Gaming - what are you playing

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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I typically play a lot of computer games, although just this week have begun playing friends online.

I typically spend most of my time playing Football Manager, which is an enormous time vanisher, and also dabble in Civ, although that feels like more of a slogfest and the AI is incredibly frustratingly dumb.

I like board games too, and bought the digital version of Scythe a couple of days ago to play against a few friends and that has been a huge success. Really fun involved game that you can finish inside of 90 minutes (unlike Civ). Just bought Galaxy Truckers on a recommendation from a mate, which again is a digital version of the boardgame, and also seems a lot of fun. I anticipate that this may be my main social interaction for a while.

I'm a FM tragic too have been all the way to when it was Championship Manager before the split.
Funnily enough I am not a soccer fan at all. But i love the concept.
There was an AFL type game too, which never really reached its potential. Chatted back and forth with the developer of that game and he had big plans, but I guess things didnt work out and so the game never reached what it could've been.

Keeping with the sports management games, I enjoy the US Football series Front Office Football and am eagerly anticipating its next iteration now the developer has joined forces with the Out of the Park Baseball guys.
I also love Europa Universalis IV and Cities Skyline.
Red Dead Redemption and The Witcher series are probably my all time faves when I want a bit more action, and I don't mind the Assassins Creed franchise.

[soupman]

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I'm a FM tragic too have been all the way to when it was Championship Manager before the split.
Funnily enough I am not a soccer fan at all. But i love the concept.
There was an AFL type game too, which never really reached its potential. Chatted back and forth with the developer of that game and he had big plans, but I guess things didnt work out and so the game never reached what it could've been.

Keeping with the sports management games, I enjoy the US Football series Front Office Football and am eagerly anticipating its next iteration now the developer has joined forces with the Out of the Park Baseball guys.
I also love Europa Universalis IV and Cities Skyline.
Red Dead Redemption and The Witcher series are probably my all time faves when I want a bit more action, and I don't mind the Assassins Creed franchise.

A lot of similiaraties there.

Also played Championship Manager originally, i have put a lot (and I mean thousands) of hours into the series. Fantastic game, amazing depth and really satisfying. I am a soccer fan, but was an FM fan first.

The AFL games have all been ok but as they were home developed had big flaws. Footy Fanatic X was great, especially for statsistical and historical depth, but lacked personality. Premiership Coach which is what I asume you are talking about was the most complete of the lot, and ran pretty well although I could never get key forwards to work in any games. If you got 4 touches and a point out of them you were doing great. Theres a new one released about a month ago called Australian Football Coach which has potential, but is very raw at the moment. Seems to be much more handsoff on gameday than the others but looks like it will build a bigger football world with multiple coaching options. All of them are good for multi year saves, but are a bit crash heavy and struggle to get the draft aspect right which is probably the area i love the most.

I dabbled with OOPB but it was too complex for me or rather to steep a learning curve.

I like the Paradox suite of games, I own but have never played EU IV but have had multiple goes at Victoria II and put in a lot of hours for little reward in Crusader Kings, although am excited or the 3rd version. Stellaris is actually pretty good but I struggle to commit the necessary hours to it.

Cities Skyline is fantastic, although a little crash happy once you put all the mods on it. Relaxing game though.

Another one I've put a lo of hours into is FTL which is an arcade style space game. Really recommend it as a surprisingly in depth game thats easy to pick up.

[FrediKanoute]

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Am playing Elite Dangerous....limiting it to weekends though. May have a look at Disco Elysium, sounds intriguing.....almost Leisure Suit Larry like

[hujsh]

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I'm a FM tragic too have been all the way to when it was Championship Manager before the split.
Funnily enough I am not a soccer fan at all. But i love the concept.
There was an AFL type game too, which never really reached its potential. Chatted back and forth with the developer of that game and he had big plans, but I guess things didnt work out and so the game never reached what it could've been.

Keeping with the sports management games, I enjoy the US Football series Front Office Football and am eagerly anticipating its next iteration now the developer has joined forces with the Out of the Park Baseball guys.
I also love Europa Universalis IV and Cities Skyline.
Red Dead Redemption and The Witcher series are probably my all time faves when I want a bit more action, and I don't mind the Assassins Creed franchise.

I've sunk so many hours into both Football Manager and EU 3/4 it's truly disgusting.

I love the mods MEIOU (EU3) and MEIOU and Taxes (EU4) which really expand the depth of the game and bring in elements from Victoria 2.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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I've sunk so many hours into both Football Manager and EU 3/4 it's truly disgusting.

I love the mods MEIOU (EU3) and MEIOU and Taxes (EU4) which really expand the depth of the game and bring in elements from Victoria 2.

I'll have to check out those mods once I'm through with my current game.! Thanks for that.
What are the main improvements with those mods?

[hujsh]

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It's been a very long time since I played EU3 and probably a year since EU4 but M&T last I checked overhauled significant aspects of the game. Religious mechanics were more realistic (converting a province converts some of the population and even when you have the majority converted there are still minorities, fanaticism vs secularism mechanics with different bonuses/maluses etc) factions had their own agenda, territory, armies and wealth, administration and province management became harder the further you were from your capital simulating the way large empires had difficulty managing distant parts of their empire, manpower and army management was tweaked to make wars more costly/realistic and the biggest change they had was a population system including a global food trade, different classes of population, infrastructure overhaul (eg commercial buildings bring more trades and a commercial class, farms a more rural class) and even an education system.

God knows what they've been working on since I checked last

[hujsh]

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Started playing God of War for the PS4. Kratos is a much more interesting character as a father with responsibility rather than a murdering, *!*!*!*!ing, revenge driven murderhobo like in the older games. I'm interested to see what the payoff is to his struggle to be a good father and be a little vulnerable around his son.

The gameplay is good but nothing I'd go out of my way to experience without the story and dialogue that accompany it.