What are some /tg/ approved video games?
I'd vouch for Exanima. The atmosphere, dungeon crawling, subtle lore, and tough-as-nails combat sets it apart.
>early access
>doubt.jpg
Is it playable or a broken mess? Not doubting on the willingness and ability to finish the game sooner or later but I'd rather wait until the experience can be enjoyed fully.
>>48021855
Unless that webm's supposed to be some kind of fantasy version of QWOP, it's looking pretty terrible.
...
A fantasy version of QWOP where you have a button for each finger and you are a wizard who has to cast spells, and the smallest screwup leads to the spell going haywire would be hilarious.
>>48021855
NEO Scavenger, as its one of the few games out there that's actually about roleplaying.
>>48021855
Divinity: original Sin
Crusader King 2
Mount and Blade: Warband
Age of Wonders 3
Age of Decadence
Avernum/Geneforge series
Eschalon series
Grimrock 1+2 (if you have to choose one, get the second)
Bastard Bonds
Dominions 4
La Mulana
Magicka
This War of Mine
Unreal World
Heroine's Quest
>>48021855
do you guys actually recommend playing bg2 nowadays? my friend told me it's aged like milk
>>48021855
>Exanima
You just walk around a dark dungeon, hoping to find something interesting, but it never happens. There is absolutely nothing to do besides combat.
Combat is cluncky, and it's basically resolved by clicking and moving the mouse around at random.
It is just a watered down Darksoul wannabe.
Seriously, it's a boring mess. They should have waited and completed Sui Generis at least.
>>48023382
Have you played Planescape already?
they're masterworks all and you can't go wrong
If I could only suggest one it would be Men of War
best WW2 game ever made
>>48021855
Don't forget the Shadowrun games are all on sale on steam right now.
>>48023621
How much fun are they, for someone who has had absolutely no prior exposure to shadowrun? Tabletop or otherwise?
>ctrl + f
>King of Dragon Pass
>nothing found
really /tg/?
Master of Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Age of Wonders
Disciples II
Dominions 4
Master of Monsters
Chaos: The Battle of Wizards
Lords of Chaos
Civilization
>>48021855
Darkwood
Tormentum: Dark Sorrow
Inquisitor
>>48024058
It's terrible. Do you really like it?
Tale of Wuxia is pretty fun game too. It have more chinese wuxia feeling than Jade Empire and it is turn-based.
Taking simple task like washing clothes give you stronger fingers, chopping woods give you better skill at handling blade weapon.
Cooking food make you better learner while farming give you better medical knowledge and so on.
>>48022533
Isn't that literally Magicka?
>>48021855Monster Girl Quest
>>48021855
> What are some /tg/ approved video games?
Classics:- Tetris
- Master of Magic
- Baldur's Gate
- Planescape: Torment
- Fallout 1&2
- Master of Orion 2
- Vangers
- Populous 3
- Alpha Centauri
- Morrowind
Recent:
- Minecraft
- Dominions 4
- Crusader Kings 2- Stellaris (currently playing; seems good)
Dwarf fortress
It's the only game you need
Got bored with Grim rock 2 but loved the first one.
>>48024945
The only right answer. I can't believe this thread got so far without anyone posting this.
>>48021855
I really hope that's drunk fighting and/or severe framerate problems
>>48024699
>Cooking food make you better learner
>farming give you better medical knowledge
What?
>>48021855
Arcanum.
>>48025206
Why stellaris? If anything I'd say other more wargame-like titles like HoI, TATW, Gary Grisby's stuff and Steel Panthers.
My evergreen favourites:
Diablo 2
Might and Magic 6 to 8 (they're hilariously silly, I love them)
Disciples 2
Warcraft 3
StarCraft
Planescape Torment
Some newer ones:
Path of Exile has some great setting and atmosphere, and niceffmechanics.
Darkest Dungeon
>>48023361
>Age of Decadence
Still can't believe I managed to kill that cthulhu bastard. Should do a playthrough where I kill all three(?) gods
>>48023382
It aged fine.
>>48025864
This.
Arcanum was such a rich game, so many quests, landscapes, and different ways to finish each quest. Goat ending also
>>48022533
>physics based combat system
Yeah, it's fantasy QWOP.
>>48025864
Obscura indeed. Very nice game
STALKER
>>48024051
I went into them without ever playing a game of Shadowrun before and found them amazing. Personally I'd say Dragonfall was better than Returns but that's just personal preference.
>>48025864
This. My god this game needs to be remade, it would be amazing.
Now;
My personal vote is Phantasy Star. Anything in the Original tetralogy. This game made and solidified a lot of tropes used in rpgs; hell, it was one of the first to feature a female protagonist (Who wasn't fan service). It's sad that the series has turned into a weeb shithole, now, filled with anime tropes.
>>48026501
>metro
pretty good game
still, read the book first, its great
What about the witcher?
>>48026411
There are only two, the other is a demigod.He was the host to a god, and kept his powers after the wards were removed and the god cast out
Inquisitor. An old Czech game.
In this screenshot, I'm interrogating a heretic while her husband watches from a cell.
The writing is top notch. Too bad that the combat sucks...
DCSS
>>48026618
First has terrible combat system and while the feeling of the background is cool, actual scenery and monster design is quite lackluster.
Second is much better, but combat is still chunky.
I don't know much about the third but people seem to love it.
>>48026675
>He was the host to a god, and kept his powers after the wards were removed and the god cast out
Damn. I'm getting a feeling that the PC can become a demigod too.
