what are games that every player MUST TRY

[Crown]

At least once in their lives. I'll go first
Minecraft
Grand theft Auto 2
Half life 2
Tetris
Counter-Strike source
Kenshi
Hitman blood money

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Your_White_Knight:

Messaggio originale di golden/ode:

what are games that every player MUST TRY

None... nobody MUST try video game(s)... it's not necessary

Blasphemy!

[Your_White_Knight]

Messaggio originale di crunchyfrog:

Messaggio originale di Your_White_Knight:

None... nobody MUST try video game(s)... it's not necessary

Blasphemy!

Told you I wasn't a "gamer"

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Your_White_Knight:

Messaggio originale di crunchyfrog:

Blasphemy!

Told you I wasn't a "gamer" :lunar2019laughingpig:

I'm revoking your privileges right now, I tell you.

[earlysunsets2]

I'd forgot all about GTA2. I had that for PS1 and i used to just drive around listening to the radio stations. They were so funny.

[Morkonan]

IMO:

The most important thing for a "gamer" to do is to look at the most widely acclaimed games in game genres they may not normally play and then play those as one can.

A lot of gamers come to forums and ask "What game should I play, now." We all know there are all kinds of great games, right? And, players usually list their favorites as suggestions. But, there are good games all over the place, even games that didn't sell so well or didn't get great reviews. What about those?

Gamers, and anyone in general, really, need to go out there and discover NEW things. New games, new game genres they've never played, new types of gaming experiences, etc.

By doing that, suddenly the number of possibly great games they can enjoy playing expands tremendously once they discover they may actually like playing games in a genre they've never really explored, before.

Some people don't like salads. Why? Well, they've probably never tried a good salad... Maybe all they've ever tried are deserts? Just the entree? Soup?

Any recommendation for "what should I play" should always start "play a game you've heard is good in a genre of gaming you haven't really explored, well."

And, of course, don't ignore "old games" just because they don't all still look pretty.

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Morkonan:

IMO:

The most important thing for a "gamer" to do is to look at the most widely acclaimed games in game genres they may not normally play and then play those as one can.

A lot of gamers come to forums and ask "What game should I play, now." We all know there are all kinds of great games, right? And, players usually list their favorites as suggestions. But, there are good games all over the place, even games that didn't sell so well or didn't get great reviews. What about those?

Gamers, and anyone in general, really, need to go out there and discover NEW things. New games, new game genres they've never played, new types of gaming experiences, etc.

By doing that, suddenly the number of possibly great games they can enjoy playing expands tremendously once they discover they may actually like playing games in a genre they've never really explored, before.

Some people don't like salads. Why? Well, they've probably never tried a good salad... Maybe all they've ever tried are deserts? Just the entree? Soup?

Any recommendation for "what should I play" should always start "play a game you've heard is good in a genre of gaming you haven't really explored, well."

And, of course, don't ignore "old games" just because they don't all still look pretty.

Well put.

As an old fart, I had a brief perido during the late 1980s to early 1990s where I was doing other things - motorbikes, DJing, musical stuff - and didn't much care for the Sega era anyway. Hate beat em ups too.

So when I came back around the Playstation release, I sat down and looked at EVERYTHING available. New genres, new games, and so on. Even if I didn't like the look of certain games I still tried them (of course demos were widely available) and I ended up liking more than I didn't.

Especially with the Playstation as they nailed quirky and just silly games.

Vib Ribbon looks frankly crap as a monochrome stupid thing but it's fantastic.

So I ALWAYS try to tell anyone to go to sites like gamefaqs or such and look up EVERYTHING with a pen and paper and scribble down everything you remotely like then scrub off results as you research them.

A bit of work and you miss nothing.

[The Evil Cat]

Chess
Red Dead Redemption 2
iRacing

[Logan]

Skyrim

[Devsman]

The broadest SP genre that I just plain don't like is strategy/tactics. Sad thing is, I don't even dislike the gameplay or anything; they're just extraordinarily not-noob-friendly.

All I know is I lost, just like last time, and seeing as I made pretty much every decision at random, because they were all a tradeoff, so how else can you even make them, it's no surprise. Maybe my big mistake was 30 minutes ago I moved these troops from here to there. Maybe it wasn't. I don't know, it happened 30 minutes ago. I've made a thousand decisions since then.

And then there's the 30 minute issue, too: the retry cycle is generally waaaaaay too long.

If I'm playing Mega Man, for example, and I jump on the spikes, I die instantly. Kaboom. I know not to do that again. If Mega Man were like Strategy games, jumping on the spikes would temporarily turn me invincible and increase my attack power, then thirty minutes later I would just explode and it would erase my save and everything and I would have no idea what the hell just happened.

But a lot of people play them and do really well, so it's not like this is an objective problem. It just appeals to people with a very different sort of intuition than I have, or something.

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Devsman:

The broadest SP genre that I just plain don't like is strategy/tactics. Sad thing is, I don't even dislike the gameplay or anything; they're just extraordinarily not-noob-friendly.

All I know is I lost, just like last time, and seeing as I made pretty much every decision at random, because they were all a tradeoff, so how else can you even make them, it's no surprise. Maybe my big mistake was 30 minutes ago I moved these troops from here to there. Maybe it wasn't. I don't know, it happened 30 minutes ago. I've made a thousand decisions since then.

And then there's the 30 minute issue, too: the retry cycle is generally waaaaaay too long.

If I'm playing Mega Man, for example, and I jump on the spikes, I die instantly. Kaboom. I know not to do that again. If Mega Man were like Strategy games, jumping on the spikes would temporarily turn me invincible and increase my attack power, then thirty minutes later I would just explode and it would erase my save and everything and I would have no idea what the hell just happened.

But a lot of people play them and do really well, so it's not like this is an objective problem. It just appeals to people with a very different sort of intuition than I have, or something.

I get this.

I really like strategy games. I love the idea that it makes me think outside the box sometimes and have to keep an eye and micromanage things.

But you're right though. Ofttimes the learning curve is WAY steep.

SO I rarely end up playing these games because I have to set myself up to spend more time on getting to know them than I want to.