Discussion What's your favourite video game you've been playing?

[manofchalk]

Just joined

 

[Frag Maniac]

Looks a lot like the Fakefactory Cinematic mod for HL2 that's been out for a few years.

Actually Cinematic Mod is way better graphically, if you don't mind the different music. It was the only thing I think Fakefactory went too far with.

 

[Roman Tanvir]

final fantasy collection, age of empires, stronghold, cod collection, outlast, gta collection, just cause and sabotour best games ever

 

[Richie1027]

Looking to get back into gaming, but am VERY focused on single player.
Quake 1-3, Unreal, Portal.

Suggestions for something of this decade? Run and shoot vs RPG. Not into spell casting...

I just joined this forum for the same reason. I'm retired AF...vietnam era. Want to play over Internet withmy son....one on one. Unreal tournament would be great but the GOTY version doesn't allow that. Let me know if you've found any new comparable games that allow this. Many thanks. Rich

 

[manofchalk]

Pretty hard now to find shooters that focus on Single Player content or aren't Team Based in some way.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is the only competitive game I can think of that might suit, but playing 1v1 is missing the point of CS as its such a team game. Team Fortress 2 is also an option, but its not exactly new.

Co-Operative shooters are thankfully becoming more common. Left 4 Dead 2, Borderlands, Evolve, Killing Floor and PAYDAY come to mind.

 

[Richie1027]

Pretty hard now to find shooters that focus on Single Player content or aren't Team Based in some way.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is the only competitive game I can think of that might suit, but playing 1v1 is missing the point of CS as its such a team game. Team Fortress 2 is also an option, but its not exactly new.

Co-Operative shooters are thankfully becoming more common. Left 4 Dead 2, Borderlands, Evolve, Killing Floor and PAYDAY come to mind.

 

[Richie1027]

Appreciate the reply and suggestions. If your familiar with unreal, quake, dukem nukem, doom......I played In that era.....some dialup modem ame later via Internet. I'm looking to do a direct internet connection with one person without having to go through a server or something like Steam. Interested in any game that would allow a direction connection for two persons. Thanks again

 

[jpishgar]

Also, been playing Rise of Nations for so many years.

A long time ago, before coming to work on Tom's Hardware, I was the Community Manager for Big Huge Games. Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends were and still are wondrous games and brilliant real-time strategies with no equal, and having a (very small) hand in those was such a rewarding experience. Those games were like all Brian Reynolds games, labors of love, and so much of that team went into them. Two little anecdotes about Brian Reynolds here since we're talking games - when we were working on Settlers of Catan for the Xbox, we'd play Catan over lunch in the big conference room. Two or sometimes three games would be going at once on a long conference room table as we ate. A couple of times, Brian walked into the conference room 2-3 turns in and looked down the table at the series of boards. He said pointing at them: "Red wins, yellow wins, blue wins." Sure enough, they invariably did. He had taken the starting positions, the initial outlay of cards and resources and assessed the players predictable behaviors and done a full probability matrix for victory in his head for each board at a glance. He stopped that after the grumbling, but it had always impressed the hell out of me that someone could do that.

The other anecdote is that once I had the distinct pleasure of being utterly eviscerated by him in a game of Magic the Gathering. He used something we later termed the "Poochdown Powerglove" and crushed me mercilessly. My takeaway was never, ever to play a game predicated on manipulating game mechanics with a legendary game designer and expect to win.

Proud to say that I did smack him down a couple times in Rise of Nations AND Rise of Legends. He turtled, I boomed.

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As for best games lately, Dragon Age: Inquisition is pretty darned good. I had recently gone back to Elder Scrolls Online as I had promised all those folks on the ESO subreddit I would after my last vivisection editorial of their game. It didn't get better at all. It's still a steaming pile. On my to-play list I see StarDrive 2 just came out, and StarDrive sucked up so much of my free time originally I fear taking the plunge again. There's also War for the Overworld for the Dungeon Keeper 2 nostalgic in me that I'm queuing up.

For best games ever, I'm torn between Brian Reynold's Alpha Centauri, Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines, and Ultima Online. All of them were individually masterworks. Alpha Centauri has yet to be beaten in terms of depth, even by the clumsy meandering of the hyper-simplified Beyond Earth attempt. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines was comprehensive as adventure RPGs go and probably the best dip into World of Darkness there has ever been (*shakes fist at CCP for cancelling WoDO*). Ultima Online gets honorable mention here for guzzling 10 years of my life as the tyrannical magocratic Mayor of Moonglow.

-JP

 

[Ahmed ElBullock]

The Assassin's Creed series. Every game I literally live the story.

So you actually go around assassinating people? Damn man, that's hardcore.

The Assassin's Creed series. Every game I literally live the story.

So you actually go around assassinating people? Damn man, that's hardcore.

