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Office Sheep posted:I'm looking for a challenging puzzle heavy adventure. Something more puzzle and atmosphere based like myst and less talky and story driven like monkey island or those new telltale adventures. I'd prefer as little rubbing everything on everything as possible. Entombed is pretty old, but might be what you're looking for. Pretty much the entirety of the game is solving Myst-style puzzles.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2009 21:53 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:47 |
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Corridor posted:Sorry to drag this thread up again. I'm assuming based on the context of your post that you want screenshot-based ones, right? Monster Rancher 1 and 2 are great LPs, although I might be biased having played and loved them as a kid. Shildkrote, Thuryl, and Luisfe all LP great games quite well. Also, all the Sprung LPs are a must. They are hilariously done. Slowbeef in general is pretty good at this poo poo, needless to say.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2009 19:43 |
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Archipelagic posted:I've grown a bit tired of RTS's recently, I think the thing that's missing is the ability to turtle. I used to love Total Annihilation, simply because I could spend ages in a skirmish building up an impenetrable base for the AI to throw itself against. Sacrifice is good for this. Mounting a solid defense is actually far more viable than offense in many cases. There's a set amount of "souls" on a map that allow you to summon units. Killing enemy units leaves behind a red soul, which can be converted for your own use. By defending against enemy attacks, you can hoard souls and prevent your opponent from using them, ultimately allowing you to completely overwhelm the enemy provided you don't lose your own souls in a skirmish. That being said, there is little to no "base-building", so if that's your bag you might not enjoy it.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2010 21:06 |
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PalmTreeFun posted:Anyone know of any games that play sort of like Virtual On or Custom Robo? Basically, small arena, and you and an opponent zip around the arena dodging each other's shots trying to kill each other. I know Power Stone is sort of like this, but with less shooting and more melee combat. I understand that this is a bit specific, but if nobody can think of anything, how about something fun that involves robots? Especially giant ones. Try Bootfighter Windom XP SP-2. It's a rather primitive, but somewhat fun Virtual On clone. It has multiplayer, but I'm not sure if anyone still plays it.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2010 06:24 |
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Parallax posted:I'm looking for weird, unique games for the 360, PS3, Wii, and DS. Basically anything that makes you go, "Whaaaa....." or something like that. I'd reccomend Nanashi no Game if it were translated. It's got a lot of Eternal Darkness-esque mindfucks.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2010 22:14 |
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JesusDoesVegas posted:On Thanksgiving I was playing the Scott Pilgrim game on PS3 at my cousin's house, and it brought back the good ol' days of beat em up games. I haven't got a PS3, but I perused Steam and didn't see anything that met the criteria... Anything new and exciting in the beat em up (streets of rage, final fight, the new scott pilgrim game, etc) genre? There's a freeware remake of all three Streets of Rage games coming out with a big update soon apparently. Don't know much about it. And if you haven't played God Hand yet, do it. It's pretty much one of the best punch-the-poo poo-out-of-stuff games ever made.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2010 06:36 |
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fivetwofour posted:I've sold my ps3 a while back, and I'm still itching for some decent gaming. Problem?The only hardware I have now is a netbook. I already have Neverwinter Nights and Guild Wars, and this thing can handle both beautifully. What other good RPGs are there? Don't really want to play Morrowind. I've tried it, and it was such a slow paced game. Offline stuff is ideal, so no MMOs please. I've been starting the Baldur's Gate "trilogy" for my winter break. So far it's really impressed me. Anything else Infinity Engine is a real safe bet, so consider Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale as well. Diablo II is a hell of a lot more fun multiplayer, but you might be able to get enjoyment out of the single player. Spiderweb Software has some really nifty old-school style games, but a few of them (Avernum 4) aren't as solid as the rest. I recommend Avernum 2, 3, and Blades, and the first two Geneforge games. They all have pretty expansive demos, so you should be able to play them for some time even without paying.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2010 02:56 |
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madpanda posted:I am looking for a babbys first 4x or space rts that will let me blow spaceships up without a bachelors in microeconomics. Ascendancy is a good 4x for beginners, if only because the AI is so notoriously bad that you can pretty much roll through them at your own pace. Only part of it that could be tricky if I recall correctly is that ships and such move in 3 dimensions.
