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chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Oenis posted:

What are some good games to play with your partner? We already played It Takes Two and loved it.

Lovers in a dangerous space time.

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chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

From the same post you quoted:

Oh, derp.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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I don't know if it's :filez: to say so but you can cheaply and easily get a raspberry-pi, USB controllers, and follow an online guide to turn it into an emulator.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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If you get a card with a triangle, circle, and square on one side and a phone number on the back definitely play that game.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Hwurmp posted:

It's a lot like the first RG, except you're flying a fighter or small transport in full 3D instead of capital ships on a flat plane.

Would it be cool to start on the second one then without missing much? I basically rage uninstalled the first I've when I discovered I was stuck to a fixed, a flat plane.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Walh Hara posted:

I'm looking for more squad based tactics games where your teamcomposition changes over time in a good way.

Two examples:
- Gloomhaven: your mercenaries have a personal quest, once they fullfil it they retire. You're rewarded for making them retire, even though afterwards you'll have to replace them with a less powerful new mercenary. It's encouraged to bring different heroes to different missions depending on the enemies and location.
- Football, Tactics, Glory: your football players will retire once they reach a certain age. In addition you can sell them for profit. Often you'll replace a good footballer with a less good and younger footballer that has more potential. It's encouraged to bring different footballers to different matches depending on the enemy team, injuries and fatigue.

Are there any other tactical games where your team composition really changes over time (even if you play perfectly and nobody dies) and the strength of your team does not always increase?

Battle brothers?

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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SetSliRol posted:

Might be a bit E/N but any Goons got reccs for games that helped them out of a rough time? Year's been pretty poo poo so far and I'd like to at least end it on a good note by trying something new. Anything that's not a game you're encouraged to play a lot (ie Animal Crossing) and you could go at your own pace with is a plus.

Subnautica was like that for me. Underwater sci fi game where you're crash landed on a planet and trying to get back off world. Perfect for just straight up chilling. Even the hazards are not all that scary once you learn how to work around them.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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I'm looking for a FPS survival, crafting game that doesn't have zombies but has other towns/NPCs on the map so it doesn't feel empty. Monsters/animals are fine. I'm just bored with zombies. I prefer single player but not against multiplayer.
I've played Empyrion Galactic Survival, No Man's Sky, Minecraft, The Forest etc already. I know you can turn zombies off in The Forest but that kinda neuters the whole thing.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Knightsoul posted:

Terminator Resistance
This looks interesting. It's on sale on steam right now. I'll give it a whirl.


Lunchmeat Larry posted:

The Long Dark kind of falls down on the towns/NPCs front but might be worth a look? Also STALKER

I have The Long Dark but haven't played since early access. If Terminator Resistance is a miss I'll reinstall this.

Thanks all.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Tuxedo Catfish posted:

if 2D is okay, Starsector. it's fleet combat with a player-controlled flagship and loadout customization is ludicrously deep, especially once you factor in all the various differences between building ships for player use vs. for the AI, and the economy side is just substantial enough to provide a robust context for the battles

Playing Terminator Resistance at the moment. I've heard about this game - it doesn't appear to be on any of the launcher based game stores yet.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

It isn't, you have to get it from their site.

Oh, derp! That's why I wasn't finding it. Thanks! I'll probably wait until I finish Terminator Resistance or my ADD/FOMO kicks in.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Are there any games like Empyrion Galactic Survival where you can build craft and bases, explore space, get into combat, trade, etc that aren't miles wide but a puddle deep?

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Thanks for the suggestions! I've actually played all but star citizen but uh that one seems like vaporware.

grate deceiver posted:

Kerbal Space Program would be this as well? minus the combat and trade, but the space exploration feels are top notch

KSP is fun but I suck at math.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

The X series is both miles wide AND deep

Played X4 for a bit but bounced of it.

Fruits of the sea posted:

Yeah, X4 is probably the closest match since it's also 1st-person.

I can think of other suggestions like Star Trader:Frontiers but that's getting further and further away from survival/crafting.

Comedy option is Star Citizen. Its got hunger meters and you die if you run too much.

Star Traders:Frontiers is fun but doesn't quite scratch the itch.

Star citizen? Haha. I suppose the lack of space games that hit the specific itch I have is why SC snared so much gamer dough.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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FFXIV Porn posted:

i've tried subnautica but it doesn't scratch my itch. too much focus on survival.

i'll peek into long dark though

You can turn off food & water needs and then it's just exploring with an O2 meter.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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I can't decide whether I want to start Necromunda: Underhive Wars or Warhammer Inquisitor. Which should I start?

I could also finally play through Elden Ring.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Kvlt! posted:

Weird request: my powerful PC poo poo the bed so I'm on a lovely laptop. I was really into stuff like Snowrunner, Truck Simulator/Train Simulator and was wondering if there's anything like that, maybe 2D or pixel based but neither are requirements, that can run on a lovely laptop. I've been playing OpenTTD but wanna actually drive trucks and/or trains myself.

