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Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

SpacePope posted:

You need Starsector in your life: https://fractalsoftworks.com/

Best 15$ you'll ever spend.

Starsector is good. Endless Sky is good for being a free game.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 20:09

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 07:00

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Grim Dawn

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 07:44

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

InsertPotPun posted:

is there a good brawler type game that isn't "press a bunch" or "keep the combo going" types? like a free roaming fighting game.

Sleeping Dogs

# ¿ Jun 13, 2020 22:11

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Why not come back and play WoW? The Goon guilds are welcoming and good people. On Retail we just ran a very successful heroic raid last night. There is also WoW classic now which is on vanilla. I haven�t messed with that though.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2020 15:34

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

probably because MMOs are brain poison op

# ¿ Jul 29, 2020 16:38

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Kingdoms is a fun game. The flow does feel like leveling in an MMO. I think it was originally planned for it to either be the prologue for an mmo or an mmo itself.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2020 20:18

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Hey, I�m looking for a game. Something like underrail or caves of qud or maybe an isometric rpg. Something single player with deep systems that isn�t fps or really graphically intense. Also something that works well with a keyboard and mouse, no controller. Preferably not a roguelike/lite and something I can pause.

Games I have and like a bunch:
Kenshi
Factorio
Stellaris
All infinity engine games
Caves of Qud
Stardew Valley
Cold Waters

Games I don�t really like:
Divinity Original Sin

# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 16:08

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I meant to put in there Pillars and Tyranny in the games I have and played a lot.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 17:01

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'm looking for a good laptop game. Work is slowing down for the end of the year and I'll have a few slow days before winter break.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 17:36

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Ceyton posted:

Could I interest you in some top-down space games, like Starsector and Starcom: Nexus?

Played both of those. Both are really good. Just finished Starcom: Nexus actually.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 00:04

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I�m just finishing up Enderal and looking for something else to play. Preferably something like Enderal and which does not require an internet connection.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 18:44

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Underrail

# ¿ Jan 24, 2021 04:32

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I need a good iOS rpg game. i�ve played chrono trigger, the quest and balder�s gate/ice wind dale, kotor anf kotor 2.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 00:06

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Hwurmp posted:

Jade Empire is also on iOS if you want more Biowares

I tried it and the touch controls were super janky. Couldn�t really get into it.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 00:23

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

So, I ended up getting 9th Dawn III on IOS and it's a fun mobile game. Reminds me of Diablo with a deeper crafting system. I'm in the dungeon Sinfall right now. Thanks for all the recommendations.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 15:56

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

So, I'm looking for a game to play, I want it to have a focus on collecting cool artifacts and bringing them back to my player base. Think like a wizard who goes out searching for powerful magical artifacts or someone who has a private collection of something. Anything spring to mind that scratches that itch? Preferably open world. I'm thinking I might have to mod Skyrim and play it again.

I've played both Valheim and V Rising recently and am not looking to replay them.

EDIT: About to reread The Infinite and The Divine and I'm thinking that it would be cool to play a game in the vein of Trazyn and gathering items for his collection.

Saul Kain fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Aug 29, 2022

# ¿ Aug 29, 2022 18:00

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Outer Wilds would be my recommendation.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2022 15:30

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Gato The Elder posted:

I�m like 99% sure this game doesn�t exist, but I want a Souls-like game without the relentlessly depressing setting (and obviously I have played all of the Souls games to death). I want to play something with the same depth of combat and exploration, but instead of being filled with nasty little guys who hate me there�s a colorful world full of nice villagers who want to talk to me.

I think I just want Breath of the Wild with Souls combat (as opposed to Elden Ring, which is a Souls Game with Breath of the Wild�s open world sensibilities)

Is there anything out there that�s even a *little* bit close?

Outward maybe? I enjoyed that game and enjoy most From games.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2022 01:43

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Bognar posted:

I played the poo poo out of it for 3 weeks or so until we beat it, then never touched it after that. Good fun, would recommend for a small group of friends. We'll probably end up revisiting it in a year or so.

This was my experience as well. Played on the Goon private server and beat it. We got all the special columns. Had a few 100% Scholars. Then ran out of game. Going ham in the middle of a village is cool and eventually you learn how to turn into a bat.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 09:55

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

StoryTime posted:

There's Hardspace: Shipbreaker which has you work as a salvage person dismantling valuable parts out of massive spaceships.

Game good. Turning off the timer and meticulously cutting up a giant ship until you only have little bits left is extremely chill to me.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2022 16:41

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

A GIANT PARSNIP posted:

What are the best games where you pilot your own spaceship and run missions / blow poo poo up? Ideally I'm looking for single player and something that also has a faction/territory system for an end game goal.

Starsector

# ¿ Nov 26, 2022 17:22

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Galick posted:

Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward Outward!!!

Outward is good but is quite jank. Quebecjank

# ¿ Dec 20, 2022 23:09

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

hats4cats posted:

I've been playing Valheim and really enjoyed sailing exploration. Anything similar, maybe with a cargo delivery/trading aspect?

Chill, can have goals but I'm not looking to fight any deadlines.
Controller friendly.
Easy or no combat. Having automated npc's would be ok.

