Gaming - Fall/Winter Hit List

[PanzersEast]

Look, most of us have a ton of games waiting to be played or we play out of a sheer feeling of we spent money on it so we are obligated.... I am almost embarrassed to post as much crap as I have either setting around on my drive or waiting to be downloaded.  Therefore, I have created my Fall/Winter Hit List were I will try and do at least one play through of the following and if I cannot complete them or just feel like it is something I am not interested etc....  then I will just chunk it from my HD to gaming purgatory and move on. 

I hope to continually update the list as I play and hopefully by the end of the year I will have condensed a solid list of games I will continue to play and all the while start using better judgment on my purchases. I plan only to purchase EU IV and maybe one other game between now and the end of the year.  I have included my regularly played games as well...  This list not my complete list of games but the ones I am most interested in and most likely to play.  Could tweak the list a little....

If you are wondering... yes I am crazy, have a full time job, a wife, and a life outside, however I get very little sleep.   ;)

• Europa Universalis IV
• Crusader Kings II
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
• Distant Worlds
• Civilization V
• Skyrim
• Wargame AirLand Battle
• Eador: Masters of the Broken World
• X3 Albion Prelude

• Shogun Total War II
• Euro Truck Sim 2
• Warlock: Master of the Arcane
• Dominions 3
• Sword of the Stars II
• Hearts of Iron III
• Victoria II
• Evil Genius
• Alpha Centauri
• Carrier Command
• Blood Bowl
• DDS ProBB 2
• OOTP 14
• Dwarf Fortress
• Alea Jacta Est
• Aurora 4X
• Star Drive
• Endless Space
• Kerbal Space Program
• Xenonauts (still in beta)
• Fall Out 3
• Romance the Three Kingdoms XI
• The Guild II
• Imperialism II
• Dishonored
• X-Com
• Silent Storm

PE

[Martok]

You're braver than I am, PE.  I couldn't bring myself to even post a list, as it would be too depressingly long. 

[W8taminute]

Oh I need more time to put some thought into this but I'm looking forward to the following:

Rome Total War 2
Dark Souls 2
ACW2
Dominions4


There are more and I should post my laundry list of games that are still on my backlog but like I said.  I need more time to think about this.  And PE I'm just like you, got the wife, full time job (thank goodness!!), kids, and an occasional life outside, all with very little sleep.

[Rayfer]

You're braver than I am, PE.  I couldn't bring myself to even post a list, as it would be too depressingly long.

LOL...I feel your pain, me too.

[Sir Slash]

I'm waiting on Rome 2 and whatever DLC follows and Market/Garden for CMBN. But there's always one that slips up on me that I never see coming and bam, it's on my harddrive.

[-budd-]

Well it seems since i fractured my right thumb at work yesterday and i'm at home waiting to see if they will have modified duty for me........ looks like  my FPS rampage is going to have to be over for about 6 to 8 weeks. Can't really work my 7 button mouse very well for the fast twitch games[ i know, i already tried]. Looks like i will have to return to turn based for a bit. Good thing i have a few ;). Since insomnia runs in my family i get some extra gaming hours in. Your thread got me thinking about my possibilities for my intended playlist for at least the next 6 to 8 weeks. Here's what i'm thinking right now....subject change or whim :D

Civ 5 [once BNW goes on sale again and i buy it]
Warlock master of the arcane
Xcom enemy unknown
Homm3 HD
Campaign series [ getting the itch after following the developer diaries]
Red Victory
ATG [with lancer's enhanced AI & officers mod]

I'm not sure which one of these will take up my time yet, but i'm thinking warlock will be first on deck.
I'm also considering the ancient games matrix has on sale this week, spartan in particular. Not sure gates of Troy is turn based, but i'll look into it.

[Sir Slash]

Hey Budd. Hope you get better soon. Or get some real-good pain meds. Nobody ever said it was gonna be easy to be a gamer injured thumb or not. At least you can still give the game a finger when it beats you. :D

[Anguille]

Hey...i have an excell sheet with all the games i'll be playing (yearly plan - month by month), the ones i've played etc...i am updating it on a regular basis since 2004 i think :o

Couldn't keep track otherwise.

