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Galick posted:So I'm in the mood for some factory/production thing but not as the main purpose of the game. My best comparison is using Rimworld Vanilla Expanded to make a factory that I have to keep fed while also managing my colonists and defending it, etc. I have no interest in Factorio at the moment or in Factory Town. Any recommendations? This is kind of frustratingly vague, I know. Kenshi? It's very much something you can set up and automate to happen in the background while you do... whatever it is you're supposed to do in Kenshi late game, I usually get bored at the aimlessness of it all around that point lol. No Man's Sky as well, you can end up with some extremely complicated and satisfying production lines running across the universe. I always found it very satisfying to visit e.g. my hydrogen plant planet, collect my products, reinforce/expand it a bit then move on
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Galick posted:So I'm in the mood for some factory/production thing but not as the main purpose of the game. My best comparison is using Rimworld Vanilla Expanded to make a factory that I have to keep fed while also managing my colonists and defending it, etc. I have no interest in Factorio at the moment or in Factory Town. Any recommendations? This is kind of frustratingly vague, I know. Riftbreaker would roughly fit this I think
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Satisfactory was fun last time I played it. Has there been anything new to scratch the Terraria itch or is Terraria still the reigning king of side scrolling minecraftalikes
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Is Fallout 4 fun? I did not like Fallout 3 and really liked New Vegas, but always wished the hardcore mode was more about survival than it actually ends up being. From what I've heard, it sounds like Fallout 4 is more like what I wanted from New Vegas.
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Dr.D-O posted:Is Fallout 4 fun? It’s more like 3.
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pissinthewind posted:Satisfactory was fun last time I played it. I admittedly have not played it, but what about It Lurks Below? I think it's got the same kind of stuff going on. Unfortunately no longer on gamepass.
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F4 is way better than 3. The world makes kinda sense instead of being random poo poo in a terrible wasteland, and the story is meh but OK instead of completely idiotic like in 3. The gameplay is way better. Shooting feels good, and settlements and crafting finally give you a reason to hoover up all the junk and suddenly makes finding some glue or duct-tape a good reward for a dungeon. With a couple of mods the settlement building feels like an indie game inside of fallout! The hardcore/survival mode is fine, but I'd recommend some mods to spice it up honestly. It ties in really well with the settlement building. If you like roaming around an interesting wasteland with okay-ish short stories, pretty fun combat: go for it. If you expect New Vegas style writing with good gameplay and now in Boston: nope, lol
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F4 is a better shooter (not a good shooter, though) than F3, and looks substantially better, but it's a way worse RPG, both mechanically and as a narrative, or a vehicle for quests (yes, it's hard to blieve) It's also more samey and annoying to explore. Don't know about the survival mode.
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It's worth remembering that the reason that New Vegas developed its hardcore survival mode was probably because so many people were fooling around with survival mods with Fallout 3, so you could just fool around with extra mods to get more the challenge level you wanted. I think there was also a really popular mod for Skyrim that made you have to deal with being cold. There's a lot of survival crafting games out there for you to try if you really want to get your fix, but I think most of them also have a whole deal where if you play well enough, eventually you're no longer struggling and have an ample buffer to fuel your travels. Don't Starve is probably the harshest one I've played. New Vegas's greatest strengths are in the writing and how well the world is built, and Bethesda's definitely not as strong in the writing, but I've still heard a lot of people have fun with Fallout 4, and if you're looking for a more mechanical experience then the writing might not be as much your concern anyways.
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Walh Hara posted:I'm looking for more squad based tactics games where your teamcomposition changes over time in a good way. Massive Chalice might tickle your fancy. Its a xcom like fantasy game where you manage a team of heroes. As time progresses in the campaign your heroes can marry each other and pass on their mantle to their children, who inherit traits (for better or for worse) from your heroes.
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Walh Hara posted:I'm looking for more squad based tactics games where your teamcomposition changes over time in a good way. Othercide had a pretty neat gimmick, the only way to heal your units is to permanently sacrifice another unit of equal or higher level. As you play through a campaign (more of a run-based roguelite than a linear narrative campaign), even if you play perfectly you lose units through attrition (from not being able to easily heal them) and you have to make difficult choices about what units to sacrifice to heal your favored units in order to keep them around. The game is designed around this so it never feels like bullshit, loss becomes a deliberate part of all of your plans. It's a good (if pretty punishing) tactics RPG with a unique post-apocalyptic setting to boot. (It's more of a post-Death Stranding style apocalypse than a post-nuclear apocalypse or whatever) deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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I'm in the mood for a single-player survival game with a couple of must-haves: 1. It has at least one actual win condition 2. Achievable stability throughout the game. By this I mean that you can (for example) finish an outpost or something and turtle up preparing for expansion/exploration/questing/whatever. I'm just tired of the "eventually you die no matter what haha how fun and original" nonsense the genre is rife with Any suggestions that aren't project zomboid or neo scavenger?
