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Reply #60 on: April 27, 2019, 09:51:16 AM
You will when I visit your neck of Canada again.

Don't threaten me.

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Reply #61 on: April 27, 2019, 09:52:21 AM
Still not going to play Agricola

What if they add ZOMBIES to it?

Then it would become a must buy


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Reply #62 on: April 27, 2019, 10:47:14 AM
You guys sure are fixated on that game, about as much as mirth is fixated on Agricola.  ;D

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Reply #63 on: April 27, 2019, 11:52:12 PM
That's one of my biggest problems with Paradox. "The next patch will make things great!"
It's always the next patch. I end up never playing because there's always a next patch.

I'd always heard this about Paradox, but never realized just how true it was until Stellaris (as it was the first Paradox title that I really got into). 

To be fair, I generally enjoyed Stellaris as-is (at the time), so at least for me, the patches merely improved on what I felt was already an excellent 4x/grand-strategy experience.  What bothers me more about the updates is that they've often never fixed ongoing issues that have existed since the game released.  I know that's not exactly unusual for PC games, but it sure is annoying -- especially when the devs say said issues will be addressed or at least looked at (but then aren't). 


Worst of all -- from my perspective -- Martin Anward (the lead dev at the time) took Stellaris in a direction I never wanted it to go, leading to the craptastic 2.0 and 2.2 updates.  The former (with its ridiculous hyperlanes-only maps and handicapped AI) leached much of the original game's fun factor for me, and the latter (with an even dumber AI and its over-focus on a boring economy) pretty much destroyed any remaining enjoyment I once derived from it. 

I still play Stellaris, but only on earlier versions.  Distant Stars was the most recent DLC I picked up for the game, and I'm pretty sure it will be the last.  . 




It's nice that we can bash on all the publishers equally. Fair and Balanced  ;D

As long as none of us are secretly Sean Hannity.  :P 

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Reply #64 on: April 29, 2019, 10:13:08 AM
This is the exact same discussion about Paradox that has been going on for about 15 years now.




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Reply #65 on: April 29, 2019, 10:17:59 AM
I own several Paradox games and have never played any of them for more than a handful of hours.

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Reply #66 on: April 29, 2019, 10:28:47 AM
I used to play them when I wanted to take a nap or watch a computer play a game.



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Reply #67 on: April 29, 2019, 10:31:45 AM
I used to play them when I wanted to take a nap or watch a computer play a game.

heh. pretty much.

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Reply #68 on: April 29, 2019, 04:54:55 PM
Okay, I fired up and updated the Battlestar Galactica game from Matrix and have been enjoying that quite a bit. It was decent when it first came out. With the improvements that have been made, this is my favorite tactical space game ever.

Someone needs to take this system and make an Age of Sail game.

I actually don't really like games.

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Reply #69 on: April 29, 2019, 04:58:59 PM
The BSG game is a lot of fun.

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