get and see what the ramifications would be. Naturally I play other games and have a life, but I often return to this game when I'm not doing anything and carry on. The results are as follows.
The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.
There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.
-The ice caps have melted over 20 times (somehow) due primarily to the many nuclear wars. As a result, every inch of land in the world that isn't a mountain is inundated swamp land, useless to farming. Most of which is irradiated anyway.
-As a result, big cities are a thing of the distant past. Roughly 90% of the worlds population (at it's peak 2000 years ago) has died either from nuclear annihilation or famine caused by the global warming that has left absolutely zero arable land to farm. Engineers (late game worker units) are always busy continuously building roads so that new armies can reach the front lines. Roads that are destroyed the very next turn when the enemy goes. So there isn't any time to clear swamps or clean up the nuclear fallout.
-Only 3 super massive nations are left. The Celts (me), The Vikings, And the Americans. Between the three of us, we have conquered all the other nations that have ever existed and assimilated them into our respective empires.
-You've heard of the 100 year war? Try the 1700 year war. The three remaining nations have been locked in an eternal death struggle for almost 2000 years. Peace seems to be impossible. Every time a cease fire is signed, the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next turn, often with nuclear weapons. Even when the U.N forces a peace treaty. So I can only assume that peace will come only when they're wiped out. It is this that perpetuates the war ad infinitum. Have any of you old Civ II players out there ever had this problem in the post-late game?
-Because of SDI, ICBMS are usually only used against armies outside of cities. Instead, cities are constantly attacked by spies who plant nuclear devices which then detonate (something I greatly miss from later civ games). Usually the down side to this is that every nation in the world declares war on you. But this is already the case so its no longer a deterrent to anyone. My self included.
-The only governments left are two theocracies and myself, a communist state. I wanted to stay a democracy, but the Senate would always over-rule me when I wanted to declare war before the Vikings did. This would delay my attack and render my turn and often my plans useless. And of course the Vikings would then break the cease fire like clockwork the very next turn. Something I also miss in later civ games is a little internal politics. Anyway, I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire. But of course the people hate me now and every few years since then, there are massive guerrilla (late game barbarians) uprisings in the heart of my empire that I have to deal with which saps resources from the war effort.
-The military stalemate is air tight. The post-late game in civ II is perfectly balanced because all remaining nations already have all the technologies so there is no advantage. And there are so many units at once on the map that you could lose 20 tank units and not have your lines dented because you have a constant stream moving to the front. This also means that cities are not only tiny towns full of starving people, but that you can never improve the city. "So you want a granary so you can eat? Sorry; I have to build another tank instead. Maybe next time."
-My goal for the next few years is to try and end the war and thus use the engineers to clear swamps and fallout so that farming may resume. I want to rebuild the world. But I'm not sure how. If any of you old Civ II players have any advice, I'm listening.
Edit: -Wow guys. Thanks for all your support. I had no idea this post would get this kind of response. -I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on my efforts. Whether here on Reddit, or a blog, or both. -Turns out a whole subreddit has been dedicated to ending this war. It's at /r/theeternalwar

[PaulR]

Anyone who plays that game is crazy. 


I've been playing this all day:


Man, this is so fun. 
The last SimCity I used to play was SimCity 2000, many years ago (and the original before that).

SimCity 5 should come out next year, and it looks like it'll be amazing. This stuff brings to mind so many possible game/simulator scenarios...

i always sucked at that game....

[lisa needs braces]

did yall see this - 10 year game of Civilization II

It was curious seeing this story explode last week. I read reddit/gaming section sometimes, so I saw it posted with a few replies. A couple of hours later it was on the main page, and then on Andrew Sullivan's blog and then it even made it on Mexican news.

[eyeresist]

Non-Australians might be interested to hear that we're finally getting an R18+ rating for games here. Previously, the highest possible rating was MA15+ (unlike films, books, etc.), which meant a number of important games had to be censored, or else banned. For things on the border, it also occasionally meant rating quite "mature" stuff as suitable for children. Glad they finally got that sorted out....

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/gamers-get-adultsonly-r18-classification-20120618-20kiw.html

[Lethevich]

Stressing about how unlikely I am to get into the Planetside 2 beta.

"The brilliance of Dwarf Fortress" - on NYT.

Thanks for this. I don't bother visiting video game articles on old media websites because they're almost always very poor (for a variety of reasons) - but this one was exceptional.

[bwv 1080]

Dwarf Fortress, I must be crazy. Took me some hours to actually be able to understand 1/1000 of what it's capable of... That game is teh arts. I play it with Phoebus graphics set btw. So funny One of my dwarves got visited by a female dwarf: "Hi I'm your old love from the mountains - lets discuss our situation".

"The brilliance of Dwarf Fortress" - on NYT.

Thanks for posting this (i think) downloaded it last night and spent the good part of an hour learning to dig a hole

[ibanezmonster]

i always sucked at that game....

There's a trick to this game, surely. I haven't built a big city from scratch yet, but I have built a town of around 10,000 while getting rich at the same time and maintaining a positive income each month. I basically made a slave wage state with little education and health care, where I'm the only one with any money, yet retarded Sims keep on demanding to move into my little ghetto, so maybe it's not that great. 
I'm sure building a big city (or whatever your goal is) is just a matter of reading about how to do such a thing.

[Mirror Image]

Lately, I've been replaying this:



They don't make games like this anymore. There's no telling how many times I've beaten this game. It never grows old. I feel the same way about it's predecessor: Donkey Kong Country.

[North Star]

Lately, I've been replaying this:



They don't make games like this anymore. There's no telling how many times I've beaten this game. It never grows old.

A great game, I remember playing it years ago, when my SNS still worked.

[Mirror Image]

A great game, I remember playing it years ago, when my SNS still worked.

I think the SNES was one of the best gaming systems ever created. The games were so much fun from the Donkey Kong series to Super Mario World (one of my favorite Mario games along with the first Super Mario Galaxy on Wii) to Super Metroid. What a great, fun system.

[lisa needs braces]

Lately, I've been replaying this:



They don't make games like this anymore. There's no telling how many times I've beaten this game. It never grows old. I feel the same way about it's predecessor: Donkey Kong Country.

A great game indeed! It was favorite of my childhood years and has been something of an obsession of mine since its release.

I also think it, and its predecessor, contain some of the best music of that gaming generation. An example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2WJi6RHj4

[Mirror Image]

A great game indeed! It was favorite of my childhood years and has been something of an obsession of mine since its release.

I also think it, and its predecessor, contain some of the best music of that gaming generation. An example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2WJi6RHj4

Totally agree there, -abe-! That was a nice selection from DK2. I always liked this one from DK1:

http://www.youtube.com/v/wAPpVplHiDE

[Tapio Dimitriyevich Shostakovich]

Once again played Arma II DayZ, but ugh it sucks pretty hard if you don't find weapons in stables, but only ammo; if you walk thousands of miles and finally get eaten by zombies because real life postman rings The game before I was the king for a minute with my sniper rifle, but got shot by a nasty coward player waiting outside the building.

[Lethevich]

I dislike the system for many reasons, but never thought to add all the points together, as this article does:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131615-diablo-3-the-blizzard-sweatshop

It reads like a million miles away from the playful, no-pressure escapism that gaming of this nature might (should?) be expected to be, and paints a fairly unpleasant picture of the current culture of games developers.

[Tapio Dimitriyevich Shostakovich]

I avoid games like these like the plague.

[DavidRoss]

I avoid games like these like the plague.