What Video Games Have You Been Playing VII: The Real Ending is Locked Behind a Paywall

[cardgame]

I've just dumped about 7 hours in subnautica today and last night, absolutely brilliant experience thus far

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Playing with No Man's Sky. I say playing with because you play a game, but you play with a toy. NMS has no particular point, and as long as I keep that in mind I find it is fun to play with.

Agreed. Have you found any profitable farming techniques?

They seemed to have removed the ability to crazy lubricant which was an easy money generator.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Agreed. Have you found any profitable farming techniques?

They seemed to have removed the ability to crazy lubricant which was an easy money generator.

I'm mostly developing navigation methods at the moment. I have an actual map of the area around my favorite trading post, so I'm considering the local mapping challenge successfully overcome and moving on to consider global mapping.

Money seems mostly a non-issue to me. Collect gold, sell gold. Destroy sentinels, loot the debris. I don't have any expenses though.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I've been thinking I'd like an outer-space game, something where you fly a ship, but I don't know what to try. I have FTL, Rebel Galaxy, and Star Trek Online, and enjoyed all three. I felt like I ought to have like Fractured Space more than I did, but it didn't grab me. I'm not sure why. I'd just finished playing World of Tanks a lot (a lot ), so maybe I was just burned out on that type of online battle game. I tried the free trial of EVE Online years ago, and while I admired what it was doing, it wasn't for me. I'd prefer something single-player or where multi-player is optional, like Star Trek Online.

Anyhoo... I've been looking at Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Freespace 2, but honestly I can't figure out how to distinguish between them, and I don't want to buy all three. Any suggestions?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I have played Elite quite extensively for 2 years, but it did grow a little stale (which makes sense after all that time) so I shelved it for a couple of months now until the Beyond update in Q1. For me the attraction was being able to go into a 1:1 scale galaxy looking for great scenery. It's called Exploration in the game, but Tourism would be a better description.

There are 3 modes, Solo (play as a single player, still needs connection), Private Group to play with likeminded people and Open.So multiplayer is optional.

 

[FriendlyFire]

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I've been thinking I'd like an outer-space game, something where you fly a ship, but I don't know what to try. I have FTL, Rebel Galaxy, and Star Trek Online, and enjoyed all three. I felt like I ought to have like Fractured Space more than I did, but it didn't grab me. I'm not sure why. I'd just finished playing World of Tanks a lot (a lot ), so maybe I was just burned out on that type of online battle game. I tried the free trial of EVE Online years ago, and while I admired what it was doing, it wasn't for me. I'd prefer something single-player or where multi-player is optional, like Star Trek Online.

Anyhoo... I've been looking at Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Freespace 2, but honestly I can't figure out how to distinguish between them, and I don't want to buy all three. Any suggestions?

I have around 350 tanks in garage in WOTs, just boring now
Give Crossout a spin, much more casual game, 3min matches and for those without great shooting skill automated weapons

If you want a good Space sim game I recommend X3 Reunion, be aware that this is a GERMAN game so the learning curve is hardcore. (because Germans version of fun)
Despite its age its the best hands down single player space sim, start with single ship, build massive space factories, command fleets of ships, the space dog fighting is pretty simplistic but the rest of the game is amazing
Be prepared to put in 1-2hrs worth of tutorials though

 

[warpus]

Among other things, I got a $50 steam gift certificate for Christmas. Here's what I did with it:

Total War: ATTILA
CDN$ 12.49

Total War: ATTILA - Slavic Nations Culture Pack
CDN$ 4.39

Planet Coaster
CDN$ 15.00

Plague Inc: Evolved
CDN$ 7.64

ABZU
CDN$ 6.59

Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica
CDN$ 2.74

Shelter
CDN$ 1.09


TOTAL

original price: $174.24
discounted sale price: $49.94

6 cents left and unfortunately no good games costing that much on steam

I kept track of the original sale price to show the person who got me this gift that I made it go a long way

 

[Yeekim]

Battle Brothers - a surprisingly good and well written indie game. Think of it as a Mount&Blade with a turnbased combat on a hexagrid. And permadeath. Play Ironman, expect to lose a lot.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've been thinking I'd like an outer-space game, something where you fly a ship, but I don't know what to try. I have FTL, Rebel Galaxy, and Star Trek Online, and enjoyed all three. I felt like I ought to have like Fractured Space more than I did, but it didn't grab me. I'm not sure why. I'd just finished playing World of Tanks a lot (a lot ), so maybe I was just burned out on that type of online battle game. I tried the free trial of EVE Online years ago, and while I admired what it was doing, it wasn't for me. I'd prefer something single-player or where multi-player is optional, like Star Trek Online.

