Grim plays a game as recommended by Rajah

[Grimario]

So, I play a lot of PC games. I also don't really venture out of a dozen or so games (or series) that I play regularly. I also have ~400 games/DLC that I have played for less than 1 hour (300 of those are 0 hours) and I want to rectify this.

The List
AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition
Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten
Age of Empires II: HD Edition
Age of Empires® III: Complete Collection
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alien Breed 2: Assault
Alien Swarm
Alien Zombie Megadeath
Aliens vs. Predator
All Zombies Must Die!
Alpha Protocol
And Yet It Moves
Anomaly 2
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Assassin's Creed
Astro Tripper
Audiosurf
Axel & Pixel
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Origins
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
Battlestations: Midway
Battlestations: Pacific
Beat Hazard
Big Brain Wolf
BioShock 2
BIT.TRIP BEAT
Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition
Bob Came in Pieces
BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity
Breath of Death VII
Bulletstorm
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Bunch Of Heroes
Burn Zombie Burn
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Champions Online: Free For All
Chime
CivCity: Rome
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes (New Steam Version)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Conflict: Denied Ops
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
Contraption Maker
Costume Quest
Crash Time II
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Cricket Revolution
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Wars
Cthulhu Saves the World
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Multi-Player
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Single Player
Darksiders
DarkStar One
Data Jammers: FastForward
DC Universe Online
Dead Island
Dead Island: Epidemic
Dead Space
Deadlight
Deadlight Original Soundtrack
Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 1
Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 2
Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 3
Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 4
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Delve Deeper
Democracy 3
Demolition, Inc.
Depths of Peril
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Diamond Dan
Dino D-Day
Disciples III: Renaissance
Disciples III: Resurrection
Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga
Divinity II: Developer's Cut
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time
Don't Starve Together Beta
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Droplitz
Dungeon Defenders
Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege 2
Dungeon Siege III
DUNGEONS - Steam Special Edition
DUNGEONS - The Dark Lord (Steam Special Edition)
Dungeons of Dredmor
Dustforce
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
East India Company Gold
Empire: Total War
Enclave
Eufloria
Eufloria HD
Eufloria HD Original Soundtrack
Evil Genius
Expeditions: Conquistador
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R. 3
F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point
F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate
Faerie Solitaire
Fallen Earth
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition
Fallout New Vegas: Courier's Stash
Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money
Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts
Fallout Tactics
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2: Fortunes Pack
Flight Control HD
Flora's Fruit Farm
Football Manager 2015 Editor
FORCED
Fortix
Freedom Force
Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Frozen Synapse
FTL: Faster Than Light
Full Spectrum Warrior
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Garry's Mod
Geneforge 1
Geneforge 2
Geneforge 3
Geneforge 4
Geneforge 5
Gish
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
GTR Evolution
Guardians of Graxia
Guardians of Middle-earth
Guild Wars
Guild Wars: Trilogy
Hack, Slash, Loot
Hacker Evolution
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Hammerfight
Hard Reset
Hard Reset: Exile DLC
Heroes of Might & Magic V
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Blood Money
Hitman: Codename 47
HOARD
Hotline Miami
Infernal
Insurgency
Iron Grip: Warlord
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire
Jolly Rover
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Just Cause
Just Cause 2
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
King Arthur: Collection
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
King's Bounty: The Legend
Knights and Merchants
KnightShift
Krater
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Grimrock
Mafia
Mafia II
Magicka
Magicka: Vietnam
Marvel Heroes 2015
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Max and the Magic Marker
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medieval II: Total War
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
Metro 2033
Might & Magic X - Legacy
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Might & Magic: Duel of Champions
Might & Magic: Heroes VI
Mini Ninjas
Mirror's Edge
MLB 2K10
MLB® Front Office Manager
Monday Night Combat
Mortal Kombat Kollection
Napoleon: Total War
Natural Selection 2
NBA 2K10
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
No More Room in Hell
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Nuclear Dawn
NyxQuest
Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! 2
Osmos
Out of the Park Baseball 14
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Overlord
Overlord II
Overlord: Raising Hell
Path of Exile
Patrician III
Peggle Extreme
Pinball Arcade
Pirates of Black Cove Gold
Plain Sight
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year
Poker Night at the Inventory
Portal
Portal 2
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
Project: Snowblind
Psychonauts
Puzzle Agent
Puzzle Bots
Puzzle Pirates
Puzzle Quest
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
RACE 07
RaceRoom Racing Experience
Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum
Railroad Tycoon 3
Really Big Sky
Realm of the Mad God
Receiver
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Red Faction
Red Faction II
Red Faction: Armageddon
Red Faction: Guerrilla Steam Edition
Rhythm Zone
Rise of the Argonauts
RoboBlitz
Robocraft
Rogue Trooper
Rome: Total War
Rome: Total War - Alexander
Runespell: Overture
Rusty Hearts
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Saints Row 2
Saints Row IV
Saints Row: The Third
Sanctum
Sanctum 2
Scourge: Outbreak
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Secret of the Magic Crystal
Sega Rally
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
Serious Sam Double D XXL
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Shatter
Shattered Union
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Sine Mora
SkyDrift
Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing
Space Hack
Space Pirates and Zombies
Space Siege
SpaceChem
Spectromancer
Star Trek Online
Star Wars - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars - Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Stormrise
Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie
Stronghold 2
Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD
Stronghold Crusader HD
Stronghold HD
Stronghold Legends
Super Meat Boy
Super Hexagon
Super Sanctum TD
System Protocol One
Tank Operations: European Campaign
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress Classic
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Terraria
The Binding of Isaac
The Club
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Great Art Race
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Thaumaturge
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION
The Last Remnant
The Lord of the Rings Online™
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
The Path
The Polynomial
The Scourge Project: Episode 1 and 2
The Sims(TM) 3
The Void
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Titan Quest
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Toki Tori
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Torchlight
Total
Trine
Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition
Twin Sector
Two Worlds II
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Unstoppable Gorg
Unturned
Uplink
Van Helsing II: Ink Hunt
Van Helsing II: Pigasus
Vancouver 2010: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games
Vertex Dispenser
Virtua Tennis 2009
VVVVVV
Warframe
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II
Warlock - Master of the Arcane
Warlock - Master of the Arcane: Powerful Lords
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Wickland
Windosill
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Wizardry 8
World of Goo
Worms Reloaded
X-COM: Apocalypse
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
X-COM: Enforcer
X-COM: Interceptor
X-COM: Terror from the Deep
X-COM: UFO Defense
Zen Bound® 2
Zombie Driver
Zombie Driver: Summer of Slaughter DLC


