What's everyone playing this month?

[CreepyOldDude]

The first two have to be played on the 'net - but that's fun cos you play against real people all across the world, but Empire Total War can also be played against the computer. ETW is a very old game and I bought it and Napoleon Total War for like $10 on sale. The others are free to download and play.

But be careful with World of Warships and World of Warplanes, cos if you are a newby, there will be experienced players who will gang up on you and seal-club you (sink you or shoot you down). Happens to me all the time, but I don't care and I'm gaining experience. I'm now just good enough to repeatedly get 'Ace' (five kills) and top of the team scores, in air battles, but I'm not so good at naval battles (I think I don't have enough patience, so I YOLO into enemy formations spraying gunfire and torpedoes at anything in sight - and get sunk by a BB which is standing off. But it's still fun. )

What you're describing happens to n00bs in every combat game.

I haven't done any air combat games in several years. But I've always been good at tank and naval warfare games.

[CreepyOldDude]

New games:
COD: Advanced Warfare
Titanfall
Overwatch

Old games:
Rome: Total War
Populus 3
Age of Mythology
Perfect World

Apps:
War Robots
Plague
Dominations

I haven't played Titanfall or Overwatch. Not sure if I'm going to try them, or not. I'm generally at a disadvantage in run-and-guns. I'm more of a sniper, than assault.

[decedent]

I haven't played Titanfall or Overwatch. Not sure if I'm going to try them, or not. I'm generally at a disadvantage in run-and-guns. I'm more of a sniper, than assault.

They're a nice change-up. I find FPS games a bit monotonous, and COD is the only one I play on a console. The War Robots app is amazing. It's a FPS and has great graphics and gameplay. It's free.

[Doublejack]

You know, it's funny. I have that, but I only played about an hour, and haven't touched it since.

Yea i'm losing the drive to log in pretty quickly. It's similar to the WoW themepark platform.

I just keep falling back to EVE. Games just don't appeal to me without risk.

[William]

What you're describing happens to n00bs in every combat game.

I haven't done any air combat games in several years. But I've always been good at tank and naval warfare games.

If you like tank warfare, you could try this one - same deal, it's free, and you play against people around the world.



I downloaded it, but I haven't tried it yet - I like the air combat games best, cos they are a good combination of reflexes and strategy. Like if you haven't got a powerful fighter, you can climb as fast as you can in the early stages of the battle (when everyone is too busy to notice you), and use your altitude to give you speed and the surprise factor to latch on to a better aircraft's six. And if your aircraft is nimble enough you can stay within firing distance and wear him down even if you are only armed with light machine guns - eventually he will tire of twisting and attempt to use his superior power to climb - that's when he is toast if you are quick.

[IMPress Polly]

CreepyOldDude wrote:
It looks like someone has been visiting Possum Springs.

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I've heard good things about NITW. I'll probably get it sometime, when I've got the time.

Personally, I've never played another game that quite so fully encapsulated my own worldview, and that's a major factor in my enjoyment thereof.