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oh yeah prototype rules, definitely go for that one (maybe skip to prototype 2 i forget what the quality divide between the two is)
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anilEhilated posted:I've got a bit of a weird request - been finding myself with quite a lot of steam to let off and as such would like to find a game with some really crunchy/violent melee combat. I like nuDoom and Eternal a lot but I played them to hell and back, ditto Elderborn but that's kind of the vibe I'd like to aim for - anything that makes my character feel like a berserker who just rips poo poo apart. Any good recs like that? Not exactly what you're looking for, but I feel like the Sniper Elite series did me some good with this, because it gives you little bursts of adrenaline when trying to line up a shot, followed by moments of calm and relief when it shows the slow motion of your target dying. It had an even bigger effect when I would breathe out as I used the "empty lung" mechanic that slows things down to help you get a shot. Weirdly relaxing. More towards what you'd want, I think the best game for that was Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction, which unfortunately takes some finagling to play these days. More easily accessible are the Prototype games, which have a lot of the same mechanics, but also some stealth sections that may bog you down.
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ninjewtsu posted:oh yeah prototype rules, definitely go for that one (maybe skip to prototype 2 i forget what the quality divide between the two is) I liked Prototype 1 a lot more. The sequel had a lot of strange decisions.
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is there a good game where i can simulate driving a car with a manual transmission on a low end computer. Dont even need to race, just wanna cruise around in a manual.
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Kvlt! posted:is there a good game where i can simulate driving a car with a manual transmission on a low end computer. Dont even need to race, just wanna cruise around in a manual. Not sure how low are we talking, but Motor Town: Behind The Wheel?
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Hwurmp posted:One Finger Death Punch 
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Thanks for the tips, everyone! I realized I never finished Prototype 2 so I'm gonna try to retry that one, superhero-fueled mass destruction sounds perfect right now.
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Oh yeah, also Just Cause is pretty great for just blowing a ton of poo poo up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Oh yeah, also Just Cause is pretty great for just blowing a ton of poo poo up. Oh, that reminds me, Saints Row IV is also pretty ideal for causing random havoc (thanks to liberally borrowing mechanics from Prototype), and has a pretty great licensed soundtrack! Also this happens.
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I'm looking for a simple, (short?), 2D platformer like Mario or Kirby something where all you really do is run to the right and get powerups and whatnot. No metroidvanias, no roguelikes, no puzzles, just something fun, simple and chill.
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Where are the fun pvp multiplayer games? Ive had a blast with Dayz mod a couple of years ago (2013, time flies). Im not a fan of battle royale games, ive tried fortnite and a few others. Ive enjoyed and still enjoy 7 days to die, waiting for it to come out of beta. Enjoyed pvp minecraft for a while Enjoyed Wow pvp during vanilla era where you had big 50vs50 fights all the time Enjoyed V rising pvp but servers die quickly Enjoyed return of reckoning server a couple of years back, maybe i should give that a shot again Played eve with goons for 2 years but not getting into that again, was bummed they just didnt take the eve skeleton and put a coat of Vampire: the masquerade paint on it Played albion for a while but like eve, too much work for the fun i could extract from it So i guess, either a survival game with pvp in it, or a MMO that has some fun pvp? I know most of em so im not sure what else i could try but hey
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Aster0ids posted:Where are the fun pvp multiplayer games? Try the DMZ mode in CoD. It's an "extraction shooter", not a battle royale. The maps are filled with AI enemies and loot, and you drop in with a squad of 2 others to complete missions and loot equipment, and then get to an extraction point; there are a bunch of other players doing the same though, so there is a very tense pvp element to it, especially since you lose your entire loadout if you don't make it out. Leads to some really awesome moments and engaging firefights. The actual gunplay us very tight too.