List additions - 24th September 2015
Age of Conan: Unchained - US version
Age of Wonders III
Another World
Banished
Bejeweled 3
BioShock
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition
Bound By Flame
Card Hunter
Cities XXL
Contrast
CrimeCraft GangWars
Dead Space 2
Diablo III
Dungeon Defenders II
Dungeon Hearts
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
Etherium
Faery - Legends of Avalon
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
Farming Simulator 2013
Final Exam
Football Superstars
Forsaken World
Fractured Space
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Game of Thrones
Gotham City Impostors: Free To Play
Guild of Dungeoneering
How to Survive
Hunters Of The Dead
iBomber Defense Pacific
Just Cause 2: Multiplayer Mod
Kerbal Space Program
Magicka: Wizard Wars
Mars: War Logs
MASSIVE CHALICE
Metro 2033 Redux
Metro: Last Light Redux
Might & Magic VI
NBA 2K15
Of Orcs And Men
Pillars of Eternity
Prison Architect
Pro Cycling Manager 2015
RAW - Realms of Ancient War
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Skullgirls
Skyborn
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
Space Run
Spiral Knights
Steam Mobile Access
Styx: Master of Shadows
Talisman: Digital Edition
The Banner Saga
Total War: ATTILA
Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Valkyria Chronicles™
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Wargame: Red Dragon
Yesterday


Recommendations
BioShock - The Rick
Fallout: New Vegas - Stan Accy
Hotline Miami - Mikey Jones
Batman Arkham City/Origins - Mikey Jones/Bill Casey
L.A. Noire - kdestiny
Spec Ops: The Line - JP
Borderlands 1/2 - mr sabu
Bulletstorm - kdestiny

