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I just started a game using the Shattered World Mod, where only counts exist. I'm really excited to see what kingdoms and empires form. I started in Navarra because its one of the easiest kingdoms to form and I like playing as Basques to get absolute congic succession. I Will probably post a screenshot when the map has stabilized a bit, right now its a mad scramble to see who can grow the fastest. Its kind of fun just to watch the AI get really aggressive. I might set up another game to run while I'm at work, let the AI play by itself and see what world they make.

That kind of AR is quite a ways off, power requirements alone really limit it. I honestly prefer VR to AR because I dislike the mixture of CGI and real imagery, I prefer cohesive experiences. The best use of AR that I could think of in my life would be unlimited screen size/space for my work computer while still being able to see when a co-worker comes over to talk to me.

Minecraft drunk is a disaster, the blocky graphics make me feel ill and I have a lot of trouble building in a straight line while tipsy.

From: http://www.skylinescity.com/cities-skylines-faq The cities can be 36 square km Tokyo is 13,572 km2 Seoui is much more manageable at 605.21 km2 Some one on reddit has done something close to what i want to do http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2yzafr/404_thousand_population_this_game_is_amazing/

This is what VR is for:

How possible would it be to build a Seoul or Tokyo style city in this game? High density of apartment buildings, condos and sky scrapers, lots of public transit and no houses. ~85% of people in Korea live in apartments and this has always appealed to me from an environmental standpoint. Also mega-cities are really interesting.

Today some actual gameplay footage of the developers playing deathmatch was posted. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/30/unreal-tournament-team-deathmatch/ I am so freaking excited, in previous videos they have acnowledged the errors of Unreal Tournament 3. There has been a lot of discussion of how to improve level and character design to create a better look. They apparently are playing with solutions to the glowing character models they had in UT3. The only thing I worry about is that the UI and weapon models I have seen so far are right out of 3, but I assume this is because the functional version is still rather barebones. I just hope they diverge more from that design. http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/24/5932869/unreal-tournament-screenshots-video If they mention bringing assualt back, I don't know how if will be able to wait. Perhaps cyrogenics.....

I would consider most of the changes to weapons and movement to be tweeks more than major changes. Gamemodes is where the real changed between the UT games are, unless we include Unreal Championship 2, which had the odd, but not terrible melee focus. I do hope they bring in some of the weapons from other games, I like having big weapon lists, beyond a static 10. Would be great if the included every gun from each game

Sounds like they are planning a patch to overhaul the Diplomacy and Wonders as well as increasing/expanding the backstory. Its a good first step towards making BE into the game it could have been. Happy to see that the devs have noticed that people are unhappy and are working to fix it. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/12/big-2-0-update-to-fix-conservative-civ-beyond-earth/

Thats good, i find games with open worlds and time limited events outside specific quests & missions to be super stressful. I am a chronic explorer/wanderer.

The gameplay video has me wondering about how time works in the game. Is this more like an open world game where time progresses regardless of what you are doing/where you are or is time tied to your progress in the game/story?

If you love people suffering through puns, you should check out the Bugle Podcast. Andy Zoltsman is a grandmaster punsmith and Jon Oliver (of Daily Show and Last Week Tonight) seems to feel physical pain when Zoltsman goes on a pun run. Andy once did several minutes of Russian City name puns. The pun run starts at 18:15 http://thebuglepodcast.com/bugle-244-russian-into-battle/

Time to find out if full throttle runs on windows 7. Re city building not on a grid: Games that actually do this really well are RTS games. Usually you are just throwing your buildings down somewhat randomly within a defensible area. You want barracks and war factories to be on the edge of your base facing outward, and your power, research and other important buildings to be in the protected interior. All my bases in the C&C games would turn into gigantic messes, especially once building rotation was allowed, however Supreme commander incentivised interconnection of structures, (and your units could actually navigate around buildings) so my bases were very grid based. I have a similar experience in terms of playing new games and feeling bad when I don't. I go out to a bar weekly with my friends where one of the topics of discussion is video games, I feel bad when all I have played in Civ5, Payday 2 and Crusader Kings 2 since I have talked about these games to death. P.S. Cara is a great guest host! P.P.S. the new theme song is weird in a good way.

