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NonzeroCircle posted:Any modern single player FPS games in interesting/unusual environments? The original Prey (2006)? You're abducted by aliens in the first few minutes of the game and the rest takes place in a Dyson sphere.
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ToxicFrog posted:You're a self-aware NPC inside the unfinished game and the company founder/creative director is so busy loving around with ~his vision~ that the company is being shut down with the game still unfinished and unreleased. Someone gives you access to debugging tools and asks for your help in getting the game into playable state from the inside before the servers are shut down for good. sounds like they should be paying me to play it
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NonzeroCircle posted:Any modern single player FPS games in interesting/unusual environments? Painkiller
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I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. Also I could swear I saw a game 15 to 20 years ago where tracking the aliens through a space station using cameras was a huge part of the gameplay, and sometines they attack the camera. Is there a "Help me find this old game" thread anywhere?
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. There's the "help us remember the name of a game" thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2925708
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. Objects in Space https://store.steampowered.com/app/824070/Objects_in_Space/
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Splicer posted:Also I could swear I saw a game 15 to 20 years ago where tracking the aliens through a space station using cameras was a huge part of the gameplay, and sometines they attack the camera. Is there a "Help me find this old game" thread anywhere? Iron Helix is sorta that, except you're controlling a drone flying through a derelict spaceship while a rogue combat drone hunts you
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this looks fantastic. reminds me of Independence War except maybe this will actually run on modern hardware e: Just got it and even in the tutorial I can tell this game is extremely my poo poo. Nice find dude Blast of Confetti fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Sep 28, 2018 18:15
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. - Iron Helix was already mentioned. - The Experiment (eXperience 113 in some countries) comes to mind; you're a camera operator with access to all the security cameras and a few ship's systems, but not much else. You can only communicate with the actual protagonist by flashing lights at her and stuff. - Scavenger SV-4 is a game about sending a rover down to a radioactive hellworld and driving it around to collect alien relics and bring them back to the ship for analysis, which also having to keep up with the regular ship maintenance and medical treatment that keep your ship and/or body from disintegrating due to the radiation and occasionally dealing with hazards that ride back on the rover.
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Sep 28, 2018 19:39
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My fave sci-fi game where being a computer controlling things is the conceit was good old Suspended You're basically a brain-in-a-jar but have robots that can do poo poo for you to accomplish goals. The robots have issues resulting from the same disaster you're trying to use them to fix, of course, so that complicates matters further. Iris, the only robot you have that can see, for example, starts out blind.
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. it's ancient and difficult to find, but Millennia: Altered Destinies was kind of like this; you guide the development of four different alien civilizations throughout time from your time-hopping ship
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Blast of Confetti posted:e: Just got it and even in the tutorial I can tell this game is extremely my poo poo. Nice find dude No problem. Truth be told I haven't tried it yet myself, but I've been following its development and it sounds like what this guy is looking for. It looks very "Hunt for Red October in Space"
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chairface posted:My fave sci-fi game where being a computer controlling things is the conceit was good old Suspended This looks really difficult to play without the feelies.
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McFrugal posted:This looks really difficult to play without the feelies. The copyprotection of 1983, yeah, definitely. The map and tokens to keep up with the robots were p important.
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. Lifeline. 
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AG3 posted:There's the "help us remember the name of a game" thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2925708 Thanks to everyone, I'll definitely check out Objects in Space but for now we have a winner: ToxicFrog posted:- Scavenger SV-4 is a game about sending a rover down to a radioactive hellworld and driving it around to collect alien relics and bring them back to the ship for analysis, which also having to keep up with the regular ship maintenance and medical treatment that keep your ship and/or body from disintegrating due to the radiation and occasionally dealing with hazards that ride back on the rover.
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This isn't so much a solid suggestion, but the remake of Cholo (http://www.ovine.net/#remakes) is probably as old as Cholo was when it was remade. You remote control a tiny weak tank-thing in a semi-free roaming world filled with robots that you take over and do puzzly things with. Here's the original also: https://www.mobygames.com/game/cholo It's similar in that you're remote controlling something faulty to explore a fairly hostile world and overcome technical hurdles here and there.
