After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.

Now, what games do you recommend?

What kind of games do you like?

Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?

Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.

You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.

Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)

Quote from: Tod13 on August 03, 2023, 02:35:46 PM
What kind of games do you like?

Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?

Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.

You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.

Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)

A little of everything but visual novels. Single player or play with friends at home unless you can make your own server, no microtransactions.

Vendors... Steam preferably.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 04:01:56 PM

Quote from: Tod13 on August 03, 2023, 02:35:46 PM
What kind of games do you like?

Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?

Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.

You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.

Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)

A little of everything but visual novels. Single player or play with friends at home unless you can make your own server, no microtransactions.

Vendors... Steam preferably.

Guild Wars 2 has microtransactions, but they're "just there". You don't need them and they aren't obnoxious.

Braveland and similar "tactical RPG-ish" games from Torguga group are fun. They're simple turn-based tactics. The story/game really is a railroad. You can skip some branches for a while, but usually need to come back to get the resource at the end of the branch. But it is fun for a 5-10 minute session to unwind. Not great art, but fun. LOL

Cat Quest is a cute, fun action-RPG.

The Bioshock series is fun. First-person shooter style RPG-ish games.

Neverwinter Nights is popular and turn-based. But it is so much work to play.

Chroma Squad is a fun turn-based 8-bit style RPG. I haven't gotten very far into it yet.

Hex of Steel, that I haven't played yet, is a super-popular turn-based war game.

Solasta is an indie RPG based on the 5e ruleset (but using different sub-classes, due to not being licensed).  No wokeness.  Entertaining.  The voice acting is meh and the story pretty linear, but it was worth the time and money IMHO...

Thanks to both, keep it comming.

There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.

Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.

Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.

Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.

One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.

Quote from: Reckall on August 04, 2023, 06:37:09 AM
There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.

Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.

Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.

Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.

One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.

If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.

I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are strong with woke messaging.  I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..."  The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck.  You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.

Disco Elysium is made by avowed Marxists.  While the mechanic in the game is clever, most of the game is political philosophy discussion.  And the Marxist choice almost always offers better bonuses than any other, with fewer negatives.  If you'll enjoy working for the blatantly evil megacorp against the unions who are fighting for rights... well, it will penalize you for doing so.  And the way the protagonist's ex treats him, and is praised for it, holy shit!

So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing The Message.  Take that for what it's worth...

Quote from: Eirikrautha on August 04, 2023, 12:07:37 PM

Quote from: Reckall on August 04, 2023, 06:37:09 AM
There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.

Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.

Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.

Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.

One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.

If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.

I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are strong with woke messaging.  I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..."  The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck.  You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.

Disco Elysium is made by avowed Marxists.  While the mechanic in the game is clever, most of the game is political philosophy discussion.  And the Marxist choice almost always offers better bonuses than any other, with fewer negatives.  If you'll enjoy working for the blatantly evil megacorp against the unions who are fighting for rights... well, it will penalize you for doing so.  And the way the protagonist's ex treats him, and is praised for it, holy shit!

So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing The Message.  Take that for what it's worth...

Thanks for the heads up, even his descriptions didn't gave me the itch to play those.

Hey, if the GPU can run Cyberpunk (confirmed by my friend who gave it to me) think it can also run Red Dead Redemption?

Any 2.5 RPG games you recommend?

Fuck, It just occurred to me I can emulate the games from my youth!

I like "Her Story" quite a bit.  Despite the title, it's hardly a feminist game.  In fact, IIRC that crowd  slammed it because to them, no woman should ever be presented as less than perfect, and the woman in "Her Story" has a few problems....  I'd recommend that game to anybody who wants to try something out of the ordinary.  And yes, the acting in that game is great.

BattleBit Remastered is a $15 first person shooter that focuses on gameplay more than AAA graphics. It is kind of a throwback to the earlier, fondly-remembered versions of games like Battlefield. It was made by a three-person dev team, and as a result, the graphics are kind of Robloxy, and lean heavily on what looks like off the rack scenery elements, but gameplay is supposed to be fun.

I haven't played it myself, shooters aren't my thing, but you might look into it.

Quote from: Eirikrautha on August 04, 2023, 12:07:37 PM
If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.

I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are strong with woke messaging.

If so then I agree they failed - as I saw no wokeness in sight when I played it.

Neo Cab is about free will and how we don't realise that we have it because we are unable to see how even a small different choice can change everything.

Regarding Disco Elysium A) Wokeness is an aberration of "extreme values" and hated both by Marxist and Christians alike. B) The game is about despair of any kind of ideology - except maybe nihilism or anarchism. There are a lot of liberal, fascist and centrist choices to make, but nothing really works. The very city you live in tried every side of the political spectrum only to end up shattered.If anything, beside Philip K. Dick, the game has strong vibes of Alan Moore.

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I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..."  The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck.  You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.

That character is an ass. If you think that white males can't be mysoginistic asses then you only move the problem.

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So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing The Message.  Take that for what it's worth...

Either that, or you need a cold cloth on your forehead and some rest - because you are this close to saying that Terminator (1984) is woke because it has a common waitress destroying a killer robot from the future, while the actual warrior from the future dies. BTW, I usually vote center-rigth, for what is worth...

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 02:23:43 PM
After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.

Now, what games do you recommend?

I see further down in the thread you've got Steam.

Slipways.
Elite Dangerous
Prodeus
Blazing Chrome
Shovel Knight
The Ascent
Tiny Metal
X-Com Enemy Unknown
Axiom Verge
Cuphead
GRIS
The Messenger
Starcrawlers
Mass Effect trilogy. Just be prepared to be dissapointed by the ending.

Just a quick list of games I've got on my list that I've particularly enjoyed.

I'd put Transformers Devastation on the list, but Steam pulled it a while ago. If you can score a hard copy I reccomend it.

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Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 02:23:43 PM
After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.

Now, what games do you recommend?

I see further down in the thread you've got Steam.

X-Com Enemy Unknown

And, if you like it, X-Com 2 + War of the Chosen (playing the second chapter without War of the Chosen is a crime against videogames; they basically took the ideas they had for X-Com 3 and put all of them in the second chapter with a DLC).

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Mass Effect trilogy. Just be prepared to be dissapointed by the ending.

A bit of trivia here. I once met a guy who had worked for Bioware and he told me how that was the real, original ending. Everyone was believing that being acquired by EA had messed things up but, no. Inside Bioware they told to the lead writer over and over that the ending ruined the whole saga but, somehow, they were contractually obligated to use it. If anything, EA was the first to be miffed by the poor reception they got.

Balder's Gate 3 

Though more seriously, start with the Jagged Alliance games and X-Com Games