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2010 16:34 |
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Dolphin Fetus posted:I have a different kind of question but in the vein of this thread: I have a bunch of games in my backlog and I'd like something to keep me entertained for awhile. Which of these should I tackle first? BG2 is great once you have a basic understanding of the AD&D stuff, but Planescape: Torment will be FAR easier to sink your teeth into. For better or for worse, gameplay takes a backseat to the story in Planescape, so if you're not familiar with AD&D systems it will be far friendlier to you. BG2 is a great game, mind, but it does plop you down in the middle of things, both when it comes to story and when it comes to the development of your character. Starting with BG2 you may have no idea how to properly use your skills, end up dying a lot to the harder encounters, get frustrated, and quit. That's what happened to me, and playing through BG1 using the Tutu mod helped me out with that. BG1 is nowhere near as good a game as its successor, but it does a far better job of acclimatizing the player to their new character, in part because, well, you start at level 1.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2011 06:52 |
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Speedball posted:Okay, I don't expect a lot of responses to this, but. What are some good current Mac-compatible games? For this computer I have Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Starcraft 2, both wonderful (and of course, I once had World of Warcraft, but I burned out on that). What else is there? Not "current" by any stretch, but the Escape Velocity series is about as close as the Mac has had to a flagship series, in that they're designed primarily with the mac in mind. Marathon is another, if you'd rather have something Doom-like. The Marathon games are open source/free now, I believe.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2011 00:45 |
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Barent posted:After recently playing and finishing the evil path of Soul Nomad, I'd like more games where you can be unabashedly evil and villainous. Doesn't really matter what genre or time period or whatever. What I don't want is games like Fallout/inFamous with hamfisted karma meters where you end up still being the hero. Something more in the vein of Overlord 1 and 2. It's one of the most obvious answers, so sorry if you've played it, but Planescape: Torment is often cited as having the best "evil" choices of any game.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2011 16:15 |
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Serious Michael posted:I was playing this little steam game called Space Pirates and Zombies which is a fast paced top down space shooter where you outfit and control multiple ships and proceed to destroy multiple ships. I want to play something like that, designing of my own ships is nice but not required and I should at least be able to change what weapons they have. SPAZ is partially inspired by the Escape Velocity series. They're mostly Mac games but Nova has a Windows version and mods that bring the old games into the new engine. Be aware that they are much more boring and passive games, mostly centered around trade and courier missions, especially at the beginning of each game.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2012 17:23 |
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THE PWNER posted:Anyone know any games with roguelike-like combat (grid based movement, turn based combat, you control a single guy) that aren't actually roguelikes? I've been playing Tome 4 and really enjoying it and it's made me wonder if there's anything else out there like it aside from the generally horribly unforgiving ascii based genre that spawned it. They're party-based but the Gold Box games and Avernum series are pretty much this.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 22:14 |
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BigRed0427 posted:Are there any recent RPGs that have the party customization of the Balders Gate/Icewind Dale games? I haven't played Avernum: Escape from the Pit but if it's anything like the original series it should have rather strong party customization.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 09:42 |
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Fangz posted:Okay, I rather urgently need a suggestion for a game that is You can get the old Worms games really cheap, and they have fantastic hotseat multiplayer. Go for Armageddon/World Party, they're practically the same but World Party had tweaked online play (which you probably won't need) and a few game mods.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2012 06:01 |
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flatluigi posted:Exile wasn't that bad, honestly, and parts of Revelations were decent too. (End of Ages was terrible, though.) Riven was the only game I ever kept a journal for. The gameplay was such a simple point-and-click affair but the world building was incredibly inspiring. I still don't think there's ever been a cover as iconic as Riven's for me.
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2013 16:11 |
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PTizzle posted:I'm looking for a new game for my girlfriend to play - the issue is that she has completely bizarre taste so I'm not exactly sure what'll stick. It's intimidating at first but I'd recommend having her give Crusader Kings 2 a try. It's pretty much all about internal management, combat exists but it's not necessary or intensive and involves two units bashing each other, and there are alternatives such as sabotage and matrimonial plots.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2013 16:16 |
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Lord Dudeguy posted:Ok so the wife and I gave Neverwinter Nights a shot. Too technical for her tastes. She wanted to play a more "Left-click/Right-click" functional action RPG. More Sacred/Diablo II-like. Path of Exile is a very blatant Diablo II clone and a pretty good one, but I don't recall if its system requirements would be too steep for your needs.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 05:21 |
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Leper Residue posted:I think people are getting confused because the 'vania' from Metroidvania comes from Castlevania. So people think Symphony of the Night and games that came after (which is now the majority of Castlevania games). I'm guessing he wants an old school side scrolling platformer/action game. The freeware game Maldita Castilla is heavily inspired by both Ghosts 'n' Goblins and old-school Castlevania.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2013 19:16 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Any good Xbox 360 games that are both fun to play and really scary? Like, on the level of Resident Evil 4. It's not scary so much as occasionally unsettling, but have you played Deadly Premonition?
