Thread 2140829

What is your most played /vst/ game? The one you always keep coming back to?

The game of calling you a low effort summernigger

>>2140829 (OP)
hard to say...maybe civ 4, ck2, eu3, stellaris, warcraft 3, heroes 3 or TW:Warhammer 2

>>2140829 (OP)
Civ 3. Used to be Stellaris until they reworked the pop system for the 6 millionth time. But Civ 3 with the expansion mod never gets old for long.

>>2140829 (OP)
Civ 3, I play the grand strategy games occasionally, but civ 3 just has that easy to start and go vibe, so whenever I want something quick it's civ 3.

>>2140829 (OP)
Rusted warfare, its not the best but I like it.

>>2140829 (OP)
broodwar or dawn of war 1. it's a toss up.

>>2141014
do you play og dow1 or have you switched to the remaster?

>>2140829 (OP)
Used to be Civ 5 but I've actually stopped going back to it after like a thousand hours of it.

>>2141033
i tried the remaster but didnt like it. i normally play dark crusade, so the remaster only having ss for skirmish sucked. i tried to use dc skirmish through a mod but it kept crashing, so i refunded the game. they also lowered unit collision size for better pathing, but it makes squads blob up more and causes its own problems. i thought the graphics looked nice though.
if i liked ss, i probably wouldve kept playing despite the pathing "fix"

>>2141152
>only having ss for skirmish

DotA2 by total time played. I've played with the same group of 10 or so guys since 2012, we usually do three to four hours every Friday and Saturday night.

Beyond that, probably a Paradox game (CK2, V2, EU3/EU4, Stellaris), but my time is split against all of them. Less strategy like games would be something like FTL. EVE Online would be my absolute most time spent in any game if you count that as strategy, but a lot of my time is spent idle and only about 2% of the time I actually play is spent playing it as a fleet commander.

>>2140829 (OP)
Age of Mythology.

>>2141181
they said they MAY eventually add in a lobby option to let you toggle on/off air units, but it's a big fat maybe lol

>>2140829 (OP)
It's gotta be AoE II.

>>2140829 (OP)
Civ3 but like >>2141048 I've sort of burned out on it after >1k hours. I'll still play a few hours through the early game here and there but full games take a long time and there's other games out there I want to play. It's the best $5 I ever spent on Steam, that's for sure (I also played the CD version long ago but I didn't own it).

Close runner up is Rise of Nations, probably not by hours played (though I played a lot in my childhood) but for an hour or two of chilling out it's still the standard for me.

yeah I'm a gamer
Many other strategy games with <100 hours, but these are the top

AoE2 > EU4 though

>>2140829 (OP)
Original War because even though it's literally unfinished slavjank it had a great campaign and a solid multiplayer community that gave me IRL friends because of it. I even went to one guy's wedding.

>>2140829 (OP)
Used to replay Total Annihilation but stopped eventually because of the poor pathfinding. It would be nice if the campaigns got ported to Spring Engine.

Would have expected aoe2 to be higher. I am also inclined to not count parashit desu.

CK2. Probably in my top 3 games of all time, I just find the combination of grand strategy with the roleplaying aspect to be amazing. I have a pretty neat modlist, and playing the game with it is an amazing experience, there are so many opportunities and so much shit to do on each playthrough. I understand why they did it financially, but damn it, I'd give anything for Paradox withholding the release of CK3 and giving us some 4-5 more DLCs before abandoning 2. Alas, what is done has been done, and now we have CK2 and CK2-but-worse-but-better-graphics.

>>2141575
could you share your mods anon? Im basicaly only using HIP and it has some flaws

Darkest Dungeon ~500 hours never finished
Battle Brothers ~1000 hours never finished
XCOM Enemy Within - ironman Classic with all second wave options on
Invisible Inc - finished on expert
Ancestors Legacy (though too scared to play multi)
Rimworld probably ~500 hours on older versions, even multi with randos
Warhammer 3
Medieval 2
Shogun 2
Dawn of War 2 played campaign multiple times with my niggas
Anno 1404 but significantly less than the rest, only got through campaign. Didn't finish the missions or addons

>>2141597
>A Bigger Interface
>Abdication
>Better AI: Roleplaying Character Focus
>Better AI: Roleplaying Education Focus
>Bibliophile
>CK2+
>CleanSlate
>Colored Buttons
>Friendly Non-Aggression Pacts
>Improved Genetics 2.0
>MTA Specific Punishments
>MTA Vice and Virtue
>Nicknames+++
>Patrum Scuta
>Your Personal Castle
>Immersive Army Leadership
>Immersive Title Grant
>Invite With Promises
>Powerful Vassals Factions
>Religious And Cultural Hatred
>Spouse Empowerment
I'm afraid a fair amount of those are not compatible with HIP though.

>>2141608
Thanks man. Definitely gonna try them.

>>2141152
I never played Soulstorm, why is it so hated?

>>2140829 (OP)
Age of Empires 3. The gameplay combined with the colonial setting (still uncommon in vidya) is timeless for me

>>2140829 (OP)
CK2, even after taking long breaks I still come back to it

>>2141638
It's campaign is shit but it's mostly because it broke Dark Crusade's balance with a bunch of flying units and two extremely unbalanced factions that never got patched. Dark Eldar are so overpowered they're basically unbeatable in a competitive setting so most mp players unironically went back to dark crusade after the release hype wore off and have been there ever since.

>>2141652
I played the crap out of skirmish last year, playing on normal, hard and eventually hardest difficulty where the AI starts to pull off some interesting plays. Unfortunately it cheats and that wasn't fun, especially against Ottomans. It also sucked that they suddenly dropped support and cancelled the new DLC.

>>2141573
How do you get a graph like that?

