[Patriot]

Ugh, screw being a politician..

Just let me build my tanks, or whatever it was i do for a living D:

[Alex Heartnet]

"We thank god that our enemies are idiots."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Crizza continues to work diligently, spying on the alien threat.



Say hello to our new palace guard.  Be nice to him, it’s his first day on the job.



…Oh, right, the military was going to turn against me, right?  Here you go.  High wages for soldiers, generals, KGB agents, banksters, miners, factory workers, and oil refinery workers.  Everyone else gets minimum wage.



El Presidente gets richer and richer, while Starslayer struggles to make ends meet.









The freighter arrives, buys my stuff, then leaves.  I can’t help but notice that there is a distinct lack of rebels on the island.





Protest!  We got a protestor.

You do know what we do with protestors, do you?



Poor, poor opposition party.  They wanted to play a game, a rigged game where I hold all the cards and the dice are loaded.





What rebel threat?  There never was a rebel threat to begin with.



My new modern art exhibit is complete!  I call it ‘El Cigarro Grande’, and I designed it myself.




No longer shall I be forced to travel to the States for health care.  Instead I will ruin our amazing hospital with a terrible socialist health care system.



My prisons are full, and I need to round up more dissidents.  I could just build another prison, but where’s the fun in that?







The wage increase seems to of quieted down my angry military.



WE HAS DA BOMB.



Now, we all know that there is only one person on the island qualified to use this thing.  He will be paid top wages while his precious bodily fluids get sapped and inpurified by communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy.









…And, I think this is a good stopping point.  The island’s political situation and food supplies are stable.  I got loads and loads of cash, and haven’t even begun exploiting the island’s natural oil reserves to its fullest.

I could do anything I want at this point – make a golden statue of myself, construct the largest skyscraper hotel in the Caribbean, increase everyone’s wages to the maximum amount, all without fear of consequences.  So I am going to stop here.



As for my enemies, I leave you with this:

[z64555]

Radiation? Heh. whatever.

[NGTM-1R]

There was not nearly enough threat in this LP.

WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!

There, I fixed it! But more seriously, I think it would have benefited from a higher difficulty or more chaos. It was kind of mechanically unrolling the victory of El Presidente; much like my TFTD one.

[Rodo]

So, it's game over?

[FireSpawn]

So, it's game over?

This is what I'll be doing.

[Alex Heartnet]

There was not nearly enough threat in this LP.

WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!

There, I fixed it! But more seriously, I think it would have benefited from a higher difficulty or more chaos. It was kind of mechanically unrolling the victory of El Presidente; much like my TFTD one.

Indeed, that was more or less what I was thinking when I was typing out this final post.  And I was even trying to sabotage myself near the end, with stuff like holding exports and using the diplomatic office and weapon factory to try and wreck foreign politics.  If I choose to do a LP of this game again, I will have to play the first one and not the third one, and do a scenario rather then a random island.

Next time, I will have to pick a game where things never go smoothly.  Dwarf Fortress immediately comes to mind, but then I would have to learn how to play that game again :/

Right now I am considering:

Dwarf Fortress
+ Complexity
+ Unique brand of 'fun'
- Learning Curve
- Having to keep track of 20 dwarves in a crowd of 200
- ASCII graphics maybe aren't the best for a LP

The Temple of Elemental Evil
+ Short Length is perfect for a LP
+ Difficulty, the Pen and Paper campaign this game is based on was notorious for total party kills
+ Threat is high from the very beginning, nothing quite like a band of level 1 adventurers running into an ogre.
- Can't rename party members once you start

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
+ More Star Trek then Battlestar Galactica, resulting in lots of mysteries, threat-by-plot, and mid-mission suprises
+ Difficulty
+ Mission variety.  It's not all fleet battles...
+ Perfect for creating an alternative narrative (Mongoose, take the marine troop transport and save Dekker...)
+ Ship Evacuations are very well modeled and is great for dramatic tension
- Can't rename heroes or units (nothing a bit of improvisation and imagination can't handle though)
- Crash Bugs
- Endgame Difficulty
- No mid-mission saving

Geneforge
+ Highly Original Setting
+ Expendable, replaceable party members
+ Deux Ex-style of openendedness.  A second playthrough could be very different.
- Not sure how you guys will roleplay out being inhuman mad scientist creations
- Can't create an army of critters at the beginning

Failing all this, I could always try making a let's play of a roguelike.  Stuff is guaranteed to happen in that kind of game...

