It’s been a while since I last posted but after a while I decided to come back and post! Anyways, what have you all been playing lately? I’ve gotten into Fallout 4 (sucks that they got rid of the mods and 99.9% of creation club) and Nba 2k26, I know that it’s the same game every year but I buy it once every 5 years and just try to get a kick out of beating the Dallas Mavericks (owned by Miriam Adleson)
At the risk of being stereotypical, I’m playing Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. I just recently finished setting up oil industry and rail for exporting fuel, alcohol, and food. The alcohol is only for export and no-one is addicted. I’m determined to achieve self-sufficiency and am working on the steel industry next!
I’ve also reinstalled Morrowind with a monstrous Vanilla-Extended Mod Pack from the Open Morrowind Modding community and spent last night sleepily clicking my way through 440 mod downloads. I’ve succeeded, and am now slightly terrified of the monster I’ve created.
I tried playing it but got stuck at setting up coal mines or whatever, it was my first game in the genre and apparently it’s fairly complicated so not a great place to start
It’s definitely both very complex, with layered mechanics, and also honestly things aren’t always well explained in game. I have a lot of time in it and I still run into new systems that I can’t get to work without looking through answers from other players and guides etc. I find it rewarding now that I can make sense of it and understand a lot of the core systems, but it took a while to get there and I also didn’t play the game for a long time after buying it because trying to build something for the first time is like hitting a brick wall.
But, if you’re interested in more accessible city builders, I can recommend a couple - try out frostpunk, the original one, great vibes and music and it’s generally much easier to pick it up while still having lots of room to optimize.
For something completely different, Per Aspera let’s you terraform mars as an AI and make narrative choices while building huge systems of industry and extraction across the whole planet. Very satisfying although be warned that it’s impossible to make nice and neat cities because of the way its road building and placement works.
I’m tyring to unify China under the chairman Mao in the new DLC of HOI4. It’s been 20 hours still can’t unify China yet. Sometimes, I think that how chairman Mao managed to do it irl. Respect to him.
Has Taiwan been secured yet?
Last night, I beat Japanese invaders and liberated Burma, Vietnam and took Katayama’s revenge by installing JPC in power in Japan. Helped to defeat Nazis. Took back Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau back. Finally, comrade Mao might rest in peace.
Honestly I have like started three games. Need to go back to baldur gate 2 or gothic 1 and finally finish either.
Is Baldur’s gate similar to The Witcher? I bought the Witcher 3 like 7-8 years ago and never really played it but I’ve heard the two compared before
Which baldur gate? 1-2 are different from 3 by quite a margin. Baldur Gate 3 isnt as open worlded as witcher 3 but has more rpg choices.
Well the only one I know about is Baldur’s gate 3. One of my best friends is gay and he was ecstatic about how many different characters you could ahem “romance”😂good for him, more power to ya, right? But ultimately it’s a no from me. I couldn’t get into the gameplay myself. But I now have a positive opinion on the game just bc it made my friend happy lol
its not for everyone! For me the overnarration was a bit much.
Wait, is there a narrator or something? I probably haven’t played it since 2019 or 2020 or whenever it came out
I’m about to try Through the Darkest of Times because I’m preparing a second academic paper on videogames, arts and politics.
As far as I know, you have to organise antifas from different walks of life and tendencies in Nazi Germany. Don’t wanna know too much because I need to elaborate hypothesis before actually playing it. Then the gaming + analysis will begin.
