Grand Theft Auto V

[Sakura]

You know .. I've been wondering about testing different genres.  What do you like to play?  Or more to the point, what do you think would be a good game to introduce an action/shooter/RPG-lite gamer like myself to something different?

Well, I suppose it's dependent on genres and platforms.  I'll list off the notable games for platforms.

Right now, what I've got installed on Steam is:

• Dark Souls 1 & 2 (Action/RPG)
• Alan Wake (Survival/Action/Horror)
• E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy (RPG/Action/Shooter/Weird)
• Hotline Miami (Action/Arcade)
• Melody's Escape (Rhythm)
• Neverwinter Nights 2 (RPG)
• Risk of Rain (Action/Rogue-Lite)
• Shadowrun Returns (Turn-based strategy/RPG)
• Space Engineers (Space/Survival/Exploration/Creativity)

Of course I enjoy the standard classics, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, et al.

Other games I enjoy include:

• Rust (Multiplayer PvP Survival, similar to DayZ)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut (Tactical Shooter/RPG)
• Borderlands (Action/Shooter/RPG)
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Survival/Horror)
• Metro 2033 (Survival/Shooter/Horror)
• Dear Esther (Exploration/Story)
• HAWKEN (Action/Mecha)
• Sanctum 1 & 2 (Tower Defence/Shooter)
• Tabletop Simulator (Sandbox/Tabletop/Board Games)
• VVVVVV (Platformer)
• Killing Floor (Survival/Horror/Shooter)
• Saints Row 2/3/4 (Sandbox/Action)

On PS3 I have Folklore (Action/Story) and Demon's Souls (Action/RPG).


On 360 I have a few favourites such as Naruto: Rise of a Ninja/Naruto: The Broken Bond (Fighting/RPG), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Metroidvania/RPG), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Action).


I often play Minecraft modpacks with a few friends using the FeedTheBeast and TechnicPack Launchers (cause let's be honest, vanilla Minecraft is pretty boring).  I recently got told I should check out a game called "Five Nights at Freddy's" which is a horror game.

If you'd like to try an oldschool game book of sorts to play, there's the Fabled Lands -- I used to have one of the books when I was younger, but the community of the FLApp (http://flapp.sourceforge.net/) (Fabled Lands App) made a version you can play on PC (and possibly tablet, I don't know about that).

And if you're into MMOs, there's Aion, Star Wars Galaxies*, Star Wars: The Old Republic, PokeMMO (Pokemon MMO game).

* - Galaxies is only available using third-party servers now, as it shut down years ago


I was going to try and suggest a few, but I can't gauge what would be a good suggestion based on person alone, so I figure I'll run the gamut by showing most of the games I like.  The only games I would advise you be careful about are Alone in the Dark (still includes SecuROM in 2014), Deus Ex: Invisible War (only works on Windows XP), and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (has massive bugs associated with it that never got patched because the developer went out of business).

Anyway, yeah.

[Sakura]

I recently got told I should check out a game called "Five Nights at Freddy's" which is a horror game.

So I tried this game, and I have to say "NOPE."  I can't play this game beyond the first night, it's too much for me.  Freaky as hell.

[Crewe]

Picked this up and when I play, I rarely get on track with the mission at hand since I get caught up in so many other transgressions lol

[rollntider]

Picked this up and when I play, I rarely get on track with the mission at hand since I get caught up in so many other transgressions lol

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[TheNorm]

Picked this up and when I play, I rarely get on track with the mission at hand since I get caught up in so many other transgressions lol

Haha, I had that problem for weeks lol. Finally had to tell myself to stop with all the other side stuff so that I could focus on the actual story.

[Crewe]

Picked this up and when I play, I rarely get on track with the mission at hand since I get caught up in so many other transgressions lol

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who is that?

[Crewe]

Haha, I had that problem for weeks lol. Finally had to tell myself to stop with all the other side stuff so that I could focus on the actual story.

maybe I'll get there one day lol

[rollntider]

Haha, I had that problem for weeks lol. Finally had to tell myself to stop with all the other side stuff so that I could focus on the actual story.

maybe I'll get there one day lol

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[rollntider]

My son got the PS4 bundle of this for Xmas. I will sit down and play it some. Weird saying my son got it now. He is 15, time flies

[Crewe]

So in between mission runs, I find that I like to take Trevor, shoot a cop and see if I can get away in the redneck wasteland that is his original hangout.
I discovered one road headed for the water, ends and fancies itself a ramp into said body of water.
As I was running, I braked, still going over the ramp but it allowed me to fall short of the water, u turn and head back the way I came.
As I did, I see cop cars flying overhead into the water, others stopping short and crashing into each other then going overboard, and even a brief few seconds where I pass by another couple of cop cars heading the opposite way to the ramp as Im on my way to freedom in classic keystone fashion.
If only I had thought to record or capture that or whatever the hell it is you do to save video.
I need to look into that...

[Sakura]

So in between mission runs, I find that I like to take Trevor, shoot a cop and see if I can get away in the redneck wasteland that is his original hangout.
I discovered one road headed for the water, ends and fancies itself a ramp into said body of water.
As I was running, I braked, still going over the ramp but it allowed me to fall short of the water, u turn and head back the way I came.
As I did, I see cop cars flying overhead into the water, others stopping short and crashing into each other then going overboard, and even a brief few seconds where I pass by another couple of cop cars heading the opposite way to the ramp as Im on my way to freedom in classic keystone fashion.
If only I had thought to record or capture that or whatever the hell it is you do to save video.
I need to look into that...

If you're playing on PC,there's Open Broadcast Software (OBS for short), which is basically a free (and better) version of XSplit which is one of the most widely used pieces of recording software out there. It supports both local recording and streaming (including simultaneously), and when I started making Youtube videos I was pretty impressed with how small it would make videos (not all videos are equally small, though, like Nintendo games I can record for hours and stay under 1gb, but a game like The Forest was 3gb for less than 2 hours of gameplay).

If you're playing on a console, however, there are hardware solutions you can get which will also record your gameplay, which means no slowdown of the PS3, because all the recording is done by a standalone computer.

[Crewe]

Im not talking about using any external devices, I have zero desire for that, Im just talking about within game clips that are saved and shared

[Sakura]

Im not talking about using any external devices, I have zero desire for that, Im just talking about within game clips that are saved and shared

Alright, yeah, OBS then.

On a slightly unrelated note, someone showed me a video recently of people playing at the playground.  Definitely one of those "record and show everyone" things!  Rockstar unfortunately patched the bug/glitch/exploit, but the moment I saw the swing set send a car airborne for the first time, I couldn't help but laugh.   I always miss out on the funny gitches.   

[rollntider]

I need to play this, still havent yet

[thaima1shu]

I just finally started it. Haven't really done much of anything yet, but no issues so far. Flying a blimp was fun.