Sat in a coffee shop innocently perusing the forum i was redirected to RPS by a thread whereby i bumped into a Humble Bundle sale post over there telling me Ark is 50% off - something ive been watching
but then theres damn Huw and his Wurm stories
any thoughts on either chaps?
To be blatantly honest im sitting and waiting for XCOM 2 in 4 weeks and have plenty of games but the whole, heres your stick now go build a house and fend for yourself thing intrigues me
Damn you Huw! Damn yous!!
Quote from: Nefaro on January 18, 2016, 10:55:52 AM
Damn you Huw! Damn yous!!
Why thank you! :)
Geek, funny you should mention Ark. I literally just bought it yesterday and I was going to mention it as soon as I saw your thread title. I haven't played much yet (my Steam profile includes time spent from a free weekend a few months back) but what I have seen is really, really good. There's no beating that feeling on washing up on some sun-kissed short wearing nothing but a pair of pants, and looking up and seeing a goddamn 50-foot tall dinosaur eyeing you warily!
It's very tough to begin with as you literally have nothing; even getting wood means bashing a tree which actually decreases your health. But with a bit of patience (and running into the sea whenever a Raptor passes by) you'll soon have a little thatch hut, some clothes and tools, and then you're onto much more interesting stuff like taming dinosaurs (I haven't done that bit yet).
From what I gather online is the way to go, which I have yet to try but may well do this evening.
You also mention Wurm Online - it has its claws deep into me, but it's not for everyone. It takes commitment, and you need a great deal of patience to play it. If I'm completely honest I don't recommend it as something to play while waiting for XCOM 2. You need to be in for the long haul to get anything out of it.
hmmm it might be ark then - at £13 its not a great risk - thanks huw, i figured wurm was a soul stealer and wasnt sure whether i was ready to jump in - i love the idea, but all things are dropped on xcom day, until warhammer day
Yeah definitely go for Ark then mate. It's a beautiful game. I might even see you online!
will deffo play online but dont know whether to go for the whole hermit thing, build a farm, some walls, and a gun, or join a tribe
A.R.K. was pretty rough the last/first time I tried to play; but even then, obviously a ton of people were having a blast with it. It's something I'm looking at getting back into, to try again. But first Imma gonna try to get off Omicron (if not out of the system) in Empyrion.
I've also played about 30 minutes of Savage Lands which I feel like I must be doing something wrong on as I can't access a fire and lean-to I found, and the game expects me to build my own -- although to what purpose I don't know, since I can't access the lean-to I found for no reason! What does it do? (Note that I'm a singleplayer game, so it isn't like those things belong to another player and are somehow blocked from access.) Nice looking fantasy/viking survival game though. I'll no doubt return to it later.
Once nice thing about SL is that the game has a verrrrry nice techbook; not hugely extensive, but with large clear pictures and descriptions, plus a newbie checklist to get started.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on January 18, 2016, 11:23:41 AM
...even getting wood means bashing a tree...
Boasting again?
Quote from: Huw the Poo on January 18, 2016, 11:23:41 AM
...which actually decreases your health.
Hairy palms? Blindness?
Subnatica just got a nice update.
I love this type of game, but I haven't gotten Arc simply from reading that it is not a fun solo friendly game and can take significant time investment to capture/tame large dinosaurs. I mean hours in real time.
My A.R.K. experience was, roughly in this order:
1.) Spend a foolish amount of time designing a tall black woman for a character. (I was born a poor black woman in the etc.)
2.) Spawn into the world and wander around a few minutes dealing with the janky control scheme.
3.) See some dinos at a distance. Decided to keep my distance.
4.) Went into the shade of trees off from the beach, to keep from overheating. (I'm wearing next to nothing, how could I ever possibly avoid overheating???)
5.) Starving, I creep up on a dodo (I think), punched it to death (I think), couldn't figure out how to eat it.
6.) Creep farther into the trees to get away from naked heat, found only darkness and heavy breathing. Not a euphamism.
7.) Something hunts me in the noonday darkness under the trees, until it finally finds and kills me.
8.) I spawn back somewhere else on the island, still near the beach but farther back and up a cliff.
9.) Almost immediately sniffed out by a TRex.
10.) TRex chases me. Only one place to run away from faster TRex.
11.) I hurl myself off the cliff denying the TRex its dinner, laughing maniacally as I doom it to slow starvation I hope.
