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Digital Gaming => Computer Gaming => Topic started by: Anguille on March 06, 2020, 04:27:48 AM

Title: Love Friday
Post by: Anguille on March 06, 2020, 04:27:48 AM


Now that i've completed another campaign of Endless Space 2 (awesome game), i will focus on my current Stellaris campaign and most likely start with a Total War game...probably Napoleon Total War (as my son was asking about Waterloo).
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 07:23:01 AM
Finally may get some game time after a couple of weeks away. Taking a break from Star Wars and will either be starting Divine Divinity 2 or the Resident Evil 2 remake.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

Really need to bite the bullet and get some rudder pedals and TrackIR (or an equivalent) as well as whenever it comes my time to get penned in the house for a few weeks from The Virus of Doom, I'll have something to do besides moan, groan, and watch old kung-fu flicks on Amazon.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: GroggyGrognard on March 06, 2020, 11:40:52 AM
Still addicted to The Divison 2. So that will probably take up the majority of my game time this weekend. Now that the Warlords of New York expansion is out and patched, I might be tempted to buy it this weekend.

Also, Lost Cities card game will be hitting the table with my girlfriend as a tough but friendly opponent.:knuppel2:

Quote from: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 07:23:01 AM
Finally may get some game time after a couple of weeks away. Taking a break from Star Wars and will either be starting Divine Divinity 2 or the Resident Evil 2 remake.

Man, I love RE2 Remake. One of my favorite PS4 games that's in my library. My first game I ran through as Leon. I started Claire's campaign awhile back. But I really need to revisit it again and finish her story because it unlocks the  Fourth Survivor Mode.

Have a great weekend, Grogs!


Groggy
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 12:29:56 PM
Tell me more about why you like RE2  :dreamer:
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: MengJiao on March 06, 2020, 02:42:28 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

  I'm pretty much going to do my usual: World of Warships, DCS, BoX, Attila1212, and some HLL 
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 03:35:37 PM
I really need to play Attila 1212.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: CJReich46 on March 06, 2020, 04:48:49 PM
Off until Sunday. Inventory week.

So I'm probably going to play - Divinity Original Sin. I might do something else, not entirely sure.

Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Jarhead0331 on March 06, 2020, 05:08:03 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 06, 2020, 02:42:28 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

  I'm pretty much going to do my usual: World of Warships, DCS, BoX, Attila1212, and some HLL

How do you decide which post to quote in your response in the Friday threads? I've always wondered that.  :crazy2: There is not always an obvious connection.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: al_infierno on March 06, 2020, 09:19:25 PM
^ I have to admit I've wondered that too.  Lol

This weekend I'm going to try and wrap up this writing project I've been working on for the last 8-ish years.  Finally got around to sending out emails looking for cover artist commissions, which is exciting.  The only problem is I'm about 95% done, and anyone who's worked on any kind of creative project knows the last 5% is the hardest and most time consuming.   :crazy2:

When I do get around to gaming, it'll probably be more Red Dead Redemption, GTA Online, and Warhammer 40k: Armageddon.  I can't bring myself to play more Panzer Corps 1 now that I've tasted the new engine  :-\
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: CJReich46 on March 06, 2020, 09:49:12 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

Really need to bite the bullet and get some rudder pedals and TrackIR (or an equivalent) as well as whenever it comes my time to get penned in the house for a few weeks from The Virus of Doom, I'll have something to do besides moan, groan, and watch old kung-fu flicks on Amazon.

Carl, there is also Pluto TV's "Films of Fury" Channel.. TONS of kung-fu flicks.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 09:51:56 PM
Played Resident Evil 2 for about an hour and...it's just too much for me! I guess I am getting old. I enjoyed Biohazard for 10-12 hours and had to stop because it became just too gross and too much. It was much quicker for me to get to that point here.

Ok so either Divine Divinity 2 next or futz around with Diablo III...
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: airboy on March 06, 2020, 11:08:06 PM
I screwed up my game of Pacific Tide.  I may write a review.  I need to clear and clean the table because my wife wants to play some Mansions of Madness.  Otherwise, I need to get my materials together for the Call of Cthulhu scenario I'm running at Origins.

I'm just so happy we had a sunny day today.  We have had 22 inches of rain this year with February and March being especially bad.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Sir Slash on March 06, 2020, 11:10:56 PM
Wars of Napoleon the 1806 campaign. Should be fun. Maybe a little Rome 2 if I get the time. Have a great weekend Grogs.  :bd:
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: airboy on March 06, 2020, 11:37:27 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on March 06, 2020, 11:10:56 PM
Wars of Napoleon the 1806 campaign. Should be fun. Maybe a little Rome 2 if I get the time. Have a great weekend Grogs.  :bd:

The two Civil War 2 games going on have inspired me to take a pdf of the manual on my next trip.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 11:54:05 PM
CJReich46, you are so right and I was remiss in not mentioning Pluto TV.

MST3K, Rifftrax, and Classic Dr. Who all right there too.

