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What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. Bonus points for a cool constructed language, too.
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Mar 10, 2024 02:40
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Obra Dinn isn't exactly what you're asking for, but does have a sit-and-think-about-it gameplan. It's a thread favorite for a reason. I'm assuming you want something like Myst meets Grim Fandango, which is not really a style that's popular anymore.
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Mar 10, 2024 03:57
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I've heard notes are mandatory for the La-Mulana games.
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Mar 10, 2024 04:09
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I refuse to believe that any person actually beat La-Mulana without pulling in outside aid. Truely astounding levels of bullshit 'puzzles'.
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Mar 10, 2024 04:43
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I got very close to the end of La Mulana without help but one of the puzzles near the end even with help I don't fully understand. I haven't played a ton of La Mulana 2 but it seems much less obtuse in general. I still loved up to what I figured out in the first game tho and would still recommend it.
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Mar 10, 2024 04:52
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. The puzzle game thread went crazy for the recently released game, Epigraph, where translating Cuneiform is just the beginning https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789770/Epigraph/ Tunic has options that remove all the difficulty from the combat leaving it a pure exploration and translation game Inkle's Overboard is a nice little knotty problem of a game where you have to pay close attention to NPC behaviour and routine
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Mar 10, 2024 04:57
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. Shadows of Doubt needs a lot of notes. this is not what you meant
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Mar 10, 2024 05:06
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Please Don't Touch Anything is a brain puzzler, too. I still haven't gotten all the endings.
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Mar 10, 2024 05:13
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Goon game The Roottrees are Dead is another where taking notes is very helpful and let's you do so in game You can play for free on itch or wait to pay for the premium Steam version
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Mar 10, 2024 05:13
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I think I'm too old for Nioh 2. I'm getting a hang of the controls and have the 2nd boss down - Enenra? - but I'm looking the inventory and just rolling my eyes at how unnecessary everything is. All of these systems are just so exhausting and almost seem to detract from the core gameplay loop of killing random dudes and weird yokai. Edit: main boss and miniboss fights have been a ton of fun so far
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Mar 10, 2024 06:52
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Propaganda Hour posted:I think I'm too old for Nioh 2. I'm getting a hang of the controls and have the 2nd boss down - Enenra? - but I'm looking the inventory and just rolling my eyes at how unnecessary everything is. All of these systems are just so exhausting and almost seem to detract from the core gameplay loop of killing random dudes and weird yokai. Just ignore all the gear and only update the big number occasionally. All the stats are there for post-game and are too small to do anything on your first playthrough. Team Ninja games are great but they loving love diablo loot and you really need to ignore it until post-game to not get bogged down.
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Mar 10, 2024 06:55
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team ninja would probably benefit from just having extremely basic as gently caress loot for NG and saving all of the proper diablo loot for NG+ onward so people can stop bitching about it and the real sickos can enjoy loot grinding im sickos
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Mar 10, 2024 07:06
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ShadowMar posted:team ninja would probably benefit from just having extremely basic as gently caress loot for NG and saving all of the proper diablo loot for NG+ onward so people can stop bitching about it and the real sickos can enjoy loot grinding They solved that issue eventually in Stranger of Paradise by giving you an Auto-Equip button that will look through the gear for you so you literally never have to touch the gear system until post-game.
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Mar 10, 2024 07:09
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Jack Trades posted:They solved that issue eventually in Stranger of Paradise by giving you an Auto-Equip button that will look through the gear for you so you literally never have to touch the gear system until post-game. auto-equip didn't stop people from bitching about it then either despite it working exactly like you said lol
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Mar 10, 2024 07:11
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Runa posted:Alpha Centauri owns because when you research new technologies, you're not getting a little fluff blurb about history, you're getting snippets of a number of different narratives illustrating the advancement of humankind into a new stage of existence and some of it is so unsettling it makes the insane christian fundie lady look reasonable. And the faction leaders are all characters with their own personality and perspectives, and the tech blurbs are all narrated by them. It's genuinely speculative fiction in your sci-fi videogame and I have yet to find another 4x game that even tries to come close. sorry I have to kool aid through the wall every time this discussion comes up and say that endless legend is the only true and good spiritual successor to alpha centauri
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Mar 10, 2024 08:56
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Chadzok posted:sorry I have to kool aid through the wall every time this discussion comes up and say that endless legend is the only true and good spiritual successor to alpha centauri How? I've played Endless Legend and bounced off it for some reason. I never thought to compare it to Alpha Centauri.
