What to play while waiting?

[Will Steel]

Too many to list. I am playing a whole lot of sandbox games I bought over last two years. Other than that I am playing all Total War games (until Attila), Assassin's Creed series (all until AC3), Company of Heroes 1, Silent Hunter 3, Terraria, Minecraft, The Sims 2 (because that was the last great, serious and realistic Sims game), Tropico 4 and Tropico 1, and others. I am playing various indie games like Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon and today I bought Invisible Inc. at the recommendation of a friend.

I am a city-builder and I cannot live without playing Simcity 4 at least once a day. Cities Skylines is really enjoyable as well. I love urban planning games and I have all the games of Sierra's good old city building series (Caesar, Zeus, Pharaoh, Emperor etc.), as well as some older Simcity games (SC2000 and SC3000).

I am playing Pokemon Fire Red and Emerald. I am also planning to get Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver for my new 3DS in a month or so. Pokemon games are an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyable.

I am playing Civilization IV, Civ V and Civ III because all of them are great and addictive. I spent yesterday night building a cultural, diplomatically pacifist France, maintaining relations with my Shoshone neighbour and emerged as the richest power in the game, now I am close to a science victory if I can prevent the AI from stealing my tech.

And of course I am playing a lot of Paradox games, particularly EU4, CK2, Victoria 2 and Darkest Hour HoI almost every hour.

I am thinking of rebooting Il 2 Sturmovik 1946 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Those games were great and I haven't reinstalled them since April when I bought a new PC. Both are on Steam so I may as well let my old disks stay in the shelf.

My brother had bought GTA V and Red Dead Redemption for his PS3 some time ago, so I have been playing them for months as well.

And that is just a portion of the games I play. The list is much, much bigger.

 

[Kazansky22]

I've been playing Hoi3 and Vic2

 

[GeneralPetrov]

Ok. In that case I can also recommend Kerbal Space Program for those who haven't tried it. I spent about a month on it, really teaches you about orbital mechanics and the exponential rocket equation (the more fuel you have the more fuel you need to carry to lift the other fuel). The feeling you got when first landing on the Mun was incredibly satisfying It's been a while since I played it but I recall it successfully gave that sense of wonder and awe, bordering on loneliness when in space, since I kept thinking back to how it must have been in the 1960's when this was done for real - very immersive.

Yeah KSP is an awesome game too, and it's even better with mods. Weirdly I quite enjoy making fighter jets as well as flying rockets through space.

As for more games for OP...

Project Zomboid is a very neat indie isometric zombie apocalypse survival game, and it's constantly being updated too. Don't let the words zombie survival worry you, it's not just a game of shooting waves of zombies, but you also have to scavenge for food and supplies too.

Prison Architect is a another game receiving updates all the time and it's just come out of early access. You can build a prison, manage that prison, and even become a prisoner and try to escape from your own prison. And if I'm not mistaken, there's also a mod gives everything a WW2 German POW camp theme. A great game overall.

 

[Will Steel]

I was thinking about buying Kerbal Space Program, but I am a total loser in mathematics and I have read that this game requires a knowledge of physics and calculations...should I get it?

Is KSP open and sandbox, or is it railroaded and story based?

 

[GeneralPetrov]

I was thinking about buying Kerbal Space Program, but I am a total loser in mathematics and I have read that this game requires a knowledge of physics and calculations...should I get it?

Is KSP open and sandbox, or is it railroaded and story based?

Very open and sandboxy. There isn't a lot of maths involved unless you want to build super efficient rockets, and if anything, the game will teach you a bit of basic physics. I highly recommend it, although you might want to watch some youtube vids on it. Scott Manley is the most well known KSP youtuber. It might seem daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it it's great fun so don't worry if your first few rockets explode or fail either, that's pretty normal!

 

[TheDecider]

I was thinking about buying Kerbal Space Program, but I am a total loser in mathematics and I have read that this game requires a knowledge of physics and calculations...should I get it?

Is KSP open and sandbox, or is it railroaded and story based?