>>48026748A thing like that is one of the endings
Subterrain. Kind of a beefed up Notrium. It is on sale in Steam.
>>48026773
That's it. Time to play again and become a noodly god
>>48021855
What about bloody dwarf fortress?
>>48026746
Been playing the third and I gotta say it's really good. World feels alive and all the characters feel very real. Good voice acting and the game also doesn't take its self too seriously but still maintains a semi realistic world. The only thing I say say negative is that even on the normal difficulty combat is punishing. I ended up having to turn it down after a few fights.
Personally I'd say Dishonored. Not only is it one of my favorite games but characters, story, and world are very well done. I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys world building.
>>48027506
Seriously? After level ~10 almost everything for me was way too easy. Maybe you completely fucked up your build or something, I don't know.
Anima gates of hard plataforming and annoying books
>>48023604
My nigga.
We need to start some /tg/ pawn sharingand publicly cuck other Anon's with their Pawnfus.
>>48027768
That's pretty likely seeing as my build was whatever looked most intresting at the time.
>>48021855
There is one proper answer for this question.
>>48023361
>Geneforge series
And here I thought I was the only one who played that.
>>48026728
Sil or Angband before DCSS though.
Ultima Saga. Forefather of modern RPGs (along Wizardry), and made by fans of tabletop games, which is noticed by references to Steve Jackson's games mostly.
>>48026449
Kinda sorta...avoid the new rendition they just came out with though. A bunch of SJWs got the rights to work on it and predictably ruined everything. Hamfisted Trans and gay characters, completely changed another one, and horrible writing all around, then tried to claim that the only reason people didn't like it was because they were just a bunch of bigots.
>>48027922
Unless you went for crossbow plus healing plus some other bullshit skills like redirecting arrows I just can't imagine what went wrong.
>>48025323
Yes cooking food increase your learning ability beside cooking, in other word you gain extra exp for increasting your skills.
While farming you get better understanding of herb and knowing which will heal your body.
Oh no. The heretic duchess summoned her...
...kids?
>>48025864
I tried Arcanum recently, but i couldnt handle bad UI and fact that i needed to build my character in particular way to get out of 1st town.
>reload game
>summon genie to help
Like I said, her husband is watching.
>>48028379
It takes a little getting used to, although the main problem of the game is not the UI, but the horrible graphics.
I find it pretty strange that some people think that Exanima has the most realistic looking combat of all time while others think it looks like QWOP. I'm firmly in the former camp. Sometimes the motion isn't quite right, but it isn't canned animations with pirouettes and shit.
Not sure whether I'd second the recommendation. It is atmospheric as hell and I think the combat is very fun, but the developers are absolute garbage at community management. They have never met a deadline and go months without so much as a word. And progress seems pretty glacial. Their promise for Sui Generis is clearly not attainable, so I won't go into that. Lastly, it doesn't have lasting appeal. Exploring is great when it is fresh, but after a few runs it loses the mystery. Desperately needs a procedurally generated roguelike mode.
>>48028416
>Read all that
>wtf is going on
Also system shock 2
>>48028580
>wtf is going on
Heresy. Once you gather enough evidence against them, seemingly innocent, upstanding citizens and nobles turn out to be thoroughly evil, disgusting traitors to everything that is holy and sacred.
And then you, as an Inquisitor pass judgement over them and burn them. Much of the game is about investigating, looking for clues, analyzing testimonies and rumours and so forth.
Alpha Protocol.
Best roleplaying I've had in years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUydx57te9s
>>48027563
Arkane Production is pretty good.
Arx Fatalis is an excellent rpg with a couple open world elements (dat freeform magic system, too). And Dark Messiah is Swordfight: the Game.or Swordfight: the Kickening.
>>48028539
What is Sui Generis?
>>48028580
Wish that game had alternate endings where you can join The Many or Shodan. But hey, there's always third time.We are. WE ARE!
![giphy[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/HzLnCVc.gif "giphy[1].gif")
>>48021855
>68 posts
>Ctrl+F VTMB, Vampire
>No results
WHEN YOU ARE TAUGHT THROUGH FEELINGS
>>48029438
>Alpha Protocol.
Oh man I remember being so excited. I love spies and a spy RPG, great! Too bad it was lackluster as hell. Couldn't even have sex with Sister.
>>48029516
It's not mentioned because everyone needs to play the game to visit this thread.
>>48029504
It means unique or of its own kind.
>>48029590
Oh I thought it was a game.
Besides the already mentioned:
>Gothic series
>Tropico
>Jagged Alliance 2
>Underrail
Pic unrelated.Or is it?
>>48028053
Go back to /pol/
>>48029674
It is, the webm of the OP is from a little game they made in the same engine to get feedback and shit.
Sui Generis will be an open world aRPG
http://www.baremettle.com/
It may look wonky in the op, but I quite like how it works. Skallagrim has a video about it, if you care about him.
>>48021855
>>48024375
>Do you really like it?
No, of course not, he's just pretending, just like everyone else who has ever disagreed with you about anything, because your opinions are objective fact and no one could ever sincerely disagree with them. Yup.
>>48024051
I also went into them with hardly any prior knowledge of Shadowrun and I think they're some of the best rpgs to come out recently.
>>48023382
It aged perfectly fine. I play it at least once a year.
If you never played it the aging might look different though.
>>48024798
Magicka is a 10/10 wizard group simulator
>>48023611
Faces of War has better Single Player missions
>>48024058
this
also Darklands
>>48023382
Yeah, works both separately and in conjunction with BG1.
