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  • #41
    Thanks for all the suggestions! Putting the 4070 Ti to good use isn't a primary concern for these button smashers, I mainly meant for more modern stuff since I bought many of the recommendations mentioned here at release. Plus if a game is really good it gets upgraded to KB/M but that's my subjective opinion and no one would know (unless they were psychic!) :p

    To put it succinctly, the perfect game would involve:

    1. Pushing lots of buttons
    2. Gaining levels and/or loot
    3. Pushing lots more buttons

    Some other recent PS4 examples were Trials of Mana and I am Setsuna

    I tried the Tales of Arise demo and the demo at least was a freakin bullseye (they had leveled up characters so it was easy). Picked a Bruce Lee type character that also did shoryukens and just punched and kicked monsters for exactly two hours. Almost beat the second demo boss without paying much attention and by the end when I thought that maybe constantly walking into the "breath of god" boss attack wasn't such a good idea, it was too late. The button smashing technique got me 90% there but it wasn't enough. Turns out it was an optional boss and the demo ended.

    Who has time to smash buttons for two hours? Well, I should fess up. My yearly routine involves me traveling to an eastern land, beyond the blue forest, and into the eastern capital. There I roam the land for a few months and eat everything in sight. When I come back home I paddle for hours on end to lose all the gained weight. Two hours exercise is tough but my love for leveling up and finding loot is tougher.

    After two hours of intense button smashing yesterday, my legs are still super sore. I might even use my HSA card to buy the full version. ;)
     
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  • #43
    orionquest said:
    What about the Batman Arkham stuff?
    Very button clickly and mashing. You do these combos with the more hits you make (button mashing)
    Open world, side stuff, some puzzle to solve, noting mind twisting, levelling.
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    Excellent point! I almost mentioned these in the first post. I used Batman Arkham stuff for this exact purpose in the past.

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    What about MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries: JumpShip Edition ~$35cdn at 50% off on steam?

    Debating on picking it up myself, it has a lot of RPG elements; as in; buying/improving/leveling your mechs, powering up weapons, missions for loot, etc., now it's a FPS-like game, so takes aiming, but reviews seemed positive, not sure if the expansions are worth picking up, maybe..

    There's also the Borderlands franchise, old, futuristic, again FPS, but loot is central, so finding weapons, loots, leveling skills also I think.. It was a fun franchise, difficulty is manageable with bit of grinding and difficulty settings probably. Graphics aren't that bad, given cell shading style, even 1st looks ok imho
     
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    orionquest said:
    Then you will like the Shadow of War/Modor. It Is the same or similar combat system. But with alot more skills and powers.
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    Tried the Shadow of War demo and it was a bit more involved than smashing buttons, but I can deal with having to hold a button as well. ;) It does check the most important boxes so downloading the full version on Steam now. 😊
     
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  • #50
    Diabolical said:
    Did you try the demo for Immortals: Fenyx Rising? Because it honestly sounds like your jam right now, if you haven't played it already.
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    I did try the demo and it sounds like it will fit the bill. Hopefully not too much emphasis on the puzzles. :p Though I'd likely get the base game and not the Gold version with the DC.

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    GirgleMirt said:
    What about MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries: JumpShip Edition ~$35cdn at 50% off on steam?

    Debating on picking it up myself, it has a lot of RPG elements; as in; buying/improving/leveling your mechs, powering up weapons, missions for loot, etc., now it's a FPS-like game, so takes aiming, but reviews seemed positive, not sure if the expansions are worth picking up, maybe..

    There's also the Borderlands franchise, old, futuristic, again FPS, but loot is central, so finding weapons, loots, leveling skills also I think.. It was a fun franchise, difficulty is manageable with bit of grinding and difficulty settings probably. Graphics aren't that bad, given cell shading style, even 1st looks ok imho
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    MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries looks great, but would likely be upgraded to KB/M.

    I played the first couple Borderlands a lot when they were released. Those are definitely KB/M affairs for me.
     
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    Gandhim3 said:
    There is also Hogwarts Legacy (if you can get past the politics)

    Check out the PC ports of the Sony PlayStation Spider-Man games

    I found the story of the first Horizon more compelling then the sequel, and would play though it just go for that.
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    I really wished I could use KB/M with Forbidden West so I'll likely get Zero Dawn but use KB/M with it. But maybe go back and forth KB/M and controller.
     
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    Ardax said:
    My biggest problem with Shadow of War is that it drops you straight into the action. I need a little bit of tutorial town. :D
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    Tell me about it. It's like the opposite of my usual complaint. I don't need an hours worth of tutorials for things that will come down the line (and which the details I will forget about by that time) but give me something before throwing me into the orc horde. :p
     
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    Yagisama said:
    MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries looks great, but would likely be upgraded to KB/M.

