Recommend me a game, again

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chairface: Oct 28, 2007; No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

klen dool posted:

Here is a weird request. I have a two year old, and they just don't have the ability to play games yet. But he does like watching me play games.

Grow Home - which he calls "rodot", and BOTW - which he calls "horsey" are the two I have showed him. Also, I've had him on a wii balance board playing shaun white snowboarding and wii ski and board - obviously I need to help him a lot on those LOL. BOTW is tricky since I need to be aware of enemies to avoid them, but he loves watching me ride around looking at stuff. BOTW is almost perfect really, what with the jumping and climbing and horses and stuff.

I've played around with Skyrim, by turning of agro AI on all NPCs - it doesn't feel right but I'm open to ideas. I thought about gtav or iv and making them non violent with mods and somehow make it easy for me to jump in and get a horse or fire engine or something rad like that.

Any ideas of interesting games that have horses or fire engines and exploration and no violence? Anyone played those lego open world games?

Check out GIANTS simulator games like Farm Sim and Construction Sim. No violence, easily moddable, and tons of big trucks/machines/etc for little kids to drive around.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 16:11

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# ? May 25, 2024 00:35

Mayveena: Dec 27, 2006; People keep vandalizing my ID photo; I've lodged a complaint with HR

Him watching you play Oxygen Not Included with the little dupes running around and doing jobs might be of interest.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 16:22

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

Sorry, I meant to add to my post �everything but the actual killing of the colossi�.

My memory is hazy but there�s no combat on the overworld, right?

Not unless you count those poor lizards!

# ? Oct 8, 2018 16:24

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

klen dool posted:

Here is a weird request. I have a two year old, and they just don't have the ability to play games yet. But he does like watching me play games.

Grow Home - which he calls "rodot", and BOTW - which he calls "horsey" are the two I have showed him. Also, I've had him on a wii balance board playing shaun white snowboarding and wii ski and board - obviously I need to help him a lot on those LOL. BOTW is tricky since I need to be aware of enemies to avoid them, but he loves watching me ride around looking at stuff. BOTW is almost perfect really, what with the jumping and climbing and horses and stuff.

I've played around with Skyrim, by turning of agro AI on all NPCs - it doesn't feel right but I'm open to ideas. I thought about gtav or iv and making them non violent with mods and somehow make it easy for me to jump in and get a horse or fire engine or something rad like that.

Any ideas of interesting games that have horses or fire engines and exploration and no violence? Anyone played those lego open world games?

At that age, my kid liked watching me play Anno 1404 ("boats"), a free game called Fruits of a Feather ("bird"), Super Mario Bros ("the mushroom hits him and he gets big"), and Final Fight ("hit the monster men"). I ended up not playing that many games with her, since I found out she just stared at whatever was on a screen and that kinda bugged me, so... lotsa dolls and tea parties with only occasional video games.

e: also Kirby's Dream Land ("he's eating blueberries")

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 8, 2018

# ? Oct 8, 2018 18:36

Brownie: Jul 21, 2007; The Croatian Sensation

DreamShipWrecked posted:

They Are Billions? It can be a bit starcraft in terms of speed at times but you can pause at any time and give orders/build structures.

Yeah this is exactly what I ended up buying. It's pretty close to being exactly what I wanted, so good advice! I am interested in what the campaign ends up looking like too.

Ceyton posted:

Rise to Ruins, maybe?

Hmm I've never heard of this, I'm going to check it out! Thanks

# ? Oct 8, 2018 18:51

ZeusCannon: Nov 5, 2009; BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH; Grimey Drawer

grate deceiver posted:

INFRA is on sale right now and I keep hearing very good things about it.

There's an ongoing lp of this if anyone wants to see if it scratches their Myst explorer itch

Overwatch Porn posted:

were there any games like myst that were good? specifically first-person lonely exploring puzzle games?

Also if you haven't played Obduction it's by the Cyan devs and is super drat good.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 18:57

WaltherFeng: May 15, 2013; 50 thousand people used to live here. Now, it's the Mushroom Kingdom.