BG1 alone is a bit of a drag though, lot of optional exploring might get a bit boring.
There's also Icewind Dale, it's like BG with focus on combat and linear plot. (effectively it's to BG what Fallout:Tactics were to Fallout 1&2)
>>48029856
He is kinda right though, Siege of Dragonspear is terrible, even if you ignore or outright kill that one trans character. Its just a very very mediocre D&D campaign forced in between the two bg games.
>>48030041
>(effectively it's to BG what Fallout:Tactics were to Fallout 1&2)
No, not at all.
>>48027506
>only played first game prior to 3
>asked to choose a difficulty level
>go highest because 1st game was piss easy
>took 8 tries to get past the first lot of ghouls
>ever time I died I had to go through the long talky scene with my mentor and explain the inflatable unicorn sex toy to him over and over again
Okay, I now feel justified in turning the difficulty down - the combat system was such a huge improvement over the first I assumed I was just being ass at the game.
>>48030041
I really like Icewind Dale, but that's probably because I actually enjoy the combat in the infinity engine D&D games.
>>48030079
Please elaborate. Because I really see the parallel there having played all of those games.
>>48028379
>>48028416
nope anons, the worst thing was combat. I played full charisma character just so I can avoid combat, best decision I've made in videogames though. It was so much fun.
>>48030160
IWD:
>you create all of your party members yourself
>no exploration
>while the campaign is linear, there are sidequests and (in iwd2 especially) lots of small rp-choices and even hidden side quests in dialogue from your sex/race/class (something that the BG games actually lacked)
FoT:
>1 main char + npcs
>large worldmap with random encounters
>sometimes the choice between missions
>different endings
>fucking REAL TIME (yes, turn based was available too, but still, that was a big step away from the classic fallout games)
I never saw the IWD games as more "combat focused" than the Baldurs Gate games. (Maybe if you only look at BG1), but BG2 and especially Throne of Bhaal has tons of combat, just like IWD. And IWD 2 has a very interesting story with lots of minor side details and its a shame that people always say "IWD is all about the combat". I love IWD 2 as an rpg and i really enjoyed its dialogue and its sometimes funny journal entries.
xcom.
Old school xcom for maximum fuck but the new ones are quite good as well.
I wish I had my old file of xcom pics. There was some fun stuff there for /tg/ years ago.
>>48030287
>>you create all of your party members yourself
>>1 main char + npcs
True, but in both the team has no personality like they had in BG2, no sidequests of their own. No dialogue besides a few quips. That's where I see the main similarity in terms of party compositions. Gang in BG's and F1&2 were characters, in IWD / F:T they are just mooks.
>>no exploration
>>large worldmap with random encounters
>>sometimes the choice between missions
Can't agree here at all. There's couple random encounters in F:T but they are largely irrelevant. Choice between missions is going to A or B first, but you still need to do both before proceeding to C.
>>while the campaign is linear, there are sidequests and (in iwd2 especially) lots of small rp-choices and even hidden side quests in dialogue from your sex/race/class (something that the BG games actually lacked)
I recall couple lines of dialogue that changes depending on who's talking but not really any of that having opening any new options or branches. But here it's possible that I missed something that would show up in a replay, so I can't really refute this point, you may be right.
>>different endings
Lolno, it's a single dialogue choice at the very end of the game. Choices you make thorough the game are inconsequential to the game conclusion.
>fucking REAL TIME (yes, turn based was available too, but still, that was a big step away from the classic fallout games)
This is true, there's an option for a new way to play (and I might be preferable, considering how large some missions are)
But if we're talking about steps away from the original it's also worth bringing up that IWD2 was using different edition of D&D than the rest.
>BG2 and especially Throne of Bhaal has tons of combat, just like IWD. And IWD 2 has a very interesting story with lots of minor side details
It really didn't feel that way to me. BG's & F1&2 were mostly talking with occasional combat. F:T and IWD's were mostly combat with occasional dialogue
>>48030485
>old xcom pics
oh boy, I still remember pre-teen little me feeling all queasy looking at alien autopsies
>>48030606
>Lolno, it's a single dialogue choice at the very end of the game
Its still 3 different end sequences, no matter if the execution is done well, its there.
>>48029989
Men of War Assault Squad 2 has the entire Faces of War game as well as Red Tide game as free workshop downloads.
Plus they work with other mods like gore mod
>>48030737
Mass Effect, pls.
>>48030843
All those years, and I'm still saltier than the Dead Sea.
>>48021855
Play Achron, master its tactics, then laugh at any other games that feature time-travel.
You can smuggle troops through time by timewave dodging, you can future-sight and future-scramble, you can redo whatever mistakes you have as long as it's not too far down the past in the timeline, you can scout and attack by abusing grandfather time paradoxes, you can make echo armies - you can do literally anything that involves abusing time-traveling.
>>48030796
good to know, thanks
>>48026689
>Inquisitor
Reeee
Why I ever trusted /v/ about that game.
>only way to beat dungeon level is to buy all the potions
>there are 10 fucking bullshit levels on that dungeon
>you need to run back to shop after every single level, to buy more potions
Not even mentioning the horrible combat.
Story was mildly interesting, but not worth of the pain and timewaste.
>>48031009
>trusting /v/
you brought this upon yourself
>>48029438
I always preffered daggers or the staff. The staff was halarious because youd stun enemies so easily and daggers were freat for the throwing attack.
>>48031661
>not playing Motherfucker Zapping Simulator 2016
>>48031749
>tfw I always play sword because I like the fighting so much
>>48027563
Seconding Dishonored, it's basically Deus Ex the not-1900AD Edition. Loved the world.
