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Kiefen MINE! from Germany Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#1327: Oct 20th 2013 at 8:53:51 AM

Any good sandbox games for the PS 3 excluding GTA V?

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Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#1328: Oct 20th 2013 at 8:58:35 AM

GTA IV, Infamous and its sequel, Prototype and its sequel, Saint's Row III and IV, Just Cause 2...

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#1329: Oct 20th 2013 at 11:57:17 AM

GBA RP Gs:

...among others, plus the entire RPG library for Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

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#1330: Oct 22nd 2013 at 10:01:01 PM

Can anyone recommend a game that features a lot of scavenging for resources as well as exploration? Preferentially one with a modern/urban, fantasy, or foopunk setting. Bonus points if it's a roguelike (i.e. randomly-generated games that are different every time), but it's okay if it isn't.

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#1331: Oct 23rd 2013 at 8:52:24 AM

Have you tried Unepic?

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#1332: Oct 23rd 2013 at 7:20:44 PM

Ah, the one indie game among several that have been talked about that I still haven't picked up.

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#1333: Oct 23rd 2013 at 8:33:22 PM

It's not a roguelike, though, but it does tick the other boxes. It's a very fun game.

If you do try it, just one warning: before you get to the boss of the Library area you should ask someone who's played it for advice.

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#1334: Oct 28th 2013 at 9:17:29 PM

Seeing how Call of Duty: Ghosts now has aliens instead of zombies, are there any modern military shooters about fighting off wizards and dragons?

Better yet if it is basically fight against every World of Warcraft player class using assault rifles, SM Gs, shotguns, and anything else typical of a spunkgargleweewee.

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#1335: Oct 28th 2013 at 9:41:12 PM

Have you tried any of the STALKER games, Glenn? Because you spend an ungodly amount of time scavenging for stuff in all of them, particularly Shadow of Chernobyl. Mainly bullets, food, vodka and the like.

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#1336: Oct 29th 2013 at 11:58:32 AM

The fuck is a spunkgargleweewee?

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#1338: Oct 29th 2013 at 12:26:26 PM

Includes high production costs, modern military setting, regenerating health, often cover-based system, linear campaign, emphasis on multiplayer, and so on and so forth. Look at Yahtzee's articles for why they apparently suck.

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zorbik Since: Apr, 2010
#1339: Nov 8th 2013 at 11:13:27 PM

K, Imma be elitist and lame now. But I'll try anyway, since I'm between games at the moment. I need a new PC game (I don't own a console):
I'm open to recommendations in nearly any genre, and in most cases production values or age is a small issue. I prefer WRP Gs, but mostly because I typically play games For The Art, rather than as a challenge or for fun. I love plot and characterization, deep or unique settings, and interesting use of game mechanics. I've looking for older or indie games typically, since I've played most well-known games, but hit me with anything. I'm not interested in 'military shooters'.
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edited 9th Nov '13 10:30:48 AM by zorbik

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#1340: Nov 8th 2013 at 11:33:59 PM

I suspect you'd enjoy Psychonauts.

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#1341: Nov 9th 2013 at 1:32:04 AM

You must play To The Moon.

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#1342: Nov 9th 2013 at 1:35:47 AM

I'd like to know where the hell I should start in either Super Robot Wars or Shin Megami Tensei, and where the hell I can play the recommended game that doesn't cost me money or Ebay.

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#1343: Nov 9th 2013 at 5:54:11 AM

We don't allow instructions about piracy on the site. If something is available for free legally, sure, share it. If it's not legal, though, don't share it or link to it or anything like that.

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ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#1344: Nov 9th 2013 at 6:33:38 AM

@zorbik: Have you tried many Adventure Games? That would be the genre that I'd most likely recommend for plot and characterisation.

For a few specific suggestions:
Gray Matter and the Gabriel Knight series. (Character-focussed supernatural mysteries)
The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure. (Ghost-hunting in a somewhat strange setting)
The Marionette. (An eerie, character-focussed horror adventure)

You mention "interesting use of game mechanics"; have you looked at the old Quest For Glory series? It's an Adventure Game/RPG hybrid in which your choice of character class affects what puzzles you encounter and what solutions are available to you. (You can sort-of multiclass by learning some of the skills of one class while playing as another, which in some cases allows you to solve a puzzle in the manner of either class, but the available quests may still be limited.) While the main series is commercial, there's a (rather good, I feel) freeware VGA fan-remake, which should be available here.

edited 9th Nov '13 6:33:56 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

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zorbik Since: Apr, 2010
#1345: Nov 9th 2013 at 10:34:30 AM

I started The Longest Journey, but I got bogged down just after visiting Arcadia the first time. The plot seemed just a bit too bizarre (probably not the right word, since I loved Torment), and I found myself consulting walkthroughs way more than I like, so my first experience with adventure games wasn't entirely positive. Maybe I'll give Gabrielle Knight or The Marionette a look.

Psychonauts certainly looks cool.

When I say interesting mechanics, I pretty much mean anything that makes a game more interactive (or re-active), and less like a series of arbitrary hoops you must jump through to get to the end. For example, how in Rome: Total War, your family members will become more intelligent if you leave them garrisoned in cities with lots of libraries, or more slovenly if you leave them in cities with many brothels and taverns.

edited 9th Nov '13 10:37:05 AM by zorbik

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#1346: Nov 9th 2013 at 10:38:58 AM

If you couldn't handle Longest Journey, I doubt Gabriel Knight's gonna be any better.

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ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#1347: Nov 9th 2013 at 2:40:46 PM

If the plot was the bother in The Longest Journey then I could very well see Gabriel Knight being preferred.

By the way, I'll point out that The Marionette and the remake of Quest for Glory 2 are, I believe, free.

I see what you mean about "interesting mechanics", I believe; at the moment little comes to mind that seems a suitable match, however, I'm afraid.

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#1348: Nov 14th 2013 at 8:14:45 AM

Can anyone recommend good, classed based roguelieks that aren't Dredmor?

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#1349: Nov 14th 2013 at 8:29:41 AM

Nethack?

I've heard Spelunky HD (not the original, unless you count playing as tunnel man) has classes as well.

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#1350: Nov 14th 2013 at 8:41:18 AM

Spelunky with classes? Sounds like heresy to me... (I've only ever played the classic version, to which I've devoted enough time to feel vaguely embarrassed at having spent any such time playing any particular game.)

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