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What are the best vampire games? I'll take theme and/or gameplay, e.g.: - best of both worlds: vampire: the masquerade bloodlines has one of the best vampire storylines, and even integrates some of the good gameplay, as in you can hunt people in alleys and eat them for blood, then turn blood into powers you can use. Good stuff. - story: vampyr, as the struggle of this good and honorable man struggling with needing to eat people is good. the gameplay, ehh. - gameplay: streets of rogue. playing as a vampire is honestly amazing as you hunt people in alleys, you can weaponize your bite (as it stunlocks anyone you bite) and it forces you to really deal with blood as your only sustenance as you can't eat food. sadly it doesn't really play into other vampire powers, but at least you can fight werewolves. I'll take any form of game, visual novel, action, whatever. I have played the entirety of the Legacy of Kain saga and own all of the Vampire: the Masquerade stuff on steam.
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StrixNebulosa posted:What are the best vampire games? I'll take theme and/or gameplay, e.g.: If you like roguelikes, Golden Krone Hotel does some pretty cool stuff with vampirism. (The whole game revolves around it). It’s also a fairly low weight roguelike as far as that goes. Check the reviews- it’s pretty well regarded.
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Mar 30, 2021 01:17
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StrixNebulosa posted:What are the best vampire games? I'll take theme and/or gameplay, e.g.: Shadow Hearts: Covenant featuring Joachim Valentine, the gay wrestling vampire who puts on a butterfly mask for ultimate power and fights using discarded sewer pipe, British post boxes, or miniature office buildings and Nautilus subs
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Mar 30, 2021 01:19
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Bloodrayne for og xbox
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Chinook posted:If you like roguelikes, Golden Krone Hotel does some pretty cool stuff with vampirism. (The whole game revolves around it). It’s also a fairly low weight roguelike as far as that goes. Check the reviews- it’s pretty well regarded.  I forgot about that!!! I love it a lot!Hwurmp posted:Shadow Hearts: Covenant featuring Joachim Valentine, the gay wrestling vampire who puts on a butterfly mask for ultimate power and fights using discarded sewer pipe, British post boxes, or miniature office buildings and Nautilus subs Okay this sounds awesome, I'll dig out a PS2 emulator or something!! Sandwich Anarchist posted:Bloodrayne for og xbox That's on steam now! I should pick it up and play it, thanks!
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Mar 30, 2021 01:22
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Shadow Hearts is good but honestly not a good rec if you're looking to explore some vampire themes; I'm just compelled to mention Joachim every time I hear somebody ask about vampires
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Mar 30, 2021 01:32
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Hwurmp posted:Shadow Hearts is good but honestly not a good rec if you're looking to explore some vampire themes; I'm just compelled to mention Joachim every time I hear somebody ask about vampires Just played this recently. Got sort of far (maybe about 20 hours in) and enjoyed my time with it. The battle system is very mechanically robust and each character has different systems that you can interact with to help you in battle. The only real issue is despite all this stuff the game is really, really easy, so if you do engage with those systems and understand them even just a little bit you're pretty much on easy street for the rest of the game. This is what made me lose interest and quit, but it had very charming characters and Joachim rocks.
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Mar 30, 2021 01:38
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Mostly I only know games that incidentally included vampires without them necessarily being the main enemy like the Witcher series or Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4. Witcher 3's take on vampires is particularly developed. There is Thousand Year Old Vampire, but that's a solo writing game instead of a videogame.
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Mar 30, 2021 01:40
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SlothfulCobra posted:There is Thousand Year Old Vampire, but that's a solo writing game instead of a videogame.
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Mar 30, 2021 01:55
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SlothfulCobra posted:Mostly I only know games that incidentally included vampires without them necessarily being the main enemy like the Witcher series or Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4. Witcher 3's take on vampires is particularly developed. Ah! I picked this up and then never did anything with it, because I'm smart like that. Going to read it now! PS Thousand Year Old Vampire is also available at itch.io!
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Mar 30, 2021 02:23
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It's hard to appreciate some of what Shadow Hearts: Covenant does unless you've played through the first game, but it's kind of a mess. On the other hand it's only about 20-25 hours, so it's not like you lose that much time. But even though both games feature vampires, you really wouldn't describe them as vampire games. There's an ongoing LP if you're interested in checking it out without playing.
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Mar 30, 2021 02:44
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StrixNebulosa posted:What are the best vampire games? I'll take theme and/or gameplay, e.g.: Gabriel Knight 3. (not a joke recommendation, people often ridicule it for that cat hair mustache thing that occurs ten minutes in that was put there against the writer's wishes, but in truth it's one of the most intricate adventure games out there)
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Mar 30, 2021 06:44
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Is there any remotely modern game that comes close to getting the spirit of Toy Commander?
