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Other Projects => Other Games => Topic started by: cowofdoom78963 on May 30, 2009, 06:14:36 pm
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As the title shows Im looking for sum lengthy games. I dont care if its by story, addictiveness, or whatever else. Im just looking for something that will last a while.
Please try to keep it offline, and preferably free.
And really, dont even bother with roguelikes, as if it is one. Ive probably already played it.
Anyway thats about it...
I hope you guys can find some good stuff, I sure couldent. :(
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The Longest Journey, maybe?
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Within a Dark Forest
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Well there's the usual:
Tsukihime.
Knytt Stories.
XCOM.
Morrowind.
Warning Forever.
Yume Nikki.
ANYTHING by Nippon Ichi.
I'm sure there's a few more buried around here...
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Are you open to 4X games? In that case, Civilization 4 and especially Galactic Civilizations 2 can certainly be epic on the biggest, slowest map settings.
Civilization: Call to Power (knockoff of Sid Meier's games) was even better if you can find it, because it actually went into the future instead of abruptly stopping at 1995.
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Have you tried Risk? I here that a good game of that can last upwards of 60 hours.
On a slightly more serious note, World of Warcraft. You'll need to invest months to get anywhere, and once you get there, you'll discover another 6 months of trying to get where everyone else is, at which point they'll drop some more xpacs on and make you work for another 8 months.
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XCOM.
Yes. Even better start from XCOM, play though Terror and Interceptor and finish up with Apocalypse. Perhaps throw in Enforcer for the hell of it.
Morrowind.
I found this the most absorbing of the elder scrolls games, so another recommendation. Make sure to get the two expansions as well.
Civilization 4
Galactic Civilizations 2
Pretty much any member of these series can be relied on for epic games. Another in a similar vein would be Alpha Centauri.
Any of the Total War series are also good candidates for epic duration games.
The Baldurs Gate series is another that, if you don't rush to complete the main storyline, has enormous amounts of additional material to discover.
While most of these aren't going to be free they are pretty much all old enough to be found very cheaply in the budget sections of game stores.
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I've played a whole lot of Team Fortress 2 recently (at least 50 hours in the past few weeks). Very addicting and very replayable. I'd suggest that, but you want a game that's offline. =X
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On a slightly more serious note, World of Warcraft. You'll need to invest months to get anywhere, and once you get there, you'll discover another 6 months of trying to get where everyone else is, at which point they'll drop some more xpacs on and make you work for another 8 months.
He wanted a long game, not a treadmill.
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In fact a treadmill would be better for your time and money more than World of Warcraft.
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In fact a treadmill would be better for your time and money more than World of Warcraft.
Oddly so would DDR (Never buy the metalic mats)
Though DDR is so personality dependent. I never bought one after DDR MAX 2 because I never wanted another one.
Let me see a game that eats you time that hasn't been said yet:
Any of the Tycoons: They take a long time to beat and some levels can take hours
-Theme Hospital: I don't care Ill suggest this to anyone! I have yet to beat this since it can take FOREVER!
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Black & White 1, first play the game offline a bit, get used to the controls, learn how to raise your creature blablabla and next, venture online. The official servers are down, but with the phoenix client, people can host games again, it's great.
B&W, yea, I think I've wasted more then 400 hours on it...in 4 months or something 0.o
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Civilization: Call to Power (knockoff of Sid Meier's games) was even better if you can find it, because it actually went into the future instead of abruptly stopping at 1995.
you are not explaining it well. not only it has more turns, but it also has an enormous tech tree (not sure how big, since i lost the map), lots of units, Earth orbit + orbital colonies, sea colonies. and an interesting way of improving the ground.
also, many, and some of them very interesting, wonders. never build AI if you don't need it badly though... risk of riots go down to 0, but there is a small chance every turn that your city will switch ownership to the AI, and you have to retake them. luckly, only units in capital are lost.
i would tell you about some interesting moments in a game i played, but i think this is not the place for that
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Any of the Tycoons: They take a long time to beat and some levels can take hours
This. Specifically, Transport Tycoon Deluxe (best played with Open TTD). Initially you might get disheartened if you go bankrupt due to some bad, yet seemingly unimportant decisions (like assigning too many wagons to a train transporting very little). But once you get the hang of it, you could spend an eternity seeking profits, remodelling your transport networks, buying new models, creating new types of connections, etc.. Also, there is no end. You could end up earning millions a year, the competition may come and go, but you go on with no victory conditions out there.
-Theme Hospital: I don't care Ill suggest this to anyone! I have yet to beat this since it can take FOREVER!