Played
Cities in Motion 2 - The_Mike (https://forums.rajah.com/showthread.php?149162-Grim-plays-a-game-as-recommended-by-Rajah&p=7446852&viewfull=1#post7446852)
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (One City/Always War challenge) - Stan Accy (https://forums.rajah.com/showthread.php?149162-Grim-plays-a-game-as-recommended-by-Rajah&p=7447186&viewfull=1#post7447186)
Crusader Kings II - HFR (https://forums.rajah.com/showthread.php?149162-Grim-plays-a-game-as-recommended-by-Rajah&p=7447637&viewfull=1#post7447637)
Batman Arkham Asylum - Mikey Jones/BC (https://forums.rajah.com/showthread.php?149162-Grim-plays-a-game-as-recommended-by-Rajah&p=7452889&viewfull=1#post7452889)
Torchlight II - Bert (https://forums.rajah.com/showthread.php?149162-Grim-plays-a-game-as-recommended-by-Rajah&p=7459903&viewfull=1#post7459903)



Some of these I have played a fair bit. Some I have even finished. I've taken the liberty of removing the Football Manager games from the list as steam says I have over 4,000 hours playing them since 2010 so I may have just played them enough. But other than that, in 2015 (and the end of 2014 since I have a bit of time off work and fuck all else planned), I am going to let the people of Rajah control my gaming fate. I can't promise to finish every game I start as some will take forever but I'll post my thoughts on each game after I've played it and cross it off the list.

I've updated the list with games I have accumulated over the last 9 months... sigh.

[The_Mike]

CitiesInMotion 2.

Good thread idea.

[Grimario]

Christ. If it's the game I am thinking of, I have given up on it both times I have loaded it up. Daunting prospect, not very beginner friendly from memory.

[The_Mike]

Ha, just saw it pop up on Steam "Grimario is now playing CitiesInMotion 2" and felt like a god. Mwahahaha.

[Grimario]

Had to disconnect my VPN since it couldn't connect to the key server... back to work now.

:shifty:

[The Rick]

Get through Bioshock, and then come back.

You have way too many sprawling huge world, and time consuming strategy games on there. Bioshock should be able to be completed in a decently short amount of time.

[Bert]

I should have made this thread but I think there's a limit to how long a post can be.

http://i.imgur.com/pD3vkpQ.png

Torchlight 2. Always Torchlight 2.

[Grimario]

I almost wrote in the first post "Wait for Bert to flex his epeen"

[Bert]

I almost wrote in the first post "Wait for Bert to flex his epeen"

I scanned your post for mention of me. :lol:

So are you not buying more games, or asking me to buy you games, because you feel like you should beat the ones you have?

It's admirable but you should have bought Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines while it was on sale for $5. I've actually played that one (but haven't beat it) and it's fun.

[Grimario]

So are you not buying more games, or asking me to buy you games, because you feel like you should beat the ones you have?

$$. I have close to none so for the foreseeable future, won't be extending my collection. Maybe a few co-op games to play with a work buddy but single player wise, what I have will be it for a while (I think).

And I played Vampire Masquerade when it was new... but like so many on my list, never finished it.

[Grimario]

Get through Bioshock, and then come back.

You have way too many sprawling huge world, and time consuming strategy games on there. Bioshock should be able to be completed in a decently short amount of time.

That's one of the games on the list I have finished. Just played it for a bit again from the start, got up to just before Dr Steinman :yes: Forgot how wonderfully designed it is, the use of sound and light and the voice acting. Such an awesome game, possibly the last FPS I have actually played through to the end.

[Grimario]

CitiesInMotion 2.

Good thread idea.

30 minutes in and I've managed to fuck up in the tutorial. I managed to put a bus stop on a one way street and had it in the loop going in the wrong direction to the rest of the loop.... so to get to it, the route had to fuck off around half the city to get to the corner on the other block.

Sigh.

[HHHnFoley_Rulez]

Play Crusader Kings II, that game is addictive!

[Dreyski]

You could start Fallout New Vegas and get to the main plot point kill Benny in a couple of hours.

