I need a Game Recommendation

[emceng]

I bought Fallout 3 for $20, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood for $38. Looking for a couple older action games for the 360 that I can pick up for around $20. I have GTAIV, the mass effect games, the Halo games and enjoyed them all for the most part. I'm not actually sure if I will like Fallout 3, but I liked STALKER and mass effect, so I think it's worth a go.

I would recommend Saints Row 1 + 2. They are GTA clones but in my mind they are much, much better. Combat is much easier and more fun. It has a story, but less serious and more humorous. Overall just fun to play. Saints Row 2 even has co-op(Xboxlive) play, which can be tons of fun. You might also try Dragon Age if you haven't already.


Adacore: Have you checked out Civ:Revolutions? It's decent. Not nearly as in depth as normal Civ games, but it is fun to play for the most part.

[SecondTalon]

I can't speak for Saint's Row 1, but 2 is... well, if you've followed the GTA series in their move to the 3D world (GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, 4, etc) you know that the 3 series started moderately realistic and started ramping up into wackier and wackier stuff (Jetpacks? In MY GTA?) with roleplaying elements (because seriously, San Andreas had a lot more roleplaying depth and stat building than most RPGs. The fuck's up with that?) before crashing back into Serious Von Serioustown in 4.

Saint's Row 2 says "San Andreas, you didn't go too far too enough far enough farness!... yeah!" and then sets itself on fire, jumps out a window and shoots someone in the face. Because. It's not a smart game* in that you play an violent idiot who surrounds yourself with violent idiots, and you're all hilarious and violent. Except for one mission in the Brotherhood line. That one was serious. Possibly others, as I've yet to play through them. But yeah, it's a violent world that fully embraces that it's a violent horrible place, and because of that it becomes a fun violent world, only a half-step away from a Loony Tunes cartoon, if Loony Tunes involved decapitations and drug use.

*Well, it's a stupid game written by smart people? Something like that. Example being, your sidekick Pierce suggests this huge, elaborate plan (Complete with a model and little figurines) for taking the cash from a casino similar to the Oceans 1X movies or the Casino Heist in GTA:SA. Your main pal Johnny says "We could do that.... Orrrr... we could just walk in and shoot everyone, then take the money." to which you reply something like "I like that. Good plan, Pierce!" and you set out to enact Johnny's plan. Stupid, thuggish hilarious people.

Also, the Voice Acting credits are basically a list of "Hey! It's that voice!" Micheal Dorn (You know, Worf, Marucs, etc) is in it as the leader of the Brotherhood, Neil Patrick Harris voices a drug dealing DJ, Eliza Dushku voices a sidekick who keeps stealing another sidekick's ideas, Phil LaMarr's in it, but he's in fucking everything so that barely even counts anymore... hell, you can have [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789478/Maxwell Sheffield[/url] voice your character, if you want.

Anyway, yeah, it's a great game if you like the Sandbox GTA style of gaming. I also completely dig the character creation. The gender assignments are suggestions, basically. You can put whatever voice to whatever you want, and make your avatar look just about like whatever you'd want, both physically and via clothing. And as near as I can tell, no one remarks on your appearance as being unusual. The over-the-top violence, yes, but not your appearance. (Then again, maybe they're all terrified of you? That was a suggestion put forth as to why enemy gangs don't attack you on sight : they know your rep and the underlings are terrified at being blamed for starting a huge gang war for no reason)

[archeleus]

Can someone recommend a good game with a multiplayer co-op mode?

Requirements: Good graphics (atleast support for full HD). Not a retarded story, Anything except RPG's.

Games like Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 would be awesome if we could get a friend and play through the missions together on the LAN.

inb4 l4d

[Jorpho]

Someone is bound to mention Portal 2, which won't be out for a few months yet, so let's not go there.

It seems one of the big plusses for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Life is that it is quite amusing in co-op.

[llamanaru]

For computer:
ARMA 2 has great co-op, and the story's not vomit inducing.
Killing Floor also has good co-op, unless you count no story as "retarded".
For consoles:
Really the only one I know of is Army of Two, it's built around co-op, and the AI is worthless enough to make playing with a partner worthwhile. I don't remember the story though.

[theknownuniverse]

I recently acquired a PS3. It came with the standard entourage of FPS's (COD, BC2), so I think that genre has been saturated for now. I'm considering getting Super Street Fighter 4, as it seems that will get me the most bang for my buck, due to its lower-than-average price. However, my fighting games experience is limited to super smash brothers, and I know that street fighter is a very different game. I've also been considering Little big planet and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Any suggestions?

