OT: What games do you do for a mental break from AE?

[Encircled]

Football Manager, Medieval Total War II-Expansion heavily modded (Brygs) but most of the rest of the time is kids and family stuff

[LargeSlowTarget]

Supremacy 1914, Civ IV, Gothic 3, STALKER mods - depending on mood and circumstances. No "killer games" when the kids are around, but slaughtering whole armies and destroying entire civilizations is ok. Wait, who said "hypocrite"? [;)]

[Rising-Sun]

Well depending on mood and how much time I can play, fairly I play Skyrim as a necromancer and Distant Worlds. I didn't want to get back in WitP:AE til I get my maps done.

I just starting playing Master of Orion III, and see if I can break it. Its a pretty hard game on medium setting along with 8 civilians on a huge 3-arms galaxy. Crossed off X's so this game would be sandbox, love playing the aliens, the Ithikuls :p

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: RisingSun

Well depending on mood and how much time I can play, fairly I play Skyrim as a necromancer and Distant Worlds. I didn't want to get back in WitP:AE til I get my maps done.

I just starting playing Master of Orion III, and see if I can break it. Its a pretty hard game on medium setting along with 8 civilians on a huge 3-arms galaxy. Crossed off X's so this game would be sandbox, love playing the aliens, the Ithikuls :p

Used to spend WAY too much time playing MOO II. I tried MOO III but it didn't have the same simplicity of design and I missed that.

Would like to play another conquer the universe game at some point. Ideally turn based without the seemingly ubiquitous real-time elements (other than a bit of combat replay) where I can develop civilizations and terraform worlds, design my own ships, etc.

Any good new ones out there?

[Rising-Sun]

MoO II wasn't a bad game and loved it when I first played it back in mid 90's. MoO III is hard game to crack, depending on difficulty settings. Galaxy Civilization isn't that bad, infact they have part three out. I played it, its pretty good game, but not complete yet. Stardock will have it done hopefully by December, they lefted out the tactical combat.

Have you tried Space Empire Series? There also Free Orions too, incase you never heard of it.

[Trugrit]

I like to take a walk through the island jungle in FarCry3 with Ziggy’s mod.
My rig can run the graphics at max.
It’s quite beautiful with all the lush vegetation and sandy beaches.

I find exploring abandoned Japanese fortifications and fighting pirates to be a hobby in itself.
Also, hang gliding, hunting, swimming, boating, poker and road racing are available.

Just watch out for the pirates.

[wegman58]

I had fallen into World of Warcraft before I found Matrix.

[LeeChard]

I play Civ 5 and my mindless guilty pleasure is Titan Quest[:'(]

[crsutton]

Diablo III. Sometimes you just want to smash a few heads.

[Mundy]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Civ 5. Kerbal Space Program. Skyrim if I have large blocks of time.

Ditto on the Kerbals. I've put countless hours into that game.

The DCS series of flight sims also has lots of my time lately.

Ed-

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: rustysi




Nothing comes before AE!!!!![:-]

I really go mindless. Risk, Civ3, Imperialism II. What can I say, sometimes I just need to recharge.

Dude, why don't you just do Sudokus?

Didn't intend to tick you off, I was just kidding.

Sorry, I was just trying to be funny as usual. Some of my jokes (just some, not all) are rather opaque. I should use these: [;)] [:'(] or [:D] or perhaps I'd be safer using

[guctony]

Before WITP AE there was so many now only AE. But Borderland 2 was a great game till I finish it.

[JocMeister]

If I do get just 30 minutes of time over and want to burn off some steam I usually play CoD4 or BF2 (very few servers around now though).

[Sardaukar]

For break I play Command:Modern Naval/Air Operations, Crusader Kings 2 and ADOM. [8D]

Actually I play Command more now than AE...but [:D]

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

If I do get just 30 minutes of time over and want to burn off some steam I usually play CoD4 or BF2 (very few servers around now though).

You should pick up Rising Storm [;)].

[Numdydar]

Wasteland 2 and Xcom Enemy Within/Unknown. Also my wife and I really like Pandora with the new expansion. Really hard game even on Normal.

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

If I do get just 30 minutes of time over and want to burn off some steam I usually play CoD4 or BF2 (very few servers around now though).

You should pick up Rising Storm [;)].

I looked at some Youtube vids a while back. Seems a bit too slow for my liking when it comes to FPS games. [:)]

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

If I do get just 30 minutes of time over and want to burn off some steam I usually play CoD4 or BF2 (very few servers around now though).

You should pick up Rising Storm [;)].

Yes, I need more WitP fourmites to bayonet!

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

If I do get just 30 minutes of time over and want to burn off some steam I usually play CoD4 or BF2 (very few servers around now though).

Look up "Project Reality" for BF2.

It takes the base game and makes it the best modern FPS around - and there's always 2 or 3 100 player servers on the go.

It's as complex as the Arma series and as smooth gunplay as in any CoD title. It pretty much has everything: the usual BF mix of infantry and armoured combat and an insurgency game mode which (IMO) the game was made for.

Check it out. If it grabs your interest, throw me a PM and I'll give you some waterwings before you jump in the deep end. While it's not got a steep learning curve by any stretch of the imagination, there is quite a lot to take in.

[mikkey]

Command:Modern Air/Naval Operations and DCS Huey/Mi-8 modules.

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: rustysi

ORIGINAL: geofflambert




Dude, why don't you just do Sudokus?

Didn't intend to tick you off, I was just kidding.

Sorry, I was just trying to be funny as usual. Some of my jokes (just some, not all) are rather opaque. I should use these: [;)] [:'(] or [:D] or perhaps I'd be safer using

I shouda known better, sorry to infer anything improper on your part.[:(]