Of course if you still haven't played Deus Ex, do it. Get DX1 and Human Revolution DC (in either order but DX1 is graphically dated so you might want to do that first. Theme-wise 1 is conspiracy theories, HR is transhumanism).
>>48026796
>Notrium
Holy shit now that's a game I haven't heard about in ages.
>>48029981
>>48023361
Magicka is a 12/10 game. Seriously, it's $2.50 right now. Zero excuse not to get it. Wizards have never been more powerful or less responsible.
On that note, does anyone have experience with Magicka 2? If it's anything like 1 I'm sorely tempted, and it's only $5
My usual lovecraftian suggestions areMagrunner: Darkpulse, $2.50, better puzzle game than Portal (with a shade less polish, and lovecraft instead of humor),CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, also $2.50, Atmospheric/10, the odd bug that needs a fan patch to make the game playable, but still fun, andEversionwhich is Lovecraft plus platforming. $2.50 still, but you can poke around and find it for free.
I picked up Alpha Protocol and am enjoying it on recommendation from /tg/, but pissed off becuase it seems like it was streamlined/optimized for xbox controller over PC, which is frustrating as all fug.
Anyone have feedback on Jotun, Factorio, Talos Principle, or Ashes of the Singularity?
>>48034582
Oh, and Infinifactory is Buy/10.
total annihilation
star control 2
>>48028053
We don't like you.
>>48035453
Just stating fact is all. The older ones are good, but the newest adventure is complete garbage.
>>48034582
Helldivers is good too and it's made by the same people that made Magicka
>>48027771
You know you love him,baby.
>>48034582
>DCotE
Has anyone ever managed to patch out the bug that makes it not save properly if your system clock's not on 24-hr time?
Throne of Darkness
Mount and Blade: Warband because it is perhaps the only 10/10 feudal simulator.
Down of War series because /tg/ just wouldnt be the same without dow voice acting, I think most of the people posting here will go to their graves still hearing SINDRIIIIIIIIIIII
Witcher series because they have a ton of /tg/ in them
I have seen people discuss Fallout and TES around here as well, This war of mine should also be mentioned because I dont know, feels like running a party trough a dungeon in its own way
And ofcourse baldur's gate 2, planescape:torment, and I guess Pillars of Eternity as well because these things are literally attempts to computer /tg/. Oh oh oh and also Dwarf Fortress.
>>48038065
Do as Romeo says and shut the fuck up
>>48037546
>helldivers
Looks genuinely funny, but do you need the DLC to be competitive/can they be pirated? If the game is too grindy and you're irrelevant during missions until you get the juicy stuff it's gonna get boring soon.
>>48038734
>Throne of Darkness
I was already sure I would never see anyone mention it on 4chan.
Just reinstalled it a few weeks ago, fun times.
A bit like diaplo in feudal japan, but you control 7 samurais instead. ,but I doubt it will be ever added in steam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KinGN4Xhi8w
>>48039324
No enemy respawn and being stuck in every direction because I was too weak (probably screwed up my build or something, I was a kid back then) quickly put me off, if it was more sandboxy like diablo 2 it would have been great.
>>48039324
>>48039357
If you want an eastern themed Diablo type game with COMBOS you can try an old game called "Blade and Sword"
You got your archetype big guy, small fast girl and standard samurai looking dude. Game is single player only and it's fairly obscure but a solid game.
![Baldurs-Gate-Dragonspear-Mizhena[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XLqwUCS.jpg "Baldurs-Gate-Dragonspear-Mizhena[1].jpg")
>>48029856
>>48035453
He's not wrong though, the "new and improved" content is just there to shill political views. This is what the author of the latest expansion had to say about the game:
>“If there was something for the original Baldur’s Gate that just doesn’t mesh for modern day gamers like the sexism, [we tried to address that],” said writer Amber Scott. “In the original there’s a lot of jokes at women’s expense. Or if not a lot, there’s a couple, like Safana was just a sex object in BG 1, and Jaheira was the nagging wife and that was played for comedy. We were able to say like, ‘No, that’s not really the kind of story we want to make.’ In Siege of Dragonspear, Safana gets her own little storyline, she got a way better personality upgrade. If people don’t like that, then too bad.”
Baldur's Gate stands up well as a game, just be aware of what you're getting into with the "Enhanced Edition" and DLC. Also according to very recent Steam reviews it seems like successive patches have rendered the game nearly unplayable due to bugs. So either avoid or try to track down a copy of the original version.
>>48039576
>Amber Scott.
Well, there's the problem right there.
>>48039576
I usually don't care about other people's opinions, everyone is entitled to his own and all that, but why do they feel the need to force their views on someone else and shove them down their throats? This is even worse because they didn't do it in a game of their own but they added to and modified the work of others.
>>48039645
>why do they feel the need to force their views on someone else and shove them down their throats?
Same reason religious zealots do: because they believe their views are the only ones that are good and righteous and that it's not a bad thing to want convert you to the "good side."
>>48039645
Because bourgeoisie feminism does everything it can to convince everyone and themselves it's jokes about nagging wife that keep women down and not class struggle.
I see no X-com, shame on everyone.
>>48034582
Magicka 2 is funny as shit, never before have I been trying so hard to kill an enemy and not a teammate, my friend and I just discovered the glory often ghost busters tactic, crossing the streams of a heal beam and death beam.
>>48040020
look better
>ctrl+f
>"total war"
>0 results
y u no love it /tg/?