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Hi thread, I'm looking for something to play on my android, More specifically a RPG you can play in portrait orientation and you can create your own party (or customize your character). Preferably not a roguelike (unless its a really good one), no freemium or premium (10 bucks and up).
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I finally got myself a much overdue new rig, so I'm looking for new-ish games that push graphics boundaries to see all the pretty I missed in these last few years; the most graphics-intensive game I played on my old hardware is Witcher 3 on medium 1080p at less-than-ideal framerates, now I'm going for high/ultra 1440p@60fps I have shortlisted AC:Origins because I've been wanting to play it and it wouldn't run on my old computer and GTA 5 (even though I already played it on PS3), I honestly haven't a clue of what else came out recently and has AAA+++ graphics since until now I've been focusing on indies and older games for performance reasons. What else would you recommend keeping in mind that my favorite genres are RPGs, 4Xs, sandbox games, driving games and management/simulation games? (I really dislike fast-paced action/FPS) Thanks 
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Metal Gear Solid 5 doesn't necessarily push the boundaries since its a PS3 but the game looks great since it scales really well with modern hardware. Stealth / Management / Open World Also has some very good mods available.
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TorakFade posted:I finally got myself a much overdue new rig, so I'm looking for new-ish games that push graphics boundaries to see all the pretty I missed in these last few years; the most graphics-intensive game I played on my old hardware is Witcher 3 on medium 1080p at less-than-ideal framerates, now I'm going for high/ultra 1440p@60fps Middle Earth: Shadow of War. Rise of the Tomb Raider. Dishonored 2.
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a sci fi game where sitting at your computer controlling things is part of the conceit. Like you're piloting a drone or controlling cameras or something. If you've played Duskers, that but 3D would be nice. Or Five Nights at Freddy's but with aliens. There's a game for the PS2 called Lifeline where the central gimmick is that you're in a spaceship infested with aliens barking commands at another character, literally, through a headset, while monitoring her and occasionally manipulating the environment through ship cameras. The voice recognition as you'd expect was extremely bad.
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WaltherFeng posted:Hi thread, The Quest, which is basically an old school Elder Scrolls.
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Does anyone have a suggestion for a game like Total War: Empire that isn't, y'know, Total War: Empire? Line battles with lots of guns and cannons. Fall Of The Samurai is nice but it doesn't quite hit that feeling since it is mixed with the samurai stuff
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for a game like Total War: Empire that isn't, y'know, Total War: Empire? Line battles with lots of guns and cannons. Fall Of The Samurai is nice but it doesn't quite hit that feeling since it is mixed with the samurai stuff Napoleon: Total War. It's Empire but it shrinks the scope to something far more manageable and has good and fun battles from turn one.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Napoleon: Total War. It's Empire but it shrinks the scope to something far more manageable and has good and fun battles from turn one. Is it good to play, ie stable and relatively bug free?
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I've never encountered a bug or instability outside of using the Hyrule Total War mod for Medieval 2, so I'm the worst person to ask as I'm somehow ultra-lucky and didn't even suffer at all during Empire's launch. However, Napoleon is meant to be pretty stable. I do not recall if Darthmod is seen as a requirement these days.
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Which Zachtronic game is good for someone new to his games that's still learning programming?
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Blast of Confetti posted:Which Zachtronic game is good for someone new to his games that's still learning programming? SpaceChem doesn't require any programming knowledge, although it's still testing the same kind of logic, broadly speaking.
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Blast of Confetti posted:Which Zachtronic game is good for someone new to his games that's still learning programming? The ones that have you working with code are TIS-100, SHENZHEN I/O, and EXAPUNKS. They kind of build on each other in that each deals with programming individual units (a grid of terminals, circuit boards, and nanobots respectively) to achieve a greater goal, so the instruction set in TIS-100 is the simplest if I remember, but it's also very abstracted and dry: you're programming a fictional computer from the 80's. SHENZHEN hits that Goldilocks zone of accessibility and compelling theme in my opinion. Don't let the fact that it has you programming circuit boards scare you away, you don't need to know anything about electrical engineering or anything like that.
