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Are the Two Worlds games worth playing? I picked up the complete set for $4 during the Steam sale.
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EightDeer posted:Are the Two Worlds games worth playing? I picked up the complete set for $4 during the Steam sale. I completely loved it for the first...15 hours, but then it got suuuper repetitive and generic for me. My main gripes were that the world felt copy and pasted, and (some people like this) the whole game system wasn't particularly well thought out. For example, you can just pump strength and infuse your two handed blunt weapon with spirit damage, and you'll absolutely completely demolish any challenge to the game once you learn how to dodge backwards. What I liked about it was much better found in the Gothic series. And I do wish more games copied the system of "crappy sword + crappy sword = better sword" weapon and armor combination.
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Jan 17, 2015 07:11
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rizuhbull posted:action-adventure games with base-building? I loved upgrading my ship in Mass Effect 2 and the manor stuff in Assassin's Creed brotherhood (or was it 2?) More rpgs than action adventure, but Neverwinter Nights 2 and Dragon Age Awakening both have castles you control and upgrade. Assassins creed 4 has a similar base to the manor and also a ship to upgrade so take a look at that one if you haven't.
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Jan 17, 2015 17:23
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Looking for online PC games. Maybe some good MMOs or smaller interesting titles that aren't just shooters or MOBAs. Want to play something with a friend, but can't find anything worthwhile.
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Jan 18, 2015 00:57
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Any recommendations for games that can run unattended for pretty long periods of time? Something that can plod along and not crash and burn if I leave it to its own devices for an hour or two? Sometimes I like having a game running in the background while I'm writing, that I can glance up at and fiddle around with once in a while when I need a break. I'm looking for a game that's more of a long-term experience; probably something simulator-ish, in which I can slowly build up something big over time. Stuff I've used in the past... X3:R & X3:TC. Space sims are rad. How would the new Elite work for what I'm describing? Lots of long haul space trucking on auto-pilot sounds wonderful. Farming Simulator 15. I love this game, but a lot of stuff can't be automated, so it ends up being pretty hands-on as your farm grows. Crusader Kings 2 always set to the slowest speed. Any other ideas spring to mind?
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Jan 18, 2015 01:55
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You could play EU4, its not as demanding of your attention compared to CK2 due to not having to deal with vassals.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:13
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Trustworthy posted:Sometimes I like having a game running in the background while I'm writing, that I can glance up at and fiddle around with once in a while when I need a break. I'm looking for a game that's more of a long-term experience; probably something simulator-ish, in which I can slowly build up something big over time. Dawn of Discovery/Anno 2070 series, especially if you play a solo campaign. You can give it as much or as little attention as you want.
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Jan 18, 2015 02:26
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Any recommendations for a game that's like an offline MMORPG (e.g. WoW). I've played a bit of Xenoblade but was wondering what else is out there for PC or last gen consoles (and WiiU). Thanks. Edit: I guess I mean open world RPG that has leveling, crafting, bosses and such. aarstar fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 02:57
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Trustworthy posted:Farming Simulator 15. I love this game, but a lot of stuff can't be automated, so it ends up being pretty hands-on as your farm grows.
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Jan 18, 2015 03:12
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aarstar posted:Any recommendations for a game that's like an offline MMORPG (e.g. WoW). I've played a bit of Xenoblade but was wondering what else is out there for PC or last gen consoles (and WiiU). Thanks. Give Kingdom of Alamur a look.
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Jan 18, 2015 03:33
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aarstar posted:Any recommendations for a game that's like an offline MMORPG (e.g. WoW). I've played a bit of Xenoblade but was wondering what else is out there for PC or last gen consoles (and WiiU). Thanks. The new Dragon Age is exactly that, with bonus optional multiplayer dungeon crawls (completely separate from the singleplayer component in every way other than storyline tie-ins). It's actually a fun game. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3681488 e: I completely slept on it until a few days ago because I figured there was no way a new Dragon Age could be good. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 03:41
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Any recommendations for good building stuff games? I want build a city or a house or something and watch it go. I already own and enjoy sim city 4, kerbal space program and all the rollercoaster tycoons. massive spider fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 16:11
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massive spider posted:Any recommendations for good building stuff games? I want build a city or a house or something and watch it go. Factorio is really fun for scratching the building itch. It's a paid alpha, but it's quite playable (like KSP or Minecraft's alpha, not one of those early access fuckups).