>>48040641
>implying I'm not on /twg/ now
Because the players in /tg/ are naive and need to be protected from the memes spouted by M2 nostalgics. The games are great.
>>48037546
Tried it and wasn't very pleased, desu senpai. I played tutorial and one match and refunded.
Not bad, but just wasn't for me.I got killed by the escape shuttle twice, that was funny.
>>48040119
Glad to hear it. Probably buy a fourpack for myself and my m80s then.
They did improve the netcode over #1, right? That was the only flaw I had with 1.
>>48023604
Bastion
Pillars of Eternity
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Ys Series
Recettear
Radiant Historia
The World Ends With You
>>48034582
>Factorio
Addicting as all hell and getting better with every update. I had it before it went on steam and it's a great game.
>>48023604WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS ARISEN
Space Station 13.
>>48027830after I earn 500 more RC so I can underp my face and my pawnfu's face.
having trouble killing that golem as a mage? Unequip your staff and punch it's weak points.
I'm not even joking,
>>48021855
Bloodborne, but thats a given
you guys ever fuck around with tabletop simulator? what do you do?
>>48021855
Elder Scrolls series in general is a good choice. No matter how you feel about the game mechanics and combat, it always offers a great sense of adventure and exploring the world in each game is always a joy.
>>48044207
I want that on PC.
I NEED that on PC.
I WILL HAVE that on PC.
>>48044377
>inb4 supervillain
>>48044377
>Don't have a Ps4
>Maria will never rip my heart
>>48044377
I wish man. It was exclusively requested by Sony as a launch title and if history serves it's unlikely they will let it be ported to windows, an operating system made by their competitor. That also doesn't bode well for a PC port in general.
>>48044436
>T-they will port Demon's souls to PC... right guys?
Every year
>>48038079
Those are the kinds of bugs that just shouldn't exist
>>48026364
Might & Magic 6 is the hands down best, the music, aesthetics, classic plot with sci fi thrown in, length, layout, all perfect. M&M 7 is very good, but less so, pretty much in all aspects. If one likes more regular medieval fantasy aesthetics, then it's probably the game to replay, but I personally think 6 did every aspect better. 8 could have been a great game, but it was far too rushed, they had like a year at best to finish making it, and it shows in the poorly balanced classes, short dungeons, and bare landscapes. I think 7 only had a year as well, but they didn't really deviate much from the formula made for 6, so they had more time to polish it. 8 deviated more and they ended up not having the time to finish it. Small wonder 9 was such a hot mess: they tried to create everything from scratch despite not having the necessary time for it. But I suppose they had to try, because the old engine just wasn't modern enough. Fucking clueless suits getting in the way of the development of a brilliant series of games.
>>48039645
No one's forcing their views you little bitch. Authors put in the story elements they like, no one is forcing you to buy the game or agree with those elements. You've become exactly like the sjws screaming at The Witcher for including sex
>>48034582
Magicka is seriously great for killing my laptop. I thought I had an acceptable vvideo card. I was wrong.
>>48044611
They literally took some characters from an already established piece of work made by others and changed them because they didn't like it as it didn't suit their personal views. Kindly shut up.
>>48030021
I've been interested in Darklands for a while
How does it play?
>>48021855
Despite all subsequent entries in the series being a varying level of absolute trash, Dragon Age Origins is still an incredible game, and very /tg/ inspired.
>>48044867
On that note I think that Gothic 1+2 are worthy of mention
>>48024051
Picture your typical cyberpunk setting; megacorps, dystopian future, the works. Then add a twist of magic: the heads of a couple megacorps are dragons, mages are hired to provide magical security, dwarves, trolls , elves. Then stir well into a pot of lore the size of a small lake.
That's the setting. To get the game, take all of that, add it to a fairly standard RPG system and XCom combat. It's nothing to write home about, mechanically, but the story and the characters are interesting and memorable.
Definitely worth it, IMO.
>>48041217
Yeah, the game seems to run a but smoother and better in general, they worked out some bugs in this one too.
>>48044205
God, I had to kill the metal golem in the forest as a Sorc, it was the most painful thing ever.
I eventually resorted to using the tornado spell to move his hanging amulet over to where I could convince my ranged pawn to shoot it.
>>48021855
mount and blade
>>48022538
What do you even do in that shitty game?
I played it, left a lab, walked around, found nothing of value, a dog came to me and attacked me, I could not outrun it, then a bandit, then I died.
What was even the point?
>>48021855
>subtle lore
Is this a meme?
>>48044556
http://xkcd.com
>>48044611
>, no one is forcing you to buy the game or agree with those elements
And he's expressing his opinion that it isn't worth buying, unless I'm confused.
I don't like pol anymore than the next basically-centrist, but I would tend to agree that it was quite hamfisted and not wortg much respect from a wiring standpoint.
Does /tg/ Space Rangers? I think /tg/ should Space Rangers if /tg/ hasn't already. Let me tell you about Space Rangers.
It's the future, you're in space, and there's a fleet of killbots out to murder everything. You probably have to do something about that.
And pirates with an armada large enough to capture systems. You probably have to do something about that, as well. Or work for them.
Except you've got this piddly little ship with a mining laser, no shield and no dosh. You probably have to do something about that before you try doing anything about the other two.
So you set out to trade and run missions, but you had to remove your tractor beam and gun to fit any cargo, so now pirates keep taking all your profits.
Then you forget to check if alcohol is legal on this planet, and get arrested. There's a prison text adventure type thingy you play through the three months of your sentence.