I didn't have to use any math, I went by testing instead. Not enough speed this time to leave the planet...alright chuck on another stage! You don't really have know much physics either... just that if you straight up until you're out of fuel you will fall back, you need point to the spaceship along the atmosphere after a while since being in orbit means you're travelling at a speed where you're constantly falling towards the planet but keeps missing it - I guess that's physics but i've never had to do any calculations. I highly suggest watching some Scott Manley which I'm subscribed to and watched before I started.

KSP let's you choose between sandbox and career. Career you unlock parts by doing missions and science, missions get progressively harder as you go along, they become more ambitious. In sandbox you have all parts and can just build what you want, good for the first times as you're learning... on the other hand playing career means you only have a few parts to play with which means you wont get swamped by choices.

 

[Magnus Imperator Rex]

Too many to list. I am playing a whole lot of sandbox games I bought over last two years. Other than that I am playing all Total War games (until Attila), Company of Heroes 1, Silent Hunter 3, Terraria, Minecraft, The Sims 2 (because that was the last great, serious and realistic Sims game), Tropico 4 and Tropico 1, . I am playing various indie games like Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon

I am a city-builder and I cannot live without playing Simcity 4 at least once a day. Cities Skylines is really enjoyable as well. I love urban planning games and I have all the games of Sierra's good old city building series (Caesar, Zeus, Pharaoh, Emperor etc.), as well as some older Simcity games (SC2000 and SC3000).

I am playing Pokemon Fire Red and Emerald. I am also planning to get Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver for my new 3DS in a month or so. Pokemon games are an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyable.

I am playing Civilization IV, Civ V and Civ III because all of them are great and addictive. I spent yesterday night building a cultural, diplomatically pacifist France, maintaining relations with my Shoshone neighbour and emerged as the richest power in the game, now I am close to a science victory if I can prevent the AI from stealing my tech.

And of course I am playing a lot of Paradox games, particularly EU4, CK2, Victoria 2 and Darkest Hour HoI almost every hour.

I am thinking of rebooting Il 2 Sturmovik 1946 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Those games were great and I haven't reinstalled them since April when I bought a new PC. Both are on Steam so I may as well let my old disks stay in the shelf.

My brother had bought GTA V and Red Dead Redemption for his PS3 some time ago, so I have been playing them for months as well.

And that is just a portion of the games I play. The list is much, much bigger.

wow you are really into videogames.

cool

 

[Caesar15]

I was thinking about buying Kerbal Space Program, but I am a total loser in mathematics and I have read that this game requires a knowledge of physics and calculations...should I get it?

Is KSP open and sandbox, or is it railroaded and story based?

Nah it doesn't, haven't taken a single physics class in my life (more of a chem guy) and it's fine for me. All the fancy math/physics stuff would help but is not really necessary. It's an open sandbox on, well, sandbox mode. Career mode has limitations that you have to get past by research/money management and that kind of stuff. It's a very good buy.

 

[Caesar15]

wow you are really into videogames.

cool

Wonder how many games he has in his steam library.

 

[Nicolas I]

Too many to list. I am playing a whole lot of sandbox games I bought over last two years. Other than that I am playing all Total War games (until Attila), Company of Heroes 1, Silent Hunter 3, Terraria, Minecraft, The Sims 2 (because that was the last great, serious and realistic Sims game), Tropico 4 and Tropico 1, . I am playing various indie games like Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon

I am a city-builder and I cannot live without playing Simcity 4 at least once a day. Cities Skylines is really enjoyable as well. I love urban planning games and I have all the games of Sierra's good old city building series (Caesar, Zeus, Pharaoh, Emperor etc.), as well as some older Simcity games (SC2000 and SC3000).

I am playing Pokemon Fire Red and Emerald. I am also planning to get Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver for my new 3DS in a month or so. Pokemon games are an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyable.

I am playing Civilization IV, Civ V and Civ III because all of them are great and addictive. I spent yesterday night building a cultural, diplomatically pacifist France, maintaining relations with my Shoshone neighbour and emerged as the richest power in the game, now I am close to a science victory if I can prevent the AI from stealing my tech.