-not a shill but would be for the right price
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: MengJiao on March 07, 2020, 08:20:57 AM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 06, 2020, 05:08:03 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 06, 2020, 02:42:28 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

  I'm pretty much going to do my usual: World of Warships, DCS, BoX, Attila1212, and some HLL

How do you decide which post to quote in your response in the Friday threads? I've always wondered that.  :crazy2: There is not always an obvious connection.

  I try to say something positive.  I love DCS so that triggered a positive response.  I try to float the positive waves and avoid propagating the negative waves ( sort of quote Donald Sutherland when he played a Sherman tank commander):

Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: MengJiao on March 07, 2020, 08:32:07 AM
Quote from: Gusington on March 06, 2020, 03:35:37 PM
I really need to play Attila 1212.

    Attila 1212 definitely has its moments.  Like when my Knights of Antioch crested a hill somewhere near the headwaters of the Tigris and confronted some really heavily armored horsemen of a type I'd never heard of.  They looked horribly authentic and unusually serious.  You could almost hear my whole army saying "Who are those guys?"  Luckily the Knights of St. John were on hand to just flat out charge them while I found some Templars to go round up their ax-happy infantry.  In my role as King of Antioch, I carefully hid behind some Knights of Antioch til the situation got clarified.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Tripoli on March 07, 2020, 08:48:26 AM
Quote from: airboy on March 06, 2020, 11:37:27 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on March 06, 2020, 11:10:56 PM
Wars of Napoleon the 1806 campaign. Should be fun. Maybe a little Rome 2 if I get the time. Have a great weekend Grogs.  :bd:

The two Civil War 2 games going on have inspired me to take a pdf of the manual on my next trip.

I WILL GET the Civil war game AAR done this weekend (I've been bad about getting the AAR updated).  However, it will have to wait until after my taxes are mailed to the accountant.   :(    Regarding the manual:  The Aegod manual is okay, but as a newbie to the ACW II system, I found that the following video series were very helpful, as the manual is a bit sparse:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh627jSGoobxkOAb_CYadIQsmsXKpDv-z


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnJCQYk0tWc3GPGOou9ILntl_1sAdqKD8
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Pete Dero on March 07, 2020, 11:21:05 AM
I'm playing HOIV with the resistance DLC.   But so far I can't say I am overwhelmed by it.  I feel most intelligence operations take a long time to complete and the rewards aren't that great.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Sir Slash on March 07, 2020, 12:07:29 PM
Those are great videos Tripoli, helped me a lot. The manual is good too but doesn't cover everything unfortunately. So far I've found WoN to be very stable and bug-free unlike what the complaints of it said, but I haven't tried the full campaign yet and that's probably where most of the problems will arise with so much for the AI to think about. The biggest gripe I have so far is the lack of scenarios, there's just a few while there are 3 different starting points for the Grand Campaign.  :o  Come on guys, where's the Spanish Campaign or the Russian 1812 slugfest?  :hide:
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 07, 2020, 01:11:07 PM
'Horribly authentic and unusually serious'  \m/
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Sir Slash on March 07, 2020, 10:49:39 PM
Hey, that's my professional name when I do my Drag Queen show.  :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 07, 2020, 11:21:54 PM
Fitting. Like your skirts.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Sir Slash on March 08, 2020, 05:22:52 PM
They do get pretty tight by the end of a long night. But it's the heels that really get uncomfortable.
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 08, 2020, 06:32:26 PM
HA
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Anguille on March 09, 2020, 04:57:37 AM
Finished my first Total War campaign for a long time (Italian Campaign in Napoleon Total War). Already started the Egyptian campaign. Also made some progresse in my current Stellaris campaign (integrated a friendly nation and met another major race)...
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: al_infierno on March 09, 2020, 02:51:56 PM
Quote from: al_infierno on March 06, 2020, 09:19:25 PM

This weekend I'm going to try and wrap up this writing project I've been working on for the last 8-ish years.  Finally got around to sending out emails looking for cover artist commissions, which is exciting.  The only problem is I'm about 95% done, and anyone who's worked on any kind of creative project knows the last 5% is the hardest and most time consuming.   :crazy2:


The weekend's gone and I'm only 96% done, as to be expected  ^-^

I've officially got one more weekend before Panzer Corps 2 releases and all my free-time productivity tanks... so to speak...

Really though -- I can't be the only one who's unrealistically excited for PC2?!?
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: Gusington on March 09, 2020, 08:13:03 PM
NO  :dreamer:
Title: Re: Love Friday
Post by: CJReich46 on March 09, 2020, 08:30:58 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on March 06, 2020, 11:54:05 PM
CJReich46, you are so right and I was remiss in not mentioning Pluto TV.

MST3K, Rifftrax, and Classic Dr. Who all right there too.

-not a shill but would be for the right price

Yeah. I tend to watch MST3k off the Shoutfactory TV site. No commercials and Pluto is terrible for repeating the same ones over and over and over. I remember watching Apocalypse Now Redux. Right when the famous "Flight of Valkyrie" scene,  all the Huey gunships are lined up for the attack on that village....COMMERCIAL!  :tickedoff: and even if you go to their site On Demand, there is no way to avoid the commercials. Even if you wanted to rewind to see a scene over. UGH.

So if there's something I really gotta see on there, I'll tolerate the commercials or mute them.