PC Games That Have Ignited a New Interest in You

[Sigwolf]

I have to admit to never having heard of Osu.  After looking it up, I have no idea why I would want to investigate Osu any further... I don't get it.  Not my thing, I guess.  Grogheads while drinking?  That, I understand.

[JasonPratt]

This thread was revived by bots, unfortunately. But still a good topic!

.... there's another way to browse Grogheads?  ???

If there is I haven't found it.

That's because it's on the front page.

[SirAndrewD]

That's because it's on the front page.

Huh?  What nonsense are you talking?

[JasonPratt]

People tell me it can be found by searching the main forum page for "Area 51" (no quote marks), but so far I've preferred to let it stay a mythical imagination rather than risk disappointment by the reality.

[em2nought]

Ultimate Admiral and Task Force Admiral have me thinking about doing some modeling again.  These Chibi-Maru egg ships are so cute.

[Gusington]

^That is awesome.

[SummerFrog]

I've been playing PC games for about 15 years, and I just built a top-notch setup. however, I've since completely lost interest in gaming. I even purchased God of War after waiting years for its PC release. However, I haven't played it continuously for even a half-hour.

[GDS_Starfury]

clearly, Having Sex with Hitler has opened up a whole realm of possibilities. 

[MengJiao]

This thread was revived by bots, unfortunately. But still a good topic!

.... there's another way to browse Grogheads?  ???

If there is I haven't found it.

That's because it's on the front page.

  The SGS game on the war with Mexico in 1847-1849 forced me to notice that the US attack was dependent on assembling forces for the invasion at Vera Cruz at Tampico.  Kind of not what
I thought happened in the war plus the assembling invasion fleet would have been very vulnerable to any reasonable seaborne attack -- and the Mexicans theoretically had steam frigates that
could have made a mess at Tampico.

[CJReich46]

Ultimate Admiral and Task Force Admiral have me thinking about doing some modeling again.  These Chibi-Maru egg ships are so cute.

Yeah they are. I would love to get a couple. They even make carriers. I bet they would make a killer Lego design. I kind of like that part of any game where you build ships and design them. But yeah Ultimate Admiral had me reading on naval ship design to understand armor- mostly Wikipedia for a primer.

[Sardalivan]

You'll laugh at me here, but the best game of the month for me is Stray. Be a cat, run, meow and knock down cans - it's a DREAM! At first, I thought it was a stupid adventure, and the only fun part is that you are in the cat's body. But then I understood the development of the storyline, and it became more interesting. I've always laughed at games where you play as an animal, but Stray won me over. I even abandoned WoW and only occasionally read updates on https://skycoach.gg/blog. It's the first time I pay more attention to another game than WoW.

[Gusington]

Tell us more.

[Rutillo]

I'm a loser.

[Gusington]

Me too.

wut

[ArizonaTank]

Usually I read a book about a subject in history, and this causes me to search for board and PC games on the subject.

For example, I recently read Dan Jones' excellent "The Wars of the Roses" and this caused me to look at board games: "Kingmaker" by Avalon Hill, and "Blood and Roses" by GMT.  Also, "Field of Glory 2, Medieval" in PC land.

However, I can think of one PC game that did inspire me to learn more; that was "Battles of Napoleon" by SSI. When the game was released, I immediately saw how rich the history of the Napoleonic Wars was and wanted to learn more.

I suppose I could also list SSI's "Age of Rifles" as well. There were so many scenarios from wars I was not aware of, that I immediately had to find out more.