I'm buying myself a new video game for Christmas. what should it be?
What kind of games do you like?
I almost have the wife convinced to get an Xbox 360 with a kinect. She likes the exercise games they have for it.
RTS. I really like Age of Empire but no one plays it any more.
poseysail Sailing Tactics Simulator?
Mass Effect. Pick up the first one for a song, get the DLC for free, then roll right into Mass Effect 2. The final chapter is due out next year. Great game.
I read the wiki, doesn't seem like my thing. I really like the problem solving aspects of AoE. It's a lot like chess.
ME 1 and 2 have lots of exploration and problem solving, along with resource management and research... and then there's the FPS aspect. I got it because it is a very good space sim with some shooting.
You should check out Civilization 5, saw a review about it a while ago and it is supposed to be really good.
If you like RTS's then there's always Dawn of War 2 and Starcraft 2 which are both solid RTS's.
Yeh, they have promise. U know, I think what I really want is a Cat Sailor virtual paint ball arena.
When anyone says something anyone else disagrees with, we should be able to pull up their avatar and splat them. I would find that very entertaining and more than a tad satisfying. Pun intended.
Thats hurtful <img src="<>/frown.gif" alt="frown" title="frown" height="15" width="15" />
OH PLEASE! I thought you were a paint baller from way back! How many innocents did you splat?
This could (should) be fun!
This could (should) be fun!
Weapon Closet: http:/
pgp: I played at a semi-pro level... as much as any paintball at the time could be labelled
pro
.
I didn't shoot
innocents
since doing that jeopardized the ability of responsible paintball players to own and operate their markers.
What's a paint ball marker?
Fortunately paint ball did not exist when I was kid or I'd still be in detention.
paintball markers are the same things as paintball guns. Its just that at the time I was playing it, the anti-gun lobby was trying to ban paintball for the actions of a few irresponsible youths who were buying plastic guns at walmart then lighting up their neighbor's house.
So we started calling them markers instead of guns 😛
Guns don't paint, painters paint.
Is there a paint baller's NRA?
This could (should) be fun!
Weapon Closet: http:/
This is great! How do you put the flame thrower inside this thread?
1. robotower
2. angry birds
both very addictive and require next to no thought
I'm actually looking for something a little more engaging, like chess and perhaps with an accurate historical motif.
Something in this genre http:/
cartoon
graphics. I think the U.S. War colleges produce what I'm looking for but I've had no luck on their website.
Civilization 5 is awesome. Very engaging, strategic, with some historical basis, and some battle tactics. You will be up to 5 am wanting to play just one more turn. If you have never played a Civ game, you might try out Civ 4 or Alpha Centauri for cheap. Alpha Centauri is the most polished, but Civ 5 is the more interesting game.
Since you are a sailor, I also recommend Sid Meier's Pirates! It's not very new, but you sail around in the Caribbean firing cannons at the French, British etc. and taking their loot. It's a simple game (there is tacking and wind shifts though), but it's very fun. There are even some turn based battle mini games that you play while raiding a port.
For a unique and shorter game, I like Braid. It is something like $5 on Steam and you can go through the game in a day. It has some unique puzzles and is supposed to be set in a painting.
Of course all of these games are played in your momma's basement.
Feel free to flame yourself. http:/
(God I wish I could get this thing to open on CS! <img src="<>/cry.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="15" width="15" />)
both very addictive and require next to no thought
Angry Birds is ruining my life.
yeah... I obsess about these little games for a week then finish them and don't worry about it anymore. of course I tried for a bit to get all three stars but gave up.
I get too involved in video games so i try to avoid them.
Last one I was really addicted to was Rome: Total War. That was cool but I didn't even play it in the manner you were supposed to (never paid much attn to the
technology trees
)
I'm so glad I didn't have to pay for Angry Birds 😛
Nor any of the expansions 😛
Pigs Rule!
those bastards...
Since I just have to plug the game I spend most of my time in,
Latest expansion:
Expansion previous (all in game shots btw):
And previous to that, probably the best trailer that depicts actually what happens during a big battle with thousands of players at the same time. The voice overs don't sound too different than what the command channels sound like: