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Captain Invictus posted:So I've been having a bad time, and Stardew is wonderful and all that but I'm looking into other newer experiences possibly. Your wishlist isn't showing up for me, but do you like point and click adventure stuff at all? Those types of games tend to be my go to for relaxing and theres tons of them out there. Edit: maybe something like slime rancher or katamari damacy might be good too Oh wait now your list is showing up. I know one of my friends was into wargroove for awhile, and raft is supposed to be pretty good too. I can't do those smart person games like dyson sphere or factorio but those are well liked. DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Captain Invictus posted:So I've been having a bad time, and Stardew is wonderful and all that but I'm looking into other newer experiences possibly. Can't see your wishlist but my destressors are: ARPGs you can play mindlessly like Path of Exile (with certain builds) Wilmot's Warehouse Everything Intergalactic Fishing Coloring Pixels
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Your wishlist isn't showing up for me, but do you like point and click adventure stuff at all? Those types of games tend to be my go to for relaxing and theres tons of them out there. HopperUK posted:Can't see your wishlist but my destressors are: I forgot about Slime Rancher, I bought that at some point but never played it. is my game list public? Anything that has less than 8 hours played is probably just from idlers, not actually played. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Ah yeah theres your wishlist. I know Raft is supposed to be good. I'm not smart enough for stuff like factorio or dyson sphere but they get a lot of love too.
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Factorio can become a really chill experience if you turn off biters / turn on peaceful mode and just focus on your factory. If you can let go of the need to optimize and embrace belt spaghetti and just work towards getting one rocket launched eventually, it's just... nice. Like doing cross-stitch, or a jigsaw puzzle, you're slowly designing something that will work and put a rocket into orbit. Also it removes the chance of entering a deathstate - default Factorio has finite resource patches so if you gently caress up hard enough you won't be able to keep your turrets/walls repaired long enough to expand. Biters can be fun, but I get far more fun out of building huge sprawling bases that build things with trains linking my sub-bases together. Also - and this sure is an opinion - I think Mindustry does factorio-as-a-tower-defense game better.
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Captain Invictus posted:So I've been having a bad time, and Stardew is wonderful and all that but I'm looking into other newer experiences possibly. Dyson Sphere Program is excellent. Imagine Factorio but in 3D, with a whole cluster of Mario Galaxy-esque tiny solar systems to explore and build on. It feels really full-featured despite being EA and it's very easy to sink time into. There's no enemies or anything, and you can even fly straight into a planet at light speed and just thunk onto the ground ready to go. I'm only just getting to the lategame now but I love how it feels setting up factories on multiple planets and shuttle resources to and fro, there's such a toy-like feel to how your buildings and belts curve around the tiny planets. It might honestly end up being my favorite Factorio-like once they add more content. It has a slightly wonky translation from Chinese to English, but its still not too hard to understand it all, there's just some odd word choices. It actually has a uniquely uplifting story for one of these games, too. It's set in a world where humanity has basically ascended and invented paradise, and you're building Dyson Spheres to gather enough energy to power the utopia. It's just a backdrop excuse for why you're out here mining planets for all their resources but I think it's nice to have positive motives for once. Pigbuster fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Anno posted:The remaster of the first Geneforge game is out today as well for any Jeff Vogel fans and/or people who like cRPGs. I continue to find Spiderweb games strangely pretty, and this is a nice update graphically imo. It's strange, I really enjoyed Exile and the first Avernum games, but anything from Geneforge onwards is just unacceptably ugly to me, in addition to being exhausting to play due to UI issues. I know I'm weird, but I also know I'm not missing out on much since it's basically the same game done over and over. I played Black fortress when it came out fwiw, wasn't anything special.
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My current destressor is Bloons TD 6, a rather silly tower defense game. I just chill with it at night after work. Bought it during the lunar sale out of curiosity and already put 24h in. Zone out, position monkeys, see them blowing up a million balloons per second. There's something about it that just clicks for me.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Also - and this sure is an opinion - I think Mindustry does factorio-as-a-tower-defense game better. Definitely agree on this one. I don’t mind biters but Mindustry definitely is a much more efficient way to get that gameplay.
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It’s a shame the best video game stressball, Marvel Heroes, has been dead and gone for more than three years.
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Captain Invictus posted:So I've been having a bad time, and Stardew is wonderful and all that but I'm looking into other newer experiences possibly. Manifold Garden Shape of the World
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dunno how you feel about mmos but final fantasy 14 is extremely chill gameplay-wise and full of goons you can talk to
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Captain Invictus posted:whoops, I didn't realize it was hidden behind privacy-related things, didn't realize that stuff wasn't public already. fixed it. I see Subnautica is on your list  Serious suggestion is Megaquarium. It’s an extremely chill aquarium management game. Decorate aquariums, fill them with derpy fish and wander through the aquarium in first person. Slime Rancher is pretty fun and charming though I found it got a little repetitive.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s a shame the best video game stressball, Marvel Heroes, has been dead and gone for more than three years. 
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Captain Invictus posted:So I've been having a bad time, and Stardew is wonderful and all that but I'm looking into other newer experiences possibly. Seconding this. The ff14 community as a whole is super chill and there's a whole bunch of goons more than willing to give a hand to new players. This is probably a meme at this point, but there's a free unlimited demo up to and including the first expansion, where the game gets Really loving Good. If you'd rather not jump headfirst into the thread here or in the discord, feel free to add me on steam/discord and I'd be more than happy to sherpa you through any doubts you may have.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Factorio can become a really chill experience if you turn off biters / turn on peaceful mode and just focus on your factory. If you can let go of the need to optimize and embrace belt spaghetti and just work towards getting one rocket launched eventually, it's just... nice. Like doing cross-stitch, or a jigsaw puzzle, you're slowly designing something that will work and put a rocket into orbit. I haven't played it yet, but shapez.io also seems like a good option if you want a Factorio-lite without combat or fail state.
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I've heard plenty of wonderful things about FF14 but I'm never playing an MMORPG again. WoW fully broke me, both in never wanting to play that style of game again, and also never wanting to get that deep into a game again. Thanks everyone for the recs, and thanks Strix for Factorio, I've installed it and will probably fire it up over the next day or two. Hopefully I have as much fun actually playing it as I do watching people play it.
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https://twitter.com/DominicTarason/status/1364777661369827330 I posted this with a "yeah I like state of decay 2" and then I read it again and wait, gently caress. negative =/= positive. And now I'm mad, because god damnit I loved this game but gently caress's sake, don't be secret nazis. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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lol yeah i kept rereading that like wait why would you like the devs for saying punching nazis is bad this reminds me i need to continue my playthrough of new wolfenstein
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I'm so loving mad, I've shilled state of decay 2 a lot and put a LOT of hours into it and never saw that trait and I even bought it for my boyfriend and now! I find out! I've been supporting assholes!!! ARGH.
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Looking at the traits on the wiki: Punched Nazis "I ran into these guys in the underground music scene. There was only one way to deal with them." Carries the negative effect of "Irritable towards other people" Compare with Punches Walls "I've built up callouses on my knuckles from punching through drywall when I get upset." Positive effect: +10 Max Health Negative effect: Easily frustrated Provided hero bonus: Tough Negotiation (Influence bonus) So yeah, it's better to be a wall-puncher than a Nazi puncher in State of Decay 2.
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Oh heck yes, Mahdi Bahrami made an actual Steam page for his spatial transformation game. I posted his proof of concept video on it years and years ago but now it looks like he's actually getting somewhere with it. It's a puzzle game based on moving 3D shapes over different types of checkerboard that all distort the shape in specific ways, and having to figure out the correct pattern of placement to create the target object. Looks mindbendy in a very good way. https://twitter.com/bahrami_/status/1364652130569773061
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I am happy to report that Fights in Tight Spaces is very good. They tweaked the replay system a bit since the last time I played it, so you can actually get some cool rear end replays when you watch it play out in real time.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Seconding this. The ff14 community as a whole is super chill and there's a whole bunch of goons more than willing to give a hand to new players. Did they ever do that whole compressing-down-ARR thing, I bounced in 5.1 and haven't been back
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explosivo posted:I am happy to report that Fights in Tight Spaces is very good. They tweaked the replay system a bit since the last time I played it, so you can actually get some cool rear end replays when you watch it play out in real time. I bought in earlier as well. I like the idea of the replay system but in practice they look weird and stiff. I wish the move animations somehow flowed into one another better. That s aid it IS satisfying to save replays of e.g. that one time I got two dudes to shoot a third guy who got shoved in there by a fourth 
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Ciaphas posted:Did they ever do that whole compressing-down-ARR thing, I bounced in 5.1 and haven't been back they removed some post arr quests. theres still a lot though
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Ciaphas posted:Did they ever do that whole compressing-down-ARR thing, I bounced in 5.1 and haven't been back Game wiki posted:In patch 5.3, 20 quests were removed to streamline the experience for new players, bringing the number of quests down from 100 to 80. Awesome! posted:they removed some post arr quests. theres still a lot though
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Ciaphas posted:I bought in earlier as well. I like the idea of the replay system but in practice they look weird and stiff. I wish the move animations somehow flowed into one another better. Yeah it sometimes makes for some cool highlights but it is definitely stiff. I laugh at the times when you get someone to shoot someone else because it makes no goddamn sense in real time. Check out the settings and change it to the experimental replay mode if you haven't, though. Pretty sure it just finds cool angles for things but it does make them look better played out.
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Ciaphas posted:Did they ever do that whole compressing-down-ARR thing, I bounced in 5.1 and haven't been back Someone made an graph showing what's been cut out, broken down by level-range & patch. Note that a lot of the quests that didn't get cut also got simplified to cut down on time wasting. For example: for part of a quest you had to get some water from a river, in the old version you had to pick up a bucket (with a three second progress bar), put it in the water (three second progress bar) and pick it back up (three second progress bar). In the new version all you need to do is click on the river once (still has a three second progress bar probably).  They did however make the Crystal Tower 24-man raids required before you can move onto Heavensword though, since they made them important to the story of Shadowbringers. Though those are easy and people are always running them. Takes like maybe an hour or two.
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Awesome! posted:so why did anthem flop so hard? what was so bad about it? How about reading a goon's actual thesis instead then? Onmi posted:So I did my thesis on FFXIV and Anthem, their similarities, how poo poo turned around, etc. And people here asked me to upload it because reading a 28 page document written academically sounded fun I guess. e: Veotax posted:They did however make the Crystal Tower 24-man raids required before you can move onto Heavensword though, since they made them important to the story of Shadowbringers.  (it's "Heavensward") Tamba fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Awesome! posted:curse of the dead gods is now out of early access https://store.steampowered.com/app/1123770/Curse_of_the_Dead_Gods/ I mean, obviously, Hades is Curse of the Dad Gods.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/DominicTarason/status/1364777661369827330 https://twitter.com/StateOfDecay/status/1364868905613680642 https://twitter.com/StateOfDecay/status/1364870216514117634 Response from the devs.
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