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Xan Krieger

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As a certain singing crab once said everything is better down where it's wetter. In going with that belief what are your favorite games set at sea or under it?

I've been playing a good bit of Subnautica lately, a friend of mine bought it for me for Christmas and I love the premise and the recent H2O update was pretty awesome. That said resources are becoming harder to find resulting in longer treks to find more resulting in boredom, would be nice if there was an ocean current or something that brought in more at set intervals. This isn't minecraft where I can make a mansion of cobblestone and dirt, you need specific resources to make a station worth anything.

Depth is one of the scarier FPS games in that it doesn't rely on gore or jumpscares, people are generally afraid of being eaten by sharks and underwater you can't see far which only makes it worse. Also who didn't shit themselves the first time they saw the megalodon in the megalodon hunt mode? This gets turned around when you become a shark in which case it's so devilishly fun to sit on the other side of a wall from a diver just to get his heart racing.

Apart from these two that I know are good what else is down there worth playing?
 

MysticSlayer

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I'm just going to state the obvious: BioShock

Sure, you aren't get wet (for the most part), but it is set at the bottom of the ocean, so I'm counting it.
 

Xan Krieger

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MysticSlayer said:
I'm just going to state the obvious: BioShock

Sure, you aren't get wet (for the most part), but it is set at the bottom of the ocean, so I'm counting it.
It's without a doubt a great game so I'm kinda on the fence. I've played through it at least twice and this reminds me, need to play the 2nd one. I know Yahtzee hated it but on the upside I get to use a drill on people. 8.2GB download taking about 2 hours, I'll have an opinion of it sometime tomorrow. As for the first one.......alright it counts, especially since the setting wasn't just your typical underwater facility, it was a whole freakin 1950s era city.
 

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Xan Krieger said:
I've played through it at least twice and this reminds me, need to play the 2nd one.
BioShock 2 isn't anywhere near as bad as some make it out to be. On its own right, it is a good game, perhaps even great. The problem is that it is an obvious cash-in on the success of the first, and it shows quite a bit. On top of that, it comes in already comparing itself to one of the best games ever, and being just an above average game, it came up tremendously short. That doesn't help its case that much.
 

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I tend not to think of BioShock as an aquatic game since, you know, there's no swimming (intro notwithstanding).
Paradoxically, that makes BioShock my favorite aquatic game.
 

Xan Krieger

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MysticSlayer said:
Xan Krieger said:
I've played through it at least twice and this reminds me, need to play the 2nd one.
BioShock 2 isn't anywhere near as bad as some make it out to be. On its own right, it is a good game, perhaps even great. The problem is that it is an obvious cash-in on the success of the first, and it shows quite a bit. On top of that, it comes in already comparing itself to one of the best games ever, and being just an above average game, it came up tremendously short. That doesn't help its case that much.
I gotta say we're off to a great start, had my headphones on, really enjoying the opening, then as soon as I pick up the rivet gun it crashes to the desktop without even giving me an error message. Since I paused the download a few times to do other things online last night let's verify the game cache.... all files validated, gonna try again later.
 

reg42

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Literally all that's popping in to my head right now is Freddy Fish.

Them's were the days
 

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A little-known PS2 game by the name of Sub Rebellion.

To describe it im just going to leave a gameplay video, as the game is rather unique in nature and ive not seen its like since i first got in back the early 00's.

 

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Throw in another like for Depth. It's honestly great fun. More impressive is it does actually have offline bot support, and on the higher difficulty settings the AI is a proper challenge. As someone who only plays bot mode in MP games these days it's a great feature. All the maps are very well designed, with the more claustrophobic cave and mine style maps being my favourites.

It is also legitimately terrifying at times. When all the other divers are dead and you start to hear the heartbeat, your own heart stops.
 

Xan Krieger

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baddude1337 said:
Throw in another like for Depth. It's honestly great fun. More impressive is it does actually have offline bot support, and on the higher difficulty settings the AI is a proper challenge. As someone who only plays bot mode in MP games these days it's a great feature. All the maps are very well designed, with the more claustrophobic cave and mine style maps being my favourites.

It is also legitimately terrifying at times. When all the other divers are dead and you start to hear the heartbeat, your own heart stops.
The only downside is how rarely you get to play as a shark since they're outnumbered 2 to 1. Another thing I love is how the developer keeps supporting the game, it's not one of those where it gets released and that's the last you hear of them.

kiri3tsubasa said:
Wow, no one else mentioned Subnautica. I am disappointed.
I did, been enjoying it a lot lately. Had a gloriously dumb moment yesterday when I attached floaters to a boulder blocking a cave, the rock went up, right into my base. Thanks to bulkheads only half the base flooded while I then set out to find what I needed to build a blowtorch.
 

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reg42 said:
Literally all that's popping in to my head right now is Freddy Fish.

Them's were the days
HAH yeah, I'll second this - real water's fine with me (as is the ocean, sharks, etc) but water levels in video games scare the bajeezus outta me so other than Freddi Fish, I can't really think of any games (other than Bioshock) that are aquatic that I enjoyed.
 

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Does Blackflag count? Probably not. But why didn't that spawn a host of copy cat pirate games. I loved sailing in it.

Stranded Deep I got when it was hugely on sale, so I only payed ~4 AUD or something for it. I had a lot of fun, though clearly it's EA. I enjoyed the lack of a hud and having to actually use compass bearing. I might come back once you can build larger rafts with houses on them.
 

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Since no one mentioned it: SOMA! Philosophical horror stuff in an underwater setting? Count me in!

As for a really old game that I loved when I was younger: Subculture. Something like Elite in an underwater setting.
 

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Subnautica could be pretty great when it gets further along. As it is now, it's a bit barebones and you can feel like you've done everything within a few hours. What's there is decent though, if slightly unpolished.
 

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Ecco 2: The Tides of Time holds a special place in my nostalgic little heart. The first game is pretty good too but I have some issues with it. Tides of Time was a vast improvement.

I like Wind Waker. I found the dungeons to be a bit lacklustre but the overworld is amazing.

There was a game released recently called The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human. I probably can't consider a "favourite" since I only just discovered it and have only played about an hour of it but I'm loving it so far. The premise is that you left Earth and went through some kind of wormhole, only to return tens of thousands of years later to find the planet flooded and humans extinct. It's an underwater Metroid-ish game with a bit of a Titan Souls vibe in regards to atmosphere and boss design.