Hey, thanks for sharing this! This was a really cool article and is definitely good news

Seriously, it would be great for mobile. I played the OG ones using a GBA emulator but I want more Advanced Wars

I am fully aware we are in the golden age of GamePass. It’s such a ridiculously good value right now it is almost inevitably going to go downhill eventually. I have ultimate and use it on Xbox, PC, and mobile a ton. It’s like the golden years of Netflix 10 years ago before everyone pulled their catalog and launched their own service. I know eventually it will be bad, but I’m enjoying it right now. And extra $2/month doesn’t bother me, but I know it isn’t the first increase we’ll see.

Oh, then definitely do it. The first 3 books are great. Books 4-7 are good but not great in my opinion. They probably should have been consolidated into 2 or 3 books instead of 4. I haven’t started book 8 yet, so I can’t speak to how it ends

It’s the first book in the cradle series which it looks like you said you’ve read already?

Unsouled is a good one! I think there series is a bit too long, but definitely progression fantasy and a pretty neat bit of world building. Each book is relatively short so it isn’t too big of a commitment in one go

Same here. I played it right after Citizen Sleeper which is a similar type of game and felt like Citizen Sleeper was drastically better

NFL/Fantasy Football! That’s what will draw me back to reddit right now

Last update December 2021 makes me sad. I hope he has more updates soon!

XCOM?

Pulsar is the game that I feel like was so close to being a great game but they gave up on it before it got there. Working together to run the ship is awesome but the world is SOOO empty. Like at least add mod support so folks can help or something. I want to love the game but that always stops me.

NFL game threads and Fantasy Football updates are the two things i really want to be able to have here, I’d love to get those

Fantasy football is a big one for me too

Mount and Blade Warband! Base game is just ok, but mods like Diplomacy make it way better. Then you look at Prophecy of Pendor or Perisno and you’ve got basically an entirely new game with the same engine and it’s awesome. I have hundreds of hours of Mount and Blade, and probably only like 25 of them are vanilla.

Also, the view source button on comment replies doesn’t seem to work

There is a pretty decent scripted tabletop simulator for Kingdom Death. Me and a couple buddies player five or six session and we were able to pick up and play pretty quickly.

I was super in to Dominions 3 back in the day, played it online a ton, won a few big games. It’s got a brutal learning curve though. Late game when the turns were on a 96 hour timer and that still felt too short…

That’s awesome! I have a 6 year old I’m trying to build up to playing better games. That type of game definitely is better with friends/kids. Just the time savings from gathering resources makes a big difference, plus being able to share the epic moments.

The Guild 2 and 3. They are so janky and absurd. Half the mechanics barely work, the dialogue is ridiculous, but the game just has charm. It’s got just enough economy mechanics to keep my math brain engaged while mostly playing it like The Sims.

I know the whole “Open world survival craft” genre is super overdone, and has way too many games now, but Valheim is honestly awesome. The fun scales with more people, me and my friends (3-4 usually) have been having a blast.