[Celldweller]

On school days I am far to stressed and tired for SC2, any ideas for good online games, NOT WOW!

[TAsCarLet]

sc2 or wow are pretty good

[nard]

I Duno abt u but fps games often releases the stress for me

[TAminimat]

What about WoW?

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TAsCarLet:

<3

[DtorR]

Old school games.

[ToNYT]

minecraft is a good relaxing game
especially playing with friends

[Next_rim]

My personal favorite - Company of Heroes. RTS by Relic in WW2 setting, decently realistic and very tactical. Macro almost non-existent, 100% positioning and a lil bit of micro. I play the Nazi, and like rolling over stupid Americans with Tigers and Sturmtroopers. Four factions available - US and British on ally side, Nazi and Panzer Elite on Axis side. I was hoping they'd make an addon with Russians and Japanese, but it never happened.

Compared to sc2, it is very slow-paced, games can take up to 2 hours. But the projectile physics makes you think hard about terrain, building cover, trees, bushes, roads, etc. 105-mm artillery makes parkings lots of things, just like supposed to, and tanks drive through buildings, just like supposed to. One well-placed machine gun can hold 2-3 squads suppressed for a long time until a flamethrower squad arrives, or an armored vehicle. You can also use engineers to make fortifications, bunkers, sandbags, barbwire, anti-tank blocks and much more. Snipers, tanks, air strikes, big bombs, medics - all big boy toys are available.

What I don't like is that individual squads don't run out of gas and ammunition, and have no fatigue. You secure a generic "piles'o'weapons" that supposedly provides personnel with supplies. Also, boobie traps and mines cost too much ammunition, thus are very underused. Seriously, 2x mines (SINGLE mines that is) cost as much ammo as a 50-mm rocket artillery unit.

If you don't want an RTS, idk, go play CS or Quake or sth.

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	PiG:	CoH best game ever! I worship Iaguz for being one of best players in da world!
	Fadey:	coh ftw

[nirvAnA]

i was on the hunt for some new games to play too and am interested in any suggestions.

for RPGs witcher2 seems to be by far the best out of the dragon age 2/ fable 3 lot.

for puzzle games - portal 2 is supposed to be fantastic.

as for upcoming games there are plenty to look forward to in the near future, namely d3, age of empires online and dota2

[Next_rim]

Old school games.

Absolutely. Medieval 2, Fallout 1 and 2, Worms World Party. wc3, sc1 ffs

[Meatex]

Deus Ex game of the year edition
I still find its one of the best games ever made and was the first game to use choices that affect gameplay later on really well
Not to mention awesome story

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Maynarde:

DEUS EX!

[Maynarde]

Originally Posted by Meatex

Deus Ex game of the year edition
I still find its one of the best games ever made and was the first game to use choices that affect gameplay later on really well
Not to mention awesome story

Deus Ex GOTY is truly amazing! Got it on Steam when I pre-ordered the new one

I strongly suggest everyone who hasn't played it give it a go, the graphics are dated but it's truly one of the greatest video game masterpieces out there.

Don't play Deus Ex 2 though, it's really terrible lol. The new one due out in the next month looks freakin amazing though

[Bugalugs McScruffin]

Originally Posted by Maynarde

Deus Ex GOTY is truly amazing! Got it on Steam when I pre-ordered the new one

I strongly suggest everyone who hasn't played it give it a go, the graphics are dated but it's truly one of the greatest video game masterpieces out there.

Don't play Deus Ex 2 though, it's really terrible lol. The new one due out in the next month looks freakin amazing though

Apparently this mod was just released for Deus Ex.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision
New Vision basically replaces around 75% of the textures for the game to bring them up to today's standards. Still blocky as game, but apparently it looks a tonne better.

[|Erasmus|]

Magicka is pretty damn fun in coop mode (for really cheap steam options).

[Celldweller]

intersting, I might just hold it out for D3 or guild wars 2 , matters which comes first.

[Sola]

I recently bought a couple of games from Steam; Amnesia and Europa Universalis III.
I haven't played EU III much but so far it's amazingly fun, but I found it hard to grasp, so I'll play it a bit more soon.
Amnesia is an amazing game, the scariest game I've played I think so far. It was cheap to, only $4.99 on Steam. It's a survival horror but you don't ever have any weapons, you have to use light/darkness to hide from them and interact with objects to throw them off etc..
Hope this helps. oh and play it with the lights off it's pretty fun.

[TAXanT]

Just wait for Skyrim

[Uglymutt]

I always enjoy a bit of FPS, bad company 2 at the moment (at a horrible frame rate :S)
I bought a steam pack with a bunch of music games (Beat hazard, Audiosurf) a while ago so I've been playing those as a break.

[Doctor]

Team Fortress 2 FTW !! blow ppls' head with ur gun and ur stress will also be gun out ! XD

[Primex]

I don't know what genre of games you like but, Like LoL(League of legends) Is a good moba game, not too stressful. Um there's also like portal 2 for puzzle/fps game like NirvanA already mentioned. Also Terraria is alright to just chill with. Apart from that just wait for d3 or something to come out.

[Cyanide]

Skyrim, D3, Dead Island. Waiting on those atm.

For stress release, I play bejeweled or PvZ (plants vs zombies, lulz). Pretty brainless stuff imo, so it doesn't get me all worked up.

I still play Borderlands. And I am a happy man after hearing that Borderlands 2 is coming.

Kongregate has a vast array of flash games that are pretty good. And if you're really bored, stumbleupon can be a good waste of time.

hehe, hope this helps. =P