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[Bouchart]

Hello guys!
Here's a challenge for you.

I want to play a tactical or strategy game which has multiple unique character who progress independently. I.E. Battle for Wesnoth, X-COM, Myth, etc.

My ideal game is WH: Chaos Gate where you had a finite pool of unique marines and when you lost too many you were basically screwed.

Some of the SWAT games are like this.  At least SWAT 2, the only one I have any experience with.

Edit: There's also Shadow Watch, which is coincidentally now available on Gog.

[Niveras]

I need a simple-ish timewasting game for PSP. Preferably something that can be picked up or put down easily and quickly. Five or ten minutes sessions sort of thing.

Lumines 2 is right exactly what I mean, but I've played it to hell and need something different. It doesn't need to be a puzzle game either. Dissidia and Dissidia 012 are also good examples but I'm getting tired of losing to cheat factor (it may or may not actually cheat, suck factor is more likely), and 012 doesn't have Duel Coliseum, which was the best mode for that sort of thing anyway.

Story-based games (Loco Roco, Patapon) aren't good because I may put it aside for weeks or months and forget what I was doing.

Maybe racing games work.

[Bouchart]

Think the PSP had a remake of Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood.

[Twinwolf]

Hello guys!
Here's a challenge for you.

I want to play a tactical or strategy game which has multiple unique character who progress independently. I.E. Battle for Wesnoth, X-COM, Myth, etc.

My ideal game is WH: Chaos Gate where you had a finite pool of unique marines and when you lost too many you were basically screwed.

Fire Emblem, any game in the series. Unless you're playing Casual mode in Awakening, it also has perma-death.

[Micro102]

Does anyone know of a game that revolves around salvaging? Not generic resources collected from wreckage, but like a vehicle made of different parts, then you destroy it, then you take the unexploded bits and disassemble them or assimilate them into your vehicle.

Note, it doesn't have to be vehicles, just growing stronger by salvaging other things.

No I don't want to play cogmind.

[Bouchart]

Cataclysm DDA

[notquitethere]

Ygdrad, you should check out Bionic Dues, sounds like it'd be up your street.

[Arx]

Does anyone know of a game that revolves around salvaging? Not generic resources collected from wreckage, but like a vehicle made of different parts, then you destroy it, then you take the unexploded bits and disassemble them or assimilate them into your vehicle.

You should try-

No I don't want to play cogmind.

Damn.

If you don't mind the fact that it's a cartoony flash game, I ran across this some months ago and I think it more-or-less fits the bill. It's not hugely deep or detailed, though.

[Wimopy]

Sent my new laptop to get fixed under warranty because of some dead pixels, so I'm stuck with the one it replaced and it just seems slower than ever.
I'm looking for a game that can waste a large amount of time (automated e-mail response said 1-1.5 weeks, +time to order parts if needed), but it has to be very easy on the hardware requirements.

I found Distant Worlds and it was great. I especially liked that you could leave some matters to the computer, while you handled only a specific aspect of your empire. But... it turns out that my PC starts lagging out quite fast. Atm, with 12 empires, 700 stars and a 15x15 (or 8x8, doesn't change much) galaxy (even without pirates!), the best I can get is about 2 years in-game before I get to under 20 FPS. (Strangely, I recall playing it with a huge galaxy and default settings for a very long time to a sizeable empire, but either way, that definitely doesn't work now).

So, I guess a game that's either a space sim where you can play Trader/Pirate/Whatever you like or a 4X with AI help/advisers and low system requirements (I have an nVidia GT 555m and a 4gb i3-2330m 2.2GHz, but I think something ain't working fine...)
Has to be simple though (or follow a basic structure found in other games). I don't want to spend time learning an entire new game and creating strategies, since I only need something to keep me occupied for (hopefully) a few days to 1 week for now.

[amjh]

Does anyone know of a game that revolves around salvaging? Not generic resources collected from wreckage, but like a vehicle made of different parts, then you destroy it, then you take the unexploded bits and disassemble them or assimilate them into your vehicle.

Captain forever.

It's a flash game where you fly a spaceship, assembling it on the fly from pieces. Each piece can be blown off separately so if you get hit too much you'll have to rebuild, so you're constantly taking new pieces from enemies. You need to go after stronger enemies to get better pieces, and you have to avoid damaging the parts you want to use.

[puke]

Similarly, _Reassembly_ is a shameless rip of _Captain Forever_, but it's a bit more modern and polished.

There is also this _Habitat_ game, where you build stuff out of random space junk.

[Scoops Novel]

I'd like a good rpg roguelike/interactive fiction, with a focus on making sense and immersiveness. Either i can't solo a dungeon, or it's properly explained. My enemies should be intelligent and logically placed/organised. Narrative, world building and choice placed more highly then stats i couldn't give a sodden rats dream of breadcrumbs for.

[EnigmaticHat]

I'd like a good rpg roguelike/interactive fiction, with a focus on making sense and immersiveness. Either i can't solo a dungeon, or it's properly explained. My enemies should be intelligent and logically placed/organised. Narrative, world building and choice placed more highly then stats i couldn't give a sodden rats dream of breadcrumbs for.

Now I just feel bad for the rat.  Why won't you just give it breadcrumbs?  That's all it wants.

Time based regeneration is pretty much ubiquitous in roguelikes.  Excuse plots are only slightly less common.  I... actually can't think of a single game that fits your description.  In particular the "randomness!  randomness everywhere!" aspect of roguelikes doesn't seem to play well with stories, especially branching ones.  And it certainly doesn't agree with logical enemy placement.

Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike that exists in a set fantasy world, which lends it more internal consistency.  It also has dialogue and multiple endings.  No logical enemy placement and you still solo entire dungeons tho.

[puke]

Omega, perhaps.  Worldmap and cities are fixed, dungeons are random.  Plot is fixed.  Does contain silliness.

And Cogmind is pretty sensical.  I have not survived far enough to uncover the plot, but I'm given to understand that there is some to uncover.  Really hits on the immersion, too.  Well themed UI.

[Krevsin]

It's not exactly a game I'm asking for, but it's close enough.

I want a mod for Shogun 2 Total War. One that rebalances the game somewhat.