A friend of mine recently hit 3k hours in Civ5, which I thought was pretty impressive, until I realized he’s almost at 12k hours in EU4, and now I’m worried for his sanity.

You’ve convinced me to wishlist it. I don’t usually like pixel art but this one looks neat, and the rest of your review sold me on the idea. I’ll probably pick it up on a sale or something in the future.

I finally had some time for games again this past week so I’ve been playing Hitman: World of Assassination. I’ve played it a lot before but mostly on Xbox (around 1500 hours I think? Something like that anyway). Now I’m going for all the steam achievements. I’ve still got all the Mastery Level 20 and Sniper Assassin ones to get, but otherwise there’s just a couple random weird assassination ones and I’m done. A lot of them have been pretty easy to get if you know Hitman well. The ones I’m missing though (aside from the random niche assassination ones) are all time sinks so it may be a while before I get 100%, but I’m determined now. Hopefully I get them all before I’m burnt out or get busy again.

Nice! I haven’t played that one in years but I remember really liking it.

Yeah that’s fair. I don’t usually play the main quest these days, just side stuff since that’s imo the best content in any Bethesda game, but on a first playthrough the main quest can be pretty epic. I hope you enjoy your time with it.

I love 2H sword, it’s my favourite playstyle. Stealth archer is the cliché build but it’s a ton of fun too, and massively overpowered if you’re into that. It’s worth trying on a second playthrough for sure.

Have you done any major side quests or factions yet? Or just the main story?

Very slow, that’s how. Load times were notoriously bad on 360/PS3. PC obviously depended on specs. It was a great time though, I do miss those days.

What race are you playing as? And what playstyle?

I didn’t realize someone existed that hasn’t played Skyrim yet. /s

Enjoy! I’ve got 5,600 hours in it, there’s lots of content there. I hope you have fun with it. How far are you? What do you think of it so far?

That’s still the only game from that series I’ve tried. I really enjoyed it but never branched out.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who chose Hitman! It’s so under-appreciated on this site imo.

Upon looking into it, it seems like Emerald Final is another ROM hack that seems more in depth, so I might give that one a shot at some point. I may try both though just to see what’s up.

I totally forgot about ROM hacks when I chose Pokémon SoulSilver, otherwise I probably would’ve picked either Emerald or Crystal.

That’s smart, saving slots for future games. I should’ve thought of that.

For number 10, I know that exists for Crystal so I don’t see why not for Emerald. Hacked Crystal is the only way I play Gen 2 these days.

Yeah someone else asked about playtesting too, I think the consensus was playtesting is fine but playing the game after development isn’t allowed.

As for board/card games, those are totally fine still. I love board games and wouldn’t be able to cut them out, I’d rather no video games and still be able to play board games than the other way around.

I love Clues by Sam. I wish I added that one now to mine, I didn’t even think of it.

Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, maybe you can playtest while you’re still developing the game, but once the game is ready to be played in full, you can’t continue to play it unless it’s for making updates or whatever. Basically you can only play it for the purposes of development, not for the sake of playing a game.

Or maybe you can’t playtest at all and you do everything blind and the end result is a chaotic mess, that could be fun too. But probably the first one.

I sort of forgot online games exist when I made the post. I’d say the servers for whatever games you choose stay active forever, but there’s no guarantee a player base will always exist.

If you make video games, either as a career or hobby, only other people are allowed to play them

But how do I test them???

Hire a QA team? I’m not sure, I don’t make the rules.

Oh wait, huh. Uhhh… I sort of don’t have any experience with game dev so I didn’t think of that. Maybe you can playtest but can’t play through the whole game? Or maybe you get a QA team for free to help out on passion projects, I’m not sure. I’ll let you decide on this one maybe, I’m assuming you know more than I do with this.

There’s lots of fun stupid stuff you can do, at least in 5. Obviously I can’t comment on 6.

• Set a countdown timer and you have to switch right at the timer, then right before the timer goes off drive off a cliff or jump out of a helicopter and the other person has to try and survive. Basically death swap
• Try to steal a tank or fighter jet from a military base and switch after every death
• One person exclusively controls the left half of the controller, one person exclusively controls the right half of the controller, try to complete a mission or a custom objective
• Start a timer and see who can get a five star wanted level the fastest

Basically do stupid shit and don’t take it seriously. Extra points if you both suck at the game.