Before or after the foundation decides to exterminate the entire human race?

Ok, so I’m 44, and my parents literally played D&D and video games with us growing up. I literally don’t remember a time in my life that I wasn’t gaming.

That being said.

According to Steam:

Factorio: 4,330 hours

Dyson Sphere Program: 2,506 hours

Skyrim: 2440 hours

Stellaris: 2,237 hours

Dungeon Defenders: 1644 hours

Terraria: 1630 hours

Fallout 4: 602 hours

Also I probably have well over 10,000 hours in 2.5 edition, 3.0, and 3.5 edition D&D. Only counting actual tabletop time.

That’s also not counting a fuckton of games that I have played on various consoles starting with a TI-99/A and and Atari 2600 as well as most of the early Nintendo consoles. I branched out once I got to college.

My numbers are actually quite low. I know multiple people that have 20,000+ hours in their favorite games.

Just in case you didn’t see the further replies, Open RCT is essentially Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, and you can find all the scenarios from RCT1 and RCT2 and download them, for free.

This you?

This you?

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Dyson Sphere Program. 64 stars and hundreds of planets per game! 640 Dyson Shells to construct and defend.

Dyson Sphere Program is 3rd person 3-D and it has combat these days. I’m actually wondering what they haven’t implemented yet, since it’s still early access AFAIA.

Kiss Cam, and wacky mascot antics. At least that is what I’m led to believe. Never actually been to a sporting event with a jumbotron.

That has got to be one of the best sword fights in all of cinema, if not the best.

What they did to The Summerset Isles in ESO is a crime against Auriel and the 9 divines. I was expecting mushroom houses, and they made rivendell.

I’m not salty and bitter. Bethesda is salty and bitter.

Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program. At least don’t watch people like Nilaus and Dosh Doshington play the game until you’ve tried to make your own solutions first.

The blue demi-human vendor in Marbule. Not the guy at the entrance, the one you want is closer to the tavern, in an alleyway. Ignore the dog fighting arenas in the area. You aren’t high enough level to take on the entirety of The Mob at one time.

Factorio was in early access for 8 years. What’s your point? Indy games take a while to develop because they gain haters and naysayers, like you, logarithmically compared to the funding that they get.

So far, Dyson Sphere Program has been in early access for 4 years, and they have one hell of a game.

I technically own Project Zomboid, I just don’t really have any particular projects to complete in that platform, so I’m not exactly what you would call a fan of the game. I can see potential for an absolutely immersive RPG that could compete with Fallout 1 and 2 once the developers have time and funding to complete what they want to do.

Also, if it gets delisted, you will be unable to play single player or multiplayer. I found this out the hard way with Forza Motorsport 7 and Gran Turismo Sport.

I have the physical DVDs or BluRay disks for both games. Neither will work even for single player because you have to download the tracks from the server every single race. No server means no tracks.

Get it as soon as you can afford it. As you have already noticed, the price only goes up, and it never goes on sale. The people that made this game know that they made digital crack, and aren’t inclined to spread the addiction.

After 200 hours I have a “factory” on Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Gleba. I need to redesign all four factories, including Nauvis, at this point to use Foundries, and Electromagnetic Plants at scale, oh and Biological Science Labs. I have finally started learning circuit networks and train scheduling.

I had over 3000 hours in the game previously, got all the achievements that didn’t require a time limit, and had beaten Pyanodon, SeaBlock, Bob’s and Angel’s overhaul, and several other overhaul mods that I don’t remember, but I never managed to fully finish Space Exploration because of randomly generated items, and a complete inability to comprehend how the old circuit network worked.

Space Age is absolutely the best of all the overhaul mods combined into one single expansion pack. I cannot wait to get to the Shattered Planet and find out what no one has shown yet. I’ll be weeks behind them when I get there, I’m sure

I wouldn’t call Factorio AAA, but with their ever increasing price tag, Space Age certainly feels like one of the best made “AAA” Games of the year.

I’m 44 years old, and have been gaming practically since I was born. My parents played D&D, and video games with us kids.

Also a lot of those totals are artificially inflated because I can leave the game running to finish a long task, especially Factorio and DSP

Well they keep updating it, so it may not have been there, unless you made a chest sphere and didn’t label the chests.

Per my steam library:

Factorio: 3,375.4 hours

Dyson Sphere Program: 2,505.9 h

Stellaris: 2,236.6 h

Terraria 2,629.9h

Skyrim: 1,239.5 h

Dungeon Defenders only has 600 hours on Steam, but I’m well over 2000 hours between Steam and PS3/4

I’ve also got a few thousand hours in Just Cause 2&3, as well as several Gran Turismo games and Forza Motorsport games. Morrowind probably has 2-3000 hours, oh and I’m not allowed near Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri anymore.

Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger are probably up there as well since I’ll replay them every decade or so.

Second Life.

Then you zoom further out to find that the Blokkats have moved into the star system next door, and are eyeing Sol hungrily.

Jaguar XJR-15 was a great car, at least in the PlayStation version.

Each new planet is basically an overhaul mod. They did a great job incorporating the best parts of Space Exploration, Krastorio, Seablock, and a couple mods that either they made up entirely, or I didn’t know the names of.

Also the overhauls to the fluid handling and circuit networks make everything so much easier. I’m actually learning how to use circuits and trains, and I only have about 3000 hours of gameplay in vanilla.

My best advice is to rush bots, and leave even more space in-between your modular builds. Holy crap do I have some spaghetti because of squeezing things into my bus.

Factorio Space age is 4 expansions in one package. We definitely still buy proper expansions.

Ok, so a blue username normally means OP, a green one means mod. What the heck is a red username?

Thanks!

I don’t know where the kids are posting videos these days, I’ll have to figure out somewhere other than Imgur eventually, but I don’t post a lot of videos either.

Oh look, a tech bro reinvented public transit.

/s

A video of it in action would be nice

Dyson Sphere Project, even without the multiplayer mod you are “connected” to the rest of the player base with the Galaxy View.

Factorio, and Satisfactory scratch a similar itch, but on smaller scales. IIRC, both of those games have multiplayer built in.

I haven’t played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?

Ahh, I didn’t bother to check, I just know that I have MWO, STO, SWTOR, and could play EvE through steam. I figured blizzard would eventually jump on the bandwagon.

Stellaris for me, at least in those games it’s not instant death, lol.

I did however close the pop-up to go see what it was saying before agreeing to it.

Most MMOs have a steam launcher, they tend to work better than the native launcher from my experience with them

I would agree, knowing that they started the company 135 years ago with a product that was illegal at the time, for silly reasons.

Looks like the phone app Whiteout Survival ripped these guys off. I’ll have to wishlist this one.

Needs Ale 81

I’d rather it stayed 3.0/3.5 for NWN, but that’s just because that is my favorite system.

A party of level 40 characters is just about unstoppable.

I wouldn’t call Roblox itself a gacha game. That category is the ones where you are trying to collect all the heroes in the game and level them up with rare loot. AFAIK they generally, if not always, involve loot crates that you have to purchase.

Roblox has its own problems. As spelled out by People Make Games in these two videos.

https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=ngjtGwhA5JH5FcEL

https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY?si=u1z_LYfOYrOMlUDd

Roblox claims to teach kids how to make their own games. At this point from what I’ve heard, I would suggest Unity Engine before Roblox, and I wouldn’t recommend Unity after their pricing debacle.

Watch the videos, and have a serious discussion with his parents about it before you get him that game platform.

He took it down because he felt it was too addictive. He made $50,000 the day before he took it down, so he was choosing morals over money.

That’s The Black Library’s job