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2619295 No.2619295 [Reply] [Original]

My friend loves statistical analysis and RPGs, and wants a game that'll let him go totally hog wild analyzing all the different variables. Do you guys have any suggestions? I'm not really a gamer so I have no idea.

>> No.2619311

eve online

>> No.2619309

Wouldn't this thread be better off placed on /v/ or something?

>> No.2619315

>>2619309
I figured you guys would have more specialist knowledge.

>> No.2619316

the stock market

gogogo

>> No.2619320

Adventure mode in Dwarf Fortress.

>> No.2619324

>>2619309
/v/ doesn't play video games.

>> No.2619330

Eve Online.

Micromanage everything. I have a spreadsheet that I can update with prices across the Universe and helps with come up with efficient trade routes to haul around mods.

With that income, I go kill people who do the exact same thing.

>> No.2619338
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2619338

Progress Quest.

>> No.2619355
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2619355

Drakensang 1&2

Or even better, the Realms of Arkania trilogy that happens in the same world, ie. Blade of Destiny, Star Trail and Shadows Over Riva.

But if he wants to die of spreadsheet-related happiness, then Darklands.

>> No.2619365

Ask /tg/, they're the experts on wasting your life playing RPGs.

>> No.2619386

Sounds like that guy would have a ball with Eve.
If things get too out of control he could be running that game in 10 different monitors.

>> No.2619397

>>2619365
/tg/ is made of experts on topic of posting unrelated shit and bawwing about it getting deleted.
>>2619320
DF is extremely advanced, but the variables aren't all visible to the player.

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2619400

>>2619365
A: wasting your life
B: playing RPGs
C: wasting your life playing RPGs

don't generalize

>> No.2619407

>>2619400

What the shit are you talking about? Where did I generalize?

>> No.2619414

>>2619407
If that diagram didn't make it clear, you're not going to get it anyway.

sage since we've exhausted the best examples already

>> No.2619418

>>2619414

Point out where I said anything at all that contradicts your diagram, shit for brains.

>> No.2619428

>>2619400
Actually, Mr. >>2619365 never made any generalizations.
You might be getting defensive over how much time you waste playing RPGs.

>> No.2619442

>>2619407
>>2619418
Uncalled aggresiveness and lack of comprehension isn't gaining you anything.

>>2619428
Yes, yes he did. Also, too busy at work to play games.

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2619462

>>2619428
Not part of the original argument, but Mr.>>2619365 did generalize all RPGs as time-wasters, and Mr.>>2619400 attempted to show him that while some RPGs may be time-wasters, some are not.

>> No.2619491

>>2619442
>>2619462

Samefag. Also no. That is what you INFERRED, not what I WROTE nor what I IMPLIED.

Tl;dr- you're a moron.

>> No.2619499

http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/ranger/


I like this one for that, OP

>> No.2619513

>>2619491
>wasting your life playing RPGs
>RPGs
This is a generalization. You clearly have zero reading comprehension skills.
Have a nice life.

>> No.2619520

the only generalizations he made was that everyone in tg belongs in C

>> No.2619532

>>2619513

You really are thick. "wasting your life playing RPGs" is NOT the same thing as "all RPGs are a waste of your life", nor is it the same as "all time wasting involves RPGs".

>> No.2619580

He should play Academagia. It has so many stats, even /tg/ was like WTF when they first found it

>> No.2619590

>>2619580

Tru dat. Too bad its also unplayably awful in every way.

>> No.2619591

pokemon

>> No.2619596
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2619596

Ahem, to actually stay on topic, instead of posting about reading-comprehension, Nethergate and Avernum are pretty stats-heavy indie rpgs from Spiderweb.

Also Eschalon.

>> No.2619604

>>2619596

Actually this is an excellent suggestion. I personally recommend Avernum II, and also Geneforge. You can buy them (LOL!) from spiderwebsoftware.com, or dl the demo and google a keygen to unlock the whole game.

>> No.2619621

>>2619604
I'd have posted them sooner, but I couldn't remember the names of the games.

>> No.2619669

world of warcraft

also, even if it may sound crazy, pokemon can eat you alive with its statistics

>> No.2619734

>>2619311
Yup, was going to say exactly this.
In fact, this is the great failure of Eve -- the gameplay is really nothing more than solving a spreadsheet. All the battles are just point-and-click, and the winner is the guy who has wasted the most hours of his or her life building up stats.

>> No.2619745

>>2619734
But at least it looks marginally better than Excel.
Frederik Pohl's Space Accountants.