08-07-2004 05:06									#1
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Right I'm looking for a new game to down... I mean buy.

My all time favourite games are in no particular order:

X-Com series (YAAAAAY! ROOCKS!)
Baldur's Gate (excluding BG II)
MOHAA & Call of Duty
Half Life
......

I've played most games, and usually I just get bored in the same day, so I'm looking for a good story, awesome music + audio and nice atmosphere. I like dark atmosphere in games, but it has to be intense and good.

What can you recommend me? Oh, and it doesn't have to be new as in released this year. Just some new game I haven't played.

	08-07-2004 05:16									#2
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Likes Half Life
Didn't like BG2
Is beyond help

* Jamski shrugs*

-Jam

	08-07-2004 05:18									#3
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I wouldn't say I didn't like BG2, I just felt that it didn't offer enough, because the original BG was too good in the first place. It was OK I guess, but it doesn't get to be my all time favourite games.

I've been checking out this coming game, Stalker.. looks pretty good... And naturally Half Life 2.

	08-07-2004 05:24									#4
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May I suggest NWN?



-Jam

	08-07-2004 05:24									#5
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Played it already. It was pretty cool.

	08-07-2004 06:16									#6
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Play it some more! Play on line with me and some other 'poly people!

-Jam

	08-07-2004 06:21									#7
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Have you played Silent Storm? It lacks the strategic part of X-Com, but for tactical combat it is absolutely the best. You'll cream your pants.

*sigh* If only they would make an X-Com game using the same engine.

	08-07-2004 06:23									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski Play it some more! Play on line with me and some other 'poly people! -Jam

Do you need CD-keys to play online with the expansion packs? I only have the CDs for the original game.

	08-07-2004 08:11									#9
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Silent Storm.. sounds very familiar.. I think I've tried it since it sounds VERY familiar. Oh yeah now I remember... reminded me of Jagged Alliance.. I didn't like it Everyone praised it, I kind of didn't like it....

	08-07-2004 12:27									#10
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quote: Do you need CD-keys to play online with the expansion packs? I only have the CDs for the original game.

Walk the plank, you enemy of the honest hardworking Atari shareholders!

-Jam

	08-07-2004 18:16									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka Silent Storm.. sounds very familiar.. I think I've tried it since it sounds VERY familiar. Oh yeah now I remember... reminded me of Jagged Alliance.. I didn't like it Everyone praised it, I kind of didn't like it....

What, so you like Baldur's Gate, but not Baldur's gate 2, and you like X-Com, but not Silent storm??

Go play pong or something.


Or you could try UFO: Aftermath - it's also lacking in the strategy part, and it's tactical combat isn't as good as Silent Storm, but it is more similiar to X-Com.



Oh, and Jamski, I bought the orginal on the day of release - that has to count for something.

	08-07-2004 18:34									#12
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That only gives you a slightly broader plank to walk.

Pekka, you do seem very difficult to please, especially with your BG , BGII oddity. Just go to the games shop on a Saturday, play the game of your choice that night and on Sunday, and return it on Monday if it suXXors. Try not to do this too often at the same shop though.

	08-07-2004 19:02									#13
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Might I suggest Planescape:Torment?

	08-07-2004 22:24									#14
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Wizardry 8, excellent old school RPG.

	08-07-2004 23:09									#15
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UR you recommend that in every recommendation thread and no one ever plays it.

	08-07-2004 23:45									#16
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Isn't Wizardy 8 the RPG where you can play as a monkey, elephant or cat?

	09-07-2004 00:51									#17
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quote: I've played most games, and usually I just get bored in the same day, so I'm looking for a good story, awesome music + audio and nice atmosphere. I like dark atmosphere in games, but it has to be intense and good.

Max Payne. Max Payne 2.

	09-07-2004 01:07									#18
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike UR you recommend that in every recommendation thread and no one ever plays it.

So? I recommend wargames in almost every thread of this kind - i would have here if it wasnt clear that he was looking for something else.

	09-07-2004 01:14									#19
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oh yeah, maxpain 2 was pretty cool. And yes I'm super difficult to please when it comes to games. I usually give most games a chance, but if in the next hour I'm not totally sucked in and lost the control of time, it sucks. Not because the game would be bad, I just like the games that really addicts me.

And if a game doesn't have a good storyline, it's useless as far as I'm concerned and sadly enough those games are very rare these days. However, it can be made up with excellency in other areas sometimes.

I don't know the first two X-Com's were basically the first games I really really played, I had played a lot before that but it was the first game I really got into. At that time I thought it was the perfect game. And it could fit into few floppy disks None of the less, it was excellent. And still is, I really like to play it still, it just has that atmosphere and all things are really working. Of course most of it now is part of nostalgia, but still, I love it totally.

	09-07-2004 01:30									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka I don't know the first two X-Com's were basically the first games I really really played, I had played a lot before that but it was the first game I really got into. At that time I thought it was the perfect game. And it could fit into few floppy disks None of the less, it was excellent. And still is, I really like to play it still, it just has that atmosphere and all things are really working. Of course most of it now is part of nostalgia, but still, I love it totally.

Again, I say, Try UFO: Aftermath.

	09-07-2004 08:21									#21
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Spike,

Doesn't mean it's not a good game. At least the system is more interesting than AD&D.

quote: Originally posted by General Ludd Isn't Wizardy 8 the RPG where you can play as a monkey, elephant or cat?

Uh... no

	09-07-2004 09:16									#22
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd Again, I say, Try UFO: Aftermath.

The setting isn't atmospheric at all in either Silent Storm or UFO: Aftermath, but at least the former is great on the tactical level. UFO is just yuck. In SS the environment, for instance, can be a tool, in UFO it's just obstacles.

	09-07-2004 11:16									#23
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ePSXe + overnet

	09-07-2004 12:24									#24
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I was so disappointed with SS. I thought it'd be exactly what I needed, but the little atmosphere just killed it.