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Manager Hoyden posted:I'm in the mood for a single-player survival game with a couple of must-haves: Subnautica
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Hwurmp posted:Subnautica Awesome suggestion for anyone reading this! Unfortunately (or fortunately I suppose), that is one of my most played games of all time. But if anyone is looking for something similar and has not played it yet, buy Subnautica right now.
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…subnatica below zero?
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Terraria With the caveat that there are occasional randomly triggered events that can mess you and base up, but there are ways of building to mitigate/prevent that from happening.
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If you're down for something survival-horror, Darkwood.
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Manager Hoyden posted:I'm in the mood for a single-player survival game with a couple of must-haves: It's not really finished yet, but are you hyped for Ostronauts?
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PosSibley posted:It's not really finished yet, but are you hyped for Ostronauts? I never heard of it until right now but it looks pretty interesting I thought Neo Scavenger was a bit of a slog, so I'm hoping this one isn't being made with the same ideals
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Manager Hoyden posted:I never heard of it until right now but it looks pretty interesting It's not really at a point where you can easily tell yet, but may as well track it on the radar
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Manager Hoyden posted:I'm in the mood for a single-player survival game with a couple of must-haves: Still in Early Access but Grounded looks like it should have a win condition once the campaign is finished, and while playing the free weekend this summer I had a solid base that I could venture out from to explore the map. The Forest might also be worth a look, although I didn't really like it myself and eventually stopped playing. \/\/ The Long Dark is also very good. Terminus fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Dec 4, 2021 |
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Manager Hoyden posted:I'm in the mood for a single-player survival game with a couple of must-haves: If you don't care that much about the risk of dying from hunger or exposure, how about Spiritfarer? It's a chill game that still has the element of crafting and looking for resources, even if there's no risk of dying without. You do need to feed the people on the boat if you want them to be happy at least. It's also pretty narrative-focused and you have to do little quests for the people aboard the ship, so there's probably an ending. Astroneer is also a fairly chill game with a little more risk, and you don't exactly need to stockpile much unless you've got something big you want to build or if you want to go wandering without tethers for whatever reason. There is the overall goal of opening up all the planet cores, but it may not be a final enough win condition, there's not really a story leading you there. Valheim might be something to keep your eye on, since it's in early access but it already has some kind of story or structure. If you can get your hands on a DS or an emulator, I'd even recommend Lost in Blue, since I think it was the one time I was most into getting survival going in a survival game, building up a food surplus to be able to venture deeper into the island. It's also got an ending And if you don't manage to venture deep enough into the island, a time limit where it ends anyways.
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Sealcub posted:I didn't see this thread when I asked a similar question in the PS4 thread, but I figure maybe it's worth a shot here. Yakuza Zero
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MrXmas posted:Yakuza Zero Holy poo poo it's perfect
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One of my all time favorite games is Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. It was my first non-Heroes Might and Magic game, and I know some people think it's kind of the shallowest of the 6, 7, 8 run, but I love it. I love the adaptation of a grid-based dungeon crawler. The only one I think that has done it better is Wizardry 8. So that being said, I really want to play a really good first-person grid-based RPG that isn't: Wizardry, Might and Magic, Legend of Grimrock, Etrian Odyssey, Shin Megami Tensei, Ultima, Arx Fatalis, Bethesda games, Heroes of a Broken Land. The only reason being is that I've played all those. I've also played one for mobile that I hated but I guess is kinda popular, and another one for PC that was kind of a real-time-with-pause thing that... was... gosh, it should have been good but never clicked :\ I guess they're called Gridders. Let's assume I've played everything up until the year 2006. Maybe there's something I've missed since then. credburn fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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credburn posted:One of my all time favorite games is Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. It was my first non-Heroes Might and Magic game, and I know some people think it's kind of the shallowest of the 6, 7, 8 run, but I love it. I love the adaptation of a grid-based dungeon crawler. The only one I think that has done it better is Wizardry 8. First, to be absolutely sure because it is just barely possible you missed a spot, did you specifically play the Persona Q games? I figure, given that you listed all those and you specifically wrote Etrian Odyssey and SMT, I would have expected Persona Q to be on the list if you had played it, right next to those, having remembered it when listing them.
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credburn posted:One of my all time favorite games is Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. It was my first non-Heroes Might and Magic game, and I know some people think it's kind of the shallowest of the 6, 7, 8 run, but I love it. I love the adaptation of a grid-based dungeon crawler. The only one I think that has done it better is Wizardry 8. Starcrawlers
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credburn posted:So that being said, I really want to play a really good first-person grid-based RPG If you're okay with "pretty good" instead of "really good", and depending on your definition of "good" in the first place, you could take a look at Aeon of Sands - The Trail. The writing's deliberately very goofy which will be a turnoff for some but I thought it had enough charm. Combat's not great. Exploration is fun, though, there's a wide variety of locations and a lot of paths through the game, so replayability's good if you're into that - you can finish the game and only see like 30% of the locations since in CYOA fashion a lot of paths get closed off or open up depending on choices you make in dialogue. I did two playthroughs over 20 hours so it's a pretty breezy game in that sense.