And of course I am playing a lot of Paradox games, particularly EU4, CK2, Victoria 2 and Darkest Hour HoI almost every hour.

I am thinking of rebooting Il 2 Sturmovik 1946 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Those games were great and I haven't reinstalled them since April when I bought a new PC. Both are on Steam so I may as well let my old disks stay in the shelf.

My brother had bought GTA V and Red Dead Redemption for his PS3 some time ago, so I have been playing them for months as well.

And that is just a portion of the games I play. The list is much, much bigger.

You must be independently wealthy to spend all your life playing games.

I wish I had that much free time, tough I would also do other things than play computer games.

 

[Magnus Imperator Rex]

Wonder how many games he has in his steam library.

yea lol that's an insane list, good for him I guess.

But that's a LOT of videogames. I wonder how Will manages his time to play all of them?

 

[bertxav]

Too many to list. I am playing a whole lot of sandbox games I bought over last two years. Other than that I am playing all Total War games (until Attila), Company of Heroes 1, Silent Hunter 3, Terraria, Minecraft, The Sims 2 (because that was the last great, serious and realistic Sims game), Tropico 4 and Tropico 1, . I am playing various indie games like Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon

I am a city-builder and I cannot live without playing Simcity 4 at least once a day. Cities Skylines is really enjoyable as well. I love urban planning games and I have all the games of Sierra's good old city building series (Caesar, Zeus, Pharaoh, Emperor etc.), as well as some older Simcity games (SC2000 and SC3000).

I am playing Pokemon Fire Red and Emerald. I am also planning to get Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver for my new 3DS in a month or so. Pokemon games are an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyable.

I am playing Civilization IV, Civ V and Civ III because all of them are great and addictive. I spent yesterday night building a cultural, diplomatically pacifist France, maintaining relations with my Shoshone neighbour and emerged as the richest power in the game, now I am close to a science victory if I can prevent the AI from stealing my tech.

And of course I am playing a lot of Paradox games, particularly EU4, CK2, Victoria 2 and Darkest Hour HoI almost every hour.

I am thinking of rebooting Il 2 Sturmovik 1946 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Those games were great and I haven't reinstalled them since April when I bought a new PC. Both are on Steam so I may as well let my old disks stay in the shelf.

My brother had bought GTA V and Red Dead Redemption for his PS3 some time ago, so I have been playing them for months as well.

And that is just a portion of the games I play. The list is much, much bigger.

I don't know where you find the time to play all that but I would like to be able to do the same.

 

[Caesar15]

yea lol that's an insane list, good for him I guess.

But that's a LOT of videogames. I wonder how Will manages his time to play all of them?

Maybe he has no life?

 

[scroggin]

Ho

Apparantly he pissed off someone/somepeople in another thread and is now they're disagreeing with (literally) all his posts.

As for what game to play, I'd recommend not playing another WW2 strategy game, so HOI4 and it's theme feels more 'fresh'. I'm currently playing Fallout 4 like everyone else, as well as a bit of Mount and Blade: Warband and Victoria 2 HPM on the side. And yeah, Agario is addicting as hell.

How childish

 

[Aries666]

Agario.

It is the most addictive game I have ever played. Do not play it if you have an addictive personality. You'll never stop, you'll slowly lose your life, your job and wife and ultimately your soul.

What have you done, now I'm never going to get anything done!

 

[Will Steel]

Very open and sandboxy. There isn't a lot of maths involved unless you want to build super efficient rockets, and if anything, the game will teach you a bit of basic physics. I highly recommend it, although you might want to watch some youtube vids on it. Scott Manley is the most well known KSP youtuber. It might seem daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it it's great fun so don't worry if your first few rockets explode or fail either, that's pretty normal!

