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atejas said:
At some point in the future, I'd like to see a Paradox game that has Crusader Kings' level of detail on Europa Universalis' level of scale.

How is Charlemagne, by the way? THere are a bunch of expansions for both CK2 and EUIV that I have yet to pick up.
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Firstly, yeah that would be awesome. China in particular and much of SE Asia would be most ideal to include (and it goes without saying that the rest of the Steppe should be added). If you added China then it also goes without saying Korea would have to be added, Japan on the other hand wouldn't *have* to be added per se and instead China and Korea could just get the occasional even about Pirates, court envoys, etc.

Next, Charlemagne has its bugs, I played another Golden Horde game when I first got it and after the first ruler dies, you go from Ultimogeniture to Open Elective immediately, even if you reform Tengriism. One thing it also does is make it harder for Hordes to blob as they have a new mechanic where their vassals have to be called to war, they have the new holding type; tribal, and can't build new holdings (merely expand existing ones or the Tribal Holding) until they take the special 'Adopt Feudalism' decision. Since my favorite characters to play are Turks and Mongols, I have mixed feelings about this, and want them to fix the Ultimogeniture bug but otherwise that's okay. Interesting to note that in 2 generations of that Horde game the Ilkhanate ceased to exist and became dkivided between the Mongol Nestorian realm of Persia and the Persian Nestorian realm of Baluchistan.

Otherwise it changes the assassination system to where you have to plot and can't just hit the assassinate button, revamps some of the combat mechanics, introduces at least one new unit (Camel Cavalry for the Arab group, which does better in desert and mountain terrain than horses), adds a bunch of earlier cultures like Visigoth and Lombard, makes your families scheming in succession a lot more intricate, and makes the Byzantines run by the Iconoclasts at the earliest start date and Tengriist Khazars at that start. Another thing about the early start is Manichaenism is actually still pretty viable and alive, though it still has no special mechanics. Finally Abbasids are a huge blob at the aforementioned start, but soon find themselves overwhelmed by decadence revolts and Zoroastrian rebels. Pretty sure I'll see the 'Rise of ther Shi'a' event pretty soon too as the Abbasids are most vulnerable and my Khazar Khanate is chipping away at them.

Should that happen, I may side with the Shi'a instead of the Zoroastrians after I grow tired of Tengriism having virtually no prospect of reforming, since they made that harder in CM too.
 
Still playing Persona 4 Golden, but soon, I'll be playing the new Smash Bros Wii U game and Bayonetta 2 in the future.
 
Persona 3 (dabes Persona), DanganRonpa, & Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley. It's like the bastard lovechild of Harvest Moon & Minecraft. I'M GOING TO GROW CABBAGES ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN I MADE MYSELF SURROUNDED BY MOATS BECAUSE FUCK YOU IS WHY
 
Right now I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei 4. It's a pretty difficult game. I've been overlevelled the whole time and there are still boss fights where I find myself restarting because of bad luck or because the strategy outlined in the guide I'm using has given me a bum steer. There was this one optional boss, Ares, and every piece of advice I could find online said the same thing, that your only chance to beat him is just to hit as hard and as fast as you can and go 100% balls to the wall offense. I died three times doing it that way because it was largely luck based. Finally I said 'fuck it' and did the opposite, played it extremely defensively. I won without losing a single party member.

So I'm going slowly with the game and doing my own thing.
 
Picked up White Knight Chronicles again and started playing so I can play through the sequel with everything fresh in my mind. Gonna replay Wild Arms 3 again too.
 
The Desolate Hope. Got it on Steam while it was on sale. I find it to be better than Five Nights at Freddys if simply because both games were made by the same guy. (The soundtrack is rather good for one)
 
The Desolate Hope. Bought it today for $1.24 on Steam. Made by the same guy who made Five Nights at Freddys.
 
Super Smash Bros. Wii U and Bayonetta 2.

The former I played with my brother yesterday and had a blast with.

The latter is also friggen awesome so far. I loved the first Bayonetta, so it was nice to see this game continue what made that game so great.
 
For The Internet said:
Right now I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei 4. It's a pretty difficult game. I've been overlevelled the whole time and there are still boss fights where I find myself restarting because of bad luck or because the strategy outlined in the guide I'm using has given me a bum steer. There was this one optional boss, Ares, and every piece of advice I could find online said the same thing, that your only chance to beat him is just to hit as hard and as fast as you can and go 100% balls to the wall offense. I died three times doing it that way because it was largely luck based. Finally I said 'fuck it' and did the opposite, played it extremely defensively. I won without losing a single party member.

So I'm going slowly with the game and doing my own thing.
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Once you get through the first dungeon, the game gets more manageable.
 
LordDarkrai said:
Once you get through the first dungeon, the game gets more manageable.
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I'm currently looking for the counter-demon force base. It's definitely getting easier. I ground to level 22 and the past few boss fights have been a breeze. This is my first SMT game (although I do own Nocturne, just haven't played it) but I have played Persona 1, 3 and 4 so that makes things a bit easier. I can see you're a SMT/Persona fan too.
 
I'm playing Age of Wushu, which is an MMO, I know, I know, but I'm the biggest wuxia nerd and I really love the PVP. They also did away with grinding in a really innovative way.

So basically you earn XP really really fast, and for doing basically anything. Buying stuff, fighting, running around, exploring, literally any activity. But you have a cap of 1,000 XP. The xp is slowly converted, whenever you're online, into cultivation which is what you use to increase your skills (there are no levels, just skills). So instead of grinding by doing repetitive actions over and over, you grind by doing the parts of the game you like for maybe 15 minutes then read a book while the game is running in the background. Granted that's not really "playing" the game, but I prefer it to the other options (grinding or no levels). It's also freemium (but not obnoxiously so) so you can pay to have your character cultivate while you're offline at a reduced rate and not even have to play the game at all.

Then when you feel like having a beautiful looking PVP match the character is right there waiting for you. All the MMO fun with 1% of the time investment.
 
Thief (IV, the rebootening).

Square Anus had made a pretty okay game, I guess, but it's so fucking confusing. I can't find the dude who sells supplies, there's no way to fast travel without immediately triggering another mission and it's impossible to really have any actual sneaky playstyle. I fart two miles away and the guards come at me with their clubs.

Plus, cod pieces....... Everywhere.
 
I'm playing The Evil Within. I was going to play it eventually, after getting through a bunch of other games first, but a friend of mine who played it urged me to play the demo, so I did. Well, after playing the first 3 chapters of the game and reaching the end of the demo, I realized that I couldn't just drop it and pick back up from where I left off 6 months later, so I went ahead and bought the game. I'm almost through now, and yeah, I'm enjoying it just as much as I was when I first picked up the demo (although the Resident Evil 5 style broad-daylight shootout parts are pretty hit-or-miss with me... no pun intended).
 
Still playing "Bravely Default" on hard mode. This one gatehouse place was really irritating - overpowered orcs (pig people) every 10 steps.
EDIT: lol now it's easy. There's this one dragon later that can KO a party member in one turn that I finally defeated.
 
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Did some binging on Black Friday sales. I managed to snag:

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Lords of Shadow 2 on the Steam sale--$7.99 and $9.99, respectively
Garry's Mod on the Steam Sale--$2.49
Battlefield 4 on Xbox Live--$19.99
Lord of the Rings: Shadow of Mordor at Wal-Mart--$25 (wife's going to "give" it to me on Christmas)
Just Dance 2015 at Wal-Mart--$25 (going to give it tot he kids)
 
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