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Avasculous posted:I am looking for a recommendation for a coop game for 4 players. My suggestion is to get Baldur's Gate 3 when it comes out (it's currently still in Early Access). It's being made by the same developer as Divinity: Original Sin 2, which it shares many similarities with. Bonus points if you have any interest whatsoever in Forgotten Realms as a setting.
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Avasculous posted:I am looking for a recommendation for a coop game for 4 players. Have you looked into PULSAR: Lost Colony? https://store.steampowered.com/app/252870/PULSAR_Lost_Colony/ It is a Star Trek -esque game and includes space and ground combat, puzzles, and quests.
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Avasculous posted:I am looking for a recommendation for a coop game for 4 players. It might be expensive, but I'll throw out Carrier Command 2. I've only played the demo but it's apparently very well received by people with IRL friends: first person RTS co-op (or vs teams) where you're all on a carrier deck controlling the ship and launched drones to take over island objectives. VR friendly, very simulation-ist approach to things.
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Char posted:Sooo I gave in to the Death Stranding Christmas. Actually, personally I really liked DRG. Two of the others had a hard time getting into it. I think one of them found the 'verticality' of the levels confusing, and the other found the characters annoying. I will check out Monster Hunter. I think I heard that the PC port was a disaster, but the Steam reviews are high now- not sure if that was just at launch or an earlier version. Pasha posted:Have you looked into PULSAR: Lost Colony? This looks really cool, I will suggest it. Thanks! Phlegmish posted:My suggestion is to get Baldur's Gate 3 when it comes out (it's currently still in Early Access). I am excited for BG3, but was waiting for the full release. I'll check out where they are- last I looked, I think only the first act was in the EA version. Avasculous fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Elden ring with the seamless coop mod apparently works p well
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sebmojo posted:Elden ring with the seamless coop mod apparently works p well drat, this rules
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Avasculous posted:Actually, personally I really liked DRG. Two of the others had a hard time getting into it. I think one of them found the 'verticality' of the levels confusing, and the other found the characters annoying. They announced the full release for August.
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Strong Sauce posted:not sure if i saw this game in this thread or not but anyone have opinions on zero sievert? a procedural generated rogue looter sounds fun but i'm worried that its some insane difficulty that will ruin the fun.
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Avasculous posted:One of the others vetoed Vermintide 2, but I am not sure why. I will make these points. Thanks! They may like rats.
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I think it was somewhere in this thread that someone had recommended a chill city building game. I forgot to bookmark the game and now I can't find the recommendation again. Anyone remember/have any idea what it could be?
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Vasler posted:I think it was somewhere in this thread that someone had recommended a chill city building game. I forgot to bookmark the game and now I can't find the recommendation again. Anyone remember/have any idea what it could be? How chill are you talking? On the extreme end of chill, there's Townscaper where you literally just resize boxes and it creates a little sea side town based on the shapes of boxes you've created. It's also on PC gamepass.
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I tried a couple hours of Cruelty Squad and I'm pretty sure this is a bad game that people "recommend" as a joke. This is videogame Malort.
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Triarii posted:I tried a couple hours of Cruelty Squad and I'm pretty sure this is a bad game that people "recommend" as a joke. This is videogame Malort. As a successful member of society with a stable unflinching psyche and limitless drive, natural affinity for finance and domination, you have been selected, no, you have been effortlessly guided by divine (biological) trauma towards this moment. The gates of destiny fling open, and once again you're left standing on pulsating nothingness. A strobing headache of the soul.
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SKULL.GIF posted:I'm really itching for a nice "classical" PC RPG in the vein of Might & Magic VI-VIII. There's a game out there that is approaching full release that seeks to be a spiritual successor to those games. Which is something nobody else has attempted before to my knowledge. However it's one person design team (I think) and when I played it back in February it didn't seem like it should be leaving EA anytime soon. It's on sale for 6$ anyway and I can guarantee it's definitely worth that much. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1400260/Legendary_Journeys/
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Triarii posted:I tried a couple hours of Cruelty Squad and I'm pretty sure this is a bad game that people "recommend" as a joke. This is videogame Malort. but u dont understand looking like dogshit and instantly giving everyone who plays a headache is an intentional design choice which means it is actually very good instead of bad
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Triarii posted:I tried a couple hours of Cruelty Squad and I'm pretty sure this is a bad game that people "recommend" as a joke. This is videogame Malort. It's impressive that they set out to intentionally make a game as off-putting as Cruelty Squad and hit their target and you have to commend them for that but no I wouldn't recommend buying or playing it unless you like saying "You just don't get it" smugly to strangers about bad games
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Making bad games is praxis.
