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In article <op.wsu3j8iiowpbh0@obscureserver>, aryb...@gmail.com 
says...
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:41:35 +0400, Trimble Bracegirdle <no-spam@never.spam> wrote:
> 
> > PC Gaming Dies Again
> 
> forget action games. There is Civilization V!
> As a veteran of the franchise from the beginning I argue
> it is the best incarnation and first when I did not want to return
> to Alpha Centauri after few days.
> 
> I invested > 800 hours (mind you, I played it in windowed mode so I could do
> something else, anyway...) and just forced myself to uninstall it 2 days ago.
> And the whole yesterday I struggled with desire to reinstall it :))


I get no joy out of action games, fps games either. When I see a games 
review for a new title, or a 'specials' mailout from my games store, I 
move on the moment I see it's FPS, or AOE-stype RTS. 
Just.Not.Interested.

Amalur is a nice entrance in the RPG world. I actually enjoy it a heck 
of a lot more than Skyrim, say. I guess it's a thing of personal taste, 
because I sure could not really lay my finger on just why this is so.

Civ5 is ok, particularly with some of the mods out there, but as far as 
the joy of discovering a huge world and embarking on grand and risky 
strategic (ad)ventures goes, the Fall from Heaven mod for BTS is still 
the most enthralling in my perception.

In the 4x offerings I've played Stardock's Fallen Enchantress a fair bit 
lately, but ultimately I am somewhat disappointed. Things could be quite 
exciting with the 'wildlands' concept, but a) it takes way too long to 
get armies built up that have a mere smidgen of survival in there and b) 
those areas are bug-ridden, and I don't mean the monsters populating 
them. To the point where I have tried playing the game with wildlands 
disabled 'cause they're such a source of frustration, but then the game 
is even shallower. Last patch they slowed it down even further by making 
the ability to build settler units dependent on population cost. Not an 
enhancement as I see it. I think I prefer Twilight of the Arnor over 
this.

The one game I am looking forward to is Wasteland 2. Squad based 
tactical rpg adventure, hopefully at its best. InExile recently put a 
trailer/preview up - I see it's shifted to youtube because vimeo was 
being precious about something and took it down. IIRC the target was to 
have it out by October '13, but I may be mis-remembering.

-P.