What are you nerds playing?

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:50 pm #369083

Bottom post of the previous page:

EU4 complete is the best one for complexity and depth if someone wants to get into the genre. If you want real autism you should look into Matrix turn-based war games.

I don't like EU4 myself and the best grand strategy game for me will always be HoI2 but more specifically Darkest Hour's Kaiserreich mod.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:52 pm #369084

>matrix turnbased war games
Such as?

ColonicAcid · Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:59 pm

eu3 w/ divine wind is the most complete and complex game in the europa universalis and its not even close.

eu4 is literally babbies first eu with its stupid mana system and technology system and everything about it. don't worry about basing your entire economy on gold, inflation doesn't actually matter in eu4, you can just spend some arbitrary mana points and it'll all be fixed up real swell... damn, why didn't spain do this before their entire economy was destroyed due to inflation.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:00 pm #369088

aurora?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:00 am #369095

Aurora 4X.
Isn't that a 4X?

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 9:31 am #369146

Deitus wrote:>matrix turnbased war games
Such as?

Like this one http://www.matrixgames.com/products/558 ... Barbarossa

Solid war game with added complexity due to politics and stuff.

I wouldn't call it grand strategy though

Doctor Pork · Post by **Doctor Pork** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:00 pm #369156

Somebody convinced me to play Dark Souls 3 despite never playing any of them.

Is fun, not as hard as advertised.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:11 pm #369167

Doctor Pork wrote:Somebody convinced me to play Dark Souls 3 despite never playing any of them.

Is fun, not as hard as advertised.

I would heavily suggest playing dark souls 1 before 3, many hints and throwbacks to it in 3 that enhance the overall experience. 2 was my first and it's p great as well.

Doctor Pork · Post by **Doctor Pork** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:15 pm #369168

Deitus wrote:
Doctor Pork wrote:Somebody convinced me to play Dark Souls 3 despite never playing any of them.

Is fun, not as hard as advertised.
I would heavily suggest playing dark souls 1 before 3, many hints and throwbacks to it in 3 that enhance the overall experience. 2 was my first and it's p great as well.

I honestly would really like to. Maybe when I get a better pc.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:22 pm #369178

DS1 isn't that demanding, and even if it is you can just refund goy

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:04 am #369304

I just noticed that Darkest Hour is 2,49€ on steam. Buy it and enjoy the best grand strategy game of our time

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:03 am #369401

Stardew valley

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:29 am #369407

When does it hook you?

So far it's felt highly repetitive game mechanically with a weird quasi dating sim mechanic added on top

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:07 am #369412

I think the appeal comes from starting from little and moving up to a massive house, farm and family with lots of friends in the town over a long period of time. It's not for everyone but it can be pretty fun.

wubli · Post by **wubli** » Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:55 pm #369681

finished night in the woods and please knock on my door recently because i'm gay and they were nominated as games for impact

also started playing age of empires II again feels good man i missed my childhood

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:03 am #369980

Got an Apple gift card for Christmas and noticed a lot of old games I never played are on here. Thinking of getting final fantasy tactics and secret of mana since they’re generally said to be good, any other oldie ports you guys recommend?

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:21 pm #370058

I've been playing Age of Empires and I want to know when it starts being fun

Lumbermancer · Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:43 pm

When you get crushed but manage to escape with one peasant and rebuild in your friends base.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:22 pm #370364

wubli wrote:finished night in the woods and please knock on my door recently because i'm gay and they were nominated as games for impact

also started playing age of empires II again feels good man i missed my childhood

high quality avatar well done

zero escape is fucking great

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:00 am #370385

So should I get rimworld if I enjoy dorf fort or not bother? What are some comparisons?

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:12 am #370388

Rimworld is like dorf fort if you can't read ASCII and don't care about most of DF's features

But it does have cybernetics, I suppose

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:20 am #370390

Rimworld honestly really needs mods to get the most out of it. Luckily, there's hundreds out there and vary from QoL changes to full overhauls.

Wed Jan 03, 2018 8:17 am

CosmicScientist wrote:Some of the reviews mentioned broken features that need mods to be fixed. Is that true or does it make more sense that they dislike some mechanics or some mechanics are too shallow?

It mentioned the gunplay being bugged and I was confused as that was supposed to be the crowning glory/code baby of Rimworld.

this is way too non-specific to answer adequately
"gunplay" isn't really the primary function of the game although it plays a major role in combat which is a major aspect of gameplay. it works fine, i dont understand what specifically could be so wrong about it

rimworld is like dorf fort but sci-fi, and instead of feeling like youre running a faction like in dorf fort there's more of a personal emphasis for the colonists. like the goal is less dorf-y and more like you just want to get your dudes through the day alive. (if you manage to make it to very late game this gets less and less true, saves that survive several years can eventually get dozens of colonists but most of the time this will not be the case, especially since at that point you usually will have the means to "win" the save by escaping the planet so playing to this stage will almost always be because you feel like it and not out of necessity.)

it's really fun and so is dorf fort. i believe if you're a fan of one you can be a fan of the other. just try to have an open mind, since it's easy to turn it into a dick measuring contest of "oh, dorf fort has X but rimworld does not, dorf is superior" instead of just experiencing the game

Spoiler:

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:38 pm #370487

PK hit the nail on the head. With mods I would say I have enjoyed it as much as Dwarf Fort in some ways. It is worth noting that the emphasis on the game is on eventually escaping the planet you are on rather than making a permanent settlement and Tynan has said as much, but with mods you can make it be anything you want it to. I think my modlist has like 30 mods in it now at least

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:39 pm #371110

Rimworld - Rimmstation 13 mod

Very difficult, the de hasn't properly balanced the mod for an actual, legitimate early game as you have very little food and zero medicine at the beginning, everything uses components and you can only grow food in hydroponics trays. Open space tiles also slow you down and space carp are very fast and very deadly. You also literally can't play on any start besides the one provided without using Prepare Carefully as it's impossible to build circuit boards without a circuit imprinter which requires a circuit imprinter circuit board to make.