Maybe he means he's one of those whom tried to make an authentic hidden blade, only to find he had to push the blade back in evry time. Some can't even manage to make them extend automatically. LOL

HAHAHA very funny guys

 

[Beartai]

I've been playing a lot of Borderlands 2, got back into it recently having not touched it for months and climbed 13 levels in 3 weeks. I got the seasons pass of G2A and have been playing the DLC too (Mr Torgue's, Scarlets, and Tina's assualt). The best I've played is definetely Tina's assault followed by My Torgue's Badass Crater of Badassitude. Scarlet's, the pirate one, is really boring in my opinion.

 

[skylanepilot]

Still playing Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Can't find any other games that can hold my interest for that long. My fiance' is excited to try Witcher 3. She loves the 2nd one.

I may try GTA V one day. I loved the 3rd one years ago, but the 4th own I played maybe 2 hours. Seemed like the 3rd game all over again.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Should be playing GTA V sometime tomorrow after the lengthy DL and install process. Hope it's worth the price of admission, both literally and figuratively.

 

[Greyhawk_]

I'd have to go with team Fortress 2 or Fallout New Vegas. Soon enough I'm going to build my own gaming pc so I plan to add more games to this list.

 

[skylanepilot]

Should be playing GTA V sometime tomorrow after the lengthy DL and install process. Hope it's worth the price of admission, but literally and figuratively.

May try this soon. The reviews are fantastic, but the $60 price tag is not.

I just bought Banished last night. Didn't have much time to play, but it looks amazing. I've been looking at youtube videos for tutorials to learn the basics and starting strategy. It's a 300meg game that looks rather beautiful.

 

[loki1944]

Well I just sunk 50 hours into Watchdogs, what an awesome game.

The Good
-Solid Single Player story and characters; sure it’s not Conan Doyle, but it’s still good enough to be interesting, and far better than the GTA V garbage story. I also liked the characters in the game, though my favorite was the mob boss +10%
-Graphics; the graphics are gorgeous and the game world is immersively rendered +10%
-Mini Games; sure some are ho hum like the cup game, but others like the Carmaggeddon style trip are awesome +5%
-Side Missions; Great fun, I only wish that the stronghold side missions continued after you completed the game, still a real blast and much better than GTA V +5%
-Combat; Let’s face it third person shooting mechanics are always going to be a bit clunky, but at least Watchdogs pulled it off better than most +5%
-Driving and vics; mechanics no better or worse really than other games of its type as far as I could tell, realistic looking cars +0%
-Gameplay; the hacking mechanic really gave this game a shot of awesome, hacking people, stoplights, pipes, bridges, trains, road blocks, cameras, explosives, comms, helicopters adds a whole new dimension to this genre and it is a blast +60%
-Immersion, yeah I’m adding it separately as well, but the game world feels so alive, especially compared to GTA V, it’s got a grittier vibe like GTA IV, the NPCs are engrossing whether it’s watching get in line for the ATM, flying little toy drones, talking, taking out phones to take pictures of ensuing mass chaos, etc. amazing. The environment itself inside Chicago and in the outskirts is incredibly detailed, so much work must have gone into it, and sometimes I just wandered to appreciate the art of it all. +15%

The Bad
-Performance -10% Definitely playable on a single card, but not dual cards; still has occasional crashes and some stuttering while driving, but not bad enough to completely torpedo the game.
-Some incredibly frustrating missions with “gotcha” mechanics -5%
-checkpoint system -1%
-No shooting from cars -5%; I figure they wanted you to focus on the hacking mechanic, but still, come on ubisoft

Final score: 74% Awesome game let down by performance. I have now officially played Watchdogs about 30 more hours (50 hours total) than GTA V. I hope Ubisoft keeps this series going and fixes performance issues.

 

[Swapnanil SenGupta]

Max payne 3

 

[Frag Maniac]

May try this soon. The reviews are fantastic, but the $60 price tag is not.

Green Man Gaming had the PC version for about $46 right after launch.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I just started playing the original Crysis again. At 1440p it's still a great looking game despite being released in 2007. I haven't even checked FPS as I can max it fine at 1440p but the amount of heat blowing out the top of my case is quite noticeably more than with Mass Effect 3 which I just finished before starting Crysis. Still a beast of a game after all these years.

 

[Sterbin]

Witcher 2!

 

[loki1944]

Witcher 2!

That is a a good game, and with mods+supersampling it still looks awesome.

 

[SamsulAlam]

Tomorrow I play Middle Earth - Shadow of Mordor it was fabulous...........

 

[Codemanga]

L.A.Noire
Max payne Series
Crysis 2
Sleeping dogs
Assassins creed series
GTA series

 

[BITTU210]

GTA IV
Borderlands 2
Team Fortress 2 (most addicting game I've come across)

 

[Gman450]

Started with GTA V PC a few days ago. I'm impressed with the level of optimization they've put in this game. It runs like a dream!, even on a low end system like mine. And it looks amazing even at the lowest of settings. The color scheme is a tad better than GTA IV, where it was dull really. Game is a lot crazier too.

 

[Titillating]

Started Shadow of Morder the other day, and I've gotta say, it's abso-freakin'-lutely amazing. The only complaint I'd have is the poor camera controls when using a controller, but I'm nitpicky about that. The game itself is fabulous and combat is almost too gratifying. Love the executions.