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Jan 18, 2015 16:35
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Seconding Factorio. I spend half the time just watching the factory working away. If you want to build in peace, you can disable the enemies. If you enjoyed Rollercoaster Tycoon, you should have a look at OpenTTD, if you haven't yet. Tropico is also fun.
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Jan 18, 2015 17:38
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Give Kingdom of Alamur a look. Hey, thanks. I actually bought that game at some point because it's in my Steam library. I'll give it a shot. Funnypost Collabo posted:The new Dragon Age is exactly that, with bonus optional multiplayer dungeon crawls (completely separate from the singleplayer component in every way other than storyline tie-ins). It's actually a fun game. Cool, I'll look into this too.
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Jan 18, 2015 19:28
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Multiplayer space opera?
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Jan 18, 2015 20:14
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Is Metroid Other M worth playing for the gameplay if I skip the horrible cutscenes?
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Jan 18, 2015 21:10
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Reive posted:Is Metroid Other M worth playing for the gameplay if I skip the horrible cutscenes? I had fun with it. The game should be pretty cheap now too so it's probably worth it
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Jan 18, 2015 21:45
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Reive posted:Is Metroid Other M worth playing for the gameplay if I skip the horrible cutscenes?
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Jan 18, 2015 21:55
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Reive posted:Is Metroid Other M worth playing for the gameplay if I skip the horrible cutscenes? It's not worth it, don't play Other M. The game is awful in a way that will make you angry by the end.
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Jan 19, 2015 02:53
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I notice that I can get the Fallout Classic Pack which includes Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for To me that's a good deal, but I remember hearing that the random encounters are few and far between on modern computers. Is there any truth to that? It used to be that the random encounters were randomly checked each CPU cycle, and old single core Pentiums could generate a half dozen encounters between cities. My quad core, however, would have my guy zip from The Hole to Klamath in a second and I'd miss out on encounters.
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Jan 19, 2015 02:54
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There's mods that fixes the encounter rates, but if you play them as they were, you get either super-zip across the map, or for Tactics, every tenth of a second an encounter prompt. Just google fallout encounter rates and you can find them.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:03
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Citybuilding! So I've played the Tropico Series and I'm reinstalling Sim City 4 thanks to Steam advertising Cities XXL, but I was wondering if there's been any good city building games that are a bit more recent than Simcity 4. It's a great game but my word are the graphics ugly.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:07
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I wish I could find something that ensnared me like cheating on SimCity 2k did. Working towards those arcologies was rewarding and when I was finally able to slam down like 10 of them it was awesome. I haven't really felt a game do anything like that since. does anno 2070? And I'm referring to these things. I want to make a city so awesome it has cities within cities. I used to spend hours building asymetrical cities with these things, I wanted to use them all.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:20
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Leper Residue posted:I wish I could find something that ensnared me like cheating on SimCity 2k did. Working towards those arcologies was rewarding and when I was finally able to slam down like 10 of them it was awesome. I haven't really felt a game do anything like that since. does anno 2070? Anno 2070 does have something kind of like arcologies with the monuments. They don't hold population like arcologies but rather provide for several of the population's needs in a huge radius, and take a shitton of high end materials and time to build.
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Jan 19, 2015 15:06
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Recommend me something on PC similar to Warhammer Quest, just a pure turn-based dungeon crawler with loot and leveling. Please no roguelikes unless it has graphics and interface at least on par with Dungeons of Dredmore.
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Jan 19, 2015 15:48
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Leper Residue posted:I wish I could find something that ensnared me like cheating on SimCity 2k did. Working towards those arcologies was rewarding and when I was finally able to slam down like 10 of them it was awesome. I haven't really felt a game do anything like that since. does anno 2070? Anno is the only city builder I've been able to get invested in since SimCity 2k and Caesar. Its great. Play it. The Cheshire Cat posted:Anno 2070 does have something kind of like arcologies with the monuments. They don't hold population like arcologies but rather provide for several of the population's needs in a huge radius, and take a shitton of high end materials and time to build. In addition to monuments, when you get late game tech, you can build underwater buildings which are  If you get the expansion pack, you can build whole underwater cities which are insanely cool. Anno 2070 anyways. For Dawn of Discovery / Anno .. 1707? Whatever the year was... you get big Cathedrals to show off your kingdom and you also get a second tech tree of Arabic style buildings.
