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Correct. You can switch between 3 main character while in single player, and once you switch to your Online character you go online.

What kind of open world sandbox game are you looking for. GTA V is nice, but there's also Just Cause 3 coming out soon.

 

gta v is epic, but honestly some simpler games like borderlands are dominating my attention right now

 

kinda Skyrim-like, with guns (not Skyrim mod). Lots of thing to do besides the quests, basically, I can run around killing time. Maybe like GTA Vice City (which I haven't played but I watched my friend playing it when I was little).

I have Borderland 2 too, played for a couple hours but don't really feel engaged.

 

Skyrim with guns exists, it's called Fallout 4.

 

ah yeah, forgot to mention. I watched a few Fallout 3, Vegas, and Fallout 4 gameplay but I don't think I would like the aiming thing. Fallout Vegas looks, uhm, pretty weird as well.

 

Because NV is a weird game, in a good sense. Don't forget, it was made by the same people who brought us OG Fallouts.

 

Or, they have writing and design in Fallout: NV by Chris Avellone (Planescape Torment, for example) and Joshua Sawyer (Icewind Dale II) - that's basically why you should play it.

..apart from how Fallout3 doesn't actually have any damned writing at all, and could just as well have been called "Oblivion 19: Watch us rape a fantasy setting we have never tried to understand for profits of the kind the original crew have never seen. Hohoho".

Incidentally - Brian Fargo, who in many ways made Fallout 1&2 happen. And who seem to have had a knack at tying things together in these teams, that for example Obsidian's managers now apparently lack. He's been hiring a lot of interesting people to work on Tides of Numenera with inXile. Or the Planescape Torment sequel thing. I was kind of worried that they wouldn't have a lot of writing in it, and that it'd end up like Wasteland 2, without the story-driven... without the reams and reams of extremely interesting interactive dialogue.. dominating the entire game, like in the original.

But then it seems that they're picking up people who have experience with writing dialogue trees that doesn't look like something Bioware made, nesting options, scripting variables, and understanding that multiple paths doesn't need to involve a 7th Guest type recording with small variations, etc. Who actually have talent, and have something to say. Instead of being capable of churning out a right-wing military worship porn script for Call of Duty in 20 mins, which is what you usually need.

So that's going to be interesting. I wasn't all that interested in Tides of Numenera before, until I heard they picked up Mark, I mean the writer on Primordia, among a few others. So while we're waiting for Skyrim: Laputa and Terminator: Prehistoric Rumble, and so on. People might want to take a look at Tides of Numenera.

 

Has anyone mentioned Arkham Origins yet? The reviews ripped it apart but its my favorite Arkham game. This time of the year (if you're a Xmas kinda person) is a great time to play it because of its setting

 

I am trying to decide among some games that I have missed. Which of these would you recommend.

1. Skyrim
2. Wolfenstein the new order
3. Alien isolation
4. Far Cry 3 (if it is equal to or better than Far Cry 4)
5. Crysis (not preferred but depends)
6. Half life 2 (not preferred but depends)

Things I like in games:
A mix of gameplay and story. Some challenging stuff but not frustrating. Graphics is a plus but not mandatory.

Things I dont like
Pure stealth based, Pure strategy based, Pure survival (like amnesia), Pure FPS (like call of duty).

Example of games I played and liked alot:
Resident Evil series, Tomb raider series (these two are my core series), Dead space series, Price of Persia series, Fallout series, Arkham series, Assassins creed series, Witcher series, Bioshock infinite, dying light, middle earth shadow of mordor, Far cry 4, watchdogs e.t.c

Also any suggestion other than what I listed are also welcome.

 

All of them.


Although you can skip FC3, FC4 is very similar to it. Unless of course you want to meet Vaas (who is one hell of a bad guy), and visit an exotic island.
Skyrim is a great game when modded, though it can be hard to enjoy after playing TW3.
HL2 and WNO are great FPSes, definitely must play.

 

I recommend Camelot Unchained for everyone liking MMOs. It's probably gonna be the first MMO, that will capture me for more than 1 year after Dark Age of Camelot, which made me heavily addicted to RvR and which I played for 6y, which is the longest time that I ever played the same game. Buy the cheapest, normal version and don't invest heavily into the other builds was the advice I got from my SG-teammates, who're better informed about the game than I am.