I guess I am just disappointed in Notch. I always thought he was a cool, intelligent guy, but he took his billion and started spending it like a trust fund kid. I mean its his money, so he should do what makes him happy, but i have a lot less respect for him now.

Do you mean untouched as in skins/models or untouched as in the weapons roster. They haven't finished creating the new models for weapons, so most are placeholders. As for changing what weapons are in game, thats what mods are for I think they aren't messing with the weapon roster partially because Unreal Tournament is a very nostalgia heavy series. They have kept the core game pretty much the same since UT99, just updated the graphics and gametypes. I do miss the ripper though. Anyone who wants to play the pre-alpha: Create a forums account on: https://forums.unrealtournament.com/ Go to this thread to download the installer: https://forums.unrealtournament.com/showthread.php?12011-Unreal-Tournament-Pre-Alpha-Playable-Build

Someone, somewhere please just release a consumer product! There are way too many companies in this space for none of them to be selling an actual freaking product! /rant

I really hope this has controller support. this seems like a perfect laying on the couch playing on my projector kind of game.

At this point if HL3 isn't a VR masterpiece of the FPS genre it won't have been worth the wait.

There are five different drugs, I took Atovaquone/Proguanil (Malarone) while in South Africa since only parts of the country have malaria. You start taking it a few days before hand and then for a week after, no crazy dreams either. Malaria is honestly one of the biggest reasons I disliked Far Cry 2, it was such an irritating mechanic and made your character, supposedly a professional mercenary, seem rather dumb for not taking one of the five drugs for a country where you can apparently get malaria during the drive from the airport. http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/drugs.html

Yes, I had tons of healing items and am playing on casual

I am starting to get annoyed with some of the quests. The early ones to unlock ship upgrades require easily acquirable items. Now i have two that require items from the random NPC settlements/tombs/shrines etc. I cannot find a planet with these so I am stuck and will probably just hack them into my inventory.

My point is that the UI issues were not because of a conversion to console focus. Bethesda designed some bad UI in Morrowind and Oblivion, and the issues with the Oblivion UI were not related to it being a game designed for both PC and console. Therefor I don't think its fair to say the problems with Skyrim are all console related.

I think Civilization 5 has the worst achievements of any game I own. Its essentially beat the game as every faction, on every map, on every difficulty level and beat all the historic scenarios. There a few achievements that are not like this, but the vast majority (Civ 5 has 287 achievements) are really lame completion achievements. Crusader Kings II on the other had mostly has my favorite kind of achievements, goofy ones and really hard ones that have an effect on your play style. Have three anti-popes in one game have a child with the inbred trait have seven courtiers with the dwarf trait (dwarf fortress), as a woman, have three different husbands killed Rule the Empire of Britannia as a Hindu Buddhist or Jain character These are all hard to do and make fun goals to reach for. I guess I like achievements that are more like challenge levels.

We were in danger of losing in a few turns when we won the game on the tutorial setting. I can imagine that on Hard the game will be challenge enough. The game looks intimidating, but having split roles really helps with the complexity of the game. Since all you have to manage is two or three tasks, with three other players it becomes more about working together to not constantly go over budget or have your base explode, rather than trying to figure out what to do next, or wrangling with the rules.

I have only played the Tutorial mode for Xcom the board game with four friends, but I'm already enjoying the game. The timed aspect really adds a level of stress that other co-op board games don't really have. We did a lot of planning since we could pause the app, I do wonder how the game changes when time is a big factor. You can always try to plan a little for the next round during the resolution phase, but in the timed phase you won't really have a chance.