    I played the first couple Borderlands a lot when they were released. Those are definitely KB/M affairs for me.
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    Aaah k I missed the no KB/M / really easy part; thought just no ridiculously hard games lol

    BattleTech is the strategy game where you're doing the same stuff in MW universe, turn based, looked interesting.

    I ended up picking up MW5M, it's pretty fun, it's far from being perfect, ex; not as detailed as MechWarriorOnline, can get repetitive quick, etc., so surely has its quirks, and it is very challenging...! It's not super hard, plus there's mods so you can tweak things, but you want to do well otherwise repairs get very expensive, can even blow up your hard-earned legendary weapons or pilots, so there's tension/stress, and to be/do good, you have to be very good... So yeah, definitely no easy... Definitely not a relaxing game, but more a game where you could easily lose yourself in and waste hours of your life away .. lol

    Likely wouldn't qualify it as great, maybe OK'ish, good throwback to the 1st MW Mercenaries game on PC, definitely brings back very cool memories, probably like "...not the hero we wanted but the hero we got". Still pretty solid Mech game, despite all its flaws

    There was also Stellaris in the space/future thing, turn based, with some type of RPG'ish elements... Haven't played, but seems very loved and all, also game you can likely lose yourself in and spend one more for hours!
     
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  • #58
    Hound of Cullen said:
    With the caveat that I haven't played it yet, have you taken a look at Sifu? It is a 3rd person, Kung-fu beat-em-up game with an interesting twist. You can't die, an amulet protects you, but every time you use it, you age, so you go from being a young fighter to, potentially, an old man/woman, still fighting.
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    Honestly, I have Judgment and Lost Judgment a bit higher on the wish list. But I'll probably wait for a bit more price drops since I have more than plenty lower priced stuff for now.
     
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  • #60
    chalex said:
    Based on the fact that you liked FF15 and CP2077, I think you should try these two, on your 4070ti:
    1) Death Stranding
    2) Snow Runner

    Both have good graphics and both are slow delivery games; in DS you walk, in SR you drive a truck but they are very similar. But DS also has a full story with cut scenes, with SR you kind of have to come up with your own story.
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    Bit of an older post in thread, but WTF?

    FF15 and CP2077 are pretty much mainline action RPGs. Death Stranding is on the edge - it's an action RPG with not a lot of focus on the action, but at least it's arguably in the same genre.

    SnowRunner is, however, not at all in any way like the rest of the games mentioned. It's a highly technical driving game, not an action game or an RPG. It's like Euro Truck Simulator but offroad on unpaved trails in bad weather. Recommending SnowRunner based on the games Yagisama listed is like recommending Doom Eternal to someone who said they liked Pokemon since in both you spend a lot of time running around.
     
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    orionquest said:
    Game Pass is a good idea. I subbed for a month, for a $1, and played outer worlds, then cancelled. 😬
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    You can grab a trial if you have YouTube premium (my family watches a lot of YouTube, don't sue me)

    I would second Spider-Man, but I did find some of the fatso enemies to be unnecessarily difficult, and so didn't finish it. (You could say I bounced off them so many times I bounced off the game). But it has such high acclaim, I think it's just me.

    Also, Yakuza Zero. Lots of not-that-difficult but entertaining beat-em-up in a wacky Japan, starring a madman and a meathead. Personally, I played Yakuza (1), in the remastered Yakuza Kiwami, first, and I think playing that before Zero is actually the way to go, because that's the order that the designers developed Goro Majima's character, as the protagonist's (Kiryu Kazama) antagonist.
     
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    So if you liked MH:Rise I'd highly recommend MH: World even though it's older. You can also look at the Sunbreak expansion if you haven't already since it's basically the equivalent of a new game.

    You might need to solo more of the early content just 'cuz most of the online stuff is probably centered around endgame. Overall graphics and world immersion are much better than Rise. Combat is more deliberate, whereas Rise is more arcade-like with more combat options like wirebugs and switch skills. If you get to the end and can solo the final few bosses you will feel a huge sense of achievement that is unmatched by most games.
     
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    cogwheel said:
    Bit of an older post in thread, but WTF?

    FF15 and CP2077 are pretty much mainline action RPGs. Death Stranding is on the edge - it's an action RPG with not a lot of focus on the action, but at least it's arguably in the same genre.

