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Nalesh posted:Weird answer, but Factorio might scratch your itch? Especially with mods. Any mods in particular with that wall-building aspect? I'm basically searching for the same thing.
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Yar The Pirate posted:Any mods in particular with that wall-building aspect? I'm basically searching for the same thing. vanilla Death World settings, plus Bob's Warfare
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ninjewtsu posted:are there any good single player rts games with a heavy emphasis on base building? They Are Billions was cool and made realize that if i'm playing strategy games single player, it's mostly because i want to build a really big wall and watch hordes of dudes try to break past it, but i have a hard time sticking with that game for other reasons. are there any alternatives? Oxygen Not Included while still in Early Access is in late EA and is really really good. Although no combat, so if you want combat gotta keep looking. Northgard is good with combat, in the style of Age of Empires.
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ninjewtsu posted:are there any good single player rts games with a heavy emphasis on base building? They Are Billions was cool and made realize that if i'm playing strategy games single player, it's mostly because i want to build a really big wall and watch hordes of dudes try to break past it, but i have a hard time sticking with that game for other reasons. are there any alternatives? This is a bit off the wall, but Creeper World 3? You build different turrets and some other mostly stationary units, but there's also a unit that lets you rise the elevation of the terrain. That unit can build walls and other formations. Also, the opponent isn't a horde of dudes, but instead a grey goo type of mass, which flows from emitters and tries to engulf your position. It does have this feeling of being besieged by the ever advancing goo, and having to build more and more stuff to try and stem the tide.
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I'm in the mood for an oldschool CRPG, something like what Spiderweb Software puts out except I've already played their stuff. In particular, I'd like something with snappy movement, limited/fast animation, basically competent writing, and decent character/combat depth. Who all else is in this space that I should be checking out?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm in the mood for an oldschool CRPG, something like what Spiderweb Software puts out except I've already played their stuff. In particular, I'd like something with snappy movement, limited/fast animation, basically competent writing, and decent character/combat depth. Who all else is in this space that I should be checking out? Kenshi is a bit of a sideways rec, but it's got almost everything you're asking for.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Kenshi is a bit of a sideways rec, but it's got almost everything you're asking for. I guess I should've clarified that by "CRPG" I meant "turn-based, party-based, possibly grid-based". I guess "squad" is similar to "party" but a squad feels more disposable to me, plus Kenshi seems to be about building up your own faction more than going out and doing quests for existing factions.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I guess I should've clarified that by "CRPG" I meant "turn-based, party-based, possibly grid-based". I guess "squad" is similar to "party" but a squad feels more disposable to me, plus Kenshi seems to be about building up your own faction more than going out and doing quests for existing factions. On the one hand yeah, and it isn't turn-based or grid-based, but on the other hand because it has no quests in it, you make your own goals. I'm currently taking my five-man band of dudes on a quest to the northeast to see what's there, and hopefully not starve in the process. So far we've found a region with acid rain, been attacked by black-clad ninjas and left for dead, spotted a giant mechanical spider robot that was hostile (avoid!) and accidentally freaked out a farmhouse of sleeping religious farmers by picking open the door at midnight. They all ran screaming into the night that we were going to kill them. I just took some cooked veggies and left. ...ahem. I guess what I'm getting at is that it's worth a look! And if it still isn't what you want, that's cool. Uhh...  Any of these sound unfamiliar?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I guess I should've clarified that by "CRPG" I meant "turn-based, party-based, possibly grid-based". I guess "squad" is similar to "party" but a squad feels more disposable to me, plus Kenshi seems to be about building up your own faction more than going out and doing quests for existing factions. Turn-based is kind of hard to find these days unfortunately. Have you played the Shadowrun games? I've heard the first one is "meh" but that Dragonfall and Hong Kong are both very good.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Turn-based is kind of hard to find these days unfortunately. Have you played the Shadowrun games? I've heard the first one is "meh" but that Dragonfall and Hong Kong are both very good. Oh, good call. I have the latter two just chilling in my library already.  StrixNebulosa posted:
Thanks, worth checking out some though I've heard of most of 'em. Hm...does Icewind Dale hold up? Is it runnable on modern OSes?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Oh, good call. I have the latter two just chilling in my library already. How much do you like Infinity Engine combat? There's not much else to Icewind Dale.
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Phlegmish posted:What's Nethergate like? It's a Spiderweb Software game, like Avernum and Geneforge. Takes place in ancient Britain during the Roman invasion/occupation, with the difference that magic is indeed real and there are goblins and stuff. It's a pretty cool setting. Worth a go if you like other Spiderweb games.
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I have it in my craw to play a racing game that does not take place on a traditional racetrack. So no NASCAR/F1/Indy racers. If someone could point to the good version of Wipeout XL, but made this decade I'd appreciate it. Most of the non-sim car games I've seen are just endless runners with a e s t h e t i c sprites. Also anyone with any car combat games that don't have totally dead multiplayer. Any opinions on Wreckfest?