>>2141943
I have a phd in data science which enables me to produce graphs like that.

>>2142587
>same color for different parts right next to each other
Phd yes, eyes no.

>>2140829 (OP)
Stronghold Crusader, OpenRA RA1, and Empire at War.

>>2141943
By installing matplotlib or your matlab equivalent of choice and doing the relevant plot command??

>>2141943
10000 hours in ms excel

>>2141048
which mod do you like? i really like Ethnic Diversity - Steam version. It makes the civs units look more unique and distinct

>>2141608
Neat, thx. Haven't played CK2 but will try it out with these mods

>>2140829 (OP)
xcom 2

>>2142774
>6k supcom
>2k ruse
I kneel

>>2141606
>Darkest Dungeon ~500 hours never finished
>Battle Brothers ~1000 hours never finished
cunt what the fuck are you me
a significant amount of my runtime here is leaving shit running when I fell asleep but my actual playtimes are comparable

>>2140829 (OP)
>What is your most played /vst/ game?
Must be wc3.
>The one you always keep coming back to?
I haven't played wc3 since before Reforged though.
I come back to homm2 and master of magic every year.

>>2142900
what's farmhouse mode?

I can never get into EU4 but I want to...

It used to be Rimworld, but now mostly Victoria 3, Caveman 2 Cosmos or some other non /vst/ game.
Rimworld used to be interesting, with new mods coming out, newer and better collections (like fernworld). But now it's stale, new DLC is a copy of SOS2, Rimworld still lacks empire management, proper diplomacy, proper progression and better item scale. Instead they just rehash already implemented ideas from mods and let Oskar steal even more ideas, repackage them as VE and generate Patreon bucks for himself. Really sad that Rimworld has degenerated into this.

>>2140829 (OP)
M&B: warband, followed by Dominions 6, 5 and 4

>>2140829 (OP)
alpha centauri, caesar III, rome total war, star wars galactic battlegrounds

>>2141313
Adding to this, I have a surprising amount of time played on Frostpunk 1. Over 1k hours, mostly because I find playing the Winterhome and Last Autumn scenarios pretty comfy. Neither of them are really challenges because I know them in and out, but I like to mix it up a little each playthrough and really just like the progression of each, Winterhome going from a ruined city into a metropolis that becomes a ghost town and Last Autumn watching all the workers work eight hour shifts each day slowly building up the generator.

In no order of preference: CK2, EU4, AoE2, Shogun 2 (mostly FOTS), Vic2, Advance Wars Dual Strike.

>>2145264
the Endless Harvest, couldn't remember the proper name of it at the time cause I was pretty mindflooded

>>2140829 (OP)
A handful
>Civ 2
This game could be run on a smart fridge and it's still great. I am still playing it on a regular basis and always installed (especially since it takes close to zero space)
>Pharaoh & Emperor
I've got an archaeology degree because I've played those a lot as a teen, and I STILL return to them
>SMAC
Peak Civ experience, always installed, always ready to get one more Gaian victory. Rainy day and nothing to do with myself due to nobody being available? That's SMAC time.
>HoMM3
I'm a Pole, this is effectively a national sport here.
>Settlers 3
I know the Amazons campaign by heart, and it's still fun as fuck. I also like the RNG maps from the anniversary re-release
>Ufo: Aftermath
This is a deeply flawed game, but even with its flaws, it scratches just about every itch I've got for X-Com like (especially since I hate actual X-Com games)
>Empire TW
This game is fucking garbage, the mods aren't really fixing it, and I still have over 10k hours into it. I installed Steam back in the day just to play it online
>Curious Expedition
I consider it a honorary strategy game, since its intense on inventory management and planning your moves to know when and what. The fact that the sequel learned all the worst lessons from the original only adds to how great the original is.

CK2(only with HIP mod installed)
CK3(Only with Princes of Darkness mod installed)
M&B Warband
TW: Warhammer 3

RTW3, though it helps I play it at work. I have 2000+ hours

>>2140829 (OP)
Eu4, though after 4k hours I've started going to it less and less. I'm actually trying to play less games in general. I noticed that I tended to play Eu4 when I had nothing to do purely to burn hours. Now, when I get the urge to play, I go watch anime or do some work around the house

Serious question what do you do after 300 hours of paradox games ? Ive got 200-500 in most of them and I feel like I've seen everything and its not even immersive anymore I just see numbers and dice rolls. I guess mods help but 4k hours ?

>>2146984
have you tried contracting a severe mental illness?

>>2146984
most of my hours are sunk in multiplayer, im very lucky to have a couple niggas that play eu4 regularly

>>2140829 (OP)
C&C Generals ZH, Rome Total War 1

Dota 2, probably played that for close to 15 years now if you count Heroes of Newerth. I stopped playing like 2 years ago because the playerbase is psychotic.

HoI3 with black ice,
Meiou and Taxes 3.0,
Tiberian Sun and it's mods. Dawn of the Tiberian Age is quality.
CoH3 was fun for PvP, but the devs have no clue how to balance and are dead set on raping it with dlc.
MekHQ/Megamek
Warcraft 3
CK2

>>2146984
niggers wish they could get back to a job as comfy as this

>>2142774
>5,5k hours of supcom
>5k hours spent gathering resources

regrettably stellaris
fortunately it's on gog games so I don't have to buy the DLC any more

>>2148848
Supcom is the greatest rts ever made

>>2140829 (OP)
>What is your most played /vst/ game?
Honestly I probably played Halo wars on xbox the most, 3vs3 with bros was such a chill time
Settlers 4 is probably second

I have been playing MOO2, HOMM3, and SMAC off and on since the 1990s.
I'm glad that I don't have Steam so I don't know how many hours I have spent doing this
Also Civ3, JA2, RTW, and XCOM