Space carp are spawned from the devil's asshole as they constantly interrupt your building to nibble on you and the security turrets don't shoot at them. If you play this, make sure to play a lot of games first to figure out the rules or cheat because a legitimate first time game *will* end in disaster a few days in.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:40 pm #371112

Oh, and I don't know if this was a mod conflict, but space carp count as humanoid corpses so you can't butcher them for food - unless you like mood penalties.

Cherrypone · Post by **Cherrypone** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:40 pm #371113

I honestly don't get why Rimmstation 13 I'd a thing
Not even trying to insult the mod or anything, just feels like a weird mod to be in the game.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:48 pm #371116

It's a huge overhaul and it's almost a different game with a high difficulty ceiling if you're playing and not trying to cheat.
Combat is extremely deadly as weapons are very powerful and carp can wreck you if you let them close the distance, syndie operatives can curb stomp unarmoured opponents.
Atmospherics is, for now, simulated purely as a temperature thing with pumps warming up the air like a space heater while scrubbers keep it cool.

Also melee weapons are worthless, don't bother with them.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:17 pm #371220

Now playing: The Long Dark - a Canadian-themed survival horror

Or at least, a horror to me because I'm in Canada.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:51 pm #371252

More Mexican Scam Program.

Spoiler:

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 3:12 am #371332

i bought dank souls 3 despite having it on ps4 so im gonna finish it on pc because fuck ps+ subcriptions

i bought battlefront 2 classic because that shit is great

my brother got me elite dangerous so ill try it, could be fun

Screemonster · Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:22 am

Finally signed up for the elite dangerous powerplay shit

not because I want to do it, but because each faction has a special module thing that you can get if you've been with them for 4 weeks and I just want to buy a dozen of one particular faction's rapid-fire drunk missile racks before defecting, thus playing them for chumps

I will then load as many of those missile racks as I can fit onto a single ship and bind them all to the same trigger

I don't give a fuck how effective it actually is I just want to pull off a macross missile massacre

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:16 pm #371383

Don't forget to engineer them to have larger ammo capacity.

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Lumbermancer · Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:34 pm

I want someone to sell me They are billions.

Kel-the-Oblivious · Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:48 pm

A heavily modded version of Rimworld. My advanced bionic dinosaur riding genetic spliced freaks are the horror of the Rim, laying waste to dozens of pirate bases.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Mon Jan 08, 2018 2:19 pm #371699

playing elona recently

good stuff maybe ill make a thread for it later

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:22 pm #372633

prey is amazing and my favorite immersive sim

i liked it more than any deus ex game or bioshock 1/2

i have to get around to playing system shock though

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:23 am #372713

Qbopper wrote:prey is amazing and my favorite immersive sim

i liked it more than any deus ex game or bioshock 1/2

i have to get around to playing system shock though

What do you see in the glass?

Unless you're talking about the Native American Prey in which case lmaoing at you.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:40 am #372717

Anonmare wrote:
Qbopper wrote:prey is amazing and my favorite immersive sim

i liked it more than any deus ex game or bioshock 1/2

i have to get around to playing system shock though
What do you see in the glass?

Unless you're talking about the Native American Prey in which case lmaoing at you.

>old prey

lmfao

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:13 pm #372763

Indian Prey was still kinda decent.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:40 pm #372764

At least it inspired the precursor to portal

Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:51 pm

the pics of the combat system remind me of Sonny

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:27 am #372987

>snakes with legs
Tell me chainsaws exist in this game.

lntigracy · Post by **lntigracy** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:01 am #372994

I've been enjoying shadow tactics: blades of the shogun and then it started crashing on me every 30 minutes. At least I save often.

I really wish more commandos-esque games would come out.

Post by **Armhulen** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:29 pm #373057

DemonFiren wrote:>snakes with legs
Tell me chainsaws exist in this game.

??

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:12 pm #373089

nani the fuck

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:00 am #373580

Been playing something called DUSK.
Them sackmen are filthy get the soap.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:51 am #373831

Splatoon 2 dominates my free time these days

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:17 am #373914

i got the botw expansion pass to play master mode and holy shit it's legitimately hard, it's great

enemies regenerating health quickly is still something i'm not sold on but it does force you to be decisive when you attack, you can't turtle or else you're fucked, but that can also be very frustrating when paired with the weapon durability system - if you aren't careful you can completely fuck yourself, which is both really uncool and really fucking cool to me - there's basically no handholding with that

+ enemies are all an extra "level" so they have increased health and damage

+ the mechanic of "if a hit would do more damage than all of your hearts you just get put at 1/4 a heart" is gone

+ some mroe cool shit

was worth the purchase imo

hopefully the dirtbike is cool

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:25 pm #378200

I've been getting into the Long Dark again and I feel very rusty. I used to be able to reliably bean a rabbit with a stone a good 5 metres away but I can hardly aim the stone any more.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:11 pm #378211

CosmicScientist wrote:Rabbit attempts murder of own kind.

Rabbits have about a kilogram of meat on them and, if you can actually aim, stones hardly expend calories to throw which make them a reliable food/fur/guts source - if you can aim.

Never underestimate the value of rabbit fur mittens early on