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PiCroft posted:I’m looking for a good Stardew Valley style game with an emphasis on cooking. For instance, I’ve been keeping my eye on https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647190/World_End_Diner/ I feel like I can meet each half of this recommendation but not them put together. Plenty of nice automation games, plenty of nice cooking games, no games that come to mind, for me, that have you automating food preparation. Maybe there is one though!
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Sep 4, 2021 01:54
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is automachef good because that from the title is literally both
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Sep 4, 2021 16:06
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Automachef is a puzzle game about placing of tiles, sadly.
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Play posted:I feel like I can meet each half of this recommendation but not them put together. Plenty of nice automation games, plenty of nice cooking games, no games that come to mind, for me, that have you automating food preparation. Maybe there is one though! Other than modded minecraft, the closest I've seen so far is Nom Nom Galaxy which is sort of like what I'm looking for but it's also much more of a puzzle-ey game like Automachef, another game I have and yeah its much more of a puzzle game using logic than "cooking sim" sort of dealio.
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Sep 6, 2021 15:33
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I enjoy theory crafting things, but I think I like imagining Path of Exile builds more than I like playing the game. Anything else out there where I can idly be playing the game in my head? That's the kind of stuff that gets its hooks in me real good. I have a Switch and a Series S.
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Sep 6, 2021 15:56
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Oenis posted:What are some good games to play with your partner? We already played It Takes Two and loved it. Maybe Haven? It’s essentially a romance, so be aware of how you would feel playing one with your wife. We enjoyed it. So far the gameplay consists mostly of moving over stuff on the ground to pick it up and very easy fights that are almost impossible to lose. One of the first games I played with my wife was Borderlands. Playing with the difficulty turned way down might not be too stressful, but a bad choice if she doesn’t like action movies. Actually Diablo3 is pretty easy to outgear and a very smooth experience so that may be a better start.
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Sep 6, 2021 16:06
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PiCroft posted:I’m looking for a good Stardew Valley style game with an emphasis on cooking. For instance, I’ve been keeping my eye on https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647190/World_End_Diner/ Factory town? It’s not just food, but it has sandwich and juice recipes that you can automate. It’s a logistics game/city builder so you also need to collect wood, brick and other building materials to build your kitchens and customer houses, etc. I guess, technically you could do that with Rimworld, medieval, or other DF-likes. There’s several Harvest Moon games on steam now if you are looking for a more Stardew Valley experience, but they usually don’t have much automation. Factorio and pretend you’re making food instead of spaceship parts? You may find this free online “game” entertaining: http://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/supply-chain/index.html There are several automation games and tons of cooking/production games, but not a lot of both. Would you be interested in Restaurant management games? Those are kind of like automating food production.
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Sep 6, 2021 17:11
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External Organs posted:I enjoy theory crafting things, but I think I like imagining Path of Exile builds more than I like playing the game.
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Sep 6, 2021 17:21
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LLSix posted:Factory town? It’s not just food, but it has sandwich and juice recipes that you can automate. It’s a logistics game/city builder so you also need to collect wood, brick and other building materials to build your kitchens and customer houses, etc. I appreciate these suggestions but I have almost all of these games  Maybe this sounds weird, but the mechanisms for transporting the “product” and how it’s processed is important. Like, I don’t know if you’ve played modded minecraft but mine factory reloaded allows you to auto-breed, auto-slaughter animals which produces products that you can then pipe into factories that produce meat products. I think it’s because I am fascinated by the Abes Oddysee Rupture Farms setting, a horrifyingly dystopian capitalist take on industrial meat production. Stardew Valley is also good, but it it’s less focused on the automation side of things. It doesn’t need to be horrifyingly cruel like Oddworld but that facet of building an automated way of taking the raw products, processing them and turning them into sellable products en masse is appealing in a way I can’t describe. It’s why, despite me not liking the game in general, I still play Nom Nom galaxy. The way you produce soups involves harvesting and later producing the raw ingredients through growing or ranching, creating conveyers or using bots to move ingredients and finally combining them into delicious soup concoctions. I’m resigned to the fact my particular tastes are not served (lol) at this time, I’m just curious if there’s good examples of food manufacturing games out there that scratch that admittedly very specific itch hah.
