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StoryTime posted:Then there's the Gothic series for some real classics, but those haven't aged well. Excuse me?
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Shine posted:I can't speak for anything modern, but this just reminded me of the Spy vs. Merc PvP in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. That poo poo was so cool. The meta game became pretty whacky after a while, with spies having much more aggressive and kill-oriented play than I think the devs intended, but the first few weeks when nobody really knew what to do, that was a good loving time. Bunnyhop has an incredibly good video on the subject (and playing it today) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ753pwa0B8
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Kestral posted:I'm looking for single-player PC games that I can play at a very gentle pace while recovering from repetitive stress injuries on both wrists - turns out there's only so much TV I can endure, but I'm hoping I can play something without aggravating my wrists. Anything with a lot of left-mouse clicking, mousewheel scrolling, or WASD controls is out for a while. both of the new Xcom games have excellent controller support for PC, both games are incredible. if you play on a lower difficulty you can totally listen to an audiobook without having to focus too hard. or you can turn the difficulty up and you will have no problem worrying about clicking too fast because you will pondering your moves with great care.
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steinrokkan posted:Excuse me? I'd put Gothic in the same pile as Morrowind. It's still cool to mess around with mods and stuff if you played it back in the day. If you didn't, it's very very hard to get into or care at all. Something like Arx Fatalis stands up better these days because it's a more cohesive experience.
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Zaphod42 posted:Bunnyhop has an incredibly good video on the subject (and playing it today) Holy poo poo that took me back. Thanks for sharing!
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A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Played to death: battletech, FFT, Fell Seal, Wargroove,baulders gate, xcoms, into the breach Also I’ve played ToME to death now and it makes me sad.
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Fire Emblem or Trouble Shooter https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3924497
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Warhammer: Mechanicus Valkyria Chronicles 4
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Having the same SRPG itch I would throw in Divinity Original Sin 2 if you haven't tried it before. Best to roll with pre-made characters for the backstories but you can completely reclass anyone once they join your party so you have full control over the skill, and the skill/spell effect interplay is some of the coolest to be found.
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StoryTime posted:I'd put Gothic in the same pile as Morrowind. It's still cool to mess around with mods and stuff if you played it back in the day. If you didn't, it's very very hard to get into or care at all. Something like Arx Fatalis stands up better these days because it's a more cohesive experience. Gothic is notorious as a game that was mechanically divisive even in the day, with a unique control scheme, inventory UI, combat mechanics etc. that pretty much only exist in that game. Unlike Morrowind, which really aged very poorly, it's still as functional as it was back then, and it's just a matter of personal preference how you feel about it. If you hate it today, you'd have hated it then, and vice versa. Personally I'm still impressed that it's a complex RPG that can be basically effortlessly played with just one hand once you get used to it (which is very easy).
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Having the same SRPG itch I would throw in Divinity Original Sin 2 if you haven't tried it before. Best to roll with pre-made characters for the backstories but you can completely reclass anyone once they join your party so you have full control over the skill, and the skill/spell effect interplay is some of the coolest to be found. Especially great if you have a friend who is into tactics. Been playing through D:OS2 with my gf and we are having mad fun playing on hard and trying to come up with the perfect strategy and combo of attacks to get through each encounter. There's some real fun interactions with things like "cast spell to create rain, makes puddles" -> "cast lighting to electrocute people standing in puddles" and so on. Adds heaps to the strategy as you have to plan the order of operations. The character building system is also very flexible and allows you to create your own "classes"
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Breach & Clear is a nice little "SWAT guys taking down a house of bad guys" type tactical game, like a top down turn based Rainbow Six. It's definitely simpler than a lot of the ones you mention but it's cheap on Steam and it's fun. The upgrading is pretty simple but there is some of it, it's just stuff like choosing between giving a guy a 5% boost to movement speed or to accuracy, not wholesale new powers like a Baldur's Gate spellbook. I'm not sure I'd recommend it full price but I think it's absolutely worth adding to a wish list to watch for a sale. Frozen Synapse 1 and 2 (I haven't played 2 but I understand the gameplay is fairly similar, just with a more complex strategic landscape around the missions) isn't grid based but it's another top down We-Go tactical shooting game that's a little bit deeper than Breach & Clear, more complex missions and choices within the mission, and it has more fleshed out strategic choices between fights. I also found it to be fairly difficult, if you like that sort of thing. Edit: Also I haven't played it but I heard the Gears Tactics game from the Gears of War franchise is a very good XCOM ripoff, I'm seriously considering buying it. You might want to look into it too, though obviously I can't personally recommend it yet. gohuskies fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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What are the best cheap (preferably less than $10) Switch games that aren't available on Steam?
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Shine posted:I can't speak for anything modern, but this just reminded me of the Spy vs. Merc PvP in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. That poo poo was so cool. The meta game became pretty whacky after a while, with spies having much more aggressive and kill-oriented play than I think the devs intended, but the first few weeks when nobody really knew what to do, that was a good loving time. For some reason this made me think of Spy vs Spy for the NES, and now I'm imagining an FPS with that style of gameplay 
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Ciaphas posted:For some reason this made me think of Spy vs Spy for the NES, and now I'm imagining an FPS with that style of gameplay My brother and I would play Spy vs. Spy Island on Atari 800, except we always played cooperatively, trying to assemble the rocket together and then both running out to the submarine (and pretending that one of us wasn't actually drowning, as the gameplay suggested).
