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A Time Sink Game
Ritchmeister
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Right, so I've just left college and have a month before I go on holiday for 2 months, so I want a computer game to help fill in this time and stop me from wasting my money on alcohol.
So basically I need a recommendation of a game that I can really get into. One that feels rewarding for playing for a long time and that I would enjoy and really want to play rather than going out.
I'm looking for a PC game to be honest, prefferably without a monthly subscription as I can't really be bothered with that, but if you recommend it and it seems good I would be willing to try it.
At the moment the only PC game I have which sort of fills my requirements is Football Manager. I used to play CS:S a lot, but I'm pretty bored of it and I'm looking for something with a more long term goal in it rather than 2 minute rounds.
I tried X3:Reunion but I've played it for a few hours and I just don't really enjoy it, too much flying around doing nothing, and this is probably why I don't think Eve would be the game for me. So anyway, any recommendations would be nice, thanks.
Edit: Oh and a game that would allow me to listen to my own music would be good, i.e not a game with lots of voice acting without subtitles. Although I guess most games probably have a subtitle option so its a fairly moot point.
So basically I need a recommendation of a game that I can really get into. One that feels rewarding for playing for a long time and that I would enjoy and really want to play rather than going out.
I'm looking for a PC game to be honest, prefferably without a monthly subscription as I can't really be bothered with that, but if you recommend it and it seems good I would be willing to try it.
At the moment the only PC game I have which sort of fills my requirements is Football Manager. I used to play CS:S a lot, but I'm pretty bored of it and I'm looking for something with a more long term goal in it rather than 2 minute rounds.
I tried X3:Reunion but I've played it for a few hours and I just don't really enjoy it, too much flying around doing nothing, and this is probably why I don't think Eve would be the game for me. So anyway, any recommendations would be nice, thanks.
Edit: Oh and a game that would allow me to listen to my own music would be good, i.e not a game with lots of voice acting without subtitles. Although I guess most games probably have a subtitle option so its a fairly moot point.
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If you're a strategy person, there's always Civilization/Galactic Civilization/Sins of a Solar Empire for random world/galaxy/universe-subjugating fun.
Oblivion might be up your alley?
I know you were asking for PC games but Pokemon Pearl/Diamond on the DS grabs you and never lets go.
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There's also Oblivion, Sid Meier's Pirates!, and Freelancer (with Discovery mod).
Might I suggest that as the requisite first free hit of smack?
Edit - BURN THE HERETIC
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
And yeah I've got Pokemon Diamond, gotta love the pokemon.
Anyway cheers for the recommendations so far guys, im checking up on everything you're suggesting so please keep them coming.
The Witcher: Single player RPG. Setting is a more dark and depraved of the standard Tolkienesque fare you usually find. Pretty good storyline wrapped around a decent combat mechanic and the fact that things that appear to be minor choices early on can have significant repercussions later on in the game, which is something few RPG's ever even try, let alone manage to do quite well. Definitely worth trying, reminded me a lot of Fallout in some ways (the general pacing structure of the game with lots of quests as you wander around cities). Choices aren't so much "moral" choices here, morality is often a lot more ambiguous than you'd find in most other RPG's. You make your own decisions here.
Team Fotress 2: Your replacement for CS:S. Not as "hardcore" necessarily but a whole load of fun, definitely something I keep coming back to. We have our own servers too, look in the relevant thread.
I'll second Galactic Civilizations 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire. Despite it being real-time, games can actually last a pretty long time in Sins, and playing multiplayer you can also save and continue games later on, which is a really good feature. GalCiv 2 is a more standard type of 4X game than Sins, but that doesn't make it any less well implemented.
What game can I compare this to? It sounds kind of cool, but I don't want to buy it without being able to compare it.
I usually play RTS like WC3, Total Annihilation and (way back when, Red Alert).
Uplink is an older game worth looking at. Warcraft 3 as well as it's custom map DOTA. If you don't like games with resource management, Myth 2 is solid gold. Grid just came out, and while I usually hate racing games, I actually really enjoyed it (on the xbox at least, system req on the PC could be a killer.) I haven't played it, but Stalker looks to be an interesting game that I'm buying once I get the chance.
