I hate that feeling of bouncing between things, or of just staring at my screen so much. So much. But when it happens, I am rarely able to snap out of it in the moment. It usually takes a few days and a mood change to fix it.
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And that, too, isn't new. It's been done since at least the Spellforce series, or Dawn of War 2.
If you want to see what an "innovated" RTS looks like, check out Beyond All Reason. The base formula is Total Annihilation, but with nearly 30 years of player driven improvements and QoL. That game's UX is extremely smart, and you can keybind or automate so many things on the fly, freeing you up to make strategic and tactical level decisions , instead of spamclicking for micro. Which, you can also do if you want to.
Just picked this one up since it was cheap.and I've been wanting to play a village management game in a while. Holy crap this game is amazing. I spent 6 hours on it un the first day alone. I love how the roguelike format keeps it always engaging and direct, without meandering about trying to figure out what I want to do. It has clear goals, needs to be met, and multiple ways to reach those goals. I usually like playing RTS games in short bursts of Skirmishes, and this feels very similar. Trying different strategies with different buildings and terrains.
I was also looking at Timberborn (funny how both games have postapocalyptic sentient beavers) and Farthest Frontier, but I think I'll be busy with AtS for a while until I get to try those two. And I'll never need to even consider giving Ubisoft my money for Anno ever again.
I started with All Guardsmen Party, only understanding about half of what was going on through context clues and some familiar names.
Now, for what I think might actually be a decent introduction to the lore: Eisenhorn trilogy, Ciaphas Cain, Helsreach, the Night Lords omnibus... And honestly, if you have any faction you're particularly interested in, just pick a book that focuses on them. If you like a certain Space Marine chapter, pick one of their books. They have internal series but each group of books is greatly independent from all others. I started with the Carcharodons books and really enjoyed them. I absolutely loved reading Assassinorum:Kingmaker because I really love the Imperial Knights giant robots. Look around.
When in doubt, true doubt, Doom is always there for me, in every device I own.
Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I've played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.
I've been playing using the latest forks setup on the Fitgirl torrents of Switch games. Started with The new Zelda and Unicorn Overlord, then grabbed some other games. The folder comes with a launcher to both emulators, I customized the whole thing to be my own Switch central, and updated the Ryujinx build with the last "official" one on the Internet Archive.
Other than that, this thread has good recommendations for followup projects to both. The megathread has places to download the games themselves individually.
Usually around Christmas time it's vacations and steam sale times and sometimes beach trips with my Switch and phone. So it depends a lot. But, also because of that, there are some games I played on the past in this time of the year that kinda got stuck with holidays vibes because of it. Some kf them are Doom, Quake and Monster Hunter. I think I'll be playing Pokemon Platinum this year too, on my phone.
We finally had a Double Event, like the Pacific Rim scene. Two Eurofighter leaks in as many weeks!
Okay so what happens to Simon who finds a buried Gundam near his underground village with Kamina?
I don't remember that Oni game by Bungie. That cover art looks nice.
Oh hey capitalism wants to create the Daemonculaba.