My toddlers love Rayman and Crash

# ? Oct 8, 2018 19:20

Danger - Octopus!: Apr 20, 2008; Nap Ghost

Is there anything on PC that plays a lot like one of the Pokemon games?

# ? Oct 8, 2018 19:58

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

a nintendo handheld emulator of your choice if you want an actual pokemon game

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:03

Ben Nerevarine: Apr 14, 2006

Danger - Octopus! posted:

Is there anything on PC that plays a lot like one of the Pokemon games?

It's not out yet but keep an eye on Ooblets

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:03

Tuxedo Catfish: Mar 17, 2007; You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

There was some absolutely gigantic JRPG-styled indie game about raising monsters to fight for you that was basically Pokemon but with even more esoteric subsystems, but I can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:26

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

There was some absolutely gigantic JRPG-styled indie game about raising monsters to fight for you that was basically Pokemon but with even more esoteric subsystems, but I can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.

Was it Siralim?

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:31

Tuxedo Catfish: Mar 17, 2007; You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

Blast of Confetti posted:

Was it Siralim?

Yeah, that's the one.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:36

klen dool: May 7, 2007; Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

Splicer posted:

I just today found out there's a grow home sequel called grow up. Not played it yet but it's got comparable ratings. I'm going to throw so many vegetables off high places.

Oh really? RAD

Really Pants posted:

Assassin's Creed Origins has a nonviolent discovery tour mode.

This seems /perfect/, horses and climbimg and lots of stuff to look at. Thanks!

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Minecraft on peaceful mode, maybe? It has horses and an almost-literally infinite world to explore.

It's kind of an ugly game out of the box but if you're comfortable with modding Skyrim then it shouldn't hard to install an art pack for Minecraft.

Another game with a non-violent mode! I think this would be great!

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

It�s been ages since I played it (literally 10+ years, drat), but Shadow of the Colossus?

There�s a remastered version out I think.

I don't think that would hold his attention too long because there isn't much to do or see in the world. Imagine if the colossi were happy to see you - I'd think he'd love it!

Splicer posted:

I played the heck out of grow home so yes looking forward to it.

E: Bob Came in Pieces

I'll check it out!

chairface posted:

Check out GIANTS simulator games like Farm Sim and Construction Sim. No violence, easily moddable, and tons of big trucks/machines/etc for little kids to drive around.

Oh, now this genre is something to look into!

Mayveena posted:

Him watching you play Oxygen Not Included with the little dupes running around and doing jobs might be of interest.

I'll check that out

doctorfrog posted:

At that age, my kid liked watching me play Anno 1404 ("boats"), a free game called Fruits of a Feather ("bird"), Super Mario Bros ("the mushroom hits him and he gets big"), and Final Fight ("hit the monster men"). I ended up not playing that many games with her, since I found out she just stared at whatever was on a screen and that kinda bugged me, so... lotsa dolls and tea parties with only occasional video games.

e: also Kirby's Dream Land ("he's eating blueberries")

That is super cute - I should probably look at nintendo games like kirby

WaltherFeng posted:

My toddlers love Rayman and Crash

I'll check that out as well

Thanks everyone for your awesome suggestions

# ? Oct 8, 2018 20:43

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Overwatch Porn posted:

were there any games like myst that were good? specifically first-person lonely exploring puzzle games?

these have differing degrees of loneliness/exploration:

Mind: Path to Thalamus
Talos Principle
Antichamber
Portal

There are also "first person walking simulator" games, those often have few or no puzzles but fit the exploration and (often the) loneliness bits

# ? Oct 8, 2018 21:19

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.; Fun Shoe

Seconding the Antichamber recommendation. It's a very different kind of game from Myst in many ways, but it's really quite good.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 22:36

xarph: Jun 18, 2001

So, Dwarf Fortress Legends mode scratched an itch and I'm looking for something that has more of a game surrounding it. Sid Meier's Covert Action had a fundamental gameplay loop where you had to evaluate intelligence to reverse engineer what terrorists were planning before they did it.