Do a One City Challenge or Always War game on Civ IV (don't bother with Vanilla, just play Beyond the sword)

[Mikey_Jones]

Hotline Miami is a great game, as are all the Batman games.

[Grimario]

30 minutes in and I've managed to fuck up in the tutorial. I managed to put a bus stop on a one way street and had it in the loop going in the wrong direction to the rest of the loop.... so to get to it, the route had to fuck off around half the city to get to the corner on the other block.

Sigh.

Started again, got the bus stuff sorted. Nice city loop. Tried to put a tram line in and despite me having tram lines going to my depot and stops on the tram line, I can't create a line because "there is no tram line from the previous stop" :wtf: So I thought I would delete the tram line, start it again.... and accidentally deleted one of the major roads through the city.

Fucking hell. I had hair before I started playing this "game".

[Kdestiny]

Lots of good games that I like a lot in there. I would start with LA Noire myself

[JP]

If you've not played Spec Ops I've got it too and want to give it a go, play through the same time and compare thoughts?

[Grimario]

If you've not played Spec Ops I've got it too and want to give it a go, play through the same time and compare thoughts?

It's one of many I have started but not gone far in. Happy to play through and compare thoughts :yes:

First posted updated with two additions thanks to the Christmas wishes of the benevolent Bert

[mr sabu]

the borderlands serise is better co-op if you can find people do co-op if with it's better and more enjoyable

[Grimario]

CitiesInMotion 2.

Good thread idea.

I've given it an hour, ruined the tutorial twice and thrown the towel in after I've been told to build a metro line with nothing remotely resembling guidance. Try and build it and keep getting told I can't cross that bit, can't go there, too many buildings, too much water, doesn't join, can't do that.

I can see how people who enjoy this sort of simulation might enjoy this game but definitely not for me. I never really got into the Sim City games years back and this reminds me all too much of them. Glad I got it free in some bundle or promotion and didn't pay for it.

[The_Mike]

I love Sim City games and had the exact same problem. The tutorial is fiddly and it seems pretty easy to push the wrong thing and lose all connection to the instructions. So you're not alone, even with someone who likes that sort of thing.

[Grimario]

Play Crusader Kings II, that game is addictive!

I've had the game since August and never booted it up. Played for 90 minutes, really have no idea what I am doing but enjoying it nonetheless.

[Bert]

Torchlight 2, motherfucker.

[Jay]

You haven't played Portal 2?! Do so, immediately. It's in my top ten games of all time, maybe even top five. Co-op is great too.

I'd also recommend Mafia II; it's a little clunky, but such a fun game.

Burnout Paradise is still a great game to this day.

Bully is well worth playing. Quite an underrated title really.

Dead Space is really good too, especially if you've got surround sound.

[Grimario]

Some of these I have played a fair bit. Some I have even finished

I've played and finished Portal 2 :p Tried playing some co-op with a workmate the other day but my internet is so awful that the latency was so bad I couldn't even make it to the entrance way for Room 1 without falling off the edge.

Had Bully on the Wii, not sure I ever finished it.

[Jay]

Ah, I didn't see that bit. As it's under "to play" I thought those are the games you haven't played yet. I'll let you off, then. The "Still Alive" trophy in Portal 2's co-op is probably the most frustrating, yet funniest and most rewarding trophy I've ever experienced. I want to go back and play through it all again, now.

Portal 3 had better come out for PS4 next year.

[Kdestiny]

I'd also recommend Bulletstorm. A different game that allows a bit of creativity

[The_Mike]

I had Bully on the PS2, never finished it either but it was really good. It's basically a bunch of minigames tied together but the world works so well at making them all mean something, and just wandering around the school environment discovering things was fun. They changed the name in the UK, though, since I suppose calling it Bully would encourage bullying or something...

[Grimario]

Isn't it basically GTA but set in a school?

[The_Mike]

It is, which you'd think would make it feel a bit generic and samey compared to GTA, but they've adapted the whole thing to the school concept really well so it feels like a very fresh game. Or at least it did at the time, maybe after GTAIV and V and RDR people will find it a bit too much standard Rockstar stuff.

I'm still miffed Red Dead Redemption never made it to PC.

