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Thanks to everybody who gave me game recommendations a few days ago! We got Steam today! :D We bought Binding of Isaac for now, but I have other games you guys recommended on the list! I'm so excited to be playing new games!

Who else is on Steam? What games do you like to play?

--Sneak

You should add me on steam! My username is Lurk and the icon is a dino!

What kind of games do you all like?

Yay! Okay! I have absolutely no idea how the community side of Steam works; I'm really new to it. ^_^; I can't seem to find you. <.< There's over two thousand people named Lurk, and I haven't run across a dino icon yet. Our username is loonybrain, though obviously there isn't much yet!

We like platformers, old-school adventure games, and things with psychological horror but aren't straight-up horror. Thomas Was Alone pretty much gave me everything I could ever want in a game; I love jumping games. @_@

--Sneak

Hello! I don't know what games you have played, but I am like a HUGE puzzle platformer adventure typey gamey fan and I thought I could rec you some of mine. You did say Thomas Was Alone gave you everything you wanted, but honestly I think it's somewhat mediocre compared to a lot of the other fantastic offerings out there - which actually in my opinion is a great thing 'cause it means there's TONS more that you can and should totally try!

Some staples of the genre:

- Limbo (would be surprised if this hasn't been recced yet)
- Braid (same)
- Mark of the Ninja (technically stealth platformer, but holy crap, this game is SO GOOD, seriously absolutely try it)
- The Fall (recent adventure game, you might like it!)
- The Swapper (interesting puzzle mechanic, platformer type game)
- Year Walk (fun little horror game, it has a good internal logic to it)
- EVERYTHING FROM WADJET EYE adventure games but primarily: Primordia (must play, post apocalyptic awesome robots), Gemini Rue (seriously good noir science fiction) and the Blackwell Series (holy shit, a multi episodic game that actually comes to a REALLY satisfying ending)
- VVVVVV (if you are feeling masochistic play this - it's difficult but fair at the same time, and way more fun than it looks)
- Never Alone (nnnot actually an amazing platformer, but actually a really good game overall for plot and design)

Can I add in Nihilumbra? I forgot to mention it in the last thread. It's a platformer with a color-painting mechanic. You can make the ground blue and slippery so you can build up momentum for long jumps, or green and springy so you can bounce off it, or put slippery ground underneath a monster to propel it into a sticky brown wall . . . It's pretty inventive.

That's... basically the paint mechanic in Portal 2 (2011), which they took from Tag: The Power of Paint which was a Digipen student game from 2009, so while the game's presentation might be interesting, that particular colour-painting mechanic is hardly original or inventive in any way.

Oooh, I've heard of Limbo and Braid! I will have to check them out! What's Year Walk's premise? And Wadjet Eye sounds reeeeeally interesting!

--Sneak

Wadjet Eye is good games, generally. They're one of the best publishers for adventure games now, and I'm looking forward to the upcoming Technobabylon.

Year Walk is very short - took me under a couple of hours to finish. It's exactly as it says: there is a custom where you take a walk at the end of the year and try to see into the future. On the way you encounter things. It's hard to talk about it more without spoiling what sort of stuff comes up. I didn't find it horrific or scary as much as eerie, which seems to be what they were going for.

Re: Steam!

lb_lee - 2015-05-05 03:25 (UTC) - Expand

Haha you're lucky it's my lunch break! I'll log on and try to find you.

Amnesia is more psychological than straight up horror. Hmmm old school games. Age of Empires is a goody?not an adventure game tho... Sorry I'm useless XD

I've seen Let's Plays of Amnesia, but I think it'd scare me too badly to play it myself! *laughs*

--Sneak

Okay I'll have to add you when I get home cause I can't work out how to use web steam :s also gives me Time to think of games XD

Worked it out! Invite sent :D

Edited 2015-05-05 02:59 (UTC)

I like platformers, adventure games, and sometimes RPGs. Shooters can be fun, too, but I like them best when they add cool mechanics besides the shooting (like magic or telekinesis.) I'll dip into anything from stealth to survival horror if it looks cool enough, but I've never found a taste for full-on puzzle games like Osmos. I also suck at anything that requires practical physics. (World of Goo is endless suffering for me.)