I also recommend to give Civilization IV a try, if you like turn-based strategy. It may be 10y old, but it probably is the best TBS-game that ever was designed. It's the game that caused me the most heavy addiction I had in my whole life, making me play it so heavily over 5y, that I wasn't able to study anymore, because I began studying CIV4. It still has an active community on Civfanatics.com, which is extraordinarily friendly and helpful to each other, which were main factors why I became so additcted to it. The knowledge, that community aquired about that game is not comparable to any other games that exist. There were tournements on that page, in which single players (or whole teams) played for fastest victory, and the threads are houndreds of pages long and one game was played over several months. The hardest difficulty level that exists in that game ("Deity") is so hard, that I really studied and played that game for one year 24/7, before I was able to beat it, which is no exaggeration.

But plz, don't blame me, if you get caught in any of those games as deep as I did .

 

I wouldn't say skip FC3, both FC3 and FC4 are both very amazing, enjoyable experiences and are both worth exploring. Honestly, I think I enjoy the atmosphere of FC3 a little bit more than FC4 but maybe that's just me..

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I am currently playing Witcher 3. I have finished man campaign+HOS and also finished NG+ for main game. Only HOS+ is remaining.

If it were normal situation, i would have definitely picked up AC: Syndicate / Fallout 4 / Arkham Knight. But i don't want to play with very low frame rate. I want to wait till pascal.

If push comes to shove, I will pickup Fallout 4 now (because I feel Fallout would be least graphic dependent). Heck back in the day, I beat TR6 on a 32MB chipset graphics with an average FPS of 10-15. But not a pleasant experience

So coming back to suggestions, I was inclining towards WNO. I still remember some parts of the old wolfenstein 3D.
But i was also thinking about Skyrim. Its such a landmark game that it will be a pity to miss. But I have heard that story is not that great and it can get repetitive with side quest so I am not sure.

And I have never been a fan of MMOs or RTS games. HL2 is good but i dont really feel it.

I think I will start with WNO, and after that maybe Skyrim/FC3 or something else (Maybe GTA V).

 

I'd recommend Skyrim, with a lot of mods. Story is okay-ish, don't expect it to be so well written and interesting. Also, save often, both quick save and manual save because there are bugs and game breaking bug even. I've not finished all the quests though since my saves are corrupted so I switched to TW series. I used quite a lot of mods (mostly graphics and gameplay mods) but even if you don't plan to mod, I would still recommend Sofia the funny follower. She has her own dialogues and voice. She's funny (dirty joke) and voice acting is very good. In TW 3, I can enjoy playing as Geralt doing everything alone but I can only enjoy Skyrim when I have a few followers with me (not too many or the game would be too easy). Not sure why.

I played Far Cry 3 but didn't like it, mostly because it's FPS. Though there are some fun missions. The world is quite big but there aren't many things going on. Story is sorta go here, do this and do that.

 

Not sure if that's a typo, but CIV4 is TBS, that's a major difference.

MMOs are basically shooters for persons with high skills for "piano-playing" with the left hand .

Generally both games actually are mostly interesting because of the community and the required level of skill that's needed. Before you think about playing Skyrim, I'd definitely considerate trying out Elder Scrolls Online, as online games just have a completely different drag than offline games.

Also, a game that really everybody must have played at least once in his life is Quake 4, simply because it's "the fastest shooter ever developed" (that's what I read about it, don't hate me, if you're a shooter pro-gamer and if this is wrong ) .

Those games are all gameplay-sort-of-game choices. I had the same as you had, that I didn't feel HL2, though it definitely was a good game, but the level design and everything just didn't appeal to me. That's one area where Quake 4 is so ultimately good, if you ever played Doom 2 you'll know what I mean, it's simply something different, if you have 10 levels which are mostly half empty, or 30 levels where you can't go around any corner without fearing that a monster will jump at you when you do that, and where 5 more monsters will jump at you if you backpedal in the opposite direction . In Quake 4, it's possible to run low on ammo with all weapons if not playing well, also, it's needed to take less-effective weapons for the weaker monsters to have the high power weapons for those parts of the level, that are really tough, which (worst case) can be the whole level. In HL2, I found none of those situations.
Elder's Scroll online has that great advantage, that it's relatively action-oriented and simple for an MMO, only allowing 5 skills on each of the 2 skillbars, in contrast to normal MMOs basically needing to really "play piano" over the full row from 1-0 incl. q+e+y+x+c+<+v+f+r+t+g+b and which also require a deep strategical thought in the choice of skills ^^ .

