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Duranis

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I'm kind of in a position were I'm really in the mood for gaming but the games I have are kind of stale and nothing new that I have seen really caught my interest. Just wandering if anyone on here might be able to suggest something that might be worth taking a look at.

 

Ideally what I'm looking for is something that has some sort of deep "progression" while being fairly open. I would also like something that is not super stressful and slightly more casual (in terms of if I make a mistake it wont put me back hours or days). Ideally PC based but have pretty much all the consoles/handhelds from the last 10 years except PS4. I don't care if it is online or offline, single or multi player, RPG or FPS, etc.

 

Some examples of kind of what I'm talking about and looking for.

Modded minecraft packs - Lots of progression from nothing up to massive complex systems. Lots of varied options and fairly relaxing to play. Added bonus is being able to build things and be creative.

 

Starwars galaxies - The crafting and skills systems. Skills progression was linear, you could take skills from multiple classes and remove them to train something else at will. The crafting system was the best one I have ever seen in a game were two people with the same skills could make the same item but it would be completely different depending on how they made it. I would love to play a game with this kind of depth in the crafting again.

 

Banished/Cities skylines - Very different games but again I like the starting from nothing and slowly working your way up to massive functioning cities without worrying about getting attacked/everything being destroyed.

 

Xcom/FF tactics advanced- Similar to the above, starting out with a small group of soldiers and slowly unlocking/collecting new tech/items and having choice about how your groups skill up and advance. I will probably pick up xcom2 but honestly I think I will find the timed missions fairly tiring and probably will only play it in short bursts.

 

Any suggestions gratefully received :)

Geoff

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I play on PC, as such:

 

Minecraftish:

 

Subnautica - underwater open world base building / crafting.

 

(Seriously ARK, Rust, H1Z1, take your pick).

 

 

SW:Galaxyish:

 

SWGEmu - It's basically the Star Wars Galaxies you know and love before Sony broke everything.

Path of Exile - Completely open skill tree (some would consider intimidating). Diablo style clone in general. Not really got the crafting tick box though.

 

City Building:

 

Plenty to choose from here. I'm a fan of the Tropico series myself.

 

X-Com clone:

 

Xenonauts, OpenXCom, Fallout Tactics or Frozen Synapse perhaps?

Geoff

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I really enjoyed Witcher 3...

 

If you like Witcher 3 you should get the other ones too. :)

 

Also you'd probably like the Elder Scrolls games and the Fallout series too.

NewFormz

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Fallout 4 - An open world adventure game. It has lots of leveling up options including skills, weapons and armour. You can also build settlements and start your own little towns with different trading options.
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If you like Witcher 3 you should get the other ones too. :)

 

Also you'd probably like the Elder Scrolls games and the Fallout series too.

 

Already done skyrim and fallout 4 ;) Might look at the others. Thanks :)

robjduk

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Not exactly what you talked about but I have been going well on Heros of the Storm of late. Hard to master, free to play and can loose hours on the thing.
Duranis

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Thanks all so far.

 

In no particular order:

Ark - Played this quite a bit already. Yes it is an awesome game but honestly it doesn't really have the depth I'm craving at the moment. Character progression is pretty much the same for everyone and the only real complexity is in the building side of things.

Fallout 4 - Have about 200 hours in it and all the xbox one achievements. Loved it, loved the settlement building. Need some time before I can play it again :)

Rust - Honestly I haven't looked at this one too much. I kind of thought it was more along the lines of a Day Z type PVP survival game.

SWGEmu - Really, really tempted to get into this. I have always held off for 2 reasons. One I don't want to ruin my memories of it and two I'm not sure it will be the same without the community I used to play with.

Subnautica - Got it. Great game but seems fairly limited in what you can do still at the moment.

Witcher 2 and 3 - I really wanted to like these but I actually really struggled to get into Witcher 2. Maybe I need to revisit it and give it another chance but played for a couple of hours and it didn't really grab me.

 

Shadow Run - I have heard of this game but never looked at it in detail or played it. Will check it out :)

Path of Exile - Sounds familiar but know nothing about it. Really like the idea of open skill tree's and loved Diablo so will certain give this a look.

 

Barbie Horse adventure - Looking for something that isn't quite so hardcore :)

 

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Dragon age Origins - I have already spent a LOT of time on this game :). Completed it about 3 times (with the DLC) on the xbox. Then I got it for the PC and modded the hell out of it and played it a bunch more. This is a good example though of what I enjoy about a game. Each character had a fairly open set of skills you could pick from, lots of them skills interacted with each other giving even more variety and possible combinations and then you could select different party members and items to really create exactly what you wanted. Lots and lots of choices and ways to do things with good progression from weak to super powerful.

 

Heros of the Storm - Is that the Blizzard game? Havent looked too much at that yet.

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Arreks

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I didn't know about SWGEmu

 

Is it good? less grind fest?

 

Depends on the server. The official server is pre-CU so the normal grind we all remember and love, but there are also other servers that have 'blue frogs' which allow you to get any items and skills ;) it actually has at least 90% of the original content in the game so it's definitely worth checking out!

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Duranis

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Downloaded Path of Exile last night and while I haven't played it yet I'm impressed by the few videos I watched on it. I loved Diablo and Diablo II and POE looks like what D3 should have been. Thanks a lot for the suggestions :)

 

I also picked up Xcom2 and played that a lot, main gameplay is much the same as xcom EU but I prefer the making contact and avatar doom ticker to the panic and satellite spamming in EU.

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Now is a great time to start playing Path of Exile. Next Friday is the release of the latest expansion meaning new content, new talent tree's (yes the one posted above is soon to be out of date!). So mess around in it for a week, work out how everything works then start in the new seasonal league next week!

 

I can't recommend the game enough, other games come and go but I always end up back playing PoE. Best of all it is still completely free, which is quite frankly astonishing.

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Civilization V is good for progression whilst being able to relax whilst playing a bit.

Prison Architect is pretty good too. Although eventually you get to a point where you've kinda, finished, everything and it peters off. I did over 100 hours before this though.

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