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Pierson posted:Huh I have Noita and my understanding was that yeah there's a huge amount of wands and powders but they're all randomply-generated/-awarded? Will need to check it out again if it has crafting stuff because I did love the insane geometry-deformation and fluid-pixel thing it had going on. The core of Noita's gameplay is that the wands consist of a set order of spells and modifiers that you can "program" yourself once you reach a checkpoint between levels.
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Pierson posted:Huh I have Noita and my understanding was that yeah there's a huge amount of wands and powders but they're all randomply-generated/-awarded? Will need to check it out again if it has crafting stuff because I did love the insane geometry-deformation and fluid-pixel thing it had going on. The world and its contents are procedurally generated, yes. You find wands with random spells on them, and you can remove those spells from the wands and rearrange them as you see fit. It's a very good game, but it's not really a game about building stuff out of base ingredients. There is an alchemy system in the game, but all of the recipes are randomized each playthrough, and there's no in-game hints to tell you what they are. So sometimes you get a game where mixing mud and swamp water gives you Midas Draught, which turns everything into gold...but more usually it'll be something like "combine frozen gas and vomit to make worm blood".
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Noita is also a hosed up kind of game that has more "secret" than "non-secret" content. The actual dungon up to the final boss is tiny compared to everything you can find if you went in any direction other than the one you meant to go.
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Not to mention the eyes puzzle, which is a cryptographic nightmare no one has been able to make much progress on for years.
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If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth?
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth?
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Dec 29, 2023 23:20
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FTL? There's bound to be some FTL-likes.
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? Rebel Galaxy
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? Space Station 13
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? lol Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles Homeworld AI War 1 and 2 Crying Suns Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Holy Potatoes! Were in Space?! Space Run
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I don't really know how Children of a Dead Earth plays, but I saw "orbital mechanics" and that makes me think of Star Control.anilEhilated posted:FTL? There's bound to be some FTL-likes. There's a few, but the only one I know of that is just straight up doing another space combat game is Space Team (and the devs did a much better and more thoughtful job on the game Bomber Team, which also has some realism).
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? Comedy option: Terra Invicta. You'll need to do so much before you even get ships your flying around though.
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Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating?
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? I really liked Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (difficulty jumps wildly at the titular final level, but otherwise it's reasonably chill) Sonic Generations is a solid Sonic game (50% 2d levels) Raymans are pretty decent
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? https://store.steampowered.com/app/792710/Levelhead_Platformer_Maker/
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? The remastered Crash Bandicoot trilogy is 60% off right now
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? Grapple Dog, maybe
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? Seems almost too obvious to mention Shovel Knight? I mean there's a kind of excuse story but it's minimal and mostly skippable. And a really well designed platformer. But if you're interested in the genre I assume you played it to death many years ago e: I guess it's kind of sort of Metroidvania-ish, you buy upgrades and poo poo
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Shovel Knight is very good, go for the Treasure Trove to have fun with Plague Knight, Specter Knight, and King Knight as well. For 3D platformers, there's A Hat in Time that is doing its best to be Mario 64. Or Spyro, that's a classic.
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Shovel Knight also includes an NES style Super Smash Bros. mode that's actually a pretty drat fun way to kill a few minutes.
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? New Super Lucky's Tale Vibrant Venture Ynglet Spyro Reignited Trilogy Sonic Mania A Hat In Time Castle of Illusion Freedom Planet Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
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SlothfulCobra posted:Shovel Knight is very good, go for the Treasure Trove to have fun with Plague Knight, Specter Knight, and King Knight as well. I sold my switch the other year, and Shovel Knight is what I miss most. I could get it again on PC, but I'm cheap ―\_(ツ)_/―
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Thank you for all the recs, I have played most of the bigger names there already but a few of those Indies look interesting! Grapple Dog looks like a game based around the Worms ninja rope mechanic? I think I'll try that out
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I forgot to mention Corn Kidz 64 Spark The Electric Jester
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Looking for a game rec: Online multiplayer with matchmaking/quickplay preferred (Just throw me in with some randos) No FPS controls No gamepad No Activision/Blizzard/King Not full of necessary MTX I particularly enjoy ARPGs - I haven't seen a good multiplayer one since Marvel Heroes died (D3/PoE are just so bad for multiplayer) Slay the Spire and other Roguelike Deckbuilders - I love Across the Obelisk, but if the homies aren't around, there's really no multiplayer, since there's no matchmaking/quickplay. Board games I used to really like RTSes, MOBAs, and Borderlands looter/shooters, but I don't think I have the reflexes to do that anymore.
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Play an Air Raider in Earth Defense Force.