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External Organs posted:I enjoy theory crafting things, but I think I like imagining Path of Exile builds more than I like playing the game. Rift Wizard!!
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Sep 6, 2021 19:20
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I'm almost done with Assassin's Creed Odyssey - I've finished the main story and just getting the rest of the cultists, so I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I enjoyed it! I hadn't played an AC since 2 and some of Brotherhood/Revelations. It seemed like they had learned from games like Arkham and Shadow of Mordor how to make the combat better, I thought the story was good enough to keep me going for all those hours, and I liked the finding clues and hunting for cultists thing a bunch. Where should I get more modern AC? Should I do the Odyssey DLCs (I know about the story problem with one of them, but I'm okay with it now that that's (edit: supposedly) fixed) or Origins or Valhalla? Go back to 4? I'm inclined against Valhalla since I like parkouring around famous historical buildings and I've heard Valhalla's England is less cool than the other AC's environments, but maybe that's just something I heard and not actually true. gohuskies fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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Sep 7, 2021 17:13
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gohuskies posted:I'm almost done with Assassin's Creed Odyssey - I've finished the main story and just getting the rest of the cultists, so I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I enjoyed it! I hadn't played an AC since 2 and some of Brotherhood/Revelations. It seemed like they had learned from games like Arkham and Shadow of Mordor how to make the combat better, I thought the story was good enough to keep me going, and I liked the finding clues and hunting for cultists thing a bunch. the Fate of Atlantis DLC is probably the best content in the game. The First Blade has an awful story which is absolutely not fixed, but adds a bunch more cultists to hunt, like you I really loved that part of the game and while the DLC stuff isn't as good (you meet most of them as part of the main quest) it still scratches a similar itch. It's all worth playing imo
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Sep 7, 2021 17:18
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I think it depends what world you'd find more interesting to run around in. Jungles and deserts with mirages, or foggy scandinavia. I think they all have a similar playstyle. There's even a similar amount of boats from all the rivers and waterways literally criss-crossing Egypt. I'd recommend going to Origins just because you can probably get it cheaper. Bayek has an okay story.
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Sep 7, 2021 19:42
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SlothfulCobra posted:Bayek has an okay story. And a dazzling smile.
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I just picked up a Vita for some reason. What are the good games? The real must-haves and also maybe some that flew under the radar.
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gohuskies posted:I'm almost done with Assassin's Creed Odyssey - I've finished the main story and just getting the rest of the cultists, so I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I enjoyed it! I hadn't played an AC since 2 and some of Brotherhood/Revelations. It seemed like they had learned from games like Arkham and Shadow of Mordor how to make the combat better, I thought the story was good enough to keep me going for all those hours, and I liked the finding clues and hunting for cultists thing a bunch. The First Blade DLC is very much more of the same, story stuff aside. If you literally just wish Odyssey was a bit longer then it's fine. The Atlantis DLC is a good shout if you like Greek Mythology, your current player character, and can tolerate the Isu bullshit. It leans really far into the magical mythology stuff, so there's some weird new architecture and enemy variety and stuff to get into. If you want famous historical buildings, Origins is pretty great. You've got the obvious pyramids and the Sphinx, and also a metric tonne of rad temples, but doesn't do much with the clues/cultists side of things - it's all in the main story rather than being a cool side activity you follow yourself. Bayek is cool and it's a gorgeous looking game as well.
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gohuskies posted:I'm almost done with Assassin's Creed Odyssey - I've finished the main story and just getting the rest of the cultists, so I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I enjoyed it! I hadn't played an AC since 2 and some of Brotherhood/Revelations. It seemed like they had learned from games like Arkham and Shadow of Mordor how to make the combat better, I thought the story was good enough to keep me going for all those hours, and I liked the finding clues and hunting for cultists thing a bunch. Based on what you liked about Odyssey I'd absolutely say go backwards and play Origins instead going forwards and playing Valhalla. Origins is good, it has great buildings and scenery and a solid story. I never made it all the way through but I do know I liked it better than Valhalla.
