I have been playing RimWorld for quite a long time. And at the beginning, I wasn’t only playing it vanilla, but playing the beginning a lot. That’s because I started not just in the beta, but in the alpha, so my runs were being made unplayable pretty quickly as updates happened. Later on, I started adding mods, and it brought me to where I am now.
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A few days (read: week and a half) ago I started a new run of Sid Meyer’s Civilization V. It was mostly because I wanted to get my hold back on the basic ways of the game so I could talk a little bit of Beyond Earth before lucky number seven comes out. At the start it was a bit of a pain; my last playtime was the summer of 2023, but that was to try 5’s “weird” civ of Venice after I played the weird of 6’s Maori. Once I got the hang of it though, man does it have some awesomeness to it.
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Recently–and by recently I do in fact mean early summer–an update for the early access Farthest Frontier came out. Since it messed up old save games, I decided to start a new one, and since I was still pretty noob in the game, I also decided I should try watching a let’s play. And the let’s play said one pretty big thing: the game needs to speed up.
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Have you ever had a big explosion in a video game? I’m not talking about kabooms, although…I could be, if that makes you a lot better at the game. I’m talking in stuff like knowledge, skill. I recently had one while playing Against the Storm, and while I’m still not particularly good at the game (the only difficulty I can win easily on is Pioneer, which is basically 2/24), I did find out something that made me a lot better.
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I have a confession to make. Since my review of Victoria 3, I’ve barely played it. I’m not against the game at all, the games I play are just so long, and life is so life, I haven’t sat down to play another long game.
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