Anyhoo... I've been looking at Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Freespace 2, but honestly I can't figure out how to distinguish between them, and I don't want to buy all three. Any suggestions?

No Man's Sky is great if you are not driven to complete missions. You can explore (best part of the game) and build a base. There are a lot of base building options. It's very much like settlement building in FO4 only you can have a single base at a time.

There are some missions to do but they are all pretty trivial fetch quests for the most part. Where the game really shines is pure exploration. There is an in-game economy for trading and upgrading your gear. You can upgrade your ship, buy a freighter, build an assortment of land vehicles and upgrade your suit and weapons.

It's a fun game for sure and it actually became the game it was hyped up to be. It just took over a year to get there after release. They have been patching the hell out of it and giving away all the new content for free. Very little of what I just described was in the game at launch. The developers are committed to supporting and enhancing the game and have dramatically upgraded it over time.

 

[trader/warrior]

Been playing Ultimate General: Civil War while at the same time watching the Ken Burns Civil War documentary series. Interesting and a lot of fun. Though I am a bit dissapointed they seem to have simplified the line of sight and points of altitude for utilizing especially artillery but also other units the best way compared to Ultimate General: Gettysburg. But overall this is a vastly superior game with it seems a well made campaign that is a lot more free-form in that you can customize your army and develop elite brigades with better equipment and battle-experience through battles, though I'm only part way through the Confederate campaign and have yet to try the Union.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've been thinking I'd like an outer-space game, something where you fly a ship, but I don't know what to try. I have FTL, Rebel Galaxy, and Star Trek Online, and enjoyed all three. I felt like I ought to have like Fractured Space more than I did, but it didn't grab me. I'm not sure why. I'd just finished playing World of Tanks a lot (a lot ), so maybe I was just burned out on that type of online battle game. I tried the free trial of EVE Online years ago, and while I admired what it was doing, it wasn't for me. I'd prefer something single-player or where multi-player is optional, like Star Trek Online.

Anyhoo... I've been looking at Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Freespace 2, but honestly I can't figure out how to distinguish between them, and I don't want to buy all three. Any suggestions?

Note that while he recommended Reunion, FriendlyFire provided a trailer for the sequel, Terran Conflict. There is an expansion to that called Albion Prelude. All are X3, which would be my recommendation. I'd say skip Reunion, and I might even say skip directly to AP.

 

[FriendlyFire]

You need TC to get AP but they cost $5 each well worth it
Some of the Mods are interesting as well

 

[cardgame]

Started a High Elf campaign in WH2: ME

high elf archers rule

 

[FashGordon]

Modded Mario Kart Wii on Dolphin FTW.

 

[Kozmos]

Playing with The Witness and Invisible Inc. now. Can't believe I overlooked them because they seemed too cartoony, quite challenging games in their own right actually.

 

[FashGordon]

I actually like the more cartoony looking games myself.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm trying to finish Mass Effect Andromeda. It is kind of tedious because it's a very large game and much of the charm of it being a ME game has rubbed thin. There are some great moments though.

Also I figured out how to remote play my PS4 through a laptop which is awesome.

Edit: I just realized that despite having a crafting system, you cannot change the loadout of your squad mates. I have been hailing around a lot of items with the intent to give them to my squad but I can't. The crafting system is also two-step (research, then craft) and unnecessarily confusing and cluttered. It's very annoying.

 

[Commodore]

I just realized that despite having a crafting system, you cannot change the loadout of your squad mates. I have been hailing around a lot of items with the intent to give them to my squad but I can't. The crafting system is also two-step (research, then craft) and unnecessarily confusing and cluttered. It's very annoying.

Yeah, that's why I just abandoned the crafting system altogether and just purchased new stuff from merchants.

 

[Synobun]

Gave Painters Guild a go thanks to @ls612.

The reviews on it were largely accurate and perhaps too forgiving. It requires intense micromanagement from the get-go that doesn't get easier as you progress, making progression mostly a falsity. Earning money and expanding only adds more work and there is no way to automate functions from what I can tell.

That's disappointing, since the premise and style is good enough that I would be willing to dedicate quite a few hours to it if there were a way to actually progress.

 

[cardgame]

I just sunk like 6 hours in one session with They Are Billions. What a fantastic game.