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MrsJoseph (taking back my data & giving GR the middle finger) wrote: "Hmmm. I like the idea of this game! But IDK if I could deal with that level of micromanagement... "It's not constant. You get things set and everything is smooth for a while, then your herbalist or blacksmith is fully stocked so you maybe have them clear rock to supplement the quarry or something. Or food starts to get low and you momentarily freak out because winter is almost here... Then there are disasters - fire, tornadoes, etc - but those can be turned off when you start a new city.
If you're not sure, then wishlist it and track sales for a good deal.
Christa wrote: "If you're not sure, then wishlist it and track sales for a good deal."
:D
Gerard wrote: "I love the final fantasy series especially ff vii"I'm upset I haven't gotten to play that one yet :-(
Final fantasy 7 is the best imo of the franchise. I downloaded it recently to play again on the ps3 and it was as good as the first time i played it.
Nicki wrote: "Okay, forgive me for any pain inflicted upon your bank accounts, but I have to point out that Steam's new weekly sale includes 75% off one of my ALL-TIME favourite strategy games, Warlock: Master o..."*grrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
*grrrrrrrr*
Christa wrote: "MrsJoseph (taking back my data & giving GR the middle finger) wrote: "Hmmm. I like the idea of this game! But IDK if I could deal with that level of micromanagement... "It's not constant. You get..."
I see you bought off Bianca...
:-P
LOL :D Yep, another Banished fan! But I had nothing to do with it. The awesomeness is spreading under its own power. Behold!!! (said in booming god voice)@Nicki - I actually passed on Warlock but grabbed Runespell because I am lacking in the tcg / ccg and related type games. I'm trying to be a well-rounded gamer. But man, the weekly sales can be hard on the willpower.
Christa wrote: "LOL :D Yep, another Banished fan! But I had nothing to do with it. The awesomeness is spreading under its own power. Behold!!! (said in booming god voice)@Nicki - I actually passed on Warlock but..."
*runs*
MrsJoseph (taking back my data & giving GR the middle finger) wrote: "*runs* "There's stuff you can take for that.
Nicki wrote: "Runespell looks fun. I picked that up in a Christmas sale; I should get around to it. I have over 100 hours in Warlock though. I think it is my all-time favourite turn-based strategy game, though i..."
You just had to keep it up, eh? Well, thanks a lot. I now have 100 games. I went ahead and got the collection version with DLC.
:D
MrsJ is my book pusher, and I guess you're my games pusher.
pfffffft!
If I started a group for gamers, would any of you be interested? I'm thinking "Gaming Readers / Reading Gamers" or something. I found one tiny group for video games but... I'm wanting to curate a more mature group than the one growing there. (Mature as in "act right in public", not mature as in "boobies". Just in case anyone misunderstood. :D)
So, thoughts? If even two people say they'd join, I'll create it. Because why not, right? :)
Christa wrote: "If I started a group for gamers, would any of you be interested? I'm thinking "Gaming Readers / Reading Gamers" or something. I found one tiny group for video games but... I'm wanting to curate a..."
I'd join but I spend more of my time collecting games than playing them, it seems.
But I'd want it to be something that did both reads and games - maybe movies, too?
You know, like Diablo --> several books.
MrsJoseph (taking back my data & giving GR the middle finger) wrote: "Christa wrote: "I'd join but I spend more of my time collecting games than playing them, it seems.But I'd want it to be something that did both reads and games - maybe movies, too?
You know, like Diablo --> several books. "
I'm thinking the same thing - there are tons of games with related books, books that came from games, games that came from books and so on. That includes comics / graphic novels.
And sure, we could do movies, too. Definitely fits. And they don't have to be directly related - for example, I'd love recommendations of movies that are like "insert game here" or game worlds that resemble "insert movie here", same for books.
Because I'm impatient, I'm already setting it up. :D It's going to initially be private because I want to ensure people can express themselves coherently before letting them in. Call me a snob, but too much time spent on the Steam forums makes one sensitive to... stuff.
I'd probably be interested. Storylines and characters in videogames are some of the most interesting things about them.
Awesome! I'll let you know when it's ready for public consumption. :)
Sweeeet! It's a work in progress but early adopters can request admission at https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...I'm approving everyone that asks, so it's not like you have to write an admission essay in the box.
I've played both terraria and minecraft and are very good, the community on terraria servers http://topg.org/Terraria was mature and more fun but on the other side minecraft was full of young and crazy kids and very annoying experience.
If you hear I jumped off a bridge or took some other way out blame Steam. I purchased a game through Amazon but it's through Steam and I can't get it registered, loaded or anything else. I'm now in an Email conversation with the great and powerful Steam...or is that wizards of steam?
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "If you hear I jumped off a bridge or took some other way out blame Steam. I purchased a game through Amazon but it's through Steam and I can't get it registered, loaded or anything else. I'm now in..."O_O
Uh oh. Steam help is never fun.
