There are many games about managing spaceships (my personal favourite is Star Traders: Frontiers), but I’ve never heard of spaceship management games in a more isolated/long term environment.

This is an interesting concept, curious if this has been explored.

It just got releases and it’s an indie game, might take some time. :)

I get what you mean, but not everyone is knowledgeable about strategy games. Falling Frontier was a nice discovery for me.

I usually add store links if I am sharing trailers, this time I forgot. :)

They didn’t include Sia - Cheap Thrills in the OST?

Energy Weapons; sort of weird one. Early game can be really challenging, but as the game progresses, you become much more proficient (I guess this is true on some level of all builds).

I’ve actually never done a full run with a dumb build (just the intro part in FO2).

I don’t think anyone has any examples (I am personally more into strategy games or open source engines for older games).

I think New Vegas is fine if you like RPGs, the 16 year evolution from 2010 to 2016 is a lot less than say from 1994 to 2010.

For whatever reason, I can’t get into RPGs made before 95 or so. I am OK with some pre-1995 releases in other genres (strategy, adventure), but with RPGs the UI is particularly annoying and I also find pre-1995 RPGs tend to be very combat focused (there is a lot of combat in say FO1, but also a lot of conversations and alternative approaches).

Great list! Some games that I’ve never heard of!

Shout out to Colony Ship! I just started it today and I am loving it. It’s a great modern evolution of the FO1/FO2/Arcanum formula from the creators of Age of Decadence.

I am also not sure that Morrowing would clarify as “middle of the road” by modern standards. It can be a pretty tough and confusing game if your baseline is Obsidian’s or Bethesda’s recent output.

This reminds of the overworld in Hammerting (a good game that unfortunately didn’t reach it’s full potential, I got my monmey’s worth for it though).

Nah, people look for different things in RPGs.

Not to mention that IMO doesn’t really apply to some nerdy video game discussion.

Check out: !crpg@lemmy.world

I mod/curate there too, mainstream CRPGs make up most of the content, but indie CRPGs are definitely covered.

I am totally good with isometric turn-based RPGs, that’s mostly what I play these days.

That being said, I wouldn’t mind a real sequel to VTMB or even a more RPG-focused Alpha Protocol.

That ship has sailed.

That being said, there are lots of good indie RPGs with a similar setting; UnderRail, Atom RPG, Space Wreck.

The biggest issue is that indies struggle with making third-person fully 3D RPGs.

Tactics is a solid release, just not my kind of game.

There is a reason why some of us only like FO1/FO2 and New Vegas.

That’s true, but I think we need to move beyond half measures and in a way, now is the perfect time to do this.

I do not really consider Android to be “Linux” (in terms of what it stands for). It’s a proprietary operating system from Google that uses an open source kernel.

The bigger issue is that they still haven’t really addressed the major issues with the latest release.

City of Lost Children is Great!

One random one with him that I like (even though it’s not a great movie) is the Desperation, based on the Stephen King novel.