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explosivo posted:It's impressive that they set out to intentionally make a game as off-putting as Cruelty Squad and hit their target and you have to commend them for that but no I wouldn't recommend buying or playing it unless you like saying "You just don't get it" smugly to strangers about bad games You're describing half the posters in Games
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:You're describing half the posters in Games I think the more typical Games experience is someone telling you you're wrong if you like a game, not if you dislike it.
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I think the more typical Games experience is someone telling you you're wrong if you like a game, not if you dislike it. You're probably just playing it wrong
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you can keep your artsy fartsy ugly rear end games
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I think the more typical Games experience is someone telling you you're wrong if you like a game, not if you dislike it.
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Commander Keene posted:There's definitely some people who live in some Bizarro world where good games are bad and bad games are good. Like Spec Ops : The Line
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Like Spec Ops : The Line it's a good game but a bad Spec Ops game
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Is Red Dead Redemption 2 worth picking up? I played RDR1 several years ago, and I didn't hate it, but I didn't care for it as much as I did the GTA games. I don't recall a lot of particulars from it, but it seemed like the game was really padded, with a lot of time spent traveling between locations for missions, with not a whole lot to do between missions. The reviews for it are all pretty positive, but a look at the Discussion forums show a lot of recent topics with people having issues launching the game. I've also heard the Online for it is pretty rough, with Rockstar not providing a lot of support (hackers, far fewer expansions than GTA5, and some sort of security issue, from what I recall hearing).
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Vasler posted:I think it was somewhere in this thread that someone had recommended a chill city building game. I forgot to bookmark the game and now I can't find the recommendation again. Anyone remember/have any idea what it could be? Urbek? Dorfromantik?
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Max Wilco posted:Is Red Dead Redemption 2 worth picking up? I played RDR1 several years ago, and I didn't hate it, but I didn't care for it as much as I did the GTA games. I don't recall a lot of particulars from it, but it seemed like the game was really padded, with a lot of time spent traveling between locations for missions, with not a whole lot to do between missions. you will not care for RDR2
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Max Wilco posted:The reviews for it are all pretty positive, but a look at the Discussion forums show a lot of recent topics with people having issues launching the game. Reinstalled it recently for the sake of benchmarking a new graphics card, it was running without issue for me at least. Wasn't a big fan of the game itself when I played it but I think I'm in the minority on that one.
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FutureCop posted:Maybe Wizardry 8? I'd say that's very close to replicating most of the features in that game, and I found it pretty fun. Some other games of interest that have some of the factors that might be good are perhaps Grimrock, Tyranny, Queen's Wish, Undernauts? Depends on what is the critical element from Might & Magic you're looking for and what isn't so critical (custom party based, first person perspective, turn-based combat, etc) It's this kind of proprietary combination of exploring the overworld and the various dungeons throughout, along with having a party that I choose right from the outset and develop throughout the game as I advance forward. I don't know. It's hard to put my finger on it. ChrisBTY posted:There's a game out there that is approaching full release that seeks to be a spiritual successor to those games. Which is something nobody else has attempted before to my knowledge. Oh, this definitely has M&M vibes. Further, I learned a new term - "blobber" - first-person party-blob RPGs. Seems like these really are a dying breed of games, huh?
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HopperUK posted:Urbek? Dorfromantik? Thanks! I'm not sure either of these were the games. They do look interesting and are on sale. Have you played either of them? If so, how are they? Thanks for the heads up about townscaper, Cojawfee, I'll check it out on gamepass!
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SKULL.GIF posted:Further, I learned a new term - "blobber" - first-person party-blob RPGs. Seems like these really are a dying breed of games, huh? they were never anywhere near as popular in the west as they were in japan, the entire JRPG genre sprung from the insane popularity of wizardry over there. there's still new japanese blobbers coming out every once in a while, with the 3DS and PS Vita era probably being the peak of new releases
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Max Wilco posted:Is Red Dead Redemption 2 worth picking up? I played RDR1 several years ago, and I didn't hate it, but I didn't care for it as much as I did the GTA games. I don't recall a lot of particulars from it, but it seemed like the game was really padded, with a lot of time spent traveling between locations for missions, with not a whole lot to do between missions. There's a lot of exposition while traveling but I enjoyed aimless traveling much more in RDR2 than any other Rockstar game. It's incredible how detailed the game is. The story and presentation are top notch for games too.
