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Old June 26th, 2008, 11:51 PM
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Lately my game plate is pretty sparse.
I have been playing the heck out of the free Digital Eel games just for some quick entertainment:
Big Box of Blox
Plasmaworm
Dr. Blob's Organism

Especially the Blox. It is like an insane Tetris, and I was never a big Tetris fan.

Probably the newest game that I enjoyed was Call of Duty 4. After you beat the campaign, you get a bonus mission involving a plane and terrorists. I must have played that mission 30 times. Easy, but fun as hell.

I briefly played a couple of rounds of Wesnoth not too long ago and still enjoy it.

I played quite a bit of Galactic Civ for awhile and purchased Sins of a Solar Empire. Big disappointment for me. It looks really good, but the way the whole pirate thing was handled just made me hate to play it. I finished one game and tried to start another, but just got to the point where I dreaded playing it. I imagine that I will go back to it some day and try to keep an open mind...

I am sort of looking forward to Spore, but a big part of me is afraid it will be a little too cute. By cute, I mean like the newer Sims cute. I really want to get excited about it, but I am afraid that I will be disappointed. The creature creator is good fun, but it won't take me long to get bored with it unless the Spore environment and game itself can draw me in. Conceptually, I find it fascinating.
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Old June 27th, 2008, 04:17 AM
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...and purchased Sins of a Solar Empire. Big disappointment for me. It looks really good, but the way the whole pirate thing was handled just made me hate to play it. I finished one game and tried to start another, but just got to the point where I dreaded playing it. I imagine that I will go back to it some day and try to keep an open mind...
Was this immediately after release? The first few patches did wonders for the game, including a toggle for pirates on/off for all maps, in case you just don't like dealing with them at all. Honestly for my first few games I struggled so badly with the pirates, but as soon as I let my economic patterns revolve around making sure to have plenty of money to hire the pirates, they made the game too EASY in SP, I could practically win the game just by putting the pirates against my largest foe with increasingly massive bounties.

So yes, if you haven't played Sins in v1.3 or higher, you should give it another run, with or without pirates.



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Sins certainly improved with the latest patches. Actually, I liked the pirates because it only takes one capital ship to destroy them and then the capital ship get heaps of experience.
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I still want a modern remake of MoM..... And of Archon and Archon II.
There was an entertaining Archon-esque game called Dark Legions a few years back. The biggest difference was that there were no power points and, more importantly, your army was purchased with a point-buy system and not fixed. Great fun for hotseat play against a buddy.

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Let's see...

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword,
City of Heroes
Alpha Centauri
Steamband
Sins of a Solar Empire
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I downloaded the demo for Mount&Blade early Saturday morning and bought it Saturday night. Very cool game! If I was forced to choose between it and Oblivion then Mount&Blade would win hands down.

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By the time I played Sins, they had already added the pirate toggle, but for my first game I just used mostly default settings. I am sure that I will return to it some day and give it another spin.
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Does anyone else play Pax Galactica? Imagine Stars! or MOO but pared-down to the bare bones and tick-based rather than turn based - you just move the ships, ship production happens automatically, and there is no research. Surprisingly enjoyable.
I play Astro empires, which sounds alot like that, but with more control (you build your own fleet and research) Its a great game, but brutal if you dohn't start in a good position
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Mount and blade cannot hold my interest for more than a few days. Gets very repeditive
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Does anyone else play Pax Galactica? Imagine Stars! or MOO but pared-down to the bare bones and tick-based rather than turn based - you just move the ships, ship production happens automatically, and there is no research. Surprisingly enjoyable.
I play Astro empires, which sounds alot like that, but with more control (you build your own fleet and research) Its a great game, but brutal if you dohn't start in a good position
Incidentally, I got the name wrong. It should be Pax Galaxia. Note that you can play a full game of it in under 10 minutes, though it depends how aggressive your opponents are. The fact that surrounded enemy fleets can be captured means that attacking play is often rewarded.
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have any of you tried the Continuum?
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