Mine is playing AOE2 in easiest (or standard if I want a bit of challenge) mode against 3 bots. I just build my economy, wall up (and laugh at the enemy soldiers attacking my walls in vain), reach imperial age and attack once my army reaches the population limit. I also send 104 in the chat so they don’t surrender and I can enjoy razing their all buildings one by one. If any of them builds a castle, even more fun. A build a trebuchet and watch it raze the castle from a safe distance. If there is sea, after I am done with the land, I build 3 docks, do research and build a navy and hunt down ships around the unxplored sea. It is fun, satisfying and relaxing.
What is yours?
Replaying old games that I have fond memories of. We’re in an incredible renaissance of classic games getting source ports or updates that bring them up to modern standards, and I’m loving it. Daggerfall, Blade of Darkness, Jagged Alliance 2, Morrowind, Jedi Knight, Caesar 3… I’m sure I’m forgetting
somemany. They let me forget the present and pretend that I’m back in simpler, happier times, at least for a little while.
Daggerfall? I’ll have to check that out!
The Daggerfall Unity re-release was free some time ago on Bethesda’s official website. I’d check there.
I’m here for all these but my personal zen is Lucasarts’ Gladius. I have kept my original Xbox all these years just to play it but it was finally recently made backwards compatible for my series x.
I have two:
- Lichess vs computer, easiest setting, trying to promote as many pawns to queens as I can before checkmating.
- Civ 5, duel, Shoshone vs. Venice. No city-States, the only winning condition is time. Farming generals until Venice is reduced to a single hex.
I don’t normally watch streamers, but I suddenly want to watch you streaming lichess.
It would be kind of boring though. I rewind the moves quite a bit when I’m doing this. (Kind of weird since I make a point of never rewinding moves when actually playing, at difficulty 5.)
Hah, I do the same in AoE 2 as well, though I put the AI to standard and like to give them grief, like build towers around their base early in the game, or use an army of monks to convert every unit they send towards my base, and build up my own army of converted units; or lure them into my base by deliberately leaving a gap in my walls, except the path to my tc is lined with towers along the way - sometimes I even make a maze of walls and towers and it’s fun picking them off one by one as they make their way towards my tc.
But lately though, I’ve been doing all of that in 0 A.D., an opensource RTS like AoE. One of the cool things about 0 A.D. is the soundtrack, it’s really, really done well, especially considering it’s a free game; and I also like the customisable AI - in addition to difficulty, you can set their behavior to defensive/aggressive/balanced etc, and you can have a ceasefire period where the enemy doesn’t attack you at all for x minutes after the game starts, which gives you enough time to build up your base.
That sounds fun and creative
surprised nobody put down the classic yet…
What is it?
jerking off?
I should have thought of that
No alcoholics in this thread either. Too wholesome, it’s eerie.
Sometimes I pick through homebrew content other people have made and offer comments and suggestions. I used to float around on /r/UnearthedArcana before I jumped from Reddit, I’m kind of hoping something similar pops up in the federation. Either that, or on the really bad days, I play an old game that I’ve played a bajillion times before. I know the routes and strats, I can kind of go on autopilot while I try to decompress from the shit that happened. System Shock 2 is a favorite.
Stellaris, so similar vein as AOE2 lol.
GuildWars 2, small scale stuff on the borderlands with my WvW guild.
Op plays briton longbows for sure
I like wandering around skyrim and doing occasional side quest
Putting on a good old mindless comedy movie. Give me Black Sheep or Airplane or Mr. Deeds or Bridesmaids and I immediately zone out and relax.
I love airplane, I will check others.
Beat Saber, currently. Get me in that music zone and let me wave my arms around like an idiot.
Fountain pens. And brawlhalla.
Wouldn’t say Brawlhalla is all that relaxing lol
Lol fair, but it scratches an itch that helps me unwind
A nap.
Sleep
Depending on the weather, go for a walk while listening to some music