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drat Dirty Ape posted:Project Zomboid is hard but can be pretty fun (though I haven't played it in many updates). Also sometimes progress goes backwards when the devs learn the hard way about the benefits of backing up their data.
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Galick posted:Anyone got a game recommendation for a game with a really robust character creator? I'm talking primarily visually and clothing-wise, I'm doing this primarily for a D&D game! I already have Dragon's Dogma which will work in a pinch, but I mostly just want some tool where I can make good looking characters to show to people! Griffin? Is that you?
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Black Desert Online. It's an character creator with a subscription fee. You get a free MMO with the subscription too though. I was actually looking into this before I posted and the character creator was free while it was in beta, but not anymore. I'm downloading it with the free trial though - and anyone else have any recommendations? I would just use my copy of Dragon's Dogma, but I don't feel like mucking around and moving save files since it only allows one profile and I haven't beaten it yet to unlock the free appearance changing item. (And the one you can buy only works once, and I used it  )
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Only things I can think of are Tera and FF14's benchmark thing.
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What are some good virtual tourism games? Games like shenmue, assassins creed, etc that do a good job of recreating real places and time periods.
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nachos posted:What are some good virtual tourism games? Games like shenmue, assassins creed, etc that do a good job of recreating real places and time periods. The Yakuza series is brilliant for similar reasons to Shenmue.
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nachos posted:What are some good virtual tourism games? Games like shenmue, assassins creed, etc that do a good job of recreating real places and time periods.
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So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment.
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mrfreeze posted:So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment. ... gone home? 80 days (~ish) Gemeni Rue Last Express
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Life is Strange takes maybe 10-15 hours to get through across five episodes and I was hooked immediately. It's My So-Called Life meets Twin Peaks, if that means anything to you. The Walking Dead S1 is also amazing if you haven't played that already. I hate most zombie games but it's not really a zombie game. I hear good stuff about Oxenfree and Kentucky Route Zero but I haven't gotten around to those yet.
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Already played Gone Home and Life is Strange and loved both, but will definitely check out the other suggestions!
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mrfreeze posted:Already played Gone Home and Life is Strange and loved both, but will definitely check out the other suggestions! Tales from the Borderlands has almost nothing to do with Borderlands but everything to do with it being my GOTY 2016.
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exquisite tea posted:Life is Strange takes maybe 10-15 hours to get through across five episodes and I was hooked immediately. It's My So-Called Life meets Twin Peaks, if that means anything to you. Kentucky Route Zero is great, but they haven't finished all the episodes yet in case you (like me) don't like episodic games where you can't play them all straight through.
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nachos posted:What are some good virtual tourism games? Games like shenmue, assassins creed, etc that do a good job of recreating real places and time periods. The Division is pretty good at showing you 2018 Trump's New York City They had to use smallpox as a 'realistic' framing device but we all know what's really going on 
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gohuskies posted:Kentucky Route Zero is great, but they haven't finished all the episodes yet in case you (like me) don't like episodic games where you can't play them all straight through. That's probably what has kept me from playing it up to this point. I started Life is Strange when Episode 3 was just released and it was torture waiting for the last two episodes.
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Interested in suggestions for a turn-based strategy game suitable for multiplayer with friends. Bonus points if you can run a server that will happily process turns at any time.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Interested in suggestions for a turn-based strategy game suitable for multiplayer with friends. Bonus points if you can run a server that will happily process turns at any time. Age of Wonders III is an excellent game with asynchronous multi-player support. It's a good game on its own, but if you're looking at the DLC, the second expansion is much more, uh, expansive than the first.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Interested in suggestions for a turn-based strategy game suitable for multiplayer with friends. Bonus points if you can run a server that will happily process turns at any time. Dominions 4 
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mrfreeze posted:So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment. Oxenfree Primordia (Wadjet Eye games are uneven in quality, but this one was fun)
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mrfreeze posted:So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment. I would recommend SUPERHOT for its gameplay first, but I found the story compelling, if minimalistic. It's only a couple hours long. Might not be exactly what you're looking for.
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I've been playing Earthtongue which is a little ecosystem simulation sandbox game and I wonder if there are any other games like that. I also liked Cell Lab and Waking Mars a lot. I could give SimLife or SimEarth a try but most reviews claim they really are chore to play so if there's anything better that would be great. Spore is obviously not what I'm looking after.
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mrfreeze posted:So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment. You might like The Fall if you're into AI and Three Laws of Robotics type stories.  on Steam and took me about 5 hours to beat.
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Terminus posted:You might like The Fall if you're into AI and Three Laws of Robotics type stories. The Fall also REALLY needs a walkthrough for the second act when it just full-scale apes Portal but instead of logic, you have to use adventure-game-logic to solve some of the puzzles.
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Fat Samurai posted:Dominions 4 This and Solium Infernum.
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Terminus posted:You might like The Fall if you're into AI and Three Laws of Robotics type stories. I disagree: the Fall has a cool premise, but the writing falls down in incredibly contrived ways, culminating in sections where you're doing full adventure game "rub thing against other thing" because nothing makes sense.
