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Football Manager is one of the best strategy games, period.

Highly recommend it I'd you're interested in non-MLS soccer.

So picking up the new free games, I became really tempted to pick up Jedi Fallen Order for half price. Still resisting temptation because of my giant game list, and added a full-price Marvel's Avengers to my debt burden for my birthday, but ME WANT JEDI.

It'll probably be on sale somewhere else again soon. Or even show up on EA Play, maybe.

I'll mention that with the $10 coupon on Epic, Before We Leave is about $5. It's a fun, little city/world builder. Not sure if it has long term replayability, but it's good for the price.

BadKen wrote:

It'll probably be on sale somewhere else again soon. Or even show up on EA Play, maybe.

It’s already on EA Play Pro if you just want to pay one month to play it but I’m waiting for it to come to non-pro so I get it through game pass.

Titan Quest Ragnarok DLC is $5. What DLC for a ancient game, what are they thinking. I'm guessing if you liked Titan Quest you will like the DLC but I haven't played it so what the heck do I know. I do you shouldn't inject cleaning supplies for any reason.

merphle wrote:

Watch Dogs 2 is definitely worth snagging and trying out. Much more likeable and interesting characters than WD1, and a genuinely funny (and thought-provoking) story. Also doesn't overstay its welcome. If you like the movies "Sneakers" and "Hackers" and you're not opposed to a GTA style open-world game, you'll probably love this game. Note that it's possible to play through the entire game as a pacifist, which actually makes the game more tense, because stunned enemies will wake back up after some time (or can be woken up by another enemy).

I picked it up after the Ubisoft presentation a month or two ago but haven't played it yet. I remember hearing the same thing from either the GWJCC people or Waypoint; they asserted it was a much more interesting game if you made it entirely about stealth and environment hacking without being able to shoot your way out of trouble.

qaraq wrote:

I picked it up after the Ubisoft presentation a month or two ago but haven't played it yet. I remember hearing the same thing from either the GWJCC people or Waypoint; they asserted it was a much more interesting game if you made it entirely about stealth and environment hacking without being able to shoot your way out of trouble.

I know it's been discussed before, but I really wish stealth worked better, or was more forgiving. I started 100% of missions trying to be sneaky/non-lethal, got detected in some stupid unintuitive way, and then had to shoot my way out and murder like 25 dudes to finish every mission. I finally just got sick of it and did the old alt+f4 -> uninstall.

I'd argue WD2 doesn't really support non-lethal play. The melee attack counts as a kill (pool ball to head, makes sense). It's extremely easy to cause an explosion that causes widespread civilian casualties. Mechanically it really just wants to be a GTA-mayhem clone, but that clashes pretty badly with the likeable characters and their cause.

That said, it's a fun game, with a lot of fun poking at Silicon Valley. The story runs out out of steam once it runs out of things to parody, but the main missions have good variety, San Francisco is fun to drive around, and overall it's just a pleasant open world game.

I've said this here before, but while personally I found the story really annoying and ludonarrative-dissonant, everything else about the game is so good that I loved it anyway.

Basically: if you like GTA, but could do with a little less of its "quirky humor" and a little more stealth and hacking, then it's the game for you.

I recommend playing with the house rule that melee takedowns are non-lethal.

merphle wrote:

Watch Dogs 2 is definitely worth snagging and trying out...

Any experience with its co-op features?

Kurrelgyre wrote:
merphle wrote:

Watch Dogs 2 is definitely worth snagging and trying out...

Any experience with its co-op features?

Nope. I didn't try any of the multiplayer.

Surviving Mars was sort of on my radar but I was waiting on the sale. well, it is on sale at GOG.com right now, and yet I'm not pulling the trigger.

Can someone enable me?

ThatGuy42 wrote:

Surviving Mars was sort of on my radar but I was waiting on the sale. well, it is on sale at GOG.com right now, and yet I'm not pulling the trigger.

Can someone enable me?

I tried it out a while back, and while it didn't click with me because that genre usually doesn't, I could see a really good game underneath it, and it came a helluva lot closer to clicking than I expected.

Is that enabling? Really good, but not for me?

Surviving Mars is a novel city building game. You deal with far different types of problems than other genre entries. It's polished and has great mod support. I've picked it up and had a great dozen or so hours 3 different times.

Highly recommended for city building and strategy fans.

I'm not sure how to phrase this, so I apologize if it's not clear, but does Surviving Mars feel like a game where you're building a city for people? I was pretty excited for Cities Skylines, but when I finally got my hands on it, more than anything it felt like a traffic management game; you were building the city for cars, not the people driving them. While that might be a depressing, Douglas Adams-esque commentary on modern cities, it wasn't what I was after. Does Surviving Mars feel like there are actual people at the heart of the simulation?

