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[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Taking the edge off.

Missing a 95% chance shot in Xcom and subsequently having your whole party wiped out by aliens

Pick one

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ayyyyy, if a missed 95% shot fucks things over that bad then you probably weren't handling the situation that well in the first place!

He says, as his entire squad gets eggs laid in them

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A plan is just a list of stuff to go wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Doesn't exactly match up but I use Factorio for this. Or more accurately it uses me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, factorio has a map, and it's definitely a strategy game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's also isometric and you can move units around the map to attack enemies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Factorio is so good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Mindustry addict here. Check it out, it's FOSS and very multiplatform! I recommend starting on Erekir.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Look the factory must grow and all, but it's all about control. Whether it's mapped based war games or factory on a map, the principle is the same, we dah boss dis time

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed you've recently settled a statement close to my psyche, I request that you refrain from settling too close in the future to avoid any ill feelings!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hey, I just got word that that settlement needs your help. I'll mark it on your map.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Fellas, is it gay to not play StarCraft?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Roger! I'm in the rear, with the gear!"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The "Fellas, is it gay...?" meme is one of my favorites.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I say it to my wife all the time. Was watching Friends with her last night and Chandler gets mad at Joey for telling Rachel he owns lotion. I looked at her and said, “Fellas, is it gay to moisturize?” It’s just so silly how many things aren’t MANLY™

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the pipe, five by five!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The map needs to slowly change to the color of my faction for my life to have any meaning.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Turns out it's just the man's equivalent of a coloring book

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (12 children)

That's silly, you don't know what you're talking about.

Looks at physical copies of original C&C, all three Red Alerts, Civ4, Warcraft, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, and a steam library with Mindustry, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Captain of Industry, Desynced

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

A life well lived.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Civ 5 here. I'll be 39 this year and play the least out of my friends group (probably 1 or 2 sessions a month where I quit 3 or 4 hours in, and once a month or less playing for 6 or more hours to almost actually finish a game). The friends I play with are all mid 40s and do a full game at least weekly. We all have wives and kids and stuff but are huge nerds i guess.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have launched Civ 6 once, launched a quick game with bots, blinked and realized 2.5 hours have passed. I'm scared to reopen the game. Next time I might wake up with a gray head and wrinkles on my face

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most of us use drugs or alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hell yeah, drugs and alcohol enhance map games so much. Great combination, would recommend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Played Civ 5 drunk with a friend once and it was amazing. At some point I ended up at war and realized a good few turns in that I forgot to make military units

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do I make the wololo dude en passant

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this like a personal attack or something?

[–] wander1236 15 points 7 months ago

You would know if you played map-based strategy games

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, a stellaris weekend full of alien genocide

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

If my units have action points it also makes me feel like I'm in total control of my life which makes me happy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

After your 30s, you move on to sim or survival games.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Learning curves and time management don’t mix

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I know I already replied once, but on a serious note: I would love a new IP that was like Tiberium Sun. That was my first love with RTS and nothing since has been quite as awesome. Not even StarCraft.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Red Alert 2 is cozy gaming

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Red Alert 2 is one of my all time favorites! I think it was my first online gaming experience too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I always liked C&C 3. JK Simmon, George Takei, and Tim Curry as the faction leaders. What more could you want?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Live-acted cutscenes with actual actors was so unnecessary, but they rocked and really made the games stand out back then.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I will always have fond memories of cheesing the hell out of the original C&C. My friend had it for DOS. I later got C&C Gold and could run it in Windows at 640x480! IIRC none of the cheeky bugs were fixed in the Windows port. You are a Command and Conquer veteran if you remember:

  • Late game, deciding the hell with it and just swarming the enemy with ~500 bazooka dudes, because money was technically infinite on most maps, limited only by your patience. Every time the Tiberium tree "puffed" it would generate a little more green stuff you could harvest for cash.

  • Penning the computer enemy into their base with walls, because their pathfinding was not smart enough to destroy objects in their way and they would never attack a wall (although sandbags would be crushed by tanks).

  • Cherry-tapping your opponent by running over his last infantry dudes with your harvester, just to be an ass.

  • Running a line of sandbags up to the enemy base, hovering the "sell" cursor one pixel off the edge of your own sandbags, but selling their building and keeping the cash. And preferably then parking a queued up defense tower at the end of the sandbag chain immediately afterwards.

  • Baiting the computer into perpetually wasting their nukes or ion cannons by positioning one machine gun guy closer to their base than your own base or main forces, whereupon it would pathologically blow up just that one soldier because he was the "closest threat."

  • "Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay."

  • Smuggling an engineer into the enemy's base under cover of some crazy diversion or another, inevitably aiming to nick his construction yard, undeploy it into an MCV, and bugger off with it. Or building MCV's with your friends in multiplayer and deliberately deploying them in each other's bases so you can build stuff from both sides and gang up on the computer with Obelisks and missile towers.

  • Leaving the computer opponent with one useless building like a power plant left, so you don't technically "win" and can go on forever uncontested to see how many units you can build before your computer crashes.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Does the original Rome:Total War count? It's the only strategy game I return to. It's just that good.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think those people are the kinds of jerks who watch football. I'm not sure it helps them relax in the slightest. That would explain a few things actually...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I generally prefer something more action filled like a dungeon crawler or a bullet hell

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd rather be on the ground shooting the zombies/vampires/aliens/libertarians(thanks Bioshock series).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I play cozy games instead. Can't wait for the next Animal Crossing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Once every few years I have the itch to play Dune 2. It's so simple. It's the perfect RTS. Although the Harkonen Devastator is useless and the Death Hand is overpowered simply by you being lucky.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Patiently waiting for Homeworld 3 tho (it will not get pushed back 9 months like last year)

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