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No Dignity posted:Are there any high quality classical platformers I could pick up in the Steam Sale? Not a metroidvania, not an extreme suffering & systems mastery game, not storygame just using platforming as its medium or a puzzle platformer, just like a Mario style game with good running and jumping and enough difficulty to stimulating? I just finished Pseudoregalia yesterday and I'm here to post about it. it is not on sale but it is also $6 so whatever https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365810/Pseudoregalia/ it's just a love letter to PS1/64 platformers that plays way tighter than any of those games ever did, and even the hardest optional challenges are easier than what a lot of modern indie platforms like to casually throw at players. i thought it would be some kind of Super Meat Boy-esque really hard game but instead it just has a lot of extra movement tech you can totally ignore unless you're a speedrunner. also very generous health system and checkpointing
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Whats a game like rising storm 2 ? Im getting burnt out on the finals, and battlebit before the finals
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? Cobalt Core is space combat, technically.
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Any recent recs for Mirror's Edge like movement games?
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i3lueHorneT posted:Any recent recs for Mirror's Edge like movement games? Ghostrunner is free on EGS right now.
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i3lueHorneT posted:Any recent recs for Mirror's Edge like movement games? Dying Light maybe if you're okay with zombies and horror? If you've been keeping up with EGS you might have it already too. There's also the sequel but that is less well reviewed, and if you're buying, also significantly more expensive.
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Artelier posted:Dying Light maybe if you're okay with zombies and horror? If you've been keeping up with EGS you might have it already too. There's also the sequel but that is less well reviewed, and if you're buying, also significantly more expensive. I think dying light 2 is one of those things where the devs are still adding poo poo no man's sky style so it may be better now than it was at launch.
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Looking for more stuff with the gameplay of Archvale and, more recently, Tiny Rogues - top-down ARPG-lites with lots of MMO-raid-like bullet patterns to learn. Gonna call out Ikaruga, TVRUHH, and your various Touhous as not quite what I'm looking for, both for the lack of gear etc. to improve and for the camera not being character-fixed. Genre otherwise doesn't matter much, except to say I've already played much in the modern roguelike genre that might fit (Enter the Gungeon, Nuclear Throne,
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Ciaphas posted:Looking for more stuff with the gameplay of Archvale and, more recently, Tiny Rogues - top-down ARPG-lites with lots of MMO-raid-like bullet patterns to learn. Gonna call out Ikaruga, TVRUHH, and your various Touhous as not quite what I'm looking for, both for the lack of gear etc. to improve and for the camera not being character-fixed. Genre otherwise doesn't matter much, except to say I've already played much in the modern roguelike genre that might fit (Enter the Gungeon, Nuclear Throne, Rabi-Ribi and the more recent TEVI, while being 2D platformers instead of top-down, might fit the bill, being metroidvanias that have a heavy focus on bullet-hell mechanics, gearing up, and bosses with crazy patterns. Even more so than above, The Knight Witch is a bullet-hell focused metroidvania ARPG: not top-down but you are flying about so it technically is. It's not out yet, but Rabbit and Steel is an action roguelike that aims to provide a MMO raid experience through bullet-hell mechanics. Could maybe check out their previous title Maiden and Spell. Not sure what kind of state it's in nowadays, but Realm of the Mad God would be a pretty close fit. Other than that, some other games that might fit but are a bit different would be The Hammerwatch Series, Wizard of Legend, The Magicka Series, One Step From Eden, CRYPTARK, Voidigo and Holocure. FutureCop fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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Jack Trades posted:If I want to play a space combat game that's not some kind of shooter, is there anything out there between Battlefleet Gothic and...uhh...Children of a Dead Earth? Im also playing rogue trader and want more of the ship combat. Turn based, facings, multiple captain ships on both sides. Like Star Wars: Armada on the table top
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Naramyth posted:Im also playing rogue trader and want more of the ship combat. Yeah, I really liked the space combat in Rogue Trader even if it's a bit simple. Very cool combat system that I haven't really seen before. Fortunately one of the announced DLC is going to expand on the space combat, IIRC.
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Do oldschool inertial spaceflight games count as "not a shooter"? E.g. Transcendence, naev, Endless Sky.
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Ciaphas posted:Looking for more stuff with the gameplay of Archvale and, more recently, Tiny Rogues - top-down ARPG-lites with lots of MMO-raid-like bullet patterns to learn. Gonna call out Ikaruga, TVRUHH, and your various Touhous as not quite what I'm looking for, both for the lack of gear etc. to improve and for the camera not being character-fixed. Genre otherwise doesn't matter much, except to say I've already played much in the modern roguelike genre that might fit (Enter the Gungeon, Nuclear Throne, Starward Rogue, maybe
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FutureCop posted:Rabi-Ribi and the more recent TEVI, while being 2D platformers instead of top-down, might fit the bill, being metroidvanias that have a heavy focus on bullet-hell mechanics, gearing up, and bosses with crazy patterns. drat Rabbit and Steel is such a cool idea for a game, FF14 dances with top down shooter mechanics looks so fun!
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