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Fighting Elegy posted:anybody got some ideas for what I can play for a River City Ransom fix? Friends of Ringo Ishikawa Guacamelee Batman: Arkham series, maybe
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Fighting Elegy posted:anybody got some ideas for what I can play for a River City Ransom fix? Hmm, it's hard for me to think of an exact match, but here's a bunch of games that somewhat combine elements of beat-em-ups with RPG elements and (sometimes) open worlds: Sleeping Dogs Shenmue Odin Sphere Dragon's Crown Witcher 3 God Hand Middle-earth: Shadow of War Bully Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance Batman Arkham City Dungeon Fighter Online Way of the Samurai Other Yakuza games (Ishin, Judgment) Young Souls Kingdoms of Amalur Dragon's Dogma Children of Morta Monster Hunter Rise Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Vindictus Evil West And while we're talking about beat-em-ups, I'll recommend Streets of Rage 4 and Fight n' Rage as top class examples of just classic beat-em-ups. FutureCop fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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I think The Bouncer?
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Fighting Elegy posted:anybody got some ideas for what I can play for a River City Ransom fix? Mad Max, kinda. You do most of your talking with a fist.
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Fighting Elegy posted:anybody got some ideas for what I can play for a River City Ransom fix? Yakuza 0 
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Well the one beat-em-up game I've played the Scott Pilgrim game, which has stats and moves that you learn as you level up. It's a short game, but it's another beat-em-up. I've heard good things about Teenage Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge and the Cowabunga Collection with all the classic TMNT games including the beat-em-up arcade games, but I don't think they have RPG systems. If you want to go proper full 3D open world game, Assassin's Creed: Origins and Odyssey have a whole skill point and move tree system. So does Shadow of Mordor. Batman: Arkham Asylum has the whole metroidvania thing of getting extra gadgets over time that help you get around and can all be used during combat to help fight. Jedi: Fallen Order has a similar thing. Dragon's Dogma is also out there, with a complex RPG system where you learn new moves, but while I will always say it's got a lot of really unique experiences you won't get elsewhere, it can also feel pretty janky with its unique decisions. You could also go try Dark Souls. There's a reason why it is so popular and has a lot of games trying to emulate it. Dark Souls 1 is the classic, Demon Souls has a fancy remake, 3 is also a high point, and Bloodborne has a cool non=medieval setting with lovecraftian themes. If you value the idea of less linear open-world wandering, there's Elden Ring, which a lot of people seem to take to as an entry into the playstyle. The RPG system is just stats instead of moves, but most weapons will have their own unique moveset to use. Conversely, if you want the feeling of RPG character-building progression more than the fun of combat, there's Punch Club, a game all about being an 80s pastiche boxer where you steadily have to train up your stats every day and work your way through a skill tree to get boxing moves that you don't directly use because combat is an automated thing where you kit up your boxer with moves and let him get to fighting (with breaks between rounds to shift around your loadout). The sequel goes much weirder with its plot and setting, but it also has a demo available if you wanna just check it out.
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I'm gonna anti-recommend the Scott Pilgrim game, on the basis that it is incredibly grindy, and basic combat takes forever to feel good. The presentation is fine, you just need to spend so much time punching basic mooks before they die, and then they don't drop that much money. Picture running the first level over and over again to get enough money to buy the attack boosts needed to clear the second level, that's what we're looking at here.
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Fighting Elegy posted:anybody got some ideas for what I can play for a River City Ransom fix? River City: Rival Showdown is a remake of one of the games in that series that came out just last year
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Are there any games that have you investigate stuff and make a "conspiracy corkboard" the same way you do in Shadows of Doubt?
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I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Ideally we're talking a pleasant ambient soundtrack overlaid on a nice ruined cityscape with a (no time limit) button I can click on to get some soothing text telling me well done. e: button optional Splicer fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Feb 7, 2024 12:26
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. I love the Logistical series for this. Little truck icons go from town to town delivering little product icons which make other icons to deliver. There's some strategy to it but not much.
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fez_machine posted:I love the Logistical series for this. Little truck icons go from town to town delivering little product icons which make other icons to deliver. There's some strategy to it but not much.
