What are you nerds playing?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:36 am #268337

Bottom post of the previous page:

I personally tie bloodborne with dark souls 1 at the top of the pile. They both fucking awesome

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:39 am #268338

semen demon souls is the only worth talking about

Jacough · Post by **Jacough** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:04 am #269540

Open wide

Spoiler:

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:47 am #269561

childbearin' robot hips(NeiR): Automata
Running better than Pillz told me it might. Unoptimized indeed, but not as bad as I feared. I'm particularly amused by it's statement that it's NOT autosave compatible. That's refreshing, but I'm spoiled so I might forget and fuck myself. But oh well!

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:29 pm #269786

Really loving AM2R.

I really miss games like this. Most modern attempts at recapturing it don't work.

FantasticFwoosh · Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:31 pm

Been playing some mount and blade napoleonic wars lately. Didn't know the butterknife healed people and the muskets/grenades are really great.

- Kinda full of charging idiots and obsessive server admins just like SS13 so im comfortable.

Post by **Armhulen** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:12 am #270396

FantasticFwoosh wrote:Been playing some mount and blade napoleonic wars lately. Didn't know the butterknife healed people and the muskets/grenades are really great.

- Kinda full of charging idiots and obsessive server admins just like SS13 so im comfortable.

playing napoleon wars with ss13 players sounds like a load of fun

Lumbermancer · Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:47 pm

I've been playing some Streets of ROUGE recently. It's like a rougelike shooter akin to Binding of Isaac but also partially a classic Syndicate. Still in early access, but it seems promising. You have a handful of kooky characters to pick from: if you're a boring individual you can pick Soldier and gun your way through, but if you like fun you can be Clo...I mean Comedian, and walk around cracking dumb jokes making people follow you - using them as your army.

I picked a cop, got a perk for free follower on each level, and patrolled around arresting suckas.

Spoiler:

Free version is here https://madguy.itch.io/streets-of-rogue

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:50 pm #270505

That actually looks kinda cool

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:53 pm #270684

I'm surprised no one's made a proper syndicate remake (Satellite Reign doesn't count, and it was largely based off the inferior sequel Syndicate Wars anyway)

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:12 am #270977

This is where the IP went
It's never going to get remade because the market focus group that is tablet and console gamers won't understand it.

It's best for all of us to nod respectfully at the dead and move along, hoping the dead will rise isn't going to make it happen

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:08 am #270984

Your ip covers the name and setting, but it doesn't cover game mechanics or the general setting themes

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:16 am #271338

This is correct
I too hope for a Syndicate remake/sequel/whatever in the same way as Xenonauts was the remake of X-com, and how Cities skylines was to Sim City

FantasticFwoosh · Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:42 am

I mean simcity 5 was very interesting on paper, but it just became a simulation from what i heard to show off the engine more than a refined game (not talking from experience)

Malkevin wrote:I'm surprised no one's made a proper syndicate remake (Satellite Reign doesn't count, and it was largely based off the inferior sequel Syndicate Wars anyway)

It does, its made by the same guy, last i heard.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:47 am #271382

Oh yeah. Cities Skylines may not be Simcity 4.5, but after EA crashed and burned the IP it took over the torch. It may not be perfect, but at least it is a modern version of an old classic that doesn't disappoint everyone. Though to be fair it did disappoint me a little bit. The traffic simulation isn't even that good and the rest of the game has some issues as well.

Still entertaining

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:33 pm #271400

FantasticFwoosh wrote:I mean simcity 5 was very interesting on paper, but it just became a simulation from what i heard to show off the engine more than a refined game (not talking from experience)

Malkevin wrote:I'm surprised no one's made a proper syndicate remake (Satellite Reign doesn't count, and it was largely based off the inferior sequel Syndicate Wars anyway)
It does, its made by the same guy, last i heard.

Thats like saying Sim City and The Sims were the same game because they were both done by Will Wright.

