What videogames are you playing in 2025?

Thomas Shey said:

I play more recent ones too--Endless Space for example--but MOO2 is my comfort food of old games.

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Probably SMAC and Civ3 for me. And KotoR.

Zardnaar said:

Probably SMAC and Civ3 for me. And KotoR.

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Those used to land there for me too, and I'll still do SMAC some times. For some reason the narrow-screen thing even the GOG version of Civ3 does on my current computer bothers me excessively.

MOO2 has an additional advantage in that you can usually play through a whole run of it pretty quickly.

Thomas Shey said:

Those used to land there for me too, and I'll still do SMAC some times. For some reason the narrow-screen thing even the GOG version of Civ3 does on my current computer bothers me excessively.

MOO2 has an additional advantage in that you can usually play through a whole run of it pretty quickly.

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Think I have the civ 3 disks somewhere. I have SMAC in physical form as well as GoG.

Oh also Star Wars Empire at war. I usually play mods though eg Thrawns Revenge.

Zardnaar said:

Think I have the civ 3 disks somewhere. I have SMAC in physical form as well as GoG.

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I had old installers for Civ3 for the longest time, but hoped the GOG version would look better on current computers so I bought that (not like it was expensive). Sadly, it doesn't.

Thomas Shey said:

I had old installers for Civ3 for the longest time, but hoped the GOG version would look better on current computers so I bought that (not like it was expensive). Sadly, it doesn't.

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I'm using it on steam. Bit buggy loading and very fast boot up. It's good enough though especially at $2.50 price. I don't play it much though as I moved onto grand strategy circa CivIV era.

payn said:

Yeah, I had higher hopes for MW5 it went in a pretty arcade like direction.

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MW5: Clans has a more narrative campaign mode. One nice touch is the dialogue from Smoke Jaguar characters demonstrating they really don't understand the Inner Sphere or how they fight wars. The Clanners are very concerned about not wasting assets and are horrified at the dishonorable Draconis Combine forces that continue to fight even when it results in more destruction of their own (soon to be turned over to Smoke Jaguar) infrastructure.

There's one mission where you're going into a DC city and you're calling on the military to surrender and/or the people to turn the hidden forces in to Clan authorities. When you finally fight the DC forces, after much of the city is in ruins, the Clan calls out their general for being a coward, who could have avoiding this unnecessary destruction by surrendering his forces instead of fighting. The general's retorts, pointing out that he wasn't the invader, he was pissed someone was taking his home, and the clans only "played at war" but was going to be schooled on what it really meant.

Currently playing through Subnautica for the nth time, mainly because once you're familiar with it it's a fairly chill game to play while listening to podcasts (aside from when you get turned around in a cave system and absolutely fail to find your way back out to your sub before your air runs out).

Been playing Monster Hunter Wilds. I’ve long beat the story, but it’s still got a hold of me, especially with the most recent and the upcoming update.

Zardnaar said:

Damn thought I was retro with Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri.

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I am a bit confused. I said Warhammer I and II, not WarCraft I and II.

Kaodi said:

I am a bit confused. I said Warhammer I and II, not WarCraft I and II.

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Derp ima dumbass.