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Oh, duh, I own Alan Wake 2 and was struggling to get smooth frame rates even on low settings, and set it aside about two thirds through after getting pretty tired of the combat. If it wasn't on Epic I wouldn't have completely forgotten about it; I'll finish that, thanks!
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Alan Wake 2 really did make me feel like I was playing a next-gen game. Specifically, looking at the character models and animations in real time. When someone hands someone else a pair of keys, they actually take the keys and put it into the other person's hand, instead of doing a pantomime that kind of looks like they're doing that. First game I've played personally that looks just as detailed as they do in cinematics, unlike a lot of other games (Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, probably a ton of others) where the characters look great in cinematics and then become blockier and emotionless when back in real time. Good story too, it's actually my 3rd least favorite Remedy game (next to Control and Quantum Break) but I did really enjoy it.
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Fighting Elegy posted:Alan Wake 2 really did make me feel like I was playing a next-gen game. Specifically, looking at the character models and animations in real time. When someone hands someone else a pair of keys, they actually take the keys and put it into the other person's hand, instead of doing a pantomime that kind of looks like they're doing that. Lol they're not exactly nailing it lately for you, eh? Those are also the third most recent games; as a Bethesda Fan I understand.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Lol they're not exactly nailing it lately for you, eh? Those are also the third most recent games; as a Bethesda Fan I understand. A Remedy game is still a Remedy game and that has soul, creativity and technical boundary pushing so they never really mess up that hard in my eyes. I actually played every Remedy game before Alan Wake II so I had all their games fresh in my memory. I'm a dumb Joe Dante/Sam Raimi fan though so I definitely prefer the comedy/horror they had in Max Payne and Alan Wake to the newer stuff which is way more heavily inspired by David Lynch.
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I think Control is maybe the funniest game Remedy has ever produced. There's like 1 part spookiness to 9 parts comedy.
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I've played and loved all of them (though I fell off of quantum break because of the very strange formatting of the episodes and FMV vignettes), and AW2 was the first and only one where I strongly disliked the combat. I'd heard people say similar things about Control but I had a ball in that.
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Jack B Nimble posted:I got a new PC and would appreciate a list of gorgeous games, specifically single player games. Hunter call of the wild has some beautiful scenery, it and horizon zero dawn had me stopping at times just to look around and soak it in Hong Kong is vibrant and beautiful in the game sleeping dogs, and it regularly goes on sale for very cheap on gog. It probably is right now!
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McFrugal posted:Customization? How about some character class focused TBT games by Radcodex? Awesome thanks! Of these, which would you recommend as a first try to gauge whether I'll like the dev's stuff?
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Control is the only game I've seen where you really need to set brightness right, because there's as many scenes in blinding white light as there are in the blind darkness. Shame the combat didn't click right for me, I liked most of it in principle aside from the rpg elements. Maybe the newest Assassin's Creed will hit your fancy. They're usually pretty enough, and they go for high detail styles that would show off raw graphical capabilities more.
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UltraShame posted:Awesome thanks! Hmm, I'd say Voidspire Tactics for the purest example of the battle mechanics and how the dev does dungeon and encounter design. I think it's the best introduction to the worldbuilding as well.
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Jack B Nimble posted:I got a new PC and would appreciate a list of gorgeous games, specifically single player games. As long as you're not paying full price for it, and you can tolerate cringy YA/Marvel writing, Immortals of Aveum is a perfectly serviceable magic-based FPS à la Hexen that flexes UE5 very well to paint some lovely environments and particle effects.
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Kennel posted:Has anyone done a decent GTA1-2 style game? Retro City Rampage appeared to be something like that, but had pretty bad driving mechanics IIRC. From way back, but apparently Maniac is trying to be a spiritual successor to GTA 1/2, at least for the total mayhem aspect of it. As for myself, I guess I'm trying to remember a certain type of game. I think it was a physics game where you could grab a guy and slingshot him across a city trying to rack up points. I guess kind of like Angry Birds but from a forward POV. Could anyone recommend fun physics-based sandbox games or sandbox games in general? Thinking along the lines of Human Playground, WorldBox, Brick Rigs, etc. Just looking for something to gently caress around in and giggle at the mayhem being unleashed. I've already tried Besieged and BeamNG.Drive, those didn't stick with me for some reason.