I didn't have to use any math, I went by testing instead. Not enough speed this time to leave the planet...alright chuck on another stage! You don't really have know much physics either... just that if you straight up until you're out of fuel you will fall back, you need point to the spaceship along the atmosphere after a while since being in orbit means you're travelling at a speed where you're constantly falling towards the planet but keeps missing it - I guess that's physics but i've never had to do any calculations. I highly suggest watching some Scott Manley which I'm subscribed to and watched before I started.

KSP let's you choose between sandbox and career. Career you unlock parts by doing missions and science, missions get progressively harder as you go along, they become more ambitious. In sandbox you have all parts and can just build what you want, good for the first times as you're learning... on the other hand playing career means you only have a few parts to play with which means you wont get swamped by choices.

Nah it doesn't, haven't taken a single physics class in my life (more of a chem guy) and it's fine for me. All the fancy math/physics stuff would help but is not really necessary. It's an open sandbox on, well, sandbox mode. Career mode has limitations that you have to get past by research/money management and that kind of stuff. It's a very good buy.

Many thanks. I guess I'll have to buy this game now. I'll watch the videos on Youtube and especially those of the Scott Manley that you guys suggest. It is great that this is a sandbox because I love that genre. It is even greater that it is possible to play this game without a need for maths skills. I was fearing this was going to be as hard as Dwarf Fortress.

Wonder how many games he has in his steam library.

I have lots of games, but not beyond counting. Sometimes my cousins buy me the games (being hardcore gamers themselves), and my Steam library is much smaller than theirs.

You must be independently wealthy to spend all your life playing games.

I wish I had that much free time, tough I would also do other things than play computer games.

yea lol that's an insane list, good for him I guess.

But that's a LOT of videogames. I wonder how Will manages his time to play all of them?

I don't know where you find the time to play all that but I would like to be able to do the same.

Maybe he has no life?

It is just that I have too much free time from the last few years, and money is not a problem for me. I just keep buying the games, and play them whenever I have the mood for playing them. Next year I'll not have this much time for gaming anymore, but I am trying to enjoying this remaining precious time as much as I can.

wow you are really into videogames.

cool

Yes indeed.

 

[ozmono2005]

I'm hoping someone knows a title from the vast number out there that is almost HoI, and good, since my guess is we have a good six months to wait.

Supreme ruler 1936 or supreme ruler ultimate (it's starts in 36 and goes into the future) is a game on the same era and same scale. By scale I mean it's macro level management of a nation, ie, diplomacy, research, detailed (albeit wonky in some areas) economic management and warfare. It's far from perfect but you may want to look into it for yourself to see if it matches your criteria.

 

[InnocentIII]

War in the East is THE war game to play.

Other than that I'd say EUIV or Vic 2

Gary Grigsby's War in the East is a IGOUGO WW2 wargame with a really huge scope. Weekly turns and brigade/division sized troops on all the Eastern front, all equipments accounted in incredible details (too much some would say) and supply system based mainly on railways and trucks for the last kilometres between rail and troops.

Days and weeks to finish a single game should occupy your leisure time until HOI4 is released. That is if you can withdraw from WITE after trying it.

That's what I was thinking of, though more Pacific than Eastern Front. As it is, I installed HoI3 on the new system and I'm getting into that for now. I was hoping for something new and might still try one.

Ok. In that case I can also recommend Kerbal Space Program for those who haven't tried it. I spent about a month on it, really teaches you about orbital mechanics and the exponential rocket equation (the more fuel you have the more fuel you need to carry to lift the other fuel). The feeling you got when first landing on the Mun was incredibly satisfying It's been a while since I played it but I recall it successfully gave that sense of wonder and awe, bordering on loneliness when in space, since I kept thinking back to how it must have been in the 1960's when this was done for real - very immersive.

I had played KSP quite a bit, but it's been more annoying than fun so I've given it up for a while. My mother in law watched me land on Minmus and all she said was "you bounced".

Project Zomboid is a very neat indie isometric zombie apocalypse survival game, and it's constantly being updated too. Don't let the words zombie survival worry you, it's not just a game of shooting waves of zombies, but you also have to scavenge for food and supplies too.