When you leave, there's killbots in orbit. Of course.
Such is life in Coalition Space.
Wait, no Majesty, either? What the fuck, /tg/?
>>48044409
obligatory
>>48047457
Majesty is just wonky Dungeon Keeper
>>48047510
Kind of, but it's still fun.
>>48023382
The mechanics are still utter tactless stack-the-numbers shit but the story and roleplaying is still really good.
>>48023179
>Age of Wonders 3
Interesting choice. I have that on Steam. I find that I'm way too focused on the builder's game and not aggressive enough.
>>48047107
Nice description. 1, 2, 3, or other?
>>48049281
you should play Age of Wonders I then, barring a few bullshit early wipeouts what I've played of the campaign so far heavily rewards playing the slow roll and building a massive army to crush your enemies
>>48038841
Oh god, I just remembered rage-quitting Pool of Radiance Ruins of Myth Dranor because it has a killer DM.
>can't rest in the dungeon because enemies nearby
>head out of dungeon
>wraith. A fucking wraith. An incorporeal enemy
>have literally just found my first enchanted weapon, which is a +1 sword
>tpk
>>48044562
My copy of MM8 bugs out whenever I try to hand in the four hearts.
>>48049431
I managed to get to Water 1 in AoW2. Mainly because Belendor kept not dying, despite literally all my other heroes kicking the bucket in about the third battle after I got them.
>No one has mentioned The Secret World
Did this whole board become unfun faggots since the last time I had access to a computer?
>>48021855
Combat is as satisfying as it gets. High skill over head to learn how to use your skills.
Pole-hammer4life.
>>48049426
The one that's on Steam is technically 3, but it's mostly a re-release of 2, right?
It's been a while since I've played the other two, and I'm honestly not sure if they even had an English release. It's been a decade, so I may be misremembering, but I think 2 took a nosedive in text quest quality and introduced pointless and tedious surface combat, but on the other hand, greater equipment variety, most notably different hull types with different equipment slots.
>>48049666
I mean, there's some real bullshit in 1, In whatever level is after the lizardman one there's a telporter in walking distance of your starting base that a full army with lvl 5 hero can waltz through if you don't block it immediately. They put three groups of hellhounds to deter that from happening but they just attack you instead since you're within aggro range.
>>48049680
>mmos
ick
Damage total:
Alpha Protocol
Magicak 2 4pack + deluxe upgrade
Battlefleet Gothic for friend
Magicka 1 for friendHelldivers x2 for two friends, one of whom was kind of a cunt about itAlso got it for myself, but wasn't too pleased with it, wound up refunding.
>>48023361
>Bastard bonds
I got a real kick out of this. It's like FF Tactics mixed with pokemon. You can recruit all the monsters and it has a kickass character creator.
>>48053643
So, like SMT: Devil Survivor?
>>48053643
I only played the first 30 min of that, but yeah, I guess.
>>48049680
>unfun
That's ironic considering that The Secret World is incredibly unfun to play. Sure, it has great worldbuilding and some of the best MMO quest design ever, but that doesn't help with the atrocious gameplay.
Anybody else played:
EYE: Divine Cybermancy
?
It's a mashup of Shadowrun, Dark Heresy, etc, in it's own flavor spin like STALKER had.
The campaign/story is short but interesting as fuck and really does require multiple playthroughs.
Just beat one of the endings,
honestly it's halfway to being a superior Killing Floor but Shadowrun edition once you crank up the difficulty on co-op.
>>48049281
I think Shadow Magic will always be my favorite
>>48049801
3 took all the unique units from the first and even second and removed the best ones, made generic class units that are templates applied to race, and made half or more of the races DLC.
It's shit.
Waiting for AoW to pop up on steam.
Exanima is a good game, sure it's stupid to look at and it doesnt help that the OP is fucking terrible at it but I find the combat system very fun.
I suggest pirating it to try it out.
>>48054486
top tier game
>>48054855
>Damocles + Pistol
>Not backstabbing everything with the katana
do you even stealth
>>48054867
I roll with the based CRON my dude, thats just from my E.Y.E folder.
/v/ EYE threads are legitimately the best
>>48054486
https://youtu.be/ECEz3a4GErE?t=18s
>>48021855
>>48054846
It looks like drunk fighting.
Temple of Elemental Evil
>ctrl-f
>no Dark Souls
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
>>48054896
>>48054876
we gotta get a /tg/ EYE server going one of these days
Might finally be viable to play any role other than gunnery if I had more people.
>>48054903
What part of >op is shit do you know get.
anyone whose crap at video games makes gameplay look retarded
>>48054486
deja vu
>>48039576
Jahiera not being a nag or Safana not being a conniving slut is like Tiax finding a reliable medication.
>>48044611
Revising a character's from a 10+ year old game sort of is. It's not as if any companions in the first baldur's gate was really any more complicated than a few lines they spout when you click on them and tell them who to attack though. Granted I have no idea why anyone would bother with EE when Tutu has been around for so long and they do weird tasteless shit
>>48046647
You try to survive, really. There's a story that's incredibly interesting and completely unlike most post apocalyptic world stories, but you really have to work hard to survive long enough to try for a "canon" playthrough.
I recommend taking Botany, Strong, and Trapping as some skills for a first time playthrough. With Botany and Trapping forests becomes havens. You can search them with botany to find berries and mushrooms, and botany gives you the ability to identity which berries will give you diarrhea and which mushrooms will kill you. With Trapping you can combine Trapping, twigs, and a branch along with your Trapping skill in the crafting menu to make fire. With fire you can sanitize your water, cook meat, warm yourself, and use it to light torches to help you see at night.
