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Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

I�m looking for a game that has combat like age of wonders planetfall without having to play a civ game between the fun parts. I like xcom but it�s a little small scale. I�d like more than 6 units to push around

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 00:22

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:11

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

StoryTime posted:

Fantasy General II is a modern sequel to a classic hex based wargame, I haven't had time to play it yet but I've heard good things. You manage your army and equip your hero between battles, but there's no base building.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1025440/Fantasy_General_II/

Battle for Westnoth is a classic open source and free strategy game with a ton of high quality user made campaigns. Even less management in this one, you buy units from castles, and they gain experience during a campaign, but that's about it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/599390/Battle_for_Wesnoth/

FG2 looks cool but that�s more like civ 5 combat. I�m more interested in the tactical combat with cover and what not.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 05:35

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Gravy Jones posted:

Was going to suggest Silent Storm (https://store.steampowered.com/app/254960/Silent_Storm_Gold_Edition/), but that's a similar number of units and scale as X-com.

Maybe worth mentioning anyway, pretty much a WWII XCom-a-like without the base management layer (beyond basic team/inventory management). I'm going to have to dig this out and play it again, it used to run like rear end on my PC back in the day, mostly due to the (very impressive) building/terrain destruction. Should be fine now I'd hope.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War (I had to cut and paste the title... (https://store.steampowered.com/app/489630/Warhammer_40000_Gladius__Relics_of_War/) is another one that almost fits the bill. Larger scale, turn based combat with a very light management layer, but the combat may not be quite what you're after.

Silent storm I need to actually play.

Gladius I have played and it�s civ combat. I like tactical layer stuff. I�m in my yearly �FFT, but new and not trash� phase with this years twist of �man into the breach is like the best game ever how can I cut down on non combat BS�

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 16:08

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Pierzak posted:

FFT has a mod called Celdia's Complete Patch that throws out the vanilla classes and rebalances the game in a neat way. If you haven't yet, you might wanna take a look, there's even an ongoing LP of it.

I�ve been following it! I�ll have to sit down and get it running cause it looks great.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 17:12

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Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I'm assuming you've played Jagged Alliance 2 right

I tried it years ago and super bounced off of it.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 17:24

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Stefan Prodan posted:

I heard Fell Seal is a good fft-like but haven't played it

I played it like 18 months ago and it was...fine. I think I need to give it another shake.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 20:26

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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

I just just did a Skyrim play though with about a million mods installed. It scratched that itch for a little while. Anyone know a good go-anywhere-do-anything RPG that i can waste time in. Preferably something that's been made in the last 5 years, and isn't post apocalypse/zombie themed.

I hear Witcher 3 is basically that

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 14:33

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GyverMac posted:

retarded

Use better language please.

To not just be a stick in the mud I�ve picked up Fell Seal again and it�s good! A bunch of difficultly sliders makes this a pretty enjoyable experience.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 13:50

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

I picked up Odyssey and it�s been a real treat.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 02:44

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Overwatch Porn posted:

the name that keeps on giving

hey I�m looking for a really casual game I can play while I work. Something I can pause frequently without too much difficulty. In the past I�ve used things like Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons and Demoncrawl, but I�m starting to crave something new. Genre isn�t important, turn based is best but so long as I can pause without worrying about losing my flow it�s fine.

Peggle, FTL, low magic age (arena mode), Hoplite, Mortal Glory looks fun, maybe doomRL/Jupiter hell?

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 19:03

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Earwicker posted:

yeah seconding this one i played it with my wife and it's excellent. only one person "controls" the game but that doesnt really matter you spend most of the game just trying to figure out wtf happened and who is who and that's more of a conversation

Third-ing this. The wife and I had a great time puzzling out Obra Din.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 17:47

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AfricanBootyShine posted:

I'm looking for a decent SRPG/RPG to play that'll run on my 2016 Macbook w/ Iris 550 graphics. I just finished replaying Fell Seal and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd also like the game to be aesthetically pleasing, so pixelart messes like Voidspire Tactics are out-- and no roguelikes.

Idk if it�s on Mac but Hard West is pretty good. Wildermyth, Druidstone, Banner Saga all have good graphics and a SRPG core.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 20:05

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Something that came up in the roguelike thread: RPGs that don�t have consumables. TOME4 and Fell Seal don�t have consumables or they are on cool downs. Are there other games out there that are like that?