If you like city builders with managing infrastructure then it's a pretty solid game. There's good pacing, given that the first part is using robots to set the base up, and then the second half is getting your colonists in and supporting them.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm not sure how to phrase this, so I apologize if it's not clear, but does Surviving Mars feel like a game where you're building a city for people? I was pretty excited for Cities Skylines, but when I finally got my hands on it, more than anything it felt like a traffic management game; you were building the city for cars, not the people driving them. While that might be a depressing, Douglas Adams-esque commentary on modern cities, it wasn't what I was after. Does Surviving Mars feel like there are actual people at the heart of the simulation?

I haven't played it since the latest expansion, but back when I did... not really. It felt more like you were established an automated colony focused on resource extraction and battling the environment. There WERE people and you had to establish stuff for them like food, residences, etc... but it was all mechanical and same as any other resource you had to balance really.

It is still a great game and I enjoyed it and bought the expansion.

polypusher wrote:

Surviving Mars is a novel city building game. You deal with far different types of problems than other genre entries. It's polished and has great mod support. I've picked it up and had a great dozen or so hours 3 different times.

Highly recommended for city building and strategy fans.

Well you enabled me, I love city builders.

Also, hello everyone I haven't been around for a while.

mrwynd wrote:

Also, hello everyone I haven't been around for a while.

Aaaannd it looks like you still can't be bothered to buy a vowel!

*hugs* *kisses*

There are named, individual people in Surviving Mars; you actually choose your colonists based on their skills and special abilities. You also need to assign each of them to jobs, with attendant bonuses if the job meshes with their skills. You need to provide housing for people, and they do have children over time, so schools are a must. When you have disasters or run low on power or food or oxygen, individual people get sick and can die.

It's not The Sims by any stretch, but it's far more than faceless drones. I rather liked it.

One of those Dwarf mining games is 30% off on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5...

Rezzy wrote:

One of those Dwarf mining games is 30% off on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5...

Damn you for belittling the masterpiece that is Deep Rock Galactic! (I seriously loved this game, it's Vermintide and Left 4 Dead but fun.)

Hades went 1.0 and is on sale on steam. Apparently, it's also on Switch but I don't have that version.

LeapingGnome wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm not sure how to phrase this, so I apologize if it's not clear, but does Surviving Mars feel like a game where you're building a city for people? I was pretty excited for Cities Skylines, but when I finally got my hands on it, more than anything it felt like a traffic management game; you were building the city for cars, not the people driving them. While that might be a depressing, Douglas Adams-esque commentary on modern cities, it wasn't what I was after. Does Surviving Mars feel like there are actual people at the heart of the simulation?

I haven't played it since the latest expansion, but back when I did... not really. It felt more like you were established an automated colony focused on resource extraction and battling the environment. There WERE people and you had to establish stuff for them like food, residences, etc... but it was all mechanical and same as any other resource you had to balance really.

It is still a great game and I enjoyed it and bought the expansion.

Note: It's developed by the Tropico folks. I think that answers a bit of what it's like.

polypusher wrote:
Rezzy wrote:

One of those Dwarf mining games is 30% off on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5...

Damn you for belittling the masterpiece that is Deep Rock Galactic! (I seriously loved this game, it's Vermintide and Left 4 Dead but fun.)

Came here to rise to Deep Rock Galactic's defense. Poly got there first.

UMOarsman wrote:
polypusher wrote:
Rezzy wrote:

One of those Dwarf mining games is 30% off on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5...

Damn you for belittling the masterpiece that is Deep Rock Galactic! (I seriously loved this game, it's Vermintide and Left 4 Dead but fun.)

Came here to rise to Deep Rock Galactic's defense. Poly got there first. :-)

Rock and Stone Brothers!

Deep Rock Galactic is great co-op fun.

Rocket League is free on Epic.

I may be the only goodjer that didn't already have it, but you also get a $14 CDN coupon if you claim it.

Roke wrote:

Rocket League is free on Epic.

I may be the only goodjer that didn't already have it, but you also get a $14 CDN coupon if you claim it.

That coupon expires on November 1st so make sure you use it.

-BEP

EPIC store has only one free game this week! *outrage!!!*

But it's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, so get it while it lasts (until next Thursday).

lunchbox12682 wrote:

EPIC store has only one free game this week! *outrage!!!*

But it's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, so get it while it lasts (until next Thursday).

I'm livid...to have the gall to do that!