I have a feeling that there are a lot of "sim" games up to and including the Maxis "Sim-" brand that are only interesting enough to make a half dozen posts on, but which might be more interesting being discussed in the context of their peers and rivals.

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Yeah, my first instinct was to put this in the dump thread that Kazz (rightly) closed.

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So I like sim games and fake life games in a way that my therapist would probably disapprove of, but I wanted the boards to know that where Rune Factory 3 is a really good game.
Even subtracting points for my apparent love of tedium and low bar for NPC likability it's still really good. It's good because combat is fast, fun, and suitably customizable. You feel like your character is the lovable little killing machine you more-or-less want him to be. Also, while murdering things is required to progress in it, no other skills are. You are never required to actually farm making any farming I did do feel way less tedious. Also farming made me better at murdering things.
So did flirting with girls.
And eating cake.
And sleeping.
It's a game that gives you lots of little level and stat up indicators.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRk7W7CBMc#

Welcome to the Master of Magic LP, where I intend to exploit you for various builds and general strategies. We'll explore the ins and outs of Master of Magic together like it's high school all over again.
As I inevitably bring ruin to entire civilizations through my own incompetence and inability to plan ineptly chosen wizard builds I'll go back through your suggestions looking for combinations that the boards think it would be exciting to watch me fail with. On that note, it's time to lay some of the technical groundwork all one of you care about.

For starters, I am in fact running this shit through DosBox, from an originally floppy install diligently transferred over from machine to machine as my old workhorses got retired. Yes I should probably support GoG.

For seconds, here's the new game screen!

With my default settings that I have yet to claim a victory on!


Anyway, this game has a pretty awesome help system relative to it's era. A quick right click means I get information even on the most stagnant, offensively stupid topics!

Yeah. I might've clicked that when I was younger. Don't judge me.



Ideally, we'll be promoting me gradually through these ranks so that you can watch me flirt with success before the bitter reality of how terrible I am at games the impossibility of some strategies bears down on me!



Land size is one of the options I'm actually leaving to your discretion. Yes, larger landmass does mean more area to occupy and expand into, however there are elements of population dynamics to consider. It turns out continents will have one majority race present on them (including races already chosen by a wizard, I've had games where I only met dwarves and hobbits) with a smaller chance of a minority race. This is the only way to get access to the races not "given" to you by your computer opponents. This also means its very easy to make species extinct. Which is no fun.

More continents means more majority races, and a larger chance of supplementing your empire with servitor races that you like.



This option also isn't exactly up for debate. The magical power afforded to nodes not only effects how much a player stands to gain from them, but the strength of the enemies guarding them and the miscellaneous rewards for liberating the node in the first place.

Next update I actually hit the "OK' button. Trepidation!









For those of you wondering why the above video's music isn't a load of midi ass, that's because I'm borrowing without permission someone pasting the Master of Magic soundtrack over the Midi-fied version. Here's the opening in it's original midi glory, sadly, sans the opening credits scroll.

Master of Magic - Intro

Thankyou mega zed.

I've been playing dungeon crawl (stone soup) and I'm remembering that I suck at roguelikes! I also remembered that maybe there's not a nice thread for us to bitch about yasd, or how terrible roguelike X is when we're pretty sure it doesn't actually merit a whole thread to itself. e.g. Dungeon crawl.

Trying to google what the fuck you were talking about did lead me to an image of protoman being drawn like a MegaManZero character though!
Don't know how I feel about it. I do know that I found it.

EDIT:

Protoman and Zero do have similar color schemes and roles in their core Mega Man lines. However, in the canon "story" Zero is distinct from Protoman and is created as the original Sigma Virus vector. Designed by Wily to incapacitate Mega Man.

I am trying to compile a list of battle cries that I can use. Plz help.

F-For the horde???

So I'm tackling devil survivor. It's hard.

New DS Crystal Chronicles, hereafter referred to as "Echoes," remains fun in spite of the fact that all of my AI companions are about as intelligent as a brick YOUR MOM! and I'm missing at least two opportunities to explore hidden areas because I'm going it solo. However, the rewards for doing so are relatively good, and the point of all of the swag is still to give my cute little character new outfits.
Soon he will be a ninja.

One of my favorite old pastimes has been collecting old myths and folk stories. The other has been collecting patently insane conspiracy theory crap. I hope you guys use this thread to share your own favorite mad ramblings, and a few choice ones of your own.

e.g.
"The 'scandal-gate' form of faux pas labeling is being concerted by the Republican party and their supporters to make the ignorant masses believe that Watergate was some fuck up Nixon did involving plumbing."

It sounds "too plausible" to actually be a Classic original, but if you've got something batshit insane and/or improbable to add, go nuts.

At home he would salve, if not close, the ugly racial wound left by America’s history and lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all their problems on racism.

Yes, The Economist. Because that is exactly what those filthy blacks do.

Fable 2 - I cry a little more every time I see a review for this.  I want it to be good.

Sharkey's unusually positive ITS COMING OUT summary was... unusually positive.