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Red faction guerrilla
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ilmucche posted:Red faction guerrilla Also, maybe Teardown? Does it have a sandbox mode?
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Jack B Nimble posted:I got a new PC and would appreciate a list of gorgeous games, specifically single player games. Death Stranding is an absolutely gorgeous landscape to make your deliveries in.
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Just Cause. Especially as the series goes on, each game has more wacky physics tools to play with. Last game I saw you can tie things together and strap little rocket engines to them. Control has the aesthetic of grabbing random environmental poo poo and throwing it around, but it's not very dynamic.
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anilEhilated posted:is the correct answer recommended by nine out of ten space assholes. I'm in a truck flying off a ridge
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What's a good poker game? I don't really want something like poker.com. I want something more gamey rather than a poker sim, but I still want it to be traditional rules (so I don't know if I'd be satisfied with something like Balatro; looks so similar to what I want but then it has all these modifiers like Tarot cards and stuff). Most games I've found look like they're trying to emulate a high-stakes poker championship you'd see on TV at a bar. Ideally, I would love a game where you're a broke joke who starts playing poker and can start moving up in the world and spending money to increase their quality of life. Sorta like a Stardew Valley or DREDGE with poker. I'm open-minded though, so I'm willing to try anything if it's fun and has a satisfying gameloop. I just want something new before I reinstall RDR2 just for poker. Preferably on PC or Playstation. If there's a really good game on an older system, though, like Pocket Card Jockey for the 3DS, I'd be cool with finding a way to play it. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Balatro actually lacks a lot of what are often considered core parts of Poker; there's no other players, there's really no betting process, and you assemble your five card hands out of a larger amount of cards that you draw at first, a far cry from the more common Texas Hold Em. It's fun and worth a try, but it's kind of its own experience. The only dedicated poker games I know of are from the (essentially now defunct) Telltale games, with Poker Night at the Inventory, Poker Night 2, and even their very first game, Telltale Texas Hold Em. Their poker mechanics are bog standard, and the focus of the game is actually more on the ability to listen to the NPCs having conversations as they play. As for games that just have big poker minigames, I kinda felt it was better in RDR1 since I think that game's poker minigame moved a lot faster and also you could get a suit that allowed you to cheat a bit. Maybe Westerado might seem nice to you, since it's a pretty small and bare game with a sizable poker aspect; the game is otherwise about shootin' around in the wild west to solve the mystery of who killed your family, but playing poker is one of the ways to get some crucial hints that are the main rewards for all quests.
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Thank you for the write-up, SlothfulCobra! I'll definitely give Westerado a try. Looks like my kinda game in general. Still open to other suggestions, if anyone has any.
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Franchescanado posted:What's a good poker game? Decades after Vegas Stakes, I'm still waiting for a truly grimy, borderline depressing gambling RPG. As it is, Vegas Stakes is a dated, pretty good gambling sim. The poker in Vegas Stakes is pretty slow if you fold and wait, slowly, tapping A while the rest of the AI go through their motions. But some of the AI opponents have tells. There are also little mini quests where people might ask you for money or attempt to pick your pocket. You start with $1000 and if you go broke, you're done. If you're successful, you can go to fancier casinos where the minimum bets are higher. Get ten million, and you win the game, with a novel little ending. If you're down to your last hundred, you may want to grind away in the dive casino, where the minimum bets are $1. It's not the best game in the world, but I play it every now and then, because there really isn't anything that's better IMO.
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doctorfrog posted:Decades after Vegas Stakes, I'm still waiting for a truly grimy, borderline depressing gambling RPG. As it is, Vegas Stakes is a dated, pretty good gambling sim. This sounds pretty awesome and a lot like what I'm looking for. Gonna check it out.Thank you!
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Franchescanado posted:What's a good poker game? This one's a bit of a leap, but you might want to check out Card Shark. It's not strictly about poker, and it's not even strictly about playing cards, but rather about cheating at cards. It's story-focused (and fairly linear, from what it seems) but it has that rags-to-riches progression you're looking for.
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Vegas Stakes is a lot of fun, I got the gambling bug bag but dont ever gamble irl/real $$$ and it scratches the itch!!
