The rest can burn, but man, Anno 1800 really is/was the best in its series, mandatory logins or not. It's the only game I still hold on to my ubi account for, and I dread the day they'll go under, because they'll take the Mainz team and the Anno games down with them.
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I really wish officials would stop giving this much public attention to the twitter ramblings of these two. They're clearly working putin's agenda of seeding disagreements between NATO countries. If he wants to put his money where his mouth is, he can go get his mad offer refused through proper diplomatic channels. But this pandering to every whacky tweet is like wrestling with pigs and really has no upside.
Not sure what I expected. Every year I miss the mark on all but one or two categories. Not sure if it's because I'm out of touch with the gaming community or the gaming community is high. Probably the first, but people seriously picked Elden Ring for labour of love? Farm Sim for sit back and relax? RDR for soundtrack? The community has spoken I suppose.
True, they're a bit off the mark, but they were the ones off the top of my head. Also, in my defense, I don't think Pottinger knows what he's talking about either. The man glorifies Age3 like crazy, saying they had to scale back some features, fearing they'd prove too revolutionary. I love Age3, but the game was hardly world-shaking. Take its contemporary Rise of Legends, now that was a title that went balls out.
Still, I'm curious what they're cooking up in that new studio.
There's plenty of "evolved" RTSs in the indie scene:
- Against the storm is trying a roguelike approach
- Kingdoms and Castles is a banished-like survival with RTS elements
- Endzone is also a sort of survival-crafter with some strategy mixed in, albeit with some issues.
- Beyond All Reason is an open source RTS that's expanding the Total Anihilation formula.
- Manor Lords is a fantastic medieval strategy
- 8/9 bit armies are colourful, fast paced strategies.
The genre is far from dead, but the problem might be audience. When they demand "evolution" that means it should pander to recent trends like survival crafting and roguelikes and whatnot. Problem is some of these formulas don't usually pan out well for RTS games. Then there's multiplayer and, like other commenters mentioned, ranked multiplayer usually devolves into a bunch of strangers playing the same few maps over and over, but gamers still demand multiplayer.
Alas, I see the genre as not dead but in a "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't" spot. Meanwhile I'm sitting here waiting for a regular old historic RTS like Empire Earth or Rise of Nations.
The article doesn't really take into account local romanian realities and assumes malice where incompetence fits perfectly.
For example, one running theory is that the running coalition wanted to push an extremist candidate in the second turn of elections so that people will vote with their own "moderate" candidate, they underestimated his presence on tiktok and they've been running in panic mode making rushed decisions ever since the 24th of nov. This is further enforced by the fact that they've somehow had their online campaign hijacked in favour of georgescu.
You'd also be hard pressed to call the current ruling coalition anti-russian or pro-war. They're just cowards that try their utmost to not anger russia and only help ukraine when pressed by our nato allies.
Going further, the article describes georgescu as if being pro-russian is his only sin. But russian views notwithstanding, the man is a complete wacko that absolutely cannot be allowed to run a country. We also have a growing number of people voting for guys like him, for various reasons. Parliamentary elections have seen 30% of vote go to "far-right" parties ( and growing ) so we're on trend with the rest of europe.
Finally I don't think our political parties are being controlled by the EU in any way described in the article. The current president is the only one I'd accuse of pandering to EU/US interests, for the rest it's just a marriage of convenience.
It feels like the author is making loose connections bordering on conspiracy to support his theory that it's war support that is ruining the european economy ( as opposed to corporate greed ). I do agree with him that there seem be growing dictatorial tendencies in europe lately, and not just in the far-right parties either.
Putin trained the fucker well. First he poisons relationships with neighbors, then the EU. Full ongoing division tactics. Straight out of the brexit cookbook. The only thing that's missing now is for him to pompously declare independence from the EU or smth.
It's the same for Mass Effect. Every time I get ideas and want to fetch the games on Steam, I'm reminded why I didn't until now
MTX and ads? Then it's clearly only 3+ and should be allowed lol
Farm Sim trailers are very enjoyable, both the newer rock music ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWR8B0LlhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9VPiUtaic
and the cute music ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Rc_wMsuHk
As for all time favorites, the Warcraft 3 trailer still lives in my head. Even remember the words.
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These are the ones I've played over the years. Hope I'm not missing anything:
Elite Dangerous - Highly reccomend this, it's basically a huge sandbox, with full size galaxy, "real" star distances and orbits, excellent flight model. It also has the most awesome community around it. Downsides are that while it has lore and ongoing background story, there's no quest, no interesting characters, no rpg elements. Also there's quite a learning curve, and quite a grind (albeit maneageable these days). There's also a new colonization feature in the works that will involve a lot of comunity effort. If you do decide to play it, join a group, a squad, or just buzz me so I can add you here and there. Friends make the game sooo much better.
Everspace 2 - This may be what you're looking for, as it has story, good gameplay, arcadey flight model and lots of rpg elements. Overall a great game. Only problem with it is that it's not particularly large. Its universe is far smaller than starfield's.
NMS - Another one with an immense galaxy. This one has a storyline, but not a lot of rpg elements. A lot of it is procedural and after a while feels very samey and shallow. It does have crossplay and a great community as well.
X4 - Not especially large, but great single player game, with a universe that feels lived in. Also no rpg and I hear the endgame gets a bit managery.
Spacebourne - Haven't played it long but iy gas good potential. There's a bunch of systems, there's quests, reminds me a bit of freelancer. The downside is that there's a single dev, so development is slow and there's a fair amount of jank.
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ME - I feel it is still king of story driven spage-rpg even after all these years. Maybe give Andromeda a try? The story is meh, but it has great gameplay, and far fewer bugs.