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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. the lowest stakes, chillest city builder of them all is Townscaper i mean, its barely a game, you just click and make pretty little towns, there's no economy or management or anything, but it's fun and you can make some nice looking stuff
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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. Play Kingdoms and Castles, it's a very relaxed Logistics/Supply Chain Management game (like Settlers or Anno). Vikings and dragons invade your city every 5-10 years but you have plenty of time to prepare and honestly don't need to engage with the combat much.
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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. Islanders is my favorite chill city builder.
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I really liked Void Bastards. The roguelite gameplay loop was well implemented. I thought it struck a good balance between upgrades being important, while skill and understanding the game mechanics let you get away with a lot of stuff. I had a lot of fun, I'm surprised to see so many people being down on the game.
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Any recommendations for a 2 player couch coop game on PC or PS4? We’ve already played through all the EDFs, coop Resident Evil games, Snowrunner, and Lovers in a dangerous spacetime. Preferably something that’s mission based with some sort of meta progression Thanks!
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Bishop Beo posted:Any recommendations for a 2 player couch coop game on PC or PS4? Jydge Magicka X-Morph: Defense Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga one of the recent sidescrolling beat-em-ups like River City Girls, Streets of Rage 4, or TMNT Shredder's Revenge Vampire Survivors is supposed to be getting local co-op on August 17
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StoryTime posted:I really liked Void Bastards. The roguelite gameplay loop was well implemented. I thought it struck a good balance between upgrades being important, while skill and understanding the game mechanics let you get away with a lot of stuff. I had a lot of fun, I'm surprised to see so many people being down on the game. Me too, I think it's pretty good. Though personally I think it's way better with Ironman enabled, the game actually has some really good resource management when you've only got 1 life to live.
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Bishop Beo posted:Any recommendations for a 2 player couch coop game on PC or PS4? Streets of Rage 4 is a perfect couch game. There isn't a ton of meta progression, but the game loving owns anyway.
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Shine posted:Streets of Rage 4 is a perfect couch game. There isn't a ton of meta progression, but the game loving owns anyway. There's a bunch of meta progression in the DLC with the survival mode.
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What's the best tower defense game right now?
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I would say the Creeper World series, and Creeper World 4 is a good place to jump in. 1. basically a really cool flash game that introduced the concept 2. a weird take, very different from the rest but i liked it 3. a polished perfect version of #1. may be the actual best game in the series 4. really awesome, lots of fun, but maybe not as much content overall as 3. however, it is 3D, which is maybe not everyone's cup of tea. Chinook fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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Fat Samurai posted:Vampire Survivors TooMuchAbstraction posted: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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credburn posted:What's the best tower defense game right now? X-Morph: Defense Immortal Defense Creeper World The Riftbreaker Defender's Quest 2 is supposed to come out sometime this year
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I recently built a new pretty beefy PC and am looking for something good to make the most of its new hardware. I'm also looking for something that's chill with beautiful outdoor environments, but not strictly a walking simulator. Games that kind of hit that spot in the past were The Hunter (though tracking a kill can be tense) and Farming Simulator (though the environments were just nice since it's mostly farms.) Is there anything out there that would fit that description?
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Genpei Turtle posted:I recently built a new pretty beefy PC and am looking for something good to make the most of its new hardware. I'm also looking for something that's chill with beautiful outdoor environments, but not strictly a walking simulator. Games that kind of hit that spot in the past were The Hunter (though tracking a kill can be tense) and Farming Simulator (though the environments were just nice since it's mostly farms.) Is there anything out there that would fit that description? Death Stranding (It’s not a walking simulator, it’s a strand-type game)
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Death Stranding Death Stranding is incredibly good.
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Genpei Turtle posted:I recently built a new pretty beefy PC and am looking for something good to make the most of its new hardware. I'm also looking for something that's chill with beautiful outdoor environments, but not strictly a walking simulator. Games that kind of hit that spot in the past were The Hunter (though tracking a kill can be tense) and Farming Simulator (though the environments were just nice since it's mostly farms.) Is there anything out there that would fit that description? Maybe Red Dead Redemption 2 if you can deal with some not-chill. Either play the single player campaign until maybe late chapter 3/early chapter 4 then just go wild in the open world, or play Red Dead Online maybe (which limits things like camping and has other players in it, which both make it less than chill). The outdoor environments are really beautiful and you can absolutely just abandon the plot of the single player game and go off hunting and camping in the wild - just best to get a bunch of stuff unlocked through the story before you do. Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Genpei Turtle posted:I recently built a new pretty beefy PC and am looking for something good to make the most of its new hardware. I'm also looking for something that's chill with beautiful outdoor environments, but not strictly a walking simulator. Games that kind of hit that spot in the past were The Hunter (though tracking a kill can be tense) and Farming Simulator (though the environments were just nice since it's mostly farms.) Is there anything out there that would fit that description? I have found satisfactory to be a great chill game You may want to turn on peaceful mode or something though because the spiders are pretty not chill
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It's not taxing so might not be what you're after, but The Witness is gorgeous (and a great puzzle game).
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If that beefy PC includes a GPU that can manage it you should give Minecraft a whirl with ray tracing on. It genuinely changes the feel of the game and even if you don't get deep into it it's worth a walk around.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Death Stranding Thanks, this looks good (though maybe not so chill if there's a lot of combat in it by the promo movie?) I'll definitely take a look at it. Party Boat posted:If that beefy PC includes a GPU that can manage it you should give Minecraft a whirl with ray tracing on. It genuinely changes the feel of the game and even if you don't get deep into it it's worth a walk around. I did not know this was a thing, though I haven't played Minecraft in forever. I'll have to try it.
