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Pierzak posted:Recommend me games where I can play an alien alien. As in, something truly alien and not just a humanoid with a rubber suit and different culture. Extra-dimensional entities, grey goo (yes I know that one), emergent AIs* with totally nonhuman thought processes, the sentient ocean from Solaris, the works. The less human the better. In The Last Federation you play as the last member of the Hydrals, a race of monstrous alien sea serpents. It's a pretty unique game where rather than controlling a space empire of your own, you manipulate various other alien races behind the scenes with the goal of uniting them all together in a federation. Lots of cool options, the different alien races you can manipulate all have their own unique quirks and characteristics, and it even has decent space combat. It's not exactly a straightforward game in the usual 4x mold, though, and may seem a bit byzantine at first (at least, it did to me), but if you're ok with that, it might be worth a look.
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I want a dumb Android game I can play with my girlfriend for brief spurts or whatever, nothing super hectic or involved, she's down in London doing training stuff for a couple of weeks and it would be nice. Asynchronous is fine.
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Drunk in Space posted:The Last Federation I totally forgot about this, it might be worth another look. Thanks.
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I have $27 in my steam wallet and low standards
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The Duggler posted:I have $27 in my steam wallet and low standards Goat Simulator, ARK
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Pierzak posted:Recommend me games where I can play an alien alien. As in, something truly alien and not just a humanoid with a rubber suit and different culture. Extra-dimensional entities, grey goo (yes I know that one), emergent AIs* with totally nonhuman thought processes, the sentient ocean from Solaris, the works. The less human the better. Sword of the Stars (not Sword of the Stars 2! It is horrifying.) has aliens that each has their own, very different approach to faster than light travel, along with being pretty alien themselves. I mean, Tarka are obvious rubber suit humans, but the Liir are peaceful psionic dolphins that go crazy and murderous when they are sent into space (this is the arm of the Liir civilization you control), the Hivers are an insectoid race that need to have their home world always accessible to everyone because if the queen doesn't get her pheromones out there the empire will fracture as new queens will emerge everywhere, and the Zuul are psychic marsupials that invade planets by dropping their young onto it so that they can feed from and kill everything there. It's a pity SotS2 sucks so bad because it added a playable machine race. Then there's games where revealing that you play a very alien organism will spoil like the second to last plot twist of the game.
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pun pundit posted:Then there's games where revealing that you play a very alien organism will spoil like the second to last plot twist of the game. Do you mean Prototype? If not, post the title. VVV: Time to give it another whirl then. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 29, 2015 |
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Jul 29, 2015 02:12
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I meant x-com: the bureau. And also the one you mentioned.
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I have a hankerin' for a mech game on PC Ive played and enjoyed the Armored Core series (currently on Nexus and hoping the rest later) and am open to trying anything that has me playing a robot.
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Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries. You can probably find the free release on torrent sites or something. You're mostly looking at bad mmos if you want something more recent.
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dbzfandiego posted:I have a hankerin' for a mech game on PC Ive played and enjoyed the Armored Core series (currently on Nexus and hoping the rest later) and am open to trying anything that has me playing a robot. HAWKEN
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Evilreaver posted:HAWKEN Was going to post this!
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dis astranagant posted:Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries. You can probably find the free release on torrent sites or something. You're mostly looking at bad mmos if you want something more recent. Evilreaver posted:HAWKEN Thanks I'll look into them.
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I've been loving in love with Life is Strange and want more games like it. I know Telltale does a lot of stuff, but I have never followed/cared about The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Borderlands. I liked Wolf Among Us, but something about LIS really loving got me. Any suggestions for story-driven Telltale-like games?
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Spaced God posted:I've been loving in love with Life is Strange and want more games like it. I know Telltale does a lot of stuff, but I have never followed/cared about The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Borderlands. I liked Wolf Among Us, but something about LIS really loving got me. Any suggestions for story-driven Telltale-like games? Maybe the Quantic Dream games? They're similar to Life is Strange. Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit , Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls . I haven't played Beyond but Indigo was pretty good and Heavy Rain really got to me.
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Spaced God posted:I've been loving in love with Life is Strange and want more games like it. I know Telltale does a lot of stuff, but I have never followed/cared about The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Borderlands. I liked Wolf Among Us, but something about LIS really loving got me. Any suggestions for story-driven Telltale-like games? As someone who doesn't care about Walking Dead at all and usually hates Zombie stuff, Walking Dead Season 1 was one of my favorite games. It's probably the best thing Telltale has done or will do.
