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

[mikeck]

Didn't feel like learning xcom but was ons sci fi mood. Sat down and finally figured out X3...playing Albiom Prelude. I chose to play the main argon plot line. Having a lot of fun, although I know in a week or so I will look around and say "what's the point?" Fun anyway. May try xcom later or might fire up scourge of war. Watching the BBC show "copper" got me fired up for the time period...go figure.

[undercovergeek]

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.)

is it possible to summarise exactly what youre looking for JP?

[Steelgrave]

XCom, baby, XCom. Like I have every day since it came out.

[Kushan]

I finally formed the Kingdom of Italy. Had to give away some of my duchies to my two sons in order to keep the rest of my vassals happy. Going to press claims against the Italian provinces that I don't own next. My duke, now king, is the marshall of the HRE....little does the emperor know I want to stab him in the back at the earliest possible moment.

[undercovergeek]

thats fantastic, well done - a long distant dream of Oberto in the Parma AAR - i bow to your skills

[Kushan]

thats fantastic, well done - a long distant dream of Oberto in the Parma AAR - i bow to your skills

I started as a duke, so I didn't have to work my way up the chain like you have to. The real challenge will be holding it together at succession time.

[TheCommandTent]

Finished episode 4 of The Walking Dead today.  It was entertaining with some interesting decision to make.  I am curious where they will take the last episode.

[undercovergeek]

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

downloading now - looks like a great waste of time

its awesome - lost an hour without even knowing it

[Bison]

Digging on BL2 tonight.  There is a new DLC out but I'm not far enough in the game to do it yet.

[MetalDog]

Got a lot of Civ IV BTS today.  Solo and MP.

[Tuna]

Played a lot of XCom Friday and Saturday, and I"m loving it! Did my first Base Assualt yesterday , it was tough, lost two (one a rookie so not a big deal), but a lot of fun...

Played a lil Silent Storm today (purchased last night)..

[JudgeDredd]

Played a lot of XCom Friday and Saturday, and I"m loving it! Did my first Base Assualt yesterday , it was tough, lost two (one a rookie so not a big deal), but a lot of fun...

Played a lil Silent Storm today (purchased last night)..

Harsh!

[bob48]

I did manage to get some WaW in, but finished up doing a couple of scenario's from 'Death of 1st Panzer' rather than BnB as intended. I've stil got masses of unplayed scenarios from my hefty WaW collection - not even touched 'Compendium' yet, and still have half of 'Paris is Burning' to play.

I aint pulled the trigger on 'Into the Breach' yet though, or my backlog will be even bigger!

[spelk]

Played some more X-Com, completed Journey again (I just can't get enough of how much that game makes me ride the emotional rollercoaster - I've never had a game affect me so much, even the second time through!). Played some Medal of Honour, the run and gun spawn/death cycle made me hanker after better, so I then played Battlefield 3: Armoured Kill. Finally resting on some MUD action with 4Dimensions, and a tiddly bit of Sryth. A busy weekend.

[JasonPratt]

Well, I eventually bought CK2 and Great Invasions (Matrix/AGEOD edition, 1.07c, through Gamersgate.)

I finally narrowed down my concerns to:

1.) Is there any way to effectively play Dark Ages and import into CK2? -- Answer, yes theoretically. GI covers a huge expanse of time, over 700 years, and ends with CK2's 1066 beginning, at which point I can use the CK2 ruler editor to import any surviving faction that I prefer to continue with.

2.) Where can I go after Vicky2? -- Answer, either HOI3 (which is arguably the better, deeper game, and which surely will have a Cold War expansion eventually anyway), or HOI2:ArmaDoom, which definitely works and into which Vicky2 was designed to continue.

So, if the contiguous imports work correctly, I should be able to recreate my faction from GI in CK2 (although not the world situation, but GI has a lot of determinism toward arriving at historical 1066 anyway), then from there through Vicky2 via EU3 (or possibly EU4 if it's released by then), and then from there either through HOI2 to the Cold War or HOI3 to 1948.

So potentially a game spanning a tad over 1600 years.

8)

(Next Friday... actually getting to play...  ::))