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StrixNebulosa posted:.... speaking of comfiness, although it has minimal building, have you played Slime Rancher?
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Pierzak posted:I've put an unhealthy amount of time into Terraria and Stardew Valley, please recommend more. Comfiness and building mandatory, digging and lack of SF for bonus points. Not sure if it’s still in EA but the few videos I’ve seen of Graveyard Keeper were very stardew valley-ish.
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Pierzak posted:Just a little, but it's in very high in my backlog. Confirming that it is indeed comfy. Oh hell yeah, Slime Rancher is dope. It's one of those games that you don't put down for 80 hours, and then never touch again though.
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Pierzak posted:I've put an unhealthy amount of time into Terraria and Stardew Valley, please recommend more. Comfiness and building mandatory, digging and lack of SF for bonus points. My Time at Portia is a more crafts focused 3d Stardew Valley. It's in early access on Steam. It is technically sci-fi, but it's pastoral enough I don't think it would be a problem.
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I dunno if there is anything like this, but: I'm looking for a game that I can play on a lovely laptop that has some sort of PvP interaction (and a reasonably active player base) - preferably some kind of strategy or rpg-type game, though I also like sims, card games, and slower-paced action stuff. Anything come to mind?
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:I dunno if there is anything like this, but: Hearthstone, Eternal, Elder Scrolls Legends are all card games that run in toasters, Hearthstone more than the others.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:I dunno if there is anything like this, but: how lovely? my laptop has Intel HD 5500 graphics and it can run Fortnite and Overwatch, but it ends up looking like 90s FMV sometimes with how low the resolution drops to keep it running smooth-ish
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Lutha Mahtin posted:how lovely? my laptop has Intel HD 5500 graphics and it can run Fortnite and Overwatch, but it ends up looking like 90s FMV sometimes with how low the resolution drops to keep it running smooth-ish It's a Lenovo T420, so it has HD 3200 or something? Pretty sure I can't run Overwatch at all.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:I dunno if there is anything like this, but: Old school MMORPGs? Anarchy Online, Everquest etc. WoW runs on pretty low specs. These are pretty much all free to play in some form now. Awesomenauts is a fun 2D MOBA that's been around forever and they're still updating so assume it's active. I think that runs on just about anything. I guess part of the problem will be that low-spec usually means old and any old game with an active PvP player base usually isn't going to be great for new players. My go-to for low spec games is Spiderweb Software RPGs, but no PVP/Multiplayer there. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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It would be nice if Spiderweb would take their 20 year old games and make them, you know, not 40 bucks
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:It would be nice if Spiderweb would take their 20 year old games and make them, you know, not 40 bucks Which ones in particular? Both the Geneforge pack and the two OG Avernum trilogies are frequently on sale for scraps, and the Exile trilogy + Blades were all made freeware.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:It would be nice if Spiderweb would take their 20 year old games and make them, you know, not 40 bucks I'm seeing them all as way cheaper than that, especially the older ones. Don't know if that's an international thing (I'm in the UK). I got pretty much their entire catalogue in a sale in a single bundle though.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:I dunno if there is anything like this, but: Though the playerbase is so small that you can't get anyone playing ranked, check to see if your laptop can play Atlas Reactor on the lowest settings.
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I don't think we have a general browser game thread so I'll ask if there's any good ones here. I'm thinking more game game than cookie clicker type stuff. I'd heard Fallen London was good?
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Blast of Confetti posted:I don't think we have a general browser game thread so I'll ask if there's any good ones here. I'm thinking more game game than cookie clicker type stuff. I'd heard Fallen London was good? Fallen London is great, but you have to go into it with certain expectations. It's not a game so much as an interactive book of sorts.
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Blast of Confetti posted:I don't think we have a general browser game thread so I'll ask if there's any good ones here. I'm thinking more game game than cookie clicker type stuff. I'd heard Fallen London was good? Fallen London is a visual novel that you have to grind increasingly large and arbitrary amounts of Progress Quest to unlock. The setting is good -- it's really cool and evocative and different -- but as a game it's garbage.
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Blast of Confetti posted:I don't think we have a general browser game thread so I'll ask if there's any good ones here. I'm thinking more game game than cookie clicker type stuff. I'd heard Fallen London was good? Kingdom of Loathing is pretty cool.
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Fallen London has paywalls in it, in places you probably wouldn't expect. Like, in a couple places you have to pay just to see a story. Doesn't give you any other advantage. KoL has paywalls in that the store items sometimes have entire areas they unlock, but you can buy those from other players (for millions of meat).
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Hearthstone, Eternal, Elder Scrolls Legends are all card games that run in toasters, Hearthstone more than the others. Hearthstone just came out with a new expansion. This is only notable because there's a card in it that gives you a random deck out of 16 pre-built ones, and they're all at least passable. Yes, that means with a deck of one card you have 16 full decks that are selected at random. It's pretty rad if you don't want to spend all of the money.
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McFrugal posted:KoL has paywalls in that the store items sometimes have entire areas they unlock, but you can buy those from other players (for millions of meat). This is definitely true, but it should be noted that you can play a whole lot before you really hit a point where you would feel the need to put down money to get more content. KoL doesn't have a paywall in the sense that you will find points where you can go no further until you pay $X, it's that the store items will occasionally have a whole involved sidequest or area or whatever associated with them. If you don't buy that particular item (they cycle monthly, for the most part), chances are good you wouldn't ever know what you're missing unless you happened to look it up on the wiki. Also some of the monthly items are familiars (or similar mechanical elements) that drop items, and it's actually those drops that let you adventure in the unique area or whatever. In those cases, the item drops tend to be much easier to get than the monthly items. I've done a handful of quests that way. Basically, I played the game off and on for a couple of years before I ever put money down, and even then I did it because I felt like putting money towards something I enjoyed, not because I felt like it was the only way to continue having fun with it.