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Spaced God posted:I've been loving in love with Life is Strange and want more games like it. I know Telltale does a lot of stuff, but I have never followed/cared about The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Borderlands. I liked Wolf Among Us, but something about LIS really loving got me. Any suggestions for story-driven Telltale-like games? I know you said you didn't care about The Walking Dead series, and neither did I, but TWD Season One is really a masterpiece and definitely worth your time if you're digging Life is Strange. It has the same strengths of LiS in terms of having really involving + difficult characters, a compelling narrative that keeps upping the craziness with each episode, and choices that make you feel like poo poo no matter what (you know what I mean). It shows its seams in parts but overall it's just very tightly written and more about the characters than zombies.
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exquisite tea posted:I know you said you didn't care about The Walking Dead series, and neither did I, but TWD Season One is really a masterpiece and definitely worth your time if you're digging Life is Strange. It has the same strengths of LiS in terms of having really involving + difficult characters, a compelling narrative that keeps upping the craziness with each episode, and choices that make you feel like poo poo no matter what (you know what I mean). It shows its seams in parts but overall it's just very tightly written and more about the characters than zombies. THE AWESOME GHOST posted:As someone who doesn't care about Walking Dead at all and usually hates Zombie stuff, Walking Dead Season 1 was one of my favorite games. It's probably the best thing Telltale has done or will do. I'll give it a shot, then. Also I forgot to mention that I blasted through Contradiction and love that poo poo too. So anyone in my situation, play that
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:I want to feel like a road warrior. I have played: This is from awhile back, but I was saying Farcry 2 would be one of the few games that'd work pretty well. Ends up somebody made a Mad Max map for Farcry 4 and its loving perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ACgUpfzdg
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Spaced God posted:I've been loving in love with Life is Strange and want more games like it. I know Telltale does a lot of stuff, but I have never followed/cared about The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Borderlands. I liked Wolf Among Us, but something about LIS really loving got me. Any suggestions for story-driven Telltale-like games? LiS is really really really good. Walking Dead 1 is probably your best bet for the "oh poo poo" factor and emotional choices. Tales from the Borderlands is really good (so far...) but not in the same way - it's all action packed hilarity rather than difficult choices and emotions. Game of Thrones is kind of turning out to be a hastily churned out badly written cash-in fest 
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I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man.
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exquisite tea posted:I know you said you didn't care about The Walking Dead series, and neither did I, but TWD Season One is really a masterpiece and definitely worth your time if you're digging Life is Strange. It has the same strengths of LiS in terms of having really involving + difficult characters, a compelling narrative that keeps upping the craziness with each episode, and choices that make you feel like poo poo no matter what (you know what I mean). It shows its seams in parts but overall it's just very tightly written and more about the characters than zombies. Yeah, I have to agree with this. I haven't played LiS yet and I hate grimdark series like Game of Thrones and basically anything involving zombies but TWD Season 1 is very, very well written.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man. The old half-life multiplayer mod The Specialists was basically The Matrix/Face Off/John Wick/etc The Game. There's a new Source version called Double Action Boogaloo for free on Steam, but it isn't quite as special as The Specialists was. That indie singleplayer time-based shooter SuperHot might hit the spot too.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man. Max Payne 3 fits the bill here
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man. John Wick is playable in Payday 2.
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I really enjoy turn based strategy games; Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com, Advance Wars, games like that. "Skulls of the Samurai" came out as a free game on Playstation Plus, just finished it and really enjoyed it but I'd never heard of it before so I'm wondering what other games might be out there that I haven't heard of that are of the same type of gameplay. I own a playstation 3, 4, nintendo WiiU (which I don't think I've turned on more than once), an iphone and an ipad. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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Serrath posted:I really enjoy turn based strategy games; Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com, Advance Wars, games like that. Fire Emblem? The Wii U has the GBA ones which I haven't played but are supposed to be good. I loved the 3DS one but it is a bit more modern. Same team that works on Advance Wars, but with RPG type units instead of disposable tanks. Tactics Ogre for PSP is amazing, but without a PSP or Vita you'll have to emulate it. Again lots of crossover with the FF Tactics dev team.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Fire Emblem? The Wii U has the GBA ones which I haven't played but are supposed to be good. I loved the 3DS one but it is a bit more modern. Same team that works on Advance Wars, but with RPG type units instead of disposable tanks. I've heard of these two; I don't really use a PC so I can't emulate. I've been reading about Fire Emblem, though; I think what kept me away from it a few years ago was the fact that it follows a storyline and you can feel a bit lost if you jump into the middle of it, am I mis-remembering or should I be looking into starting the series from the beginning? Thanks for the suggestions  Anything more obscure that I might not have heard of? I wouldnt have even known skulls of the samurai existed if it didnt come as a free game and I was wondering what other games like it are out that I've just never heard of because they weren't widely released
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fire emblem as a whole doesn't follow a single storyline. some games are related, but the one on the Wii U stands on it's own. well, technically it's the prequel to a japan only game, but this only matters in a small stinger scene at the very end of the game
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Cake Attack posted:fire emblem as a whole doesn't follow a single storyline. some games are related, but the one on the Wii U stands on it's own. well, technically it's the prequel to a japan only game, but this only matters in a small stinger scene at the very end of the game I'll give that a try then, thanks for the suggestion! One more question, which is similar to the above. Are there any games at all in the world that are similar to Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen? I've played (and enjoyed) the tactics-based ogre battle games that followed but MotBQ is so unique in its gameplay and I've never seen anything like it since. I asked this same question in a similar thread like 10 years ago and the general consensus was "no" but maybe something has come out since?
