Recommend a game :)

Riedquat · Jun 19, 2015

I'm not playing anything at the moment, I havent picked up a game recently that has got me hooked, can anyone recommend me a game?

The things that make me tick in games are :

- Immersion (doesnt have to be 100% realistic, just immersive).

- large game worlds, lots to explore. (optional, but a bonus if true).

- dynamic worlds - this is the biggest thing for me, I love a gameworld that runs by itself, so that I could step away from the computer and the AI would keep doing what it is doing,
I like to observe the AI in games and see how what it is doing affects other things in its environment.*

Things I dont like

- Games with linear stories and cutscenes.

- ridiculously oversized Swords (tongue in cheek, but I do hate it!).

* As an example - In Arma2, I used to enjoy setting up a private server and then setup a war between two AI sides, I would then sit back and watch the war evolve, I would be sometimes enter the world on one side to have some fun, but I was very interested in seeing how the AI would attack, defend, build bases etc.

Tuub t Tute · Jun 19, 2015

Gran Turismo 6 on the PS3. I have been playing the GT series in all its various incarnations since PS1 in the mid-90s. Always something new to go back to and the constantly updated seasonal events make it great fun to go back to after a few weeks and find a new tailor-made challenge

Rauminen · Jun 19, 2015

The X series by Egosoft? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(game_series)

Not Rebirth (haven't played it in a year though, was really buggy, very linear, although beautiful).
BUT any and all of the X3 ones. There's some story line, though you can safely ignore it. Or just complete it and start the real game

Riedquat · Jun 19, 2015

Good shout on the 'X' series, although unfortunatley I have done those to death, great games though.

Gran turismo - I'm not hugely into driving games, but I will certainly have a look! - Edit - my console is a Ps4.

gary.brain · Jun 19, 2015

Its an old game but I got "sleeping dogs definitive edition" 50% off on steam, pretty cool to walk/drive around the city and watch the people. Even saw a women get mugged and the guy ran off with her bag

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Lots of side quests

Philip Coutts · Jun 19, 2015

I really like Chaos Reborn, it's still early access at the moment but shaping up nicely. It's a bit like wizard chess, where you control a wizard over a set terrain and have various spells you can use with the aim of destroying the other wizard or wizards. It sounds pretty simplistic and it is but it's also very easy to get hooked. It's one of these, "just one more go" type games. Simple to play, difficult to master and very nicely presented.

Insomnia · Jun 19, 2015

Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Alien Isolation
Witcher 3
Assassins Creed Unity
GTA 5
Shadow of Mordor

TESI303 · Jul 18, 2015

Xcom enemy unknown/within
Xenonauts
Civilization 5 with all expansions/dlc
World of warships(open beta)
Divinity original sin

Xcom and civ 5 i keep coming back to
Looking forward to xcom2 in November.
World of warships is fun match after match.
Divinity is more fun than it looks.

AndyC77 · Jul 18, 2015

Cities skylines is well worth a buy. It's very cheap and has a massive mod community. Fantastically addictive game.

dreamer1986 · Jul 18, 2015

Minecraft should make you tick

And don't play without modpacks, like FTB Infinity or my favorite, Resonant Rise.

mattensky · Jul 18, 2015

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl - cheap as chips - MOD it with STALKER COMPLETE for the first playthrough (fixes bugs, improves graphics a little)

It's dated (2007) but not many games can match it for immersion - and the game world feels alive (in a desolate way).

The modding community is still really active and there are some great looking mods in the pipeline to look forward to.

FuzzySpider · Jul 19, 2015

Philip Coutts said:
I really like Chaos Reborn, it's still early access at the moment but shaping up nicely. It's a bit like wizard chess, where you control a wizard over a set terrain and have various spells you can use with the aim of destroying the other wizard or wizards. It sounds pretty simplistic and it is but it's also very easy to get hooked. It's one of these, "just one more go" type games. Simple to play, difficult to master and very nicely presented.

I second this. It's my favorite game right now (sorry Frontier, I love Elite but Chaos Reborn is more addictive than saying no to drugs.

Skyrim is still fantastic, and the modding community have taken it to way above and beyond what it was at launch.

Rall · Jul 19, 2015

I've taken a break from ED to play through the massive backlog of steam games I've got. I've currently been sucked into Desktop Dungeons which is a fantastic little game.

