tell me what game to buy next

a general thread for personalized recommendations

what games have you been liking lately?

Get Super Mario Brothers 3

i play on PS3. i generally only buy/play 2-3 games per year because i don't spend a ton of free time on gaming. so usually my strategy is to stick to the big/popular games that fall in my range of interest, but buying long enough after they come out so that they aren't $50.

i've spent a lot of time with skyrim and fallout 3 over the past couple of years, red dead redemption is one of my favorite games, so obviously i like open-world games (though i'm not super into grand theft auto). but i'm open to shooters as well as long as they aren't too hard and are fun. i don't really dedicate enough time to this to get good at a game with a steep learning curve.

i'll probably get around to fallout new vegas eventually but i might need a break from bethesda open world games for a while first. i know lots of people are into borderlands 2. new tomb raider is intriguing. what else should i be considering?

maybe dishonored?

Far Cry 3? The story's beneath contempt but if you can make your peace with the idea of poaching for fun then the hunting mechanic can be a good laugh. Going out hunting bears and tigers with C4 and grenades is kinda sweet, and it's not a million miles away from Red Dead Redemption as a gaming experience.

Just Cause 2 is still the best for joyful punking around

buy a clue

NI NO KUNI

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Buy a ps+ membership and get free games 4 life imo

ni no kuni is way too twee/rpg for me. dishonored is a good idea, gonna look into ps+ and far cry also. i had the demo for just cause 2 and it seemed pretty fun but not fun enough to buy the full game.

sleeping dogs maybe?

Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider

yeh just get PS+, to see what's currently available go to https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/ and choose Games/Playstation Plus/Your Instant Collection

yeah, ps+ is what's up

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peaking on the bass and treble there.

Got paid today so signed up for PS+ since I wanted to play The Cave anyways.

Don't forget to grab that ratchet and clank game, it's badass

also don't forget to turn off automatic subscription renewal
Account Management --> Transaction Management --> Services List --> PlayStation Plus

thanks dudes. only problem with this plan is how slow downloads are. started the ratchet & clank download this morning, came back 45 minutes later and it was at 2%. guess i'll be doing a lot of overnight downloading.

Yup. Good thing is that it'll automatically power off the system when it's done

don't forget to leave your controller plugged in!

Saints Row 3. Open world, fun with a good dose of stupidity.

Got LA Noire and Fallout New Vegas for $10 today.

Not the expanded/DLC/game of the year versions but whatever.

One of those games is awesome and the other one is LA Noire

la noire is one of those games i was excited about for like a year and a half but by the time it came out i never even thought about buying it. i'm gonna pick it up cheaps. thx for the idea.

Has there even been a big game that everyone was excited about since like ... GTAV?

we're still in the lame duck period for the last generation. seems like half the new ps4/xb1 releases this year are just ports

I need to play Assassin's Creed 4 more but I have trouble getting excited about it even though it's pretty good. And I was playing The Last of Us but then it stopped working and I think I'm going to have to start over from the beginning again.

Shooter bros seem excited by Destiny.

shooter bros were also excited about Titanfall

destiny looks great tbh. i'd love to try it.

shooter bros should just shoot each other irl

Want to trade in some stuff and get a new used game but I can't find anything that looks fun/interesting. Was thinking of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion but I already did Skyrim and do I want to do that whole thing again? Saints Row IV looks fun but is it any good?

saints row IV is a blast. i liked it so much i almost 100%'d it

Cool. I have like 0 interest in dark bloody games right now, just want something fun and different and light.

it's very funny, very light. the dubstep gun is amazing.

I just started Saints Row 2 recently, which is fun but basically seems like it's just a more peurile (if such a thing is possible) gloss on the GTA model. Does the series change much over the subsequent two games?

yes, number 3 and number 4 are far superior. number 4 is basically reskinning number 3 (it started as an expansion but became it's own full length). they're just insane + hilarious + the mechanics are really enjoyable + light.

i think around 3 they became a full blown satire of GTA type games and not just a jejune knock-off

Yeah, by SR3 they pretty much stopped caring about gravitas or plot - SR2 still had some of that. (But yes, way more puerile than GTA even)
SR4 just came out with an "ultimate" edition with all the DLC (like SR3 has too) so if you grab one of these, make sure you get the GOTY version

I got the GOTY version. The Gamestop dude had a pretty cool RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN tattoo and I namechecked Orange Juice while complimenting it and he said I was just the second person to recognize the source. Indie cred at the chain video game store.

Would I like the Far Cry games? Which one should I start with?

Far cry 2 is fab

i want a new game for ps4. hitman is the game i'm most intrigued by but i don't know if i can deal with a game primarily about murdering people right now. so recommend me a game that isn't mostly about killing. tomb raider?

i'd say tomb raider is also primarily about murdering people.

dishonored 2 you can play thru the entire game and not kill anyone. also deus ex.

witcher 3 and horizon zero dawn are primarily about murdering, respectively, slavic monsters and giant robot animals

Nier:automata is a game primarily about murdering machines

I love witcher 3 but got burned out while playing the extra content. I have dishonored 2 but haven't gotten hooked on it. I should probably go back to it. A lot of the fun of those games for me is avoiding fighting but it feels like the game keeps pushing me into fights.

Really not killing anything? The Witness. Killing zombies and hellcreatures? Doom. Killing spaceships ok? Elite Dangerous