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haldolium posted:My Time at Portia is pretty good and relaxing.
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what're some bog standard MMO style games for the Switch or PS4? Got a hankering to do some grinding while high out of my mind over summer break
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Blast of Confetti posted:what're some bog standard MMO style games for the Switch or PS4? Got a hankering to do some grinding while high out of my mind over summer break Dragon's Dogma has been filling that need for me. The pawns even feel like more capable randoms that you can recruit.
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May 5, 2019 18:59
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Wishy Walshy posted:Dragon's Dogma has been filling that need for me. The pawns even feel like more capable randoms that you can recruit. They actually learn things and more importantly, pawns never back sass.
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May 5, 2019 22:11
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Leal posted:They actually learn things and more importantly, pawns never back sass. They actually sass you non stop. But they're still good.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:What is there in the Borderlands-like space these days? That is, first-person shooter/loot-em-up with a solid campaign? Co-op / online multiplayer are entirely optional. Would prefer something that I buy once (plus DLC if it's good) instead of a freemium. overlong assessment/screed: I haven't played borderlands so I'm can't be sure what you mean by solid campaign - for me personally, I like world building, an entertaining story and characters to hook me, and conceal the game stuff of being shuttled between activities. it's that Japanese thing, all the things coming together. for looter shooters, there's just literally nothing. division 2 was a fun game, with a mechanically fun campaign of various shooting activities, but story and characters are virtually non-existent. the co-op part of it is totally opt-in, I largely played it solo. destiny 2 had a few cool story missions bookending it's "campaign", but the middle is mainly mmo stuff of going to a person on a map to complete unconnected quests as you see fit. unlike div2 you'll run past other players pretty often but text chat was added later and is opt-in through a menu, which is kinda weird? so no one talks to each other. I liked them both but I burned out on them quick. I really hope looter shooters are able to nail this someday, I'd like to think games have moved past the mechanics-only "story in a game is like story in porno  " John Carmack school of design philosophy.
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I've been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and I love it. It's my first serious foray into a roguelike, and I'm definitely going to explore the genre more. One feature that I really like is that specific achievements result in specific unlockables. What are other games--not just roguelikes--that do that?
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May 6, 2019 01:50
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Alpha Protocol is like that, though it’s not meta-progression. You’ll unlock certain bonuses for a given play style, whether it’s how you approach conversations or what items and tactics you use on a mission. For the most part these are just gameplay bonuses rather than equip-able items, though certain souvenirs (like a gold plated AK-47) are.
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May 6, 2019 01:56
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YMMV on the aesthetic and all, but Binding of Isaac unlocks more items to find in your runs as you get achievements. It's also pretty roguelike-y.
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prometheusbound2 posted:I've been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and I love it. It's my first serious foray into a roguelike, and I'm definitely going to explore the genre more. One feature that I really like is that specific achievements result in specific unlockables. What are other games--not just roguelikes--that do that?
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May 6, 2019 02:35
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Is there anything half-decent in the tower defense space in 2019 or in the last few years? I know the genre has completely fallen out of fashion, kind of like how MOBA had their moment and now it's all about BR, but I want to feed my cheesy nostalgia. I fondly those ridiculously awesome WC3 TD mods from decades ago.
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Captain Invictus posted:What's a good game on steam in the vein of Stardew Valley or Forager, a casual, relaxing single-player game like those? I really enjoy Stardew in particular but I'm not really sure of many other games that really nail it like that one does. Harvest Moon seems like something stardew valley improved on in ways I prefer and the one I'm seeing on steam kinda looks like garbage. It's not out yet but Littlewood might hit the spot.
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John Murdoch posted:It's not out yet but Littlewood might hit the spot. That's the worst pickup line I've seen in a while.
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prometheusbound2 posted:I've been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and I love it. It's my first serious foray into a roguelike, and I'm definitely going to explore the genre more. One feature that I really like is that specific achievements result in specific unlockables. What are other games--not just roguelikes--that do that? Astroneer does that. Achievements enable more exosuits.