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I got Anno 2070 for Christmas a few years ago, got 200+ hours in it now. It's a city-builder, but you can't build a single mega-city. It'll always be multiple cities on a bunch of islands. There's a ship combat thing too, but you can disable that and just build. The only issue I have with it, is that it requires Uplay. It also had awful Ubisoft DRM, but that got removed. It also has some weird online-only feature (Ark storage) that you can use to transfer items between savegames, and you can abuse this to duplicate items too. This is nice because you don't need to re-research technologies in a new game if you don't want to.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Recommend me something on PC similar to Warhammer Quest, just a pure turn-based dungeon crawler with loot and leveling. Please no roguelikes unless it has graphics and interface at least on par with Dungeons of Dredmore. What about Legend of Grimrock or Might and Magic X? joshtothemaxx fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 18:54
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Recommend me something on PC similar to Warhammer Quest, just a pure turn-based dungeon crawler with loot and leveling. Please no roguelikes unless it has graphics and interface at least on par with Dungeons of Dredmore. I'm going to go ahead and recommend Dungeon Crawl (thread), even though it's a roguelike. The interface is significantly better than Dredmor's - it has things like auto-explore and the ability to search the dungeon for items you left behind somewhere and travel directly to them. The graphics are a bit worse than Dredmor's, but still perfectly serviceable (screenshot). The design team are very good at their jobs, and have removed a lot of the really annoying bullshit common to a lot of roguelikes like item destruction and grinding. Overall I'd consider it a much, much better game than Dredmor unless tile-based graphics are a dealbreaker for you.
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joshtothemaxx posted:What about Legend of Grimrock or Might and Magic X? Grimrock isn't turn-based, I'll check out M&MX, but it seems a little too exploration-y for me. I'm also looking for something with more of an isometric, positional battle system, rather than a first person Wizardy-style system. Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 20:13
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giogadi posted:I just got my wife into Civilization V and we've been having a blast playing together; however, the long game lengths combined with the one-more-turn addictive qualities makes it easy to accidentally spend like 5-6 hours playing in a night. Settlers 7!
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Jan 19, 2015 20:51
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give me an rpg with a lot of potential builds that play very differently from one another. I already own dark souls, Divinity original sin, the deus exes, the fallouts, bloodlines and arcanum. no bioware allowed.
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Jan 20, 2015 15:11
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double nine posted:give me an rpg with a lot of potential builds that play very differently from one another. I already own dark souls, Divinity original sin, the deus exes, the fallouts, bloodlines and arcanum. Geneforge 1-5
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Jan 20, 2015 15:30
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Dungeons of Dredmor.
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Jan 20, 2015 15:47
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double nine posted:give me an rpg with a lot of potential builds that play very differently from one another. I already own dark souls, Divinity original sin, the deus exes, the fallouts, bloodlines and arcanum. DCSS has like 30 different races, and a dozen gods, and a bunch of different classes. There's a shitload of different playstyles contained within. Edit: It's a roguelike. And you can also play it through your browser for free: http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/
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Jan 20, 2015 20:57
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There's also Tales of Maj'Eyal which is an RPG-roguelike hybrid (randomly generated levels and items but with a world map and a storyline) and it has a large variety of unlockable classes and a larger variety of skills to choose from. It's also quite affordable at 6 euros/7 dollars (E: Forgot that you can also get it for free with nearly all the same features), a bit of extra if you want the DLC that adds a couple of classes and whatnot. IIRC a bigger expansion DLC is in the works too. Example screenshot of one the class' level up screen (and yeah, you can also play as a skeleton):  There's also a global in-game chat so you can read how other people die horribly and ask for advice. E: If you like reading, there's a boatload of all kinds of messages and bits of lore and it's often pretty cool/funny. 
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Jan 20, 2015 21:47
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Kanfy posted:It's also quite affordable at 6 euros/7 dollars, a bit of extra if you want the DLC that adds a couple of classes and whatnot. IIRC a bigger expansion DLC is in the works too. The Steam version is what the previous "donate" version was. There's very little of significance between the free and premium edition, just some graphical perks, an infinite lives mode, and one or two extra classes (which the game already has a shitload of).
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Jan 20, 2015 22:47
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Bouchacha posted:It's actually free: http://te4.org/ Ah yeah, I knew that but completely forgot about it since I just got it on Steam myself. Although you forgot the most important feature, the 1369 Steam achievements to collect.
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Kanfy posted:Although you forgot the most important feature, the 1369 Steam achievements to collect.
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