JCC Gaming Förceboat Parté - JC G4m3z thr34d (Gaming General Discussion)

Ramza, I have the distinct sense the only person more creatively destructive than me at HITMAN would be you.

Have you played yet?

 

No but it's been well on my radar as I've watched the guys at Giant Bomb get up to fantastic shenanigans. What with the holiday coming up I'm expecting some extra cash, so it's probably getting bought soonish.

 

I like Cities: Skylines and I'm interested in Planet Coaster (once the price goes down). One important question: does it allow you to murder disgruntled guests by picking them up and dropping them into water?

 

It's a little harder than it used to be: http://kotaku.com/all-the-ways-i-tried-to-murder-people-in-planet-coaster-1789287228

 

For no reason I cut up fugu incorrectly in the Japanese level. I didn't even use it, but I could take that risk.

Opening up power sockets that conveniently reside in puddles and letting half the map kill itself there is the best.

 

sheer joy

 

What exactly is the appeal of Warhammer anyway? Seems like a parody of testosterone fueled fantasy.

 

See, I think this is the problem with modern simulation games. They're just so cutesy. The Maxis games were always about looking at systems on a managerial level. And as a person with a very engineering-y mind, that appeals to me. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to figure out the Total War games, because that's essentially the strategic management of a society. Although maybe Civilization is a bit more so?


If we're going to talk about board games... Betrayal at the House on the Hill is one of the absolute best nerdy party games ever. I even got my parents into it. And my brother who is hard to play games with because he gets furious when he loses and takes it as a sign that the universe hates him. He'll play because unless you're the traitor, you're playing as a team rather than against each other.

I just wish they'd release more story packs, because while having 50 different haunts, they actually have room just in the current arrangement for several dozen more. Or just a whole new set of items.

I've heard Mansions of Madness is the suped up version, but my friends have never actually gotten around to trying it. Evidently it takes a long time to set up. But I still want to play it... Unfortunately my friends who have it are having a kid and I don't know if we'll be having many more game nights.

 

Yes, but only the European style ones that have over a billion pieces and a rule book so dense it comes it audiobook format too.

i.e. any FFG boardgame would also qualify.

I'd add RPGs too, for JoinTheSchwarz

 

Civilization is much more broad-based than Total War. It's my favourite game series of all time though.

I just bought Civilization: Beyond Earth on the Steam Sale. It's weird and I don't understand it, but the aesthetic is really good and I like the idea of the tech web - it's pretty overwhelming though since I just dove right in (though I was playing on such a low difficulty I have plenty of time to come to grips with the system).

 

If you want to play Beyond Earth, I'd recommend the Rising Tide dlc, as it improves the game from unplayable to tolerable. That said, BE isn't my favorite Civ game and it's got a lot of problems.

 

The direct lineage Stardew Valley is a refinement of is 20 years old.

But yeah if you want a serious intense crunch farm simulation it isn't that.

 

Yes I got the GOTY edition which included Rising Tide. I like the idea of moving cities across the map, but in then end I didn't use it much because I could buy tiles easily.

 

I just want Sim Farm, dammit! A game that forced you to rotate your crops so you don't deplete nutrients soil. Oregon Trail is another great simulator in a way. The later versions, like 3, had a good deal of resource management.

I just recently also installed some of these old Emergency Room simulator games on my PC. So awesome. There are few games now that would make you fill out a real medical chart, complete with actual medical terminology, and punish you for running diagnostic tests in the wrong order.

This is the kind of insane nonsense I'm after.

Believe me, I'm quite familiar with Harvest Moon and its bastardization of the commercial grade farming experience from previous simulators

 

Yeah but most other sims don't let me name my pet cow "Señor Milk."

 

Ramza That's "Señor Leche" to you.

 

No, that's ridiculous.

 

Oh, yeah. THAT'S taking it too far.

 

I mean, Monsieur Leche, maybe.

 

Did you also call your Mabari war hound in Dragon Age Origins "Barkspawn", Ramza?