Check out Sailwind. An indy game in early access but leans heavily into the sailing mechanics. It was kinda unpolished when I checked it out a few years back.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2023 02:24

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Elden Ring

# ¿ Feb 15, 2023 04:09

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Jack B Nimble posted:

And you've played Prey, right? Right??

The TransStar facility reminds me of a cruise ship actually. Play Prey.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2023 19:05

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

thekeeshman posted:

I'm looking for something to scratch the "open-world RPG/immersive sim with a decent story" itch. Things I have played and enjoyed:

-The Witcher games and Cyberpunk 2077
-Mass Effect 1 & 2 (3 and Andromeda looked bad)
-The Dishonored games
-The recent Deus Ex games
-Neverwinter nights 1
-Dragon Age Origins (2 looked bad, Inquisition is a possibility?)
-rear end Creed 2
-Fallout New Vegas (I've tried 4 and got bored halfway through, and I've played The Outer Worlds, which was okay)
-Alpha Protocol
-Disco Elysium

I'm currently playing Pillars of Eternity, and while it ticks a lot of boxes I'm finding the combat straight up tedious, even on easy difficulty, I just can't be bothered to deal with all the different classes and managing all their abilities, I think the large party based RPGs aren't my thing. I know I could drop the difficulty to story mode but that would seem to be missing the point. Seems like this would rule out PoE 2 and the Divinity games. (Played Arcanum back in the day)

I've tried several ARPGs but couldn't really get into them. Torchlight 1&2 made for good podcast-listening games with passive builds, but Diablo 3 and Grim Dawn didn't click.

Current possibilities:

-One of the newer rear end Creed games? Heard good things about Black Flag and Odyssey
-Dragon Age Inquisition?
-Kingdom Come Deliverance? (Got this for free on Epic so no investment needed to check it out)

I'm not attached to any particular format, genre, or setting, hopefully this gives people some idea of the vibe I'm looking for.

You want to play Prey.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 17:59

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Yeah was gonna say Stardew Valley. Everyone should play it imo.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2023 01:19

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Xeras posted:

I�m looking for a game to play while listening to audiobooks. I�m not much of a truck/racer type so euro truck is doubtful.

Delta V: Rings of Saturn is a great audiobook game for me. Pretty chill game about mining in the Saturn's rings. It's a top down 2d game with realistic physics. Break ice chunks and hoover up the good metals inside.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2023 15:40

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Elex was good if you can get through the first little bit. Getting to the clerics and joining that faction was cool.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 23:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Are there any good games on steam for working on improving/exercising your memory?

Papers Please

# ¿ Apr 23, 2023 16:47

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Aww I played a lot of Starbound years ago, what happened?

# ¿ Apr 24, 2023 22:45

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Recommend me a good turn based game. Strat or small squad, whatever, I've been jamming Deep Sky Derelicts and the like, and obviously the big names like the XCOMs and so on.

I could never really get into Divinity Original Sin 2 despite having like 40 hours in Fort Joy and the second continent. I always get bored and forget what I was trying to acomplish. An alternative recommendation would be Underrail. I love that game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/250520/UnderRail/

# ¿ May 1, 2023 16:23

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

grate deceiver posted:

One of these days I gotta reinstall Warframe and watch all the new insane cutscenes.

I continually go back and rewatch this video. I don�t even play warframe. https://youtu.be/mPTCq3LiZSE

# ¿ May 11, 2023 22:51

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

chainchompz posted:

There's a few games I'm looking forward to coming out right about now, (and tears of the kingdom is sold out by me or that'd be it for now,) but what sci fi explorer games are out there? I'm looking for something where you've got a ship and that's sort of your base of operations and you're either alone or have a crew and the universe just sort of generates around you as you go. Ship/crew customisation and leveling is a must. Mile wide and puddle deep is ok.

I've played the living hell out of:
FTL
Holy Potatoes, we're in space
X4
Elite dangerous
Objects in space
Starbound
Empyrion: Galactic Survival
No man's sky
Halcyon 6

I also tried that bugfest known as star citizen on a free weekend and yikes that one needs either even more time in the oven or a higher heat to cook it.

Starsector or Star Traders Frontiers are my recs.

Efb

# ¿ May 20, 2023 17:49

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

malnourish posted:

Any games with intriguing sequence breaking, discovery or secrets, or where you get the vaguely eerie "you're not supposed to be here" vibe?

I'm thinking games like Outer Wilds, Portal, or even Stanley Parable.

Dredge

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 19:34

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Check out Endless Sky, it is a freeware game on steam that is reminiscent of old school escape velocity. The whole story is text and you�re not missing anything with the sound off.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 02:53

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Eric the Mauve posted:

We're going a long way back here and maybe into a genre not of interest to you, but believe it or not, EarthBound was designed to be completely playable with your left hand only.

Really? I played it on SNES. Is the idea that you could use the dpad and then switch to buttons as necessary?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2023 02:05

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Stalker: Anomaly has the benefit of being a free fan mod that is quite expansive.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2023 14:06

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I would also suggest Enderal as a more maturely written Skyrim. It has neat magic systems and a huge open world to explore.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2023 14:08

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 07:00

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Elden Ring really is fantastic. Give it a shot again, you�ll start to learn quickly as you bang your head against a boss. Don�t give up, skeleton!

# ¿ Aug 15, 2023 02:39

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