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Reive posted:Is Armored Core V any good? I'm thinking of either picking up V or 4:A and they're the same price.. I absolutely adored 4A, completed almost (Occupation  ) every mission's hard difficulty. V I was unimpressed with, as it is even slower than the first three generations. And is multiplayer focused, if that tilts you one way or the other.
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NESguerilla posted:You could always just walk away during the dumb cutscenes in VC. It's a great game and probably one of the closest things out there to X-COM:EU out there. I don't know why you would avoid playing a good game because it's anime. Art style and a few ignorable parts (mostly encyclopedia entries and optional characters) aside, the first game isn't all that anime. But the game is my favorite tactics game, and there really isn't a game with closely comparable gameplay out there. The second game, on the other hand, is anime as hell. Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Walton Simons posted:I'm struggling with something to play on my laptop in bed. Generally I'll play something while my girlfriend watches TV or whatever so I need a game where I'm also 'present' in the real world if that makes sense. Crusader Kings 2 is great for this, as nearly everything major will pause the game for you if you get distracted and leave it on at full speed. It's my go to game for when I'm watching TV.
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Drakenel posted:Time once again to recommend me a game! I have a different taste this time though. The Stronghold series sounds like exactly what you are looking for. I haven't played much of the latest games, and I would recommend avoiding SH:Legends, though. Another option is Dwarf Fortress and its sisters Towns, Gnomoria, Timber and Stone. Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Oct 8, 2013 |
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Looking for a game like Professor Layton or Puzzle Agent. Android, PC, or iOS are preferable. Also, a city/kingdom builder somewhere in scale between Sid Meier's Colonization and Banished. Something about that pre-industrial, edge-of-civilization gets to me. I really like Colonization's population system, especially.
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black.lion posted:I want to play a game that is surprisingly high-quality, you know, those hidden gems that you'd never expect to be one of the best games you've played in years. I'm thinking of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. I'd like something exciting, with non-mediocre visuals and solid gameplay (nothing 2D or puzzle-based) You should give Alpha Protocol a try. It kind of front-loads the worst parts of the game, but it is still the most reactive, immersive RPG I've ever played. I don't usually like RPGs, but this is one of my top ten games of all time.
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DoubleDonut posted:At some point I acquired what I think is every Command and Conquer game for a small amount of money after having never played any of them. Can someone give me a list of which ones are generally considered to be any good, or at least which ones I should start off with to see if I want to play more? If it helps, the only RTSes I ever really got into were Blizzard's and Age of Empires 2. The first one is pretty decent, Red Alert is much the same, but the second game in each of the series is where the real "meat" is. Tiberian Sun is some fan's favorite, but I'd have to say the best is Red Alert 2. RA2 is the first game where they really stop caring about realism and acting, and start caring about ridiculous super weapons and camp. Generals is a pretty good RTS, but not Command and Conquer-y at all, which is why a lot of people hated it. The third games in the two series are pretty good, but just feel like they have less soul, and are trying to make up for it. Tiberian Twilight is currently considered absolute poo poo, but I haven't played it..
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SquadronROE posted:So far the suggestions from this thread have been great. Now I'm back for something new: Starsector is EV:Nova meets Mount and Blade. It's technically in alpha, but it's by far the most stable and playable early access type game I've ever seen. It doesn't have a storyline or adventures in yet, but that's about all that shows it's not finished. He recently put in the economy, so you can play as space trucker, and being a pirate/bounty hunter has been fun for over a year now. The combat system is my favorite space ship combat bar none. SA thread Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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SquadronROE posted:Of all of those, Starpoint Gemini 2 and Distant Worlds sound the most promising. I'm going to pick up Elite when it finally releases, and the X series seems far too in-depth for me unfortunately. Yeah, it was Starfarer until he changed it to avoid potential legal complications. And if you haven't played since the change, there's been a lot done to improve it.
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Inzombiac posted:I'm looking to play any type of game where I can control a swarm of minions and/or have orbitals/satellites fire and attack autonimously. If you somehow never played it, the pet classes (Necromancer and Druid) in Diablo 2 let you do this. There was an LP I saw a bit ago where the challenge was that he would never click on a living enemy, and I stopped watching some time after he trampled the only boss that would really have stopped him.
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I'd say the Castlevania games, especially Aria of Sorrow.
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Galick posted:Alright, so, I want a game where it's almost 100% dependent on player skill and not just leveling up or grinding or something. A system where a beginning character could mop the floor with whatever else in the game if they knew what they were doing, while the game still remains balls our hard. I'm gonna go out on a limb, make a suggestion never before considered, but that's pretty much exactly the appeal of Dark Souls. e: Like, I'm not entirely sure your post isn't a joke about it being recommended every page.
