What are you playing right now?

I dig it. If you've played games like CivII-III or Age of Empires, it's a lot like a mix of the two. Never played it multiplayer, but the World Campaign scenarios are interesting, have different difficulty levels, and you can usually wrap any single scenario up in an hour or less.

After I tire of it, I'll probably start the newest Madden for PC. Been playing this for about 3 mos.

 

rainbow 6 3 on xbox

 

Thanks mags - I'll check it out

Medival Total War is pretty good too, more commanding of troops on the battlefield, but still has an empire management aspect to it as well.

 

I'm also playing True Crime: Streets of L.A.

Lesse, Finished LotR: Return of the King recently. Also playing a rental copy of Devil May Cry. Don't like that one as much as I thought I would. True Crime is decent though. How do you like it TimTam? The streets are pretty accurate and there are some landmarks that look right. I don't like the fighting so far, but the gun-play is good and the driving is good.

I was hoping for a new Grand Theft Auto game, and it's close, but not quite. Then again, I only just finished the first set of missions.

I also played to marathon sessions of Empire Earth (with the expansion) this weekend that were pretty fun. It was the kind of gaming where you're surprised to see the dawn when you quit and there's eighty coke cans in the trash.

 

Thanks Mags. I had read that it played like a mix of CIV and AOE. I love both of those games so that's a pretty good endorsement. The thing that was keeping me from buying it a few months ago was the steep $$ tag (last I checked it was still selling for $50). Multiplayer is not an issue for me. Not yet anyway with me still using dial up. So I'm looking for stuff that's good for a single gamer.

 

I gotta check that one out. I'd like to mess with something that's a bit more fight-intensive, a little bit more detail specific of one person's role rather than one person v/s the world or nation v/s nation.

RoN is very strategically fun, especially later on. I like how it takes the medieval to gunpowder range military and adds in industrial warfare and goes past it. The biggest thing about AOE and games like that, you stopped short of gunpowder and maybe one or two civs had it at the very end.

Yeah, it takes a bit of the AOE thing with the territorial and strategic aspect of CivIII - the more land you control, inevitably the more resources you control.

Yeah, the price of most new games is off-putting. One of my old roommates usually buys games and copies them for me anyway. The ones he doesn't pirate...yarrr. I've never bought a game since 98.

 

AOE is fun. I just make a shit load of monks and keep converting the transports sent to attack me. Then store all of them up until I have developed my forces to pop level of 200 and take my population way up into the 350 range. It starts to slow down the game though

 

I thought that if you monked a transport, what was inside was still part of the enemy? I coulda sworn I did that once and popped out the contents but it trojan horsed me.

I really think that I'd like to get into a dogfight style air game. Can't find my stick, though.

 

combat flight simulator is good

 

It is still the enemy - so it only counts as one towards your pop total. So, once you get to 200, simply take all your monks and a couple of combat troops to a desserted island - preferably on a penisula - put your combat troops b/w the transport and your monks, set them to no attack, and then select the transport. To get the troops off the transport one at a time, simply click on the icon in the transport window. Then have your monks convert it.