[Grimario]

I'd also recommend Bulletstorm. A different game that allows a bit of creativity
That's one of the few I have finished. Fantastic game, lots of fun.


Ah, I didn't see that bit. As it's under "to play" I thought those are the games you haven't played yet. I'll let you off, then. The "Still Alive" trophy in Portal 2's co-op is probably the most frustrating, yet funniest and most rewarding trophy I've ever experienced. I want to go back and play through it all again, now.

Portal 3 had better come out for PS4 next year.

I've changed it so it no longer reads "to play".

I am not sure I could ever do that achievement... having your partner die is one of the most satisfying parts of the game.

[Dreyski]

I had Bully on the PS2, never finished it either but it was really good. It's basically a bunch of minigames tied together but the world works so well at making them all mean something, and just wandering around the school environment discovering things was fun. They changed the name in the UK, though, since I suppose calling it Bully would encourage bullying or something...

Canis Canem Edit.
Ironically, if you acted like a bully and hit girls and little kids, the prefects would come down HARD on you. Wonder if I 100%ed it...

[Grimario]

Do a One City Challenge or Always War game on Civ IV (don't bother with Vanilla, just play Beyond the sword)

OCC suits my game play so I booted up a Tiny game today, running in the background while at "work" (gotta love everyone being on holidays). Played as Gandhi, got a nice starting spot with mountains on one side, river running through the plains and ocean a few growth spurts outside my cultural influence. Had one hairy moment when Lincoln declared war on me after I refused to give him my horses but I quickly put some troops together and destroyed New York.I fell way behind Shaka in terms of overall score as he slowly started to push across the map and invade the USA but I ended up winning a Diplomatic victory after a vote went my way. :yes:

[Grimario]

Play Crusader Kings II, that game is addictive!

I did and I am loving it. Holy shit.

Plotted to kill my brother, success.
Plotted to kill my other brother, success.
Married a princess, heir to some kingdom, success.
Plotted to kill her dad, success.
Betrothed our son to a princess, success.
Killed her dad, usurped kingdom, success.
Invaded a kingdom on the back of some holy war, success.

Dead.

Son is a lunatic with a harelip. First month, invasion. Lose two kingdoms.
One of my Duke's starts a civil war, declaring independence and attacking the shit out of me.
My spymaster plots against me and tries to poison me.

Can't wait to turn 16 so I can fuck them all up without having my regent say "no, be a good boy". :irked:

[Bill Casey]

I will also recommend Arkham Asylum and Arkham City...

[Grimario]

Can't wait to turn 16 so I can fuck them all up without having my regent say "no, be a good boy". :irked:

So yeah... that didn't go so well. Lost two kingdoms, one to invading religious fanatics in a Holy War for something.
Betrothed my son to the princess of Croatia, 3rd in line for succession. Will have to make sure I get some of that happening in a few years...
If only because I accidentally backed my brother in law in a war against his dad (the king of Croatia... fuck).

[HHHnFoley_Rulez]

:lol: It's addictive... and infuriating at times. One thing I always neglect are my vassels at home, so I end up with a few revolts from pissed off Dukes after a regency (or during).

[Grimario]

:lol: It's addictive... and infuriating at times. One thing I always neglect are my vassels at home, so I end up with a few revolts from pissed off Dukes after a regency (or during).

Yep, that's what happened with King Harelip the Cruel (or whatever his name was)... 3 of the vassals hated me... -100 opinion. One of them plotted to kill me so I imprisoned him. Then the other two revolted, joined forces and I wiped them out. Put both leaders in prison, executed all 3 of them.

Fuckers.

Thankfully the current king is sane and well liked. Apart from my fuck up with Croatia, things are going okay.

[Grimario]

Torchlight 2. Always Torchlight 2.

As per your message on Steam, I've started a game as an Embermage. I've got nearly 30 hours on the game but don't have any characters when I load it up... :wtf: I've definitely played the first one and I think I got the second one to play co-op with my work mate but don't exactly remember playing it with him. Same reason I picked up the Van Helsing games... but have never actually played them co-op.

Played for a few hours... I think Prismatic Bolt is where I am going to go. 5 homing missiles that I can add the elemental stuff from the other skill trees to looks the goods.