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There's mods that fixes the encounter rates, but if you play them as they were, you get either super-zip across the map, or for Tactics, every tenth of a second an encounter prompt. Just google fallout encounter rates and you can find them.
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prometheusbound2 posted:I am interested in science fiction games with alien aliens. Sword Of The Stars had pretty interesting aliens. Couldn't stand the gameplay, and the sequel was actual garbage so bad they refunded it if you asked, so I can't say I recommend them, but the background was cool to read.
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Bouchacha posted:What's the reigning ARPG champion on PC right now? I loved D2 obviously, and on par with that level of excellence I would place Titan Quest with the Underlord mod. The issue with the latter is that it was just way too long. I think I was 25 hours in when I realized I was barely halfway through the first difficulty campaign. I'm playing Torchlight 2 with synergies mod and a few other tweaks and it's pretty fun but it also teeters between too easy and too hard on Elite. Diablo 3, after all the patching and the expansion, has turned into a pretty alright game, and I hated it when it came out. But as far as I can tell, Diablo 2 is still the best in the genre, especially when it comes to the skill trees.
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm in the mood for a good singleplayer FPS for PC. Preferably recent, preferably with lots of gun customization. Played the Call of Duties and Far Crys, FEAR. Ghost Recon Future Soldier kept crashing on me sadly, which is a shame because its gunsmith thing looked super cool. Open World is a plus, and if you can play as a woman that'd be really awesome too. The newest Wolfensteins are amazing. Not open world or woman PC, but really satisfying shootmans.
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Zaphod42 posted:You're not supposed to rely on pure guns in any of the DMC games, period. If you really really want to then 1 is probably your best bet? 4 Special edition does have someone who basically exclusively uses guns, but that's not available on PS3, so  drat Dirty Ape posted:So can anybody tell me what the best modern Dungeon Keeper clone is out there? There was a little while a couple years back where they made like a thousand of those, and the only one even vaguely worth playing of that lot is War for the Overworld.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:causing an alert means fighting and not finding a place to hide Most of what you said is opinion, but this is just a lie. If you cause an alert, hiding in a dumpster or toilet or even just running a decent distance away and waiting it out is an entirely viable way of dealing with it. Alerts do last longer than in earlier games, but that's because you can phantom cigar your way to 24 hours from now. Sure, you can kill everybody to stop the alert, but that's also an option in every single MGS game since, at the absolute latest, 3. Also, MGSV has some weaknesses, but is absolutely worth getting for full price, unless you have a ridiculously tight gaming budget or hate stealth games.
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Well, Majesty 2 springs to mind, but I was unimpressed. There really aren't a lot of games where you can only motivate your units, not tell them what to do. Maybe one of the DwarfFortress types could count?
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ProfessorBooty posted:I wish to avoid games specifically aimed at children - he's and adult and knows whether he's playing a kid's game or not. Depending on how tight the "not for kids" and "Simple gameplay" requirements are, and if you have a playstation 2/3, the Ratchet and Clank games could be great. Basically Pixar movies but with a shitload of ridiculous guns instead of any story depth.
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Good news on that front - every R&C game worth playing is available on PS3, since the HD collection. Fair warning, because it was ported by morons, the HD collection looks worse than the PS2 games. Jak & Daxter requires a lot more skill at platforming, but a lot less at combat.
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1redflag posted:Mad Max I really enjoyed Mad Max, though I do agree every game, especially open world, should use the nemesis system, or at least take a lesson from it. So, Mad Max is my suggestion unless you haven't done Shadow of Mordor. e: Axiom Verge is the best Metroidvania in quite a while, but it is as short as, say, Super Metroid, with a lot more words.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:I've been dealing with bouts of depression lately and now I'm looking for a sort of "feel good" game,ideally on the easier side to minimize stress. Any suggestions? Thomas Was Alone was extremely uplifting to me.
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NeoSeeker posted:I'm looking for some more open world FPSes. I just got Far Cry 3 and that just might do it but I'm wondering if there are any other quality ones out there (Far Cry 4 doesn't seem to be one of them). I really loved MGSV even though it wasn't an FPS, I guess that's worth mentioning because of the large amounts of gun porn and gun modification. Far Cry 4 is basically a slightly improved expansion to 3, I can't imagine loving 3 and not at least enjoying 4. So if you're avoiding it based on reviews, don't. Far Cry 2 is the really open world one, and feels like a different series from the new ones. The later Crysis games are completely linear, which was disappointing. Fallout 4 is basically an FPS, since they simplified the skills system down so much, but it's still half RPG.
