New game needed - Blops 2 is rubbish

Slattsy

alright lads,

Usually just play COD 90% of the year. Assassins Creed has probably got the rest of my time.

But i really sont like Blops 2, in fact its quite rubbish and i'll probably trade it in soon.

I could go back to Modern Warfare but i'd like to try something different but something similar at the same time.
What should i be looking at ?
Battlefield etc ?

Spear

That's it, come to the BF3 dark side, we have cookies and more explicit stabbings.

KilOit

You want something different so you lean towards BF3 after playing nothing but CoD?? jesus man broaden your horizon, absolute gold mine of quality games out there.

Print this out and stick it on the wall and throw a dart at it and play that

Of course this is pc only but find 360 or ps3 equivalent

saiint

do you own all them games? :L id say your account must be worth a couple of grand :L

Slattsy

I played the first Battlefield and i wasn't that mad about it. But by all accounts the new one is great.

What else is worth playing out there. GTA is a game I despise so don't go there.

Skerries

get BF3 man!

I normally tire of multiplayer games quickly but I actually have done something I've never done and bought more maps for the game in the form of buying the premium pack

are you looking for another mutiplayer game again or a good single player?
I'd recommend Dishonored in the single player category

KilOit

saiint wrote: »

do you own all them games? :L id say your account must be worth a couple of grand :L

ain't mine, whipped it from google

deathrider

KilOit wrote: »

You want something different so you lean towards BF3 after playing nothing but CoD?? jesus man broaden your horizon, absolute gold mine of quality games out there.

Print this out and stick it on the wall and throw a dart at it and play that

Of course this is pc only but find 360 or ps3 equivalent

Except if the dart land on Duke Nukem Forever or Judge Dredd Vs Judge Death. They just count as getting a free throw :pac:

Slattsy

A good single player lads would be preferable for a while.

I can get BF3 later on.

KilOit

Slattsy wrote: »

A good single player lads would be preferable for a while.

I can get BF3 later on.

Dead space 1/2 and Mass Effect 1/2/3 are recent games i really enjoyed if you haven't played them.
If you got a PC Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 are excellent too

I'm a spoiled adult with too much money to spend on games so rarely ever finish them but the above games sucked me right in with a compelling story, not so much Diablo3, think that was more of the loot hooking me in

Edit: You gotta Play Deus Ex: Human Revolutions! Fav game of 2011

Soby

In Cod , you use kill streaks ,
In BF , you are the kill streak

GET IT NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOW !

Potential-Monke

Far Cry 3, Enslaved, inFamous 1 & 2, Red Dead Redemption, Deus Ex: Human Revolution... Some of the many many quality games out there.

VinLieger

Planetside 2, no question about it if you wanna experience a shooter on a properly massive scale

Magill

Dues Ex:HR and Darksouls would be the first 2 newish games i'd recommend.

calex71

Borderlands 1+2

Slattsy

In just glad nobody suggested Fifa so far.

scouttio

Fifa

marco_polo

Some great suggestions so far, Max Payne 3 is also a very good recent enough game and can be had for cheap.

K.O.Kiki

What's with all the shooters?

Skerries

we like shooters, pew pew!

Doctor DooM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

What's with all the shooters?

Was about to say...

Would you not play something different. Anything different?

Even Mass Effect which is almost a shooter in parts?

Grumpypants

Far cry 3, mass effect 3, dishonored, borderlands 2, the walking dead, moh. All from this year and all brilliant.

Slattsy

Ideally i want a game that i wont get sick of after a few days.

Something with a bit of strategy, and isnt just about shooting the guts out of anything and everything in sight.

Cienciano

calex71 wrote: »

Borderlands 1+2

Definitely. Got borderlands 1 on playstation plus for free. Never even heard of the game, but got addicted straight away.

siblers

Slattsy wrote: »

Ideally i want a game that i wont get sick of after a few days.

Something with a bit of strategy, and isnt just about shooting the guts out of anything and everything in sight.

