Video Game Recommendations

Oh, but how could I forget?

Tekken: Dark Resurrection. It's pretty much Tekken 5, but with extra stuff. Really good fighter for the PSP. Breath of Fire III is also quite nice for an RPG, along with Star Ocean: Second Evolution, also by Square Enix.

Tekken 6 is on it too, which has everything Tekken 5 does but more, so you might as well pick that up too.

Doctor Who — Long Way Around: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13536044/1/Doctor-Who-Long-Way-Around

Arguably less, since Tekken 6 PSP lacks the Dojo Mode of T5DR, but could rank up with the ghosts anyway.

edited 4th Oct '15 11:53:22 PM by Malco

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How is Saints Row IV? It's on sale on Steam, and I'm considering buying it. It's like Fallout, right? In gameplay, not setting and tone.

Uh... not quite.

It's more like Grand Theft Auto if you replaced the cynicism with irreverance and general silliness. It's pretty great. The character customization is expansive, and the various types of gameplay are all pretty good.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

No, it's GTA plus Prototype plus a ton of sillyness.

Although with 4 and Gat, the GTA part is getting much reduced - who needs cars when you can run faster, after all?

edited 16th Oct '15 4:06:02 PM by Adannor

Hey, cars still look cool. If I wanna roll up on some aliens in a tricked-out ambulance, I like having the option (I don't think there are cars in Gat Out of Hell at all, though, which is upsetting)

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

There are cars. Mostly banged up and rusted wrecks that still somehow drive, but also hell-tricked out APC and monstertrucks.

Also ambulance mission is about running over as many pedestrians as you can.

edited 16th Oct '15 4:29:57 PM by Adannor

My Steam recommendations show me the game The Binding Of Isaac, due to me playing FTL lately. Is it any good? All I know about the game is that it attracted a lot of discussion due to the display of religion in the game (and Nintendo consistently refusing to permit it on the 3ds). But how is it's gameplay? Is it any good?

I understand it's a rather unforgiving bullet hell type? I typically look up some gameplay on Youtube.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

As far as I can tell it's a procedurally generated dungeon crawler with bullet hell and difficulty level of bullshit.

It's a top-down action game with heavy Zelda influences, where you shoot move and shoot tears at enemies to kill them. It revolves around randomly generated rooms and items, and much of the fun comes from combinations of different items and its high replayability. It runs and plays very smoothly. It's not for the faint of heart, but if you can accept the high difficulty and disgusting stuff, it's incredibly fun. I have over 200 hours put into the game, and I'm still playing! If you're planning on getting it, I'd recommend buying Rebirth and skipping the original entirely, since Rebirth is an improvement in almost every way.

edited 24th Oct '15 3:44:30 PM by Nintendork64

Hey, so I was looking at the Valkyrie Profile series, since they seem like my cuppa, and plus there's one for DS and one for PSP, both consoles I'm always on the lookout for games. Are they any good? How do they play?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

The ones on Sony systems tend to be standard JRPG's. You play a Valkyrie, and you recruit Einherjar from fallen warriors.

The one on the DS is Turn-Based Tactics. It is pretty dark. You play a guy who hates Valkyries because he blames them for the death of someone dear to him. The guy spends the game trying to get revenge. Like Fire Emblem, Final Death happens in the game.

edited 3rd Nov '15 2:33:50 AM by Malco

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I'd like a recommendation of some good horror and platforming games that's available on Steam, please. For the former, I've heard good things about Amnesia The Dark Descent and Outlast; for the latter, I've some interest in Fez and Broforce. Are the aforementioned games good?

Also, after being shown a bit of its gameplay by my friend, I now am curious about Life Is Strange. Is it any good, and what is the general plot like?

edited 7th Nov '15 12:46:13 AM by DarkDestruction

Don't stop, just proceed, 'cause this is what you need-proceed, just proceed, 'cause this is what you need!

For Broforce, there's a free version of Broforce called "Expendabros" that is the basically the Expendables tie-in game. You can try that out. I hear everyone loves it.

I believe you are aware of the popular good platformers already like Shovel Knight, Freedom Planet, Terraria, Ori and the Blind Forest? For harder platformers, you can also try Wings of Vi and 1001 Spikes and Bunny Must Die.

edited 12th Nov '15 11:11:49 PM by Malco

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Hey, I'm contemplating what's a better investment for the holiday season. Maybe someone can help me out? I don't know whether to go for...

• Transformers: Devastation for PS 3. Never played a Platinum Games game, but I've heard of how awesome they are and I am a sucker for Transformers.

Or...

• Super Mario Maker for Wii U. Making Mario levels and playing others' levels? Sounds rad.

Transformers Devastation looks significantly less awesome than regular Platinum stuff to me.

All right, here's another one.

$20 Play Station Network gift card for two Castle Crashers DLC vs. $20 Nintendo eShop gift card for a discounted Kirby's Return to Dream Land at the eShop and/or Smash Bros. DLC.

What's a better investment?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a phone or browser game that has the "play a few minutes at a time and run in the background" sort of thing going for it but doesn't have too much freemium upsell crap? Maybe one where the choices you have to make are actually interesting rather than just a numbers treadmill? I settled for the moment on a Farmville clone (I've never actually played Farmville because of it being tied with Facebook in my mind) and I'm getting bored with it after less than a week. I also lost interest in Fallout Shelter pretty quickly.

I kind of started out on this kick wondering if there were any Android games on the level of something like Nintendogs/cats. I did find a nice fishtank simulator (iQuarium) but only so much you can do with fish besides look at them and make them follow your finger around.

The only other game that really comes to mind is Kingdom of Loathing and that's not a short session game for me. I'm wrapped up in a project so catering to a short attention span is kinda needed at the moment.

edited 27th Nov '15 2:19:57 PM by Elle

Looking for an ice flower in the middle of the desert there

Although I've got a friend that has been playing Marvel Future Fight for a while without dumping a cent on it. IIRC you can set the fights on auto run after a couple levels in it. Lemme check with him...

You can autorun a mission after you perfect run it manually, after that it's click and watch. There is also option to automatically repeat it, but it requires some kind of an item.

Also, he warns that it may trigger addiction problems if you have them.

edited 28th Nov '15 2:44:44 AM by Adannor

Try Fallout Shelter

how did you miss that sentence?

so anyway; anyone knows something similar to An Untitled Story? (besides what's linked in the article itself)

edited 28th Nov '15 4:54:59 AM by PinkCelebi

"Screw it, I AM going to enjoy this game!"

Does anyone have a reccomendation for a "Realistic" (not gameplaywise, just graphics wise) survival sandbox multiplayer type game? So far the only one that comes to mind is A.R.K.

Also one that is preferably NOT a horror game, so that leaves Day Z out, I guess

edited 1st Dec '15 8:00:32 AM by Aszur

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

The Fallout series seems to fit your criteria.