GTA 1 & 2

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Jack Trades posted:

Has there been any good racing game in the last 5, maybe 10 years, that plays similarly to either NFS Most Wanted or Burnout Paradise?

Racing games aren't my cup of tea but if you're on PC there's a racing game themed sale on steam right now. At the very least you can see what's out and if you like anything snag it while it's on sale.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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I've played Surviving Mars to death but lately I have a hankering to play a terraforming game. I know there's a ton of Mars themed games out there, but are there any others where you take on other worlds or climates? Real or fictional worlds is ok. I'm a little over Mars. Have also played Planetbase, but that's more basebuilding than terraforming.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Mount and blade 2?

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Bognar posted:

Some friends and I are having a LAN weekend coming up where there will be much alcohol involved and we're looking for game suggestions. We've found that competitive games aren't great for our group since the different skill levels lead to different people disengaging. In general we're looking for:
  • Co-op
  • Progression mechanics
  • 5 players
  • PC or couch co-op PS4/5
  • Something we could finish or get close to finishing in 3 days of roughly continuous play
  • Base building (not required)
  • Bonus points for decent drinking rule opportunities

Survival games fit the bill in general, but there aren't any obvious options sticking out to us at the moment. Things we've enjoyed in the past:
  • Overcooked and Overcooked 2
  • Valheim
  • V Rising

You might have already given it a shot but The Forest is entirely beatable in a few days with a big group if you all stay focused and don't get caught up in building a Roman fort or something.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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It's on mobile and on steam not sure if it does cross play but "star traders frontiers" sort of fits that bill.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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True- but it is something you can pick up and drop to do something else then come back to.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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I'm looking for a single player, FPS, basebuilding, exploration, and/or open world game where I can kinda just chill and explore and use my base as a hub for refueling between treks. I've played Subnautica (and below zero), minecraft and satisfactory to death already. If there's villagers that I can attract and build a tiny village that's semi-autonomous that's also cool.

I know fallout 4 kinda also did what I'm looking for with regards to basebuilding and exploring, but have also played it to death.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Galick posted:

Modded Minecraft, there's a village building mod!
Ooh!

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

7 Days To Die
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Not too into zombie games anymore.

SlothfulCobra posted:

If you care the primarily about first person, Slime Rancher and Raft.
Raft might do it.


doctorfrog posted:

No Man's Sky does all of these things (including a sorta simulated village for you to manage) to kind of a shallow, but enjoyable and pretty degree. NMS is a very amiable game.
Yeah my village in NMS seems way too tiny and silly. It won't ever expand beyond what it is now and it's a little of a let down.


Thanks all!

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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LLSix posted:

It sounds like you are describing Necesse, except it's not first person.

Oh yeah that's on my wishlist. Waiting on it leaving EA though.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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LLSix posted:

It sounds like you are describing Necesse, except it's not first person.

Broke my personal "no Early Access rule" and got this. Thanks for the recommendation. A few hours in and this seems to hit the spot.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Tagra posted:

Our usual gameplay loop is to play a shitload of Sea of Thieves or some other buildy or shooty game (7D2D, Conan, Borderlands, whatever) for hours, and then sometimes we wrap up our mission at the end of a round and it's too late to start a new one, so we'd hop over to Overwatch for a couple matches to wrap up the night. Now Overwatch 1 has been deleted and Overwatch 2 is a microtransaction bullshit hell, and none of us want to support Activision, so we're looking for something new.

We're typically 3-4 players, want to play as a squad with more than just shooting as a metric (the way Overwatch had classes with distinct roles beyond "shoot them in the head" really worked for us), and we know DRG and Apex exist. What else is there for quick "play a couple rounds and gtfo" games that might work while slightly drunk? We'd prefer if there's some sort of progression to it, even if it's just cosmetic.

Not interested in F2P microtransaction stuff. Paladins was like dollar-store Overwatch but there was no point in playing it unless you forked money over. I think Warframe had a similar reaction even though I personally kinda liked it. All the Call of Duty/Battlefield stuff is too "shoot them in the head" without distinct roles. Suggesting PubG or Fortnite would probably break up our gaming group lmao.

DRG can take a long time per match if you're playing with a crew that insist on being completionists and doing every single minor extra objective instead of doing the main objective and punching out. That's about the only thing I have against it.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Tin Can was basically "panic attack: the game" for me but it has its moments.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Splicer posted:

I'm looking for a game where you dig a hole and put things in it don't say dwarf fortress or terraria or oxygen not included.

I guess I want Terraria but a bigger focus on base building. Like I want to dig out a bunch of space to put rooms in (like oxygen not included) but I want to be directly controlling a dude (like terraria or dome keeper). Honestly I think I want vertical Dungeon Keeper but also the Dungeon Keeper is me with a shovel.

