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[Frumple]

It's worth waiting for a discount. S'alright game, and probably worth eight bucks if you were under a time limit where the funds are usable, but it's also probably not good enough to impulse buy if you can stand waiting for it to go lower.

[aristabulus]

I'm thinking about getting Rimworld on Steam, although there's no discount. ...

It's worth waiting for a discount. ...

and...  (cross-quoted from the Rimworld thread)

Just waiting for this thing to go on sale, just waiting, waiting waiting.

It's gonna be a long, long wait.

For the record, Tynan is the dev; you might want to take him at his word.

[Cattani]

I would like an RPG with a little twist.

You know in RPGs nowadays, when you go into a town and you see, say a weapon vendor, and you know that even if his stuff is better than yours its still not worth buying because you will eventually find something better inside a wild animal, and until then you can make do with the crap you have in hand?
Or those games in which you get points every level, which you can spend to buy new spells, but you end up keeping them to buy the high-tier spells quickly, and again you can make do with your current limited list of cantrips?

I wanted a game in which those strategies are not practical. One that every equipment found can be a boon. Something that makes you adapt your playstyle with every level-up. To sum it up, I wanted a game in which you feel every upgrade as unique and useful.

Anyone knows one of these? It will probably be one of those old rpgs. That format seems to not be very popular these days.

[Krevsin]

Dark Souls is kind of like that where different weapon types actually make you change your combat style rather than just increase the damage output.

[Frumple]

... siralim? 2 more than 1. Items are more because the forge and enchantment exists, and level ups specifically aren't that impactful (there's other progression metrics that are) but otherwise...

[Trebz]

I would like an RPG with a little twist.

You know in RPGs nowadays, when you go into a town and you see, say a weapon vendor, and you know that even if his stuff is better than yours its still not worth buying because you will eventually find something better inside a wild animal, and until then you can make do with the crap you have in hand?
Or those games in which you get points every level, which you can spend to buy new spells, but you end up keeping them to buy the high-tier spells quickly, and again you can make do with your current limited list of cantrips?

I wanted a game in which those strategies are not practical. One that every equipment found can be a boon. Something that makes you adapt your playstyle with every level-up. To sum it up, I wanted a game in which you feel every upgrade as unique and useful.

Anyone knows one of these? It will probably be one of those old rpgs. That format seems to not be very popular these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun:_Shattered_Lands

[itisnotlogical]

What's a single-player action game that has a relatively high skill barrier? Something that's easy to learn, but beating takes a lot of practice and possibly luck. If anybody reading has played it, I'm thinking of Perfect Dark on the "Perfect Agent" difficulty, although without the more obtuse puzzle objectives.

[Shadowlord]

What's a single-player action game that has a relatively high skill barrier? Something that's easy to learn, but beating takes a lot of practice and possibly luck. If anybody reading has played it, I'm thinking of Perfect Dark on the "Perfect Agent" difficulty, although without the more obtuse puzzle objectives.

The original Deus Ex on Realistic difficulty? "A headshot is a lethal takedown." That goes for both you and the NPCs - if you let them, enemies will shoot you in the head and you will die. (Later in the game, you can get an augmentation that can protect you against bullets, and you'll run into enemies that are tougher as well)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines? (I had to start over completely when I got to a particular boss, because I couldn't do shit to him because my character (with the skills I had leveled up etc) was not able to deal with someone like him, and I had ignored/missed weapons that would have greatly helped me there, and had used up blood packs earlier (they might have helped me beat him despite everything else)

AI War? (Probably not action-gamey enough, since it's kind of sort of an overcomplicated RTS with a bad UI)

[Draxis]

What's a single-player action game that has a relatively high skill barrier? Something that's easy to learn, but beating takes a lot of practice and possibly luck. If anybody reading has played it, I'm thinking of Perfect Dark on the "Perfect Agent" difficulty, although without the more obtuse puzzle objectives.

I'd suggest Hyper Light Drifter, a particularly gorgeous and engaging top-down action/exploration game, or the Touhou Project, a series of vertical-scrolling bullet hell shooters.

[JimboM12]

What's a single-player action game that has a relatively high skill barrier? Something that's easy to learn, but beating takes a lot of practice and possibly luck. If anybody reading has played it, I'm thinking of Perfect Dark on the "Perfect Agent" difficulty, although without the more obtuse puzzle objectives.

I was about to suggest way of the samurai, but that gets easy once you grasp the basics and how to make better swords.
Same with Dragon's Dogma, that also gets a bit easy once you've got your builds down, and its easy to break wide open from the start if you borrow a high level pawn.

The closest I can think of is....Space Rangers HD? Though, it's much more of a space sim then an action game, but until you get outfitted, you will get shit on by the dominators all the damn time. Even after you get outfitted, if you join in the war to stop them, you'll probably still get your shit slapped.
The Gothic RPG series? They are all about character progression, without foreknowledge the game will shit on a new character so hard. You actually have to learn how to fight correctly and survive from starting as a peasant.
I can't recommend any good shooters that aren't also online, but if i think of any that are good with harder difficulty, i'll post it.

[pikachu17]

a game for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo gamecube, or a game that would work on my old laptop.

[Shadowlord]

I'll second the gothic series. I have gothic 2 and eventually gave up because I was inevitably wtfpwned as soon as I advanced the plot twice, went into the caves /mountains/whatever.

[JimboM12]

a game for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo gamecube, or a game that would work on my old laptop.

Um.....for the DS there's Infinite Space, a sort of space sim/rpg for the DS. Kinda hard to find, but you could just emulate it off the interwebz. Pretty fun with a somewhat TTGL style story towards the end.

Gamecube...original Resident Evil 4? A classic for its time. I don't know many for the 'Cube.

[Mephisto]

Nintendo gamecube

Geist. I don't think I've found a game like it since.

[Yoink]

a game for the Nintendo DS

Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Or any of the earlier Advance Wars titles that are compatible with the DS.
You're welcome.

As for Gamecube, the two best games on there were of course Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion, but you've probably played those already.
Pikmin? I never finished it but I remember that being pretty great.