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something like animal crossing maybe? it's not really optimizable and there is no failure state, just nice friends to give gifts to and stuff to collect the older ones emulate fine if that's an option/not having a switch is a thing
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Jack Trades posted:Are there any games that have you investigate stuff and make a "conspiracy corkboard" the same way you do in Shadows of Doubt? Alan Wake 2, although you don't really have much choice where you put things and it won't progress unless you put them in the right place. Oh and also Phantom Doctrine (it's a espionage tactical X-Com sorta game, never got very far) Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Orb of Creation? No lose state, no challenges, just orbin'
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Windosill grate deceiver posted:just orbin' 
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Mountain Everything
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Jack Trades posted:Are there any games that have you investigate stuff and make a "conspiracy corkboard" the same way you do in Shadows of Doubt? Sid Meier's Covert Action is from 1990 and doesn't entirely hold up but it's $3.99 on steam right now and it's an extremely interesting concept worth playing in this space. It's basically playing a James Bond movie - you are a government agent assigned to stop a Spectre-esque conspiracy group from performing some evil scheme and you have several ways to investigate and find out who the bad guys are, where they are, and what they are doing - intercepting cables, breaking into buildings to look for clues and potentially fighting any bad guys there (which could be anyone from some henchmen to the mastermind of the conspiracy), capturing bad guys and interrogating them (and potentially turning them into double agents), etc. The bad guys move in real time just like you do, so if you are trying to stop an assassination attempt on some political figure using a bomb, then there is a boss NPC who transmits instructions, a bombmaker NPC who makes a bomb, a transportation guy who takes the bomb from the bombmaker to the assassin, an assassin who meets the transportation guy, etc, and they move through this as you come in and try to find out who is who and what is happening. Maybe you find out where the bombmaker is, but because you spent too long wiretapping some of the wrong buildings somewhere else, the bomb is already on the move when you get to him, so you have to hope to find some new piece of information to be able to intercept the conspiracy again further ahead in the chain, etc. Each conspiracy is generated each run, so it's pretty replayable although also can get predictable with enough repeats. It's really amazing for a 1990 game and worth playing around with, and definitely warrants a pen and piece of paper for tracking clues.
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Party Boat posted:Mountain Someone crashed a drone into me >:-[ e: if someone did this with an abandoned city slowly being reclaimed by nature I'd be in heaven
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Something cozy and cute that two people can play/one can enjoy watching on one screen? Partner needs some cheering up. Frog Detective 1-3 were good for this. haven Park as well.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Something cozy and cute that two people can play/one can enjoy watching on one screen? Seal World or Lil Gator Game, maybe?
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gohuskies posted:Sid Meier's Covert Action is from 1990 and doesn't entirely hold up but it's $3.99 on steam right now and it's an extremely interesting concept worth playing in this space. It's basically playing a James Bond movie - you are a government agent assigned to stop a Spectre-esque conspiracy group from performing some evil scheme and you have several ways to investigate and find out who the bad guys are, where they are, and what they are doing - intercepting cables, breaking into buildings to look for clues and potentially fighting any bad guys there (which could be anyone from some henchmen to the mastermind of the conspiracy), capturing bad guys and interrogating them (and potentially turning them into double agents), etc. The bad guys move in real time just like you do, so if you are trying to stop an assassination attempt on some political figure using a bomb, then there is a boss NPC who transmits instructions, a bombmaker NPC who makes a bomb, a transportation guy who takes the bomb from the bombmaker to the assassin, an assassin who meets the transportation guy, etc, and they move through this as you come in and try to find out who is who and what is happening. Maybe you find out where the bombmaker is, but because you spent too long wiretapping some of the wrong buildings somewhere else, the bomb is already on the move when you get to him, so you have to hope to find some new piece of information to be able to intercept the conspiracy again further ahead in the chain, etc. Each conspiracy is generated each run, so it's pretty replayable although also can get predictable with enough repeats. It's really amazing for a 1990 game and worth playing around with, and definitely warrants a pen and piece of paper for tracking clues. Huh...that sounds really neat. It's a shame about the 90's game UI conventions but I'm definitely going to mess with that game for a while. GOG has a version functioning out of the box and their forums have several threads with useful info.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Something cozy and cute that two people can play/one can enjoy watching on one screen? PHOGS! Octodad: The Dadliest Catch Untitled Goose Game Knights and Bikes CHUCHEL Donut County Webbed A Short Hike Bugsnax, Wandersong, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Later Alligator, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale, if it's alright for the writing to get heavy sometimes Touhou Mystia's Izakaya Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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fez_machine posted:Seal World or Lil Gator Game, maybe? Hwurmp posted:PHOGS! Thanks for the suggestions! We have played or seen streams of a surprisingly large number of these. Donut County is new and looks like it'll be a good fit - unless she wants to watch me fumble about in Bugsnax, as she's already played it. e: and for anyone else who is intrigued, I can't recommend A Short Hike strongly enough. It's perfect.
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Jack Trades posted:Are there any games that have you investigate stuff and make a "conspiracy corkboard" the same way you do in Shadows of Doubt? A Hand with Many Fingers is literally this. Just you, a corckboard and a basement full of boxes with documents.
