So far, the joys of Diablo III remain really surprising to me. I am currently going for Level 70 with my Demon Hunter (currently level 68! Wooo!) and spend more time laughing and clapping over having FINALLY figured out a weapons combo that friggin works well than actually digging for better loot… which means that when I get better loot (about once every 20 minutes or so), it feels like frosting.
For example, my Demon Hunter uses bolo weapons and has the ones that are set to explode after 2 seconds (it’s the best bolo rune, for those of you who are familiar). What this basically means is that when I encounter a group of 20-30 monsters, I throw bolos throughout the front line of the group while also beating a strategic retreat for about a second and a half… and then I start using Rapid Fire on the lines behind that are now the new front line.
Seriously, until I figured that out, I could regularly count on dying every 5 minutes or so.
And so I’m playing this game instead of Watch Dogs and instead of Dishonored (a game I keep intending to go back to). The pellets are Just That Good.
So… what are you playing?
Civilization V in multiplayer… *sobs* I just can’t get over this game.Report
Is it better than IV? Because IV had me hooked for a while, based on the recommendations of FREAKING EVERYBODY.Report
It depends; is the IV plain saline or something more interesting?Report
Originally Civ V was prettier than IV but nowhere even approaching as good playstyle wise. They had some serious problems with natural resources and game mechanics that made it clunky and kind of stupid. For a little while it sucked severely and people were going back to IV.
Then they released a patch and it fixed everything. Civ V became comparable to IV strategically and was much much prettier looking. Then they released Gods and Kings which added religion and espionage and Civ V finally definitively outpaced IV strategically.
Then they released Civ V Brave New World and Civ V transmogrified into pure heroin. Specifically they added something called trade routes where instead of getting so much gold just from the landscape you’d establish trade routes with your own cities, other players cities or City states. The caravans or trade shops would follow publicly viewable routes and could be pillaged by barbarians or Civs at war for serious dough. So suddenly you have really good reasons to want a modest navy/cavalry patrolling your trade routes.
It is just brain meltingly good now. I’m so monsterously addicted. I want to play it all the frickin time.Report
Shorter answer: Civ V was not, Civ 5 + the expansions = pure Civ crack.
Seriously, really fun. Steam has regular sales on it, too.Report
I thought about getting DIII and its expansion on the PC, but I decided to replay Titan Quest instead. I also started playing Rome: Total War, which I get in a Steam sale a couple of summers ago and never got around to playing.Report