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Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025

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I have a nice new gaming PC (5000 series gpu even), yet all I've played in the last three weeks is a few playthroughs of Civilization V. With a bunch of mods it still feels new, plus there are a few civs I have never even tried. My challenge now is beating the game with civs of middling power on Immortal difficulty.

I really enjoyed my time in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 before that. Played it a bunch in the week after it launched. But I got ever so slightly put off by a sequence where you are forced to (temporarily) lose all your gear, do timed objectives and complete the mission in the one way the devs intended. I'd rather not be stuck with that Hans guy for much longer; him getting executed would have been more or less okay in my book, lol, but there you go.

Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself? The kind where it's really fun but it's not the easiest thing to just jump back into if you've been away from them for a few weeks. I have a lot of games like that on my list. A lot. It's not that I didn't like them, some of them I loved but never finished, but I develop aversion to the thought of jumping back into their worlds after some time away.

Graphically simpler games, like isometric strategy, seems a lot easier to return to, on and off.

Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself?

I bailed out on the first Kingdom Come game b/c of this as well as RDR2. It extremely obvious that RDR2 had a lot of work and polish put into it, but its sooo artificially slow where everything is dragged out as painfully as possible. Steam gave me a refund despite playing past their 2 hour limit as is took over 3 hours just to finish the tutorial section. A truely stunningly boring game for all the hype.

OTOH, Cyberpunk 2077 is very good now with the newish DLC and feels very easy to return to for me. There is a good quest log system and waypoints etc so you don't get to lost. CIV 7 (and CIV 6 while were at it), is out now. If you like Civ5, Civ6 is pretty much a direct upgrade. Civ7 otoh is a significant departure and reviews are mixed. Also there are all the Paradox games if you like those. I'm a big fan of the Crusader Kings games. A good simpler game is Timberborn, its a post apoc beaver colony sim.

I am of course aware of Civ 6 and 7. I don't agree that 6 is an upgrade. For me it's a downgrade. I just never liked its cartoony graphics, or the interface, or the IMO failed humor of the narrator, and didn't have fun playing it. I tried twice.

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