Videogames anyone?

[BigDanT]

Sounds like my kinda games too. For COD I only have 3 and Black ops. I was thinking of getting BO 2 and Ghost but my friends made it seem not as good. I'll most likely get it once I get some money but I'm also kind of iffy on them. I'm just started Bioshock, my friend is letting me borrow the first and Infinite and so far, I LOVE it. I did not expect the first one to be like that. I thought it was a fun shooter game and then BOOM in comes all this creepy stuff I did NOT expect (I didn't research so much before hand, I just said yes when he offered to let me borrow it). I played God of War on psp once a long time ago but I hear so many good things that I think I'm going to get it. As for FEAR, I haven't heard of it but I just looked it up and I'm super interested now. I love scary games so much. Ever played Cry of Fear? It's a PC game though

Never played Cry of Fear but if you enjoy shooters and horror games the FEAR series is top notch. Good shooter but creepy as hell too.

I have to say I think the BIOSHOCK games were two of my all-time favorites. Great action, smooth controls, beautiful settings and a great story.

As other posters have also said, I cannot recommend Last of Us enough. Not only is the gameplay fantastic but the story and characters rival just about any movies out there.

I would agree also to a certain extent on the COD stuff. Ghosts is okay but not a lot of new ground covered. Personally I think Black Ops was my favorite.

God of War was great too. By the last nkw though it got a little repetitive.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I quite like the Battlefield series, simply because you really need to work as a team to win (well, if you work as a team you'll be damned hard to beat).

I've only really played the first FEAR game and a bit of the second one (though I have the third and the add-ons for the first). Awesome game, very nice looking game too, especially at the time! But aye, creepy little girls are scarier than pretty much every movie monster ever!

On the note of creepy games, Doom 3 was really nice. It looked amazing at the time, but hasn't aged too well. Creepy as hell when playing with surround sound in the dark!

 

[Gorn]

The last video game I remember really enjoying was F-Zero on Super Nintendo.

 

[Milk]

Gothic I is also good, very much like Gothic II only shorter, uglier and with far clunkier controls At the time, it was the best thing ever. Gothic II blew my mind after that.

Gothic III was rushed by the publisher, and it shows. Community patches made the game stable, but it still starts off amazing and gets completely rushed halfway through. Some parts of the world are pretty much blank.

Anyway, immediately after publishing Gothic III, the studio split from that publisher. Jowood was it? The fun thing is, Jowood retained the intellectual property for Gothic and the Gothic people are not allowed to make Gothic games anymore. If I recall, Gothic IV was outsourced to some Indian studio with no game dev experience and is so terrible I feel filthy for just mentioning it.

The studio who made the Gothic games transitioned into making the Risen series. I played both I and II, they're okay, definitely feel like Gothic I-II. A deja vu experience. You can expect the same rich, beautiful, compact worlds that somehow feel huge, some broken game mechanics and bugs that made Gothic special. They really feel like Gothics. If you like Gothics absolutely give these a try.

I enjoyed all TES games from Morrowind until now, but they're not up there with the Gothics in my mind. Beautiful, huge worlds, but with shallow and forgetful characters, terrible plots and shallow combat mechanics. Still enjoyed them as a tourism sort of thing, you know: you run around as an honorable Nord, see nice things, groom your honorable Nord beard and yell panthers off mountain cliffs. Random fun stuff but you know, nothing deep.

As for the Witcher series, the first one is hard to get into. It's fine but obviously flawed. I'd put it below the TES games. However, I gave Witcher II a shot shortly after playing Skyrim and it was so much better than Skyrim. I did not expect it, especially after feeling a bit burned out from RPGs from 100%ing Skyrim achievements. Witcher II is such a good game. Try it, for real.

Risen yes, those are the games. I got confused yeah the publisher got the rights to Gothic and the devs went on to do their Gothic like games, not the opposite. I didnt even know Gothic IV ever came out.. Id seen my brother play the third and i wasnt interested enough to try it.

And personally i tend to like RPGs that are lighter on story an leave you plenty of space to do you own thing when you want, how you want (in fact I pretty much want that from EVERY type of game, a look at my favorite games will reveal they are often open world and open ended). They also have to have good or decent player customization. I have to say with the elder scrolls, if you play the vanilla game without mods, personally, I'd forget it. It's barely worth it. I had about 20 mods on Oblivion and i wouldn't have done without most of them. they made what was a good game into a great one. This is mainly why i never played skyrim. I thought i'd wait a year so all the good mods would be out, then things happened and i didn't, then like 3 years went by and by then the mod database was so huge i felt i didn't want to just go through it to find the mods i'd want. Too much trouble before even starting to play.... I doubt ill play it now. Which is kind of a shame considering i always played a Nord in the other games...

 

[Milk]

I quite like the Battlefield series, simply because you really need to work as a team to win (well, if you work as a team you'll be damned hard to beat).

I've only really played the first FEAR game and a bit of the second one (though I have the third and the add-ons for the first). Awesome game, very nice looking game too, especially at the time! But aye, creepy little girls are scarier than pretty much every movie monster ever!

On the note of creepy games, Doom 3 was really nice. It looked amazing at the time, but hasn't aged too well. Creepy as hell when playing with surround sound in the dark!

I felt Doom 3 was a disappointment. It wasn't a bad game but they'd hyped it so well, it wasn't the game i expected. See i thought it wasnt really creepy. In previews they would talk about it like it woul be less action but more ambiance. It wasnt, it was tons of enemies everywhere. Which i guess is classic Doom but they'd made it seem like it would be more horror, less action. And i hate the way the enemies just disintegrated when you killled them. I was expecting good kill physics which they'd also hyped... Nowadays i try not to read too much about games before release, sometimes it can kill a game if they built it up so you expect one thing and its not what you get.