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Jack Trades posted:Are there any games that have you investigate stuff and make a "conspiracy corkboard" the same way you do in Shadows of Doubt? Outer Wilds has a corkboard-type display that fills out as you investigate what the heck's going on in the solar system. You don't really place stuff manually, though, it just maps out details as you find them. It's still very good though.
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Littlewood? You can do all kinds of stuff to build your little cozy village but like nothing is required and you don't have to do anything in any particular order.
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Fish Game Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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gohuskies posted:Sid Meier's Covert Action is from 1990 and doesn't entirely hold up but it's $3.99 on steam right now and it's an extremely interesting concept worth playing in this space. It's basically playing a James Bond movie - you are a government agent assigned to stop a Spectre-esque conspiracy group from performing some evil scheme and you have several ways to investigate and find out who the bad guys are, where they are, and what they are doing - intercepting cables, breaking into buildings to look for clues and potentially fighting any bad guys there (which could be anyone from some henchmen to the mastermind of the conspiracy), capturing bad guys and interrogating them (and potentially turning them into double agents), etc. The bad guys move in real time just like you do, so if you are trying to stop an assassination attempt on some political figure using a bomb, then there is a boss NPC who transmits instructions, a bombmaker NPC who makes a bomb, a transportation guy who takes the bomb from the bombmaker to the assassin, an assassin who meets the transportation guy, etc, and they move through this as you come in and try to find out who is who and what is happening. Maybe you find out where the bombmaker is, but because you spent too long wiretapping some of the wrong buildings somewhere else, the bomb is already on the move when you get to him, so you have to hope to find some new piece of information to be able to intercept the conspiracy again further ahead in the chain, etc. Each conspiracy is generated each run, so it's pretty replayable although also can get predictable with enough repeats. It's really amazing for a 1990 game and worth playing around with, and definitely warrants a pen and piece of paper for tracking clues. I know Sid Meier talks about how this game is too unfocused with all the mini games but I absolutely love it, it's basically Sid Meier's "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego". The controls in the driving and break-in mini games are kind of rear end, but if you can deal with it, it's on par with Pirates! imo Also, speaking of Sid Meier games, Sailing Era from the chinese developers humble bundle a while back is good take on Pirates!
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. Take a look at littlewood. It's like harvest moon if you took most of the gameplay out of harvest moon. I think at some point like an hour in you'll have to sit down for a little bit and figure out how you want things arranged and what your daily sequence of tasks is gonna be and then it's just long stretches of autopilot walk to place press interact button watch number go up
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sithael posted:I know Sid Meier talks about how this game is too unfocused with all the mini games but I absolutely love it, it's basically Sid Meier's "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego". The controls in the driving and break-in mini games are kind of rear end, but if you can deal with it, it's on par with Pirates! imo A well-done 2023 update of Covert Action would be an extraordinary game that I'd love to see exist!
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Splicer posted:I'm looking for a mental time out "how is this supposed to be a game" game. Something engaging enough to grab my focus on for 15 minutes but with no mental effort involved and no way to do badly or even a way to do less well. Even a "find things" game contains the chance of not finding the things. I'd second the Littlewood recs, I don't know if PowerWash Simulator would be too much energy but if not that's also a good call. Also maybe a bit more of a long shot, but I've actually played it for basically the exact same purpose: Cube and Star: An Arbitrary Love.
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Hello. I woke up this morning and I felt the sudden urge to swing a two-handed sword in first person (so no Soulslikes or For Honor, please). Is there anything more recent than Skyrim that I could check out for this undoubtedly early sign of a midlife crisis?
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Vermintide 2. Kruber's executioner sword is one of the easiest weapons in the game to use, and it feels great to murder hordes of evil rats.
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NihilCredo posted:Hello. I woke up this morning and I felt the sudden urge to swing a two-handed sword in first person (so no Soulslikes or For Honor, please). Is there anything more recent than Skyrim that I could check out for this undoubtedly early sign of a midlife crisis? If MP is an option, Chivalry 2 is hilarious and a lot of fun
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NihilCredo posted:Hello. I woke up this morning and I felt the sudden urge to swing a two-handed sword in first person (so no Soulslikes or For Honor, please). Is there anything more recent than Skyrim that I could check out for this undoubtedly early sign of a midlife crisis? It's only 2-3 hours long, but it's got the most satisfying melee I've ever seen in a first person game.
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Bannerlord, but it can take awhile to find a decent two-hander. Kingdom Come also has really satisfying melee combat
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future ghost posted:Kingdom Come also has really satisfying melee combat Seconding this.
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Get a VR headset for Blade and Sorcery lmao
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