I feel like I'm communicating with Will Robinson's robot..."danger, danger".I give them info and they answer asking for the info i just gave them.
If all else fails I'll return the game to Amazon and buy it through Steam. maybe then I can get it to load.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I feel like I'm communicating with Will Robinson's robot..."danger, danger".I give them info and they answer asking for the info i just gave them.
If all else fails I'll return the game to Amazo..."
That might be a good idea.
Also, try Amazon. They have been known to work wonders. I've even had them call my local post office.
I plan to call them if all else fails. I have a chapel service out at the prison this evening so I'm just answering their posts today.I'm serious. It's like dealing with idiots. I send them what they ask for and they ask for it again. I've sent the "key number" twice and now they want a screen shot. I attached one. I seriously wonder if they read my replies, or if the read at all....or read English.
It's trying my patience.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I plan to call them if all else fails. I have a chapel service out at the prison this evening so I'm just answering their posts today.I'm serious. It's like dealing with idiots. I send them what ..."
Yeah. I've been in that never ending loop of WHAT????? that they call CS. I've never had good luck with their CS.
I don't have time to deal with it today. I plan to call Amazon tomorrow if they can't get it straightened out. Frankly had I known I have to go through Steam I may not have bought the game.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I don't have time to deal with it today. I plan to call Amazon tomorrow if they can't get it straightened out. Frankly had I known I have to go through Steam I may not have bought the game."I normally have no issues with Steam as long as I don't have to contact CS. Happily, I have not had a lot of issues that require CS.
I had to work with Steam CS once. It went smoothly.. I'm an outlier! I'm a Steam whisperer! It's my idiot savant talent! YES!
Actually, I already found my idiot savant talent (my husband hates when I call it that, lol). It actually is for a game, but a board game instead of a video game. Galaxy Truckers. In the game you have to speed build a space ship using randomly grabbed components. I'm really good at it. It's really weird.. whenever I'm building my ship I float outside of my body and watch this movie montage happen where the pieces connect with glowing lines until they form the perfect ship. Kinda like in that show Psyche, when Shawn first sees a crime scene.... Good game. I need to host a board game night again soon so I can pull it out.
I know this is technically a video game thread, but I'm officially changing it to include board games as well.. My husband and I have a slight board game addiction. I dug up this photo of our game shelves. This is a year or so old, the shelves have filled up a quite bit more since we took this (we need more shelves!):
We have issues :-P
I like board games but no one else in my family does...
My son wonders if you got a counterfeit or used code for the Steam game. Did you buy it from Amazon, or one of their reputable sellers? Just a thought.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I like board games but no one else in my family does..."We've played 7 Wonders a few times, and we like the traditional-style games like Rummikub and Blokus. But the family won't play word or trivia games with me, and it's difficult to even pull them together for ordinary family games. :sigh:
Cheryl, apparently I have a problem with Steam itself. I can't even get it to open now. I click on it and my task manager shows the computer working but never opens. I re-downloaded Steam after I went to windows 10 but maybe there's a problem there. Anyway I can go to the sen sight but can't get my computer to open Steam.I'll let you know if I get it straightened out.
I like strategy board games like Risk, Axis and Allies and so on. I also like Trivia games and games like Piticionary. Just no one else in the family does.
I do have a regular D&D game on Fri. nights now.
I never heard from Steam again after the last communication. That said I finally got the game to load last night/this morning. Once Steam actually opened the game loaded...of course I haven't tried to open it this morning.By the way, I suspect there are no humans at Steam. I think it's the first step in the cyber-revolution. The computers are rising up.
Dawn wrote: "I know this is technically a video game thread, but I'm officially changing it to include board games as well.. My husband and I have a slight board game addiction. I dug up this photo of our game ..."I am a bit jealous. I may have the same board game hoarding issue. In fact, we share some of the same games. But, you also have some that are on my "I-want-them-all-now-now-now-but-I-need-to-exercise-some-self-restraint" list.
The biggest challenge is deciding which game to play, because there are so many good ones. We had a board game night with friends last weekend, and we each dropped 3 game choices into a bowl and drew to see what we'd play.
My husband and I have the same issue deciding, we play a lot of 2 player games and are always wishing we could play the 3 and 4 player games more regularly. We still have games we've bought that we haven't played.. I feel bad about those ones, but a lot of it is either not having enough players (or having too many on board game nights), or it not being my type of game. I love pretty much all board game types with the exception of head to head combat. I get ragey when people attack me, it's irrational but it feels personal. My husband and I have been in day long fights before over peace treaties gone wrong in Civilization. I love the Civ board game, and I try to deal with the war part of it so I can play it... But all bets are off when the nukes come out. Husbands don't nuke wives! No!Right now we've been playing Time Stories which is pretty cool. It's unique because you have a base game with a base story, and then you buy expansions with expansion stories. Each story is only ever played once, it's like a mystery solving type thing so once you solve it it would be pointless to play again. But it's pretty cool, and we get pretty sucked into it. It's cooperative as well, so that's nice for not fighting. There are four stories out so far, we've played the first two. Highly recommended!
