Whew!!! Glad I got in before the price went up…
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I am very much the exact same way, though I am currently back in FFXIV, so I guess you can say that is ongoing.
I think this is one of the reasons I’ve gravitated towards the Roguelike games recently - you don’t need to (though you can) play them for hundreds of hours. I find I am enjoying the quick-hitters more that the big epic games, and I am happy spending a couple dollars on something that I will get a couple hours out of.
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Wow, Solforge was great. Damn they ruined it with the „new“ Client.
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League of Legends and MTG Arena is all I play. Been playing League since 2011 predominately. Youngest son is now into it and a higher level than I am…of course. MTGA I just get in my dailies most mornings and play around.
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LoL addict here. I’ve been playing since beta with a big break when I was in law school.
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Nice!
Favorite champs?
What level are you in ranked?
Have you tried Faster Than Light?
And if you like Civilization, have you tried Through the Ages? It’s like Civ as a board game.
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Yeah, this is where I have been recently too. I played a game of Civ 6 a couple weekends ago and had to make myself stick to a single game. I kept wishing there was a rogue-like version of a Civ type game.
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Yup, I play TtA fairly regularly and have FTL on both Steam and on my iPad. Good suggestions though.
Have you tried Northgard? I just got it on iPad last week and it’s very like a civ game as rogue-like.
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Shadow Empire, if you want to disappear into a game. 350 page manual. Completely opaque. Civ 4x wargame card-driven RPG. Fucking silly.
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Nah, just the good ones (although my collection does seem to include almost all of the roguelike deckbuilders).
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I actually have a story about that. As you know as a long time player, there used to be a level cap of 30 and there was no champion mastery. They introduced that right around the time I took my law school break so when I returned I was still level 30. I only started playing ranked last year and I am very hard stuck bronze and (even though this is everyone’s excuse) it is usually because of my teammates. Climbing has been rough because when I get on a roll I’ll suddenly be in a team of level 30s who are all trying new champs in ranked or something like that.
Anyways, I play mid and play a fairly wide range of champs. My highest masteries are Cho (playing him AP mid), Shyvana (also AP mid), and Kassadin. My favorite off-meta pick is a Lee Sin mid that I will play into champs like Yone or Talon. I have a decent pool of traditional mids that I play depending on team comps.
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Yup, 106 minutes played on Northguard. I keep saying I should go back and play more, but just unmotivated to do so. I am sure it is a fine game though. I picked it up because I wanted a game I could just build a defense and turtle on, and I read that turtling was a good strategy in that game, but then it turned out I had to remember where all of my people were and what they were doing.
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I have it but I haven’t sunk my teeth into it.
Is it worth it?
It is…but you have to get into it for it to be worth it if you see what I mean. Once you’ve actually read some of the rulebook and played enough to puzzle it all out I think the time cost is justified, but also the game is too opaque for its own good. I would never recommend it to someone not looking to sink serious time into it.
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Looking at that list of games, the obvious suggestion for a time-eater that comes to my mind is a Paradox grand-strategy: a rough recommendation order for trying them would be Crusader Kings (2 if you want a more mature but rather more opaque experience, 3 for the streamlined-but-barer-bones-as-yet), Stellaris, Europa Universalis IV, but go with whatever theme appeals to you.
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I like to play support and top. Support I’m pretty decent with Nami, Leo, Naut, Pant. Top I usually go Malph or Yorick.
I was silver for a few years, but am in promos now to get into silver. It’s crazy how bad your teammates can be. Such a lack of understanding for the game. Can be very frustrating, but man I love this game. It always keeps me coming back for some reason.
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Years ago there was a neat little rogue-like 4x game on iOS but it has disappeared. I don’t even remember the name of it. Empires, maybe? You basically expanded your civilization but there was some persistent supernatural plague that would eventually overwhelm you. I was just thinking about the game recently and wishing I could find it again.