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[Singularity125]

Thanks for suggestions. Friday was payday so uh, as long as I'm hurting my wallet anyway:

• Neverwinter Nights Diamond?
• One of the Rollercoaster Tycoon games?
• The expansions I'm missing for EU4? Is it... less broken in balance now? >.>

[puke]

Thanks for suggestions. Friday was payday so uh, as long as I'm hurting my wallet anyway:

• Neverwinter Nights Diamond?

Sure, but the mods are better than the official game.  I found the stock campaign boring as heck, everything branching off a central hub area and super grindey.  Some of the user made campaigns are amazing though.

[Sensei]

The expansion pack campaigns are also good. Neverwinter nights is a great platform, the default campaign packaged with it is lackluster but I played for ages on multilayer servers and in downloaded campaigns.

[Mech#4]

"Hordes of the Underdark" is the best base expansion, though I've heard the part fanmade module "Kingmaker" is very good. I found "Shadows of Undrentide" to be enjoyable, but like these things are sometimes the beginning has a lot of variety based on your character class and race but that doesn't continue on into the second or later chapters.

[Metalax]

I'll second "Hordes of the Underdark" as being the best stock campaign, although I'd play "Shadows of Undrentide" first so as to see the backstory for Deekin.

If you do pick up Neverwinter Nights look up the Penultima campaign by twoflower.

[Graknorke]

Thanks for suggestions. Friday was payday so uh, as long as I'm hurting my wallet anyway:

• One of the Rollercoaster Tycoon games?

Yes. RCT is the best series at doing the thing that it does.

[puke]

If you do pick up Neverwinter Nights look up...

Which mod is the one where you can fly a dragon in one part?

[Sinistar]

I'm not lacking puzzle platformers, thanks.

FITE ME

And what's The Swapper?

It's a really well thought-out puzzle game with fantastic hard sci-fi/space race era setting. Everyone should get it.

Also, GoG's sale entered the final 48 46 hours. The Swapper is 50% which is still a steal for such gem, but another game that definitely needs your love is Reus. Do check it out, everyone.

Oh, and Sleeping Dogs caught my eye today on  GamersGate, though sadly the ultimate collection is just 50% off, compared to DLCs that go for 75% off.

[puke]

another game that definitely needs your love is Reus. Do check it out, everyone.

+1 to this.  Played the heck out of it for about 2 weeks, which was well worth the price of admission.

Should go back and play some more now that it has had some updates and added content.

[BigD145]

Oh, and Sleeping Dogs caught my eye today on  GamersGate, though sadly the ultimate collection is just 50% off, compared to DLCs that go for 75% off.

Sleeping Dogs was cheaper than that a couple times this year.

[Mephisto]

One of the recent Humble Bundles comes with three free copies of Insurgency. It says the link can be used up to three times, so here you go.

That was quick. All copies have been claimed.

[nenjin]

I was "eh" on Reus. The core game is the synergies, which is fine for a level or two. But I didn't find it a compelling or addictive experience. I like games meant to be replayed to unlock more stuff, but what there is to play in Reus is plopping down buildings or vegetables, upgrading those things, and seeing if you're getting the maximum synergies possible out of it.

I'm just not one for puzzle games, and Reus is a puzzle game with a God-game veneer.

[puke]

What I enjoyed was finding ways to maximize each point of the resource triangle... or however many sides the figurative polygon had.  Unlocking the pinnacle resources in each biome, and getting the badges for achieving crazy super-optimized resource levels.

Once I had that, there was not a whole lot of replay value.  But it took a while to get there, and certainly enough hours to be well worth the price of the game.  Now I guess there has been some rebalancing, added resources, and added badges.  So it might have some more play value now.

I think the most fun was when I had some world, either with a high density of tribes all carefully balanced or with a couple of extremely powerful tribes.  I often ended up trying to run out the clock before they either killed each other, killed my giants, or I was forced to damage their improvements and lower their production values in order to keep them in check.  There were a few real edge-of-seat moments trying to hold things together.

[BurnedToast]

I was "eh" on Reus. The core game is the synergies, which is fine for a level or two. But I didn't find it a compelling or addictive experience. I like games meant to be replayed to unlock more stuff, but what there is to play in Reus is plopping down buildings or vegetables, upgrading those things, and seeing if you're getting the maximum synergies possible out of it.

I'm just not one for puzzle games, and Reus is a puzzle game with a God-game veneer.

I agree

I played for 2 hours according to steam, about 1 hour of that was the tutorial and the second hour was me trying to figure out wtf the point was.

I can't recommend it.

[Chaoswizkid]

I probably liked Reus better than BurnedToast and nenjin, but I ended up having the same issue as nenjin. At a certain point, to get anywhere, you need to really get into the puzzle aspect of the game while the game itself continuously tries to fuck you over. That's a major part of the game, of course, but when you need near-perfection to advance after an hour of playing, you really don't want the RNG to screw you over.