Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XLVII - It Just Keeps Coming Back!

Me, too, but I was never very good at it. I enjoyed watching others play just so I could see what the later levels of the games looked like, with those big scary Boss Villains getting destroyed.

I kind of enjoy watching people play video games on YouTube, but it's in large part because I don't really have the patience to learn to play them myself. It can be kind of interesting watching people reactions to levels or hiw they go about solving various puzzles/situations, though.

My kids used to occasionally watch me playing strategy games like Railroad tycoon or Civilization. When my boys started playing their own games it was more shooters like Halo. I used to just think those games weren't for me, partly because I was lousy at them, but at least I could console myself at being better at the strategy games. Now all my family are playing Civilization VI and ironically they are ratting all over me. Even my wife is better than me. Ah well Pride comes before a fall I guess.

ah well, maybe they've all just had a lot of practice, stile

My kids would likely be bored with Civilization.

I remember playing the OG version of it and somehow staying up until like 5 in the morning playing the stupid thing. LOL

But my family would like games that had a storyline element to them, like the Arkham games, even the Lego video games, and Alan Wake.

The Lego games were good because you could play with one other person, so that was always a lot of fun, and still have a lot of the Lego silliness to enjoy.

My fave games have a good mix of story and gameplay

Yep, me too. Its the only way that it can really hold my interest - I don't go for the Call of Duty genre, as even the story-mode campaigns are just window dressing for the PvP stuff.

The closest I've gotten is Halo, but more because its Scifi

This is true. They have now played a lot more of the latest version than me and often discuss strategy.
I'm fine with it and have been for years. I often say that I really like strategy games - it's just that I'm not very good at them.
As I've mentioned before my username is based on a sci-fi character Stile who is a champion game player, but I consider my own skills to be closer to Agent 86 of Control.

as long as one is having fun that's the most important thing

my husband is the same with Stratego. His father keeps winning, and I keep winning. And his father and I both told him we just do the same thing: we wait him out, as he has no patience.

So I'm such a game geek that I FIRST read that Control as in the recent Remedy game before resetting to Get Smart.

There are machines that can help us all get smart quickly! that's what created Superman Red and Superman Blue!

Not really wishing to be duplicated. One of me is enough. No thanks. (And let's not forget that the result of that super-intelligence was to solve crime by brainwashing the entire world.)

I'd much rather have another of me doing work so that I could get on with doing nothing

That reminds me of an Italian Disney Ducks story I read as a grade-schooler. Gyro Gearloose creates a robot duplicate of himself to do the dirty work. Soon Uncle Scrooge wants one, and eventually almost everybody in the world has one! So, of course, the robots rebel, because they have no souls, and try to take over the planet. Gyro figures out a way to make them self-destruct (basically, if you act like an idiot, then this illogical behavior will cause the robots to short-circuit.) But at the end, Gyro and Scrooge are chased by an angry mob of flesh-and-blood people for starting this whole horror in the first place.)

Oh my god, its the origin of the Matrix....

Just about anything can be traced back to Italian pop culture from the 70s.

Ironically, in real life Italy was a horrible place to live in the 70s. There was so much violence that it's been tagged in hindsight as "The Age of Lead."

those danged bullets

Wow, I had no idea about that!

It's surprising and sad how violent some places have been, not to far ago!

Hey a good chunk of us are here in the states... You don't have to tell us about violence... A general sad state of affairs.

Sorry, didn't mean to be a downer.

nah, its just a reality, unfortunately.

Fortunately, I think we've still go a ways to go to catch up with the level of violence in 70s Italy, although with the very real threat of political terrorism going into an election year, I really hope I can still say that at the end of the year.

I am often grateful that I don't live in Ukraine, Gaza, or Myanmar, not to mention Rwanda, Congo etc.

I'm grateful I was born in a relatively peaceful part (northern Philippines), but even more grateful I now live in the Netherlands.