Old World from Soren Johnson

[Gusington]

I'm a dork, not a nerd. BTW I subscribed to the Mohawk Games newsletter and for that I got a free Steam code to Offworld Trading Company. I just spent the last 30 minutes poking around in Old World and the amount of detail is eye watering.

[W8taminute]

^That's very good to hear!  Getting ready to pull the trigger myself in a bit.

[Gusington]

^All the cool kids (and I) are doing it.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Us Epic hipsters did it a year ago.  I had monkey assassins way before Monkeypox made it cool.

[Gusington]

You and your skinny jeans and your artisanal cheese and your Foals.

[devoncop]

Trouble with being an early adopter "cool kid" of course is that now Old World has gone to Steam it has gone " too commercial man, and sold out" so Robot will be unable to bring himself to play it anymore. Its Dylan going electric all over again ;)

I am now well into tutorial 3 and the tutorials are a case study in how such things should be constructed. They show you the important concepts but after tutorial 1 which is short and basic, you are given objuctives to complete but given freedom to develop your nationaround those so you can make your own mistakes. In other words you feel you are already playing the game and not just being railroaded.

[Sir Slash]

"Old World" Is the nursing home my wife threatens to send me to when I forget things around here. Now I can tell her, 'sure Dear' and sit down and play it.  ^-^

[W8taminute]

Trouble with being an early adopter "cool kid" of course is that now Old World has gone to Steam it has gone " too commercial man, and sold out" so Robot will be unable to bring himself to play it anymore. Its Dylan going electric all over again ;)

I am now well into tutorial 3 and the tutorials are a case study in how such things should be constructed. They show you the important concepts but after tutorial 1 which is short and basic, you are given objuctives to complete but given freedom to develop your nationaround those so you can make your own mistakes. In other words you feel you are already playing the game and not just being railroaded.

Agreed.  I finished the first tutorial last night and got the same feeling.  This game looks promising. 

[Gusington]

Haha 'Dylan going electric'  ;D

[W8taminute]

^All the cool kids (and I) are doing it.

I'm a cool kid too!   ;D

[devoncop]

Haha 'Dylan going electric'  ;D

Some folk are still bitter about that 😂

Let me know what you think about Old World after you do the tutorials...I will be really interested to know .

[Gusington]

Hoping to do at least a few of the tutorials this weekend. The 'old me' would try to wait until I got a little further in PoEII but the new me is saying 'f that.'

[W8taminute]

Hoping to do at least a few of the tutorials this weekend. The 'old me' would try to wait until I got a little further in PoEII but the new me is saying 'f that.'

The new Gus is making me laugh.  Yes, 'f that' brother and just dive into Old World.   

[Sir Slash]

But...but...PoE2 has, 'Sea Shanties'. Try competing with that.  :P

[Gusington]

^PoEII is really really good...I barely remember anything of the first one but this one is so much more gooder. I love the whole life at sea thang and the mix of Spanish, Venetian, native cultures, etc. Combat took some getting used to but I finally got it in the last couple of days...just in time for Old World to be released.

So I will be doing a very rare thing for OCD me and dropping everything to start the tutorials in Old World and my first campaign in Total War: Troy.

Still running on the high I got from finally starting a Three Kingdoms Total War campaign. Played for a about 25 hours until I got totally flummoxed on what I was supposed to be doing or how to do it. But I'll return to that game one day too.