Thanks for sharing. Have you played games in the Civ series? If so your description makes them sound similar, would you agree? I’ve been poking around other “4X” games, but don’t have the best laptop so while I’d love to play more recent games they don’t all pan out. Civ V works but Civ VI won’t, for example. I’m also using steam on Ubuntu so I’d guess that might contribute to the issues.
Lords Of The Realm 2 is substantially different from the Civ games. In Lords Of The Realm 2 there is no tech tree and no eras to unlock, there are no alternative options for victory aside from military success, the player and AI do not create their villages but the village locations are preset on the map, there is no building of logistical infrastructure such as roads or mining quarries- instead each county has predetermined resources and the player only decides how many workers to assign to them, battles happen inside their own distinct level of play rather than happening on the world map.
The Civ games are 4x games where long term research and policy decisions are needed to build a faction. Lords Of The Realm 2 is set strictly in the medieval setting and is only concerned with the immediate local squabble.
I only had the demo as a child but replayed that endlessly. I miss the solid demos of the 90s. Like Age of Empires one had a whole campaign as a demo. Fucking glorious Hittites.
For $1.29 you can buy a pack with Lords of The Realm 1,2,3 and Lords Of Magic on Steam right now. (This is not an ad, just saying, the game is still very accessible).
And I miss big thick paper manuals, especially ones with background info and art.
Gog.com sells 1+2 for 2€ right now as well. So not as cheap, Lords of magic was another great game. Edit: confused Lords of magic with masters of magic, the latter is great, I don’t actually know the former.
Paper manuals were great, some games had other cool stuff like cloth maps or metal figurines. Todays cheap always available games are cool as well though.
I’ve tried playing Lords Of Magic and have bounced off of it. The real time combat feels more like a real time tactics game than a strategy game, and I’m pretty bad at real time tactics games. It also makes use of heroic characters and faction specific abilities and magic. It’s something I haven’t fully wrapped around.
I’ve decided to get specifics trophies on Kingdom Hearts 1FM, the no new gear one and the no continue one. If I’m motivated enough, I’ll try the platinum but nothings for sure.
Just completed Cocoon, short game, excellent 9/10. Puzzles aren’t too hard but mind bending. It doesn’t get quite as tedious compared to other puzzle games once you solved it in your head and they break it down to smaller chunks.
Only had 1 difficult puzzle in the entire run near the end, because of a long section between revisiting a certain area.
On mobile, Shattered Pixel Dungeon. It’s brutal. I’ve made it down five levels once or twice. I’m determined to win with the fighter before I start with another class.
Finally took the plunge and bought GTA5 again on PS5 after last playing it on PS3. Turns out I forgot a LOT of the missions, so it doesn’t feel like I’m doing the same thing again. I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would since it’s a replay.
I playing through modded Cyberpunk 2077 which has been fun and a huge improvement from launch. The 2.01 update was great for the game too. Not too interested in buying the DLC though.
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