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Mar 10, 2024 09:09
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. Roadwarden, especially since only one of the characters can actually read
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Mar 10, 2024 09:11
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credburn posted:How? I've played Endless Legend and bounced off it for some reason. I never thought to compare it to Alpha Centauri. It's a very vibes-bases thing, but the asymmetry, distinctiveness and personality of the factions gives you echoes of SMAC's factions and leaders (I feel like it's a natural evolution from SMAC to make the factions play so radically different). They both emphasise the plotline in gameplay ways that make them satisfying once-off single player experiences as well as being repeatable (the factions in Endless Legend almost demand at least one playthrough each). They both share that sense of a growing, seemingly inevitable ecological catastrophe. Auriga is totes drawing on Planet as well, both games are well in front of any other 4X I've played in having the environment almost (I mean literally in SMAC) be a character in the game/plot. Research/technologies also felt like they were taking the example that SMAC laid out, using them as a place to inject lore, personality, drama into the game. Both really capture an epochal, evolving science fiction, new insights laying the grounds for insane later technologies that seem internally coherent and logically consistent, and fuckin cool. They also share poo poo redundant unit customisation and combat systems that really need to be rethought. I'll take other thoughts but I think it's pretty clear to people who played and loved both that there is a strong link there. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Mar 10, 2024 09:27
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I can see it, I suppose.
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Mar 10, 2024 10:04
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Huh yeah. Alright.
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Mar 10, 2024 11:03
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I guess I know what I'll be doing with my 4X time once I'm done winning Civ5 with all nations 
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Mar 10, 2024 12:35
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. If you don't mind some action, too, then Tunic
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Mar 10, 2024 12:54
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Chadzok posted:It's a very vibes-bases thing, but the asymmetry, distinctiveness and personality of the factions gives you echoes of SMAC's factions and leaders (I feel like it's a natural evolution from SMAC to make the factions play so radically different). Never really cared much about it before, but you have just sold me on Endless Legends.
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Mar 10, 2024 13:55
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Chadzok posted:It's a very vibes-bases thing, but the asymmetry, distinctiveness and personality of the factions gives you echoes of SMAC's factions and leaders (I feel like it's a natural evolution from SMAC to make the factions play so radically different). okay, I'll reinstall Endless Legends again and then not play it, again
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Mar 10, 2024 13:58
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. Have you tried the Rusty Lake games? Not exactly the same thing as Submachine but pretty good. I would start with Cube Escape Collection
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Mar 10, 2024 14:19
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Jossar posted:In what was apparently a choice to not have this be a Next Fest Demo... So it turns out that Escape The Mad Empire has decided to follow up their post-NextFest demo with a fuller playtest. If anybody was interested in that and wanted to see more of the game, it's available now upon requesting access on Steam.
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Mar 10, 2024 14:31
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 hopefully the street cred gets even more subscribers to my newsletter. I also played every DLC thoroughly and all the ones that add factions, if you're playing for primarily that one playthrough for lore reasons and not multiplayer or whatever, are at least as good quality as the base game and a few are better. An extremely, extremely creative team that has taken two dramatic missteps into Endless Space 2 and Humankind but I'll forgive them knowing that the practice will help make the eventual Endless Legend 2 loving top notch. But please, someone tell them to add a simplified, abstracted combat system or something cool. like a quick Into the Breach-esque or chess type matchup. be creative. bring something new to civ-style 4x, make combat a compelling mini game in its own right. but keep it brief, like a HoMaM battle length. Now don't get me started on Dungeon of the Endless - not the new one. Not the new one, with the infuriating country versions of the OG's incredible chiptune ambient horror masterpiece soundtrack. The pixel art, stripped down, viciously hard and mechanically fascinating original. Chadzok fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Mar 10, 2024 14:39
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I must be the only person who likes combat systems in Endless Space and Legends because they're unintrusive and don't make me constantly alternate between two completely different games while still giving me the satisfaction of showing my military forces in action.