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I'm glad they still make blobbers in Japan but I can't ever get into any of them. It's a shame they so relentlessly clone the oldest Wizardry games without doing any of the interesting things in 7 or 8. I've also never seen a Japanese M&M style where there's no separate combat space much less a real time option.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Oh, this definitely has M&M vibes. Further, I learned a new term - "blobber" - first-person party-blob RPGs. Seems like these really are a dying breed of games, huh? There are actually a ton of these games! The problem is probably 90% of them lean into a lot of weird sex stuff and anime fanservice. And yeah as has been mentioned they are not very popular in the west. As far as newer ones that aren't some weird fetish porn game and are available on PC: Elminage Original and Elminage Gothic (on sale for $7 and $2 respectively on steam) are both mechanically great, but their production values are incredibly low. the New Tokyo Legacy series (Operation Babel and Operation Abyss, on sale for $4 each on steam) are both good games and good introductions to the genre (lots of nice QoL features), but they go extremely far into "anime philosophy weirdness" and you probably need some appreciation of that to enjoy them. I would recommend skipping Operation Abyss and going straight to Operation Babel. Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk (on sale for $15) has a neat setting and is pretty accessible, I'd say it's less "weird anime" than disgaea - fairly subdued overall - but it has some weird moments in the same way other Nippon Ichi games do Stranger of Sword City is mechanically pretty great, and it has a pretty unique setting (a pseudo-apocalyptic fantasy world that parts of the 'real world' keep getting sucked into), but it gets pretty horny in a few places. Starcrawlers (not Starcrawlers: Chimera) is a western take and it's pretty good, but it gets repetitive and never has quite the same depth as the others. Heroes of a Broken Land is incredibly neat conceptually but also a bit hard to get into, it's like a blobber combined with HOM&M - you have a city and multiple parties that you move around the map and they explore dungeons in blobber style. I struggled with it because of low enemy diversity, repetitive dungeons, and things like that. I have not tried the sequel, which is one of those games that unfortunately has only received 19 reviews in 3 years despite still being actively developed by the (solo?) dev. Mary Skelter: Nightmares has a lot of neat mechanics and seems good but it was too fanservice-anime-ish for me Also it's very old but one of my favorite OG's (and probably the reason I'm into the genre, because I played a ton of it as a kid), Shining in the Darkness - the blobber prequel to Shining Force for Sega Genesis, is only $0.99 on Steam. e: At the end of the day however, I do not recommend this genre or these games to anyone unless you know what you're getting into and it sounds fun. They're very grognard-y, often feature lots of bullshit (but avoidable) mechanics like instant, permanent death effects or 'gotchas' that you couldn't have foreseen without reading a guide or experiencing them and restarting, and often lots and lots of grinding, manual mapping, RNG, etc. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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RDR2 is not a game you can just pop into and do stuff, you need to have a few hours free. It will take a few minutes to get where the mission starts from, it will take a few minutes to travel to where the mission happens. When you're doing the mission, there might be a boundary that you can't leave or you automatically fail. It's a very slow paced game, but it rewards you by looking so amazing.
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SKULL.GIF posted:I'm really itching for a nice "classical" PC RPG in the vein of Might & Magic VI-VIII. This is probably a silly suggestion but since you said M&M VI-VIII, have you tried 3 and 4+5? They're pretty much the same game structure in my opinion, just without a Z axis. I think Bard's Tale IV is also a decent game and the Bard's Tale Trilogy remaster makes the first 3 a bit more playable. The Quest is also a surprisingly detailed open world first-person rpg, but it is just a single character.
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there's also Wizardry: The Five Ordeals which is a remake of a 2006 japanese only wizardry game that had five campaigns and a campaign editor. its still in early access but it's functionally content and feature complete at this point and it got a legible english localization recently. i believe the main thing keeping the game in early access is that the editor to allow people to create their own campaigns and dungeons isn't done yet. this one is insanely hardcore and old school though so be aware. edit: i haven't played it yet but i've heard good things about Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi ShadowMar fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's this kind of proprietary combination of exploring the overworld and the various dungeons throughout, along with having a party that I choose right from the outset and develop throughout the game as I advance forward. I don't know. It's hard to put my finger on it. In that case, yeah, Wizardry 8 is probably what you want to go for. Though if that's too old-school for you, other modern recommendations would be maybe Undernauts, Labyrinth of Refrain, Grimrock and the Etrian Odyssey series (though this is for the DS). If you don't mind a top-down perspective, maybe Spiderweb Software games like Avernum: Escape from the Pit, and perhaps the Wasteland series as well, most likely 2 or 3? A bonus recommendation that might fit: perhaps Fallout Tactics? FutureCop fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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