Forever? I'm pretty sure it's got a campaign with a finite number of levels. Last I managed to play, it was going pretty smoothly as well. Unfortunately, last I tried to play, it lagged tremendously and was unplayable for some reason. :C
Speaking of Bullfrog games, Dungeon Keeper and Populous 2. DK being sort of a scenario-baed Dwarf Fortress with evil monsters instead, with possibilities like torture, sacrifices and raising the dead. Populous 2 being more of a level-the-isometric-terrain-for-your-people sort of puzzle than real strategy game, but still featuring some fun stuff like casting earthquake on the enemy settlements. Populous 2 features 1000 levels (semi-randomly generated), but you can move forward several-dozen levels based on performance in the last one.
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Baldurs Gate 2 or Temple of Elemental Evil [RPGs]
King's Bounty - The Legend [Fantasy Strategy]
..and let's don't forget about the Spiderweb Software games! Those are epicly long and awesome. ;)
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Populous 1 was better than Populous 2.
The SNES version was also way more fun due to more crazy worlds, although the controls were kind of lacking.
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The SNES version was also way more fun due to more crazy worlds, although the controls were kind of lacking.
Agreed, but the controls aren't so bad when you get used to them.
Another good SNES game is Metal Max Returns, that one is awesome.
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GalCiv 2 is neat at first but it quickly gets boring with the constant unfunny jokes and what not. Try the Space Empires series if you want a truely epic 4X game. Are you only looking for PC games BTW? Because I have a bunch of PS2 games I could suggest.
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i would tell you about some interesting moments in a game i played, but i think this is not the place for that
Here's one of mine. For once I was actually good well. Massive map, 8 factions, we'd made it well into the Genetic Age. I was slowly building the Space Elevator, and nearly ready to take on all my opponents in open war. All non-essential production was devoted to Public Works (the game's system of improving tiles, no units involved), to turn all the land my cities weren't using into glaciers. Apparently, tiles near those you previously altered counted as close enough to your territory to further alter, so my Ice-9 defensive curtain was spreading over the globe, forcing my foes to starvation and march to me through a frozen hellscape.
Then the power went out, my last save (I wasn't big into autosaving then) hundreds of turns old. I leaned back and gave the ceiling the finger, knowing I was being told not to get too big for my britches.
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O_O I need that game.
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The best thing in Civ4 is extensive modding. I spent hours and days in it.
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Aqizzar, you just made all the crazed dictator lights in my head turn on. I'm gonna go look for that game.
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The best thing in Civ4 is extensive modding. I spent hours and days in it.
Or playing mods. You are sure to waste another 40+ hours playing Fall from Heaven. And perhaps some more hours with the modmods. And so on. Really, CIV4 is a big huge timesink.
Also, the obvious: Dwarf Fortress.
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Are you open to 4X games? In that case, Civilization 4 and especially Galactic Civilizations 2 can certainly be epic on the biggest, slowest map settings.
Civilization: Call to Power (knockoff of Sid Meier's games) was even better if you can find it, because it actually went into the future instead of abruptly stopping at 1995.
So after taking a brief nautical adventure I've been playing Civilization: Call to Power, I have yet to get very far into a game but the mere fact that poppies are available as a resources has sold it to me already.
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The best thing in Civ4 is extensive modding. I spent hours and days in it.
Or playing mods. You are sure to waste another 40+ hours playing Fall from Heaven. And perhaps some more hours with the modmods. And so on. Really, CIV4 is a big huge timesink.
Also, the obvious: Dwarf Fortress.
Yeah, Fall from Heaven is a game in a game. I was tired of Civ4 long time ago but I still play FFH multiplayer a lot.
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I just remembered. Dominions 3 (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/DOM3/DOM3_page.html). Hefty price tag, but it's a pretty unique fantasy game. Basically, you take control of a pretender god, with the ultimate goal of becoming a true god.
Choose among about a dozen unique nations (like a nation of lizardmen or a nation of necromancers), choose your pretender god's physical form (like manticore, blood fountain, monolith, lich, etc.) and conquer the nations of other pretender gods using multi-racial armies and rituals (ranging from raising the dead to changing the world's climate).
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I have tried so hard to like Dominions 3, and yet I can never get into it. Maybe I need to follow a really good guide or something, but even after reading through a nice Let's Play I wasn't able to truly enjoy it.
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I have tried so hard to like Dominions 3, and yet I can never get into it. Maybe I need to follow a really good guide or something, but even after reading through a nice Let's Play I wasn't able to truly enjoy it.
Well, I have found the AI to be truly annoying in the game (constantly avoiding my main armies and going for the less defended provinces) and thus far, the only nation I managed to accomplish anything with was the necro nation. I just kept a horde of necros at the capital and had them keep pumping out hundreds of the undead per turn. Try avoiding my army now, AI! Though later on, the game just became too easy this way.
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Mount & Blade technically never ends, but you're more likely to get bored and quit than take over the whole world map.
Haxima, the first game under the Nazghul engine is an RPG that resembles the Ultima series. Seems fairly open ended, and has entertained me for 5 hours already, even though I've only followed through one plot point. Also, dungeons with actual puzzles.