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  3. Posted

    This is something that can often happen in grand strategy games, but its probably in the part of the game genre. Winning or losing can totally snowball. There are things that I have never been able to pull off in Hearts of Iron, like surviving WWII as Czechoslovakia. Part of the fun of that game is racing the clock. I was recently attempting to rebuild the Austro-Hungarian empire and teamed up with Nazi Germany to do it. Things were going super well, we had taken France and were doing quite well against the USSR, however we hadn't gone to war with Poland yet. Germany decided in the middle of our push towards Moscow that it was time and we suddenly had an enemy in the middle of our lines. I ignored the Polish war and pushed towards Moscow as hard as possible. By the time I had finally knocked the USSR out of the war Polish territory was loaded with Allied troops and Germany had lost Berlin. I joined the Polish war and was starting to build a fleet to allow for invasion of the UK when the US joined the war. I haven't finished that game yet, but I can't see us winning at this point. Might be fun to see how it all falls apart though.

    But I have had games where I was able to turn into a steamroller and conquer the whole world. Its a huge problem in Civilization games, you often get to a point where you are the undisputed superpower and the game becomes very not fun at that point.

     

    Stellaris has tried to solve this issue by having end game crises, robot uprisings, extra galactic or extra dimensional invaders, ancient stagnant empires waking up and using super advanced tech to steamroll everything. They don't work 100% of the time but can provide a good challenge.

    I think it can be an issue in games with unlocks, people who have been playing for a long time have all the best stuff and it puts a newbie at a severe disadvantage.

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    A miniseries based on the John le Carré book The Night Manager, the series has the same name, showed up in my amazon prime video feed. So far so good, Haven't read the book yet as I only just finished The Secret Pilgrim, but I want to branch out into the non-Smiley books. In any case I figured fans of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy would be interested. Still need to watch The Spy Who Came in From the Cold as well.

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    I recently went on a spree of trying to branch out from Food52 and Serious Eats being my main recipe feeds here are the sites I found and liked, not all are still updating unfortunately. Please post your favorites so I can follow them too!

     

    Asia
    http://thewoksoflife.com
    http://panlasangpinoy.com
    http://www.kawalingpinoy.com
    http://www.astigvegan.com
    https://thevietvegan.com
    https://vegan8korean.wordpress.com

     

    Middle East and Mediterranean
    http://savoryandsweetfood.com
    http://www.ghezaeshiriin.com
    http://www.faskitchen.com
    http://www.mymoroccanfood.com
    http://www.filmishmish.com
    http://www.mytamarindkitchen.com
    http://thegreekvegan.com
    http://www.shebayemenifood.com
    http://greekvegetarian.blogspot.com
    http://www.mypersiankitchen.com

     

    Baking
    https://www.handletheheat.com
    http://joythebaker.com
    http://www.dessertfortwo.com
    http://www.sprinklebakes.com
    http://www.thebakerchick.com
    http://allflouredup.com
    http://cakeoversteak.com

     

    Misc
    http://thenoshery.com
    http://www.shutterbean.com
    http://bojongourmet.com
    http://withfoodandlove.com
    http://veganmiam.com
    http://www.isachandra.com
    http://polishvegankitchen.blogspot.com
    http://perudelights.com
    http://www.vegannigerian.com

     

  8. Posted

    The STALKER complete mods go a long way to fixing the issues with the three games. As said about SoC is the strongest story wise, CoP is the strongest gameplay wise and CS is the sad middle child. I really like the stalker games and replay them from time to time. One of my most vivid memories of playing SoC is not wanting to do the second underground lab mission because of how spooky the first one was.

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    I quit the new DOOM. I am a little surprised, but at the same time not. I used to be a huge fan of FPS games and they were a huge chuck of what I played. However since getting back into PC gaming years ago they have become a smaller chunk of what I play. The two other important factors in why I'm not surprised is that I have discovered I really like sniping in FPS games and that is best accomplished/the most fun in open world games.

    DOOM is far too much of an old school shooter for me, small arenas, tight corridors and  no real choice of play style. I also found the weapons to be weightless and seemingly to have little effect on enemies. The movement also felt super floaty. Right after trying DOOM I booted up Sniper Elite 4 and was immediately enamored. So I guess the time in which I enjoyed arena shooters is over.

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    I finished Sniper Elite 4 and all of its DLC missions. Sniping has long been my favorite part of FPS games so I'm not sure why I held out so long in getting into these games, but they are perfect for me. Spending the time to consider positioning, escape routes, wind direction etc is really fun. I also appreciated how long the missions were. When sniping in a game like Far Cry, Stalker or Fallout usually you have cleared an area pretty quickly. Most of the missions in SE4 take at least an hour if not longer depending on the difficulty you play on and how cautious you are. Next up is the 2nd and 3rd games in the series.