I got this:
Minecraft

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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bawk posted:

I'm getting the craving for a game where you incrementally improve on a place as time goes on, to expand out a business or town or something, but with very chill vibes. I've been playing Ixion lately and while it scratches all the itches for "managing resources in order to build a better and better place", the whole game has a constant streak of depressing locales and it seems to want to prod you along at a good clip. I stayed around gathering as much resources as I could/saving people in the first star system, and the game basically called me out on it and gave me a permanent debuff to my population. I just want to research new housing and extract minerals :(

I've seen quite a few management games through Steam, but I can't really tell which ones are a no-time-limit fun city-builder and which ones are going to put the pressure on. Lots of people compared Ixion to Frostpunk, so I don't know if that's going to be more or less stressful.

Doesn't necessarily need to be a citysim either, I moreso just want to be handed a piece of poo poo beginner's building/hub/city/ship/whatever and turn it into a really cool lived-in space. The only catch is I don't want it to disappear immediately after I'm done interacting with it, so not something like powerwash simulator or house flipper where you finish the job and then click "Job Complete" and never see the place again. I've played Portia, Cozy Grove, Animal Crossing, Bear and Breakfast, all of those hit pretty close to what I'm looking for but I haven't found something to capture my attention. I'm surprised nobody's made a proper Tavern or Blacksmithing fantasy shop game, i've seen a couple EA titles but nothing that's just done already.

Have you tried Banished or Patron? Those are decent city simulators although they have failure spirals like most of those sorts of games do. Awhile back someone recommended Necesse, and it's a good blend of adventuring and building a village or base, too.

It's a little out of the range of your ideas but I got "I was a teenager exocolonist" recently. It's more of a choose your own adventure game. I'm unfinished with even my first run of it, but it definitely checks off both lived in space, and a sense of developing community.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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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.

Sailwind might fit the bill for chill sailing and cargo trading/delivery. It's in early access and still has a bunch of features to be added but the dev seems on it at least. I've been playing it off and on when I feel like chilling.

chainchompz fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jan 14, 2023

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Undertale pissed me off when I tried to beat it as a pacifist for my first run and then the game pretty much tells you that you weren't supposed to play like that your first run and it locks you out of beating it as a pacifist.

chainchompz fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 26, 2023

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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cmndstab posted:

I may be missing something, but this doesn't happen I think? The first time you "beat" it you can't get the true pacifist ending, but as long as you haven't gained any XP to that point, you can then just load your last savegame from before you beat it and follow the heavily-signposted "I wonder what Alphys is doing?" clue to continue the true pacifist run.

poo poo, I'm not sure. I didn't catch that as an option and when I was stuck there I actually rage uninstalled the game.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Tyshalob posted:

I'm trying to scratch a Terraria/Minecraft/other open world sandboxy games of that sort itch. Something where I'm free to just gently caress about and explore. Preferably single player because I hate dealing with toxic trash communities that multiplayer games tend to create.

Starbound is kinda like terraria but in space. But also they were super crappy to the folks working on it. Play "farworld pipneers" when it comes out instead.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Are there any mods that make RimWorld work on more than one z level?

Preemptive: Already have dwarf fortress.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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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.

chainchompz fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 20, 2023

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Oh wow thanks folks! That's a big list to pick through. Should keep me busy for this summer.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Hwurmp posted:

basically what you were asking for: FPS games like System Shock and Deus Ex with open levels, inventories, maybe skill trees

the Looking Glass Studios office door code was 0-4-5-1 and it has become Le Epic Meme in many videogames

Morrowind is an immersive sim?

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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Anyone looking for a space game, I'm told there's one called "Starfield" that's going quite well and is fun to play.

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chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

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SlothfulCobra posted:

Generally when there's games that offer a choice between environmentalism and industrialism, the environmentalist side tends to be much more fleshed out and considered the "good" option. Often games don't even have the courage to make a statement about the necessity of industrialism for some of the basic aspects we expect from the modern world.

Environmentalism also often falls into pitfalls of only considering pretty environments that humans like (although there are some swamp lovers and such out there). The New Zealand countryside is very beautiful, but the environment there been absolutely obliterated in order to create grazing land for sheep. Plenty of British wilderness has also been destroyed in favor of grazing land, but it's just been that way for centuries so people think it's natural. Some environmentalist-themed games can sort of be a kind of green-imperialism of approved environments over unapproved environments, like how Timberborn is about irrigating desert wastelands. Not to really condemn them, but it's something interesting to think about.

Anyways, most building games end up with you destroying the wilderness to create your new society. Everything from Sweet Transit to Kingdom: Two Crowns, you end up destroying forests to build your new thing. There's a thread for them over here.

Rise of Industry and Surviving the Aftermath are especially industrial. Frostpunk is an especially barren world with cruel industrialism. The Anno games are split between just normal building up industry from scratch and the post-2000 games that are more about building futuristic industry with choices between dirty industry and environmentalism (and because of Germans players, every DLC ends up favoring the anti-nuclear environmentalists). Against the Storm has a theme of having to constantly rebuild your little settlements after disasters destroy them.

Oregon Trail famously levies the decline of the buffalo on the player if you shoot more meat than you can carry.

Imagine Earth kind of does that balance between industrial and natural.

chainchompz fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 30, 2023

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