Single Player Games

[PrestoN]

So I'll be moving to California towards the end of the month and I'll be without good internet for an unknown amount of time.

So I was wondering about what single player games you guys would recommend so I have something to do before I get interwebs.

Ready? Go.

 

[Kreubs]

Portal 2 if you can play steam workshop maps offline.

 

[Gage]

StarCraft

 

[HIBred]

hitman
dishonored

 

[DamageINC]

Fallout 3/ NV. Those two alone will take up 100s of hours.
Crysis collection
Tomb Raider
Bioshock:Infinite
Far Cry 3
Saints row the Third (i thought the 4th sucked)
Batman games

 

[Storky]

Any of damageincs, + morrowind, oblivion or skyrim


GTA

 

[MR.N00B!]

Any of damageincs, + morrowind, oblivion or skyrim


GTA

And all three Dead space games. Oh and all three Max Paynes as well.

 

[Garycheese]

Skyrim

 

[Dunial]

Any of the batman games!! They're awesome! Elder scrolls, diablo..

 

[Nikon]

Any of the Total War games
Freelancer

 

[Sodalover]

If you get the batman games, get them in the order of arkham city, origins then asylum. When you get a fallout or elder scrolls, make sure to get mods for them too, as the vanilla version will get sale pretty quickly. I've also started to play an archaic rts called battle realms. It's very niche, and you either like it or don't. It's only 800 mb or so, so you should try it at least once.

 

[Rival]

Shadow Warrior 2013 is fantastic. Decent story, very cheesy but that's just the style of the game.

 

[miniCyb3r]

Company of Heroes

 

[DamageINC]

Not sure about Fallout getting stale. You can put 100s of hours into that game. No mod's needed, IMO.

 

[Rival]

The Call of Juarez games are worth a playthrough. At least COJ 2 & 4. Bound in Blood & Gunslinger.
The first game was decent and The Cartel is just a very bad time.

Play Duke Nukem 3D & Shadow Warrior Classic

Shadow Warrior Classic is actually Free

Painkiller. The 1st game is a blast and so is the 6th. Haven't played the other ones but I heard they were mediocre. I own them all, need to play them at some point.

Serious Sam 3 is a really good game. Has a very old-school feel to it, the graphics are much better however.

And FFS, play the COD4 campaign on Veteran.

 

[miniCyb3r]

I played Fallout New Vegas, I played for about three weeks and I wasn't even close to completing the whole game.

 

[Sodalover]

Not sure about Fallout getting stale. You can put 100s of hours into that game. No mod's needed, IMO.

Once you've seen what mods can do to your game, it's hard to ever go back to the vanilla settings. FO3 on max settings looks okay for a game from 2008, but a couple of texture mods will fix that for you and make it look like a modern game. I did put 100 hours into New Vegas on PS3, and they were all very fun, but I don't really feel like going back there because everything is static, I can't change something I dislike with mods or console codes, and 100 hours is a lot of time to see the entire wasteland a couple of times over. Mods are essential to any Bethesda games. I don't think Elder Scrolls would be as popular as it is if it didn't allow players to change the game however they want.

 

[miniCyb3r]

So what is a good mod for FO:NV?

 

[Sodalover]

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/ (host most of mods created for New Vegas on the web)

Two indicators of a mod's quality are:

The number of endorsements
The number of downloads

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/topalltime/?adult=2

The above page list the most endorsed files of all time for NV, so they are all guaranteed to be high quality. Whether they are to your taste, that's dependent on the player (you).

If you're new, try to avoid mods that overhaul the entire game in massive ways. Start with a texture pack, re-textured or new clothes, then move up to something a bit move complex. Mods that mess with the factions should probably be the last things you try. If you're experienced, go wild.

I don't have NV for PC, but people who created "famous" mods for FO3 probably creates the same mods with more new modifications for NV as well. A few names to look out while searching for mods are:

NMC's texture pack (better texture for most if not everything)
Fellout (change the atmosphere of NV, make it brighter, more vibrant, I don't know as I don't have it)
Martigen's Mutant Mod (changes the creatures of the Wasteland, randomizes their sizes, one of the best for F3)
EVE (don't know the specific for this)

If you can't decide which mods to try because there are so many of them, I can take a look at some of them and give a recommendation.

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

 

[Maccabeus]

Osu! Will keep your reactions up to par for LoL