 

Thanks for such a detailed reply. I really appreciate that.

Iam sorry, i never really understood the difference between TBS and RTS. I thought TBS are only slower versions of RTS. Maybe it is not the case.

I know what civilization series is. Some of my friends were addicted to it. But it didnt appeal me. I will definitely think about Quake 4, the last quake game I played was in 90s (maybe it was quake 2, but im not sure). I dont remember much of it though. But I will do some diging.

 

Thank you very much sir. Point noted.

 

Thx for appreciating .

RTS = Real Time Strategy = APM (actions per minute) = how fast your PC is / how fast your internet connection is / how fast you can click
TBS = Turn Based Strategy = like chess. 1 Turn lasts as long, as you want it to last. Level of play is measured in number of turns needed to win. It's possible to win in 20T compared to 40T, but playing 40T fast comes with a lot less effort and requires a lot less skill than when needing only half of that number of turns for the same result (victory) .

What both have in common, is, that they feature the two major concepts of Micro- and Macro-Management, describing i. e. the way units are moved tactically in combat or i. e. the overall game-plan like going for this or that certain strategy like opponent attacks with a, counter with b or attack with a, when opponent counters with b, do x to win.

 

ok. I think i get it now. Thanks for explaining.

 

So I haven't played many pc games over the past couple years, picked up a few recently which I'll begin this week, namely the Witcher 3 and fallout 4.
My question is I haven't played an assassins creed game since the second instalment I think set in Italy, but recently I was watching some syndicate streams and the game looks fun, am I missing anything if I jump right into syndicate, I'm not to keen to play the others I've missed, thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

Hi, for the AC series (And I've played most of them) the underlying story thread will probably be incomprehensible but that is only a small part of Syndicate and it (IMO) stands alone nicely. They change up the feature set and gameplay between games, but run to a basic playing style and depth of information on the location. Having two characters to chose for many missions also adds to replay value on this one .

HTH.

 

As you may know that each AC game has two story arcs. The main story is about your character living through an important event in history and how he/she influenced it. And the other story arc is about the lore involving the ancient beings and their relics. But the lore portions only a small part of the games and is mostly there to connect the games.

So in my opinion you dont really need to play other games. But you will end up scratching you head for sections related to lore.

But I would also like to mention that AC4: Black Flag is probably the best game in series (even though it is less of an assassin's game and more of a pirate game), and serves as transition of lore from previous games (by introducing the concept of Sage e.t.c) so i would definitely recommend it.

 

Awesome I do remember a fair amount of the lore from the first two AC games, I really like the era syndicate represents so your opinion has helped greatly.

Ok ill also consider blackflag as well, not a huge fan of pirate based games but you are not the first person to tell me about blackflag so I may have to put my pirate aversion to one side, thanks for your input.

 

Not 100% looking for a game recommendation, but is anyone willing to give away a Black Ops 2 key for cheap with Steam cash? Don't feel like paying $60 for it again.

 

StarCraft 2 for all RTS lovers)

 

No!

 

Whyyy ?) Blizzard is doing great games. Overwatch is one more that worth checking , btw

 

Dunno, maybe because it's not a real strategy game, in my opinion. Obviously it's within the RTS genre, but there's not much thinking involved. Ctrl+A and send your units on their way.
Unfortunately I don't play too much RTS these days, prefer TBS more, but the last one I played, Wargame, was a really nice RTS. Better than any C&C, SC, WC, etc. Obviously it's all IMHO.

 

LoL FTW LOL!

 

IMO, I find ROFL to be more superior to LOL.

 

Anyone looking for a fast-paced arena shooter inspired by the CPMA mod from Q3A, should give Reflex a try: http://store.steampowered.com/app/328070/
It's still in active development, but it shows massive potential already.