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Sep 10, 2021 17:30
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Of the three most recent AC games I think Valhalla is the weakest by far, combining Origins' lack of interesting RPG progression with Odyssey's overlong and meandering storyline while lacking the strengths of an efficient plot or memorable characters to carry you through. Stacking rocks and playing Orlog is cool though.
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Sep 10, 2021 17:37
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I recently had to stop playing Origins because a main story line kill would send me to the desktop. Killing Gennedios and when the Animus opens, CTD. Their tech support would just tell me over and over that it was either my drivers or direct x or background services or some poo poo. Even though any other kill before and one I did after I got that crash all went smoothly. After the troubles I had with Odyssey crashing whenever the autosave would go off in a non saving area, this just killed any Ubisoft game for me. Absolutely loved the game and imagery, big fan of ancient egypt.
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Between Odyssey and Origins, I actually finished Origins my first playthrough, but burnt out twice halfway through Odyssey's cultist hunt fest. Both are excellent modern AssCreed games, but something about the combination of Origin's plot and characters carried me through.
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I got hooked on Odyssey after a free weekend, but at some point in Sparta, something really put me off it. Something about glorifying Spartan brutality and slavery I think. Origins had a couple weaker points, but never put me off that badly, and it was pretty amazing just going from place to place even without quests driving me forward. There's pretty big chunks of the map that the story will never point you towards, and while Odyssey keeps you busy at sea with a bunch of boats to deal with, in Origins there will be weird mirages cropping up. I'll get back to Odyssey at some point, because I feel I'm doomed to play all of the Assassins' Creeds at some point, but there's nothing particularly drawing me back. I've also got Syndicate half-played through to get back to at some point. Unity I'm not sure I'll ever play because I've never seen it go on sale, I think they're ashamed of it.
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Manager Hoyden posted:I just picked up a Vita for some reason. What are the good games? The real must-haves and also maybe some that flew under the radar. Persona 4: Golden and Gravity Rush
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Manager Hoyden posted:I just picked up a Vita for some reason. What are the good games? The real must-haves and also maybe some that flew under the radar. most of these are available on PC or PS4 but: Persona 4 Golden Gravity Rush Killzone Mercenary Tearaway Soul Sacrifice Delta Velocity Ultra Velocity2x Severed Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Sep 12, 2021 |
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Sep 12, 2021 01:25
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Hwurmp posted:Velocity Ultra This is an extremely good game.
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I've just finished the 2017 Prey game. I loved it quite a bit. Are there any other sci-fi games with the same sort of atmosphere? I love the space stuff. It doesn't need to be an immersive sim either.
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Sep 12, 2021 01:43
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de_dust posted:I've just finished the 2017 Prey game. I loved it quite a bit. Prey is practically a remake of System Shock 2, and it's also somewhat structurally similar to, and developed by the same team as, the Dishonored series. The latter isn't sci-fi but it's a world where a lot of "magic" has a distinctly scientific aesthetic to it. Like you've got clockwork robots and alchemists and cities fueled by whale oil.
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Sep 12, 2021 01:48
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de_dust posted:I've just finished the 2017 Prey game. I loved it quite a bit. Alien: Isolation
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There's sort of a pseudo-genre of games called "0451" that share a lot of themes and gameplay aspects, and they use the "0451" easter egg as a sort of reference to their game dev heritage going back to Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock. Prey is the latest one. Other good examples that are easy to get into now are Dishonored and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Some games that are stylistically similar to Prey but outside of the pseudo-genre are The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and Control.
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Sep 12, 2021 02:26
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Hwurmp posted:Alien: Isolation loving owns. There's a fan mod to give it basic VR support on PC, and it's way too loving spooky 
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's sort of a pseudo-genre of games called "0451" that share a lot of themes and gameplay aspects, and they use the "0451" easter egg as a sort of reference to their game dev heritage going back to Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock. Prey is the latest one. Other good examples that are easy to get into now are Dishonored and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Some people call these "immersive sims".
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Sep 12, 2021 04:53
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I'm looking for a mystery or puzzle game to play with my gf. We really enjoyed Tangle Tower and Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishment on the whodunnit end and Machinarium on the point and click puzzle game end. We bounced off of Monkey Island for the humor being a little corny and grating. Between us we have a Switch, a high-end PC, and Apple/Android tablets. Any recommendations? I might see if Neverhood is available on GOG or just straight-up abandonware, now.
