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Harmonica posted:You've inspired me to dig out the Close Combat games because I haven't played them for years. CC3 and CC5 are my favorites. CC3 is where they really perfected the combat dynamics, and CC5 is where they perfected the theater command system. If you want to fight with the same group of men every time and take whatever the game throws at you situation wise, CC3 is the way to go. CC3 is very linear - the Germans will always approach Moscow, and the Russians will always take Berlin. It's a ton of fun though, and you'll find yourself checking your squads after each battle to see who was awarded medals and who died (and who got acts of cowardice  ).If you want to have theater command and move all sorts of battle groups around and fight the battles out, go for CC5. CC5 is the place where you can win the battle of France for the Germans. This is my personal favorite because the scenario editor allows you to do anything you want with the map. Want to play as a country being attacked from all sides? Make a scenario. Want to play as a country invading with paratroopers to the north and sea landings in the south? Make a scenario. CC1 is way too old for my tastes, and CC4 is basically CC5 beta: winter mode. I've had a lot of fun with CC2 and it's "rush to grab the bridges" game play, but in the end it's not 3 in combat terms and it's too linear to compete with 4 or 5. If I had to pick just one I'd go with CC3 or CC5. EDIT: If you're interested in historical context, here's where the different games fall: CC1: Normandy, starting about 30 days in once all the landings are done and the paratroopers have linked up. CC2: Operation Market Garden. The allies try to land a bunch of paratroopers along a very long stretch of road in the low countries to make a very thin beachhead into Germany. Hilarity ensues. CC3: Down and dirty Eastern Front Combat. Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin. CC4: Battle of the Bulge. Cold, tired, and under-supplied Americans face the only running tanks the Germans have left. CC5: Normandy done right. Starts on D-Day with beach landings and paratroopers scattered all over the place. A GIANT PARSNIP fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 7, 2011 |
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I'm still depressed from beating Mirror's Edge. I can't believe it's already over.  I used to love The Specialists. http://store.steampowered.com/app/90004 I dunno why, but I'd stick Mirror's Edge in the same boat as The Specialists. Anyone have any games like this? I wanna go with Brink, but I don't know just how good the mechanics are. I'm thinking of getting a Game Fly trial membership so I can try out Brink/Call of Juarez. Anyone have any PS3 recommendations?
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boner meter posted:Playing the excellent SimMars mod for SC4D (ModDB Page:http://www.moddb.com/mods/simmars) has given me an unscratchable itch to play planetary colonisation games. The thing is, loads of 4x games have planetary colonisation elements, but it's always mixed up in space combat and stuff. All I want is to babysit some little guys trying to make it in the harsh wilderness of an alien planet. A post apocalypse earth would be ok too. Ta! I too yearn for a game like this, but I cannot find one.
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ZanderZ posted:I wanna go with Brink, but I don't know just how good the mechanics are. Brink is a disaster. There are better paper-doll dress-up games, and that is really the only area in which it is even satisfactory. And I enjoyed the gameplay more than the average person, I think.
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Diogines posted:I too yearn for a game like this, but I cannot find one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(video_game) If you can find it anywhere, Outpost was pretty fun, if buggy. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Aug 7, 2011 |
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Any there any other games in the style of King of Dragon Pass or Academagia?
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I just recently finished Valkyria Chronicles on PS3 and it just killed me. I had bought it at launch but never really got invested in it, but I returned to it on a lark recently and it gripped me hard. Are there any other PS3 or 360 games that feature turn-based squad level combat with customizable units? Basically console X-Com?
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BAD POSTING AHEAD posted:lots of Close Combat information Thanks a lot for that! Very helpful. I think I played every game up to CC3 but nothing later. As far as the modern Matrix remakes go, it seems that they have merged all of the grand strategy elements and it's only the scenarios that differ now. At least that is my impression. I might check out CC5 as well as one of these re-releases. In the process of searching I did end up discovering this fan remake of Panzer General which is pretty incredible (and the creator went on to work on Panzer Corps, recently released). ZanderZ posted:Anyone have any games like [Mirrors Edge]? I wanna go with Brink, but I don't know just how good the mechanics are. Whilst I disagree that BRINK is a disaster overall as a game (when you get enough people in a room it's a good multiplayer game), I cannot warn you enough about not purchasing it because you'd like some parkour style player movement. What Mirrors Edge did fantastically BRINK does not do at all well. It was one of their selling points but they bungled it, it's clunky and combined with the sometimes laggy matches, does not feel smooth at all (it's basically just pulling yourself over surfaces whilst mashing jump). The only reason anyone should buy BRINK is if they re-release it as a budget title in the future or something, so that it gets a good stable playerbase - I say that as someone who bought it at release and still owns it. Although there's people playing it it's probably circling the drain right now 
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The free weekend may have helped, but after playing Brink a couple of hours I decided to give it a pass, even at half price.
