/int/ - International

>>7011 Medieval 1 had the best empire building of the series. Endless building castles while forcing your princesses to commit incest so you can see how many genetic diseases your heirs can collect.

Please speak up with suggestions for recent autism games. Must be mostly cleanly discrete (as in vs continuous), and turn-based or slow. Hard mode: with low or strictly-gradual learning curve, ie no Paradox (which are also mostly continuous) Historical core examples: Slay the Spire, FTL, Civ V, Factorio, Minecraft

>>7650 Replay HoMM2

I finished Pentiment, put it off for a long time. Mixed feelings, on one hand setting a game in the Peasant Wars is so wonderfully specific and it's clear that it was a passion project of Sawyer. Sadly both the RPG mechanics and the murder mystery plot were sort of lacklustre and I didn't care at all for the new protagonist in the second half. But it's nice that they wrote dialogue where people don't swear all the time, was a major irk for me in KCD where they made the dialogue too Game of Thrones/Witcher like.

>>7699 Pentiment was such a letdown. It started off great but then quickly after the first act turned worse. Mainly, the choices we make, the character dialogues and the traits we select, don't make much of a difference. The dialogues are also weak and basic. Expected something more from a game that is centered around story telling. Also, I'm not a poltard by any means but the narrative not missing a chance to talk about women's place in society, rape, Turing vollständigs, black monks in the middle of fucking nowhere, jewish people, gypsies and so on, is too much. It's exaggerated to the point of it being comical. The historical accuracy is perhaps close to 20%. Probably less but I stopped caring early on. The art and OST is well done. The idea was neat. It's a shame that they couldn't get better writers and historians on the team. Now the game I recently finished is Mundaun. It's a game with a setting in Switzerland and the VA is in Romansh. It was interesting being able to understand a lot of it due to knowing italian. The game is a walking sim with light puzzle and horror elements. It's the great atmosphere that pulled me in. I just liked walking around and exploring in the limited area. The story is cliche but it's executed well. Currently play testing Militsioner and really like the game, the atmosphere in particular is comfy and the idea itself is rather unique.

>>7706 The secretly fag monks and the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business), the gypsy and Ethiopian did reek of forced DEI though.

>>7707 >the Jews were plausible enough (they were involved in the printing business) Correct but them being friends and guests with the Druckers was also as historically inaccurate as possible. My problem was not that there were jews in the game, it's the way the relationship with them was handled like with other characters. You can suspend belief here and there but Pentiment kept posing such silly premises that it stops being immersive. At least for me. >The secretly fag monks Yeah. That wasn't a problem for me but it did add to the overall inclusive narrative the game has going. I wish they kept it more realistic is all.

>>7718 It's an unfortunate reality that modern writers of historical media can only implement diversity in a heavy-handed way. Like, it always has to be niggers, it can't be, say, a guest from Novgorod, a Turkish diplomat or whatever. Instead of showcasing historical trades women dominated like brewing or textile making, they just write them to be sarcastic and snarky, it's superficial and stupid. Games usually have at least _somewhat_ authentic art direction/costumes which is why I can enjoy them, unlike TV show slop.

>>1805 I genuinely can not pe arsed to play anything any more. I think the last thing I enjoyed was this a couple months ago. Tried Turtle WoW, but the enjoyment evaporated upon doing a quest that literally steals 10 gold from you at low lvl.

>>8000 >8000 God damn it I will have to try to get 10000

>>8000 Journey got me laid.

>>8015 backstory?

>>8011 >>7000

I'm going to play The Old Realms which is a warhammer mod for Bannerlord, I don't like Warhammer but I think weird fantasy mods and all the things you can do with them are fun at least. There also aren't really many full conversion mods out, it seems to be taking a while for people to make them. There is a Lord of the Rings Mod called Kingdoms of Arda that looks interesting but has been in development for ages and still isn't even in a playable state. There is also the Japanese mod but I am not sure how far that is in development, I really hope it has Touhous in it like Gekkojou did. I wonder if the modding scene is as strong as it used to be, I think that with the tools available to us now, people that are interested in 3d modelling and game development can create their own projects that are their own and they can actually monetise rather than working on mods, so there probably is less incentive for it now.

