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pun pundit posted:Podcast games: I've been using Hardspace: Shipbreaker, but the same sort of games with 'pleasant tedium' work well. Stuff like House Flipper, Car Mechanic sims, Master of Pottery, etc.
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Evig Vandrar posted:I'm looking for something I can play while listening to podcasts, so something that doesn't engage my brain too much through text I guess. Sports, driving games and low-level online chess work, but what else? Also, minecraft
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Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds?
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Riatsala posted:Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds? Underrail
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Riatsala posted:Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds? Haven't played it, but people seem to like ATOM RPG Seconding Underrail, it's good
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I'm finding Satisfactory to be a good podcast game. There's not really any way to fail by lack of paying attention so you can kind of just go at your own pace.
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Riatsala posted:Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds?
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From what I've read from the classic RPG thread, Underrail is pretty limited on viable buids, with plenty of trap options.
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Riatsala posted:Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds? Wasteland 2
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Fat Samurai posted:From what I've read from the classic RPG thread, Underrail is pretty limited on viable buids, with plenty of trap options. The expansion helped in that regard, my main con with the game is that is has a moderately steep entry barrier. If you go into it blind and without a defined build from the get go you can have some trouble at some points, especially with the oddity xp system.
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All great suggestions. I have tried Wasteland 2 and found it to be pretty tedious after a certain point but I do look forward to 3. I'll look into the others. Thanks!
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Disco Elysium is very Fallout albeit with no real combat. The HBS Shadowrun games fit what you're asking for to a tee. The Shadowruns are great, I recommend skipping to the second one, Dragonfall. There are some good improvements made between 1 and 2, and unless you have many many hours to burn on them it's worth going straight to the best one.
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Evig Vandrar posted:Definitely Football Manager. NBA 2K also has a solid Franchise mode which allows you to control multiple teams and watch CPU vs CPU games. Get yourself a CPU vs CPU slider set and enjoy.
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gohuskies posted:The Shadowruns are great, I recommend skipping to the second one, Dragonfall. There are some good improvements made between 1 and 2, and unless you have many many hours to burn on them it's worth going straight to the best one. The best one is Hong Kong imo but I enjoyed dragonfall a lot
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I'm looking for a somewhat casual racing experience. I played and enjoyed Shift 2 a lot, and I really just wanna...buy cool cars and upgrade them?
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I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes.
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. Disgaea series Monster Hunter World ?Persona series with fancy monster fusions? I don’t know if it’s a big Diablo like or not but Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martyr is a cool aRPG if you like Warhammer stuff.
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Jul 11, 2020 15:35
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. If you also like shooting mans the Division games are a real numberfest so far.
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Jul 11, 2020 15:53
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. Bit off the wall maybe but how about something like Factorio?
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. If you can stand Muds and Dragonball, try Dragonball Infinity. Can't think of anything more 'number go up'
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Michaellaneous posted:I'm looking for a somewhat casual racing experience. I played and enjoyed Shift 2 a lot, and I really just wanna...buy cool cars and upgrade them? Burnout Paradise is still the best car game ever made imo
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. Vermintide 2
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My favorite number going up game is Punch Club, where you have to keep working out to get your stats up to be a better fighter to avenge your dead father in the boxing ring. You also have to do side jobs to get money to keep your character fed and pay for gym memberships. The whole thing is mainly about trying to squeeze as much as you can out of every hour of your character's day.
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Punch Club would have been a much better game if you could turn the grindiness down.
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iSurrender posted:Punch Club would have been a much better game if you could turn the grindiness down. IIRC they patched in an easy/story mode where your stats don't decay or decay much slower. It's probably really poorly done, but the option is there.
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Elswyyr posted:I'm looking for a game where I can make the numbers go up. I want a shitload of things I can upgrade and improve through various avenues. I usually get my fix from idle/incremental games and MMOs, but at this point I think I've played every major idle game and at least tried every major MMO. I've also extensively played all the big diablolikes. You want the Disgaea series, it's basically the mutant offspring of an incremental clicker and a tactics RPG. The whole game revolves around finding more efficient and clever ways to grind (or bypass grinding) and make your characters gain thousands of levels at once (and then reincarnate them back to level 1 for an inherited stat bonus, etc.) There are dozens of overlapping subsystems for making your characters stronger and it piles on more and more as the series continues. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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I wanna play a video game but I don't know what I wanna play. This is a frequent struggle for me. I would love to find a good mindless dungeon crawler. Like, I think back fondly at stuff like Dark Cloud and the .Hack games. They weren't *good* games but sometimes I just want to churn through randomly generated dungeons and fight monsters. Hell, I really liked Rogue Legacy until it got far too easy and repetitive. Anyone know anything that would scratch this itch?
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Mordiceius posted:I wanna play a video game but I don't know what I wanna play. This is a frequent struggle for me. I would love to find a good mindless dungeon crawler. Like, I think back fondly at stuff like Dark Cloud and the .Hack games. They weren't *good* games but sometimes I just want to churn through randomly generated dungeons and fight monsters. Hell, I really liked Rogue Legacy until it got far too easy and repetitive. Anyone know anything that would scratch this itch? Weirdly enough I'm gonna point you to the EDF series, specifically 4.1 and 5. They're casual hoard shooters where you in third-person mow down a billion ants and they're mindless but lots of fun. Also .hack//GU is on steam!