There are games like Orwell and Mainlining and Hacknet that come close, but they're either too hand holdy as glorified adventure games, or the fundamental part I enjoy is buried behind a completely different genre.

Before I start writing my own damned espionage analyst simulator, has this been covered by a modern game?

# ? Oct 9, 2018 19:23

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

xarph posted:

So, Dwarf Fortress Legends mode scratched an itch and I'm looking for something that has more of a game surrounding it. Sid Meier's Covert Action had a fundamental gameplay loop where you had to evaluate intelligence to reverse engineer what terrorists were planning before they did it.

There are games like Orwell and Mainlining and Hacknet that come close, but they're either too hand holdy as glorified adventure games, or the fundamental part I enjoy is buried behind a completely different genre.

Before I start writing my own damned espionage analyst simulator, has this been covered by a modern game?

Maybe Phantom Doctrine? It even has a big corkboard conspiracy wall mechanic. I dunno what the ratio of espionage to just tactical combat is though

# ? Oct 10, 2018 00:58

CuddleCryptid: Jan 11, 2013; Things could be going better

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Maybe Phantom Doctrine? It even has a big corkboard conspiracy wall mechanic. I dunno what the ratio of espionage to just tactical combat is though

Pretty low and basically ends up being a "match word with other words" puzzle. Thematically it is pretty cool, but in practical terms it is looking for whatever word is wildly out of place in a sentence then finding the other ones to match.

It's a pretty good game tbh just not what that poster is looking for.

# ? Oct 10, 2018 01:32

grate deceiver: Jul 10, 2009; Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.

xarph posted:

So, Dwarf Fortress Legends mode scratched an itch and I'm looking for something that has more of a game surrounding it. Sid Meier's Covert Action had a fundamental gameplay loop where you had to evaluate intelligence to reverse engineer what terrorists were planning before they did it.

There are games like Orwell and Mainlining and Hacknet that come close, but they're either too hand holdy as glorified adventure games, or the fundamental part I enjoy is buried behind a completely different genre.

Before I start writing my own damned espionage analyst simulator, has this been covered by a modern game?

Try Floor 13.

Out of all the hack-likes, Uplink is probably still the best.

# ? Oct 10, 2018 08:48

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

grate deceiver posted:

Try Floor 13.

Out of all the hack-likes, Uplink is probably still the best.

Uplink with the Onlink mod if you're insane
Uplink with the UplinkOS mod if you have eyes

# ? Oct 10, 2018 13:53

Nalesh: Jun 9, 2010; What did the grandma say to the frog?

Something racist, probably.

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

# ? Oct 10, 2018 21:19

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

You've played Immortal Defense, right?

# ? Oct 10, 2018 21:23

CuddleCryptid: Jan 11, 2013; Things could be going better

Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

If you like city builders then Rise to Ruins

# ? Oct 10, 2018 21:32

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

X-Morph Defense
Creeper World

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Oct 10, 2018

# ? Oct 10, 2018 21:58

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

I'm enjoying fortified, but it was free. I think I'd still be enjoying it if it wasn't free.

# ? Oct 10, 2018 22:12

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten?

# ? Oct 10, 2018 23:57

Goatness: Dec 2, 2005

klen dool posted:

Games for two year old to watch

Yonder is pretty good to run around in, has no combat at all and is very bright and colorful.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/580200/Yonder_The_Cloud_Catcher_Chronicles/

# ? Oct 13, 2018 19:06

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

klen dool posted:

Here is a weird request. I have a two year old, and they just don't have the ability to play games yet. But he does like watching me play games.

Grow Home - which he calls "rodot", and BOTW - which he calls "horsey" are the two I have showed him. Also, I've had him on a wii balance board playing shaun white snowboarding and wii ski and board - obviously I need to help him a lot on those LOL. BOTW is tricky since I need to be aware of enemies to avoid them, but he loves watching me ride around looking at stuff. BOTW is almost perfect really, what with the jumping and climbing and horses and stuff.