    SnowRunner is, however, not at all in any way like the rest of the games mentioned. It's a highly technical driving game, not an action game or an RPG. It's like Euro Truck Simulator but offroad on unpaved trails in bad weather. Recommending SnowRunner based on the games Yagisama listed is like recommending Doom Eternal to someone who said they liked Pokemon since in both you spend a lot of time running around.
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    Yeah that really caught me by surprise too. At first for some reason, imaged an ice mage, and the name being akin to Shadowrun. Snowrun? Snowrunner? :p

    In any case, I think it came about as a recommendation for higher graphics games, which came about after I mentioned the 4070 Ti, which I probably shouldn't really have brought up. Only reason I mentioned it was I wanted more modern stuff and not 15 year old games like Fallout 3. ;)

    Oh I almost put JRPG in the title but didn't want to restrict things too much and figured the "perfect examples" would probably lead there anyway.
     
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    Elrond said:
    So if you liked MH:Rise I'd highly recommend MH: World even though it's older. You can also look at the Sunbreak expansion if you haven't already since it's basically the equivalent of a new game.

    You might need to solo more of the early content just 'cuz most of the online stuff is probably centered around endgame. Overall graphics and world immersion are much better than Rise. Combat is more deliberate, whereas Rise is more arcade-like with more combat options like wirebugs and switch skills. If you get to the end and can solo the final few bosses you will feel a huge sense of achievement that is unmatched by most games.
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    I didn't enjoy playing MH:Rise with a controller and almost gave up right into it. Then I swtiched to KB/M and everything clicked. I do like it, but mostly because of the cartoony Japanese charm. I spend 3 to 6 months in Japan each year and the stuff in MH:Rise is the Japanese style that I like, unlike the 40 year old boybands, etc. :p

    That said, I will try MH: World but not as a button smasher. 😅
     
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  • #65
    Ardax said:
    Yeah, that's the one. It's a lot of fun, but infected with that mid-2010's collectivitis. Driving around the desert in your car is a hoot though.
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    Very good, added to Steam!

    And as far as collectivitis, that reminds me of an interview with someone who worked on one of the Assassin's Creed games. He said something like we put a million flags everything, assuming no one in their right mind would collect them all. Talk about not knowing your audience. 😅
     
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  • #66
    chalex said:
    Based on the fact that you liked FF15 and CP2077, I think you should try these two, on your 4070ti:
    1) Death Stranding
    2) Snow Runner

    Both have good graphics and both are slow delivery games; in DS you walk, in SR you drive a truck but they are very similar. But DS also has a full story with cut scenes, with SR you kind of have to come up with your own story.

    In terms of "less action, more story", you can do these two:
    1) Red Dead Redemption 2
    2) Disco Elysium

    The second one really has no "action" but both are narration-heavy.

    Also, you don't mention "single player" as a requirement but all the games in this thread seem to be single player only; so here is another list:

    best single player game you liked "recently" on PC?

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    Good call on Disco Elysium. I had that on my Steam wish list and checked it off the list today! But that's not going part of the button smashing time. 😅
     
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    MichaelC said:
    Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla
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    I'm a fan of most of the franchise. The only ones I haven't completed are the original (weird controls), III (I hate the mini-games that are required to advance the main plot) and Liberation (the need to constantly switch between the slave/civilian/assassin identities got old). The early ones didn't really have any leveling, just better gear, but they're still fun games. Syndicate even lets you level two characters at once because it has co-main characters.
     
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    cogwheel said:
    Bit of an older post in thread, but WTF?

    FF15 and CP2077 are pretty much mainline action RPGs. Death Stranding is on the edge - it's an action RPG with not a lot of focus on the action, but at least it's arguably in the same genre.

    SnowRunner is, however, not at all in any way like the rest of the games mentioned. It's a highly technical driving game, not an action game or an RPG. It's like Euro Truck Simulator but offroad on unpaved trails in bad weather. Recommending SnowRunner based on the games Yagisama listed is like recommending Doom Eternal to someone who said they liked Pokemon since in both you spend a lot of time running around.
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    Sure, I see what you mean, but it seems like he has already played all the other games that are similar, or at least all the good ones. So that's a suggestion that's similar in one way. I found aspects of it very like Death Stranding. And it certainly ticks the "complete lots of things" check box in a similar grindy way as many of the other games listed. I ignored most of the "side quests" in Snow Runner and there was still too much to do. I didn't feel Snow Runner was a "highly technical driving game", in that there were not that many aspects of your vehicle or driving that you control, it's mostly about just driving around. But maybe that's just my perspective, I always play ARPGs on easiest mode as I don't enjoy the combat that much, but mostly the story.

    I'm actually playing FF15 for the first time now and on easy mode and I don't really enjoy the combat part of it at all, but on easy mode at least you can just muddle through it without dying. So that's the perspective I'm coming from; not sure how it matches the OP's.