Get Ex-Com if you want yourself some strategy, or try the demo at least anyway

donalg1

Skyrim, maybe, I have never played it but if I was to buy one game tomorrow it would be this as I loved Elder Scrolls.

Slattsy

donalg1 wrote: »

Skyrim, maybe, I have never played it but if I was to buy one game tomorrow it would be this as I loved Elder Scrolls.

Would i need to play Elder Scrolls first though?

Grumpypants

Slattsy wrote: »

Ideally i want a game that i wont get sick of after a few days.

Something with a bit of strategy, and isnt just about shooting the guts out of anything and everything in sight.

xcom is a turn based strategy that I've sank hours into.

Jaggy

Slattsy wrote: »

I played the first Battlefield and i wasn't that mad about it. But by all accounts the new one is great.

What else is worth playing out there. GTA is a game I despise so don't go there.

Out of interest, what is it you don't like about GTA? I think you're the first person i've ever come across that doesn't like it.

donalg1

Slattsy wrote: »

Would i need to play Elder Scrolls first though?

No I wouldnt think so, I would just jump into Skyrim anyway and maybe go back to Elder Scrolls if you wanted to then.

Slattsy

Jaggy wrote: »

Out of interest, what is it you don't like about GTA? I think you're the first person i've ever come across that doesn't like it.

I used to play them years ago, when they first came on the scene. But i found they all got fairly repetitive as the years went on.

Plumpynutt

If you want something completely different from Blops I'd recommend The Walking Dead, Dishonoured, or Skyrim.

BF3 is serious though, anyone who likes online FPS has to own it

Slattsy

I can get BF3 in a month or two as i wanna get away from multiplayer shootemups for a while.

Im liking the sound of Skyrim / Planetside 2 / X Com so far.

Jaggy

Slattsy wrote: »

I used to play them years ago, when they first came on the scene. But i found they all got fairly repetitive as the years went on.

Fair enough. How about the Uncharted games? Don't think anyone has mentioned those so far.

Did a similar thing myself this year and moved away from shooters (well, a little)

Played all the Assassin's Creed games, all the Uncharted games and inFamous 2.

Downloaded The Walking Dead yesterday but haven't started playing it yet.

Slattsy

Jaggy wrote: »

Fair enough. How about the Uncharted games? Don't think anyone has mentioned those so far.
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Played Unchartered when it first came out. Didnt like it at all. It felt like it was made for 6 year olds.

Ravenid

I'd say the best ones are Borderlands 2, Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Planetside 2 (Join an outfit to get the best out of that.), Journey, The Walking Dead, Saints Row 3 and the one I recommend to all gamers who just gave up on COD/BF3



EVE (Evil, Evil, Evil)

Jaggy

Slattsy wrote: »

Jaggy wrote: »

Fair enough. How about the Uncharted games? Don't think anyone has mentioned those so far.

Played Unchartered when it first came out. Didnt like it at all. It felt like it was made for 6 year olds.

First one certainly isn't the best and I had similar thoughts when I played at the start of the year, the other two are well worth a spin though.

Having said that, you seem to have already been turned off them!

Slattsy

Ravenid wrote: »

I'd say the best ones are Borderlands 2, Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Planetside 2 (Join an outfit to get the best out of that.), Journey, The Walking Dead, Saints Row 3 and the one I recommend to all gamers who just gave up on COD/BF3



EVE (Evil, Evil, Evil)

Explain this please ???

Gulliver

Batman: Arkham Asylum and the sequel Arkham City are well worth looking into. Really satisfying when you take down a room full of armed thugs with nothing more than stealth takedowns, a few batarangs or some (non-lethal) explosive gel.

You could try Heavy Rain if you want to "play" a movie. Dead Space was good until it got to the asteroid section.

AwayWithFaries

Gulliver wrote: »

Batman: Arkham Asylum and the sequel Arkham City are well worth looking into. Really satisfying when you take down a room full of armed thugs with nothing more than stealth takedowns, a few batarangs or some (non-lethal) explosive gel.

You could try Heavy Rain if you want to "play" a movie. Dead Space was good until it got to the asteroid section.

