Homeworld Remastered! You just missed a good sale but the game is great, so far. If you like RTS even a little you owe it to yourself to play that game at least once in your lifetime :)
And I heartily recommend the Disgaea series. The new D2 one is a upgraded engine, but is a continuation of the story from the first game. It's really too bad they never did a PC version, but you can get Hour of Darkness on DS or PS3 through the PSN store. Another grindy game, but a blast!
XCOM Long War is a LONG investment, but does totally change a huge chunk of the game and how it plays. As some of the others have said, watch of the LPers on YouTube first, see if you think you might want to try it. BeagleRush is a good one there, I learned a lot from watching some of his stuff.
if you are looking for a good tactics game with a good story I recommend Final Fantasy tactics, or if you are just looking for a good tactics game I recommend Fallout tactics.
Download the latest Beta and play The Long War on Normal with the DLC turned OFF. Look at all the Second Wave options and don't be afraid of ones that help the player.
@TeslaCoil: Thanks for reminding me that I need to catch up with the LP of that! It's a excellent example of the power of a full conversion, lemme tell ya, but it's also bone-bitingly difficult. Bit of a shame, I tried it and couldn't last a month. ;-;
Well, there was recently an update to Knights of the Old Republic 2 that added Steam Achievements and Workshop support for easy modding. Also larger resolutions.
You tried The dragon age games yet? If not I'd recommend them. I find City Builders make for a nice change of pace every once in a while when I jag on more combat focused games. Space Colony, Startopia, and Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom (abandonware) are good ones
The obvious answer for a new game to play is Postal 2: a hyper-violent game that sets out to insult and offend everyone but which can still be finished without killing anybody or breaking the law (yes, even the red-neck chicken gimp-dungeon can be escaped without killing any of the enemies).
Try old school openxcom. They have a Piratez total conversion mod where you play as a band of space pirate babes in the post apocalyptic future where the aliens won. I'm not joking, it actually exists and its glorious.
Jo you should try Valkyria Chronicles if you haven't already. It looks like a cutesy anime game, but it's actually a really good tactical combat game with a fairly mature story. And lots of waifus.
Endless Legend!!!
It is a better civ in a SciFi- Fantasy setting with 8 unique factions from Space Viking to peacekeeping Dragons, from zealous robots to a Hive of the undead, warhungery, parasitic Insects
(super cont.): The gist of above is that I messed with my character's actor values (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Commands_%28Skyrim%29/ActorValues) to run faster, jump higher, one-shot kill with arrows, but have a more human durability. I also disabled fall damage as a concession. YMMV
@Jo Pereira: If you're looking for more turn based, you might try Shadowrun Returns, Dragonfall, or Hong Kong. They're like a gestalt of XCOM and a tabletop game. Or, hell, if you like writing and want infinite re playability for free, you might even try a Play-By-Post tabletop game.
@Joseph Collins: Just save yourself the pain and trouble and watch Zemalf's LP. All the Ironman Impossible with none of the heart attacks.
Also, they weren't kidding when they called that mod LONG War.
@anothga Agreed, a Jane cheesecake or pinup would be grand.
Mr. Al
over 8 years ago
Well Jo, if you want a new game, try the Witcher 3? much better than TW2, but also larger. it's not a "sandbox" like TES games, but it's still open-world, mostly and pretty large. it's like Skyrim's little brother, and if you preferred the original Witcher game over the sequel, you'll like this one.
@Jo
My advice for running Ironman Classic in XCOM: Enemy Unknown?
Don't.
I've heard nothing but horror stories of the game... well... acting as expected (on that difficulty) and kicking peoples' asses six ways from Sunday. If you do play it, just keep that in mind.
@Jay and Snoipah
Oh, Jo does make NSFW content. He just doesn't post it where most people can get at it. The people that can get at it, though? They post it where people can see it.
I would highly recommend Divinity 2 Developers cut. I'ts a highly underrated RPG about a Dragon Slayer who ends up becoming the very thing He/She hunts, a Dragonknight. And you get to be a mother flippin Dragon :)
Unless you can beat Xcom on the impossible difficulty with all the modifiers that help aliens, the long war will fuck you.
First off, everyone can be psionic if they pass the psion test, which is pretty low and never above 90%
Like Marbozir, you can fail repeatedly and never get a volunteer.
How about you make them read youtube comments on political videos?
Look I know they only stole money, but this makes them not want to do anything ever again.
Don't play long war unless you're ready to deal with some SERIOUS bullshit, long war adds a lot to the game but it also empowers the aliens greatly and makes the game way less forgiving
Andrew L. Miller
over 8 years ago
Punishment: Worst 5 video games the artist has ever played, or jokes on what the common worst 5 video games are and they have to play them. Of course the basic punishment is making them turn into eye candy...never works with these girls.
If you play Long War, have two interceptor with stingrays on standby to shoot down or damage high-flying medium UFOs. Those hunt for your satellites. And don't expand satellite-wise to other continents before you have several interceptors with lasers to protect them.
For Dolphin (Gamecube): Megaman X: Command Mission, or .EXE: Network Transmission (earlier this year, I got some hackers together to make a "have all chips" code for it, so I can hook ya up there).
But back to DC2: that's an RPG, so it takes a while to beat.
"Poorer parts of the game", or "parts of the game you'll do poorly at"?
Well, I need to wrap up my Dark Cloud 2 playthrough--- doing a lot of PS2 replays ever since I finally got around to setting up the PCSX2 emulator.