 

game is hard lol

 

I have to choose between mass effect series and dark souls series. please hep me decide. As I am primarily interested in dark souls 2 and mass effect 3, i would like to know how much the stories of earlier games affect later ones, Is it ok to avoid mass effect 1 and start from 2 (or only 3)?

 

League of Legends is a fantastic game, learning curve is a little steep in the beginning, but it is addicting, competitive and free.

 

Card City Nights. Neat little single-player adventure game disguised as a trading card game reminiscent of FFIX's Tetra Master. Four bucks on Steam or GOG, 8+ hour campaign, no in-app purchases.

 

Hi all

I'm on the lookout for a good World War 2 shoot em up game if you have any recommendations, not multiplayer just a solo player game I can get stuck into when I get free time. (mainly when the wifes watching her soaps!) Prefereably on Steam if its a download code one.

Finally finished Fallout New Vegas thanks to @killkenny1 and loved that one, it was a lot of fun especially the add on parts.

Appreciate any help.

I'm using a home made gaming PC with an Asus 960 GTX Strix if that helps, 1080p screen.

Cheers!

 

If you don't mind the age, first Cal Of Duty is a fine WWII game together with its addon. COD2 and COD5 also took place in WWII, but in my opinion they were not as good as COD1.
Another oldie would be Medal Of Honour + its addons. Great games as well. Not sure if available on Steam, but it's there on GOG. MOH sequels, like COD, also weren't on par with the original.
As for modern WWII shooters, definitely check out Wolfenstein New Order and its addon. I've completed the base game, and it was a blast! Haven't played such an awesome shooter in a while. It,s not exactly WWII, as the story takes place after WWII in alternative timeline, but you still get to kill Nazis.
There's also some other WWII game on Steam, Enemy Front, or something, but people feel rather mixed about that game, so can't recommend that.

 

Awesome, thanks for the reply and I'll go look those titles up. I've no issue with older titles as they cost a lot less and work on my old rig so its a win win!

 

Agreed with these choices.. You want the MOH 10th anniversary edition and gives you all the WW2 games..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Medal-of-...406371?hash=item3d18c28563:g:pHkAAOSwM0FXIN~l

 

Thanks, I'll give both MOH and COD a try soon. Unfortunately the GPU I've borrowed has packed up working and has to be returned, (Asus 960 GTX), this will be another replacement as the first Nvidia also did the same. Any recommends to reliable graphics cards lol?!

 

AMD R9 380X

 

If anyone likes first person adventure games, I highly recommend "The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter."

 

Anyone know of any hidden gems like DA Origins? Working my way through Inquisition now. Will start the witcher 3 later on this year. Have played pillars of eternity. Just after some recommendations really. Thanks in advance.

 

Neverwinter Nights 2 perhaps. I heard that addons for it were really good.

 

If you play Skyrim - I can recommend the mods from the STEP Project "core" build

If you follow the instructions you won't break your skyrim save like I did before using it. Mod Organizer is much better than the Nexus client.

 

Thanks for that. Played skyrim to death. Texture pack mod pushed my old m15x to the limit. Looks amazing though. Think it was running at just under 4gb ram and maxing my lowly 5850m haha. I'll definitely check that mod out. Thanks.

 

Ultra settings with medium shadows + the STEP mods (which uses optimised textures) @ 1366 x 768 uses just under 2GB VRAM & 2.6GB RAM

 

That's actually better than I thought.
Guessing it would jump up considerably at 1080 though. Think I'll be reinstalling this weekend.

 

A friend recommended Jade Empire to me a while back, had a lot of fun with that one. Of course, that it was free on Origin at the time didn't hurt things. But while the graphics are a bit dated, it plays like a more fast-paced Knights of the Old Republic - which is cool, IMO KOTOR's biggest problem was a lack of player agency in combat. Jade Empire's got a good story and is really engaging, would definitely suggest it if you haven't already explored Bioware's earlier titles.

 

I 2nd this recommendation. Jade Empire is quintessential Bioware RPG.

It feels and plays like their later titles like KOTOR and Mass Effect. There is definitely an active component to battle, like Mass Effect. However, while Mass Effect's combat was more of a 3rd person cover-based shooter, Jade Empire is more of an ARPG set in a kung-fu setting.



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