[Huw the Poo]

My problem is the games I like are generally sandboxy and open-ended, so I can't ever "finish" them.  I'm definitely going to be playing a lot of Dota 2 in the coming months, unless I get pissed off with it, and no doubt plenty of Rift.  Besides that, I might have a crack at:

Fallen Enchantress
Civ V (Haven't played this yet)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Patrician 4
Tropico 3
Black Shark
Master of Orion 3

Oh, and Dark Souls on the sexybox.  Astonishing game.

[TheCommandTent]

Interesting thread.  I hesitate to put anything down as y'all might hold me to it but here goes ...


Civ V
CK II
Fallen Enchantress
CMFI
StarCraft II - Zerg Campaign

[-budd-]

looks like i have to add Spartan & Gates of troy to my list. Haven't got a good download yet for GOT, won't install at the present moment. I put in a support ticket. I downloaded from plimus and got the download reset and tried again, then tried the members area. All the downloads are 26 bytes in size, so something wrong there. Spartan was 298 megs. Pip from slitherine is assisting me thru the forums. I did get a chance to go thru the tutorials for Spartan. The fixed resolution is a bummer, but the tutorials are well done and the game is deeper than i assumed when looking at it in the past. I'm kind of waiting for GOT to get working before jumping in all the way because Spartan will work thru GOT if you have both installed and i guess there are more features in the improved engine. I did have to drop a .dll file into the directory with the Spartan exe. to get it to run on windows 7, no issues so far after i did that and the file can be downloaded in a thread in slitherines forums.. so  no biggy.

[Kushan]

Current games that I'm going to keep playing:

Skyrim
Distant Worlds: Shadows
Wargame: ALB
Crusader Kings 2
Xenonauts (Beta)
Fallen Enchantress: LH

There isn't much I'm looking forward to the last half of the year. For the purpose of this list I'm not going to include games like Command, Hegemony: Rome and Red Storm that don't have a set release date.

Games on my to play list:

Dishonored (Own it but haven;t played more then a handful of minutes)
Europa Universalis IV (August)
Rome 2 (September)
Wastland 2 - Beta (October)
Fallout 3 (Own it but quit after only a week or so of playing)
Victoria 2

[bbmike]

I, much like PE, also recently made the decision to chip away at the list of unplayed games I own. My approach, however, wasn't as elegant as PE's though.  :P

[PanzersEast]

I, much like PE, also recently made the decision to chip away at the list of unplayed games I own. My approach, however, wasn't as elegant as PE's though.  :P

But much more Bold! I see you are going way back and have gone all the way back Deadlock: Planetary Conquest, that is a feat I could not do.

I broke out SoTS II and have gotten the core mechanics and economics down.  I have not looked at the game for months and even then it was a brief period.  I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised thus far and have enjoyed it more than I thought.  I still have a lot of unanswered questions in terms of AI competency and strategic options, but overall I have enjoyed it.



PE

[PanzersEast]

More work than I thought, but have begin to shorten my list. Going through these has made me overload somewhat but I have eliminated Imperialism II (EU IV), Star Drive (just cannot get into it), Shogun Total War II (Rome Total War II).

Other games I am looking at eliminating are Eador: Masters of the Broken World (just a very limited game and becomes repetitive pretty quickly).  Sword of the Stars II, I have enjoyed the game, however the AI is suspect.... there are so many good things about the game but that really cripples it more than the UI.  Blood Bowl, just a fun game (trying to see if the AI holds up).

Have started a couple more games and will report back soon.  ;)

Green = Fall playlist
Red = Gaming Purgatory

• Europa Universalis IV
• Crusader Kings II
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
• Distant Worlds
• Civilization V
• Skyrim
• Wargame AirLand Battle

• Eador: Masters of the Broken World
• X3 Albion Prelude
• Shogun Total War II
• Euro Truck Sim 2
• Warlock: Master of the Arcane
• Dominions 3
• Sword of the Stars II
• Hearts of Iron III
• Victoria II
• Evil Genius
• Alpha Centauri
• Carrier Command
• Blood Bowl
• DDS ProBB 2
• OOTP 14
• Dwarf Fortress
• Alea Jacta Est
• Aurora 4X
• Star Drive
• Endless Space
• Kerbal Space Program
• Xenonauts (still in beta)
• Fall Out 3
• Romance the Three Kingdoms XI
• The Guild II
• Imperialism II
• Dishonored
• X-Com
• Silent Storm

PE