>>8028 I'm not gonna touch bannerlord again until bretwalda mod is released

>>8040 I haven't played Bannerlord for a while, probably not for over a year or maybe even 2, So it will be interesting to see what has been added to The Old Realms.

Tamriel Rebuilt. I just did all of the Baluath Clan vampire quests as a Dunmer nightblade then cured my vampirism. I think I will try the Narsis content now.

>>7011 Try Insularis Draco brent

>>8050 I played TR extensively in 2021, really need to explore the new/remade content one of these days. Their design philosophy is great. Morrowind will never get old for me.

heh heh... just as keikaku...

I'm playing Girls Frontline 2 now. Not much to say about it at the moment as it's one of those games with an annoying and long tutorial and I am going to bed now.

>>8709 How can you play all of those games at once? Do you have 4 computers? Oligarch.

DayZ

>>8759 based dayzigger

>>8761 unfortunately i'm not based

Bretty good so far. Gives me nostalgic feelings.

>>8786 I would have bought it if it wasn't almost literally the same game with updated graphics. :/

>>8786 locked at 60fps a disgrace to the gaming community still better than 99% of games though

Starsector, it's dope. https://fractalsoftworks.com/ And Tiny Tinas Wonderlands, but I am not really into the BL games. Shogun 2 FOTS, but ehh. Banished despite some annoying bugs.

>>8828 Forgot ratings: Starsector: 8.5/10, modded it's 11/10, but beware, the story line isn't finished Tinas Wonderlands: 7/10, it's an alright BL Shogun 2 FOTS: 7/10, bugs and quirks* are annoying *in the fog of war the AI recruits slop units in their towns, they magically get replaced by better units etec. Banished: 8/10, a bit more content without mods would be nice, tiles which get fucked when you remove a field near uneven ground are also a bit of a pain Overall I had fun, feels almost like I am back to gaming. :3

>>8828 >>8832 Cool thing about FOTS is the symphony of cannonfire you can create. Still, I prefer the default scenario.

Mount and Blade Warband Civ 5 bnw lekmod

In this Girls Frontline most of the Girls aren't called gun names, they have been changed. So this is MP7 in GFL 1 but in GFL 2 she is called Cheeta. This confused me for a bit.

Also the red foregrip isn't standard. I put it on their myself. I'm something of an Operator and this is an Operator's game.

This one is called Nagant and she carries a Nagant revolver. There is also one called Mosin-Nagant but I haven't got her yet.

I feel like such a boomer for doing this but it's mostly solitaire these days. I've found it helps me collect my emotional thoughts while I occupy the logical part of my brain, and it's also easy to quit when I should. It's basically my methadone. https://www.zachtronics.com/solitaire-collection/ I weak moments I play a paradox or paradox-like and binge it until it's done. Last one was Terra Invicta, which is space strategy without paradox brainworms (such as a mana system), but on a similar complexity level as HOI4 with several DLCs. First game that I actually opened Excel for in order to win it. Good game, huge strategic depth, but it can get a bit tedious and the replay value isn't overly high yet. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1176470/Terra_Invicta/

nothing, all games become extremely boring when you hit a certain age

>>9194 Bummer

>>9194 get drunk and then play

>>9194 What age?

>>9244 7

>>9263 I don't believe that.

>>9244 >>9264 39

>>9304 Ohh, I'm not that old so who knows.

>>9308 for me it started 9 years ago

>>9312 Then that would be younger than I am now, so it's not true.

I got Mosin-Nagant! Now I have Nagant and Mosin-Nagant.

>>9312 I also aged out of games at 30 but it mostly means that I play different games now and more deliberately