Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition  (Read 1500 times)

Trapezohedron

  • Bay Watcher
  • No longer exists here.
    • View Profile
Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« on: October 18, 2013, 04:21:02 am »

So, right now, I am so bored and full of free time and I would just want to play something to pass the time. But like what the title says, I don't know which game to play, so please recommend me a game!

Feel free to recommend anything that fits the following:
  • A PC, PS Vita or 3DS game
  • Something that doesn't date beyond 2010 (optional, but I would really like to play games of this generation.)
  • Something without too many DLCs to make it playable
Logged
Thank you for all the fish. It was a good run.

Chaoswizkid

  • Bay Watcher
  • Bring on the Chaos
    • View Profile
    • Realms of Kar'Kaish New Site
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2013, 04:55:27 am »

... preferable genres?
MMOs or no MMOs?
Logged
Administrator of the Realms of Kar'Kaish Project.

Shadowgandor

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2013, 05:11:00 am »

Single player:

Though it won't give you hundreds of hours of entertainment due to the length, I've really enjoyed the interactive movie-game The Walking Dead by Telltales. It's a game that I'll probably never forgot and can really drag you in. All episodes have been released so you could theoretically finish it in one go.
They also have a new series, The Wolf Among Us, which has had its first episode released a couple of days ago. Seems really promising as I loved the first episode, but the other episodes still need to be released.

Prototype 2 is one heck of an action rollercoaster. Certainly loved the action part of the game, although the story of the first Prototype was a lot more interesting. If you ever felt like throwing tanks at helicopters, you should give this game a shot.

Hotline Miami is an arcade'y like topdown stealth/shooter game that could be described as a fun and unique experience. No review or explanation could sell this game well, the only reason I bought it was because it was in sale but it was a LOT better than expected.


Multiplayer:

Dungeon Defenders/Orcs Must Die 2: Both fun 3D co-op tower defense games. I think I've spent more than 100 hours in Dungeon Defenders, although the general consensus seems to be that Orcs Must Die 2 is more fun. The game has a lot of DLC, but you don't need it to have fun.

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2. The campaign is a small-scale tactical strategy game with RPG elements, which is fun for a single playthrough, preferably co-op, but I've spent hundreds of hours playing The Last Stand which is an action survival game with RPG elements. You level up one of the 3 (or seven, with retribution + hero DLC) and unlock new gear. The gear defines your character.

For the 3DS, you can never go wrong with pokemon! ;)


It was actually pretty hard to pinpoint games that were released after 2010, but these are all games that I've enjoyed on these platforms.
Logged

notquitethere

  • Bay Watcher
  • PIRATE
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2013, 05:12:27 am »

NQT's 3 Games People Should Have Played In Each Genre

RPG
—Planescape:Torment
—Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
—Morrowind

Graphical Adventure
—Monkey Island
—Toonstruck
—Grim Fandango

Text Adventure/Interactive Fiction
—Shade
—Kerkerkruip (technically also a roguelike)
—Alabaster

First Person Shooter
—Deus Ex
—Outlaws
—Dark Forces

Platform Adventure
—Mirror's Edge
—Prince of Persia (pretty much any of them)
—Trine

Roguelikes
—Cataclysm DDA
—Dwarf Fortress (obviously)
—Caves of Qud

I can give supporting reasons for playing any of the above and I'm pretty sure all are playable on PC.
Logged

Trapezohedron

  • Bay Watcher
  • No longer exists here.
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2013, 05:13:56 am »

... preferable genres?
MMOs or no MMOs?

Doesn't matter. I'm willing to try anything.
Logged
Thank you for all the fish. It was a good run.

Chaoswizkid

  • Bay Watcher
  • Bring on the Chaos
    • View Profile
    • Realms of Kar'Kaish New Site
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2013, 05:32:12 am »

In that case...

To The Moon. You absolutely owe it to yourself to play it if you haven't. Only 4 hours, recommended to play all 4 in one sitting.

Bioshock Infinite
Darksiders/Darksiders II
Dishonored
Mirror's Edge
Psychonauts (older title, still worth it)
Saint's Row: The Third (if you like really over the top humor)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Neverwinter MMO
Tropico 4
Crysis (The original. It has better graphics (and potentially better gameplay) than CoD: Ghosts)
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Bastion
Beyond Good and Evil
Mass Effect (Series)


I think that's everything that I can pretty much universally recommend...  Not all of it is new, but the older stuff is definitely worth it, especially if you enjoy their genres.
Logged
Administrator of the Realms of Kar'Kaish Project.