[SpardaSon21]

Temple of Elemental Evil since it has the fewest cons.  I've heard the Circle of Eight Modpack is pretty much essential for that game though.

Geneforge would also be good since I'm pretty sure most of HLP are already inhuman creations.  Dwarf Fortress would be hard to understand for everyone who hasn't played it and Nexus is like you said, buggy and sort of complex.  If you do choose Nexus, I nominate Dekker to be Lieutenant Commander Freaky Ghost Chick and FireSpawn as Rear Admiral Norbank.

[Mongoose]

I think you can pull off a Dwarf Fortress LP fairly well, depending on how you do it.  I mean, Boatmurdered is something of an Internet legend, even among people like me who've never touched the game.

[Alex Heartnet]

Seeing how the Star Trek influence that Nexus has extends all the way to gameplay elements, I fail to see how the game's complexity will pose a problem.  I just have to explain it in terms that casual onlookers understand ("Divert all power to the main guns!"  "Shields are down, we are in serious trouble!")

Indeed, the capabilities of the Starship Enterprise would not be out of place within the Nexus universe.

[Thaeris]

Geneforge is an awsome game, and being a fan of Spiderweb in general, you should totally name your creatures after HLPers.

...And when one dies (and they will), you elect a new one as a meatshield. Make me a Cryora.

[Alex Heartnet]

Geneforge is an awsome game, and being a fan of Spiderweb in general, you should totally name your creatures after HLPers.

...And when one dies (and they will), you elect a new one as a meatshield. Make me a Cryora.

That was the plan, yes.  My only concern is not being able to make everyone a mutant critter early on, when you don't have much essence to spend on creations.

[Thaeris]

Clearly... what you must do is make poor life choices for your creatures while not endangering your own... that much.

[Alex Heartnet]

Clearly... what you must do is make poor life choices for your creatures while not endangering your own... that much.

Until they panic from taking too much damage and run away, and then spit a fireball at me rather then my enemies.

The critters in question DO have a mind of their own.  They are completely loyal, but loyalty and bravery are two different things.

[Rodo]

sims 3 ftw.

LOL

[Gortef]

Hmm... wasn't it so that in Overlord you could rename the minions? Then again it's not that easy to follow who does what even if you could.

[pecenipicek]

i'm just gonna throw in a vote for DF. also, screw ascii graphics. phoebus or mayday's pack and call it a day.

also, dwarf therapist is a must. maybe a smidge of dfhack, for restoring foreign diplomats.

[Dragon]

Hmm... wasn't it so that in Overlord you could rename the minions? Then again it's not that easy to follow who does what even if you could.

I don't think so, the first one didn't even had minion names, and I don't remember this being possible in the second one either.
That doesn't change the fact an Overlord LP could be awesome, that game is hilarious.

[Alex Heartnet]

Hmm... wasn't it so that in Overlord you could rename the minions? Then again it's not that easy to follow who does what even if you could.

I don't think so, the first one didn't even had minion names, and I don't remember this being possible in the second one either.
That doesn't change the fact an Overlord LP could be awesome, that game is hilarious.

I don't care for base RTS clickfest games (like Starcraft or Command & Conquer) at all.

The RTS needs to be either baseless (like in Ground Control, Hostile Waters, or Nexus), or be very different from the norm (AI War: Fleet Command is an RTS I AM willing to play).  Instead, I will look into playing Evil Genius as a possibility.

On an unrelated note, I can't get any screen capture programs to work with Uplink: Hacker Elite.  Anyone have any bright ideas?

[z64555]

On an unrelated note, I can't get any screen capture programs to work with Uplink: Hacker Elite.  Anyone have any bright ideas?

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