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# ¿ May 18, 2013 21:56 |
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AnonSpore posted:Just... everything. I dunno. Story's not too huge a concern, I suppose, though I despise long cut scenes with dialogue and such--one at the very beginning of the story is enough for me, if that. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, even having a near-identical engine. Demon's Souls was based on a series by FROM Software called King's Field. The early installments really show their age nowadays, but overall the series is pretty good. FROM also developed another spinoff to King's Field, which was the Shadow Tower series. If your computer is powerful enough, you can emulate PS2 and play the fan-translated Shadow Tower: Abyss, which is extremely close to Demon's/Dark Souls in many ways.
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# ¿ May 30, 2013 03:18 |
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GreatGreen posted:I'm looking for a 3rd person RPG also, but different from Dark Souls. Seconding Divinity 2. It was kinda meh on release but the Dragon Knight Saga really kicked it into solid territory. Also if you go into it with the mindset of just wanting to break everything and be absurd in an awful game, Two Worlds. Not the sequel, that lost the campiness of the first and was just bland as hell.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 14:25 |
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N. Senada posted:I've never played Planescape:Torment before and picked up because of the low price on GOG. Is there anything I should know (besides installing mods) before I dive into this beast? I have only the faintest ideas of what's in store based on reading through this thread. There is one thing you need to do right off the bat. To enjoy the best moments of the game you need to build a character that would be a good mage but a lousy fighter (high int, cha, etc.). Unfortunately, you will always start the game as a fighter. As soon as you get into the city, look up a guide on the mage class change quest, changing to mage will make dealing with the limited amounts of necessary combat more manageable.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2013 15:52 |
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GreatGreen posted:I've only played the first hour or so of Planescape but I'm looking to get through it also. It would be personal preference, since the game is 90% interesting dialogue trees.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2013 16:31 |
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monster on a stick posted:Oh, that looks good. Thanks. How's the rest of the series? Blood Money is easily the high point. The other games are good in their own ways but don't quite measure up to it.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2013 15:29 |
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Having a Malkavian on your second run, however, is extremely entertaining, including gems such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1FbDuRWPho
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 14:07 |
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EmmyOk posted:I just bought an old gamecube from a friend so I thought I'd get some recommendations for it. I've picked up some of the more well-known titles, Pikmin, Wind Waker, and Killer 7. Any classics I'm missing? Or maybe some lesser-known gems? Thanks in advance! Beyond Good & Evil has a Gamecube version, if you haven't played that. Ikaruga is a pretty cool shoot-em-up. Gladius is a fun strategy/sim game about, well, gladiatorial combat.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2013 22:54 |
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silentpenguins posted:I was really, really into Escape Velocity Nova for a long time. Looking at Ambrosia's site they have apparently moved on to casual games and apps. Can someone recommend a similar game? Transcendence is OK, it's basically Escape Velocity the Roguelike. Feels limited in a lot of ways compared to EVN but it's decent in its own right.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2013 15:27 |
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Turtlicious posted:Are there any RPG's that are reminiscent of The Godfather or Boardwalk Empire? That kind of organized crime, romanticised. Non-rpgs are ok, but I didn't like the Godfather game because it became really repetitive really quick, and Omerta was a lovely buggy mess. I've already played LA: Noire. Chaos Overlords is more a strategy game and is more futuristic but it's got some cool things going for it. IIRC you could play in the vein of a classic, charismatic gang lord.
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# ¿ Sep 15, 2013 17:21 |
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Unrelated, what are some games with good destructible environments? I'm thinking something along the lines of Red Faction: Guerilla or X-Com, where you can break down walls or collapse buildings as part of the strategy, rather than just making lots of stuff blow up like Just Cause 2 (which is also a great game, but not what I'm looking for at the moment). Genre doesn't matter, but I'm partial to tactical or strategy games. Jagged Alliance 2 has this and plays a lot like X-Com.
