I admire your restraint. My steam basket is starting to become rather alarming, which would be ok if I didn’t already have a backlog :smack:
Oh, it’s not restraint. I have about thirty games in my Steam account, most of which I have either not played or essentially given up on within an hour or so. I am a very boring gamer, who finds a game and plays it pretty much exclusively until other people say things like, “That still runs?”
City of Heroes was taken away from me (us), and I’ve worn the Borderlands franchise to polished pebbles. So I’m poking at Witcher 3 to fill the gap until BL3 is released, or maybe even City of Titans.
My wild-eyed boy child came down to tell me, after five hours of downloading and an hour of play, that Doom is pretty spectacular. So I looked at him with a straight face, and said, “That still runs?”
(Yes, I know it’s a technical reboot. Maybe when it’s a little cheaper. I did my time on Doom, and DN3D. Serially.)
I just bought this on Steam during the big sale. To be honest, it hasn’t grabbed me the way the classic X-Com did. I think maybe it’s too much with the cinematic cut scenes. Also you don’t seem to be able to customize your soldier’s load-outs as much as you could with the original. I liked being able to micromanage each soldier’s kit right down to the extra ammo, med kits and grenade.
An old favorite of mine (space strategy and exploration), Master of Orion 2, is available on Steam for only $6. I had fun playing it all weekend. The graphics are very dated, but it’s still a lot of fun.
I thought that sounded great the first 11 times I did it, but the fact that the game doesn’t persist any of that information from mission to mission made it kinda suck. I’ll take minimalist management over that any day.
I’ll echo **pieceoftheuniverse **in that **Cities Skylines **is fantastic. It’s really the first city sim that’s a worthy successor to SimCity 4. At first I was just sort of “meh” on it. But thanks to several updates and a robust modding community, you can really create any sort of city in any sort of environment. And some of the mods are fantastic. Not just assets like buildings and vehicles, but stuff that fundamentally changes how you play the game done so seamlessly, you wonder why the developers didn’t put it in from the start.
Another game I enjoy is Space Engineers, which is in early access and just went into “Beta”. It’s sort of like Minecraft in space (also on planets now). Another one of these enjoyable “zen” building cool shit for it’s own sake games. You can also PvP too.
I’ve been following the early development of DayZ, an open world zombie survival game. Some guy did a mod a few years back of ArmA2, a war sim I never heard of. It became insanely popular as a sort of open world The Walking Dead simulator. It’s in early release and development has been sort of slow. So at the moment, it’s really more of a “walking simulator” (as **pieceoftheuniverse ** put it) about spending hours roaming through former Soviet town and countryside, not finding weapons or supplies, occasionally seeing a zombie and then getting randomly killed by another player or piece of scenery.
I have a bunch of games I downloaded cheap off Steam, but haven’t had a chance to play yet - The Sims, Tropico, Kerble Space Program, The Forest, a few others.
It would be cool if you could save some pre-set loadouts.
My summer of work travel is here. I usually bring either my xbox or my ps with me, but as these look to be extended trips, again to places that either won’t let me connect my console to their internet, or I can’t connect my console to their tv, I decided to buy a gaming laptop.
I ended up buying a Gigabyte P57 with the gtx 1070 card. So, ideally, I would like game recommendations that aren’t on the consoles and advance at a moderate pace, and where I can push the hardware specs.
Right now, I’m playing the crap out of Mass Effect Andromeda (mostly multiplayer and a infiltrator/vanguard insanity run). The last game I truly loved was Last of Us. I hated Fallout 3 (I finished it to spite it), so much I refuse to play 4. I played 90 mins of Witcher 3 and concluded it was not worth any more time investment as it seemed to crawl at a tedious pace. I thought Just Cause was meh. I really liked Planescape Torment and I have a strong inkling to play Ogre Battles 64. I’m retired from fighting games. I like playing with the mouse pad and keyboard while on my laptop. I do not like Real TIme anything (much prefer turn based). I really like Civ III and IV, havent played 5 and 6 seems like way too much of a time sink. Thanks in advance!
Have you considered Torment: Tides of Numenera? It’s the spiritual successor to Planescape Torment. I’ve played through the early release and liked it well enough.
The Banner Saga I & II could fit the bill.
Darkest Dungeon now has Steam Workshop support and a slightly easier mode.
I was reading that the combat was not good to non-existent. How is leveling?
Banner Saga sound pretty good, I wonder why I haven’t heard of it? I was hoping it was newer.
Darkest Dungeon looks difficult…losing characters for good? However, I would probably get it for the PS4.
Combat isn’t great but fortunately there’s not that much of it. There’s some levels and you gain xp mostly from quests but frankly that side of the game isn’t anything special either. What is good is the weird environment and the writing, the setting is very far from the usual orcs-and-elves -fantasy.
For me the game was good despite its flaws, it was always fun to talk to the NPCs and figure out the overall story arc. They have patched it a bunch of times after the launch which is when I played through it so it should be even better by now.
I’m a firm believer in not going wrong with the Bioshock series for FPS games. I tend to prefer single character missions over online play, this series of games was RIGHT in my wheelhouse. They still stand up today. Creepy as hell, satisfyingly violent, and conceptually/artistically brilliant.
You lose characters for good but you also constantly recruit. Characters are more of a resource than people you should get attached to. And once you get a feel for the flow of the game, it’s not super difficult unless the random number generator hates you that night. It’s very grindy and the “easier” mode really isn’t much easier so much as it removes a lot of the grind. I liked it and would generally recommend it and think it might be a good fit for your turn-based play.
Xenonauts is what you want.
Have you tried Wolf Among Us? Same company and I was super impressed with it.
(Gog links because it’s Gog’s Summer Sale ring now until the 20th. Steam Sale starts June 22.)
Ha! I had the same reaction!
I was a big fan of all the Elder Scrolls games, and so the prospect of what was touted as ‘Oblivion with Guns’ held some appeal. I went so far as to buy the first two Fallout games before the release of 3 to steep myself in lore; and I really enjoyed them.
I felt that Fallout 3 was pretty good, but I got bored after a while and struggled to finish. Fallout New Vegas, despite the critical acclaim, felt both restrictive and empty to me, and despite multiple attempts to get into the game, it just hasn’t kept my attention for more than a few hours at a time.
I had little in the way of expectations from Fallout 4, but it completely blew me away; I enjoy it more than Skyrim, which I would never have thought possible. The settlement system added an unexpected extra layer to the game, and by lightly modding, makes me feel part of the game world more than ever before.
Huh? Wolf Among Us is by Telltale, The Last of Us is by Naughty Dog.
Sorry, I was conflating the Zombie apocalypse in Last of Us with the zombie apocalypse in Telltale’s Walking Dead game. Still, mazing_z should play Wolf Among Us, even if it’s not a zombie apocalypse game.