Let's Play Civilization 5: Reverse Psychology, Chapter 1!

This is Nihzlet, bringing you the first chapter of what will hopefully be an interesting, if peculiar, Let's Play of Civilization 5. What's a Let's Play, you ask? You're living under a rock, I answer. But if you're somehow not familiar with the concept, it's pretty simple: the author plays through a game and, through either video with narration or screenshots with writing(I will be doing the latter), shows his playthrough to the world. This can be for many purposes--as a game guide or walkthrough, to showcase player skill, for hilarity value, or other things.

As for Civilization 5, if you don't know what that is, then you're living under an even bigger rock, but here's a quick rundown for the uninformed. You are the leader of a great civilization, and you must use your resources to find a way to conquer the world. This can be through diplomacy, culture, science, or just plain military conquest.

For this particular Let's Play, I decided to try something interesting. Most of the different civilizations you can choose to play as in Civ 5 have a particular bias, a path to victory that they're good at. When playing as Germany, it's easiest to win through military might, for example. So what I'm going to do is set my civilization to random and then, whatever I end up playing as, do the exact OPPOSITE of whatever they're good at. Let's see what happens!

Top 5 on 5: Best Pen and Paper RPG Systems

This is Nihzlet, bringing back a monthly article I planned as part of my original blog, Retro Strikes Back. The basic idea is simple--on the 5th of the month, I'll post a personal top 5 list of some kind. This month, since it's the first time I'm posting in a blog that's not just about video games, I'd like to take a moment to talk about my preferences in Pen and Paper RPGs. As a general note, since the roleplaying in any game is really up to the players, not the system, I'll mostly be talking about mechanics and adaptability of the system. Without further ado, let's get started!

First Impressions--LA Noire

Nihzlet here to talk about two recently released games, and why you should play them. LA Noire is a self-explanatory 3rd-person action/intrigue style game released about 2 weeks ago(depending on where you live) by new developer Team Bondi and industry giant Rockstar Games. On the relatively opposite end of the gaming spectrum, we have Frozen Synapse, a turn-based real-time tactical game(it makes sense, trust me) made by indie developer Mode 7 Games.

Both games are well worth your money, assuming you're into that genre in the first place. Let's get a little more in-depth with LA Noire--I'll talk more about Frozen Synapse in an upcoming post.

Recent Projects

Hello,

This is ElfSpeaker. I'm an omni-gamer and my posts on Blog +1 will reflect that. My primary focus on Blog +1 will be tabletop wargames and pen and paper RPGs. However, that won't stop me from dabbling in video games, board games, card games, etc. I really try to do it all.

Anyway, I want to start off by showing you what I'm proudest of in my personal hobby: miniatures painting. I've been painting miniature for over fifteen years starting with 1:72 WWII soldiers. Now, I primarily painted Warhammer 40,000 models but I've recently picked up a bunch of models from Anima Tactics (more on that in a future post).

Inaugural Post!

Welcome, one and all, to BLOG +1.

My name is Nihzlet, founder of the +1 group. What you can expect to find here is postings by myself and many others, who will introduce themselves in time, on the rather broad subject of gaming.

Yes, gaming. All of it.

Computer games, console games, pen and paper RPGs, collectible card games(generally old ones), tabletop wargames, board games, and any others we get our hands on.

For a good starting idea of what to expect, check out my previous(short-lived) blog, Retro Strikes Back, and the previous blog of one of my fellow contributors, Cast Dice.

Posting will begin in earnest soon, so until then, have fun and game on!

--Nihzlet