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Kvlt! posted:is there a good game where i can simulate driving a car with a manual transmission on a low end computer. Dont even need to race, just wanna cruise around in a manual. The Truck Simulator series, such as Euro Truck Simulator 2. They control perfectly well with a gamepad, they're chill as hell, ETS2 is old enough to run on a potato, and you can optionally use a simplified/compressed manual gearbox if you don't want to use all 18 or whatever gears. ETS2 got me used to handling a trailer, which came in IRL handy when I accidentally hit a dead end in a KOA and had to swing a little U-Haul trailer between some motorhomes to turn around. My former spouse had such a confused look when they asked how I learned to do that, and I replied that I had dozens of hours in a trucking video game.
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Shine posted:The Truck Simulator series, such as Euro Truck Simulator 2. They control perfectly well with a gamepad, they're chill as hell, ETS2 is old enough to run on a potato, and you can optionally use a simplified/compressed manual gearbox if you don't want to use all 18 or whatever gears. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Recommend me a game, again: they asked how I learned to do that, and I replied that I had dozens of hours in a trucking video game
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anilEhilated posted:I've got a bit of a weird request - been finding myself with quite a lot of steam to let off and as such would like to find a game with some really crunchy/violent melee combat. I like nuDoom and Eternal a lot but I played them to hell and back, ditto Elderborn but that's kind of the vibe I'd like to aim for - anything that makes my character feel like a berserker who just rips poo poo apart. Any good recs like that? Not to be gross but Condemned: Criminal Origins is the video game that seems to best convey what it's like to actually beat a man to death with a blunt object. There's a gruesome heft to the melee, not to mention a lethality to the infrequent shooting that's almost unheard of in video games. Manhunt's another similar title, but it doesn't seem to run well on steam any more.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Not to be gross but Condemned: Criminal Origins is the video game that seems to best convey what it's like to actually beat a man to death with a blunt object. There's a gruesome heft to the melee, not to mention a lethality to the infrequent shooting that's almost unheard of in video games. Manhunt's another similar title, but it doesn't seem to run well on steam any more. Will second that, it's a horror game that emphasises the horror of real violence WITHOUT making the combat poo poo.
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anilEhilated posted:Thanks for the tips, everyone! I realized I never finished Prototype 2 so I'm gonna try to retry that one, superhero-fueled mass destruction sounds perfect right now. If you’re ok with an online coop game then Darktide will scratch that itch with an AK47
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I would recommend: sleeping dogs There's a big focus on melee combat and the environmental attacks are very brutal. The player character regularly breaks limbs and fights packs of dudes. Occasionally you get a gun (a few missions are very short based) but most of the fighting is melee. The story is good, the fighting is good, the open world is a lot of fun and feels lived in. I suspect it'll get a few goty nods for 2023.
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Zaphiel posted:I'm looking for a simple, (short?), 2D platformer like Mario or Kirby something where all you really do is run to the right and get powerups and whatnot. No metroidvanias, no roguelikes, no puzzles, just something fun, simple and chill. I had fun with Squidlit, Tiny Dangerous Dungeons, and especially Adventure in the Tower of Flight. edit: Eversion is a classic too.
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I'm looking for a bullet hell game where I shoot the bullet hell patterns. I think the Xbox arcade had some game where you do that, it may have been a two-player versus game.
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Vampire Survivors
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Fat Samurai posted:Vampire Survivors This is the answer
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Heran Bago posted:I'm looking for a bullet hell game where I shoot the bullet hell patterns. Not exactly what you meant, but Touhou 9.5: Shoot the Bullet is a game about taking photographs of bullet patterns.
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I would recommend sleeping dogs. There are a lot of fists that come at you, and it can be a bit of a fisty hell, where you have to properly counter the fists coming at you. Occasionally there are guns, which you counter by shooting the source of the bullets
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Sway Grunt posted:I had fun with Squidlit, Tiny Dangerous Dungeons, and especially Adventure in the Tower of Flight. Thank you! I picked up Squidlit!