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My turn for a question: What's missing? What deckbuilders or similar thinky card things SHOULD be on there? e: Added System Crash, I love that single-player TCG. So there's +1.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Weirdly enough I'm gonna point you to the EDF series, specifically 4.1 and 5. They're casual hoard shooters where you in third-person mow down a billion ants and they're mindless but lots of fun. I like EDF well enough, but I think I'm looking more for the RPG dungeon crawler than a shooter.
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Mordiceius posted:I wanna play a video game but I don't know what I wanna play. This is a frequent struggle for me. I would love to find a good mindless dungeon crawler. Like, I think back fondly at stuff like Dark Cloud and the .Hack games. They weren't *good* games but sometimes I just want to churn through randomly generated dungeons and fight monsters. Hell, I really liked Rogue Legacy until it got far too easy and repetitive. Anyone know anything that would scratch this itch? It's not quite "mindless" but you should check out Dungeonmans, a goon-made roguelike. It's super accessible, there's a metaprogression layer that lets your dead characters pass power (bonus stats, skills, and equipment) to newly-created characters, and it's really good for creating that dungeon-crawling flow state.
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StrixNebulosa posted:My turn for a question: Trials of Fire is pretty good! However, it's still in early access.
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StrixNebulosa posted:My turn for a question: You may want to wishlist Floppy Knights. It's an upcoming turn-based tactical game where you setup a deck and use the cards to summon/command your troops.
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StrixNebulosa posted:My turn for a question: Card Hunter, Guild of Dungeoneering, and Ironclad Tactics. I played Star Realms for probably way too long, but it's kinda lacking on the videogame side of things since it's basically just a digital version of the card game. My absolute favorite videogame card game is the Pokémon Trading Card Game for gameboy, but that'd be a mess to get. The sequel was never officially released in english and can only be played with  .
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Mordiceius posted:I wanna play a video game but I don't know what I wanna play. This is a frequent struggle for me. I would love to find a good mindless dungeon crawler. Like, I think back fondly at stuff like Dark Cloud and the .Hack games. They weren't *good* games but sometimes I just want to churn through randomly generated dungeons and fight monsters. Hell, I really liked Rogue Legacy until it got far too easy and repetitive. Anyone know anything that would scratch this itch? When in doubt, Dark Souls. Throw yourself down the Souls Hole
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It's not quite "mindless" but you should check out Dungeonmans, a goon-made roguelike. It's super accessible, there's a metaprogression layer that lets your dead characters pass power (bonus stats, skills, and equipment) to newly-created characters, and it's really good for creating that dungeon-crawling flow state.  Also according to the discord, someone who picked up the game during the summer sale is an insane savant who hit 1 BILLION damage  EDIT: For some clarity, all of the start of character power boosts are entirely optional. You gotta talk to the professors or unlocked "Identify all consumables" NPCs before you first leave the academy. Though coming back to your stash at the blacksmith or spending your stockpile of stat emblems is something you can do at any time. So you can fine tune each new guy to just how much of a leg up you want to apply. In case two hotbars worth of inherited multiclass abilities at level 1 feels like cheating to you. Section Z fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Card Hunter, Guild of Dungeoneering, and Ironclad Tactics. I played Star Realms for probably way too long, but it's kinda lacking on the videogame side of things since it's basically just a digital version of the card game. Card Hunter: installing now Guild of Dungeoneering: no. I tried this and didn't like it. Ironclad: huh. Not interested by the civil war thing, but... zachtronics. Star Realms: installing now Pokemon TCG: already played when I was a kid! Everything else recced on the wishlist - thank you!
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Thank you all for the podcast game suggestions.Splicer posted:Kerbal Space Program is literally the reason I started listening to podcasts That's sounds pretty good. I'll try it, hope it works for me unlike Captain Invictus posted:Stellaris. Got it, but I find that I have to concentrate too hard on micromanagement so I miss out on parts of podcasts. Might just be me. ecavalli posted:Mudrunners/Snowrunners Saw Mudrunners/Snowrunners, looked fun. Might look into it. Good call on the roguelikes, Maybe I'll try FTL again. Riatsala posted:Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to Fallout 1 & 2? Some isometric RPG that's non-fantasy and clearly inspired by pen and paper? With lots of possible builds? Someone said Shadowrun, and I'd wholly recommend it. There are fantasy elements such as various non-human races and some magic, but it's a lot more Fallout than DnD. Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the isometric RPG I've enjoyed the most along with Fallout 1.
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Mordiceius posted:I wanna play a video game but I don't know what I wanna play. This is a frequent struggle for me. I would love to find a good mindless dungeon crawler. Like, I think back fondly at stuff like Dark Cloud and the .Hack games. They weren't *good* games but sometimes I just want to churn through randomly generated dungeons and fight monsters. Hell, I really liked Rogue Legacy until it got far too easy and repetitive. Anyone know anything that would scratch this itch? Minecraft Dungeons is a diablo clone that you can play through the xbox game pass thing Or just go for Diablo 3, it sort of has a "runner's high" approach to rhythmic massacre
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