What NEW game should I buy?

also if you have an older computer and don’t mind older games and indie games try GOG.com

their weekend deals are so cheap sometimes you can buy 40 or so games for 30 bucks ,

I don’t know if this weekends game are your cup o tea but the pricing is indicative of the weekend sales

Of course not that’s because my name is “foghome” over there.:smack::o:smack:

I have received the game & installed it. Thank You again!
(You may not here from me for a few days, give or take.):wink:

Sadly, you won’t find a good sequel to SMAC/SMAX. Civ:BE was supposed to fill that niche, and failed horribly. I played about 60 hours max, and gave up on it.

I would strongly recommend Civ IV over Civ V. I think Civ IV was easily the strongest iteration in the franchise (not counting SMAC). I played even more of it than I did of Civ II. I have enjoyed Civ V, and Civ VI, because the one unit per hexagonal tile mechanic makes the game very different, and more based on strategy than the doomstack versions of the game. But they come with their own less-enjoyable aspects. And they’re more expensive, generally.

You should REALLY think about trying Europa Universalis sometime. It’s the only game that has ever taken me totally away from Civ. Well, that and the year I spent managing Prestatyn FC in Football Manager 2011… :eek::smiley:

Cities Skylines and its DLCs are pretty cheap right now at GMG: Green Man Gaming

Cities:Skylines is currently $7.50 till August 21 on Steam. They will get your money in the many DLCs though.

@Foggy:

I hate to say it but I do not think your PC will run many modern games very well or even at all. It simply doesn’t have the oomph needed. You could probably do some older games like Diablo 2 or maybe Baldur’s Gate or Planescape Torment. Old SimCity games might work too. Check out GOG.com for oldies but goodies.

Most anything new, particularly with 3d rendering, will probably be too much for your PC. (Although there are a lot of new, retro games out there like BroForce [to name one] that also might work on your new PC…maybe.)

Nice thing is that you don’t really need the DLC. Or it can certainly wait. And there’s enough free content through the Steam Workshop that you can stay amused for a long time before you feel like you need snow or disasters.

Foggy might want to try Can You Run It for system compatibility. It gets some flack from people who are more knowledgeable but I find it does a decent job of at least matching your system against the box specs. Even doing that can be difficult for people who aren’t especially tech savvy.

Foggy, are you focusing your search on games Civ/SimCity or would you try different games than that?

Yeah, I was excited at the prospect of a DLC sale until I remembered that Skylines is a Paradox game.

Yeah, I figured. It’s not what I would have bought for myself, but then I didn’t, it was a unexpected gift.:eek::slight_smile:
I have an account at GOG, but haven’t been there in a while. I will check it out.

Thanks.

I was only expecting to get 1 or 2 games by Xmas, so I was focus on my favorites. I was gifted Civ 5 base game by Ike Witt & my friend loan me the money to get Civ 4 Complete since it was on sale for less that $8. :eek: But I am open to hearing about other games.

I’m also not into multiplayer games, I don’t play well with others.:slight_smile:

Skyline will have to wait for the after Xmas Sales.

Thanks again for the help & suggestions.

If you want something that could last you hundreds of hours of play, there’s Kerbal Space Program. It’s extremely open-ended in terms of both means and ends. I’m somewhat embarrassed to have 800 hours on it but I understand I’m not the only one. Here’s the SDMB thread on it: Kerbal Space Program - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board

Door Kickers is also nice for open-ended puzzle solving. Violent puzzles.

Should I buy Cities XXL for less than $3?

It received mixed reviews. A YouTuber said there isn’t enough alcohol for him to play the game for more than an hour. Since I don’t drink, the shortage of alcohol isn’t a concern for me. :stuck_out_tongue:

Need answer fastish, sale ends in less than 7days. :wink:

Only if you don’t already have any other games from that publisher (Focus Home Interactive) or Cities: Skylines.

You may have already thought about this, but it took me a bunch of stinker games to realize that, when a game is less than $5, the price isn’t the cash so much as it is the rapidly dwindling hours in my life.

For something fun (Just Cause 2), or funny (Portal), or satisfying (XCom 2), or otherwise entertaining, I’m happy to waste away my hours. But if a game is mediocre, I don’t care if it’s nearly free and mediocre: my hours are worth more than that.

If you already have a city sim, I wouldn’t bother. Cities XXL got a lot of flack on release for basically being a reskinned Cities XL for more money. Since you probably never played Cities XL and $3 isn’t a lot of money, you’re safe on both those counts. But shortly after XXL launched, Cities Skylines came out and almost immediately became the new name in city simulators.

So, if you have nothing then, sure, Cities XXL is probably worth three bucks even if it’s just more XL (which wasn’t a terrible game). But Cities: Skylines is less than $7 right now (for five more hours) and is a superior game. The only reason I would choose XXL is if you had reason to think Skylines wouldn’t run on your system but XXL would.

wasn’t cities xxl a prequel to cities skylines ?

because when I read about skylines it previewed as "xxl done right or even better "

They’re made by different companies - Skylines just blew XXL out of the water, so they draw comparisons.

No, they were in competition. It turned out to not be much of a contest but the two properties aren’t related. XXL came out a month or two before Skylines so Skylines definitely wasn’t any sort of “sequel”.

Colossal Order and Paradox did create/publish both Cities: Skylines and a game called Cities in Motion. CiM is more of a mass transit simulator than a total city sim. In fact, Paradox originally resisted doing Cities: Skylines because they thought it was a waste of time with Sim City being the big name and CiM filling a niche role. But then the last Sim City bombed and Paradox became receptive to the idea of a full city simulator.

I have SimCity 4DE.

I’m going to pass on Cities XXL.

Thanks for the input.