What other games are we all playing?

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Morbad said:
I played Warframe for about 18 months back around 2013. It was fun for a while, but content and grind bloat quickly surpassed gameplay growth, so I stopped. I feel this is a general fate of most looters (and has some interesting parallels to how ED has evolved), irrespective of what segment they were originally targeting. Game may well have changes in the more than seven years since I played it, but I have no particular desire to pick it up again.

Anyway, I've been going through my GoG collection, trying those games that I hadn't played before. Most of them I put down before twenty minutes have passed...a whole lot of titles that feel like they were designed around a gamepad (I hate gamepads and haven't used them with any frequency since the early 1990s) or, upon second glance, just aren't my kind of game. Brigador and Falconeer are examples of the former; I find the keyboard/mouse controls almost unworkable and have no desire to use a gamepad or dig out dual joysticks. Into the Breach is an example of the latter...I should have listened to the reviews that compared it to chess. It's very much like chess in a lot of ways, except that it's abstractness is even more arbitrary and wholly unnecessary. There is no rhyme or reason to most of the constraints being applied, which is a surefire way to turn me off of something (I find anything done "because gameplay" to make for poor gameplay, in general).

Right now I'm giving some of the titles in the Metro series a shot.



I could believe a type XXI hitting 29 knots submerged...if they pulled the disels for another set of electric motors and were willing to kill the batteries in fifteen minutes.

Anything else? Only if it's sinking in deep water and had time to build up speed before it smashed into the ocean floor.
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It's probably a hypothetic working Walther drive working on hydrogen peroxide. It only made prototype stage back then. No way diesel-electric would make that speed.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Navigare Necesse Est said:
It's probably a hypothetic working Walther drive working on hydrogen peroxide. It only made prototype stage back then. No way diesel-electric would make that speed.
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But, it's realistic, and believable to have these in a game based on surface naval combat!

And in a 9 v 9 matchup, to have at least three of these per team, game, after game, after...
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
I tried The Other Game during it's "Free Fly" period.

It crashed before I could try it. While others may see it as the alternative, my old box won't deal with it.
 

Han Zulu

Han Zulu
I just started to play "Space Commander: War and trade" on the Nintendo Switch... and having a blast. It's like a mini-version of Elite. :LOL:

Simple, but very easy to use flight control. Targeting, multiple weapons, buying-selling stuff, buying and upgrading stations, bunch of skirmishes with pirates and such, and you can control a fleet and switch between your ships during fight.

Oh, and there are multiple star systems accessible through jump gates, but I haven't gotten that far in the game to unlock them yet.

Anyway, this is a very good change of stride for me. Got a bit bored with some issues in Odyssey.

Only thing missing in SC:W&T... there are no space legs! 😂


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LanceLord

LanceLord
It's absolutely Mind BLOWING how far NMS has come.

From #EpicFailed botched launch to alt universe that's just shy of a full blown Skyrim in Space sim---with 100% of the world environment (aka exteriors AND interiors) proc gen!

The upcoming Frontier DLC is what would result if The Sims 3 had consenual ménage à trois with X4 and Stellaris IMO :LOL:

But seriously, the new trailer is giving me goosebumps the way SWTOR did a decade ago. Before the Exceptional A.$.$_h@ts began to corrupt and rot that franchise.

If HG can pull off the level of deep sandbox gameplay they're advertising in the latest trailer, then WOW. Simply amazing. :love: And if so, this DLC may end up making NMS the space Skyrim in the space games sector. :cool:



edit: Although Dual Universe could potentially give it a run for its money. Assuming it isn't RIP as Rumor Mill has been suggesting lately
 
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wrmiller

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LanceLord said:
It's absolutely Mind BLOWING how far NMS has come.

From #EpicFailed botched launch to alt universe that's just shy of a full blown Skyrim in Space sim---with 100% of the world environment (aka exteriors AND interiors) proc gen!

The upcoming Frontier DLC is what would result if The Sims 3 had consenual ménage à trois with X4 and Stellaris IMO :LOL:

But seriously, the new trailer is giving me goosebumps the way SWTOR did a decade ago. Before the Exceptional A.$.$_h@ts began to corrupt and rot that franchise.

If HG can pull off the level of deep sandbox gameplay they're advertising in the latest trailer, then WOW. Simply amazing. :love: And if so, this DLC may end up making NMS the space Skyrim in the space games sector. :cool:



edit: Although Dual Universe could potentially give it a run for its money. Assuming it isn't RIP as Rumor Mill has been suggesting lately
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This might be worth checking out. Timeframe?
 

Hank

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That's amazing !! I have NMS but haven't played it much since Pets came out; no reflection on the game I've just been engrossed with other games occupying my limitetd gaming time. This may change soon.

It is a WOW for what HG's has done with NMS since its start.

I think the question about timeframe may be about when its going live for DL. maybe??
 
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