# ¿ May 16, 2020 17:17

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Thoroughly enjoying that Ys recommendation from the thread earlier (got Memories on sale)

Looking for something a bit more strategic as a counterpoint. I burned through Chimera Squad and it awakened a strategy itch. I tried getting into Disgaea to no avail. Really loved FFT and Tactics Ogre in the past. Really anything where you get to pick abilities and grow your units into demi-gods.

Alternatively, maybe something about space colonization? Civ or Cities-like?

Fell Seal is basically modern FFT with different art. I sunk a ton of time into Low Magic Age�s arena which is a modded 3.5 d&d where casters aren�t total gods. Battletech is also obvious choice.

SFD is a party based roguelike and is quite good even if it looks a little rough.

Xenonauts is old xcom remastered if you are over the cover shooter: TBS edition.

# ¿ May 21, 2020 21:10

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

It wouldn�t hurt to get him the itch.io bundle while you are at it.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 23:58

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Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Odd request, not *exactly* looking for a game per se - but I'm running private PnP games for some friends and like to use a variety of sprites/artwork to keep things Spicy, and am looking for games with easily-accessed, "smooth" 2D sprites that I can use.

Slay the Spire, Monster Train and Darkest Dungeon for example.

I know there are probably loads but I can't think of any off the top of my head - anything with a variety of weird and/or amusing, non-pixellated art that I can easily download in transparent PNG form from a wiki or something is perfect.

Hope that makes sense, just looking for some suggestions. Obviously no commercial use or public use, just for a private game!

Depends on the art style you want. Breath of fire 2, ogre battle: March of the black queen, Golden Axe, Heroes of might and magic 2, the SNES final fantasy monster sprites, or the PSP remakes of FF games could all be a resource.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 14:36

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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

I love character creation, pouring over class decisions and mapping out builds and such. Any games that scratch that itch particularly well? Especially any games that enable that kinda stuff for more than just the beginning of the playthrough. Primarily use PC, but have Switch/3DS and am open to any emulating.

Tome4 is Diablo characters and loot but a turn based roguelike

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 21:21

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Ashenai posted:

Is the gameplay still trash mob, trash mob, trash mob, trash mob, trash mob, whoops that wasn't a trash mob and I got one-shot? I bounced off Tome pretty badly because of that.

That�s pretty fair. I currently play with a custom difficulty mod: middle difficulty scaling with the rares/bosses of hard (not madness). It makes maps way more fun since you have way more real fights but things are exhaustingly scaled.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2020 01:13

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Mescal posted:

Redirected here from the steam thread:

I'm looking for a roguelike/dungeon crawler to play online with my boo. Nothing too complicated with too many numbers and stats and stuff. No character creation. No continuing story or human-designed maps. No worrying about whether my ice bonus on my lightning character's laser sceptre does aether frostburn damage on undead dark-types while parrying a reverse buff-burst. 2d or 3d, but 2d is usually a lot tighter gameplay for me. I'm not a serious gamer like my boo is--they play fancy stuff and my favorite PC games are Spelunky and Stardew Valley.

Dungeonmans is pretty responsive and doesn�t require a bunch of gear decisions.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 02:37

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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Also notably not multi-player

Reading is hard ok

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 03:09

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Fruits of the sea posted:

Tyranny an IE style game with a reactive plot, and you are basically a lawyer/sheriff in fantasy Rome. An excellent isometric turn-based rpg if you ever wondered what it would be like to play the evil path and actually have it be good.

I was about to write a big long post about ToME and then I saw you requested no roguelikes. I will say that the normal difficulty is very beginner-friendly, as you get a limited number of extra lives as you progress through the game.

Heck ToME can be played with unlimited lives.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 17:38

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Ciaphas posted:

I've spent most of my game time in Destiny 2 for a few weeks now (between bouts of Heroes of Hammerwatch, and other stuff), but I think I'm about done with the Bungie-ness of it all

Trying to find something new that scratches that same itch. Among the best I've played for itch-scratching, FF14 and WoW don't appeal anymore; Division 2 sort of does but I've already played the base campaign and the world left me feeling kinda bored and uninterested; and Path of Exile and Warframe are too much effort

The common thread between these is plain old numbers-go-up, I guess, but I look at games like NGU Idle and blanch at the UI. As well, the numbers-go-up nature being so front and center is ironically off-putting.

ToME has scratched my WoW number go up/one more run/wacky character itch like none other.

I�ve even setup my keybindings like I had them in wow so I can hit a million hotkeys while still being on WASD

# ¿ Dec 22, 2020 15:59

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Tangledeep in adventure mode is also a pretty good game that you can grind on for relics.