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I need some PSP recommendations, preferably RPGs or games that are not too action-heavy as I find the PSP very uncomfortable to hold. No remakes/ports of games that were previously released in the US as I likely already have them and/or have played them on their original system. I think I must have lower standards when it comes to portable games, as I've been lying around playing Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion—it's almost as lovely and generic as a JRPG can get, but it makes me feel nostalgic for Lunar, and it's something I can play after I've turned my brain off before I go to sleep. So I possibly don't care if it's a mediocre/bad game as long as it tells a story, is entertaining to some extent, and doesn't make my hands cramp up.
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Hey guys my video card recently took a poo poo and as of right now it looks like it will be a while before I can get a new system. So I was wondering if there were any decent "low spec" co-op games that will run on Win7 64bit. The card that I am running right now is an old ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT. I can manage to play Last Stand in DaW II Retrobution but on very low settings and some lag. As for genre, just co-op. Thanks.
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Conquieftador posted:Hey guys my video card recently took a poo poo and as of right now it looks like it will be a while before I can get a new system. So I was wondering if there were any decent "low spec" co-op games that will run on Win7 64bit. Maybe a bit lower spec than you're after but have you tried the Sven Co-op mod for Half-life? You can play through the whole storyline of Half-Life and Opposing Force co-op style, but there's also a ton of other maps for it.
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There was a mention of port royal 2 a few pages ago and I wanted to ask. Is there something a little more modern with a similar flavor as that? The top three I came across were either Patrician 4, East India Company, or Dawn of Discovery. All though I might just pick up Dawn of Discovery since I enjoyed the demo and it's pretty cheap now. Though it felt more like a town builder than a trading/production game. Can any one comment on the other two?
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Albacore posted:There was a mention of port royal 2 a few pages ago and I wanted to ask. Is there something a little more modern with a similar flavor as that? The top three I came across were either Patrician 4, East India Company, or Dawn of Discovery. All though I might just pick up Dawn of Discovery since I enjoyed the demo and it's pretty cheap now. Though it felt more like a town builder than a trading/production game. Can any one comment on the other two? Anno 1404 (dawn of discovery) is great. Also, Port Royal 3 will be released in 2012, which is great news.
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Albacore posted:There was a mention of port royal 2 a few pages ago and I wanted to ask. Is there something a little more modern with a similar flavor as that? The top three I came across were either Patrician 4, East India Company, or Dawn of Discovery. All though I might just pick up Dawn of Discovery since I enjoyed the demo and it's pretty cheap now. Though it felt more like a town builder than a trading/production game. Can any one comment on the other two?
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What are some good games like Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie for the 360? I am trying to get my wife a bit more into gaming, she loves the old 3rd Person Platform games she played when she was younger. I've heard Kameo and Beyond Good and Evil are games to check out. Besides those two I am at a loss, it isn't a genre I am very familiar with.
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What are some games that are similar to Cyberlix's Titanic: Adventure out of Time? I must have beaten that game a dozen times over a decade ago, and watching a play through on youtube is sending me down memory lane. Ideally it would have an awesome setpiece to explore like the Titanic.
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Thunder Chief posted:What are some good games like Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie for the 360? I am trying to get my wife a bit more into gaming, she loves the old 3rd Person Platform games she played when she was younger. I've heard Kameo and Beyond Good and Evil are games to check out. Besides those two I am at a loss, it isn't a genre I am very familiar with. I think that Mini Ninjas is supposed to be good, as well as Kung Fu Panda (believe it or not), too. You can get both Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie on XBLA, as well.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:What are some games that are similar to Cyberlix's Titanic: Adventure out of Time? I must have beaten that game a dozen times over a decade ago, and watching a play through on youtube is sending me down memory lane. Ideally it would have an awesome setpiece to explore like the Titanic. You should get a kick out of The Last Express by Smoking Car Productions. Compiled from Wikipedia: It is an adventure game set on the Orient Express in 1914, the player takes on the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor on the train's final journey from Paris to Constantinople (modern Istanbul) before World War I. It is noted as being one of the few video games that attempts to realistically simulate real time. One of the game's most notable uses of this technique during a concert, in which two of the non-player characters perform a piano/violin duet that lasts approximately twenty minutes of real-time: the player character is free to sit down and enjoy the music, or move as he pleases. Additionally, the game features multiple endings; about thirty are "fatal", in which Cath is killed or arrested, and four are "non-fatal" endings, of which only one is considered to be the proper ending. It's quite interesting and pretty, you can see screenshots and buy it HERE from GoG.