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Mar 10, 2024 14:51
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I'd like an Endless Legend 2, but it's gonna be a little difficult, lore-wise. It also seems that not a lot of people are playing it these days, unfortunately.   But I do agree it would be very nice to get another quirky inventive asymmetrical fantasy 4X game like Endless Legend.
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Mar 10, 2024 14:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEU04KxQpuw I mean, put this on headphones when you lay down to sleep and see where it takes you. The composer of all the Endless Games is an amazing talent. He mains harp I believe. I think the Dungeon songs were all played on real instruments and then chiptunified or something. I could be making that up. Listen to all the soundtracks.
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Mar 10, 2024 14:58
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Also, I loving love the concept behind Umbral Choir from Endless Space 2 and I have never seen another game that has a "parasite" race that plays like that. It's so loving cool and unique.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:01
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Jack Trades posted:Also, I loving love the concept behind Umbral Choir from Endless Space 2 and I have never seen another game that has a "parasite" race that plays like that. I'll subtract my harsh statement about endless space 2. for the lore playthroughs it was great, just the game itself was not as strong as Endless Legend. Humankind can get in the bin. Civilization 6 took lessons and inspiration from Endless Legend and made them mainstream and then Amplitude score the own goal of making a game more like Civilisation, a loreless mess about real boring people. Lean into your strengths, get back to Auriga and get weird.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:08
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Damnit, the Endless Legend DLC I don't have isn't on sale.... At least Endless Space 2's DLC is! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18697/ENDLESS_Space_2_Definitive_Edition/ 15$ to finish my collection, yoink. Also: Age of Mythology: completed the tutorial campaign and first mission of the Atlantis campaign and hmm based on how our hero is leaving his son home at Atlantis while they're losing Poseidon's favor, I think I smell a tragedy in the making.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:11
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I wish Humankind played as cool as the artwork of Humankind looks…
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Mar 10, 2024 15:12
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Read 'humankind can get in the bin' and it took me a while to realize Humankind was a game
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Mar 10, 2024 15:18
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fez_machine posted:The puzzle game thread went crazy for the recently released game, Epigraph, where translating Cuneiform is just the beginning https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789770/Epigraph/ This is misleading, you absolutely do not need to translate Cuneiform - that part is already translated into English for you.
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tinaun posted:What are some good recent “play it and take notes” style adventure games - I replayed submachine legacy and really got in to it, but the devs previous steam release slice of sea hasn’t really grabbed me so far. La-Mulana 1 and 2 if you're Catholic and wanna shave a couple years of Purgatory. Serephina posted:I refuse to believe that any person actually beat La-Mulana without pulling in outside aid. Truely astounding levels of bullshit 'puzzles'. Mr E posted:I got very close to the end of La Mulana without help but one of the puzzles near the end even with help I don't fully understand. I haven't played a ton of La Mulana 2 but it seems much less obtuse in general. I still loved up to what I figured out in the first game tho and would still recommend it. The first third of La-Mulana, anyone can beat without a guide. The second third, if you take good notes and you're willing to experiment, can be tackled similarly, though there are a few trouble spots. The last third, well, it's technically possible. Someone else in this thread managed it, as did someone on Youtube, but boy howdy, not me, and not most human beings. By contrast, I only needed to consult a guide four times total across the whole of La-Mulana 2, and that last one I probably could've managed if I hadn't been impatient to finally beat the game and move on with my life.
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Presumably those studios have other games that fit the genre?
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Stunlock definitely doesn't, as much as I love them I have no idea why they're involved in the sale lol
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