But ToME hits my grind/completion cycle almost dead on.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2021 16:38

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

FFTactics also deserves a call out but it�s a much different game experience from normal FF gameplay

# ¿ Jan 11, 2021 17:40

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

A game that plays like a miniatures game: customizable party/unirs limited leveling or economy, objectives ideally but deathmatch is fine. So a turn based, ideally grid, game where positioning and terrain matters.

Played to death: battletech, FFT, Fell Seal, Wargroove,baulders gate, xcoms, into the breach

Also I�ve played ToME to death now and it makes me sad.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 19:53

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Thanks for all the recs. I have bounced of divinity 2 a bunch. It�s far to talky and not enough stabby for me.

Frozen synapse is real good. I might need to play that again.

Lol the last time I went though this itch I played card hunter for like 40 hours.

Breach and clear I�ll have to scope out. Idk if it�s on my wishlist but I�ll check on it.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2021 00:59

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Minecraft?

# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 20:17

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

I finished up Pathfinder Kingmaker and am looking for other turn based CRPG party games. I definitely lean more combat than story. I returned Solesta or whatever it�s called (the 5e DnD game in early access) because i didn�t see combat after an hour of play.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2021 15:42

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Subnatica did a good job of that feeling for me.

# ¿ May 14, 2021 17:53

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Hwurmp posted:

Titanfall 2

Not an empty quote

# ¿ Aug 5, 2021 02:01

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

A Heroes of might and magic clone/Indy reimagining was brought up here recently. It�s HoMM overworld but had a real time, no doomstacks combat. What was it again?

# ¿ Sep 14, 2021 17:06

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

4 inch cut no femmes posted:

Hero's Hour?

That�s it!

# ¿ Sep 15, 2021 14:42

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Xanderkish posted:

What I'd like is an isometric RPG where this is the case. I was playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker, and before that I was playing Pillars of Eternity, the Infinity Engine Games, et cetera, and what frustrates me about these games is how often you're fighting against near identical combat encounters.

If already killed one group of spiders, it is not a challenge for me if I face another group of spiders just afterwards. It's just tedium and padding.

What I want is a CRPG where each combat encounter is offering a distinct challenge. Sort of like a bloody puzzle. The closest things I can think of that come to this are Soulsborne games, but even they run into cut-and-paste territory.

I just get tired of games wasting my time as I get older. I'm working my way through grad school and I do not want to spend an hour of my limited free time doing the same thing ten times.

Druidstone might hit this for you. It�s a hair to puzzle-y for me but it promises exactly that.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2021 15:16

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

�subnatica below zero?

# ¿ Dec 2, 2021 21:28

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

My wife likes the Nancy Drew point and click puzzle games. What else is out there that�s that style of casual game without being weirdo anime stuff? Bonus points if there is a Mac version.

Naramyth fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Dec 23, 2021

# ¿ Dec 23, 2021 04:15

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Thanks folks! Wife games.txt has been created

# ¿ Dec 23, 2021 15:49

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Soloista has come a long way and while goofy and having low production values, is a good dungeoncrawler with some insane verticality that reminds me of FFT.

My FFT jank but is solid recommendation is Sigma Finite Tactics (SFT) on both PC and mobile. Basically the first real good crack at an FFT roguelike that I�ve played.

Naramyth fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 28, 2021

# ¿ Dec 28, 2021 21:20

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Yup that�s it!

# ¿ Dec 28, 2021 22:31

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Ensign Expendable posted:

I like pen and paper Pathfinder, but I found Kingmaker to be very bad in terms of translating those to game mechanics. Is WotR any better at it?

Wrath is the same but more. I highly recommend modding the Pathfinder games heavily. Auto buffing, getting rid of a bunch of tedium stuff like camping supplies, and unlimited bag space make the game actually ok to play

# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 03:27

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:11

Naramyth: Jan 22, 2009; Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Ensign Expendable posted:

Sounds like a good idea. I play almost exclusively PC games but for some reason almost always forget that mods exist.

Modding Pathfinder is also pretty easy. The unity mod manager does a lot of the lift. Just drag and drop the .zips to the little box that says so. Toybox and some version of auto buffing bot get you 90% of the way there to making the game bearable.

I do probably have to take another run at Wrath. It just doesn�t hook me like Kingmaker did. The scale of the story is just so big and mythic path stuff just sets the power level of the game to a place I don�t love.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 04:15

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