What 4x game are you playing while we wait?

4X just Galactic Civilizations II. May consider Master of Orion 2 after I finish a couple of pending games.

GC2

GC2, of course, was binging on LH up until the GC3 announcement was made, I've just being playing GC2 since then but considering a break now, been daunted trying to bust through Brutal

Considering MOO2, SOTS, considering SOTS2 ... I didn't buy SOTS2 early fortunately but I did buy it this past summer ... still didn't seem up to snuff to me.

I should have listed Gal Civ II as well. I played and played and now I am doing the Civ V thing.

I bought the Distant Worlds after reading about it from here. I think I need a new mouse with a real scroll wheel (now using Logitech m600 touchmouse). But even then Im not so sure it is a game and not some weird passive simulation. There are way too many things happening same time and no good way to track what is important and what is not. Trying to handle all the events without AI is next to impossible. I definently need that new mouse and try again.

Also I hate the windowed only mode and unclear text with fullhd resolution.  I wish I could atleast change texts to more readable form.

Oh and yes, I too played one game of gc2 last weekend. I enjoyed it very much even though I did win by ascension in few hundred turns. I didnt have time to see a single planet invansion and took part only one space battle

GC1 and GC2

Moo2 -- But -- just got a new PC with Windows 8, and was using the Moo2 from "GameStop" on Vista with a "DosBox", but since getting my new PC it doesn't work any more. The game comes up and kinda runs but many of the mechanics in it are crippled. I have Moo1 and Moo3 available, but I really dislike them.

WOW  (World of Warcraft)

Civ 1 through 5. Not so much of 3 and 4, which I think were very poorly done. 1 and 2 through a DosBox, but now 2 doesn't work on my new PC. Also, I got my current copies of 1 and 2 from GameStop.

Age of Empires 3

Caesar III and IV -- Caesar III worked on my Windows Vista PC, but won't even install on Windows 8

Starcraft (the original version)

Dragons and Dungeons (A box set of the original 8 games) -- in a DosBox. And amazingly, these work better on my Windows 8 than they did on Vista.

OK, so some of these are not properly 4X games, but it shows the lengths I have to go to to entertain myself, and how boring it is to play only one or two games exclusively.

Also, with the experience I have had with my PC upgrade (new machine with Windows 8), I am pleasantly very surprised to find that GC1 installs and runs well on 8. I consider this a BIG testimonial to StarDock.

GC2

Civ 5

Eador: Masters of blah blah blah

I considered Distant Worlds but it's costly to get it plus all xpacs for something that one hasn't tried and isn't sure one will like (not a big fan of real time) and many recommend or say that you really want all xpacs for it.  I ended up playing some GC2 instead of throwing down.

I mean, yeah, I threw down $100 for GC3 without even thinking, but throwing 100 at stardock who has always treated us like gold is a bit different than throwing 100 at some company I've never heard of for a game that doesn't have a demo and that doesn't sell any kind of package combining the whole game...meh..that's risky even when many say it's a game that measures up to GC2.  So you'd basically have to pay 30 for the base game to demo something that's incomplete (missing lots of stuff from xpacs).

What I'm actually playing these days, with unhealthy obsession is...finally got into Terrraria recently when it was on sale for 2.50 on steam and my brother and I have played 120 hours, mostly on the same map, since we got it.  It's an incredible game - I can't believe how many times I've said "wow" or "this game is insane" and the like while playing it.  There is so much goodness packed into Terraria that I feel bad only paying 2.50 for it, since even at the usual 10 it would be an absolute steal.  I had put off buying Terraria forever because I thought it looked weak in screenshots and such, but when you play it, kind of like with minecraft, all of that goes out the window and you're just enjoying an amazing game and the way it looks is perfect.

No, not like GC2. If the GC2 is chess, then this is golf.

I do pen and Paper D & D but with rules via Pathfinder which is WAY better than the new 4.0 rules.

When I play GC2 I disable all vic conditions except conquest and influence..

Gal Civ II Ultimate and Elemental Legendary Heroes of course!

Distant Worlds with all the Expansions is excellent. It was terribad on release but like most games with the updates and expansions it is actually very good. As a stopgap to Gal Civ III I would highly recommend it. 

It is pausable real time. I slow down the time passage and pause and give out orders to fleets and then unpause and sit back and watch the empire. 

I do not want to get into a cross discussion of whats better. I am a very hard core die hard fan of the Gal Civ series. However, I did look for other games and Distant Worlds does do the trick when you get into its mechanix. It is a very good game and I do recommend it.

I'm currently playing (or have played recently):

Bioshock Infinite.

Dragons Crown.

Path of Exile.

Bionic Dues.

Kingdom Rush: Frontiers.

hmm... not a whole lot of 4X on there. Guess I need the alpha to fix that!

GC2

Civ V

FE:LH

Galciv2

Elemental: LH

Endless Space

Civ V

Distant Worlds

Birth of the Federation

Distant Worlds: Shadows

Armada 2526 Supernova

Oh, and Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes. 

Since we have a bit to wait.how is that Armada 2526? I almost picked it up and held off....How is it now?

My group tried 4.0, briefly, then went back to 3.5 with some Pathfinder rules patched in, and some of our own modifications.

I havent stopped playing GC2:ToA and been playing SOTS 1 Ultimate Collection.

SotS2

SEV

Gal civ2 ultimate

Endless Space

Civ V

Currently i'm focused on Civ 5. Since it became really nice with the dlc's compared to the game it was on launch day

GalCiv 2, using my fix mod, Autumn Twilight.

SotS 1, playing the Hivers currently.

E:FE:LH, I finally redeemed the Steam-key I got from Stardock, because I pre-ordered E:WoM.

SMAX, alternating between the Gaians and the Consciousness.

not exactly turn base but still a good 4x game is Europa Universalis iv. Definitely alot better than 3.

Tried FE:LH today. Probably shortest game I have ever played. I managed to lose in the first turn

Just GCII.

but then, I have no choise but to play GCII even after the release of GCIII...as my system falls FAR below the minimum requirements.