Avoid any fight if you can, if you find it hard to avoid fights, find a sharp object like a shard of glass, or if you can find one, a multitool, and use it on a branch to make a spear. Spears are easy to replace and effective, though they don't last long. In addition you can take Ranged which will allow you to throw stones more accurately with your hands, or a sling.
I feel like of the paradox games, CK2 is the most /tg/ like. Every single character is that guy. My current character murdered his two brothers to take their realms and then sired a demonspawn somehow.
>>48021855
The recent series of Shadowrun RPGs
Deus Ex
NWN2
Transistor
Darkest Dungeon
Elder Scrolls series
Knights of the Old Republic I and II
>>48023604
Wolves travel in pack, Arisen.
>>48024699
Looks pretty cool-
>turn based
ALL INTEREST LOST
>>48031009
Bitch please.
>starts the game
>have to kill giant bats before I can enter the first town
>as a knight, I have to charge in
>loses HP
>no more potions to chug
>dies
>rerolls
>make a priest
>spells are useless so far
>dies
>uninstall game
>>48039319
Some planets are extremely difficult if you don't have the boots who are DLC only.
The rest can be skipped so far.
>>48039324
What about GoG?
>>48038841
Not Soulstorm then, only Dark Crusade.
>>48039576
>waaa Jaheira is the nagging housewife
>but any male character can be shit :)
>>48047493
Who's that cute woman?
>>48049680
I tried the Secret World, it was bloody awful.
>no tank/healer/DPS role
>weird close/ranged skills
>boring overall
>>48039576
Man, that entire character was political shilling AND ignorant blackface-level writing, AND nonsensical in-setting.
Did anyone with half a brain actually like them?
Total War: Warhammer
>>48054855
>cringy fanfiction-tier dialogue
Removing it from my wishlist.
There is this one chilean sidescroller whose name i cannot remember.
Also i began playing the 2008 drakensang, does the game get boring? Any tips?
>>48055296
It's very poorly translated french.
>>48055296
>>48055314
I tried it in French. It's extremely accurate. The French version has a line that was painful to read, where your character threatens to slash the jiangshi's throat and shove a grenade down said throat.
What are some fun RPGs? I tried a few jRPG, but they're so incredibly shitty I don't want to have anything to do with them again, so could anyone suggest a good european RPG with knights wearing full armor and beating the crap out of monsters?
they all are
>ctrl+f
>no satellite reign
I know the game is a bit boring, but come on, it's basically syndicate war's successor.
Grim dawn, it is an arpg like diablo or titan quest, but the thing that interested me the most was the setting, which is like 1700-1800 era level of technology post apocaliptic.
>>48055354
Personal experience:
ARPGS:
>Witcher 1 (Very rough... like KOTOR play mostly for the story).
>Witcher 2 (Solid ARPG, but linear). Very fun, very solid. That's about it. Can't go wrong.
>Witcher 3 (Polished, open world), GOTY every year.
>Gothic 1,2,3 (Wonky controls, about as rough as Witcher 1). Very hard to get into, but worth the effort. You might have to consult a guide for some stuff, and the controls are horrid.
CRPGS:
>Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Because Oblivion and Skyrim were even more ARPG than the Witcher games. Hardcore pen&paper mechanics. Learn to use teleports, fast travel services and where they'll be located, and turn down the difficulty when starting a new game.
>Balders Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment. The holy trinity. Check out the fan-ports of the first Balders gate to a newer engine. Never played the re-release.
>Fallout 1,2, Tactics. Only New Vegas was anywhere near as good as these. Can be rough without a guide, Fallout 1 does have a time limit.
>Ultima Underworld. Got to watch this one, not play. Personally I'd be more interested in the earlier Elder Scrolls over it, but I yet to do jack shit with those.
I didn't play a lot of games when I was younger, sorry.
>>48055435
>witcher 1
Tried it. Wouldn't recommend it, there's a lot of backtracking, Geralt is sloooooow as fuck, and the plot is kinda dumb.
>morrowind
Tried that one too. It crashed after 30 minutes of game.
>fallout
It's bad. Get Fallout 2 instead.
>>48055387
Grim Dawn is pretty cool, you don't pick a character or a class when you start, but you can pick two classes. I went for knight and witch, and I think this is pretty OP as I steamroll over everything.
>>48055461
>>witcher 1
>Tried it. Wouldn't recommend it
FYI, Witcher 1 quality, gameplay, etc NOT indicative of the later games.
Consider it unrelated to Witcher 2 & 3, if it's put you off from trying them. Very, very different.
>>morrowind
>Tried that one too. It crashed after 30 minutes of game.
You need some patches beyond the official one, namely the code patch, and it's wonky running anything past Windows 7.
>>fallout
>It's bad. Get Fallout 2 instead.
Ehhh... yeah Fallout 2 was better overall.
>>48027506
It is the hardest game from the start,if you know how monsters work and craft the witcher's armour the game will be the easiest of 3,even on death march
Delicious friends, I understand the preponderance of particularly pleasant diversions from our daily lives can make it quite troublesome to recall every last title, but in my humble view it seems rather remiss not to mention that most splendid of seafaring sagas; Sunless Sea.
>>48055515
Never tried the second of the third.
>>48055548
I remember playing that one a lot before they changed the combat. Now I have no idea how to do anything without running out of fuel, money, crew and food.
>>48055296
It is just friendly banter between friends.
Don't get so triggered by a bunch of meanie words.
