I’ve been playing Silent Storm a 2004 strategy RPG that is a total hidden gem. A little primitive but it feels a bit like the battle system from BG 3 with guns.
Silent Storm was a fun turn-based tactics game! Not as polished as something like the Firaxis xcoms, but more complete than a lot of other non-fantasy tactics games I’ve tried.
Well 2 months later I have beaten both Xcoms. Thanks for the tip they were a lot of fun.
Sounds like I should try XCom. I bought every Humble Bundle for a couple years from it’s inception and I have 800+ games in my Steam library. I just played Silent Storm randomly and blind and was surprised.
Sounds like you guys might like The X-Com Files. A mod for the original.
Thanks for the suggestion. Stated playing XCF and I’m hooked. I previously bounced off an attempt at playing open xcom, but XCF has been a good experience so far.
Glad you like it. It has no right to be this good and campy but somehow I also can’t put it down.
If you want something even more crazy another guy made X-Pirates on the XCOM engine. It’s a catgirl post-apocalyptic pirate mod (NSFW, yeah, not kidding).
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The year is 2601. The Earth has been long conquered by aliens. You run a gang of female mutant pirates. Rob aliens and their human proxies for fun, profit and power. Features: - Fight nazis with chainsaws as scantily-clad big mutant ladies, Heavy Metal style! - Meet and kill (or capture, ransom, interrogate, enslave) a wide variety of strangers, belonging to over a dozen of factions! - Explore absolutely enormous technology tree! - Approach tactical problems in an endless variety of ways! - Figure out riddles and riddles within riddles! - Cozy up to Amiga-age gfx and music, while the globe mysteriously spins in darkness! - Read (a lot) or Die! - Around 400 hours of gameplay; in active developement; no two games are the same. - Warning: contains non-sexual nudity (15+) and other content that might be not suitable to US audiences.
Half Life: Opposing Force
Never played it before and the movement feels a lot faster than modern games. Its a good and fun game.
Yeah growing up with that and quake 2 modern games always feels like im running in quicksand or my controls are broken.
Thankfully we have Xonotic
Awesome I have never heard of this and I will be checking it out
Xonotic is from a different reality were competitive movement shooters never died! It is the active fork of what used to be called Nexuiz.
Xonotic runs on the darkplaces engine, it isn’t just stylistically of the arena shooter era it is directly descended from quake and the lot.
Playerbase is small but consistent, Xonotic is very easy to download game (it is on several linux repos for one) so there are always new people wandering in and a solid community of veterans.
High level competitive gameplay is absolutely wild!
Xonotic “defrag” is a community of people who just strafe jump race, Xonotic is very popular for that given the buttery dream-like highspeed movement.
(beginner tip the blaster is your best friend, you always spawn with it and it massively elevates movement in Xonotic)
