Merry Chris.... *dangit*
Happy New Y.... *crap*
Happy Three Kings.... *#§%}{*
Happy Hump Day!! ... *GAHHHH*
Good Day!! Everyone! It's 5:30 pm hear, and the sun is down, but in .... somewhere, the sun is just coming up, so I'm going to let the statistical average reign and just say
good day to all, hope you've had a great holiday season with loved ones, and are now on a strict diets to lose all those X-mas turkey pounds
So, what have I been playing.
Ultimate General: Civil War: RTS game based vaguely on the American Civil War. Battle names are authentic... weapon names too... that's about it. It can be fun, like playing a puzzle game, but once you've figured the puzzle out, it mostly loses it's charm. PvP would probably be very challenging. Certainly not line playing the AI, but player controlled Skirmishers and Cavalry easily 75% of the winning factor in every battle for the winning side. *meh*
Witcher 3: ....
.... well, not over the holidays but I finished my second run through on New Game Plus. It's certainly different from strategy games, but a blast. It's full of beautiful scenery, it's funny, exciting, touching, frustrating*, heart breaking, and sometimes very satisfying. *There are some quest where you say to yourself, I just can't win, even if you do successfully complete the quest, there are sometimes consequences just tear you up inside. Just like RL, even the best decisions can lead to disaster, and here it's mostly things that will touch you, after you've been fighting for a sympathetic NPC for a while, to have them killed in the end by circumstances outside your control anyway... it can be very gritty.
DCS: (Digital Combat Simulator) It's a flight simulator, but on a professional level, at least as far as flight models (exactly how an aircraft flies under all conditions) are concerned. So basically I learned to fly, over the last 2 1/2 years
After crashing a P-51D literally hundreds of times in the first year, I've gotten fairly good. And with an Oculus Rift, it's amazing. I've never felt it in the gut like that while playing any game
There Are Billions!!: because, there's a saying in German, --Wenn's den Esel zu gut geht, geht er aufs Eis-- translation: when the jackass gets cocky, he walks out onto the ice. I'm kind of lousy at RTS games, and this is the RTS game from hell. It's a cross between Tower Defense, Civilization, World War Z, and The Walking Dead... anybody wanna buy a Steam game?