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Turtlicious posted:I really like Dwarf Fortress, but it's way too hard to parse visually, and the UI is jack poo poo. Have you tried Stonesense? It renders Dwarf Fortress in isometric graphics. Nothing out there will match the content of Dwarf Fortress, and usually the deeper games are, ironically, 2D, so kind of, yeah, it's pick 2 of 3. Gnomoria is alright, Timber and Stone is hard and not that developed, Towns isn't what you're looking for, and there's probably a dozen others I haven't played.
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kedo posted:I really, really want to like that game, but I just can't get past the massive level of abstraction on everything. I at least need to see little dudes walking around a map doing things. The Anno games could be so much what you're looking for, the land based combat is usually such a small part of the game compared to the trade and occasional ship combat. The only problem is the Empire you control is a few islands in the carribean, not world spanning. e: herp, Dawn of Discovery IS Anno. soory. Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:Anything you got with an interesting story? Something that makes you want to know what happens next? Maybe something old or not so famous like Undertale or Pillars of Eternity. And no Telltale games in particular. Alpha Protocol is a great story, but may be on the more well known side of this.
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Evilreaver posted:I'm looking for a game where you get (generally) weaker over the course of the game. Thea: The Awakening is kinda like this; you get stronger over the course of the game, but on higher difficulties, if you don't know what you're doing, enemies generally grow in power faster than you do. So it's more of a power hill than a power seep, I guess. It's much easier to win the game by rushing to the end than waiting to have a massive population. Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Wandering Orange posted:Any suggestions for a game like mini metro but open ended? Like I'm tired of the fuckers at new-geometric-destination and can ignore them without losing the entire game. Just expand/optimize at my own pace? I already play factorio. PC or android would be nice. Have you tried mini metro on endless? This is a legit question, some people don't know about the other modes.
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Factorio is pretty good for this, too. If you play on peaceful, you can pay as little attention as you want and still make progress.
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So like Armored Core aiming, but a multiplayer FPS?
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K8.0 posted:I'm kinda looking for a single player racing game. There are basically three things I want out of one. The first Grid was pretty good about being neither "hand brake only brake" arcadey nor super simmy, though it definitely leans arcade (especially if you use the gently caress-up rewind). Doesn't really meet the other two criteria, though. I remember having bad impressions of Grid 2, but don't quote me on that.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Are there any open world RPGs with good world-feel and high customizability like Skyrim and Fallout but better combat? Tried Witcher 3, meh The Stalker games kind of fit this? You're going to be a shooty guns man since there is no skill system, but your choices of artifacts in your suit and variety of weapons would qualify as highly customizable, I think. Plus they play like an actual shooter, instead of an RPG shooter, which is great.
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You played Abzu? It's another swim around and look at fishes game, but there isn't really a way to customize the "aquarium", just look around different ones.
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Evig Vandrar posted:Can someone recommend a racing game that can be played without a steering wheel, with a gamepad preferably? Last racing game I tried was F1 2013, but it wasn't really playable with a gamepad and I don't plan on buying a steering wheel anytime soon. Any of the Dirt games by Codemaster work great on gamepad, their Race Driver games also to varying degrees. Burnout Paradise is a good arcade racer, if old. The need for speed games also are pretty good, with the Shift series leaning more realistic than the others.
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You're gonna have to broaden your search a bit unless you want it to be just the one game you listed. You got pretty specific there.
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Turtlicious posted:I loved the humor in Bulletstorm, and the parts of Wolfenstein that are meant to be funny, I also liked Shadow Warrior, and Bad Company 1/2, are there any other first person shooters / super action-y games that have awesome feel good stories like that that make you laugh while you play and have big rear end set pieces and cool things to fight with or against? DOOM 2016 is excellent, though the humor is more subdued. The Borderlands series' humor is much more in line with the rest of the ones you mentioned, though not as good a shooter as DOOM.
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Metal Gear Solid V is an excellent loving around with AI game; you have 4 billion options, almost none of which are necessary to do well in the game.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:If this is a sarcastic post, it's really misinformed. Or maybe just tasteless. You're, uh, kinda proving the point there, especially if that's your counter argument. Sounds like the incidental music to an all in slo-mo trailer for an action movie.
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double nine posted:I'm looking for a game with good writing that has multiple fleshed out (political?) factions the player has to choose between, like fallout new vegas. Any suggestions? Alpha Protocol can't be recommended enough for this. The game play isn't the best, but it's the best political RPG I've ever seen.
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