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Serrath posted:I've heard of these two; I don't really use a PC so I can't emulate. I've been reading about Fire Emblem, though; I think what kept me away from it a few years ago was the fact that it follows a storyline and you can feel a bit lost if you jump into the middle of it, am I mis-remembering or should I be looking into starting the series from the beginning? What keeps away most people from Fire Emblem is the perma death. If you lose a character in battle they're actually dead, so you either reset or just continue on one character down. Wii U lets you use savestates if you choose to so it shouldn't be a huge problem. You can emulate PSP on iOS actually, but I have no idea how reliable it is. There used to be ways to do it without jailbreaking but they constantly patch them out. Stuff more obscure... Maybe Banner Saga? It's on iOS, has an awesome art style, a kind of storybook look to everything. It's a kickstarter game with a like $200k budget. It'll be coming to PS4 eventually. iOS also has Ravenmark which people seemed to like but personally I thought it just wasn't interesting enough. On PS3 Valkyria Chronicles is an attempt to bring the grid based stuff to 3D free movement and was really unique, worth a look.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:What keeps away most people from Fire Emblem is the perma death. If you lose a character in battle they're actually dead, so you either reset or just continue on one character down. Wii U lets you use savestates if you choose to so it shouldn't be a huge problem.
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Accordion Man posted:You can turn off permadeath in Awakening. And in the upcoming Fates, but neither of those are any help to someone lacking a 3DS.
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Serrath posted:I really enjoy turn based strategy games; Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com, Advance Wars, games like that. Jagged Alliance 2 Silent Storm Telepath Tactics Battle Brothers (early access but really good) Incubation: Time Is Running Out Xenonauts (a modern clone of the original X-Com) Laser Squad Nemesis Steam Marines Battle for Wesnoth (free)
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I just watched John Wick and I want to play a game that makes me feel like cool John Wick man. Like somebody already said, he's literally in Payday 2 and its a pretty great shoot em up game. Even better though play Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2. Bust into a nightclub and loving shoot everybody in an instant. Its exactly the John Wick experience, darting around between cover while music is blasting.
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Zaphod42 posted:Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2. Dunno how I managed to forget these.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Generally, PC is your best platform for things like this, and they're usually older and don't take much horsepower to run. If that's an option, here's a few off the top of my head: Seconding that PC is the true home of this genre, and I bolded the games I've personally played and can especially recommend. Some notes, though: - Battle Brothers is going to receive a big update rather soon that will break savegames, so it's better to wait until that update is released. Very cool little game, though it can be brutally difficult. - Jagged Alliance 2's UI can be really intimidating at first if you're not used to PC gaming. But it's pretty much one of the best games ever, so figuring it out is worth it. - Silent Storm is probably the most easily approached of these (that I know of) and an excellent game as well. - Xenonauts is a more faithful, old-fashioned reimagining of the old UFO: Enemy Unknown (or XCOM: UFO Defense in the US) than the recent XCOM from Firaxis. So comparing to the XCOM you mentioned, the premise is the exact same, but gameplay is somewhat different. Man, I'd almost forgotten about Incubation. I played it once waaaaay back then and loved it, never tried it on a more modern computer.
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Are those last 3 any good? Laser Squad Nemesis, Steam Marines, and Battle for Wesnoth?
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SquadronROE posted:Are those last 3 any good? Laser Squad Nemesis, Steam Marines, and Battle for Wesnoth? Battle for Wesnoth is cool, especially for being freeware. It's better to think of it as a multiplayer game, though; there's a lot of singleplayer content but it's all pretty amateur.
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Most of the singleplayer content doesn't even work because they keep loving with how the campaign files work and expect people to come back and fix their finished campaigns every other release.
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