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SquadronROE posted:Are those last 3 any good? Laser Squad Nemesis, Steam Marines, and Battle for Wesnoth? Laser Squad Nemesis is by Julian Gollop, the maker of the original XCom. It's probably not bad. Battle for Wesnoth has some pretty good campaigns, but it can be very hit or miss.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Laser Squad Nemesis is by Julian Gollop, the maker of the original XCom. It's probably not bad. Battle for Wesnoth has some pretty good campaigns, but it can be very hit or miss. LSN is very very good actually. the only issue is that its a play by email decade old game with super deep mechanics so you probably need someone who is also a newbie to play with or you're going to get cremated by whatever grognards are out there
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I'm looking for the PC's answer to Halo 4, the whole shebang, large health pools, powerful weapons, cool vehicles, and a kickin' rad map / mode editor.
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Turtlicious posted:I'm looking for the PC's answer to Halo 4, the whole shebang, large health pools, powerful weapons, cool vehicles, and a kickin' rad map / mode editor. Halo MCC is rumored to be coming to PC. probably get announced this week at gamescom as MS cannibalizes the xb1 library to buoy windows 10
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Real hurthling! posted:Halo MCC is rumored to be coming to PC. probably get announced this week at gamescom as MS cannibalizes the xb1 library to buoy windows 10 I would buy that so loving fast.
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Real hurthling! posted:Halo MCC is rumored to be coming to PC. probably get announced this week at gamescom as MS cannibalizes the xb1 library to buoy windows 10 oh my gently caress yes
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If I want to play a game like Call of Duty or Battlefield, (and own neither) which should I play? There's like a million versions of each. I'm looking for something punchy, generic, and fun. If it has a zombie / horde mode that would be awesome too. I tried Blacklight: Retribution and it was pretty terrible for it's p2w aspect. I've also played TF2 and hated it, found blacklight to grindy, and while wolfenstein was fun, I'm looking for a multiplayer ~*~experience~*~
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Turtlicious posted:If I want to play a game like Call of Duty or Battlefield, (and own neither) which should I play? There's like a million versions of each. I'm looking for something punchy, generic, and fun. If it has a zombie / horde mode that would be awesome too. I tried Blacklight: Retribution and it was pretty terrible for it's p2w aspect. Call of Duty has a horde mode, but otherwise it's a much worse game series than Battlefield. The online multiplayer is not nearly as team-oriented as Battlefield; basically, in Call of Duty the team that has the best player on it wins, and you want to be that guy. In Battlefield the team with the most well-coordinated players wins, and you will be good enough at the game even when starting out if you just remember to stick together. Don't be right next to your teammates, but you want to be in the same area as a couple people who know what they're doing. Also, Battlefield Hardline is awful, play Battlefield 4.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man. The previous guy mentioning Payday 2 hit it on the head. John Wick is literally a playable character in Payday 2 and I'm pretty sure they got Keanu to do the voice clips too. It's also the gun-porniest game since Jagged Alliance 2.
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Turtlicious posted:If I want to play a game like Call of Duty or Battlefield, (and own neither) which should I play? There's like a million versions of each. I'm looking for something punchy, generic, and fun. If it has a zombie / horde mode that would be awesome too. I tried Blacklight: Retribution and it was pretty terrible for it's p2w aspect. Planetside 2 is free, and is basically stealing Battlefield as hard as it can. Play with friends!
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I've been playing the NFS: Hot Pursuit from 2010 with one of my friends and having a lot of fun with cops vs suspects. Are any of the newer NFS games better?
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I need a new MMO to play, something that will run on a 2011 Macbook no problem.
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I haven't really played much of anything since summer started. I need a distraction. I'm going to spend the next couple of days drinking beer and playing a video game and I've narrowed it down to 3 choices, Witcher 3, Bloodborne, or Darksouls 2 (the rerelase). I've played a tiny bit of Witcher 3, most of Bloodborne but I hosed up the Eileen questline so I'm going to start over, and I've never touched Dark Souls 2 despite finishing Dark Souls twice. Someone pick for me because my brain has loving shut down due to the fact the past week has been nothing but grief and stress. Go!
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Happy Hedonist posted:I haven't really played much of anything since summer started. I need a distraction. I'm going to spend the next couple of days drinking beer and playing a video game and I've narrowed it down to 3 choices, Witcher 3, Bloodborne, or Darksouls 2 (the rerelase). I've played a tiny bit of Witcher 3, most of Bloodborne but I hosed up the Eileen questline so I'm going to start over, and I've never touched Dark Souls 2 despite finishing Dark Souls twice. Someone pick for me because my brain has loving shut down due to the fact the past week has been nothing but grief and stress. Go! Don't bother replaying bloodborne it sucks.
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Let Witcher 3 consume you.
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Tenzarin posted:Don't bother replaying bloodborne it sucks.  No, you.
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Accordion Man posted:Let Witcher 3 consume you. Witcher 3 is amazing and still being added to and improved.
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Nasgate posted:Witcher 3 is amazing and still being added to and improved.