Yeah, we are in the same boat. We play a lot of games that work well for two players and eye our other games wistfully, trying to think of who to invite over for a game night. And, then, we often fall into too many people! It's a hard knock life.We get into that kind of couple cold war during games where you can play aggressively or not. I tend to be a builder in games, but my S.O. is go hard and crush the enemy. So, in a game like Carcassonne, I will happily cultivate my interests. Meanwhile, rather than something that will grow his village, he'd rather play the tiles that block what I am trying to do. NOT NICE!!! Valerie go SMASH!
We like pretty much all types of games, although I am not a huge fan of bluffing games where you have to lie. I am a sh** liar and it makes me uncomfortable. So games like Sheriff of Nottingham are not so fun for me.
We also have unplayed games. When we travel we try to find a local gaming store where we pick up a game or two. But, that doesn't stop me from getting antsy a clicking Buy when I see a good deal on Amazon.
Lately, we've been playing a lot of Splendor. It is new and fresh to us. Plus, it is a quick game, so we can get a few plays in before bed time on a week night.
I think I've seen Time Stories when browsing. Sounds interesting.
Oh man, bluffing games are so my jam. I really like Sheriff of Nottingham and Shadows Over Camelot and other games like that. But I run into issues because I'm apparently a really good traitor / bluffer, so people always suspect me as being the traitor no matter what. I make them paranoid because they can't read me... Go figure. I only do well at bluffing games the first round through. I destroyed at Sheriff the first time, and now no one trusts me so all I can do is play an honest game. Boring! :-)Splendor is pretty good too, especially for a 2 player game. If you haven't tried it already, Lost Cities is a similar type of simple 2 player game that we love. Also, 7 Wonders Duel. We really liked 7 Wonders but the 2 player variant was kinda shit. Duel is specifically for 2 players and is really well done.
So jealous. I love board games but hubby? Not so much. I have a couple of games but never do anything with them. I stopped buying them after I realized it was no-go.
Oh, MrsJoseph, I am so sorry. I am very fortunate to have an S.O. who is almost as nerdy as I. Perhaps you can recruit some nerdy friends who might help swing him over to the dark side.Dawn, sounds like we are bluffing opposites!
I have added Lost Cities to my want list. 7 Wonders Duel is already there. I've been chomping at the bit for it since reading an article that said the game play might even be more fun than the original 7 Wonders with more than 2 players.
I'm also jonesing pretty bad for Pandemic Legacy, but I need to brow beat, I mean recruit friends into a multi-session commitment.
Lol, we already bought Pandemic Legacy... But we also need to "recruit" friends who will commit to multiple games.
Valerie wrote: "Oh, MrsJoseph, I am so sorry. I am very fortunate to have an S.O. who is almost as nerdy as I. Perhaps you can recruit some nerdy friends who might help swing him over to the dark side.Dawn, soun..."
I'm still working on him, lol.
Hey. Does anyone own or have played Pathfinder? Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Adve...
I'm thinking about getting it cause of this conversation and it has 1 -4 players so I can play alone.
I'm now considering adding it to my list. :)It has great Amazon reviews, as well as a pretty good geek rating on boardgamegeek.com.
I've played Pathfinder quite a bit. It's pretty fun, but I don't know how it would be for 1 player. I liked playing it with my husband and brother in law, we played through a lot of the scenarios, it's pretty similar to Descent / D&D except that it's all card based and you don't need a dungeon master or person controlling the bad guys. I gotta imagine it would be kind of boring to play alone... But I could definitely be wrong.
My recommendations for 1 player games:Mice and Mystics - I've played this one alone and found that the story was enough to keep me interested. I prefer playing with other people though.. But I guess that's always true!
http://www.amazon.com/Mice-and-Mystic...
Agricola - This one is pretty complicated at first, but is SO fun once you learn it. Surprising, I know, since it's all about farming... But trust me, it's a great game. Only gripe here is that with the amount of setup and little components involved, if I'm playing 1 player I tend to just use the IOS version of the game. But I have played alone and it's fun! Good solo version specific rules built in.
http://www.amazon.com/Z-Man-Games-702...
Caverna - Like Agricola, but with Dwarven cave farmers instead of just regular farmers. Yeah that's a thing. I actually like Caverna better than Agricola, but haven't tried the 1 player variant yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Mayfair-Games-M...
WOW. Those look fun but daaammmmmn the prices, lol. The mice one starts at $120. O_OBUt I think I'll get Pathfinder since hubby may be pressured into that one but he'd never ever play the farming one with me.
The mice one is usually $45 or less, I think it's just out of stock right now :-PCaverna is expensive... But worth it! And farming is cool. He doesn't know what he's missing!
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Hmmm. I like the idea of this game! But IDK if I could deal with that level of micromanagement...