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field balm posted:Hi thread, just got a pc that can play games for the first time in 10 years or so. I'd like a 3d game that is open world or sandbox with a focus on fun movement. I don't really know how to explain it, but something like the movement in mirrors edge, or the wire/parachute combo in just cause 2 that makes simple traversal of an environment engaging and lets you kind of zone out and just explore. Skate 3 or skiing in goldsrc games kinda come to mind as well. Maybe a driving/vehicle sim with a big open world and heavy customisation? Idk just gently caress me up really. Titanfall 2 isn't what you want - it's not an open world, it's an on-rails corridor FPS - but it does have the best and most fun movement I've played in a game maybe ever. The "makes simple traversal of an environment engaging" factor is off the charts high. You aren't exploring except sometimes looking around to figure out how to solve a movement puzzle that's right in front of you, and I wouldn't recommend it as the thing you're exactly looking for, but still I'd put it on a wish list and look out for a sale because it's just too good at what it does.
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field balm posted:Hi thread, just got a pc that can play games for the first time in 10 years or so. I'd like a 3d game that is open world or sandbox with a focus on fun movement. I don't really know how to explain it, but something like the movement in mirrors edge, or the wire/parachute combo in just cause 2 that makes simple traversal of an environment engaging and lets you kind of zone out and just explore. Skate 3 or skiing in goldsrc games kinda come to mind as well. Maybe a driving/vehicle sim with a big open world and heavy customisation? Idk just gently caress me up really. Dying Light is an open-world zombie game with Mirror's Edge-style parkour, and eventually a grappling hook that can zip you up to nearby roofs
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Mar 30, 2021 17:08
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Fighting Elegy posted:I liked it a lot when I played 3 years ago and I'm not even a hardcore cRPG guy! A lot of the quests connect with each other in fun ways and I felt like that made them all flow nicely. Good writing. I didn't run into the Jewish Gnome but maybe that's cause I played as a gnome? Bugsnax
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So I'm in the mood for some beating up vast quantities of monsters and stealing their pants to make myself stronger, but I don't feel like going back to Grim Dawn yet again. How does Chronicon hold up? It seems pretty interesting, but I'd love to hear some goon opinions before making the jump and purchasing it.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:04
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Whats the best iOS CCG if I want to spend as little as possible? I care more about fun and deck variety than climbing ranks, but being at least a bit competitive would be nice.
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Apr 4, 2021 14:09
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Eternal Card Game is incredibly free to play friendly. It's going to be very familiar if you have played MTG. Money will always help of course, but the game let's you craft easily, and dumps out lots of big rewards. Slay the Spire is single player, but it's a lot of fun. It's a Rogue like deck building game where you draft your deck against an AI and pick up relics with super powers as you battle through a dungeon. Like Dominion meets Rogue, meets MTG arena.
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Apr 4, 2021 14:41
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Danakir posted:So I'm in the mood for some beating up vast quantities of monsters and stealing their pants to make myself stronger, but I don't feel like going back to Grim Dawn yet again. How does Chronicon hold up? It seems pretty interesting, but I'd love to hear some goon opinions before making the jump and purchasing it. Chronicon is the best ARPG / Hack & Slash that I know of. Usually, this is a genre with very little respect for your time. Chronicon is the game that respect you the most. Plenty of QoL, fun theorycrafting and builds, interesting high level content.
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eSporks posted:Eternal Card Game is incredibly free to play friendly. It's going to be very familiar if you have played MTG. Money will always help of course, but the game let's you craft easily, and dumps out lots of big rewards. Thanks, I was looking both at Eternal and Legends of Runeterra, because the thread seemed more active here. Slay the Spire is a great game, but I’m looking for cheap Magic right now.
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Fat Samurai posted:Whats the best iOS CCG if I want to spend as little as possible? I care more about fun and deck variety than climbing ranks, but being at least a bit competitive would be nice.
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Hughmoris posted:Could I get a recommendation for a simple PS4 game that I can play couch co-op with my dad? Thanks to everyone that recommended a game. I ended up buying Streets of Rage 4. He was able to pick up the basics fairly quickly, and we beat the game (on Easy mode). 
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What are the best co-op survival games? Don't say Raft, we got stuck in Raft thanks to the shark eating our engines and we want something else to play.
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StrixNebulosa posted:What are the best co-op survival games? Don't say Raft, we got stuck in Raft thanks to the shark eating our engines and we want something else to play. Valheilm is good and survival light Project Zomboid is project zomboid, the fancy new overhaul won't have multiplayer for a couple of months but the pre overhaul is still multiplayer
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Don't Starve Together is wonderful, but you have to buy into the Klei principle that dying repeatedly is fun. I hear marvelous things about Valheim; in particular, the emergent narrative is often really funny.