>>48055554
>Never tried the second of the third.
You're not the first person I met who discarded Witcher 2 & 3 because they started with Witcher 1.
The only thing you'll miss is the inventory, and all the hard liquor. Everything else was such a straight upgrade it might as well be a different game series.
Banished is pretty nice as far as "i'm gonna get comfy and build my little village" games go.
it's like a casual dwarf fortress with decent graphics. I recommend it, if you just want to try it you can also pirate it, it's a real small file
>>48044409
>big ass bloody sword
>deals absolute shit damage
>>48055573
>Everything else was such a straight upgrade it might as well be a different game series.
I preferred the first game.
Two was a dull, forgettable action-RPG just like dozens of other titles, while the first had real heart.Three is top tier, but I still prefer Gwent to the obnoxious roll-until-you-win combat system.
>>48055573
>might as well be a different game series.
>>48055515
>Consider it unrelated to Witcher 2 & 3
Petty much this.
Witcher 2 and onward handle like Dark Souls but with quick-spell casting, and more minor gadgets like traps and smoke bombs.
Think: if spell-sword was viable in Dark Souls. That's Witcher 2, then 3 is better tuned with fully open maps.
>>48055573
I don't exactly discard them. I'm just not interested. I know that they're supposely better, but I just don't like the universe enough.
>weeee I'm a witcher, I'm a Claymore but male
>woah, everyone shits on me but I gotta take it with a smile :)
>oh wait, BANDITS I WILL MURDER YOU VIOLENTELY AND RAPE YOUR BODIES
>armed guards? Better surrender quietly then
>woah, I found my detective dead in a cave! Gee, I wonder who's that guy who looks like my detective but has an addiction, just like that faggot from the intro
>I must take a side between an elf terrorist and a human xenophobiac bigot! Fuck middle grounds, gotta be one or another!
>>48055594
>Gwent
I swear to fucking god the dice poker was rigged
Gwent was a welcome replacement
>>48055612
>I must take a side between an elf terrorist and a human xenophobiac bigot!
eh... admittedly Witcher 2 had this as the two linear paths literally you either followed a victimized elf or a human nationalist
>Claymore
>implying the character was influenced by that
>>48055633
Same basic idea, normal humans turned into monsters to fight monsters. I never bothered checking who came first.
>>48055289
>no tank/healer/DPS role
>weird close/ranged skills
You're the first I've ever heard complain about options.
Guess some people just want braindead "click to hit with sword" classes.
>>48054906
It's a good D&D simulator, but like all Troikas work cripplingly unpolished and buggy.
>>48055668
>implying "click hit with sword" is what a healer does
You're a special needs kid, right?
>>48055612
But there is neutral path in W1 you dumb fool.
>>48055694
The game encourages you to pick side, as it supposely helps you regain your memories.
>>48055684
What healer does is sucking his party dicks 24/7.
>>48055684
Fine, "click to swing sword/shoot green healy beam/shoot red hurty beam/take aggro."
That cater specificly enough to you sparky?
>>48055649
>who came first
>came first
Witcher is polish folklore, then a dude wrote some novels inspired by it, then it became a game series. That's it.
Heroic stories have a shitton of overlap, and it's not a new twist either.
just; "oh, licke dish anime I shaw-"
no. just no.
Trope overlaps sure, but vastly different flavors. For those tired of Calamari and loli.
>>48055694
Did Witcher 2 have a "neutral" path as well? Now I can't remember.
I do remember that the Neutral path is the canon Geralt. Then in the Witcher 3 trailer he breaks character, which still bugs me.
>>48055710
>>48055711
>shitposter is proven wrong
>shitposts even more
Why am I not surprised that an underage can't admit he's wrong?
>>48055710
Which is why "healer" classes are shit.
What games need are support classes, to reduce enemy output, move friend from harm, temporaroly protect them.
>>48055727
Considering you couldn't figure out how to build a TSW character ro do what you wanted your opinion is of no consequence.
>>48026154
> Why stellaris?
Open world. But I'm still playing (predictably - as foxes), so there might be some bias.
> other more wargame-like titles like HoI, TATW, Gary Grisby's stuff and Steel Panthers.
But this is not about wargames. It's the approval. Total War comes close, but it simply didn't click like CK2 did.
>>48034582
> Factorio
Nice, but too faceless. I'm waiting for some sort of Factorio/RimWorld blend.
>>48055756
>ro do
Underage all right. Your opinion has been sent to the trash bin where it belongs.
>>48055684
Healer is easy as fuck to build, Blood/AR and then keep you resources under control, hell if you were good enough you could go Fist/Blood and carry all but the worst team.
>>48055773
Can't all be milennial babbys born with a t9 in hand.
>>48055799
You do realize millennials are the people born in the 80s and 90s, right?
>>48055875
Don't waste your time on the shitposter.
>>48055721
It's not really breaking character. His quote in the trailer is an abridged quote of one of the first Geralt short stories, where he gets drawn into a violent conflict in Blaviken because he can't make himself stay neutral. At one point he tells someone that literally the first thing he ever killed after setting out on the Path from Kaer Morten was a rapist, even though Vesimir taught him for Years not to get involved. The entire book series is Geralt getting involved in some political conflict on one side or another constantly.
The Witcher game series really shows Geralt get CLOSER to his old personality with each successive game as he gets over his memory loss. The biggest difference between book Geralt and game Geralt is that he's managed to lighten up some and stop being such a morose shithead all the time in the games. In the books all the other characters make fun of him for brooding and sulking all the time!
