Lord Ba'al
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 25, 2015 0:16:59 GMT
 I was thinking about Risk II lately and because someone mentioned risk in another thread I decided to have a go at it again. Risk II is a marvelous game. The tournament mode is addictive and has a good difficulty curve. It starts out fairly easy but after a few levels you'll find that you'll have to start thinking in new ways in order to progress, partially because there are various types of game modes that will be introduced. This keeps the game exciting. Near the end it will get rather difficult. I've actually never managed to complete the whole game, I think I reached the final level but was not able to win it. Of course there's a fair bit of luck involved as well but that doesn't mean that the strategy the game provides is not brilliant. The game also has a soundtrack that gets into your head. If you play the game a lot you may find yourself walking to work with it repeating in your mind over and over. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page. Here's an example of what Same-Time-Risk looks like.  If you've never played I really recommend you to give it a try. I have seen newer Risk games but honestly they weren't as fun to play as this one. |
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Post by Spiderweb on Jun 25, 2015 6:13:00 GMT
I was thinking about Risk II lately and because someone mentioned risk in another thread I decided to have a go at it again. Risk II is a marvelous game. The tournament mode is addictive and has a good difficulty curve. It starts out fairly easy but after a few levels you'll find that you'll have to start thinking in new ways in order to progress, partially because there are various types of game modes that will be introduced. This keeps the game exciting. Near the end it will get rather difficult. I've actually never managed to complete the whole game, I think I reached the final level but was not able to win it. Of course there's a fair bit of luck involved as well but that doesn't mean that the strategy the game provides is not brilliant. The game also has a soundtrack that gets into your head. If you play the game a lot you may find yourself walking to work with it repeating in your mind over and over. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page. If you've never played I really recommend you to give it a try. I have seen newer Risk games but honestly they weren't as fun to play as this one. Yeah I mentioned Risk, never played Risk II. I played a iPad version (of Risk) and the actual board game as a kid. I thought the map concept and army counts would be an easy control concept for Godus. Risk is fun on iPad as a short strategy time waster. Has anyone played an old windowed PC game called "mother of all battles" that was a fun/simplistic procedural world domination game. I think someone did an iOS version too. Edit: www.windowsgames.co.uk/mother.htmlThis guys games are pretty good if not graphically simplistic, I think he did tribes on iPad to (a populous clone). |
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Lord Ba'al
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Posts: 6,260
Pledge level: Half a Partner
I like: Cats; single malt Scotch; Stargate; Amiga; fried potatoes; retro gaming; cheese; snickers; sticky tape.
I don't like: Dimples in the bottom of scotch bottles; Facebook games masquerading as godgames.
Steam: stonelesscutter
GOG: stonelesscutter
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 25, 2015 11:24:29 GMT
I added some images to the OP just to make it a bit more appealing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2015 19:43:41 GMT
Many games have been transposed to PC/Mac etc , Risk 's part of 'em beside others : that's great to add the possibility or dimension to play it online... However, those games will never replace the real one w/ real social interactions.  |
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Lord Ba'al
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Posts: 6,260
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I like: Cats; single malt Scotch; Stargate; Amiga; fried potatoes; retro gaming; cheese; snickers; sticky tape.
I don't like: Dimples in the bottom of scotch bottles; Facebook games masquerading as godgames.
Steam: stonelesscutter
GOG: stonelesscutter
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 26, 2015 21:48:31 GMT
Many games have been transposed to PC/Mac etc , Risk 's part of 'em beside others : that's great to add the possibility or dimension to play it online... However, those games will never replace the real one w/ real social interactions. Yeah but who has real social interactions anymore. My friends live all dispersed throughout an entirely different country. Some of them have families and all of them have busy lives.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2015 10:21:39 GMT
Many games have been transposed to PC/Mac etc , Risk 's part of 'em beside others : that's great to add the possibility or dimension to play it online... However, those games will never replace the real one w/ real social interactions. Yeah but who has real social interactions anymore. My friends live all dispersed throughout an entirely different country. Some of them have families and all of them have busy lives. Who has real social interactions by now ? Well, I guess still a lot of people. But true, that internet totally may fuck up everything, it doesn't help (so less and less, arg). Damn it, for what is to play with people you want or like ? We may have to change the game(internet platform) or the people. Ok, I'm gonna take back my medieval uniform, and destroy those internet servers in San Francisco and all over the world with my mace.  |
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