[SecondTalon]

I recently acquired a PS3. It came with the standard entourage of FPS's (COD, BC2), so I think that genre has been saturated for now. I'm considering getting Super Street Fighter 4, as it seems that will get me the most bang for my buck, due to its lower-than-average price. However, my fighting games experience is limited to super smash brothers, and I know that street fighter is a very different game. I've also been considering Little big planet and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Any suggestions?

Can you be more specific to your tastes? Valkyria Chronicles is an awesome game, but if you hate turn-based wargaming with Overwatch Rules and Cel-Shaded Anime Graphics, you'll... probably really hate it.

Anyway, Little Big Planet is distilled Platformer Joy. If you like platforming games, get it. If you don't, skip it. Batman is a neat little brawler with some obsessive compulsive collection bits in it too, but if you hate 3D Brawlers, you'll.. probably hate it.

[broken_escalator]

White knight chronicles is another game I'd recommend if you like JRPGs. Its gotten mixed reviews but I'd say its probably averaged at 7/10 arbitrary points.

Little big planet is always a good choice in my opinion. Its got great appeal to a wide audience, so if you have friends over that aren't 'gamers' they can still have a good time. At least, that's been my experience with the game. We like to call it a girlfriend-game because typically our girlfriends shy away from an FPS or RPG, but they really enjoy a silly platformer.

[novax6]

I recently acquired a PS3. It came with the standard entourage of FPS's (COD, BC2), so I think that genre has been saturated for now. I'm considering getting Super Street Fighter 4, as it seems that will get me the most bang for my buck, due to its lower-than-average price. However, my fighting games experience is limited to super smash brothers, and I know that street fighter is a very different game. I've also been considering Little big planet and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Any suggestions?

Not really a big fan of fighting games personally, so no help there, but I think Uncharted 2 and Demon Souls are the best ps3 exclusives by far. Batman: AA is also top notch and should be immediately played if you haven't done so before.

From what I've heard of Little Big Planet, it's pretty boring once the novelty and new-ness of it wears off. That seems about right from the little I played. A technically impressive game, but the actual gameplay was very shallow. Maybe worth it if you want a game to show people and play with groups.

[broken_escalator]

Oddly enough I just decided to buy a PS3 as well today.

Anyone have good racing game reccomendations for the PS3? My lady says she loves racing games but I've never really been into that genre personally. Preferably a racing game we can play together. I know I've played a few in the past with a friend where we do tournaments and are a team. I also liked burnout games, the crashing part was obviously my favorite

[llamanaru]

Gran Turismo 5 is the god of all console racing games. Especially if you have a wheel. GriD is good too, though it's not as realistic as Gran Turismo.

[Shivahn]

So, I would like more games of genre: Mount and Blade/Lugaru HD. Ones where you take a third-person view and use the mouse to move the view angle and the keyboard to move around, while left clicking and moving various directions/crouching/doing something else to alter your attack for the situation.

I'm having trouble describing it, but if you've played something like it I think you'll get the description.

I have Lugaru HD and both Mount and Blade and Mount and Blade: Warband (though I can't play them because WINE is stupid about the way it handles the mouse sometimes).

Does anyone have any recommendations for games like those?

[Jorpho]

I have Lugaru HD and both Mount and Blade and Mount and Blade: Warband (though I can't play them because WINE is stupid about the way it handles the mouse sometimes).

I thought Lugaru, at least, had a Linux port at this point - didn't it go open source like the other items in the Humble Indie Bundle #1?

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, so I'm semi-randomly going to fall down on Oni. (From Bungie, dontcha know.)

[Shivahn]

I have Lugaru HD and both Mount and Blade and Mount and Blade: Warband (though I can't play them because WINE is stupid about the way it handles the mouse sometimes).

I thought Lugaru, at least, had a Linux port at this point - didn't it go open source like the other items in the Humble Indie Bundle #1?

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, so I'm semi-randomly going to fall down on Oni. (From Bungie, dontcha know.)

Lugaru was, I meant that the two Mount and Blades didn't work. I actually play Lugaru in WINE though because I have no reason not to.

From what I can see on Youtube, Oni looks like it's closeish to what I'm looking for, but it doesn't look like melee is emphasized as much as I'd like.

[SecondTalon]

Rune. If you can find a copy of it, it's a Viking running around and lopping off heads and arms.

