I love CKII, have nearly 500 hours on that game. So much fun, I nick named it,"The Horrible Person Simulator."
Marrying my children and uncles off to terrible spouses is my new hobby, especially when it messes with the Game of Thrones bloodline nonsense. I'm digging it. Haha. I need to play the actual game though. Also, Horse Lords looks pretty great.
Hearthstone is too 'pay to play', and that's coming from somebody who's artifacted up in Imperian.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Depends on my mood, more or less. I will whip out Marvel Puzzle Quest on my phone reasonably often. Otherwise...tons of things. Feel free to add me on Steam or PSN if you guys want. I'm under Acratin there.
Hearthstone is too 'pay to play', and that's coming from somebody who's artifacted up in Imperian.
If you've played since the beginning its not too bad honestly - the Tavern Brawls and the daily quests ensure you have a steady income. But its a time sink if you don't buy stuff. Some of the really competitive decks need maybe 1-2 legendary cards - so all in all can't complain. Also the platform compatibility is what I love about it. Play it on your laptop, ipad, phone
Hearthstone is too 'pay to play', and that's coming from somebody who's artifacted up in Imperian.
If you've played since the beginning its not too bad honestly - the Tavern Brawls and the daily quests ensure you have a steady income. But its a time sink if you don't buy stuff. Some of the really competitive decks need maybe 1-2 legendary cards - so all in all can't complain. Also the platform compatibility is what I love about it. Play it on your laptop, ipad, phone
It's also worth noting that (generally speaking) some of the strongest ladder/tournaments decks in Hearthstone tend to be the low cost aggro decks.
‘Least I won’t have to carry it no more. You see how bloody heavy it is?’
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
Hearthstone is too 'pay to play', and that's coming from somebody who's artifacted up in Imperian.
If you've played since the beginning its not too bad honestly - the Tavern Brawls and the daily quests ensure you have a steady income. But its a time sink if you don't buy stuff. Some of the really competitive decks need maybe 1-2 legendary cards - so all in all can't complain. Also the platform compatibility is what I love about it. Play it on your laptop, ipad, phone
The problem with Hearthstone is that there's no dependability in card access. Gold generation was too slow and it would just buy you a chance at maybe getting something you wanted, but probably not.
And sure, there's dust crafting. Problem with that is that Legendaries and Epics take a ton of dust and your dust income is RNG dependent even if you buy packs. This gave it a hugely timesinky feeling because even when I did earn a pack with gold I usually got ****-all and nothing out of it as far as dust goes. This also made me not want to buy decks, because decks don't provide me with dependable value. And that's really the big thing for me. In M:tG I could buy specific cards and know exactly what I was getting. In Imperian, I can make a purchase and be confident that I was getting X amount of credits. But in Hearthstone, I was buying mystery boxes and the value just wasn't there.
If they let me get access to all the cards for an optional $10/month, I'd have been tempted. If they let me buy specific cards for a couple of bucks, it would have been a huge impulse purchase magnet. But as it is, it's just too damn timesinky to get anywhere.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Since my internet here isn't good enough to hold an Imperian connection, I have been playing Town of Salem p much mafia game in flash, it's awesome. Join. Add me. I'm Yreogh on there.
You say, "This is much harder than just being a normal person."
Doing another playthrough of Dark Souls 2 in preparation for next month. Also been playing a lot of Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl. If you're a nerd and don't need fancy graphics, I definitely recommend it.
Just look at my Steam list under Acratin. Last few days I've putzed around in FTL and Sentinels of the Multiverse. I've also been playing MLB The Show on PS4 a little bit. Then there's XCOM 2, and a little bit of KOTOR. Plus... (I play a lot of games.)
Games that I was playing when I still had access to a console (i dont' own any myself anymore, financial troubles early into a move to an expensive tourist town)
Warframe: I was sold the minute I found out there were fist weapons. (I dont like playing monks in MUDs though, being a monk is not the same as just punch/ragdolling things and giggling like a madman)
Hitman: Absolution: I may not be the most... subtle or elegant hitman, but oh man can i get the job done. One mission i managed to get my target within the first ten seconds, the rest of the map was spent trying to avoid the guards - while still picking them off one by one. Only game where I tried to kill in inventive ways, though it usually boiled down to zippy one liners.
Need For Speed: Rivals/Need for Speed: The Run: I love racing games. I'm crap at them, but when my driving skills are on point, and im getting into a good flow. There's something satisfying about leading a bunch of police cars down a bridge, suddenly doing a U-turn and driving right back through them all.
Dark Souls 2: Never beat it, spent most of my time accidentally wandering into boss fights and getting ambushed by the blue ghost guys. I had a really bad habit of killing merchants that had no further use to me.
Fallout 4: my -softgasp- game. Quirky. Occasionally buggy, and for some reason of everyone that was playing it in my house, i was the one who dealt with the most deathclaws. I was the only one who'd sigh in exasperation when seeing a deathclaw, actually that's not true. It was usually 'Oh, hello again.' My favorite thing was incapacitating synths, and the penetrator perk. Nothing beats a pistol that can shoot through walls. Brotherhood of steel becomes wimpy without their suits and sentry bots scrap easily with it. Good times.
Need For Speed: Rivals/Need for Speed: The Run: I love racing games. I'm crap at them, but when my driving skills are on point, and im getting into a good flow. There's something satisfying about leading a bunch of police cars down a bridge, suddenly doing a U-turn and driving right back through them all.
Yessssssssssss! I love racing games too. And doing exactly that. (But ONLY in video games)
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I love CKII, have nearly 500 hours on that game. So much fun, I nick named it,"The Horrible Person Simulator."
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
It's also worth noting that (generally speaking) some of the strongest ladder/tournaments decks in Hearthstone tend to be the low cost aggro decks.
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
The problem with Hearthstone is that there's no dependability in card access. Gold generation was too slow and it would just buy you a chance at maybe getting something you wanted, but probably not.
And sure, there's dust crafting. Problem with that is that Legendaries and Epics take a ton of dust and your dust income is RNG dependent even if you buy packs. This gave it a hugely timesinky feeling because even when I did earn a pack with gold I usually got ****-all and nothing out of it as far as dust goes. This also made me not want to buy decks, because decks don't provide me with dependable value. And that's really the big thing for me. In M:tG I could buy specific cards and know exactly what I was getting. In Imperian, I can make a purchase and be confident that I was getting X amount of credits. But in Hearthstone, I was buying mystery boxes and the value just wasn't there.
If they let me get access to all the cards for an optional $10/month, I'd have been tempted. If they let me buy specific cards for a couple of bucks, it would have been a huge impulse purchase magnet. But as it is, it's just too damn timesinky to get anywhere.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Town of Salem
p much mafia game in flash, it's awesome. Join. Add me. I'm Yreogh on there.
(Ring): Lartus says, "Then it exploded."
(Ring): Zsetsu says, "Everyone's playing checkers, but Theophilus is playing chess."
Warframe: I was sold the minute I found out there were fist weapons. (I dont like playing monks in MUDs though, being a monk is not the same as just punch/ragdolling things and giggling like a madman)
Only game where I tried to kill in inventive ways, though it usually boiled down to zippy one liners.
It was usually 'Oh, hello again.'
My favorite thing was incapacitating synths, and the penetrator perk. Nothing beats a pistol that can shoot through walls. Brotherhood of steel becomes wimpy without their suits and sentry bots scrap easily with it. Good times.