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Card Hunter is a turn based, card based rpg where you actually control literal miniatures in a series of missions on the backdrop of a Dungeons and Dragons style game. Positioning and card management is critical.
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Thanks for all the recs. I have bounced of divinity 2 a bunch. It’s far to talky and not enough stabby for me. Frozen synapse is real good. I might need to play that again. Lol the last time I went though this itch I played card hunter for like 40 hours. Breach and clear I’ll have to scope out. Idk if it’s on my wishlist but I’ll check on it.
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Shine posted:My brother and I would play Spy vs. Spy Island on Atari 800, except we always played cooperatively, trying to assemble the rocket together and then both running out to the submarine (and pretending that one of us wasn't actually drowning, as the gameplay suggested).  af
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I have been in zoom hell for work so I have a specific set of requirements for a game. I want something that can be played comfortably in a window that's like a third of the screen while video runs in the background, can run on a lovely work laptop, is actually engaging, and has progress across multiple sessions. I can't use a controller unfortunately. Any suggestions?
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Naramyth posted:A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters. Battle Brothers
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Monster Train was my standout WFH game this year but I don't know if the card stuff would scale down well at a third of the screen.
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Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious.
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LLSix posted:Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious. GTFO is good. Deeprock Galactic is fun but a little weird. Vermintide 2 is a great game, focused primarily on melee combat though. Ghost Recon Wildlands is an open world modern shooter, third person though.
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LLSix posted:Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious. It also has no real plot to speak of, though, if that’s something that you want out of your game. Edit: One of my favorite things about KF2 is that the healer class doesn’t even need to stop killing people, they can just pick up one of the several guns that has an alt fire that shoots healing darts instead of bullets. (And other classes can heal, too, they just pick the one of their own weapons that also has a healy dart option.) girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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LLSix posted:Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious. If you want something slower-paced and with some survival/lootery added in, I've had some real fun with a buddy in Generation Zero. Cool robot enemies, gorgeous scenery and pretty seamless co-op. Bonus for eighties nostalgia if you're our age. Running into an actual phone booth in the wild was a weird instant sense memory trigger for me.
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LLSix posted:Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious. I'm going to unironically recommend Borderlands 3. The shooting is a ton of fun. Just mute the cutscenes.
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LLSix posted:Looking for a co-op FPS. Preferably something that came out in the last five years. My all time favorite was Halo. I played Destiny for a bit, but the loot treadmill was too tedious. Gunfire Reborn is a really good roguelite looter shooter thing. Still in early access but it has quite a bit of content and polish atm regardless, and getting geared up through half hour to hour long runs really solves the tedium problems of destiny imo.
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Not sure if this is the thread for this, but anyone know how the multiplayer in Barotrauma is? Can you just create a server with only 2-4 people, does it function well like that?
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Looking for a co-op or team squad focused FPS for PC. Like Left for Dead, or Hunt: Showdown. Something that has an active community still where I can find peeps to play with. Thanks!
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5thMouseButton posted:Looking for a co-op or team squad focused FPS for PC. Deep Rock Galactic is what you want. Or Vermintide 2 but that’s less of an FPS.
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5thMouseButton posted:Looking for a co-op or team squad focused FPS for PC. Payday 2, Vermintide 2, Rainbow Six: Siege, Counter-strike is evergreen
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Has anyone played that House Flipper game by Empyrean? Are the controls mild enough for a non-gamer to play on PC? Looking at buying it for a senior family member who plays Stardew and a little WoW.
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Galick posted:Not sure if this is the thread for this, but anyone know how the multiplayer in Barotrauma is? Can you just create a server with only 2-4 people, does it function well like that? I'd say three is the minimum really, but you can have plenty fun with three.
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Hughmoris posted:Has anyone played that House Flipper game by Empyrean? Are the controls mild enough for a non-gamer to play on PC? Looking at buying it for a senior family member who plays Stardew and a little WoW. I think if they could manage those two they should be fine. My sister is pretty bad with things like "using both analogue sticks at the same time" and she has no problem playing it on PC. Well, at least once I told her to change the FOV so she'd stop getting nauseated.
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One of the things I like most about Death Stranding gameplay-wise is the Sticky Gun https://i.imgur.com/V5CQl28.mp4 Only other PC games I can think of with this sort of thing are the Prototype games from ten years ago (   ), and that's only sort-of it. My second thought was a spidermans, but those don't actually seem to exist on PC. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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I guess the closest on PC would probably be the tethers in the Just Cause series.
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Teardown has stuff like that, and of course HL2's gravity gun. HL Alyx also has grav gloves. Kerbal Space Program, Astroneer, and some other puzzle/building games have loads of stuff going on in that space as well.
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