Help me find the right game for me

Kelor

Maybe Audiosurf would be up your alley if you didn't play it while the thread took a while ago?

Its got online components so you can compete against other people, lasts as long as your playlist and you can always hit up iTunes to make it last longer.

Then you've got all the different modes to try each of your songs out on. It's only $10 so you can get your mates to buy it and then compete using different songs against each other.

Fuga

there's no right game for you.

Nerdtendo

This is in a drastically different direction, but have you tried a pen and paper game?

If any of your friends have a D&D group that gets together, you should check it out.

Monger

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Hm...if you're not finding the "right" game maybe you're setting your sights too narrowly. For example, for the longest time, my favorite genre was Japanese RPGs. What's my one special game? Pac-Man: Championship Edition. Yeah, that's about as far from a Japanese RPG as you can get, but the game just clicked for me and I can play it over and over, striving to improve my score (currently on the top 3 leaderboards for some of the modes).

Definitely this. My standards are kind of absurd as well, but you really never know what's going to hook you until you give it a shot. I mean, I'm one of those narrative-heavy games-are-art dickfaces, and I tend to gravitate towards anything ambient, introspective, or mindfuckish. I like my lives to be halved, my gears to be metal, my shadows to be colossal, my vampires to have masquerades, and my sands to, you know, have time in them.

You know what that game was for me? Devil May Cry 3. Turns out the challenge that the game presents to me in surviving and the challenge I present to myself in stringing combos is what keeps me coming back to it more than the games that I talk about all the time. Hell, I'd go so far as to say I liked the story. Audiosurf is another on that keeps pulling me back, as well as Everyday Shooter. I played Dark Messiah through four or five times (didn't finish my run on hardcore, though). And motherfucking Carcassone. I think I played it until 3 in the morning the first time I booted it up.

My point is just try stuff. Lots of stuff. All kinds of stuff. Even bad stuff. It's stuff, too. If you really can't make yourself, then you probably are burnt out on gaming. Take a break. See some sights. Meet a nice lady and/or fellow. Build a doomsday device. You know, live the dream.

Darius Black

I completely understand your pickyness and high standards, as I tend to share those two traits as well. The thing is, if you want to spend a lot of time with good gaming, you have to broaden your horizons. For instance, I was straight up multiplayer for about two years until 2007 when all of these great singleplayer titles started comnig out: Bioshock, Mass Effect, Heavenly Sword, GTA4, Assassin's Creed, Oblivion, man I could go on. I went back to my singleplayer roots and had a blast on my own, just getting immersed in all these amazing gaming worlds. This is what I would suggest doing if you feel like you're kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel.

If I can make a suggestion, however... according to your tastes, you might find Battlefield 2/2142 a good fit. Both have immense replayability and unlockable rewards. Finding a good, strategic server can lead to some very memorable battles if everyone's doing the whole squad/commander thing right. Also, on the same note, Crysis has a great power struggle online mode that's very reminiscent of BF's capture and hold scenario, and the graphics and gameplay are even more enjoyable, what with the nanosuit and all (it also has a great singleplayer campaign). I would rate it as a spiritual successor to the series, with only one downside: there are no rewards to reap but a player score. Each game works kind of like Counter Strike in that you buy weapons and items by earing points. Still a great experience, though, and currently my #1 multiplayer game (aside from Age of Conan).

Speaking of which (and this has been mentioned), that's a title worth playing if you're willing to wait until the plethora of bugs are fixed.

RUNN1NGMAN

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