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I wanna play, too!

Or something like that.

Anyways, lately I've been playing a bit of Endless Space (a let's play series here to show the game) for my space 4X needs. Haven't played a whole lot yet, but it is quite enjoyable. I was/am particularly surprised at how even on normal difficulty I have to carefully balance fleet strength, research, population growth, expansion etc. (and I'm not top score! :O). I'd say it's superior to MoO 2, at least.

And the other game (another let's play to show it too) is Warlock - Master of the Arcane. The best Master of Magic replacement yet... quite Civilization 5 in style so you don't get as detailed battles unfortunately, and the magic system is a bit less interesting than in MoM but still great, all in all.

Warlock is pretty cool - it looks like Civ5, but the differences are fundamental.

As far as 4X goes, I'm still waiting for the day Sword of the Stars 2 will be decently playable

Best Master of Magic replacement is Dominions 3, which I play in multiplay matches with my friends. Awesome game with an ocean of depth.

Is anyone still in EVE?  I want to quit, but recent expansion is quite good...

I play eve but very inactive these days. Dont have really time for it.

Right now I am playing some Dungeon Fortress xD

And World of tanks here and there

Picked up Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion on steam.  Still playing rather defensively, enjoying setting up 'campaigns' for my capital ships... till I ran into an AI who hoarded up 11 caps 

I've got Rebellion as well. Carriers are still good, although not quite how I remember them. I'm toying with the Vasari Rebels, and plan on making a fleet consisting of a Titan, a mobile Station, and a bunch of other stuff. It'll be slow, but it'll hit like a freight train.

I just tried out a cute little game called Wanderlust: Rebirth. It's a simple harkens to the themes of the days of Secret of Mana, but I believe it's much too short. It's had me wanting to play Seiken Densetsu 3 (Part 2 to Secret of Mana) which is 2 player co-op. If anyone wants to Hamachi and play with me on an emulator lemme know. 

But what I've really been looking to recapture is the feel of some kind of Master of Magic or Heroes of Might and Magic 3 type of game. I played through a campaign in Disciples 2 but it's not cutting it for me. I'm hoping a game called Eador: Masters of the Broken World comes out and hits the sweet spot for me. The last time I was really impressed with a fantasy TBS was via the Fall From Heaven 2 mod for Civ 4 which was amazing. Dominions 3 was great as well but I need to find someone to play it with.

Edit: I tried out Rebellion a while back too! Titans are really powerful... too much so, really. Vasari Rebels esp. are really broken (imba) in multiplayer last I checked.

Drox operative. Great fun, especially as multiplayer.

I tried Drox Operative out! It was really fun... But I could tell it was going to get boring real quick. :`( Too many monsters spawning in empty space and not enough of a drive to help the randomly generated races... It felt too rogue-like. FTL does rogue-likes way better.

Anyone try SPAZ AKA Space Pirates and Zombies? People should just make a game like SPAZ already but with either a strong Rule of Cool storyline ala Star Control 2, or a great single-player dynamic random economy/generation/etc. way beyond Drox's... 

Speaking of Star Control 2, I'm so glad Skylanders is such a cash cow for Toys for Bob. I wonder if they still have some of their old guard over there and if they'll ever make something great like SC2 again now that they're well-known and relevant in the gaming industry again.

I'm going to be trying Guild Wars 2 next since I was such a fan of the first one.

I just finished the story of Just Cause 2. Now I have to finish the other 70% of the game xD. The game is really fun (and funny): you're basically a terrorist that needs to destroy as much as possible and cause as much chaos as possible. Also the game honours its name, there's a lot of stuff that is "just 'cause" that makes it really fun (like, you can steal flying planes/helicopters or jump on the top of your plane while going at top speed because fuck logic). The game is not realistic, it's just fun xD.

I love those types of games. Great hilarity can be had!

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Is anyone still in EVE?  I want to quit, but recent expansion is quite good...
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Hey Fiz. Remember me?

Yais.  I gave away my account though.