Chattox

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2013, 05:36:36 am »

Off the top of my head, I can recommend:

  • The new Pokémon
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Magic 2014
  • Prison Architect

Also Rimworld, which isn't out yet, but if you pledge to the kickstarter you can get access to the prototype as soon as the campaign finishes.
Logged
"10 z levels down, 10 tiles north is some blood, i shall go clean it before it drives me to insanity with it's crimson color"
The setting of Half-Life 2 Episode 3's release: "It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Gabe has sat immobile on the..."

notquitethere

  • Bay Watcher
  • PIRATE
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2013, 05:41:32 am »

I can second XCOM: Enemy Unknown (well, the original at least) and Beyond Good and Evil, despite the fact that it had little to do with Nietzsche's seminal work.

Every Pokémon game is just like every other Pokémon game so get yourself a GBA emulator and play the old ones for free.
Logged

Aoi

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2013, 06:44:25 am »

Since everybody's fixated on PC...

3/DS:
Anything Phoenix Wright
Disgaea (Turn-based strategy. DS version's my favorite out of all of them.)
Rocket Slime (Quirky and casual... Also has optional OCD collector elements.)
Etrian Odyssey (Good thread elsewhere on the forums. Latest addition is a remake of the first with a LOT of QoL updates. Start there, I'd say.)
Picross3D
999: Somethingsomethingsomething (Visual novel.)
Harvest Moon/Rune Factory (Former for a farming classic, latter for a more game-y RPG version.)
Trauma Center (Pseudo-medical goodness with a stylus. Mildly loopy plot. Don't mistake it for the other medical one which has one of the least likeable protagonists I've encountered and basically opened with a sexual harassment scene.)
Logged
Stench Guzman: Fix this quote, please.
Now celebrating: Two and a half years misquoted. Seriously man. Just fix it. -_-

anailater

  • Bay Watcher
  • Because She's Awesome
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2013, 07:30:31 am »

For just a quick but interesting experience I recommend the Stanley Parable, which I think Is coming to Steam soon, not very long but it's hillarious and insightful.
Logged
At best it's a pool of ink thats here for no reason; at worst it's a puddle of hateful alien death penises that want to murder-rape you into chunks.
So how are you today?

Sonlirain

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2013, 07:41:16 am »

Any Civilization game.

Any ANNO #### game.

Sim CIty 4 (because it's be best one yet).

Dawn of War 2:Retribution (Especially the Ork campaign for the awesomeness)

Majesty (because it's a fun game)

Majesty 2 (If you're a masochist who loves ridiculously hard games)

Die by the Sword if you manage to run it (IMO best swordfighting game yet in spite of age since you can sontrol the sword with your mouse instead of relying on preprogrammed animated attacks you usually see in Mount and Blade... and you can create your own attacks in the editor and hotkey them.)
Long story short. It's good.

The Stanley Parable (because of reasons).

Shadow Warrior 2013 (apparently a "sequel" of the original Shadow Warrior that's actually pretty good)
Logged
"If you make something idiot proof, someone will just make a better idiot."
Self promotion below.
I have a mostly dead youtube channel.

Alkhemia

  • Bay Watcher
  • aka Deep Sea Diver Man
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2013, 08:14:54 am »

I'm surprised no one said Shin Megami Tensei 4 pretty much the best RPG on the 3DS next to Etrian Odyssey Untold

If you plan on getting a Etrian Odyssey game for the 3ds skip EO4 it pretty bad.
Logged
"Hiken: Tsubame-Gaeshi" -Sasaki Kojirou (Grand Order}

"Please touch me. Without lying, wherever you want to touch. That is my wish." - Kiyohime (Grand Order)

"Tyranny, violation, genocide. Those are the things that I detest above all else." - Amakusa Shirou Tokisada (Grand Order)

eeviac

  • Bay Watcher
  • Seven
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2013, 08:15:57 am »

This gen: Dark Souls

Not this gen: System Shock 2


I only have a PC so that's all I can rec for.
Logged

Bouchart

  • Bay Watcher
  • [NO_WORK]
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2013, 08:16:53 am »

Civil War Generals 2
Logged

qurvax

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Recommend me a game!: Winter 2013 Edition
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2013, 09:09:28 am »

If i had time, i'd play some Homeworld 2 with Complex mod.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2