/v/ - Video Games

>>15996275

Kirby and Animal Crossing.

Hat in Time.

Starfy.

Spyro PS1 trilogy, especially the first, are pretty damn comfy. Though these days I use them more for burnout cures than yearly playthroughs, in favor of working through my lengthy backlog.

>>15996275

Rimworld is pretty comfy.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

>>15996282

I've done everything but Deathwish in a Hat in Time which doesn't make me feel that comfy, but you right. Animal Crossing is good, but only for about an hour at a time until I run out of stuff to do. I'll check out Starfy, since it feels like I should have played one of them by now.

>>15996324

I actually just replayed Spyro 1 to 100% recently so moving on to 2 would be a good idea.

>>15996425

You're right, unless you get a day 3 plague or something. I could give that another go.

>>15996428

Haven't played Majesty or that Dune mod, I'll have to look into that.

>>15996428

Why hasn't Majesty spawned a new genre? The only other game I can think of that is similar is that Crystal Chronicles spinoff for the Wii.

Cloudcatcher is nice and comfy but it's lacking meaningful content.

shepherds crossing psp

>>15997108

I really like the rifle model, I wonder if it was based on a real one.

>>15997108

At least warn him of the corridor like map and the fact that wolves are the only real threat, the game on and above stalker difficulty is just about fighting wolves.

>>15996275

I usually play custom maps on warcraft 3 whenever i need a calming time sink.

>>15997108

I've actually tried this a few times but it doesn't really sit well with me. The ridiculous caloric requirements of your character and the completely obtuse crafting methods coupled with the general disregard for realistic survival skills just flare my autism right up.

>>15997115

The reload animation is nice on it too; surprisingly satisfying for a game that doesn't involve much shooting.

>>15997126

This is fair, I just assumed OP would play on normal if he's going for comfy mode.

>>15997136

Think of it more like time compression. Almost every game does this to an extent. A "survival game" that was realistic would mean your character could survive without water for several days, and without food for weeks if not months. It would just be impossible to make a game that has a manageable day/night cycle that is expected to last for 20+ in-game days before food becomes a major need.

The thing that annoys me the most are the wolves, and largely in concept. In reality, wolves will never attack humans. They just DON'T; that's a shitty Hollywood meme. Could have at least been slightly more realistic by making it be grizzly bears instead.

Stellaris

>>15998354

It doesn't have to be 1:1 but when I played it was just ridiculous.

The solution to the issue is to make food harder to find so the game can have some difficulty without expecting you to cram granola in your face every in-game hour.

Also the process for making bows and arrows is the most retarded bullshit I've ever seen. Yeah let me use to coal to power the furnace of a beached ship so I can smelt down metal and perfectly smith my own arrow heads instead of, I dunno, just cutting up one of the billions of tin cans around or using flint or even just fire-hardening the shit.

>>15998354

The day/night cycle was fucking bullshit, as was a lot of other things. It took such a short amount of time you couldn't get anywhere. If you wanted to be set out, explore a place, then go back, then that place needed to be within sight of your base, or you just wouldn't manage it before nightfall. Wear and tear on the shit you wore was also similarly abysmal, as was the hunger and thirst rate, but at least those were countered by the abundance of food and material that the game threw at you (the moment you learn to poach rabbits and get some knife to kill wolves with is the moment you will never ever go hungry again, and there's clothing lying everywhere).

Unironically minecraft, small survival/architecture server.

>>15999581

Are the mech sections as comfy as they look?

>>15996275

My Time at Portia just came out. It's made by some fag dev team, but I'm going to pirate it and give it a go.

>>15999681

>fag dev team

Isn't it made by Chinks?

Steambot Chronicles is the absolute apex of comfy.

>>15997068

Tropico 4 is one of those games that are shit game-play wise because it's incredibly easy and you swim in money as soon as your first factory pops up, but it still makes you feel the Caribbean sun on your skin on a miserably cold winter night.

>>15996275

But Banished isn't comfy at all! It's like watching a knife slowly draw closer to your throat at an inch per minute. You know it's coming, you're not sure when it will get to you, but it will get to you. You might be able to push the knife back, but it will return eventually.

Sweat pours off your face as you feel the cold hand of famine wrap it's icy fingers around your heart, as you panic to increase production enough to meet the skyrocketing demand, however if you survive, you are only rewarded with even higher demands than before.

>graveyard keeper

>the talos principle

>anachronox

>black and white

>Railroad tycoon

>king of dragon pass

>anno series

>Endless Legend

>startopia

>american truck simulator

>flight simulator

>abzu

The possibilities are endless, OP, but comfyness is a very relative concept. There are people who find conforting to play Unreal Tournament and shoot away countless bodies, you have to find your way.

>>15999735

>Graveyard keeper

Is that any good? I recall seeing a trailer for it and finding the basic concept interesting, but it also looked like one of those indie games that stay in Early Access until the heat death of the universe or, alternatively, get released with one quarter of the features that were promised.

Try Sang-froid on steam, its free (as in it used to cost money and now its free, no microtransactions, its just free to play the full game now), set in post patriot rebellion Quebec Boreal with the devil and natives werewolves, its sort of a trap defense third person shooter with folk music and its got a pretty cool plot, I'd say its pretty comfy alright.

>>15999639

pretty much. also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrx9x7gNY4

>>15999759

Coming to think of it, are there any good mecha / other vehicle-based games with a first-person view and neat rain effects on the windshield?

The sound of the raindrops on the glass is comfy incarnate for me.

