I like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. I wouldn't say I'm exceptionally knowledgeable on the games, but still.
Games you can talk about forever.
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Forever is a very long time, Mr Jones... *Strokes cat prepared much earlier* ...Can you walk the walk of the talk about talk? Or...talk the talk of the talk you talk? Hm, that phrase is evidently not for this situation. I call your bluff, nonetheless, sir!
Ok, pedantry aside, to pick something that has enough natural conversational tangents regardless of quality, regardless of the poor soul on the receiving end of my incessant twatwaffle, The Cat Lady feels like a substantial enough package to unfold. It's been many years since i danced with Silent Hill 2, so the memory of a less observant mind is faint at best.
Ok, pedantry aside, to pick something that has enough natural conversational tangents regardless of quality, regardless of the poor soul on the receiving end of my incessant twatwaffle, The Cat Lady feels like a substantial enough package to unfold. It's been many years since i danced with Silent Hill 2, so the memory of a less observant mind is faint at best.
The Unreal Tournament series. And there's a WHOLE lot more there too than just some shooty shooty bang bang action.
BabyfartsMcgeezaks said:
While that's pretty good, if you really want a game that makes you rethink ALL the games you've played, play The Beginner's Guide by Davey Wreden. One of the main devs behind The Stanley Parable. What's even more brilliant about it is the main idea of it all is actually a calculated delayed impact, only striking AFTER you're done with the game.American Tanker said:
Totally have done this with my brother, and I still haven't found an equivalent style of game anywhere (the JA2 attempted reboot was rather lame by comparison, sadly). There are so many situations, ways that battles can go, or last-ditch desperate attempts to salvage an otherwise sacrificial turn. It's happened both in JA2 and in reboot X-Com for example (during the LAST BOSS in JA2), where I've used a rocket launcher to blast a whole in a wall so a sniper on a roof outside can deliver the final blow.Smithnikov said:
And not to mention the shenanigans like throwing a stun grenade, running in and grabbing the stunned foes gun and shooting him with it.
RE franchise has been a staple of saturday night discussions over beers, or boring workday chats with one buddy of mine. Everything from the lore, to the guns, to the strategies. We'd also get lynched for it anywhere else, but the one we discuss most is Mercenaries mode in RE6. It's just so damn nuanced and full of strategies and ways to set up insane runs that we wind ourselves up into a frenzy until the next time we can coop. I could go on and on about it until I end up underground, for sure.Johnny Novgorod said:
Anyway my contribution to the thread is either Fallout (the entire series), or driving games, like DiRT Rally. Or Rainbow 6: Vegas 2, a game I probably cite wayyyy too often on this website.
I would join in on Witcher 3 like everyone else, but I played it a little late I guess, and there wasn't all that much hype. Also, none of my friends played it, sadly. I think I need more gaming friends.
I could probably talk about Halo 3, 4 and 5 forever.
Though admittedly, 4 and 5 will not exactly be a positive discussion.
Though admittedly, 4 and 5 will not exactly be a positive discussion.
Warcraft III (single-player campaign)
Mass Effect 1-3
Dark Souls 1-3
I have played through the WC3 campaign and the ME trilogy probably half a dozen times, and I will most likely keep going back and replaying them every 2-3 years (I'm excited for the upcoming WC3 remaster). The stories and gameplay are just so friggin' good.
I've also become a Dark Souls addict since I first played them last year, so I can likely add those games to that group.
Mass Effect 1-3
Dark Souls 1-3
I have played through the WC3 campaign and the ME trilogy probably half a dozen times, and I will most likely keep going back and replaying them every 2-3 years (I'm excited for the upcoming WC3 remaster). The stories and gameplay are just so friggin' good.
I've also become a Dark Souls addict since I first played them last year, so I can likely add those games to that group.
Metal Gear in general, EVE Online with stories of shit going FUBAR that can match Jagged Alliance and X-COM players in this thread, and on that note, X-COM but particularly the underloved X-COM Apocalypse. Actually I probably have a fuckload more but this post would never end. Oh, but I will mention Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage because fuck you listen to this soundtrack.
Sometimes it's just the right game at the right time, isn't it?leet_x1337 said:
Ultima as a series generally. From the weird nonsense gibberish of the first three, through the second trilogy that largely abandoned traditional ideas by not having a final boss, and being quests aimed at the betterment or resolution of a problematic world rather then facing off against a threat in the traditional sense. The final trilogy being the first quasi-real time sandbox world, and then the demise of the series when EA took over and drove it off a cliff (which nonetheless still had some interesting lore in amidst the shambles. And Online which was my first and only really prolonged MMO game.
Yep, best story in a game ever. Those sensory stones you mention stick in my mind as specifically some of the best writing. Even the small, unrelated snippets made for incredibly compelling writing.jademunky said:
Anyway, in answer to the OP, I'd say... Doom. The original Doom, that is, and other games based on that engine, including Doom 2, Final Doom and the fan-made WADs that continue to be released to this day. For me it's still the closest to gameplay perfection that has ever been achieved. And the standards it set for level design have never really been surpassed in a FPS.