12.) Spawned in again, still near beach, who knows where else on island, this time at night.
13.) Earth was immediately shaking. Still not a euphamism.
14.) Apparently a bronto or brach or something disapproved of me spawning underneath him, and stomped me to death at night while I tried in vain to avoid his legs and get away.
15.) Quit the game and went back to playing Far Cry 3 instead.
16.) Still of the opinion that whoever first creates a good Far Cry dino game will print all the money.
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Pick up 7 Days to Die. I promise you won't regret the purchase if you have any interest in zombies and survival.
Quote from: Bison on January 18, 2016, 01:52:43 PM
Pick up 7 Days to Die. I promise you won't regret the purchase if you have any interest in zombies and survival.
Not really a lover of the zombies
Just buy it on Steam Geekypoos
The Forest is fun and scary as hell if you like cannibals and mutants. Otherwise subnautica, Stranded Deep are fun to pass the time. They all are in beta so new features are being developed and released.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on January 18, 2016, 02:03:06 PM
Just buy it on Steam Geekypoos
For twice the price grrrrr gnash!
Thanks bison - I think I'm sold on ark
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 18, 2016, 01:57:07 PM
Quote from: Bison on January 18, 2016, 01:52:43 PM
Pick up 7 Days to Die. I promise you won't regret the purchase if you have any interest in zombies and survival.
Not really a lover of the zombies
I hate zombie games, and I love 7DtD. Just saying.
7 Days really is the best sandbox survival game out.
It isn't that it doesn't do everything better; but that it does a number of things very well in a synergistic way. Its limits are deep but limited enough to keep things focused, if that makes any sense.
Empy is really quite a different game, with (so far) a very different mood. ARK from everything I've seen and the little I've played, is both unbalanced in favor of the environment and in favor of the players (if you survive and team up enough) which makes it feel schizy.
At the moment, I'd say the next game with the potential to un-niche 7DtD is Savage Lands. I don't know that the island is randomgen, and it surely isn't as large, but the general deep-limited scope feels the same -- accomplish surviving and thriving with the ass end of technology, and nights that you'll fear coming -- but with a wider set of threats and a clear final boss goal to win the game, namely the dragon.
Life Is Feudal: Your Own
http://store.steampowered.com/app/290080
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There was a period on steam, where they all spawned en masse like locusts.
And they are all terrible.
Have any of you played Planet Explorers? I haven't played much of it but it looked very promising indeed. A colony system, some kind of monorail transportation, automated defenses and various other loveliness. They've just released a reportedly huge 0.9 update so I'm tempted to go back in and have a look when I eventually have some time.
Are there even any good (singleplayer) sandbox-ish survival games that have been fully released? (not Early Access)
Life Is Feudal looks like it's designed solely for MP.
I think several people here will testify that 7DtD makes a good single-player game. For that matter, the map is so freaking huge that you could play the Groghead Invitational as, in effect, a single player -- some players do that.
True, it's still technically Early Access, but the game might as well be in full release. It's only technically alpha because they keep adding things. Also the pure single-player campaign may have an end-goal of some kind (I don't know for sure).
My Empy campaign (see the AAR category for the first few days here on Grogheads) has so far been a good single player experience; but I haven't put nearly the time in it yet. I wouldn't have bought it if the impression from the forums wasn't that it worked well single player, though, and I can see how that would be true. The devs conservatively list it as pre-alpha, but it plays like a full release with regular free updates.
It isn't a FPS or 3PS sandbox, but Don't Starve was built from the ground up as a single player experience, and has been in full release for a while. Your mileage may vary at the cutsey woodcutterish art style, but it's a very legitimate randomgen survival game (with an end game goal, to make the machine again that got you there in the first place).
Subnautica seems to be the best underwater survival game at the moment, and very much a single-player game. Gorgeous and again only technically early access, plays like a full game with occasional free expansions.
I hear really good things about Salt, which seems to be the best of the upper-sea survival games currently. (Stranded Deep has been having increasing problems.) Again, practically a full release game already, with regular updates.
I'm hearing ridiculously good things about Fortresscraft Evolved, which is so single-player designed (but can still be played multi co-op) that industrial assembly lines are part of the game design. Mind-shrivelingly huge industrial assembly lines -- the point being that you make your own co-op partners in game to work for you doing things while you're off doing something else.
I'll second Don't Starve, it's a lovely, strange, amusing little game. Try to read as little as possible about it before playing, though.