The all encompassing "Suggest a game!" thread.

[Tayls]

meh when i said futuristic, I was thinkin more of Half-Life 2 or Esthar(Final fantasy VIII) or even midgar.
I was also looking for something more up to today's graphical standards. doesn't have to be as great as Oblivion or Doom 3 but I don't want some like Quake 2, I have WoW but dont have the money to make monthly payments. I would really like to play Final Fantasy XI (cant afford it either tho)
also not into the dark atmosphere that Deus Ex provided.(least not in an RPG)
It's great for Doom3/PREY/FEAR

speaking of which my PC isn't some super power 3k machine:
2.5GHz Athlon 64 X2
2 GB Ram
ATI Radeon X700 <- bottlenecks my PC

FEAR/PREY/Doom 3 are pretty much the maximum as far as my graphics card can handle (Full settings minus shadows at 800x600 w/out AA or AF) runs those games at about 15-70 FPS each)

Sry if im setting the limitations a little tight here...

edit:
off topic...
I just beat PREY less than 10 minutes ago...

[Tayls]

I'm gonna look into system shock II
Look's pretty good TY

[Elin]

I'm gonna look into system shock II
Look's pretty good TY

Glad I could help. The graphics aren't up to today's standards by any means, but they're far, far from being bad enough to be problematic. And in every other respect, it's a wonderful game. I'm sure you'll have fun.

[Jibijibi]

Anyone into indie games? Cave Story is a given but there's lots more like

Knytt
La Mulana
Alex Adventure
R

etc...

[Gare]

Not exactly like Cave Story, but Nifflas' new game called Knytt Stories is worth a try. It's kind of like a mixture of the original Knytt and Within a Deep Forest.

[crusher]

System Shock 2 is a bitch to get working on modern computers. It loves to crash...

[Elin]

System Shock 2 is a bitch to get working on modern computers. It loves to crash...

Oh? It ran fine on my computer... But then mine is hardly modern. I'm not even running XP, so...

[Tayls]

I here it's hard to work on XP/NT systems and Dual Cores so it may be a pain for someone running Vista x64 on an Athlon X2.........

edit:
still open to more suggestions tho

edit2x:
yup, I can't get the installer to run on my nt system

edit3x:
and yes, that's with the compatabilty set to win98/ME

edit4x:
-Ran: Y:\setup.exe -lgntforce
to get the setup to run
-set the sshock2.exe compatabiltiy to Windows 2000
-and once in the game set the affinity to CPU 0 or CPU 1
and it runs fine. perfect in fact constant 75 FPS at max settings (75 due to Vsync. Refresh rate is only 75, max for my monitor)

edit 5x: (wow 5 edits and counting)
I'm gonna try to set the AA and AF to the Max as well....

[Tanthias]

I'm thinking about buying Red Steel for the Wii (seeing as how it is only $20 now), and I was wondering if anybody here has played it, and what they have to say about the game. Is it any good? Or would I be better getting a different game like it?

[weemanextreeme]

I'm thinking about buying Red Steel for the Wii (seeing as how it is only $20 now), and I was wondering if anybody here has played it, and what they have to say about the game. Is it any good? Or would I be better getting a different game like it?

It's schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I highly reccomend it.

[Tanthias]

I'm having trouble deciding between 6 games... and I haven't played any of these games before, so I have no first hand idea of what they're like (so I'm hoping a couple of people will have played the games and be able to help me out). I can only get one at the moment, and I'd already read the plot of each (thus cutting the choices down by 2....), and still nothing jumps out at me over the others....

The games are:

Half-Life (PS2)
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (PS2)
Devil May Cry 2 (PS2)
Musashi Samurai Legend (PS2)
Resident Evil Outbreak (PS2)
Lost Kingdoms (GC)

I'd appreciate any help trying to figure out which game might be better...

[Borman]

Its really not worth the 20$, I still havent beaten it and I payed full price. Multiplayer isnt that fun either.

[Tanthias]

Ok... any ideas then? I'm willing to try almost any genre, but am mainly looking for a good action or rpg type... and don't suggest Zelda, I own it on Gamecube.

[pkt-zer0]

Ok... any ideas then? I'm willing to try almost any genre, but am mainly looking for a good action or rpg type... and don't suggest Zelda, I own it on Gamecube.

Last Scenario is a pretty good game, with classic turn-based JRPG mechanics.
La-Mulana has been mentioned quite often I'm sure, but it's still one of the best metroidvania type games.
Ark22 is a zelda-like, as far as I know, but haven't played much of it myself yet.

As for non-free games, the Tales of Destiny PS2 remake is a pretty great mix of beat 'em up (some features could be likened to Guardian Heroes) and RPG, using an altered version of the LMBS. It's Japanese, but there's a fairly complete menu translation. [/shameless plug] You might wish to wait for the director's cut version, though.

Also, some Castlevania games, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, in particular. Yeah, obvious choices, but whatever.

[Tanthias]

Last Scenario is a pretty good game, with classic turn-based JRPG mechanics.
La-Mulana has been mentioned quite often I'm sure, but it's still one of the best metroidvania type games.
Ark22 is a zelda-like, as far as I know, but haven't played much of it myself yet.

As for non-free games, the Tales of Destiny PS2 remake is a pretty great mix of beat 'em up (some features could be likened to Guardian Heroes) and RPG, using an altered version of the LMBS. It's Japanese, but there's a fairly complete menu translation. [/shameless plug] You might wish to wait for the director's cut version, though.

Also, some Castlevania games, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, in particular. Yeah, obvious choices, but whatever.

Thanks for the suggestions (finally got around to checking this thread again today). I've downloaded Last Scenario and it is pretty good so far.