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Genpei Turtle posted:Thanks, this looks good (though maybe not so chill if there's a lot of combat in it by the promo movie?) I'll definitely take a look at it. There are a couple long boss fights and sometimes you will need to huck trash boxes at a lot of MULE heads, but for the most part BTs can be avoided or stealth-killed.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Maybe Red Dead Redemption 2 if you can deal with some not-chill. Either play the single player campaign until maybe late chapter 3/early chapter 4 then just go wild in the open world, or play Red Dead Online maybe (which limits things like camping and has other players in it, which both make it less than chill). The outdoor environments are really beautiful and you can absolutely just abandon the plot of the single player game and go off hunting and camping in the wild - just best to get a bunch of stuff unlocked through the story before you do. Fwiw I tried RDR2 to put my beefy new PC (3070 etc) through its paces a couple of years ago and it ran kind of badly and just ended up pissing me off lol
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Genpei Turtle posted:Thanks, this looks good (though maybe not so chill if there's a lot of combat in it by the promo movie?) I'll definitely take a look at it. The combat is pretty forgiving and, even then, relegated to clearly marked and mostly avoidable camps It's a mostly chill game about hauling cargo across beautiful landscapes and setting up some light infrastructure to make that easier. It also, not for nothing, implements DLSS so it's going to run like buttered lightning on your new machine
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Ben Nerevarine posted:The combat is pretty forgiving and, even then, relegated to clearly marked and mostly avoidable camps Does it look OK without DLSS/is it required? The one game I have that supports DLSS (Hitman 3) crashes constantly when I have it enabled, though performance wise it seems fine. I suspect there’s something with my hardware/OS combination that doesn’t mesh well with it.
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Genpei Turtle posted:Does it look OK without DLSS/is it required? The one game I have that supports DLSS (Hitman 3) crashes constantly when I have it enabled, though performance wise it seems fine. I suspect there’s something with my hardware/OS combination that doesn’t mesh well with it. It runs fantastically tbh, I ran it well on OK settings on my old PC which I replaced... Basically just after playing it, to the point where it made me feel guilty getting a new one lol
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Genpei Turtle posted:Does it look OK without DLSS/is it required? The one game I have that supports DLSS (Hitman 3) crashes constantly when I have it enabled, though performance wise it seems fine. I suspect there’s something with my hardware/OS combination that doesn’t mesh well with it. Yeah it runs very well without DLSS (to the point that I was actually surprised they bothered to patch it in after release), it’s just a nice way of getting absurdly high fps if your hardware supports it. You won’t really be missing out
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Genpei Turtle posted:Thanks, this looks good (though maybe not so chill if there's a lot of combat in it by the promo movie?) I'll definitely take a look at it. there's not a ton, it's mostly avoidable except in a few moments. but a lot of the early gameplay is like, carefully picking your way over the terrain while carrying huge stacks of packages that make you fall over, so it can be a bit stressful but its definitely not like a shooter or anything like that. gets more chill once you get vehicles. and the landscape is cool, there are nice musical interludes, good story, overall its a great game
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Genpei Turtle posted:I did not know this was a thing, though I haven't played Minecraft in forever. I'll have to try it. Sadly it's only on the Microsoft version not the old Java one - but that's available on PC gamepass which you should definitely subscribe to if you're looking for lots of PC games
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There's a java shader pack that kind of simulates raytracing in a dollar store way--nowhere near the real deal but still extremely impressive relative to everything that isn't raytracing. I think it's a version of SEUS. My computer can't quite handle it, it runs around 20-25 FPS.
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Flight Sim may fit the bill, you can try it out on Game Pass, and there should be enough assists that you can play pretty easily with controller without knowing much about actually flying an airplane.
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MikeRabsitch posted:Flight Sim may fit the bill, you can try it out on Game Pass, and there should be enough assists that you can play pretty easily with controller without knowing much about actually flying an airplane. its got so many assists that you can just sit and watch a plane fly on autopilot from point a to point b if you want. though it does tend to crash into mountains sometimes.
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I refuse to play Flight Sim with a single assist turned on and as a result I don't think I've ever made it more than about ten feet forward and don't enjoy playing it. Yes I do have a brain disease
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I refuse to play Flight Sim with a single assist turned on and as a result I don't think I've ever made it more than about ten feet forward and don't enjoy playing it. Yes I do have a brain disease the basic prop planes really arent that hard to deal with, and you can set it up so you start in midair if you don't want to deal with everything involved in a takeoff sequence.
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What are great, more obscure Ameriboo games? I'm talking games made in Japan and set in America, or with a very heavy inspiration from American 80's action and horror movies. I pretty much always love this tone and style, and I'm open to games that are in the vein even if they're not from Japan or take place in America. Here's a list of ones I've played/tried Resident Evil (series) Metal Gear Solid(series) Death Stranding Dead Rising (series) Disaster: Day of Crisis Deadly Premonition (series) No More Heroes 3 Parasite Eve 1 & 2 Vanquish Die Hard Arcade Dynamite Cop D2 Blue Stinger Illbleed Wanted:Dead (takes place in Hong Kong but scratches this itch) Somethings I like that pops up in a lot of these games are big villain characters, good voice acting, stories that are constantly escalating, stories that are confined to one location (helps the pacing) and jacked bros getting kinda homoerotic with eachother. Fighting Elegy fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Binary Domain is not on your list and you should rectify that immediately. Also No More Heroes 1&2.
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Michigan: Report From Hell ..maybe Beatdown? I dunno on that one
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kirbysuperstar posted:Michigan: Report From Hell This game was a fever dream
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Bishop Beo posted:Any recommendations for a 2 player couch coop game on PC or PS4? Unraveled 2 is really pretty and a ton of fun if you're even slightly into platforming.
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