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2013 14:44 |
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Chinook posted:Are there any good wrestling games for Windows? I remember playing old WWF/WWE games on ps1 and N64 and had a lot of fun making characters, intros, and playing with friends. Does anything like that even get made anymore? I am aware of console versions, but I don't know of anything good on PC. Comedy option: MDickey's Wrestling Mpire WWE'13 has some of the best customization of wrestling games so far, there's even a gimmick AI v. AI stream series called Video Game Championship Wrestling that has custom wrestlers designed to look like their videogame counterparts. The gameplay itself looks a bit simple and repetitive, but I've only ever seen it in play, never actually played it myself.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2013 15:01 |
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Galick posted:There are about thirty or forty different classes, each bringing new stuff to the table (or at least different stuff) and every single one of them is 100% viable to take into the post-game. I've played the first, but at what point, if any, did they fix that healers could only really progress by tickling stuff with their staff as opposed to, you know, doing their job as healers? Did they change that at any point in the series?
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 17:15 |
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V!ntar posted:I'm looking for a game with a lot of character customization, both in equipment and looks. Genre doesn't really matter. I loved these games: The Monster Hunter games are great for that. Path of Exile is just in equipment/skills (looks are static to the archetype you choose) but the customization where that's concerned is pretty massive.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2013 14:34 |
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Sinking Ship posted:So for some reason I have both a 3DS and a PS Vita and I own 1 game between them (Soul Sacrifice) mostly because I had a friend who was a junkie for owning every console who talked me into making irresponsible financial decisions. Now I'm hoping to get some kind of return on that investment (in the form of a game I might play). I like wordy RPG type games (like pretty much Bioware's whole catalog I've enjoyed to some greater or lesser degree) and I'm bad at twitch reflex button masher type games (like I really don't enjoy most FPS CoD type games, or arcade style bullethell type games - because I have terrible reflexs / game playing abilities). Also I have a soft spot for animu type games - on the previous generation of consoles I played and enjoyed Fate/Extra, Final Fantasy Tactics, and the Corpse Party games. Handhelds have a lot of good Shin Megami Tensei ports and sidegames as well as the mainline series entry SMT4. Soul Hackers on 3DS and Persona 2: Innocent Sin on PSP are among my personal favorites. The other Persona ports and Strange Journey are great too, even if I did feel the later Personas strayed a bit far into anime territory.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 16:44 |
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Xandoom posted:Hello all I am looking for an RPG game that is going to last me a while. I'm talking like super-dense, mega-timesink "I need to sink 1000 hours of this game just to scratch the surface). A lot of depth and complexity. Can be single-player or MMO. Thanks! Guild Wars 2 is a theme park MMO, but with interesting design quirks (like linear levelling; 1-10 takes about as long as 70-80). It has tons of content, and a "Living Story" that adds additional time-limited content roughly every 2 weeks. It has its share of problems (questionable dungeon design, for starters) but it's definitely the MMO I've sunk the most time into and feel the least guilty about playing casually.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2013 15:08 |
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Turtlicious posted:I'm looking for games with very little gameplay, and is mostly decisions / story. A good example of this is The Walking Dead! It needs to be compelling, and immersive. Do you guys know of any great games like that? King of Dragon Pass is pretty much a gamebook crossed with a management sim.
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2013 17:03 |
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numerrik posted:I'm not a fan of FFT, and I have never played a Mario & Luigi game, I didn't really consider the Warioware game because I have one of the DS ones, but I would be open to Warioland 4 possibly, I was just looking for alternate opinions of what's worth playing. Warioland 4 has probably the most avant-garde humor in a videogame. It's worth playing for that alone.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2014 18:33 |
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C-Euro posted:I'm in the mood for some older-school PC FPS gaming, should I re-play Deus Ex or do a first playthrough System Shock 2? I'd say SS2 holds up *slightly* better. Spiders are still awful artificial difficulty though, I had more trouble with them than all the stuff at endgame that was supposed to be a real threat.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2014 16:56 |
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Immortal Wombat posted:I'm looking for a game that's like Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy on the PC Omikron: The Nomad Soul.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2014 21:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:47 |
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Evilreaver posted:Are there any games like Myst anymore? Long, convoluted series of puzzles that all intertwine that require you to be really paying attention? It's hard to find stuff that has quite the same feel as Myst and especially Riven, the degree to which the worldbuilding was built into the puzzles is still pretty unique. The closest I've played lately is the RHEM series.
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