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Thunder Chief posted:What are some good games like Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie for the 360? I am trying to get my wife a bit more into gaming, she loves the old 3rd Person Platform games she played when she was younger. I've heard Kameo and Beyond Good and Evil are games to check out. Besides those two I am at a loss, it isn't a genre I am very familiar with. Depending on her humor, the Conker 64 remake on the original Xbox scales extremely well on the 360.
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Cross post from PS3 Games thread: Well due to not being able to buy PSN credit with my card I had to buy a pre-paid card of which the smallest the store had was £25, after buying what I wanted (Eat Them) I now have about £23 of credit left, any major recommendations? Stuff I have and like: Dead Nation, Pain, LBP, Trash Panic (although that is stupidly difficult), Wipeout HD (+fury), Eat Them, ModNation Racers, Ratchet and Clank QFB and InFamous. Visual customization is also a big selling point for me (Whether it's just aesthetic or part of the gameplay).
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Palpek posted:You should get a kick out of The Last Express by Smoking Car Productions. This looks cool, definitely going to check this out. Anyone know of any others? Maybe some more recent ones? The only recent game that I can think of that fits the genre is Amnesia: TDD.
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I recently spent 15 minutes going through this game, and while it was an extremely linear and simple point and click detective game, it has given me an itch for something similar, that I desperately need to scratch. Therefore, I turn to you, goons. Recommend me a good point and click detective game for mac! I want to get out there and collect fingerprints!
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I'm looking for a first or third person shooter that has a survival mode (or features it) with enemies coming in waves or just a game with tons of enemies on screen, preferably on PC but I do have a 360 and PS3. If there is a very good mod for a game that adds a survival mode I would also be interested. Multiplayer isn't required but it is preferred. I like: Killing Floor, Skulltag, Serious Sam, Left 4 Dead, Painkiller I kinda like: Resident Evil 5 Mercenaries I don't like: Gears of War, Halo, Bulletstorm, Red Faction: Armageddon
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I'm looking for a good metroidvania. I've played Symphony of the Night to death and the ds castlevania all feel too samey. I really loved Shadow Complex; it nailes the feeling of progression perfectly. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet didn't have enough exploration. Cave story was fun, and of course the classic metroids. I prefer the 2d metroidvania-style games, but a 3rd one like arkham asylum would work, too. I have a fat ds, psp, and all 3 consoles. What really appeals to me is a good pacing, feeling of progression, and lots of exploration. I checked the first page and the last two pages, didn't see anybody else asking this.
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Closet Cyborg posted:I'm looking for a good metroidvania. I've played Symphony of the Night to death and the ds castlevania all feel too samey. I really loved Shadow Complex; it nailes the feeling of progression perfectly. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet didn't have enough exploration. Cave story was fun, and of course the classic metroids. I prefer the 2d metroidvania-style games, but a 3rd one like arkham asylum would work, too. I have a fat ds, psp, and all 3 consoles. What really appeals to me is a good pacing, feeling of progression, and lots of exploration. I checked the first page and the last two pages, didn't see anybody else asking this. If you've still got a PS2, King's Field: The Ancient City is the best example of a 3D Metroidvania-style game I've ever played. On Wii Virtual Console, try Wonder Boy in Monster World (Genesis) or Dynastic Hero (TG-CD). They're different versions of the exact same game, with neither being clearly superior to the other, so it pretty much comes down to whether or not you want CD sound. I don't remember if there's a price difference. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Aug 15, 2011 |
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Rollersnake posted:If you've still got a PS2, King's Field: The Ancient City is the best example of a 3D Metroidvania-style game I've ever played. Awesome. I never played any of the King's Field games, so I'll have to check that one out. My older consoles got soaked in a basement flood awhile back, but I've still got some ps2 games to play, so I'll be replacing the ps2 anyway if it won't run on the ps3. I've got one of those weird mid-generation ones with partial backwards compatibility. And I don't think I've heard of that genesis one before. Thanks!
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Are there any MMOs with a world more diverse or interesting than WoW's? My favorite part about WoW was probably questing through all the zones the first time around, especially with the new Cataclysm content. The quests were better, but I mainly just loved the vastly improved zone design.
