Paradox’s games don’t really do storytelling in a traditional sense. They’re strategy and management games. Some of them are pretty damn good at creating stories dynamically through gameplay, or providing a frame upon which you can create your own stories, but they were never intended to be narrative experiences
And they intentionally shake the gameplay up with each installment. I’m glad they do. Otherwise there’s little point in doing a new one
For Civ 6, I’d say winning each victory once. Try to do it with different civs each time too. You can set your goal as winning a game on the highest difficulty if you want, but personally I don’t find that to be as interesting as the shift in gameplay necessary to win the different victories without just militarily crushing everyone else.
Missing out on the truest of Civ victories: declaring war on literally everyone and nuking their capitals one turn before you win a science victory
https://youtu.be/4lSPZWmmoS8?feature=shared
This video is a good explanation. There might be better ones but I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the community aspect of Noita
And then there’s Noita, in which people have put in serious cryptographic effort over years trying to decipher the last two puzzles and yet no answers are forthcoming because the game was conjured by druids and ancient Finnish forest spirits
ES6 for sure. It doesn’t matter how long it takes Bethesda, Bethesda aren’t currently getting paid for it while SC continues to rake in utterly unjustified wads of cash on a vast scale
It’s fucking wild that the biggest news we’ve had about a highly anticipated game since it was announced six years ago is that an artist working on it left his pinterest public
Honestly that sounds fine. It’s okay if a small game is only entertaining for 10 hours provided the price is reasonable. We shouldn’t expect every game to be an infinitely replayability mill
Other people have mentioned Paradox several times, and they are unquestionably the big name of the grand strat genre. Their main games are:
It was always like that? The first scene of the first film depicts Jotunheim as a regular old planet. Asgard looks weird for a “planet”, but people just fly to and from it with spaceships in Ragnarok. The last we see of Loki in the first film, he’s drifting off into the stars, and then the next time we see him is when he invades Earth in the service of a big purple alien from space.
The explanation is literally that they’re space aliens. They don’t need to conform to human demographic patterns. Someone getting there from Wakanda raises far more questions than “some aliens aren’t white”
If you change the 5k and 15k to 30k each, the mean becomes 506k and the median stays 100k
Echoes of the Eye does at least give you a sort of second playthrough
I think Tunic is probably the closest feeling to Outer Wilds I’ve gotten so far. The moment-to-moment gameplay is quite different, but the broad scale feels close
For only 7.99 you can get enough store points to open three Crates of Eden, each of which has a chance to give you four seconds of total invisibility or two silent takedowns!
Thank you!
Very interested in this. I haven’t played Myst, because I’ve just always found point-and-click to be quite unpleasant. Do I need to have played it to understand what’s going on here?
I am seeing that there was a remake of Myst in a similar fashion, so I will take a look at that in its own right
Huh. Really liked these games when I was growing up, but had never looked into anything that came before Armageddon. That art style on the original and Director’s Cut makes me deeply uncomfortable
Still, cool way to celebrate the series