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This is a little hard for me to describe, but please bear with me. I've been looking for an adventure game or platformer or the like with a lot of diversionary secondary content, something that mixes a bunch of side quests and fun details into the main plot. I'm finding modern open world games to be prioritizing size and repetition over depth and fun it's making for bland gameplay. I've been nostalgic for the Majora's Masks and Super Mario Sunshines out there, games that allow for a certain amount of well-polished exploration and just general all-ages fun. Do those sorts of games exist on PC? I've been playing A Hat In Time, and enjoying it immensely. Perhaps I should buy a Switch and get Odyssey and BotW?
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Okami is on Steam if you've never played that. Yakuza 0 has a relatively tiny open world with tons of minigames and cute sidestories, although it's very much not for all ages. Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Riatsala posted:This is a little hard for me to describe, but please bear with me. I've been looking for an adventure game or platformer or the like with a lot of diversionary secondary content, something that mixes a bunch of side quests and fun details into the main plot. I'm finding modern open world games to be prioritizing size and repetition over depth and fun it's making for bland gameplay. I've been nostalgic for the Majora's Masks and Super Mario Sunshines out there, games that allow for a certain amount of well-polished exploration and just general all-ages fun. Do those sorts of games exist on PC? I've been playing A Hat In Time, and enjoying it immensely. Perhaps I should buy a Switch and get Odyssey and BotW? Odessy and BOTW fit the bill. If you get a Switch then you should buy Okami.
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Really Pants posted:Okami is on Steam if you've never played that. Yakuza 0 is pretty much the best game on Steam right now.
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Inzombiac posted:Odessy and BOTW fit the bill. If you get a Switch then you should buy Okami. Is Okami HD on PC a worthy port?
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It's locked to 30fps if that's an issue, but apart from that it always ran just fine for me.
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While not technically pc games, you can emulate Jak and Daxter or Ratchet & Clank for some classic platformers. And in the vein of Yakuza 0, the early Yakuza games are also emulatable.
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Riatsala posted:Is Okami HD on PC a worthy port? Yeah. It also has the bonus of being able to skip cutscenes (which you shouldn't do your first time around).
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Riatsala posted:Is Okami HD on PC a worthy port? It's the best version of the game available.
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Did it restore the credits cutscene that was cut from the Wii HD release? I was bitter about that. It's not a big deal but I liked it in the PS2 version.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Did it restore the credits cutscene that was cut from the Wii HD release? I was bitter about that. It's not a big deal but I liked it in the PS2 version. I don't know for sure, but I think yes, I do know it brought back the loading screen minigames that the Wii version cut. It's just a PC port of the PS3 version of Okami HD, so if that version brought it back, then yes.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:It would be nice if Spiderweb would take their 20 year old games and make them, you know, not 40 bucks  $7 for all five Geneforge games on Steam or $20 on GOG. Or for $70 you can get all five Geneforge games, all six Avernums, and all three Avadons. The Avernums are also $5 individually for the originals and $10-$20 for the re(re)makes.
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I'm looking for recommendations on two kinds of game (PC platform): 1) a free roaming open-world, RPG-ish (either heavy or light, doesn't matter as long as it's not just pure action) game where I can roam around, do whatever, grow my character and curbstomp the world when I'm buff enough. Story isn't super important but if there is some decent writing, all the better. The more you can interact with stuff, the better - one flaw those games tend to always have is that the huge open world is basically a painted backdrop that you can't interact in any way and that becomes boring - even though the more recent ones have kind of fixed it (being able to enter buildings, minigames like poker or whatever, hunting...). I'd like something still kind of grounded in reality, not too over-the-top so not like Saints Row and so on. Examples I already played: Fallout New Vegas, 3 and 4, Oblivion and Skyrim, Assassins' Creed from 1 to 3, GTA 4 and 5, Red Dead Redemption - basically all the big ones, wondering if there's some hidden gem similar to those. I tried Kingdom Come: Deliverance but it was far too clunky for my taste. 2) a management/simulation game where you build and run a business/city/company/country/whatever. Also including 4X games even though I'm quite sick of them so unless there's something just totally amazing in that genre, better stay on the "management/building up something" side Examples I already played include Cities: Skylines, The Guild, Theme Hospital, Rimworld, Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 2, Stellaris, Civilization 5 and 6, Galactic Civilizations 1 and 2. I'm not much into the Japanese aesthetic, I much prefer western-style graphics and gameplay tropes generally. Thanks for your suggestions 
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TorakFade posted:2) a management/simulation game where you build and run a business/city/company/country/whatever. Also including 4X games even though I'm quite sick of them so unless there's something just totally amazing in that genre, better stay on the "management/building up something" side As a business simulator, try Capitalism 2, old but good, on sale right now in GoG, so it's really cheap.
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TorakFade, Morrowind.
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TorakFade posted:2) a management/simulation game where you build and run a business/city/company/country/whatever.
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Angry Lobster posted:As a business simulator, try Capitalism 2, old but good, on sale right now in GoG, so it's really cheap. Aha, this looks right up my alley. Will definitly give it a spin, thanks! StrixNebulosa posted:TorakFade, Morrowind. Forgot to say, already played it. Plus I'd like something a bit more modern-looking for an open-world game Splicer posted:Stretching the definition a bit but check out Big Pharma. Not a big fan of the puzzle / assembly line thing, but will keep an eye on it in case of sales Sandwich Anarchist posted:Sleeping Dogs for the first one oooh 85% off on Steam, nice. For the price I'll get it.
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