It's Friday! What will you be playing this weekend?

[Cougar_DK]

Damn all of you to hell...Mark of the Ninja looks awesome.

It sure does and all your talk about Dishonored and the recent article about stealth games on rock, paper & shotgun.... But I haven't bought it yet  :P

[MetalDog]

Played two games of Atari's Axis & Allies.  I was Japan both times.  I rolled to a victory in the first game taking out two German and one American player, including Nimitz who has the Atomic Bomb as his special weapon.  Lost the second game to Great Britain after putting a German player out.

[Kushan]

The Duchy of Lombardy in February 1090. I can raise a little over 3k troops. Don't have any retinues yet. I can raise a skirmisher retinue if I wanted but I'd rather wait until I can recruit a light or heavy retinue. My duke is 80 years old. Don't think he's going to last much longer. That is my one complaint that I have with CK2, most of my characters seem to live well into their 70's or early 80's, and I don't think lifespans during the era came anywhere near that. With your ruler living so long, you miss out on being able to choose who the guardian for your grandchildren will be.

About time to take on The Duchess. Will probably fall to my heir when he inherits. Lombardy doesn't start out with gavelkind succession. My realm should remain more or less intact through successions, unless I have to give land away because of my heir being too young.

[MetalDog]

^ Nicely done!

[Toonces]

Well, I am all over the place tonight with gaming.

Started with War in the North.  Completed one level but just didn't feel compelled to continue...not grabbing me.

Moved on to Crusader Kings 2.  I stuck with this for a while, but I'm not sure what happened.  The succession gremlins got into my save game or something (playing as King of Scotland) but as soon as I booted up my last save all hell broke loose.  First I had three provinces rebel, forming the "so-and-so for King alliance" or something of that sort.  I fought a 2 year war to bring them back into the fold, depleting my treasury by hiring mercenaries to bring the war to a close.  Ended up imprisoning the jerk that started the mess and considered executing him.  Shortly thereafter, Norway declared war on me.  I had no chance in this war, but decided to let it ride a year or so just to see what happened.  Fortunately, the King of France asked to marry my 17 year old sister, which I heartily agreed to.  Immediately thereafter I asked France to join the war, but he declined.  What a dick.  So I actually surrendered to Norway before he ravaged the whole of Scotland.  Not sure what happened next; my guy who was King became a pauper I guess and my heir (his son) becomes a Duke of like 6 provinces and a vassal of Norway.  I think.  It's kind of confusing.  But, I think that my son (me) has a claim on the kingdom once Norway dies, so this might be worth pressing with just to see what happens.   Anyway, after that flurry of activity I shelved CK2 for the night.

Booted up Skyrim to play a 3rd party quest mod- "The Bigger They Fall..."  Got lots of 5 stars so I figured I'd give it a try, but it was lame.  I did get to use my werewolf power finally, for the first time.  Still once the very short quest was over I was like, "now what?" and bagged it.

Tried to boot up King Arthur 2, but it's crashing on me so I went with KA1 and the Saxons Campaign, which I haven't played.  Got in 10 turns, but, meh, not what I want to play.

Tried a little Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword.  It's neat seeing all of the characters from the book in the game, but I just have a lot of trouble adjusting from Skyrim to Mount and Blade.

And that's it.  Now I'm not sure what to play.  Nothing seems to keep my attention.  It's like I can see the game I want to play in my mind, but none of the games I'm playing are quite it.

[FlickJax]

Football Manager 2013 Beta, XCOM, WoTs

[undercovergeek]

And that's it.  Now I'm not sure what to play.  Nothing seems to keep my attention.  It's like I can see the game I want to play in my mind, but none of the games I'm playing are quite it.

Been there - CKII and CMBN seem to cover most of it for me though, but occassionally i get what youve experienced this weekend

[undercovergeek]

So my question, somewhat broadly put, is: what's the longest contiguous timeline that can be played between games, carrying over a developed position from one game to the next?

1066 to the end of Victoria - using CKII, EU3 and Victoria

[Toonces]

Stupid me, I wanted to play Left 4 Dead 2 !!!

So, I got about 10 games of MP on with this.  This game is the perfect "I don't know what to play, so let me play somethign with a 4 minute attention span" game.  I did a bunch of matches in MP, no teams, no BS, just shooting crap up for 5 minutes at a time.  Yes, this is what I was looking for to play tonight!

[undercovergeek]

Damn all of you to hell...Mark of the Ninja looks awesome.

downloading now - looks like a great waste of time

[bob48]

Blood and Bridges for me today.

[JudgeDredd]

And Euro Truck Simulator 2!  :)

[JasonPratt]

Each game only covers a specific period of time.

Yes, I know. That's why I was questioning "continuity between games" and whether this still holds.

A related secondary question would be what the best "Paradox engine" games would be for as many time periods as possible: to cover such-n-such period the best choice currently would be, and then for the next period or as close as possible the best choice would be, etc. The difference being that this question ignores continuity of position being ported between games and just focuses on what's currently the best games of the Paradox engine for a time period.

Each Paradox game covers a specific era. None of them are a civilization style where you start at the beginning of time and span multiple eras.

Yes, I know, I was talking about that, as noted in my quote above. Thanks.  ;)


I see you and undercovergeek suggest CK2 thru EU3 thru Vicky2. (I'm presuming you meant Vicky2, not Vicky1.) Does Vicky2 not carry over itself into HOI3 or HOI2?

I know Vicky 1 (with its expansions) carries over into HOI2 (and its expansions, which run far into the Cold War period); and it picks up from some version of EU2 (or possibly "For the Glory"?); which picks up from CK1 (including the Deus Vult supermod?). Before that there seems nothing (unless one counts the sorta-Clausewitz engine for Ageod's "Great Invasions", but those results don't carry into any Paradox game of course), back until EU:Rome which only seems to run up until 32CE.

But then there are people who prefer Darkest Hour:HOI -- but how far does that go? And to what extent can it pick up from Vicky2? (Probably not at all, since they overlap with WW1 and the interwar period.)

[LongBlade]

I will be banging my head against Xcom. The mid game is getting frustratingly difficult to beat. And I'm playing on Normal. I don't know how you guys manage to stay sane on harder levels.

[Barthheart]

S tuck listening to physicists all weekend at a project collaboration meeting.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!  :P

Sudbury on a Saturday night!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Dw7rzpvDvS0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDw7rzpvDvS0

Try to squeeze in some beta testing at night....