[Grimario]

Fairly certain TL2 is the game my brother played a bucket load when he was house sitting for us last year. I have a bunch of mods already installed including ones that add new pets. Think I went with a standard one though (panda?), not sure.

Just protected the Guardian or whatever that quest line is. Died once when I was taking a sip of coffee and trying to play one handed. Was suicide, critted on a barbed enemy and killed myself :happysad:

[Grimario]

I will also recommend Arkham Asylum and Arkham City...

Hotline Miami is a great game, as are all the Batman games.

Had a quick play through of Arkham Asylum. Pretty close to 100% on Normal I think, just have to find Amadeus again and take a picture.

I love this game, loved this game when it came out and have played it thru a few times. And I love that you recommended it Mikey... since I am pretty sure I was the one who told you how amazing the games were a few years ago when you were umming and ahhing over a GOTY bundle for the first two for £5 or something ridiculous. I was going to bump this suggestion to the bottom of the list but even though I said I wasn't going to, I couldn't pass up Arkham Origins for $5... so thought I might do the whole lot in one stint.

[Pablo Diablo]

So thanks to the discussion of CK2 in here I finally decided to start playing EU4. Fuck that was a mistake. If you think Civs One More Turn is bad. Fuck me. I was up until 4 last night waiting for Castille to continue colonizing South America. It's always. "Oh just wait for this place to colonize, just wait." Fuck. I did have a fun Portugal game where I took over most of North America though.

[HHHnFoley_Rulez]

:lol:

What annoyed me about EU4 is when they changed it so when you colonize a certain proportion of an area, it becomes it's own protectorate sort of thing, I forget the actual name. They send you money etc each month but when it came to wars, I'd rather have had full control and money from them.. but theres no option to not have them happen, I don't think, unless someones wrote a mod for it.

[Pablo Diablo]

See for me it was a blessing in disguise in my colonization of NA. The reason is that once I got a couple on the mainland (New Portugal, Portuguese Louisiana) They would produce their own armies. So all I would do is declare war on one of the Native provinces and all my Subject states would come in and do all the actual fighting for me. Which was good because I was shit at maintaining an army/navy. The downside comes like in my current Castille game where the recently formued Castillian BRazil decided to pick a fight with Portuguese Brazil. Thankfully I wasn't drawn into the fight, but all my time spent colonizing Brazil was pretty much for naught since they got destroyed and lost 3 provinces of mine.

[Grimario]

I booted up a game of CK2 last night after watching Japan humble Palestine and Mrs Grim was in the study doing her ironing... and I let her choose my player. King Philippe of France. I was dead inside about 5 minutes after the Holy Roman Empire declared war and killed me.

Fun game. :irked:

[Grimario]

Torchlight 2, motherfucker.


As per your message on Steam, I've started a game as an Embermage. I've got nearly 30 hours on the game but don't have any characters when I load it up... :wtf: I've definitely played the first one and I think I got the second one to play co-op with my work mate but don't exactly remember playing it with him. Same reason I picked up the Van Helsing games... but have never actually played them co-op.

Played for a few hours... I think Prismatic Bolt is where I am going to go. 5 homing missiles that I can add the elemental stuff from the other skill trees to looks the goods.


Fairly certain TL2 is the game my brother played a bucket load when he was house sitting for us last year. I have a bunch of mods already installed including ones that add new pets. Think I went with a standard one though (panda?), not sure.

Just protected the Guardian or whatever that quest line is. Died once when I was taking a sip of coffee and trying to play one handed. Was suicide, critted on a barbed enemy and killed myself :happysad:

So I've now apparently put another 45 hours into TL2 than I had originally. Some of that was definitely overnight when I went to bed without turning the PC off but I am a L3 Embermage who shoots Prismatic Bolts in bad things faces. I've just finished some main quest and my next objective is to head off to meet some Djinni. Djinni reminds me of Forrest Gump saying Jenny.

Very good mindless click and loot shenanigans. Not as good as Dungeon Siege though :yes:

[Grimario]

Stan - I've been prepping for FO4 by playing FO from the start. Halfway through the opening game. FO2, FO3 and then FONV before November 10th (including being away on holidays for 2 weeks) isn't too ambitious, is it?