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7 Days To Die is a big one, and Rust is experiencing a resurgence of popularity lately. If you're more into exploration and finding resources to craft things, you might want to give Astroneer a try.Arsenic Lupin posted:Don't Starve Together is wonderful, but you have to buy into the Klei principle that dying repeatedly is fun. I hear marvelous things about Valheim; in particular, the emergent narrative is often really funny. What I think is most wrong about Don't Starve Together is that when you die you stay dead and then you have to wonder whether or not it's worth one player continuing on living after the other is dead and just hanging around as a ghost.
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SlothfulCobra posted:7 Days To Die is a big one, and Rust is experiencing a resurgence of popularity lately. If you're more into exploration and finding resources to craft things, you might want to give Astroneer a try.
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SlothfulCobra posted:7 Days To Die is a big one, and Rust is experiencing a resurgence of popularity lately. If you're more into exploration and finding resources to craft things, you might want to give Astroneer a try. You can make items that resurrect the dead (fairly) easily.
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StrixNebulosa posted:What are the best co-op survival games? Don't say Raft, we got stuck in Raft thanks to the shark eating our engines and we want something else to play. 100% Valheim. I don't even like survival/building games normally and this sucked me right in. The Forest was also pretty fun when we tried it but too creepy/janky.
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are there strategy games with great trap design systems? Dungeon Keeper and evil genius have/had an assortment of traps such as magnets, boulders, pirahna tanks, tesla coils, etc that you could build to defend your base, but you had to think a little on how best to combine them and not make your own personnel fall victim to them. Are there other games with similarly satisfying ways of indirect, automated defenses?
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double nine posted:are there strategy games with great trap design systems? Dungeon Keeper and evil genius have/had an assortment of traps such as magnets, boulders, pirahna tanks, tesla coils, etc that you could build to defend your base, but you had to think a little on how best to combine them and not make your own personnel fall victim to them. Are there other games with similarly satisfying ways of indirect, automated defenses? Dungeon warfare I and II. It's a tower defense game but the traps are really satisfying SpaceGoatFarts fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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double nine posted:are there strategy games with great trap design systems? Dungeon Keeper and evil genius have/had an assortment of traps such as magnets, boulders, pirahna tanks, tesla coils, etc that you could build to defend your base, but you had to think a little on how best to combine them and not make your own personnel fall victim to them. Are there other games with similarly satisfying ways of indirect, automated defenses? Rimworld is all about kill box design on harder difficulties.
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Pharnakes posted:Rimworld is all about kill box design on harder difficulties. One problem with Rimworld is that eventually you might just say "screw it" and go with the more game-effective killbox designs, which are efficient but rather unfun to play and/or watch. A few mods should fix that, though, and significantly broaden your horizons while also adding some pretty warcrimey options (funneling raiders into a tunnel maze that you then seal and set on fire is a fan favorite).
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double nine posted:are there strategy games with great trap design systems? Dungeon Keeper and evil genius have/had an assortment of traps such as magnets, boulders, pirahna tanks, tesla coils, etc that you could build to defend your base, but you had to think a little on how best to combine them and not make your own personnel fall victim to them. Are there other games with similarly satisfying ways of indirect, automated defenses? If you're OK with tower defense, you could try Orcs Must Die.
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double nine posted:are there strategy games with great trap design systems? Dungeon Keeper and evil genius have/had an assortment of traps such as magnets, boulders, pirahna tanks, tesla coils, etc that you could build to defend your base, but you had to think a little on how best to combine them and not make your own personnel fall victim to them. Are there other games with similarly satisfying ways of indirect, automated defenses?
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Oldstench posted:If you're OK with tower defense, you could try Orcs Must Die. Fun and goofyass game.
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Orcs Must Die and OMD2 are both fantastic.
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Dungeon Warfare was kinda fun but the traps can miss randomly and the enemy wave balance is loving infuriating because some boards wait until the last wave to send a shitload of heavy units or something that will absolutely wreck you unless you make a board to counter it. Meaning you're probably just going to waste your first run on a board learning what the final wave of gently caress you is so you can build your traps to counter it. Orcs Must Die has a lot more wiggle room and I'd recommend it over Dungeon Warfare. I didn't try Dungeon Warfare 2 though, maybe the enemy waves are better balanced in that one.
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Is there a good ‘babby’s first war game? I’ve played RTS and 4X and tactics games but never hex based war games. I like management games and sims and figured I’d give war games a shot. Shadow Empire caught my attention in a recent RPS article and I never messed with supply lines and logistics. I am not looking for The Best war game -more like - the most Approachable to the war game genre overall? I’d prefer modern and sci-fi settings over fantasy but not picky if it’s a good game.
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