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John Murdoch posted:It's not out yet but Littlewood might hit the spot. while I'm here I'll make a recommendation in a similar vein of casual game, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale. For the next 2.5 hours or so as of this post it's on sale for $5, 75% off, so grab it before it's back to full price! It's an outstanding little game where you run an item shop in a JRPG world and sell to adventurers. You can also hire them to accompany you on dungeon exploration to get materials and items to sell in your store. A faint few other games have attempted this same style of game, like Moonlighter, but I've not tried them. It's also got an excellent translation by a couple of goons who started a translation company called Carpe Fulgur and it's genuinely funny and adorable. The music can get pretty interesting too, considering it's a game literally made by(at the time) a group of four dudes sharing a studio apartment in japan. I'd love to see someone cover the OST in something other than the original midi, though, it's got some good potential. The final dungeon theme is pretty intense even so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EobpngTrI78 Nalesh posted:That's the worst pickup line I've seen in a while. 
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prometheusbound2 posted:I've been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and I love it. It's my first serious foray into a roguelike, and I'm definitely going to explore the genre more. One feature that I really like is that specific achievements result in specific unlockables. What are other games--not just roguelikes--that do that? FTL and Into the Breach work like that.
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Looking for a two player co-op game to play with my gf. She is a lapsed gamer, used to play a lot around 10 years ago but hasn't played much for a while. Finished Portal 2 co-op which we both thoroughly enjoyed, I tried playing Overcooked with her but she finds it too frantic for her taste. Anything on PS4, Switch or Steam/Mac please. Thanks!
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Is there a squad management game where you just dress up your soldiers and manage the money and base or their PTSD or something, and they just go do missions without you? Sorta like XCOM, but without most of the game. Sorta like those baseball and soccer management sims, but with dudes with guns. Sorta like the laptop in Jagged Alliance 2, and a map with pushpins. I don't care about genre tropes, just wondering what exists that does this mechanically. I guess I don't have the time or energy to play XCOM.
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Btw just picked up medieval battle sim Mordhau. Very fun wasted most of my day yesterday playing it. Would recommend.
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Maybe This is the Police? Seems like the kind of format that would be perfect for a mobile game, but all I can think of is Tiny Airplanes. There's a mobile game that my mom's been playing for a while that has a similar element, but no customization, and mostly waiting out timers. Maybe King of Dragon Pass? There's a lot of management of people without dipping into a full tactical setup in that game.
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doctorfrog posted:Is there a squad management game where you just dress up your soldiers and manage the money and base or their PTSD or something, and they just go do missions without you? Sorta like XCOM, but without most of the game. Sorta like those baseball and soccer management sims, but with dudes with guns. Sorta like the laptop in Jagged Alliance 2, and a map with pushpins. It would be clunky, but there is actually an old mod for the original XCOM that lets you autoresolve. You save a game at the start of battle, run the .exe, and it saves the results to the slot. Problem is it's for the original version, not Open XCOM, which means you have to deal with the original engine's quirks. But if you want XCOM autoresolve, that's your only option. They never reimplemented it for openxcom. https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/XcomUtil
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Keeshhound posted:Zafehouse Diaries? Yeah, kinda. All the games by that studio look real interesting but end up being a huge drag when I play them. I'll take another look at this one. Cantorsdust posted:It would be clunky, but there is actually an old mod for the original XCOM that lets you autoresolve. You save a game at the start of battle, run the .exe, and it saves the results to the slot. Problem is it's for the original version, not Open XCOM, which means you have to deal with the original engine's quirks. But if you want XCOM autoresolve, that's your only option. They never reimplemented it for openxcom. SlothfulCobra posted:Maybe This is the Police? I'll look at This is the Police, I know it goes cheap on sale these days. I'll also look around for (clean) princess dress up games, I got a kid who would be very into those. A game where you dress up princesses and ponies and send them on missions would basically kill in my house these days.