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    Best Meal: I was working in Korea with my then girlfriend near Seoul and took a long weekend to go down to Busan. We hadn't booked a hotel in advance and ended up wandering the city and finding a love motel to stay in. Across the street from the hotel was this amazing restaurant. The meal started out like shabu shabu which is like hotpot. You get a bowl of hot broth and cook foods in it. Around the bowl of broth was a grill you could cook meats on. You then took some of the ingredients from the grill and the broth to make spring rolls. At the end you add rice to the rest of the broth and make a rice porridge. I think the part that made it so memorable aside from being amazingly delicious is how randomly we found the place. Was so sad to find out it was the only location they had.

     

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    Comfort Foods:

    Baked Ziti http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/09/best-baked-ziti-parmesan-cream-recipe.html

     

    Muffin tin pot pies: http://www.thebakerchick.com/2012/01/muffin-tin-chicken-pot-pies-part-2/  (For added deliciousness use puff pastry instead of pie crust. I usually make them vegetarian so replace chicken with mushrooms and use veggie broth)

  13. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Professor Video Games said:

    I like doing baked tofu for sandwiches. The baking gives a chewier texture I guess? It's a good deli meat replacement. You can also marinade it in various things for a few hours beforehand to blast some flavor in there.

    Do you have a tofu press? I got one recently and I have really enjoyed what it does to the texture and flavor absorption

  15. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Dewar said:

    I bought this while it was on sale, and am having a lot of fun. The one thing that I've had a hard time understanding is the concept of troop supply. The wiki has some information, but I'm still not 100% clear on it. Anyone have a more detailed information source?

    Its essentially how much access your troops have to fuel and replacement equipment/mans, you need railroads and ports to connect your troops to supply properly. Consumption goes up when in combat, moving etc. although there is a base level at all times. If your troops run out of supplies offensives grind to a halt and your troops will probably all die. 

     

    Here is a Dev Diary on the topic: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hearts-of-iron-iv-33rd-development-diary-supply.891122/


    P.S. I am loving the new DLC, more ahistorical madness!

  17. Posted

    3 hours ago, Ben X said:

    Dammit, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault is free on Origin right now, so I guess that's another WWII shooter to slot in. Apparently 'the game received "favorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic'.

    That game allowed for coop in the entire campaign which I really liked, it was a solid enough shooter with a pretty fun player Vs AI mode.

    The parts of that game I remember best are

    riding an elephant and the game ending on a cliffhanger because they planned a sequel but never made it

  19. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Twig said:

    Samus Returns looks extremely ugly to me.

    There was something off about how the backgrounds and characters looked together

  20. Posted

    I have quit Homefront The Revolution but had always expected to at some point. The plot was bland as were the NPCs. I enjoyed sniping world in the semi-open areas. Makes me really want a big open world shooter set entirely in a city. Being able to on the fly customize guns was neat if a bit overpowered, I could convert my sniper rifle into a rocket launcher mid fight. I think most of the issues the game had at launch got ironed out by later patches as I didn't experience any of the performance issues.

     

    One thing I wish they had doubled down on was the need to do hit and run attacks. You are operating in an occupied city and it would have been a lot of fun if each mission and strong point capture had a time limit before overwhelming firepower was brought down on you. Instead you just need to find the right spot to camp and you can exhaust a couple waves of enemies before they just stop attacking in force.

  21. Posted

    6 minutes ago, sclpls said:

    The XCOM 2 expansion seems... not great, not that there is a lot of information to go off of.

     

    I look forward to killing more Nazis in the Wolfenstein sequel, and killing the Outsider in the Dishonored 2 DLC.

     

    Tacoma looks lovely.

     

    Klei's new game also looks lovely, and I wish I had a better idea of what the game was.

     

    Bummed about the new Bioware thing.

    Yeah once I realized the Xcom2 expansion was additional content for the campaign I lost interest. I found the overworld stuff to be really annoying

  23. Posted

    15 minutes ago, TychoCelchuuu said:

    I'm also really excited for the impending invasion of shitlords since the other thread about that GatorGator got linked at RPS or whatever. And by "excited" I mean "what did we do to deserve this?"

    It was linked in the developers official statement so every outlet that quotes or links it will also link here.

  25. Posted

    39 minutes ago, TychoCelchuuu said:

    I'm excited to hear about the new Wolfenstein, which looks great (although I haven't played The Old Blood yet) and I'm super excited about the Dishonored 2 DLC, having just finished the game not too long ago. The new Wolfenstein is so amazing that it's even able to make an evil person understand why representation in media matters, although he doesn't realized that he's learned a lesson. (Bonus hilarious tweet. Apparently the game series that has been about killing Nazis since 1981 is fulfilling its "diversity quota" by making Nazis the bad guys.)

    We are now in an era where people wonder if maybe the Nazi's weren't so bad. (Hint: THEY ARE THE WORST)