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Played borderlands for about two hours, stopped being fun before the first was up. Finally gave up hope of it improving after spending an entire game day shooting some muscle bound douche bag in the head with a sniper rifle.

So please recommend me a new game(PC) to try.

I preordered borderlands and have played it for all of 10 minutes

The newest splinter cell game (Conviction) is pretty good...not quite as fun as Chaos Theory but a lot more intuitive to play and a vast improvement upon the one that Must Not Be Named.

Das Bruce wrote:Played borderlands for about two hours, stopped being fun before the first was up. Finally gave up hope of it improving after spending an entire game day shooting some muscle bound douche bag in the head with a sniper rifle.

It's fun to play it as a team.

Das Bruce wrote:So please recommend me a new game(PC) to try.

http://basiliskgames.com/eschalon-book-ii

There's a free demo to download.

i loved borderlands, so i guess you'll like the game i hate, play BF BC2, Medal of honnor, call of duty and all the interactive movies designed for nOObs (splintercell, prince of persia, assassins creed ...), i'd even recommend you to get a PS3 or a Xbox360 ...

I'm currently enjoying Aquaria, but it's not a game for everyone. There's lots of things you have to discovered alone, without any clues. Some of them are blocking (how to swim past the rock after getting the krotite armor), others will just make you miss large part of the game (what's with the fish cave?), or make them very hard (side effects of certain forms). If you're a kind of person that gets bored after an hour, it's definitively not the game for you.

It would be a good idea to tell us what genre of games you're after, or what you are looking for in games: Challenge? Immersive universe? Frantic action? Repetition of simple task? Photorealist graphism? Exciting ride? Leveling up? Intricate dialogue? Solo? Online?

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Peet wrote:The newest splinter cell game (Conviction) is pretty good...not quite as fun as Chaos Theory but a lot more intuitive to play and a vast improvement upon the one that Must Not Be Named.

I don't know which one must not be named, but I owned the first years and years ago and it was fun, but I never finished it.

Regret wrote:It's fun to play it as a team.

Unfortunately, I have no one to play with.

Regret wrote:http://basiliskgames.com/eschalon-book-ii
There's a free demo to download.

No thanks, not usually an RPG fan.

Satirik wrote:i loved borderlands, so i guess you'll like the game i hate, play BF BC2, Medal of honnor, call of duty and all the interactive movies designed for nOObs (splintercell, prince of persia, assassins creed ...), i'd even recommend you to get a PS3 or a Xbox360 ...

Haven't tried BFBC2, didn't enjoy MoH, liked old CoD ie 1 2 4, and didn't enjoy any of the rest. No thanks on the PS/Xbox, I'm too poor not to pirate most of my games. Maybe when I get a decent job.

zwzsg wrote:I'm currently enjoying Aquaria, but it's not a game for everyone.

Doesn't look like it's for me.

zwzsg wrote:It would be a good idea to tell us what genre of games you're after, or what you are looking for in games: Challenge? Immersive universe? Frantic action? Repetition of simple task? Photorealist graphism? Exciting ride? Leveling up? Intricate dialogue? Solo? Online?

Challenge not so much, immersion is important, action is nice, minimal repitition, graphics that don't hurt to look at, I don't know what you mean, probably not, hard to say, solo preferred.

For now I'll say I'm looking for an FPS, isn't or atleast doesn't feel like they just recompiled it from xbox source to windows, released within the last couple of years, a general level of quality that doesn't make you want to puke blood ie no pants on head retarded AI. I don't want to have to fight with the UI either.

Things I really like about certain games:
I love stalkers weapons, I love how they feel visceral, with recoil and sound etc, I love how their relatively strong, it doesn't take a lot to kill a soldier if you've got armour piercing bullets. As RPG's go it's one of my favourites.
Pacing is important too, I find HL games have it in spades.

I suppose I just have rediculously high standards when it comes to games, once I experience something awesome everything else is unbearable. I think I've enjoyed one commercial RTS since I played TA.

Well, if you want an FPS with powerful weaponry, there's the HD Remix of Serious Sam.

Personally, I'm currently playing Unreal Tournament 3 and find it to be rather fun. A good middle-ground between UT1 and UT2.

Pxtl wrote:Well, if you want an FPS with powerful weaponry, there's the HD Remix of Serious Sam.

I bought first encounter, definitely liked.

Pxtl wrote:Personally, I'm currently playing Unreal Tournament 3 and find it to be rather fun. A good middle-ground between UT1 and UT2.

I'll look into it.