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Easy Diff posted:I have it in my craw to play a racing game that does not take place on a traditional racetrack. So no NASCAR/F1/Indy racers. If someone could point to the good version of Wipeout XL, but made this decade I'd appreciate it. Most of the non-sim car games I've seen are just endless runners with Have you checked out BeamNG.Drive?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Have you checked out BeamNG.Drive? Isn't that the "vehicular soft-body simulator"? It's not really a racing game as such. There's of course always Mario Kart if you own the appropriate system. F-Zero GX is a Gamecube game (and thus too old per your criteria) but still holds up very well.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Have you checked out BeamNG.Drive?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Isn't that the "vehicular soft-body simulator"? It's not really a racing game as such. It and Burnout Paradise are the only racing games I like because they have amazing crashes 
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There's Redout, Graviator, and one game that's even more of a blatant Wipeout with the serials scratched off that might be freeware? I kinda wish I could get a PC game based on Wipeout Fusion, which had challenge sets specific to each company which I thought was really cool (even if some of the challenges were infuriatingly tough). If you don't need the vehicles to have that Wipeout-aesthetic then Sonic Racing Transformed is very good. e: that "freeware more blatant clone" is BallisticNG and not actually freeware, whoops
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Can't help, sorry. I've only played some Redout which seems cool but haven't played it enough to really give a concrete opinion on it. Haven't been in a racing game mood in a while sadly.
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Easy Diff posted:I have it in my craw to play a racing game that does not take place on a traditional racetrack. So no NASCAR/F1/Indy racers. If someone could point to the good version of Wipeout XL, but made this decade I'd appreciate it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/ e: Oh it was mentioned. Yeah Ballistic is probably what you want. It's very very true to Wipeout, the tracks are quite well designed, the mod support is great and often funny.
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Looking for a game that has house decorating but isn't The Sims. My wife loves games that involve decorating/renovating houses. When we play FFXIV, she enjoys decorating the house. Getting new houses/furniture was her favorite part of Animal Crossing. She spent drat near 40 hours playing House Flipper because it just let her decorate the houses. She hates The Sims because she doesn't want to have to actually deal with the Sims. She just wants to play with houses. Any recommendations?
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Not a game so much as a tool, but she should check out Room Arranger.  It's a utility designed to plan interior designs down to very fine details and is pretty easy to use. I had a lot of fun with it when we were trying to plan furniture and stuff for our small apartment. You can even upload your own photos into the program to use as skins for objects, and there is a 3d render option to walk around the interior.
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House Flipper is the only one I can think of, there really aren't many in this genre that I can think of
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Not a game so much as a tool, but she should check out Room Arranger. Amazing for shadowrun battlemaps.
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Nalesh posted:House Flipper is the only one I can think of, there really aren't many in this genre that I can think of Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's squeezed every ounce she can out of that game. It's a shame. There should be more games like this.
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Like only other things I can think of would be shifting to build things in stuff like minecraft, terraria, stonehearth, cities skylines, etc. But she sounds like she enjoys micromanagement rather than the macromanagement.
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Nalesh posted:Like only other things I can think of would be shifting to build things in stuff like minecraft, terraria, stonehearth, cities skylines, etc. But she sounds like she enjoys micromanagement rather than the macromanagement. Yeah. She is a big fan of things where you can decorate a house mainly. Her other favorite game of all time is Cook Serve Delicious.
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Mordiceius posted:Looking for a game that has house decorating but isn't The Sims. Doesn't Animal Crossing have a spin off that's literally this? Fake Edit: Yup
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Actually just thought of one, fallout 4's settlements
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I get not being interested in the sims part of The Sims but what's the problem with just flipping on a bunch of cheats, ignoring everything else, and just playing with the construction/decoration stuff?
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John Murdoch posted:I get not being interested in the sims part of The Sims but what's the problem with just flipping on a bunch of cheats, ignoring everything else, and just playing with the construction/decoration stuff? She likes having goals to work toward. The Sims is too aimless since she doesn’t care about the characters. Head Hit Keyboard posted:Doesn't Animal Crossing have a spin off that's literally this? Yeah. She had played that one too. What this is just showing me is that there aren’t enough games out there of this type.
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Mordiceius posted:What this is just showing me is that there aren’t enough games out there of this type. Possibly because it's an incredibly boring niche that is hard to build an entire game around.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Possibly because it's an incredibly boring niche that is hard to build an entire game around. thanks for the useless, weirdly hostile reply? i'm interested in this genre too; i used to just use the sims and cheat as suggested so i could do building/decorating, but i'd love something a bit more comprehensive and involved
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I'm sorry, but they are right. I can't imagine an interesting game around room decorating. Your wife is of course entitled to like what she likes but really it's not a very interesting subject to simulate.
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It's almost like... different people might have... hold on, am I reading this right?... different interests?!?! No, no, this can't be right...
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kedo posted:It's almost like... different people might have... hold on, am I reading this right?... different interests?!?! Having interests and expecting a full game based on them are completely different? Here is a website for the OP http://www.animal-crossing.com/happy-home-designer/?fbclid=IwAR1DM7WMNEcgcSO3OMKzUSS2sZSB6UhHOjlRQKwqH3BXJ2BMldqv00OcHP0
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Mayveena posted:Having interests and expecting a full game based on them are completely different? except there have been a handful of games based around them; the lament is that there aren't more but feel free to keep being super condescending toward things other people enjoy
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I could see it being fun as an in-depth deduction game with a social sim aspect. "Given these clues you've discovered about the person's character and interests, design this room based on provided guidelines and essentials of decorating"
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