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a bit specific: Hitman 3 added a roguelite mode where you - go on missions - have a home base - buy or find an expansive set of weapons/tools for your missions, which you take home or which you lose if you fail a mission. Meaning as the game goes on you have more and more options. - you unlock cosmetics for your home base - you play through a mini-campaign, which resets if you win (with a reward) or if you lose are there more highly appreciated games with this structure?
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double nine posted:a bit specific: Streets of Rogue is fairly similar. Also Heat Signature.
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heat signature was nice but iirc your inventory reset with every character
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double nine posted:heat signature was nice but iirc your inventory reset with every character In Heat Signature you're building your pool of tools as you do liberation missions. Yes, your immediate inventory doesn't carry over but you get the ability to purchase more and more different kinds of tools in the shop, right at the start, which is close enough. In Hitman 3 you don't quite keep all of your tools either.
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Void Bastards has a somewhat similar structure, minus the base part.
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Earwicker posted:Void Bastards has a somewhat similar structure, minus the base part. It's also cripplingly boring
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Earwicker posted:Void Bastards has a somewhat similar structure, minus the base part. Sandwich Anarchist posted:It's also cripplingly boring Void Bastards is incredibly shallow and boring. Heat Signature does basically the same concept infinitely more interesting.
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Void Bastards did one (1) thing I though was cool. There's character traits, and one was Anxiety, which made combat music start at random lol.
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double nine posted:heat signature was nice but iirc your inventory reset with every character If your inventory didn't reset, then pretty soon you'd have access to every tool and you'd just be bringing your favorites along on each mission, reducing the gameplay to samey mush. I get that it feels bad, but something to get you to play around with all the different tools is needed. And given the disposable nature of your avatars, having their inventories reset makes as much sense as anything. Anyway, Heat Signature is cool. Kick people out of windows, dive out after them, then re-enter somewhere else on the ship.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Void Bastards did one (1) thing I though was cool. There's character traits, and one was Anxiety, which made combat music start at random lol. The one thing that was cool about Void Bastards was that it was on game pass so I didn't have to bother refunding it after 20 minutes of play. If I'm being charitable a second cool thing would be the small install size which made the whole process even more painless
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Yeah it's astonishing how they made a game that was so loving bad
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Heat Signature is one of the greatest games of all time. I'll stop there because I'm pretty sure 1/3 of my posts ITT are gushing about it. The other 2/3 are Streets of Rage 4 and Monster Hunter.
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I've been playing Frostpunk and it's great, but it's a little too punishing and the setting is obviously very bleak. Can anybody recommend a relatively chill, low stakes city builder/management game? Where you're unlikely to run into a big cascading chain of failures that fucks up your whole game.
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I've never played it, but I hear that Timberborn is good.
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Lester Shy posted:I've been playing Frostpunk and it's great, but it's a little too punishing and the setting is obviously very bleak. Can anybody recommend a relatively chill, low stakes city builder/management game? Where you're unlikely to run into a big cascading chain of failures that fucks up your whole game. If you want just Frostpunk but without the cold that could kill everyone, you should try Tropico. You are the dictator of a little island nation and you can do whatever, you can even decide to improve conditions for your populace if it behooves you. There's a campaign mode that can give more structured challenges for you to follow that are still easier and less tense than Frostpunk. If you want totally chill, just play around with towns and not having to engage with complicated systems, Dorfromantik or Townscaper. If you want to manage traffic, Cities Skylines. It's sort of a more hands-off citybuilder where a lot you do with just laying down roads and zoning, and you can try to make your city more efficient, or you can just play around with shaping things. I also have Opinions that maybe the latest games aren't the best, so if you're cheap and not very worried about graphics, maybe the humor and music works better in Tropico 3 or 4 and Sim City 4 has a lot more prestige than Cities Skylines. The Management Games Thread can give you more suggestions, but a whole lot of their favorite games are early access which can be its own kind of stressful.
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