Have you tried Metro 2033? I heard it's the same atmosphere and weapons as Stalker, but with corridors levels instead of open hub maps.
- Challenge: Dunno
- Immersion: Yes!
- Action: Yes!
- Repetition: I guess little since it's corridory.
- Leveling: I don't think so.
- Dialogue: Probably not much.
- Graphic: Best you can get today.
- Solo: Yes!
- Multi: Unheard of.

Pxtl wrote: Personally, I'm currently playing Unreal Tournament 3 and find it to be rather fun. A good middle-ground between UT1 and UT2.

Bought UT3 about a week ago. Was awesome but the campaign got a bit repetitive after a while. I just wanted some good ol' death match but it kept throwing me objective games Still, the multiplayer was fun, after all that downloading.

Jazcash wrote:

Pxtl wrote: Personally, I'm currently playing Unreal Tournament 3 and find it to be rather fun. A good middle-ground between UT1 and UT2.

Bought UT3 about a week ago. Was awesome but the campaign got a bit repetitive after a while. I just wanted some good ol' death match but it kept throwing me objective games Still, the multiplayer was fun, after all that downloading.

Yeah, the campaign is hilaristupid. Trying to shoehorn a serious war plot into Unreal Tournament is incredibly ludicrous.

Personally, I like the "Greed" gamemode. It's team-DM you play on CTF maps, but instead of getting points for the kills instantly, you don't score points until you deliver their skulls to the enemy flag-spot.

Well, if you want an FPS with powerful weaponry, there's the HD Remix of Serious Sam.

I greatly enjoyed the Low-Def version of Serious Sam Second Encounter last year. But you have to approach it with the right mind: No story, no exploring, no intricate action, it's all about being thrown in an arena with fifty angry mobs and circle strafing until they're all dead. Great fun if you're into old school doom-like. Not so if you're looking for a more elaborate experience.

Beside a couple more monsters and weapons (<3 flamethrower!), the only difference between First and Second Encounter is more variety in the scenery.

@ zwzsg

Well, the level design in 2nd E seemed better - never finished it. The first third of 1st E is terribad. It's like a low-budget Doom 3 (Boo! Monsters behind you!) until you start getting into the huge swarms. But then it pays off so well it's worth it.

2nd E starts well, but at that point I had gotten a little sick of Sam's gameplay so I stopped playing.

Yeah, it had a lot of potential but still disappointed.

Uhh lets see, ammo wasn't exactly plentiful, there were good bullets and cheap bullets, the good bullets could be used as currency to buy lots of cheap bullets but a few times I wasn't careful and it decided to start using my good bullets to kill baddies, not even boss ones either.

I like the idea of having to put on a gass mask to go outside/having to actually put on night vision gogles to use them but the sounds they make are horrendous. I ended up muting the game whenever I went outside so I didn't have to listen to the characters laboured breathing, he sounded like a morbidly obese dude struggly with a severe over production of phlegm.

The atmosphere was nice, it felt cramped and desperate with shanty towns and heaps of cool environments, even if some were a little bit doubtful. It had a little bit of Transarctica which I enjoyed.

I gave up on it when I got to the escort mission, a common pitfall of FPS games, your ward needs to be either very smart or very strong, preferably both, I personally don't need the help of a fuckwit who is going to walk through an area of baricle like enemies where the only sane option is to spring through and get to the other side, I tried it and got through fine, I only lost because my team mate decided a mutant filled soviet subway station was the appropriate place for a quite stroll.

I preordered borderlands and have played it for all of 10 minutes

30 hours, then I was done with the second playthrough

I have rarely been disappointed by Ratchet&Clank games.

If we can finagle the network settings I'll play cooperative titles like Borderlands, Left 4 Dead/Left 4 Dead 2 or Killing Floor with you. I highly recommend Killing Floor if you have two people you can play with semi-regularly. I mean, ideally you want five, but functionally solo I can pull a team of complete asocial incompetents through. I too was disappointed with Borderlands, though - as a fresh IP it wasn't terrible but the execution was shoddy in numerous places and it came down to console port syndrome.

I'll look through my Steam list for suggestions for solo play. Most of what I like is cooperative or cooperative team competitive. Doom II, Doom III and Serious Sam HD are also titles of interest for me. Project Reality, a BF2 modification, is a big hit with the S44 team in general but it, like BF/L4D/L4D2/KF is heavily online focused, one of the more advanced cooperative team competitive game experiences available.

I liked borderlands, but they made it too much of an RPG. Slowly whittle down this guy's health so you can move on! Annoying. The weapon generator was really cool though.