Fallen London - Okay y'all convinced me to give it a try. The web-client version of course, no iOs here. It's pretty amusing.
After an hour spent shivering on a rocky pinnacle above a winter sea, surrounded by fat, evil-tempered seabirds that stab at you with their beaks each time you move, you reconsider your strategy.
I'm a little scared to take up an Ambition with all the big huge YOU CAN'T TURN BACK warnings. How long do they lock you out of everything else?
Towerfall Ascension - I finally picked up a PS4 for the world's most expensive Towerfall arcade box. Was pretty fun goign through Dark World with 4 people, although a tad short. Now we gotta git gud for Hardcore mode, though.
Civ5, SageHack edition - I seem to have lost my save file from the other game I played with this mode on, alas. Went with a Tall Byzantium, which is probably wrong, since Faith scales well with Wide and neo-Byzantium in the hack has free Shrines in cities... but eh, the fundamental reasons why Tall is good in BNW still remain, and more to the point, Tall plays faster. Heck, my nearest neighbor STILL whined about my expansion (I have 3 cities, bro. 3.). Sadly I had to build Nat. College in my capital rather than my super-science jungle & bananas & sugar city, but so it goes. Grand Temple also is now less of a complete waste of time, but sadly enough could arguably still be buffed further, mostly because to get GT you aren't going THAT Wide which is kind of what the Piety tree wants you to do (spam them Shrines & Temples). It was solid enough for me of course thanks to going Tall, which is something that would never be true in normal BNW.
I whined about this in chat already, but I went Jesuit Education for my Reformation belief. On literally the last turn before the Industrial Era/Modern turn where I'm about to get Public Schools off Scientific Theory and buy them instantly with Faith, I get a Great Prophet pop that I don't even want. Which of course 0's your faith. And doesn't happen in the Modern era. Yeah, I had to reload and buy a useless missionary which slowed up my Public School acquisition spree. Grahh, need a "don't spawn me a GP" button. Also, going religious for the most part was kind of a bust. Even though I won an early city-state quest to generate the most faith, my second-closest neighbor, Persia, had seemingly inexhaustable supplys of Missionaries & Great Prophets to undo almost any conversion work. I wonder if the AI gets cheaper Faith cost for 'em.
Kamehama messed with me once before (and got slaughtered in the chokepoint near my border city), then he declared war again, so I'm busy burning down the border city to teach him a lesson. It's too bad it's kind of inconvenient to take his capital, as that would involve a long & slow repositioning of my fleet. We'll see.
Anyway this is looking like Yet Another Diplo victory game, since my giant piles o' cash have the majority of the city states pledging fealty to me anyway (especially with an Austria eating some of the others), despite there even being a Greece in the game. Can always fall back on Space, too.
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright - Lots to talk about here! Too much so, next post, maybe. Just finished C25, aka "good luck to the unit you send into the Entrap trap."