[Jorpho]

Would you believe I was about to mention Rune? The catch is that it's a first-person game, isn't it? (It also got some rather middling reviews.)

[SecondTalon]

There's a 3rd person button. It's much easier to lop off arms and such in 3rd person mode. Also, to make those stupid jumps.

Now, I never said it was a great game, but it's a wonderful $5 Goof Off One Afternoon game, where you can kinda see what they should have tweaked here, and changed this there and so on.

[Shivahn]

That looks more or less to be my style. I'll be checking it out.

Honestly, I just want something with a working combat engine. A lot of things about Lugaru were terrible, including parts of the engine, but I managed to enjoy myself because I wanted to beat up some dudes with my fists in that style. That's really all I want, I suppose, and Rune checks out. If I can find it.

[broken_escalator]

Are there any PS3/xbox360 racing games with Co-op campaign/tournaments.

Ideally my favorite game was either mario kart or this racing game that used like a motorcycle type car, but with weapons systems. You could destroy the other racers to knock them out of the race, or come in 1st the old fashion way. I loved it because I could focus on destroying half the competition while my friend could enjoy racing.

[llamanaru]

Apparently Project Gotham Racing 4 for the 360 has really good co-op. It also has some more "arcade-y" modes to it that you might find appealing.

[Menacing Spike]

There's a 3rd person button. It's much easier to lop off arms and such in 3rd person mode. Also, to make those stupid jumps.

Now, I never said it was a great game, but it's a wonderful $5 Goof Off One Afternoon game, where you can kinda see what they should have tweaked here, and changed this there and so on.

Yes, was about to suggest rune also .
It's is, however, a bit silly at times ("Get hit by my magical axe of conversion! Now you are on my side!").

[archeleus]

Playing Resident Evil 5 now.

It has good co-op and the story is good. It may not be the best RE released, but I kinda like it at times.

[Herra Monologi]

So, I would like more games of genre: Mount and Blade/Lugaru HD. Ones where you take a third-person view and use the mouse to move the view angle and the keyboard to move around, while left clicking and moving various directions/crouching/doing something else to alter your attack for the situation.

I'm having trouble describing it, but if you've played something like it I think you'll get the description.

I have Lugaru HD and both Mount and Blade and Mount and Blade: Warband (though I can't play them because WINE is stupid about the way it handles the mouse sometimes).

Does anyone have any recommendations for games like those?

Die by the sword was a long time ago only game like that (1998). Graphichs are bad but it's quite fun to chop kobolts and orcs. Singleplayer was quite challenging also. It's now in gog.com.

And don't forget Severance: Blade of Darkness. It has very good combat system and you can chop off limbs and so on...

[Endless Mike]

From what I've heard of Little Big Planet, it's pretty boring once the novelty and new-ness of it wears off. That seems about right from the little I played. A technically impressive game, but the actual gameplay was very shallow. Maybe worth it if you want a game to show people and play with groups.

Eh. If you like 2D platformers, then it's a very good example of the genre with near endless numbers of levels to play (of varying levels of quality). If you don't, then, yeah, it's probably not a good game to play.

Gran Turismo 5 is the god of all console racing games. Especially if you have a wheel. GriD is good too, though it's not as realistic as Gran Turismo.

No, it's a great simulation, but a god awful game. The menu system is terrible, the campaign is really poorly-designed in a lot of respects, and if you're not using all "Premium" cars in a race, it ends up looking *worse* than GT4. But yeah, the actual driving is pretty damned good.

On the arcade side of things, I would highly recommend Burnout Paradise or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. The former is probably the better of the two and cheaper, but they're both great games.

[llamanaru]

No, it's a great simulation, but a god awful game. The menu system is terrible, the campaign is really poorly-designed in a lot of respects, and if you're not using all "Premium" cars in a race, it ends up looking *worse* than GT4. But yeah, the actual driving is pretty damned good.

Right, the game part of it is indeed horrible...

So, I would like more games of genre: Mount and Blade/Lugaru HD. Ones where you take a third-person view and use the mouse to move the view angle and the keyboard to move around, while left clicking and moving various directions/crouching/doing something else to alter your attack for the situation.

Perhaps the sequel to Lugaru, Overgrowth? It's still in development, but it's really starting to come together. You can see the state of the current build at their youtube channel and pre-ordering gets you access to weekly alphas so it's almost like an actual game...