    Disco Elysium I thought of as almost an audiobook.
     
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    chalex said:
    Sure, I see what you mean, but it seems like he has already played all the other games that are similar, or at least all the good ones. So that's a suggestion that's similar in one way. I found aspects of it very like Death Stranding. And it certainly ticks the "complete lots of things" check box in a similar grindy way as many of the other games listed. I ignored most of the "side quests" in Snow Runner and there was still too much to do. I didn't feel Snow Runner was a "highly technical driving game", in that there were not that many aspects of your vehicle or driving that you control, it's mostly about just driving around. But maybe that's just my perspective, I always play ARPGs on easiest mode as I don't enjoy the combat that much, but mostly the story.

    I'm actually playing FF15 for the first time now and on easy mode and I don't really enjoy the combat part of it at all, but on easy mode at least you can just muddle through it without dying. So that's the perspective I'm coming from; not sure how it matches the OP's.

    Disco Elysium I thought of as almost an audiobook.
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    Considering FF15 is the second "perfect example" in the OP, that'd be a not a very good match. ;)

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    That's probably double the hours since I left it open in the background most of the time. :p
     
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    Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, what about Control? It'll push your 4070Ti (it isn't quite CP2077, but it is one of the more demanding titles) and it is at least ARPG-adjacent (it's kinda like the Castlevania end of metroidvanias in structure and character progression), and generally considered to be a good game. Compared to your desires, it isn't open world (it's indoors with a mostly single large map, so again more metroidvania-like) and it might be slightly more difficult (there were a few fights I had issues with, but then again I had issues with a few of the Cauldron fights in Horizon Zero Dawn because I wasn't using enough of my range of weapons) than you're looking for.

    Story/setting-wise it's basically SCP - modern day with weird creepy stuff. Maybe not enough sci-fi for what you're looking for, but at least it isn't another standard high fantasy setting.
     
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    cogwheel said:
    Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, what about Control? It'll push your 4070Ti (it isn't quite CP2077, but it is one of the more demanding titles) and it is at least ARPG-adjacent (it's kinda like the Castlevania end of metroidvanias in structure and character progression), and generally considered to be a good game. Compared to your desires, it isn't open world (it's indoors with a mostly single large map, so again more metroidvania-like) and it might be slightly more difficult (there were a few fights I had issues with, but then again I had issues with a few of the Cauldron fights in Horizon Zero Dawn because I wasn't using enough of my range of weapons) than you're looking for.

    Story/setting-wise it's basically SCP - modern day with weird creepy stuff. Maybe not enough sci-fi for what you're looking for, but at least it isn't another standard high fantasy setting.
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    Oh I absolutely love Control (and Alan Wake too) but it's definitely a KB/M game for me. I played it with a 970 a while back so I'm thinking of restarting it with the 4070 Ti with RT,etc. I did try it with higher settings last month. Plus there's the optional boss in the basement area that I never got to and completely forgot its location. :p

    But yes, Control is an amazing mix of SciFi and satire. Don't get me wrong, I love high fantasy but I loooooove SciFi. 😅

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    I did all the weapon upgrades in Horizon Forbidden West and that involved shooting the tail of dozens of robo dinsosaurs and that was the max of my controller ability. :p I got Zero Dawn on Steam so that may go to KB/M as well. But that one's much more doable than Control so maybe I can use the controller there after all.
     
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    I should fess up again, but this time with much less cryptic language.

    The goal of these button smashers is to have something to keep me busy during exercise.

    Case in point "Tales of Arise" has been perfect since it has leveling up, skill point gained per battle, AND leveling up individual attacks. There's some basic button timing to evade, some rotating attacks, and some team attacks. No real aiming so I can power level while powering through the exercise.

    2+ hours of intense high resistance paddling is tough but my love of seeing numbers go up is way tougher. I usually only stop because of sorrus buttus. My legs are on fire after tonight's two hour session. Now if only I could use a controller with feet. 😅

    Leveled up a basic attack and all I had to do was use it 3000+ times!

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    AND fighting slavers in one area and the secret police in another. Great motivation to beat up these guys and not stop! :p

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    I also got Ni no Kuni 2 on Steam so I'll try that next.
     
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    I've tried all those. The dance games, the Japanese taiko games, etc. None of them really hold my interest long. And worse, they really do feel like exercise. On the other hand, 2+ hours of the button smashing goes by before I know it.

    Infamous Second Son on the PS4 was the best button smasher ever. I had my annual checkup right after that and my doctor asked how I had lost so much weight. I made a silly joke about the "thermodynamics diet" but I kept my button smashing routine a secret. ;)
     
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