Prison Architect is a another game receiving updates all the time and it's just come out of early access. You can build a prison, manage that prison, and even become a prisoner and try to escape from your own prison. And if I'm not mistaken, there's also a mod gives everything a WW2 German POW camp theme. A great game overall.

I played PZ like a maniac. I had a custom T-Shirt made up (Front - 6x6" image of the frying frying pan and "Ready for the Zombie Apocalypse", Back "Breaking into houses in Muldraugh KY since 1993"), then carpal tunnel sydrom hit and I had to lay off. Seriously, I have a death grip on the mouse when I play (I'm not that good) and the mechanics are unusual. Prison Architect I've also played a lot (only time I ever became a prisoner the place was on fire and I never made it through traffic). Great suggestions.

Supreme ruler 1936 or supreme ruler ultimate (it's starts in 36 and goes into the future) is a game on the same era and same scale. By scale I mean it's macro level management of a nation, ie, diplomacy, research, detailed (albeit wonky in some areas) economic management and warfare. It's far from perfect but you may want to look into it for yourself to see if it matches your criteria.

I have several of those and I should give them another try.

Too many to list. I am playing a whole lot of sandbox games I bought over last two years. Other than that I am playing all Total War games (until Attila), Company of Heroes 1, Silent Hunter 3, Terraria, Minecraft, The Sims 2 (because that was the last great, serious and realistic Sims game), Tropico 4 and Tropico 1, and others. I am playing various indie games like Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon and today I bought Invisible Inc. at the recommendation of a friend.

I am a city-builder and I cannot live without playing Simcity 4 at least once a day. Cities Skylines is really enjoyable as well. I love urban planning games and I have all the games of Sierra's good old city building series (Caesar, Zeus, Pharaoh, Emperor etc.), as well as some older Simcity games (SC2000 and SC3000).

I am playing Pokemon Fire Red and Emerald. I am also planning to get Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver for my new 3DS in a month or so. Pokemon games are an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyable.

I am playing Civilization IV, Civ V and Civ III because all of them are great and addictive. I spent yesterday night building a cultural, diplomatically pacifist France, maintaining relations with my Shoshone neighbour and emerged as the richest power in the game, now I am close to a science victory if I can prevent the AI from stealing my tech.

And of course I am playing a lot of Paradox games, particularly EU4, CK2, Victoria 2 and Darkest Hour HoI almost every hour.

I am thinking of rebooting Il 2 Sturmovik 1946 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Those games were great and I haven't reinstalled them since April when I bought a new PC. Both are on Steam so I may as well let my old disks stay in the shelf.

My brother had bought GTA V and Red Dead Redemption for his PS3 some time ago, so I have been playing them for months as well.

And that is just a portion of the games I play. The list is much, much bigger.

Yeah, I have a similar library, including a couple 4x space games I have hardly touched (I should give Colonial Conquest another try). You haven't lived until you're at your kid's dance competition, and (during a break) you're playing Pokemon and an eight year old walks up behind you and says "fire against rock, that's gonna work out great".

I appreciate all the suggestions. The truth is that I want HoI4 right now. I'm just hoping I can WW2 a bit in some other way until PDX will take my money. Hopefully HoI3 will tide me over.

 

[Magnus Imperator Rex]

What have you done, now I'm never going to get anything done!

Im sorry

but thats Agario for you, the most addictive browser game of the 21st century. Beware people, beware.

 

[mdw1985]

I know there's been talk about what to read and what to watch, but (other than HoI3) any suggestions on something reasonably meaty to play in the meantime? Everything seems to be RTS (I mean real RTS-zerg-rush, not PDX strategy/RTS) or Panzer General (nice, but typically the only real enemy is the clock), but then maybe I haven't looked hard enough. I'm hoping someone knows a title from the vast number out there that is almost HoI, and good, since my guess is we have a good six months to wait.

Hmmm...
War in the pacific: admirals edition
Gary grigsbys war in the east
Supreme ruler 1936
Making history
Panzerkorps


Hope this helps