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Closet Cyborg posted:I'm looking for a good metroidvania. I've played Symphony of the Night to death and the ds castlevania all feel too samey. I really loved Shadow Complex; it nailes the feeling of progression perfectly. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet didn't have enough exploration. Cave story was fun, and of course the classic metroids. I prefer the 2d metroidvania-style games, but a 3rd one like arkham asylum would work, too. I have a fat ds, psp, and all 3 consoles. What really appeals to me is a good pacing, feeling of progression, and lots of exploration. I checked the first page and the last two pages, didn't see anybody else asking this. If you don't mind going completely oldskool, Clash At Demonhead on the NES is probably the best Metroidvania that fans of the genre haven't played.
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chairface posted:If you don't mind going completely oldskool, Clash At Demonhead on the NES is probably the best Metroidvania that fans of the genre haven't played. I'd heard of Clash at Demonhead, but didn't know that's the sort of game it was. Going to have to check it out now.
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chairface posted:If you don't mind going completely oldskool, Clash At Demonhead on the NES is probably the best Metroidvania that fans of the genre haven't played. I thought that band in Scott Pilgrim sounded familiar.
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I'm sharing a house with 3 friends. We have 4 Xbox360s, a PS3, 2 Wiis and 4 PC/laptops of varying power What are some good 4-player co-op games? We've done Borderlands, and Diablo 2 is planned, but some lesser-known titles would be cool. The cheaper the better, obviously, but we're open to just about every genre.
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A shrubbery! posted:I'm sharing a house with 3 friends. We have 4 Xbox360s, a PS3, 2 Wiis and 4 PC/laptops of varying power I've heard good things about E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. You can buy it on Steam. There's a 4 pack too so you can save some money on it. There's also a thread here about it.
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A shrubbery! posted:I'm sharing a house with 3 friends. We have 4 Xbox360s, a PS3, 2 Wiis and 4 PC/laptops of varying power I'm pretty sure Scott Pilgrim vs the World supports 4 player same-screen co-op play. It's basically a modern River City Ransom.
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A shrubbery! posted:I'm sharing a house with 3 friends. We have 4 Xbox360s, a PS3, 2 Wiis and 4 PC/laptops of varying power You could try castle crashers, it's four players if I remember and it's pretty good. I'm looking for a multiplayer RPG type game for the PC thats free to play. I'd like to find something easily accessible like diablo but not too simple. Most importantly, something where I can level up / strategize with other players. I don't mind PVP either. Games I've played: (way back when) Guild Wars Diablo2 WoW (more recently) Neverwinter Nights 1
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Fiskenbob posted:I recently spent 15 minutes going through this game, and while it was an extremely linear and simple point and click detective game, it has given me an itch for something similar, that I desperately need to scratch. Therefore, I turn to you, goons. Recommend me a good point and click detective game for mac! I want to get out there and collect fingerprints! No such game anyone wants to recommend? Then just an entertaining point and click adventure that isn't as light-hearted as Monkey Island or Grim Fandango. I really liked the atmosphere of that old Blade Runner game, if that gives you more to go by.
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I think you'd enjoy the Gabriel Knight games. I really liked all three games and they're all up on gog.com.
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Sadly, they are only available for PC and I've got a Macbook. Thanks anyway, though.
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I'm in need of an RPG game with lots and lots of items to buy/find/make to let me make a totally badass-looking main character. Preferably open-ended, and if it could have a similar loot system to Diablo I might just die. Only problem is the games I've already played. I've played a lot of RPG games. Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, Torchlight, Fallout, Borderlands, Spiral Knights, Magicka, hell I even tried to get my fix from Puzzle Quest with no such luck. Basically I need a fun game (preferably for DS) that lets me collect a lot of equipment and let me dress up my paper doll super battlemage wizard ranger berserker and kick rear end. Any help? e: I've also played the Diablo games, Planescape Torment, Dark Messiah, all the Final Fantasy games, just trust me when I say I've played a lot. I'm not looking so much for a fantastic old game on GoG as I am looking for a clean-looking RPG that I can take with me where I go and have lots of customization for my character. I've heard good things about The World Ends With You, but the customization part is the real stickler. If I give my character a bunch of cool pins and stuff do they change or do they just get a new move? Dickweasel Alpha fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Aug 17, 2011 |
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:I'm in need of an RPG game with lots and lots of items to buy/find/make to let me make a totally badass-looking main character. Preferably open-ended, and if it could have a similar loot system to Diablo I might just die. Only problem is the games I've already played. I've played a lot of RPG games. Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, Torchlight, Fallout, Borderlands, Spiral Knights, Magicka, hell I even tried to get my fix from Puzzle Quest with no such luck. This, only not on DS and preferably not open-ended because then I will die
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