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You don't need to be a programmer to play a Zachtronics game. I've played SpaceChem, TIS, and Shenzhen, and I'd describe them as, like, "logic obstacle courses". They're a bit like those physics puzzle games on phones where you place all the platforms and hit "go", and hopefully the ball gets into the cup.
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So are there any action RPGs out there that do weapons/stats in a similar way to the Dark Souls series, without being quite so hardcore? The kind of thing I mean is where you have fairly freeform options to build your character, and different weapons are more about different attack patterns/range than they are just "more damage = better weapon". I like Dark Souls, but I'm interested in something to play when I'm not quite in the mood to deal with constantly dying all the time. I know Dragon's Dogma is kind of like this, but I'm looking for something a bit more open ended in terms of character builds. DD is fairly fixed when it comes to weapon selection.
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As someone who just got started on Opus Magnum, I'd recommend that as the most accessible Zachtronics game (maybe excepting Infinifactory). It's not out and out programming, but just like Space Chem it's testing a lot of the same problem solving skills. Unlike Space Chem, I find the instruction timeline to be much easier to work with and the difficulty curve feels smoother. An added bonus is that it's also prettier.
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John Murdoch posted:As someone who just got started on Opus Magnum, I'd recommend that as the most accessible Zachtronics game (maybe excepting Infinifactory). It's not out and out programming, but just like Space Chem it's testing a lot of the same problem solving skills. Unlike Space Chem, I find the instruction timeline to be much easier to work with and the difficulty curve feels smoother. An added bonus is that it's also prettier. Agreed, Opus Magnum is definitely the easiest Zachtronics game to beat. The playing area is infinite and there are no requirements on how fast/cheap/small your machine needs to be, which means you can basically brute force everything. There are levels after the ending that restrict the playing area, which definitely cannot be brute-forced.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:So are there any action RPGs out there that do weapons/stats in a similar way to the Dark Souls series, without being quite so hardcore? The kind of thing I mean is where you have fairly freeform options to build your character, and different weapons are more about different attack patterns/range than they are just "more damage = better weapon". I like Dark Souls, but I'm interested in something to play when I'm not quite in the mood to deal with constantly dying all the time. I know Dragon's Dogma is kind of like this, but I'm looking for something a bit more open ended in terms of character builds. DD is fairly fixed when it comes to weapon selection. Monster Hunter World?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Monster Hunter World? "not as hardcore", doesn't want to die all the time, recommends loving Monster Hunter of all things.
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TorakFade posted:I finally got myself a much overdue new rig, so I'm looking for new-ish games that push graphics boundaries to see all the pretty I missed in these last few years; the most graphics-intensive game I played on my old hardware is Witcher 3 on medium 1080p at less-than-ideal framerates, now I'm going for high/ultra 1440p@60fps FFXV is gorgeous (if you install the 4k textures) and you'll spend a good few minutes with the FPS counter up trying to balance beauty and performance as it's punishing on ultra.
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dis astranagant posted:"not as hardcore", doesn't want to die all the time, recommends loving Monster Hunter of all things. World is very toned down in the bullshit department. It's still kind of an iffy recommend in this case but not much else has that kinda weapon tech I guess.
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Any recommendations for card-based games that don't put a ton of emphasis on deck-building? Preferably with a narrative and/or roguelike structure. I enjoy card games, I just always end up wanting to skip to the fun part (for me) which is figuring out how to best use the cards together on the fly.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Any recommendations for card-based games that don't put a ton of emphasis on deck-building? Preferably with a narrative and/or roguelike structure. What you are looking for is Card Quest. The composition of your decks are determined by your class, the structure is similar to a roguelike and there's metaprogression (you can unlock items and classes when you meet certain requirements). Expect to die a lot early on, but it's a ton of fun. Angry Lobster fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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