I'd say Silent Storm, was most like the Silent Storm Demo. (I hear it's by the same devs)
It's a squad-level turn based strategy game. Think along the lines of Jagged Alliance and X-Com and you'd be in the right area.
The main selling point to the strategy is the completely destructible locations. It's literally possible to reduce houses to rubble with enough firepower (and you often do). Blow out staircases, floors, ceilings, walls, it's all game. Hear someone above? Shoot through the roof and you might get him. Need to get down a floor quickly? blow a hole in the floor with a grenade and then drop down below. Entry from the front of a house a risky proposition? Take a panzershrek and blast through the back wall.
Of course, none of this is really important if you don't like these kinds of Turn Bases squad level strategy games to begin with.
If you liked Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander is the logical (and awesome) choice. I'd also recommend Company of Heroes (opposite end of the RTS spectrum to games like TA and SupCom, more controlling small numbers of units on a tactical level than the grand strategy of those games). Probably one of the best RTS's ever made, and really epic in its own right.
awesome, thanks
You should give it another try in the upcoming free weekend. some of the recently added medic achievements and the upcoming pyro achievements are rather long term goals. Healing/dealing 1 million points of damage takes a long time.
For PC, I'd say Oblivion or Morrowind. Fallout 1&2 come to mind too.
Fair warning about Arcanum, it has a weird learning curve. You will be like a tiny god by the time you finish it, but in the beginning you will trip and fall and hit your head and die.
Yeah, the end game is still largely unfinished, but just doing the first zone with all the differnet arch types (there are 4) is awesome. There's a "Destiny Quest line" that interweaves all the classes, so u don't get the full details of everything till u do all 4. It's pretty sweet.
It's one of those games where you say you're gonna stop and save after you do this thing. Two hours later you're still telling yourself you'll quit after just one more turn.
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It's not a Fallout game, it's just a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the world of Fallout... which is exactly why it's so awesome.
It's a nice time sink, anyway.
I'm going to have to go away and reevaluate everything I ever held as truth before.
On a more serious note I quite liked Sacred as a decent hack & slash time sink. In fact I may go so far as to say that I enjoyed my time with it more than I did Diablo 2.
Um... no?
I think you're confusing us with the NMA crowd. I wouldn't call it as good as Jagged Alliance 2 but it's still a pretty good squad level TBS game in its own right.
If not, the best game ever is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Ever.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
That being said, I guess I have little to add.
I'll second a few titles based purely on the criterea of not spending your money on alchohol. You see, some of the games people suggested get BETTER when you're a little drunk while playing them. Since we're trying to stop your money from going toward alchohol, we best avoid those titles. (I'm looking at you Team Fortress 2 and Oblivion)
Silent Storm
Awesome! I finally got the Sentinels expansion last week, so I'm sucked back in.
Baldur's Gate II
If you have the patience for Old school D&D RPGs, this one will suck you in for a long time. There is a lot to do in this game.
Freelancer
I found myself helplessly bound to my computer for days, luckily the effect wore off after a while and I refused to put the disc back in my computer for fear of what might happen.
Diablo II?
I hate to say it... Sort of. I actually liked Titan Quest just as much... after the expansion. Probably a zillion hours lost to these games. Even better with friends.
Galacitic Civilizations
The latest expansion makes this game pretty noteworthy. Highly replayable galactic domination.
Oh, and if you're looking at MMOs (I quit MMOs) my friends all speak highly of Conan. I have not seen it myself, so don't blame me if you get it and it sucks a butt.
Seriously. It's free and a better timesink than most individual games.
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But he has to finish the original first. Golden Pantaloons.
I'll put it this way: A guy recently did a 100% run LP of San Andreas on the SomethingAwful forums that was archived a few days ago. His final stats had over 152 hours of gameplay. And this is a guy who was just getting shit done, without going and goofing off.
You should give CoX a shot. Who doesn't want to make their own superhero?
Other time sink games that I've played... Etrian Odyssey for the DS. I must have put at LEAST 90 hours into it, and never beat it. Diablo 2 is a great time sink game. I've put many hours into Civ IV. Fallout 2 is another long game.