>>15999741

It played like borderline mobage to me when I tried it a while ago. Unless they changed something it felt really gated from the get go.

>>15999759

I mean, there's always the ultra comf simulator 2.

>>15999711

Play 5, seriously. You have to power through the Colonial era though. A higher difficulty is literally why I prefer 5.

>>15999956

It's not that I actively dislike 4. It's more that 4 is where I go to when I had a shitty day and/or am drunk, because it still allows you - or rather, especially allows you - to have some relaxing fun even if most of your brain has already shut off.

>>15999921

Empyrion looked good but just empty. I don't get the point of building things if in the end it's never go to mean anything because it's just you in the universe

>>16000052

Is that 4 or 5? These games are so similar that I can hardly tell them apart.

Great suggestions all around guys. I consider this a successful thread.

>>15999735

I realize this, I feel that the original Resident Evil games are comfy as hell to replay, in stark contrast to my younger self. I thought by saying I didn't want to expend a lot of effort it would narrow it down, but I guess when you are skilled enough any game is a breeze.

>>16000065

5. The message box thingy shows which era you are if I remember right.

>>16000120

Oh I've never played 5. Is it better than 3 and 4? I remember liking 3 better for some reason.

>>16000098

>>16000052

5 is piss easy mate what are you even doing

Just fulfill all the mission objectives as soon as they come up (unless you're playing sandbox) and always pick the money (or the tech if you're lagging behind in research), then pump a lot of money into rising wages and having the food for the people edict, also consider giving very shitty communist blocks free rent so less people will try to revolt.

>>16000272

>You have more of these small missions

I think that's what I didn't like about 4.

>>16000033

well, there's multi or playing with some mates.

solo there's the survival aspect so you build shit as part of the progression. building ships is like lego, but that's not for everyone. plus you can put them on the workshop to show around.

>>16000098

i couldnt never get into Tropico 5 as i did with Tropico 4, now citezens dont have individual ideologies and needs, they removed the factions and also no more factions leader advices, Tropico 5 more on advancing eras than devolping the island, also they mixed the population happiness whit the loyalty, now in 5 we just have loyalty that is now approval (inb4, in Tropico 4 happy citizens from unhappy factions, like religious whit no church access, will not rebeld or protest, but this depends how prioritary the religious need is for the individual citizen and how this will impact his happiness).

Also Tropico 6 comes out in March, i think they want to replicate what they did whit Tropico 5.

>>16000052

It's harder but it's still quite easy by city builder standards. All you really need to do though is get like two factories and a good sized army and then you just sit back and collect money and if you want to actually have elections make sure that you are using your propaganda to change people towards whatever you are going for because if you aren't doing commie shit and all your people are commies they are going to fucking vote you right out.

>>16000580

>No nationalist and intellectual faction

>For some reason relgious is opposite to militarist (but i see what they wanted to do)

>No citizen nationality

it's a good game but it feelt like a downgrade rewarding the things i liked from Tropico 4, yet i can't remember what exactly made me quit Tropico 5, i played it in 2017, there was something big that was a deal breaker.

>>16000600

>For some reason relgious is opposite to militarist (but i see what they wanted to do)

It seems you can have both of their favor at the same time, so I wouldn't call them opposites.

>>16000600

Nationalists appear in the final era alongside Globalists. Deal breaker could have been the colonial era because it's just not a good game.

>>16000600

>i played it in 2017, there was something big that was a deal breaker.

Was it the severe drop in map size? Suddenly all the buildings are big but the maps are tiny compared to 4, or even the earlier games.

Also, you can get fucked in the missions if you do the wrong thing too soon (like using up a natural resource just to help your economy then getting a "export X resources" mission later). Or maybe you're thinking of one of your two islands that you've been playing as all this time getting annihilated late in the main story mode

>>16000651

To be fair there wasn't really an option to be anything but a nationalist until recently in history.

>>16000544

sage for double posting

I grabbed a copy of the Tropico 6 beta, intro video is kvetching about walls, the character portrait for the rebel/commie woman has a tumblr nose and they've removed being able to assign citizens as managers to buildings Welcome to new German cuck devs, complete with that renowned German sense of humor.

>>16000660

Oh, but so many flavors to choose from. If they had taken a fraction of what they started with diplomacy and the strategic layer of 2 with this era system it may have been something.

>>16000682

post pics.

>>16000758

It's uninstalled. I'm sure you can find the intro video online and you should be able to see the tumblr nose by googling. Or pirate it yourself.

>>16000682

>>16000769

i chequed, the intro doesnt talk about it, it just signal the current political ambience like it did since Tropico 4, about the game at least there are buses now, you might be right about the art direction since the portraits arent cartoony anymore, really it stands out since Tropico never took itself serious and now we have realistic looking character portraits.

>>16000789

Too bad the world map and fairy town music changes to be less comfy later.

>>15996425

Rimworld used to be comfy in around version 16 now it's just random picking ways to kill you once in for all.

>>16000600

DIGITS

>>16000795

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J448fXXVFI

>"The values of our Island a being threatened by populists and despots"

>"Instead of building walls I will build bridges bringing Tropico's people together rather than separating them"

>"I will bring diversity…"

>cue sorry looking statue of liberty unceremoniously dropped into the water

That's the most subtext heavy intro Tropico has ever done, and yes I've seen one and two. Hell it's pretty much the only Tropico intro to have a subtext at all.

This is the Tropico 4 intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y6Oq_kzwzk, it has no signalling of the current political context it is little more than a sweep over an Island and presidente saying he has big plans.

>>15996275

Kirbys Dream Course