Tag: Crusader Kings Ii
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Weekly eXchange #238 – The Three Kingdom Discord.
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Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Oriental Empires: Three Kingdoms, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Driftland: the Magic Revival, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Pax Nova, Alliance of the Sacred Suns, Stellaris: Ancient…
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Interstellar Space: Genesis Q&A
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Explorminate has made a conscious effort to reach out to as many of 4X studios as possible to find out more about their projects through a series of Q&A’s. That series continues today with Praxis Games and their upcoming title Interstellar Space: Genesis. Could you start by telling us about…
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Stellaris ReeXamination #2
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When Stellaris first launched in 2016, it was marketed under the slogan “Make Space Great Again.” Lately, I’ve been campaigning for Stellaris by co-opting a different American political rallying cry: “Keep Stellaris WeirdTM.” What I mean is, as Stellaris continues to grow and change (it’s basically a living organism at…
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Weekly eXchange #227 – More Net Neutrality Needed.
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Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Thea 2: the Shattering, Driftland: the Magic Revival, Endless Legend, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Stellaris, Endless Space 2, Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis 4, Northgard,…
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Strategic eXpanse #34 – Strategic Warfare Part 2
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Join Nate, Oliver, Mark, Joshua and Troy as they continue to discuss Warfare in 4X games and focus on the “Arc” of a 4X games. They also discuss ideas that they’d like to see developers implement in future games with a specific focus on Winning Conditions. So come, listen and…
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Audible eXtension For Oriental Empires
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Join Nate, Troy and Joshua as they discuss the Oriental Empires review. We discuss what was left on the cutting-room floor and where this game is headed. Come and listen to what we think about Oriental Empires. Music for eXplorminate by Mangadrive Notes: Oriental Empires Steam page Oriental Empires e4X Review…
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Crossing The Rubicon: Defining The 4X-like Genre
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Oliver delves into the challenges of classifying the 4X genre and presents a 6-criteria rubric for evaluating 4X-like games. These efforts are aimed at fostering broader genre inclusion and game diversity, or something like that.
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The Core Mechanism of 4X Part 2: An eXposition
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In Part 1, we defined the core mechanic for 4X and illustrated how it could be seen in exploration, research, and diplomacy. In part 2, we continue examining how the core mechanism manifests itself in other aspects of play. Unlocking Tools for Victory in eXtermination Combat is a major system…
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Stellar Monarch Review
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Released in December of 2016, Stellar Monarch (SM) is a Space 4X-Grand Strategy Hybrid created by one of our regular eXplorminate forum members, Chris Koźmik and his company Silver Lemur Games. Originally, the game was called Pocket Space Empire, but it was too big to fit in a pocket, so the title…