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Is EDF worth playing solo on PC? And if it is, which is the best one?
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Songbearer posted:Is EDF worth playing solo on PC? And if it is, which is the best one? That kind of depends on how much you enjoy campiness and janky combat. Like, if you enjoy the early dynasty warriors (3-5) games, it's probably around that level on both counts.
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Songbearer posted:Is EDF worth playing solo on PC? And if it is, which is the best one? 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is the best EDF currently available on PC. It's perfectly good offline, but co-op with any halfway decent people is so much better.
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Hwurmp posted:4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is the best EDF currently available on PC. It's perfectly good offline, but co-op with any halfway decent people is so much better. Yeah, 4.1 is a blast solo or multiplayer. It takes a bit to get going for sure, and some of the levels (mostly the ant/spider-only ones) kinda suck a lot without super ridiculous weaponry, but get yourself a Cascade Missile Launcher and have a literal blast (it's a missile launcher that shoots missiles like an m-16 shoots bullets. Just a volley of 20 missiles every reload leveling city skylines), or go for other silly weaponry like the tortoise missiles or what have you. When you have to grind for weapon drops, I went with the beach level where a bunch of Hector robots were making landfall, play that on inferno difficulty a few times and you can get a bunch of great weapons real early. Also, that giant robot you get as the engineer class dude loving rules, especially That One Level. Anyone who has played through EDF 4.1 knows which level I mean. It's soooooo goooooood
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Thanks for the recs on the last page have tried a few of those, will investigate the rest. He really wants to play Ni No Kuni but you can't seem to play it on the PS4 in the UK (not available on Now for some reason, even though it is in the US, although it's been a while since I checked). For now he's getting well into Xenoblade 2, as he's gotten over the initial complexity of the combat.
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EDF is pretty fun solo but what makes it great is the shared co-op experience of both of you being amazed at the crazy rear end poo poo that you're seeing happen on screen.
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Anybody know any good games about (or with an important aspect of) reclaiming contaminated land, rebuilding a ruined city, or otherwise restoring a destroyed/unlivable location back to a livable state? Older titles welcome.
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Pierzak posted:Anybody know any good games about (or with an important aspect of) reclaiming contaminated land, rebuilding a ruined city, or otherwise restoring a destroyed/unlivable location back to a livable state? Older titles welcome. They are billions is pretty good already and the campaign should be coming out soon.
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Pierzak posted:Anybody know any good games about (or with an important aspect of) reclaiming contaminated land, rebuilding a ruined city, or otherwise restoring a destroyed/unlivable location back to a livable state? Older titles welcome. There was a really good Minecraft mod, Blightfall, that did this really well. Also a converted flash game, Rebuild 3, that had you sending people out to scavenge and rebuild after a zombie apocalypse.
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Pierzak posted:Anybody know any good games about (or with an important aspect of) reclaiming contaminated land, rebuilding a ruined city, or otherwise restoring a destroyed/unlivable location back to a livable state? Older titles welcome. Okami
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The SimCity games, if you already have them, usually have a crime or contamination cleanup scenario.
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Pierzak posted:Anybody know any good games about (or with an important aspect of) reclaiming contaminated land, rebuilding a ruined city, or otherwise restoring a destroyed/unlivable location back to a livable state? Older titles welcome.
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IIRC, Waking Mars is about interacting with an ecosystem to solve puzzles and make things flourish again. For as simple as it was, I always loved restoring Monteriggioni in Assassin's Creed 2 and apparently one of the few kinda-good things in AC3 is something similar, but I'm not familiar with many if any at all games that tap into that directly rather than as a side activity. Littlewood sounds like it might have a bit of that angle to it. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 10:24 on May 8, 2019 |
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Looking for games that involve physics-based traversal. For example, Getting Over It or Trials would count, although I'm looking for something focused less on challenge and more on fun fuckery.
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