Would also recommend NEO Scavenger - one of the worst looking games I've ever played, looks like someone threw up a 90's budget le, which goes a long way to show just how deep and engaging the game play is, though the interface is seriously clunky.

Caves of Qud is a fantastic old school rogue-like (And DO I mean 80's Rogue, old school - ASCII and keyboard). But it's almost literary in it's world building, a very deep and engaging world. You can get the ASCII version free from Freehold games website, the steam version is slightly more accessible and has a stylised SCI-FI look.

If you can handle the seriously dated visuals, Morrowind is quite possibly the most immersive game I've ever played - tied with Planescape torment and the original Zork trilogy.

Jezzah · Jul 20, 2015

I would also recommend shadow of mordor but if you've played the recent witcher 3 it might be a pale experience*.

I wold suggest looking at maybe Dishonored as a game that might take your fancy, it's not Ticking a lot of your boxes but it's a good yarn and the powers are really fun to play with.

* after playing witcher 3 EVERY game is now a pale experience for me, it's just that good. This is both amazing and terribly sad for me.

adoredtv · Jul 20, 2015

Rall said:
If you can handle the seriously dated visuals, Morrowind is quite possibly the most immersive game I've ever played - tied with Planescape torment and the original Zork trilogy.

http://www.ornitocopter.net/morrowind-overhaul/mgso-release/

Believe it or not I fired this up a couple of days ago. The mod is pretty amazing though it's hard to get a framerate above 45 with it.

Jack Booted Thug · Jul 22, 2015

Ark: Survival Evolved

[video=youtube;FW9vsrPWujI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9vsrPWujI[/video]

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Catching fish in Ark: Survival Evolved.

[video=youtube;F7XXvzHaYiU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XXvzHaYiU[/video]

streki · Jul 23, 2015

Can anyone help ?

I fancy a bit of classic RPG, and i've not really played one since Skyrim....

....would you recommend Witcher 3 or Elder Scrolls online ?

Commander Mick · Jul 23, 2015

mattensky said:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl - cheap as chips - MOD it with STALKER COMPLETE for the first playthrough (fixes bugs, improves graphics a little)

It's dated (2007) but not many games can match it for immersion - and the game world feels alive (in a desolate way).

The modding community is still really active and there are some great looking mods in the pipeline to look forward to.

Played this for bit in the past and was never impressed with the invisable walls that destroyed what I though would be more open world and losing plot. Just shooting anything that moves.

Jezzah said:
I would also recommend shadow of mordor but if you've played the recent witcher 3 it might be a pale experience*.

I wold suggest looking at maybe Dishonored as a game that might take your fancy, it's not Ticking a lot of your boxes but it's a good yarn and the powers are really fun to play with.

* after playing witcher 3 EVERY game is now a pale experience for me, it's just that good. This is both amazing and terribly sad for me.

Love both of those and still prefer the former to the latest Witcher name. (Even though I still play it and intend to until it's completed!) concerning the latter, it's brilliant game as well, and with those backdrops that might as well be taken from a oil-painting. I was kind of concerned how easy it is to abuse realism in this a game and perhap one that are lot like this one. Where I could get the Progtagonist Assassin to take as long as he liked on his very first assasination. You'd they would call ore re-enforcement that higher up the ladder of heirachy according to how many of their guards were disappearing and the chances that his boatman accomplice would be found and removed.

Still.... great games and I will get back to them some time soon.
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Jack Booted Thug said:
Ark: Survival Evolved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9vsrPWujI

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Catching fish in Ark: Survival Evolved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XXvzHaYiU

Also enjoying this one, but it's brutally hard to stay alive and keep all my avatar's belongings. Biggest Dino I have tamed so far is the one that spits blinding fluid in my face. Still haven't finished wooden shelter either.

MacArthur · Jul 23, 2015

Alpha Centauri. I don't think you can set the AI against each other and it is turn based so you have to at least babysit a game. There is a reputedly excellent fan patch with bug fixes and much improved AI.

dannysquid · Jul 23, 2015

It doesn't really fit with the "things that make you tick", but I've sunk more hours into XCOM than anything else. It's a brilliant game and a worthy update of the brilliant (but rather clunky viewed through modern eyes) original. Can't wait to have a go at CHAOS REBORN (by the guy who did the original XCOM).