I second the call for Batman. Quality games you can sink hours into.

balkieb2002

You didn't actually specify what platform your looking for a game on? Makes it easier to narrow down the choices!

Based on some your answers i.e. Uncharted I presume it's a PS3 so I'd also second the vote for Batman. Great games and different to what your used to. Also different would be Journey (short but great) or else the amazing The Walking Dead episodes.

Fanny Cradock

Slattsy wrote: »

I can get BF3 in a month or two as i wanna get away from multiplayer shootemups for a while.

Im liking the sound of Skyrim / Planetside 2 / X Com so far.

Planetside 2 is a multiplayer shooter.

krudler

Slattsy wrote: »

Jaggy wrote: »

Fair enough. How about the Uncharted games? Don't think anyone has mentioned those so far.
QUOTE]

Played Unchartered when it first came out. Didnt like it at all. It felt like it was made for 6 year olds.

er, what? Uncharted 2 is one of the best games on ps3, its worth owning the console for.

Gulliver

krudler wrote: »

Slattsy wrote: »

er, what? Uncharted 2 is one of the best games on ps3, its worth owning the console for.

I thought the first one was better, but maybe that was just the novelty of seeing the characters/game mechanics for first time.

Magill

Jaggy wrote: »

Out of interest, what is it you don't like about GTA? I think you're the first person i've ever come across that doesn't like it.

Im not a fan either. I can play them for about an hour at a time and then just get incredibly bored. The only exception was GTA3, because of how new the whole thing was at the time. I can see why people love the games tho, just something that doesn't click with me. I always struggle to finish big open world games aswel, still haven't finished skyrim/fallout3 + NV/ stalker etc



Also, the uncharted games... most overrated franchise this generation for me.

Cienciano

Slattsy wrote: »

Would i need to play Elder Scrolls first though?

No. I never played any of them but got skyrim and got right into it straight away. If you want value for money from a game, get skyrim. Hundreds of hours of play in it.

krudler

Magill wrote: »

Im not a fan either. I can play them for about an hour at a time and then just get incredibly bored. The only exception was GTA3, because of how new the whole thing was at the time. I can see why people love the games tho, just something that doesn't click with me. I always struggle to finish big open world games aswel, still haven't finished skyrim/fallout3 + NV/ stalker etc



Also, the uncharted games... most overrated franchise this generation for me.

I find open world games get really dull as well, wayyy too much padding, Assassin's Creed with its collect 100 of this and that, pffff. Id take a well written A-B linear game you dont want to end over an endless open world one where you're wandering around looking for stuff and collect to pad our the play timeany day.

I'll ignore what you said about Uncharted :pac:

K.O.Kiki

Slattsy wrote: »

Ideally i want a game that i wont get sick of after a few days.

Something with a bit of strategy, and isnt just about shooting the guts out of anything and everything in sight.

Buy a boardgame (real version preferred over video game port)

Get the family together.

I recommend Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, or Carcasonne.


p.s. stay away from 50+yo muck like Monopoly!

Slattsy wrote: »

Ravenid wrote:

EVE (Evil, Evil, Evil)
Explain this please ???

Retr0gamer

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

I recommend Settlers of Catan

I highly recommend this! Love that game. Going to try to convince the family to play that and Smallworld this Xmas.

Magill

krudler wrote: »

I find open world games get really dull as well, wayyy too much padding, Assassin's Creed with its collect 100 of this and that, pffff. Id take a well written A-B linear game you dont want to end over an endless open world one where you're wandering around looking for stuff and collect to pad our the play timeany day.

I'll ignore what you said about Uncharted :pac:

Yeah, i donno what it is really. I mean skyrim i got into for about 30 hours or so (Which is pretty decent i guess) but hadn't come close to finishing it and just cba going back and picking up where i left off. For me, open world games work best in multiplayer imo. Darksouls is also an example of openworld done extremely well imo, not too open but enough so that you've got a good bit of freedom.

Uncharted is just one of those games for me :P And its the complete opposite of an open world game !

Magill

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

haha, i got to the pikes and turned back ! Head was fried !