Also the guy, Mike Diskett, was only a code monkey of the original Syndicate, he was the lead on Syndicate Wars though (hence the bit in parenthesis)

FantasticFwoosh · Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:03 pm

Spore was will wright, and look how much of a sellout that was compared to the prior development demo which seeing with fresh eyes looks dated but I personally would have preferred.Will wright actually quit about 2009 to do his own stuff, ill have to search up what he's doing now then.

- Typical EA practice to prioritize sales over quality, they literally made the depth killing changes on a vote and then still released promotional content hyping it up with some sciency commentary, darkspore was also a commercial failure i heard.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:06 pm #271411

Spore was when Will Wright had his dream crushed in favour of googly eyes and cut corners
It was so promising, and then they gutted it and shipped the corpse for a quick buck

FantasticFwoosh · Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:09 pm

Nothing stands between the Evil Antagonistic-empire and inevitable commercial profit. His soul contract was rendered and now he wanders in obscurity murmuring about a realistic universal simulation, something about procedurally generated sex & dropping spider creatures to explode into gibs from orbit.

https://www.digg.com/r/Games/comments ... ll_wright/

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:55 pm #271421

XSI wrote:Spore was when Will Wright had his dream crushed in favour of googly eyes and cut corners
It was so promising, and then they gutted it and shipped the corpse for a quick buck

if you go into spore not knowing what it used to be it's a fun game, but yeah RIP

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:02 pm #271423

Qbopper wrote:
XSI wrote:Spore was when Will Wright had his dream crushed in favour of googly eyes and cut corners
It was so promising, and then they gutted it and shipped the corpse for a quick buck
if you go into spore not knowing what it used to be it's a fun game, but yeah RIP

this was my experience with it, i managed to miss the peter molenuex levels of hype and just got a game that was p fun but not really that replayable

Lumbermancer · Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:14 pm

GTA5 is pretty cool.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:31 pm #271579

Lumbermancer wrote:GTA5 is pretty cool.

it's too bad the didn't just let me go into al obby with friends and play the game without worrying about ammo

I don't like races or deathmatches and robbing stores gives fuck all so it was really frustrating to try and play freeroam

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:34 pm #271773

It's so you buy their microtransaction money goy

GIVE MUNNY PLS

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:38 pm #271779

XSI wrote:It's so you buy their microtransaction money goy

GIVE MUNNY PLS

ye ik why just disappointed

inb4redded has it too

FantasticFwoosh · Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:39 pm

MUUNY GIB EEET PLEEEES

> Day 1 dlc on steam bullshit. Or the recent H&G medic pack DLC.

Lumbermancer · Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:11 am

Qbopper wrote:it's too bad the didn't just let me go into al obby with friends and play the game without worrying about ammo

I don't like races or deathmatches and robbing stores gives fuck all so it was really frustrating to try and play freeroam

Qbopper wrote:ye ik why just disappointed

inb4redded has it too

Are you ok friend?

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:56 pm #271978

typing on a phone is a helluva drug

redded was intentional though

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:08 pm #272398

Kerbal Spic Pogrom again.
This time, tried to build a small interstellar-range mapping and scanning probe.

Spoiler:

I think I overdid it on the fuel tanks, this thing has about 33 km/s of dV it probably won't ever need.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:42 pm #272432

That just means you can be faster and still complete your mission

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:51 pm #272434

Yeah, but now I have to re-learn orbital mechanics because the Alcubierre keeps my velocity, meaning transferring into a higher orbit can fuck me up breddy bad.
Kerbin-Duna warp left me with >14,000 m/s orbital velocity that I have to shed somehow without wasting a lot of dV.

confused rock · Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:49 pm

>not just putting in fuel till it looks good and burning when the maneuver node says you get an intercept

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:28 pm #272668

You disgust me.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:40 pm #272677

confused rock wrote:>not just putting in fuel till it looks good and burning when the maneuver node says you get an intercept

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:06 pm #272696

Qbopper no
I trusted you

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:17 pm #272742

DemonFiren wrote:Qbopper no
I trusted you

I mean there's something cool in learning the actual mechanics

but i'm fucking lazy and stupid THROTTLE UP LET'S DO THIS

capi duffman · Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:07 pm

Replaying Baldur's Gate, trilogy style, I'll try to stay away from being a thief as usual, and try something different, like being a fighter or a wizard...

