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Crossposting from the hidden gems thread since the game’s on sale:Cantorsdust posted:I’ve recommended this game before and I’ll recommend it here: Cantorsdust fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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Xander77 posted:If a friend started playing Elden Ring, would Seamless Co-Op be the way to go? I was wrong and misremembered. The Time of Creation update was free. Will edit the post.
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Crossposting from the hidden gems thread:Cantorsdust posted:I just finished Roadwarden and really enjoyed it.
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Mescal posted:what's the canon of trad rogue likes? the ones that are ancient and presumably still in development via forks at least and usually free There's a roguelike thread on SA that lists the key ones. I'm not a huge roguelike person but the ones I've played that I've enjoyed are: Caves of Qud Goon made by unormal and ptychomancer, it has it's own thread. It has been in early access for over a decade at this point, and is finally almost ready for full release tentatively scheduled for later this year. It's gorgeous. I know this is an odd description for a roguelike, but the Unity-based sprite tileset oozes charm. It has an evocative, soulful soundtrack for your exploration. It has the best drat item descriptions you'll ever read. It has a post-post-apocalyptic setting that mixes bits of Gamma World, Morrowind, and Jewish mysticism. It has a robust character system with levels, attributes, skills, mutations, cybernetic implants, and a vast array of gear with unique active and passive abilities. You can make some really clever builds and feel really cool doing it. Take your character and start scavenging gear and crafting parts from dungeons. Trade for water and jewels. Make friends and share water with them to learn secrets and skills. Meet legendary characters and gods. Lose limbs and grow new ones. Cut off someones face and wear it for a bonus. Meet a variety of funny and fantastic characters. Make deals with ancient demon AIs. Figure out exactly what the hell happened to this world, and what the sultans actually were doing. Travel deep underground, get lost, and get eaten by a salt kraken. It's not afraid to kill you, but it's not sadistic about it either. The main quest line dungeons are built with thought and all serve as tests of your character's advancement. Surviving each main dungeon shows that you've made a qualitative improvement in your character's ability and your player knowledge of how to handle situations. It has some nice quality of life features including optional permadeath, optional respawn at your last campfire site, and a bunch of different ways to arrange the layout of the screen. It has a good, not poo poo community in the thread and on discord. Its developers and mods are nice non-shithead people. It is easy to mod and has Steam Workshop integration. I've made some mods for it, mostly cheaty tweaks. Go get them. Elona (Plus (Custom (GX))) Whew. Okay so Elona (Eternal Leagues of Nefia) was a Japanese roguelike built by one guy on this weird branch of BASIC called Hot Soup Processor (HSP). HSP is open source and simple to understand, so it became very easy to mod. The most popular mod for Elona became Elona+, a large expansion to the storyline. Elona+Custom translated (most) of Elona+ into English along with making various gameplay tweaks. And now Elona+CustomGX is now the most modern, most functioning, and most fun-tweaked version of Elona for English audiences. So just get ElonaPlusCustomGX if you're starting Elona. I think of Elona as an "open world" roguelike. It has a large overworld with multiple dungeons to visit and a very loose (and hard to understand in English) main plot that you can pursue at your own pace. In between dungeons, buy a house and fill it with furniture, run a store, harvest crops for farmers, run a ranch, raise a bewildering array of pets to fight with you, perform at the tavern, enchant your gear, offer prayer and sacrifice to gods to get their blessings, run a museum and display your old gear, or buy and manage your own dungeons. Elona is a little bit more of a make your own fun sort of game. There's lots of room for gamebreaking stats and combinations, particularly with pets, but it takes a certain amount of system mastery and grinding to get there. UnReal World UnReal World is the oldest continually developed game in existence. That's not hyperbole; that's its actual record. It's made by Finnish devs that spend a large part of the year doing survival and role play in the Finnish wilderness. Unsurprisingly, it's a game about surviving in Iron Age Finland. This is the original survival crafter, years before the genre became popular. Gather berries, build a variety of realistic traps (loop snares, deadfall, pit traps, fox board traps, etc), track prey through the forest, hunt a variety of animals with bow and spear, go fishing, set fish nets, sow crops for the fall harvest, head to the village to trade, make friends and invite them on adventurers, tend sheep and cows, avoid (or fight!) foreign Njerpez raiders. You start in the spring, and you better find a place to start a log cabin before winter comes. Cut logs, fashion floors, ceilings, and walls. Build a bed and cover it with furs. Build a fireplace and sauna to heat the room. You'll probably struggle to build more than the most rudimentary shelter before your first winter, but don't worry. This is a slow, deliberately paced game that is about mostly realistic survival. UnReal World is much less fantastic than the others. There are some rituals and sacrifices you can perform, but magic is left deliberately vague and subtle. It is remarkable to me that after decades of development, to my knowledge no one exactly knows what it does. Everyone knows to leave a small sacrifice after a catch, or to invoke a blessing before a hunt, or to bless their javelins to throw true. But are you doing it because it's creating a tangible bonus, or are you also buying into the superstition? I honestly love that I'm not quite sure.
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Yami Fenrir posted:So I take it that you still have to delete that game file? I finally installed the game—was sitting on it until it came out of early access. It wouldn’t start for me either. I had to follow this guide and switch the settings on my system locale to support UTF-8. Then it worked.
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