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Dark Souls 2 is a really good game even though goons love to hate the elevator. Don't listen to them. Play Dark Souls 2.
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Witcher 3 it is then. Thanks everyone. I'll definitely play the other 2 as well because other than MGSV I'm not allowing myself to buy anymore loving games before I finish the poo poo I have laying around.
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Right now I'm looking into games that will keep my hands busy without having to really think about what's going on, and which have a focus on long-term completion and/or development. The most obvious type of game like this is Diablo-likes. I like class systems where you have a lot of different options for developing characters with completely different playstyles from one another (even within the same class), and I like item systems where there's hundreds of different types of drops, but you can find ways to subtly game the system to gradually get the kinds of items you want (luck manipulation, combining items to get more of the same type, specific drops from specific enemies, etc.). Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, and Borderlands are all great with this, but I'm just wondering if there are more I should know about. In particular, my main issue with Path of Exile and Grim Dawn is that they're too difficult for me. I'm not interested in competing or overcoming challenges, I mainly just want to watch my characters slowly become bigger and bigger badasses as I invest more time in them. I like having the challenge of figuring out HOW to make them stronger, but for the actual gameplay portion, as I said, I'm mainly just interested in something that will keep my hands busy that I don't have to focus on very much. I'd also like something portable if it's available, and I don't really know too much about Diablo-likes on handheld consoles. Are there any especially noteworthy ones for 3DS or Vita, even if they don't fit my specifications exactly? I already know about Monster Hunter, but that's pretty much it. I'm also willing to hear suggestions for non-Diablo games that fit my specifications in other ways.
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Is Diablo 3 too obvious of a suggestion? A big patch and new season is about to drop in RoS, and it's the most straightforward and easy to get into of the major ARPGs out there. Each class has 3-4 endgame sets that totally change the nature of their playstyles. The difficulty is completely modular and there's always something you can tweak to advance your character to the next rift level.
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It's not portable but Torchlight is the most Diablo-like non-Diablo game out there. Torchlight 1 is very similar to the first Diablo (it's in a single location with one super deep dungeon), while Torchlight 2 is more like Diablo 2 (with an overworld and a lot of smaller, sometimes optional dungeons).
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Drox Operative might be worth a look. It's an ARPG set in space. Instead of being an adventurer doing quests and killing monsters for exp and loot, you're a spaceship doing quests and killing space monsters for exp and space loot. In addition to monsters, the randomly generated sectors also contain a bunch of AI controlled stereotypical sci-fi civilizations, which play a RTS game against each other. Each tries to colonize and conquer more planets, research tech, build more ships, and generally end up at the top of the pile. You can interact with them diplomatically in various ways, with the idea being to play them against each other, and pump as much credits and loot out of them as possible, while still ending up allied with the winning side at the end. Neither the strategy part nor the combat is overly convoluted; grinding to have the biggest ship with the best selection of ship systems solves all problems. Losing the strategy game isn't a big deal either, you just miss out on some bonus loot, and then the game generates a new sector appropriate for your level. You select your race at the beginning of the game, which determines one favorite stat you get a bonus for (stats gate what systems you can install in your ship), and an extra race specific system slot. After that you're free to experiment with all the different systems that you can buy or pick up off the space floor.
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Wanton Spoon posted:Right now I'm looking into games that will keep my hands busy without having to really think about what's going on, and which have a focus on long-term completion and/or development. Yeah I'm with exquisite tea here, if you want a diablo-like that is super easy to just click,click,click,click your way through, if you find Path and Grim Dawn too interactive and difficult, then just play D3. There's a big patch coming soon that's gonna make the whole game a decent bit more interesting and fun. As for diablo-likes on handhelds, there's a few lovely ones on mobile and a few so-so ones on 3DS but nothing really stellar. Torchlight is also easy diablo, yeah. And its got tons of cool mods for messing around with new classes and stuff.
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Wanton Spoon posted:Right now I'm looking into games that will keep my hands busy without having to really think about what's going on, and which have a focus on long-term completion and/or development.
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If you want to mindlessly crush thousands of dudes, level up your heroes, and build completely OP weapons on a portable system look into the Vita versions of Koei Tecmo's Warrior games. For pure amount of content Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate is best. There's also that 3DS version of Hyrule Warriors coming out, and the Wii U version is the best Warriors game to date.
