Ah yes, a stellaris weekend full of alien genocide
I picked up the Star Trek Stellaris that released recently with mixed reviews, having never played Stellaris. I hope it’s good.
I do love my biolumenesent krakens
Learning curves and time management don’t mix
Doesn’t exactly match up but I use Factorio for this. Or more accurately it uses me.
Factorio is so good.
The map needs to slowly change to the color of my faction for my life to have any meaning.
That’s the good shit
Turns out it’s just the man’s equivalent of a coloring book
And like all coloring books, it would feel hollow without some light genocide
That is such a good way of looking at it. You’re spot on
Paradox games are all about painting the map your own colour 👨🎨
That is how I play northgard.
Civ 5 here. I’ll be 39 this year and play the least out of my friends group (probably 1 or 2 sessions a month where I quit 3 or 4 hours in, and once a month or less playing for 6 or more hours to almost actually finish a game). The friends I play with are all mid 40s and do a full game at least weekly. We all have wives and kids and stuff but are huge nerds i guess.
I have launched Civ 6 once, launched a quick game with bots, blinked and realized 2.5 hours have passed. I’m scared to reopen the game. Next time I might wake up with a gray head and wrinkles on my face
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extremely sus of any man in their mid 20s to mid 30s who doesn’t play a map-based strategy game. Like how the fuck do you get through life without occasionally taking the edge off by moving soldiers around a map
Well they weren’t soldiers but now they have guns and love organ harvesting and other war crimes…
Most of us use drugs or alcohol.
Hell yeah, drugs and alcohol enhance map games so much. Great combination, would recommend.
Ever try drugs and VR?
Taking the edge off.
Missing a 95% chance shot in Xcom and subsequently having your whole party wiped out by aliens
Pick one
Ayyyyy, if a missed 95% shot fucks things over that bad then you probably weren’t handling the situation that well in the first place!
He says, as his entire squad gets eggs laid in them
A plan is just a list of stuff to go wrong.
Hah, you can try to stay on top of it. But no matter how hard you try, there’s always a chance of that one little mistake that turns into a cock-up cascade and leaves most of your squad dead and one remaining soldier trying to crawl to evac.
I love that game, but I’m probably a masochist.
Look, it’s alien invasion simulator not friendly fun-time simulator, sometimes everything goes to shit and you need to roll with that!
Loading last save isn’t that stressful.
Sometimes you gotta play XCOM on Ironman Mode just to punish yourself.
i exclusively play xcom on ironman because i tend to reload on the tiniest misstep - and then i get annoyed about myself, because i cant accept anything else than perfect. ironman fixes that for me :-)
Red Alert 2 is cozy gaming
Civilization 4 is cozy gaming.
Absolutely true
For those not interested in in the age of empires and command and conquers of the world, you always have a crusader kings to just murder all those who wrong you and then seduce their widows.
Man i really need to dig up SMAC or something like it.
If you can’t find it, it is nearly always super cheap on GOG.
I know I already replied once, but on a serious note: I would love a new IP that was like Tiberium Sun. That was my first love with RTS and nothing since has been quite as awesome. Not even StarCraft.
I play cozy games instead. Can’t wait for the next Animal Crossing.
Nothing more cozy than vanquishing your foes and burning their lands
I’ve noticed you’ve recently settled a statement close to my psyche, I request that you refrain from settling too close in the future to avoid any ill feelings!