Surely I'll give up on that before long and restart another thief run yet again in BG2, because thieves were justice.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:32 pm #272774

CosmicScientist wrote:Does KSP have a way to learn/use the mechanics in game, even if it's through the R&D tree (I'd love it if there were advanced/better/quality of life ways to plot courses in teching up, knowledge and mechanisms are a good thing to unlock, not just parts)? Because when I last played, I just got frustrated whenever I got to interplanetary because it was an arse of a hassle and it stopped me going further than Duna or Eve. I went on a Moho flyby once but nothing more than that due to not know how to make a spessship to get there with more fuel and to land (it was a probe too, I like probes).

I didn't want to download a mod or anything either. Mechjeb just looked like too many numbers to still be able to have fun playing afterwards.

Had fun with all my Duna rovers though. Much fun. Very crash. Highly amused.

Sadly no real way to learn the orbital physics and how to plot a good course. The game's only real suggestion is to just add more fuel

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:41 pm #272775

CosmicScientist wrote:Does KSP have a way to learn/use the mechanics in game, even if it's through the R&D tree (I'd love it if there were advanced/better/quality of life ways to plot courses in teching up, knowledge and mechanisms are a good thing to unlock, not just parts)? Because when I last played, I just got frustrated whenever I got to interplanetary because it was an arse of a hassle and it stopped me going further than Duna or Eve. I went on a Moho flyby once but nothing more than that due to not know how to make a spessship to get there with more fuel and to land (it was a probe too, I like probes).

I didn't want to download a mod or anything either. Mechjeb just looked like too many numbers to still be able to have fun playing afterwards.

Had fun with all my Duna rovers though. Much fun. Very crash. Highly amused.

You wanna learn about orbital mechanics, get Children of a Dead Earth instead. Shit is stupidly realistic and has several bookshelves' worth of reference info.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:56 pm #272782

What?

Anyway, with the right mods kerbs can be real fucking aesthetic.

Spoiler:

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:32 am #272822

Lasers are the last thing you wanna build in CHODE.
They're absurdly complex because muh realism.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:27 am #273846

If anyone has played OneShot before, the steam version updated with a very different route.

I liked it. It was very well done, much like the rest of the game.

Lumbermancer · Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:00 pm

There's cool game called Tricky Towers to get from humble bundle for a dollar, if someone want to play online.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:49 pm #274194

>playing xcom 2
>extraction mission: retrieve that soldier who ended up getting herself captured during a flawless ufo assault because lol bugs
>start revealed
>still manage to stealth the mission and extract in four turns without ever issuing a fire/overwatch command or taking enemy fire

I know that was incredibly lucky, but damn it feels good.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:06 pm #274213

That reminds me. I should really start up Long War 2 now that a few patches have gone in.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:19 pm #274216

I don't have the balls for Long Dong, I confess, even though my XCOM is modded out the ass.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:10 pm #274947

It's Metroid Prime time.

Dammit, Dolphin made some leaps in performance.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:52 pm #274988

since Metroid Prime finally runs well on Dolphin my white whale is the original Ratchet and Clank trilogy running properly on the ps2 emulator

Remie Richards · Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:54 pm

Qbopper wrote:since Metroid Prime finally runs well on Dolphin my white whale is the original Ratchet and Clank trilogy running properly on the ps2 emulator

which? PCSX2?
for PCSX2 I run Timesplitters 2 great, and thats all you really need in life.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:03 pm #274996

I forgot the name but yeah that's the only real PS2 emulator iirc?

R&C is fucking notoriously difficult to emulate because Insomniac did a bunch of shit to squeeze out performance from the PS2 - I think there was a significant update that helped it run normally but it's not quite done yet

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:10 pm #275022

Meanwhile I'm busy creaming my pants from how beautiful this ancient game looks.

I mean, even Stairfax Temperatures looks better in places than some modern shit, because apparently nobody can do fur right, but those Chozo ruins in Prime have A E S T H E T I C.