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised Diablo 3 was the first thing suggested. I haven't played it since the first few months after its original release. I did enjoy it, but got distracted from it after a while for one reason or another, and it didn't stick out in my memory enough for me to ever return to it like Path of Exile did. (I die a lot more in Path of Exile, but its class and item systems were compelling enough that it was still more interesting to me overall.) I know people have said that the D3 expansion made things more interesting in a lot of ways, but the price tag didn't seem justified when it originally came out. And I see that the price hasn't actually gone down at all, so... I'll consider it, but I'm a little skeptical. I own Torchlight, but the base game was too simple for my tastes, in the sense that there wasn't much variety in the classes and skills available. I'm willing to try it with mods, but I'd like to know which mods make the kinds of changes I would want, or which mods are considered the most unique and fun. I also own Drox Operative, and although I see the potential in it, there's a real learning curve in the beginning just in figuring out what anything in the game actually is. I do intend to go back to it at some point and give it an honest shot, but right now I'm just not prepared to learn all the alien terminology the game requires in terms of races, stats, and items. (Din's Curse would probably be easier for me to finish first, but it's a little vanilla compared to the other games mentioned.) I own three Rune Factory games and have beaten all of them (though not always to the final ending). I've also played a few Harvest Moon titles. I do like them, but I have trouble staying motivated after reaching the ending, because growth is really linear in those series. The only game I haven't played is Dynasty Warriors. I've always kind of glossed over the series, because I generally avoid "historical war buff" titles like the plague. Since it was suggested, though, I took a look at it and saw some signs that this might actually be something I could have some fun with... and it's portable. It's a bit of a risk, but I'll give Warriors Orochi 3 a try. Even if I don't like it, I can at least say I gave a fair shot to what is apparently a popular series. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, though. I'm still open to more, if anyone has any others. I should probably point out that Siralim is another game that's along the lines of the kind of thing I'm looking for, though it's a turn-based RPG rather than a real-time one. (I don't exactly have a shortage of games to choose from that I like, I guess I just want to make sure I know what my options are before I decide to settle down on one of them.)
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Wanton Spoon posted:The only game I haven't played is Dynasty Warriors. I've always kind of glossed over the series, because I generally avoid "historical war buff" titles like the plague. Since it was suggested, though, I took a look at it and saw some signs that this might actually be something I could have some fun with... and it's portable. It's a bit of a risk, but I'll give Warriors Orochi 3 a try. Even if I don't like it, I can at least say I gave a fair shot to what is apparently a popular series. The Warriors games have about as much to do with actual history as an episode of Hogan's Heroes. Don't sweat it.
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Internet Friend posted:The Warriors games have about as much to do with actual history as an episode of Hogan's Heroes. Don't sweat it. 100% of Chinese history I know is from Dynasty Warriors.
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Yeah first of all the Dynasty Warriors series is based on the "romance of the three kingdoms" which is half fact and half super bullshit fiction. Its legend. Second of all though you can completely ignore the story and just play them as hack and slash games if you want to. The story's only there if you want it. The main point of the game is the action, you can skip all cutscenes and all story, and there's not even very much of it. Samurai Warriors is also loosely based on Nobunaga but again, loosely. And again, you can ignore it.
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Internet Friend posted:The Warriors games have about as much to do with actual history as an episode of Hogan's Heroes. Don't sweat it. Yes, I see this now that I am knocking over enemy commanders, jumping on their stomachs, and somehow riding them like skateboards to plow into their troops.
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StoryTime posted:Drox Operative might be worth a look. It's an ARPG set in space. Instead of being an adventurer doing quests and killing monsters for exp and loot, you're a spaceship doing quests and killing space monsters for exp and space loot. In addition to monsters, the randomly generated sectors also contain a bunch of AI controlled stereotypical sci-fi civilizations, which play a RTS game against each other. Each tries to colonize and conquer more planets, research tech, build more ships, and generally end up at the top of the pile. You can interact with them diplomatically in various ways, with the idea being to play them against each other, and pump as much credits and loot out of them as possible, while still ending up allied with the winning side at the end. Neither the strategy part nor the combat is overly convoluted; grinding to have the biggest ship with the best selection of ship systems solves all problems. Losing the strategy game isn't a big deal either, you just miss out on some bonus loot, and then the game generates a new sector appropriate for your level. This sounds really cool. I'd be down for more suggestions of space-based RPGs and Space Trader-like things, where the main character is pretty much a starship.
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Wanton Spoon posted:Yes, I see this now that I am knocking over enemy commanders, jumping on their stomachs, and somehow riding them like skateboards to plow into their troops. Yeah the fighting styles also run the gamut. You have some dudes which do pretty traditional sword or axe fighting, but then you have guys in samurai warriors who use guns or people who use fans to somehow shoot out magic laser beams. Pang Tong is literally Chinese Gandalf and can do magic, apparently.
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SquadronROE posted:This sounds really cool. I'd be down for more suggestions of space-based RPGs and Space Trader-like things, where the main character is pretty much a starship.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:play Space Rangers 2 immediately I did. It was okay, I got caught up in the dumb robot RTS and got bored because it was dumb.
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SquadronROE posted:I did. It was okay, I got caught up in the dumb robot RTS and got bored because it was dumb.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah the fighting styles also run the gamut. You have some dudes which do pretty traditional sword or axe fighting, but then you have guys in samurai warriors who use guns or people who use fans to somehow shoot out magic laser beams. My fav Pang Tong move by far is his overhead staff swing that stops midway, the staff "sticks" in the air and then he swing-kicks from it. 
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chairface posted:My fav Pang Tong move by far is his overhead staff swing that stops midway, the staff "sticks" in the air and then he swing-kicks from it. His death scene is ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-tPnAD8W18 Welp, my job's done here, don't mind me just gonna go ahead and sit down and die, probably ascend to the next plane of existence, peace out Liu Bei.
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