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Angry Lobster posted:This and Solium Infernum. isn't Solium's multiplayer setup incredibly convoluted and annoying to deal with each turn?
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StrixNebulosa posted:I disagree: the Fall has a cool premise, but the writing falls down in incredibly contrived ways, culminating in sections where you're doing full adventure game "rub thing against other thing" because nothing makes sense. I love how every single thing in the game has a 'interface' action, all every single one of them (with MAYBE 3 exceptions gamewide) says 'no, it's broken'. I'm 90% sure two of the things you need to interface with say 'this looks like a broken _____' when investigated. Puzzle: A cardboard "baby" is crying. You are an armed war machine in a hurry. Make the baby stop crying. (Your robo-voice isn't comforting enough) Hint: "How would a war machine stop a baby from crying?" Solution: Break the pneumatic pipe over the bed (not with your gun, obv) so the baby gets sucked in and blown away Puzzle: Help a cardboard 'old lady' across a 'street'. The track she is on jams halfway down. A camera at the far end of the street is a simple pass/fail for if the 'lady' makes it. My first thought: Rip her off at the knees and carry her across. Nah. Solution: Overload the track via generator two rooms away so that the track goes too fast and jams... so you have to rip her off at the knees and carry her across  I hate that game.
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drat, didn't realise people had such strong feeling on that one. Consider my recommendation scaled back to tentative. I haven't played it in a while and I may have forgotten some of the rougher edges. Otherwise maybe Firewatch? Without giving too much away you end up working at a firewatch tower during the course of a single summer and so you mostly walk around in nature talking to the only other person for miles on a walkie talkie. No sci-fi, no fantasy, nothing super crazy happens but there is a mystery to figure out and I thought the dialog was well done.
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double nine posted:isn't Solium's multiplayer setup incredibly convoluted and annoying to deal with each turn? Send one file, get one file, IIRC. The person running the turns may have to do a couple extra steps.
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mrfreeze posted:So anyone have any suggestions for a good short PC game with an interesting plot? I'm thinking something along the lines of "The Beginners Guide" or "Undertale" that can be gotten through in a couple of sittings but has something about it that really stands out and grabs you. An interesting story matters most to me at the moment. It's a little on the longer side and it's also very puzzle-y, so I don't know how useful it is, but I'll take any opportunity to recommend The Talos Principle has good writing + story + worldbuilding and is a fantastic game.
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I loved The Fall, but granted mostly for it's dialogue. I don't really play adventure games and it didn't register as one for me, and if memory serves, i only ever got stuck on one of the puzzles to the degree that i had to look it up. (It had something to do with wire, i think) They really kinda nailed that tone of "AIs arguing with each other" in that game. edit: i might replay it soon, actually. I thought there was supposed to be a sequel coming out, but it seems that's fallen through HenryEx fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Are there any strategy/4X games out there with interesting AI opponents? I don't necessarily mean "good", but like, with distinct personalities/strategies, rather than all of them just kind of following the same routine every time?
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Are there any strategy/4X games out there with interesting AI opponents? I don't necessarily mean "good", but like, with distinct personalities/strategies, rather than all of them just kind of following the same routine every time? https://arcengames.com/ai-war/
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Are there any strategy/4X games out there with interesting AI opponents? I don't necessarily mean "good", but like, with distinct personalities/strategies, rather than all of them just kind of following the same routine every time? Have you tried Paradox games? Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings 2 in particular?
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Are there any strategy/4X games out there with interesting AI opponents? I don't necessarily mean "good", but like, with distinct personalities/strategies, rather than all of them just kind of following the same routine every time? Civ V?
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Are there any strategy/4X games out there with interesting AI opponents? I don't necessarily mean "good", but like, with distinct personalities/strategies, rather than all of them just kind of following the same routine every time? Distant Worlds: Universe, though it's kind of a bear to get into.
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Endless Legend might work well for you. I just picked it up on sale earlier this week so I'm not sure how good the AI is, but the factions each have strengths and weaknesses that the AI would have to play around. Like one faction has control over the global marketplace and can even ban players from it, but they can't go to war directly with their enemies. On the other end the zombie type faction can't make peace with anyone ever, but their main resource is food which they can get from defeating enemies.
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ShiroTheSniper posted:How's EU4? Never played the EU series. I played Hearts of Iron 3 & 4 and CK2. EU4 owns, play it now.
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I'm looking for a online co-op game for a friend of mine to play with me. He wants either a Turn Based Strategy or a RTS where we can work as a team with no PvP elements. Or a open world survival game in 3D that has a objective or goal. "Like Terriaria in 3D" Edit: For PC Mr. Dragoon fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is built for co-op play, though you have to set up a third party solution of some kind to play online now since the original servers were via Gamespy. I think most 4X games support teamplay (Civilization certainly does), but you'd also need to be cool with the time investment those tend to require.
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