I've played around with Skyrim, by turning of agro AI on all NPCs - it doesn't feel right but I'm open to ideas. I thought about gtav or iv and making them non violent with mods and somehow make it easy for me to jump in and get a horse or fire engine or something rad like that.

Any ideas of interesting games that have horses or fire engines and exploration and no violence? Anyone played those lego open world games?

Maybe Ghost of a Tale? It might be a little scary though

# ? Oct 13, 2018 19:46

Harminoff: Oct 24, 2005; ð½

Danger - Octopus! posted:

Is there anything on PC that plays a lot like one of the Pokemon games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0X31Ncwcg

# ? Oct 13, 2018 20:13

McFrugal: Oct 11, 2003

Nalesh posted:

So I've been craving some tower defense lately, but I've grown tired of the basic TD experience from like, wc3/sc2, what are some fun TD's that actually bring something interesting to the table like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, and Dungeon Defenders? Massive bonus points if it's online coop.

Plants vs Zombies.

# ? Oct 14, 2018 00:42

Enos Cabell: Nov 3, 2004

I'm in the process of refurbing my former media PC to donate to a buddy of mine who's a single father to 4 kids aged 8-14. The PC is an Intel G3258 Pentium @ 3.2GHz w/ 8gb ram and an Nvidia 1030, so it should be able to handle most games decently enough. I'm wanting to load up a Steam account with a handful of games for the kids, so looking for suggestions to that end. One HUGE caveat though, is that he doesn't currently have internet access so any game would need to be playable completely offline. Thoughts?

# ? Oct 14, 2018 16:26

chairface: Oct 28, 2007; No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

Planetbase
Xenonauts
Stardew Valley
Rogue Legacy
Kerbal Space Program
Halcyon 6
Downwell

All offline/kid friendly.

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:04

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Enos Cabell posted:

I'm in the process of refurbing my former media PC to donate to a buddy of mine who's a single father to 4 kids aged 8-14. The PC is an Intel G3258 Pentium @ 3.2GHz w/ 8gb ram and an Nvidia 1030, so it should be able to handle most games decently enough. I'm wanting to load up a Steam account with a handful of games for the kids, so looking for suggestions to that end. One HUGE caveat though, is that he doesn't currently have internet access so any game would need to be playable completely offline. Thoughts?

Minecraft might be all they need tbh

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:14

Evilreaver: Feb 26, 2007; GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!; Dinosaur Gum

Just get them a VIVE and GORN, be the cool uncle

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:18

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.; Fun Shoe

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (skydiving/BASE jumping game)
Bejeweled 3 (match-3 puzzler)
Crypt of the NecroDancer (rhythm game roguelike)
NightSky (chill marble/physics puzzle game)
Race the Sun (infinite runner)
Sky Rogue (arcadey air combat)

Those are all pretty simple games to get into/understand. I'd say NightSky is the least accessible of the lot, in that you need to do fairly specific things with pretty tight timing/control in order to progress.

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:34

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

How does Steam behave when it is put in offline mode indefinitely?

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:45

Tuxedo Catfish: Mar 17, 2007; You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

doctorfrog posted:

How does Steam behave when it is put in offline mode indefinitely?

As someone who was a teenager in an area without broadband penetration: just fine. The worst I had to deal with was that as soon as something started updating you couldn't play it again until it finished.

# ? Oct 14, 2018 17:47

Catgirl Al Capone: Dec 15, 2007

doctorfrog posted:

How does Steam behave when it is put in offline mode indefinitely?

You can stay offline for a pretty long time without any detrimental effects, but eventually it might want you to log in again. Don't know if there's any consistency there, but I've gone spans of about 2 weeks or so before without having to log in, but know other people who have been offline over a month.

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# ? May 25, 2024 00:35

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

Ah ok, years ago I�d read there were issues with Steam essentially punishing you for being offline too long, but that�s a vague memory. I do know that some games, such as Sky Rogue, don�t require Steam to run at all. Just run the executable.

# ? Oct 14, 2018 20:19

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