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Riatsala posted:I'm looking for a mystery or puzzle game to play with my gf. We really enjoyed Tangle Tower and Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishment on the whodunnit end and Machinarium on the point and click puzzle game end. We bounced off of Monkey Island for the humor being a little corny and grating. Between us we have a Switch, a high-end PC, and Apple/Android tablets. Any recommendations? I might see if Neverhood is available on GOG or just straight-up abandonware, now. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-neverhood-451 e: not sure if that site is legit or not, just decided I should check Oh thats the url listed under googles sidebar for Neverhood, so should be fine best soundtrack ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGk1bQ9rcU OgNar fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Sep 12, 2021 |
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Riatsala posted:I'm looking for a mystery or puzzle game to play with my gf. We really enjoyed Tangle Tower and Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishment on the whodunnit end and Machinarium on the point and click puzzle game end. We bounced off of Monkey Island for the humor being a little corny and grating. Between us we have a Switch, a high-end PC, and Apple/Android tablets. Any recommendations? I might see if Neverhood is available on GOG or just straight-up abandonware, now. Return of the Obra Dinn
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Riatsala posted:I'm looking for a mystery or puzzle game to play with my gf. We really enjoyed Tangle Tower and Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishment on the whodunnit end and Machinarium on the point and click puzzle game end. We bounced off of Monkey Island for the humor being a little corny and grating. Between us we have a Switch, a high-end PC, and Apple/Android tablets. Any recommendations? I might see if Neverhood is available on GOG or just straight-up abandonware, now. Contradiction: Spot The Liar! is a FMV who-dunnit game that really revels in the absurdity of making a FMV game in 2015. Everyone acting is clearly having a blast with the full knowledge that what they are doing is dumb, while still keeping plausible deniability up. ^ Obra Dinn is one of the best adventure games ever made.
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StoryTime posted:^ Obra Dinn is one of the best adventure games ever made. This is 100% true, but you also might want to check out Paradise Killer
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Riatsala posted:I'm looking for a mystery or puzzle game to play with my gf. We really enjoyed Tangle Tower and Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishment on the whodunnit end and Machinarium on the point and click puzzle game end. We bounced off of Monkey Island for the humor being a little corny and grating. Between us we have a Switch, a high-end PC, and Apple/Android tablets. Any recommendations? I might see if Neverhood is available on GOG or just straight-up abandonware, now. If you can tolerate occasionally having to shoot monsters in fairly unsatisfying combat sequences, The Sinking City shares a few earmarks with the Sherlock Holmes games, insofar as the clue-finding and deduction (with nearly the same mind-palacey type screens and everything). It feels a lot more repetitive and samey than Sherlock, though, as most of what you wind up doing is figuring out where to put the next waypoint on your map, so this is somewhat of a grudging recommendation.
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I've been playing a lot of Heat Signature and Cryptark lately, both are great games, and now I'm really feeling like playing more games based around the idea of infiltrating randomly generated compounds full of complex interlocking systems. Anyone can recommend anything like that?
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Infiltrating compounds however you want is basically immersive sim territory, and unfortunately there aren't many with procedural generation. Prey: Mooncrash comes closes I would think. Great game. Caves of Qud is an awesome roguelike with tons of worldbuilding, if you haven't played that. Fun to explore in that world. Unexplored is a real time roguelike built around pretty involved dungeon ecologies, completely procedurally generated. Unexplored 2 (early acces now on the epic store) takes it a step further and creates an entire world instead of a single dungeon, with very interesting mechanics imo. Also looks loving great. XCOM 2 or XCOM: Chimera Squad might also tickle that itch. MGS V: The Phantom Pain is not procedural per se, but the gear of enemies during free roam does change a bunch, and it makes a difference. You also have a shitton of freedom to assault enemy camps however you like. And oh, Hitman (the new trilogy) is more of a clockwork playground but I think it's the best compound infiltration game ever made and it'll take literal months of playtime to see everything it has to offer, I'd reckon you'll be bored of the game before you run out of actual content. Also tons of toys and ways to play, just like MGS V.
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