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credburn posted:One of my all time favorite games is Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. It was my first non-Heroes Might and Magic game, and I know some people think it's kind of the shallowest of the 6, 7, 8 run, but I love it. I love the adaptation of a grid-based dungeon crawler. The only one I think that has done it better is Wizardry 8. Take a look at Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown.
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Persona Q goes in the list... unfortunately, Persona Q's aesthetic turned me off too much. I don't know what it is about characters with disproportionately huge heads. Awesome! Starcrawlers, Aeon of Sands and Legends of Amberland, I'll look into these. Thanks!
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What are some good space sim games like Star Trades Frontiers? I'm looking for something where I'm controlling a ship or ships instead of a 4x game and one that lets you just gently caress around and do whatever.
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Robo Reagan posted:What are some good space sim games like Star Trades Frontiers? I'm looking for something where I'm controlling a ship or ships instead of a 4x game and one that lets you just gently caress around and do whatever. Drox Operative is a game where you play Diablo in space to upgrade a single ship and influence the world state while all the AI factions play a 4X game around you. The original came out in 2012 and the sequel very recently left early access. I believe you can find a demo on Steam.
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Robo Reagan posted:What are some good space sim games like Star Trades Frontiers? I'm looking for something where I'm controlling a ship or ships instead of a 4x game and one that lets you just gently caress around and do whatever. I guess Space Rangers 2 kind of fits the bill? It doesn't have the kind of depth STF does, but you most definitely control a ship flying around the galaxy doing trading and/or pirating and/or mercenary work. You can buy different kinds of ships, upgrade them, and you have a bunch of CYOA missions you can take on if you want, though they can sometimes have solutions that are very unintuitive. I was going to say it's on GOG where I bought it, but it doesn't show up in the store anymore. It seems to have been replaced with Space Rangers HD: A War Apart , which apparently is a remaster of Space Rangers 2. It's on sale for like $4 at the moment if it sounds like what you're looking for. *Edit* Oh, I forgot there are also RTS planet-side quests you can do, but I mostly skipped those so I can't say whether they are particularly engaging or not. Still, skippable if you don't care is a good thing. AG3 fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Space Rangers is loving dope. I gushed about it in the stickied Best Games Ever thread. Definitely one to try if you like games where you, individually, are not special. You play by basically the same rules as everybody else, in ways that are both neat and frustrating. It's one of those games I'll reinstall every 2-3 years and lose myself in it for a month or two.
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Robo Reagan posted:What are some good space sim games like Star Trades Frontiers? I'm looking for something where I'm controlling a ship or ships instead of a 4x game and one that lets you just gently caress around and do whatever. They're old, but the Escape Velocity series is like this. Slightly newer games Endless Sky and naEV are basically Escape Velocity remakes. There's a lot of faffing around trading and/or fighting pirates, and then there's campaigns you can do for some of the factions. One of the Escape Velocity games is getting a remake.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:They're old, but the Escape Velocity series is like this. Slightly newer games Endless Sky and naEV are basically Escape Velocity remakes. There's a lot of faffing around trading and/or fighting pirates, and then there's campaigns you can do for some of the factions. If you're going to suggest Escape Velocity, it would be a crime to not mention Starsector.
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Tell me the RPGs that take on cool topics like ethics directly like Shin Megami Tensei or Ultima but in the cool exploratory way those do it, not the gimmick way games like Dishonored, Deus Ex, or The Witcher do it, where it's just kind of a story toggle instead of that being the point. I assume someone would recommend Disco Elysium, but I have already played that. Anyways doesn't have to be ethics, just a very cool concept explored for the purpose of that exploration and done well instead of as just an inclusion for the "choices matter" tag on steam. Doesn't even need choices, really.
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Have you played Life is Strange? It's not an RPG at all but it definitely takes the consequences of your choices seriously.
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signalnoise posted:Tell me the RPGs that take on cool topics like ethics directly like Shin Megami Tensei or Ultima but in the cool exploratory way those do it, not the gimmick way games like Dishonored, Deus Ex, or The Witcher do it, where it's just kind of a story toggle instead of that being the point. Pillars of Eternity explores people reckoning with their faith being more complex and gray than they thought, and 2 has the main plot surrounding essentially the God of good killing thousands on a rampage that nobody understands. Tyranny has you play the role of a high ranking villain in the evil empire's occupying army, and you have a lot of choices as to how to wield your power and how to enforce (or subvert) the law. And the "evil overlord" has a lot of depth to him too, in that he does actually drastically improve the lives of his subjects in many ways.
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