[Gopher of Pern]

I was wondering if anyone knows of any games of the xcom/UFO ilk. I love that style of gameplay, but there don't seem to be many games like it out. I have the relatively more recent UFO:After series, but I only liked the first one, as the other 2 had such a bad UI that it just became tedious to play. Any more recent games of that type?

[Jorpho]

Laser Squad Nemesis, perhaps?

[Adavistic Puma]

UFO:AI is a pretty good remake/re-invention of the old XCOM games:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/

From that era was also Jagged Alliance, which I heard was good.

And I know I've seen some other one with nazi's that end up getting steampunk mecha suits, but I didnt play that one.

EDIT: It was called Silent Storm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Storm

[llamanaru]

I was wondering if anyone knows of any games of the xcom/UFO ilk. I love that style of gameplay, but there don't seem to be many games like it out. I have the relatively more recent UFO:After series, but I only liked the first one, as the other 2 had such a bad UI that it just became tedious to play. Any more recent games of that type?

Stellar Forces is pretty good. You don't get the base management or story of XCOM but the TBS is definitely there. It's an automatic play-by-email multiplayer only game.

[_HazY_]

Are there any PS3/xbox360 racing games with Co-op campaign/tournaments.

Ideally my favorite game was either mario kart or this racing game that used like a motorcycle type car, but with weapons systems. You could destroy the other racers to knock them out of the race, or come in 1st the old fashion way. I loved it because I could focus on destroying half the competition while my friend could enjoy racing.

Burnout has a very interesting Co-Op/challenge mode but I would say for the consoles look at PGR4 and GT5 if you have the PS3, GT5 isn't that great given how long everyone waited for it but there are some die-hard fans playing it online..

[Eseell]

Are there any PS3/xbox360 racing games with Co-op campaign/tournaments.

Ideally my favorite game was either mario kart or this racing game that used like a motorcycle type car, but with weapons systems. You could destroy the other racers to knock them out of the race, or come in 1st the old fashion way. I loved it because I could focus on destroying half the competition while my friend could enjoy racing.

Burnout has a very interesting Co-Op/challenge mode but I would say for the consoles look at PGR4 and GT5 if you have the PS3, GT5 isn't that great given how long everyone waited for it but there are some die-hard fans playing it online..

ModNation Racers on PS3 is quite a bit of fun, especially if you like kart racing games. It's very much in the vein of Mario Kart. There's a demo on PSN.

[BoomFrog]

I've got a very eclectic gaming group and I'd like to get a few games that can satisfy all comers, from the hardcore gamers to the complete noobs. Something easy and fun, party style games like "apples to apples" or "What where you thinking" or "We didn't play test this". Also, sometimes people don't have the best English (see my location).

I saw Dixit in the board game thread, and that does look pretty good. I'd like to get one or two more. Any recommendations?

[Jar'O'Jam]

I've got a very eclectic gaming group and I'd like to get a few games that can satisfy all comers, from the hardcore gamers to the complete noobs. Something easy and fun, party style games like "apples to apples" or "What where you thinking" or "We didn't play test this". Also, sometimes people don't have the best English (see my location).

I saw Dixit in the board game thread, and that does look pretty good. I'd like to get one or two more. Any recommendations?

How about Mafia, 1000 Blank White Cards and Contact?

[Naurgul]

No Thanks and Dixit seem good and both fulfil your requirements.

[Eseell]

Fluxx or any of its variations would probably fit well with your group.

[Styfios]

Can someone recommend a good single player pc game that will last a while? I've already played most popular rpg's out there (KOTOR 1 + 2, ME1 + 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc) and most Valve games as well.

Thanks! ^__^

[Jorpho]

Would you care to narrow it down just a teensy bit from "single player PC game" ?

Have you played Torment yet? Available from GOG.com , dontcha know.

Alternatively, I'd love to get around to playing The Ur-Quan Masters (nee Star Control 2) someday.

[Styfios]

Would you care to narrow it down just a teensy bit from "single player PC game" ?

I basically was just looking for any type of game I could play by myself, preferably for short intervals in between work.

[rigwarl]

I'm looking for free, easily accessible games along the lines of isketch or transformice I can play with my girlfriend online. Any suggestions?

[Menacing Spike]

I'm looking for free, easily accessible games along the lines of isketch or transformice I can play with my girlfriend online. Any suggestions?

Teeworlds? Savage 2? Urban Terror? Dota? MSN messenger games?
I'm a bit stuck on the accessible part tbh.