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[freeformschooler]

I'm quite a bit late to the 4X crowd and I'm coming in at a time when as a mainstream genre it seems to be dying off. However, Paradox Interactive is pretty faithful in making 4X games despite the market's suggestions. I recently picked up Crusader Kings and a friend got me Europa Universalis II for free and my God I'm in love. I remember creating a thread about why people liked 4X games so much and now I understand... there's just something about it. It's like trying to explain why I like Civilization so much -- I can't.

The only thing I dislike is the space flight sim/4X mesh "genre" that has a fair amount of games in it. Other than that, what would you all recommend?

Oh, and another thing: I do prefer 4X games where you can pause gameplay to make decisions 

[Simmura McCrea]

I'd recommend EU3 + expansions, if you don't already have it. It's less historically accurate than EU2, but hellishly good fun. I've racked up 541 hours on it so far.

[freeformschooler]

I've been wanting to get EU3 but I think it would be a waste as I read on their forums that, inexplicably, EU3 requires Pixel Shader 2.0 and I doubt I have that on my netbook as it's complained about pixel shader incompatibilities before still worth a shot though. I wonder if Steam has a demo...

[Qloos]

Oh, and another thing: I do prefer 4X games where you can pause gameplay to make decisions 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9E5apzw-U
How about going back in time to make decisions?

[freeformschooler]

Oh, and another thing: I do prefer 4X games where you can pause gameplay to make decisions 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9E5apzw-U
How about going back in time to make decisions?

I what but yes.

[Simmura McCrea]

Oh, and another thing: I do prefer 4X games where you can pause gameplay to make decisions 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9E5apzw-U
How about going back in time to make decisions?

My head hurts already. Multiplayer's going to be fucking insane.

[Hugehead]

Well, since you're not asking for games that don't have much micromanaging, I can recommend Aurora.

[freeformschooler]

Aurora is great, I love salty tears inducing levels of micromanaging. That's one of the reasons I love DF. The only problem is it crashes a lot for some reason when I try to do some things but oh well it's indev.

[Desdichado]

I remember creating a thread about why people liked 4X games so much and now I understand... there's just something about it. It's like trying to explain why I like Civilization so much -- I can't.

That makes sense. Civ is a 4X game itself. Xplore, Xpand, Xploit, Xterminate. Pretty much all things Civ right there.

[Rex_Nex]

Xplore, Xpand, Xploit, Xterminate.

Oh, brothels are 4x too!

[ductape]

Aurora is great, I love salty tears inducing levels of micromanaging. That's one of the reasons I love DF. The only problem is it crashes a lot for some reason when I try to do some things but oh well it's indev.

do you play Aurora on a netbook?

[freeformschooler]

Aurora is great, I love salty tears inducing levels of micromanaging. That's one of the reasons I love DF. The only problem is it crashes a lot for some reason when I try to do some things but oh well it's indev.

do you play Aurora on a netbook?

Yes :rageface: I've been stuck with this netbook for the last about a year just because I don't really have the money to upgrade and if I did I would be saving it for a better place to live.

Though I doubt it's that which makes it crash as it crashes on my bro's ATI Radeon-powered 2ghz desktop compy in the same places.

[Toady Two]

How do you deal with the resolution :O ?

I thought you couldn't play Aurora without a big monitor because of the lack of scrollbars.

[Empty]

How do you deal with the resolution :O ?

I thought you couldn't play Aurora without a big monitor because of the lack of scrollbars.

There's a resolution extender program some people use.

[freeformschooler]

My driver's fancy toolbar thingamabob let's me change my resolution to whatever I want provided I cope with scrolling the display around the virtual screen.