What Game to Play?

Hi Comet,

You have a great system that cries out for FPS games. Being more mature than some FPS players is a problem in multi-player games. The solution is to play single player. Start with a lower level of the game and then work up to medium or expert if you can handle it. I can't play expert with out getting aggravated by getting killed every time I turn around. Playing FPS games will help you with your response time, coordination and concentration. Get one of the FPS games and give it a try. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a good place to start. Being old is not a reason not to play FPS games.

Frank

Edited by FrankW - 15 Apr 2012 at 8:55am

I am going to agree with Frank on this. I was in kind of the same boat when I got my new Rig. I had fallen out of PC gaming for a long time. Like you, one of the last games I really remember playing was the myst series, with some Age of Empires in there for a bit as well.

I had fallen into more of a console gaming type player with the occasional MMO-RPG thrown in there for a while. Such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars: TOR, Rift, Aion, and a few betas for Guild Wars 2 and Terra recently.

So back to the topic at hand, as Frank stated, FPS games can easily be learned/relearned and skills honed in single player mode before ever joining a multiplayer map. Start with some older, yet still fairly new titles to work with. BF: Bad Company 2, Crysis 2, which still has a decent online play available, and the players seem to be pretty forgiving of the newer guys, and if you can find deals on them, BattleField 3, and Modern warfare 3 can be fun.

Now, if you're into MMO type games, the upcoming Guild Wars 2, is pretty fun, and requires no monthly subscription fees, unlike WoW, Aion, Rift, and Terra.

Also Ghost Recon Future Soldier looks promising, which is coming out in June for the PC. It's a 3rd person FPS though.

Syndicate was a pretty good game, and I enjoyed the play through on the single player campaign. The multiplayer is alright, can be a bit frustrating at times though, especially if you or one of your party have a slower internet connection.

Skyrim, I hear is a fun game, have not got to that one yet myself.

I am sure there are plenty of other games people will recommend, but that is my 2 cents.     

Thanks, guys!  Now I've got a lot to absorb. I assume that I can find online trailers on these games to look at them and their graphics before I buy them?  Toxie and bprat22, both of you mention multiple games. If each of you had to pick a single favorite for realism and adventure rather than simple fast shooting gallery mayhem, what would it be?

Thank you, bprat22!  I'll check out Fallout 3 and Skyrim. I like SF and fantasy -- I once went through a cubic yard of SF paperbacks while procrastinating on writing my Ph D. dissertation.  They were a lot more fun than thinking about the Pre-Raphaelites, although I eventually finished both the huge packing box of paperbacks that had been dropped on me for storage and my dissertation. Later, I became a Tolkien freak (I met him once) and, although I hate to admit it, an avid fan of J.K. Rowling. Anyway, both of these titles sound like good bets for me. I'll look for trailers.

Thank you, asteldian.  I'll look at Rift.

Thank you.  I am such a novice that Rift still seems new to me.  However, it really does not begin to stretch my new DS system in terms of my graphics capabilities. Everything seems to move in very slow time.  Maybe that is just me.