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I played Vegas Stakes a ton when I was a kid and yeah, it holds up. I played blackjack to the 10 million winning scene. 
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Any good tower defense that can be a)played in a window and b)paused at any time come out recently? I'm looking for a new playing-this-while-watching-a-show game that hopefully involves less maths than the previously chosen Slay the Spire. Last TD's I really enjoyed were the Dungeon Warfares (super good) and Bloons 6 (decent enough at passing time though nothing spectacular). Probably prefer style and crunchiness over complexity.
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You probably played it already, but GemCraft?
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anilEhilated posted:Any good tower defense that can be a)played in a window and b)paused at any time come out recently? I'm looking for a new playing-this-while-watching-a-show game that hopefully involves less maths than the previously chosen Slay the Spire. none of these are recent but: Creeper World Immortal Defense Defender's Quest
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Hwurmp posted:none of these are recent but: grate deceiver posted:You probably played it already, but GemCraft?
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Laptop friendly RPG / RTS or other time sink? Laptop does have a 3050 in it so that does help a little. I Have a lot of down time / standby time at work, looking for something laptop friendly to help pass the time.
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Csixtyfour posted:Laptop friendly RPG / RTS or other time sink? Laptop does have a 3050 in it so that does help a little. I Have a lot of down time / standby time at work, looking for something laptop friendly to help pass the time. longtime lovely laptop player here so ima toss out a bunch Spiderweb Software if you like old school CRPGs. Geneforge is my fav series of theirs but pick any series that appeals to you, they're all good Total Annihilation for RTS Remnants of the Precursors is turn based but a massive addicting timesink for me thatll run on any computer Caves of Qud is a great RPG roguelike (but has a mode that turns the permadeath off and turns it into a regular RPG), with also tons of depth thatll run on anything Tales of Maj'Eyal, same as CoQ Underrail another good old school CRPG with a Fallout flavor
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Csixtyfour posted:Laptop friendly RPG / RTS or other time sink? Laptop does have a 3050 in it so that does help a little. I Have a lot of down time / standby time at work, looking for something laptop friendly to help pass the time. What do you mean by laptop friendly? Performance-wise I bet you could pick almost any game and run it fine if you mess with the settings if you have a 3050
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Kvlt! posted:longtime lovely laptop player here so ima toss out a bunch I love all of these options deeply, any of them would be a good choice. I actually played TA for the first time rather recently, and was shocked by how timeless it is. Basically the Super Mario 64 of RTS games, being far more elegant than you would expect from a trailblazer, and many later games in the genre are put to shame by it. edit: I was inspired to fire up TOME again and. never go to Daikara if you can help it. just had an unique 20 levels above me teleport behind me and blast me for 100% of my health. awesome game though Ramie fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Can I get a rec for a few games that are pretty chill, timewasters, probably roguelike or something. The kind of game you can play while high with music on and about half of your attention?
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Jeremor posted:Can I get a rec for a few games that are pretty chill, timewasters, probably roguelike or something. The kind of game you can play while high with music on and about half of your attention? The answer to this is always Snowrunner You could also try a "chore simulator" like Viscera Cleanup Detail or Powerwash Simulator
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Katamari series are the perfect games to play while high
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Jeremor posted:Can I get a rec for a few games that are pretty chill, timewasters, probably roguelike or something. The kind of game you can play while high with music on and about half of your attention? Stardew Valley. Also, obligatory Subnautica rec.
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Kvlt! posted:longtime lovely laptop player here so ima toss out a bunch Awesome, Thanks for recommendations, ill definitely check them all out. Kevin Bacon posted:What do you mean by laptop friendly? Performance-wise I bet you could pick almost any game and run it fine if you mess with the settings if you have a 3050 Meh, im old and donnt want to listen to the laptop fans run wide open while using it. GET OFF MY GRASS.
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Csixtyfour posted:Laptop friendly RPG / RTS or other time sink? Laptop does have a 3050 in it so that does help a little. I Have a lot of down time / standby time at work, looking for something laptop friendly to help pass the time. Deadly Rooms of Death
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I'm kinda in the mood for something like the Sims...but not. I want to create an environment for people or creatures to live and thrive at a small scale while having no direct control over them. Something more casual and chill than Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld with some visual charm would be ideal.
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