My Steam name is feot269.

Sadface. Apparently I can not friend anybody, because we bought Binding of Isaac through Humblebundle, so we have to spend more money to be able to friend people. T_T I will try again when we have bought another game, but that won't be at least until next month.

I've never tried survival horror. Anything involving a lot of combat tends to be not my thing. I haven't heard of World of Goo!

--Sneak

Survival horror is less about combat and more about... surviving, generally. Something like Outlast has basically 0 combat, it's mostly stealth and running away or trying not to be caught and working out solutions to puzzles. I don't think there's anything where you have to spend money to friend people or if there is I've never heard of that. What sort of message are you getting when you try to do that? Can you post a screenshot?

The message I'm getting is just, "Your account does not meet the requirements to use this feature. Visit Steam Support for more information." And that page leads to this.

--Sneak

That's weird. But should stop when you purchase a game? Which I imagine will happen eventually. O_o

Re: Steam!

lb_lee - 2015-05-05 03:21 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Steam!

insanenoodlyguy - 2015-05-05 03:09 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Steam!

lb_lee - 2015-05-05 03:27 (UTC) - Expand

"I've never tried survival horror. Anything involving a lot of combat tends to be not my thing."

There are two very different perspectives on survival horror, with an awkward middle ground in between.

First you've got stuff like Resident Evil or The Suffering, where you're shooting monsters left and right. I like that, but it's probably not your thing. (The Suffering is my favorite game ever.)

Then in the middle there's stuff like Silent Hill, where you can kill the monsters, but it's clumsy and awkward and you're supposed to prefer running away. That kind of sucks, at least in my opinion (though you could argue that Fatal Frame found the best balancing point.)

And on the far end, you've got games where you can't do squat to fight back. All you can do is sneak around, and if the monsters see you, you'd better run like hell. A lot of horror fans claim this is "true" horror and everything else is just action. Amnesia is the most popular of the recent games in this style. (You could also make a case for Five Nights at Freddy's, but that veers pretty far from the usual gameplay style.)

As for World of Goo, it was an indie darling a while back. You connect goo balls to create structures, and other goo balls can travel across the limbs of those structures. The more goo balls reach the level exit without being used, the more points you earn. I often screwed up and made my structure collapse in a heap, wasting all the goo balls that went into building it.

Yeah, I enjoy watching other people play things like FNAF and Amnesia, but don't think I would like it very much myself. I would get too scared. I end up really enjoying RPGmaker horror games, because they tend to involve lots of puzzles and stuff too!

World of Goo sounds interesting! I might check it out.

--Sneak

State of decay is a survival horror! Killing is an option but likely to get you dead and once that person dies they are dead ingame forever. No reloading :( it's not too scary but I've had hair raising moments. And flounced over people death a lot.

Oh no! Foreverdeath in games would make me so sad! <.< I am such a wuss.

--Sneak

Re: Steam!

caerbannog - 2015-05-05 03:03 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Steam!

lb_lee - 2015-05-05 03:19 (UTC) - Expand

Insanenoodlyguy :)

I like TF2 but I haven't played in a while. Play lots of binding of issac actually but I'd still love to chat with anybody! Or maybe find somebody to do some saint's row multi with...

Edited 2015-05-05 02:54 (UTC)

Sneak: I've always wanted to try TF2, but I suspect I would be very bad at it. T_T

Rogan: Oh my god, Binding of Isaac is so addictive. It is just what I needed tonight.

I'm trying to add you but it can't find you? :(

I sent you an invite. I guess my username is different than my login name?

Edit: Minstrelofmoria. Sorry, everybody.

Edited 2015-05-05 03:15 (UTC)

I am!

I play a variety of games, but my current installed games are: Dark Souls 1 and 2, Skyrim, GTA5, Half-Life 1 (for mods), Organ Trail, and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. Also have Injustice: Gods Among Us downloading at the moment.

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