[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

[Insidious]

alright for some outdated but aweome games I can recomend a few.. Dungeon siege II not 3 some how it is just way better. also Global Agenda its an MMO RPG and is now free on steam. I tend to play RPG games when im stressed. so also Dragon Age 1 and origins.. for other games FPS "COD" puzzle games well there is "Ninja" it is flash game tremedously annoying but kind of addictive. New games well I think a lot of recent games have kind of failed in a way.. just because they try to hard to RPG's different.. but we are gammers people we wont the same games with better graphics!!!!.. but the new Guild Wars looks pretty cool but still a few months away

[SkyBreaker]

Try out; The Witcher 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas or Team Fortress 2 - they're all quality games ^^;

[Rythos]

I am really loving Limbo atm. It's a cool little indie platformer/puzzle game that you can pick up for 10 bucks on Steam.

[Apth]

http://www.pathofexile.com/

They're handing out closed beta keys on Facebook and Twitter, and randomly to anyone signed up on their website.

Looks awesome.

[PantlessPete]

Why not get one of Bethesda's games? Fallout 3 or Oblivion will give you a huge amount of play time, and replayability and are super cheap on steam. Just mod oblivion first because the game is so much better with it! (at least get Oscura's Oblivion Overhaul and a ui mod...because the ui is console style and sucks)

[syfMiley]

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Fadey:

[Halstrom]

Out now/Old Skool:
BF Bad Company 2
Deus Ex 1 (goty)
Try a sports game if you like em. Nice break. I like NBA2k11
World of Tanks (it's free)
Anything Fallout
The Witchers are good
Dragon Age 1 (not 2 from what I hear)

Coming Soon:
Deus Ex Rev - played it @ E3 and it looks awesome
Battlefield 3
D3
SWTOR (can't believe no one said this)

[EXCL]

Serious Sam. nuf said.

[AxSGRiM]

Try Urban Terror, it's a free FPS that was originally a mod for Q3 but now it's a standalone game that (although lacking in the graphics aspect) is amazingly fun.

[PiG]

Persoanlly when I'm too tired to play I prefer to go offline and get one of my old favourite RPGs out. I actually love a game called Exile 3 from my childhood, really great RPG if you don't mind a really clunky game with alot of great text dialogue :P. It's like 3MB to download or something :P.

I actually just restarted playing Morrowwind the greatest RPG of all time :P. Of course what I like in an RPG is great atmosphere and lots and lots of text dialogue so its just like reading a book but with special effects.

Online games: definitely just play something in the COD series or some other FPS very little thought needed :P.


P.S. If none of these suggestions are something you like you should really just go give your life up and play wow :P

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Maynarde:

Exile series. You are old school and I love it

[Halstrom]

Originally Posted by PiG

Persoanlly when I'm too tired to play I prefer to go offline and get one of my old favourite RPGs out.

Oooooo, offline RPG's

I like the Baldur's Gate series, and the KOTOR's (long live Bioware).

Also XCOM:Enemy Unknown (AKA UFO). got multiple votes of Game of the Century by various magazines not long ago. I bought all the XCOM games as a pack for $2- off Steam last year.

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	PiG:	Baldurs gate so complex so well-made :)
	Maynarde:	BG and BG2 + Expansion = some of my favourite games to date <3

[Kringe]

Nobody here but one has said anything about the best game going round classic old Cod either 4 or 6 and certaintly diablo 3 when it comes out
Also, a great game is Duty calls cheap on steam a good 30 mins of hilarious old fun xD

[Malik]

HOI3 (with expansions), CoH, any of the battlefields though the bad company ones were relatively disappointing imo (but better then COD ^^)

[Nuri]

Try the age of empires series I reckon its the best imo

[shmiman]

Originally Posted by Nuri

Try the age of empires series I reckon its the best imo

Loved the AOE series!
And I would sometimes play those old Red Alerts and C&C series. Still play Tiberium Sun once in a while xD
Oh yeah and as Halstrom said, KOTOR! Long live Bioware haha

Right now I'm on Portal 2, pretty interesting

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Makra:

Tiberium Sun **** yes!

[|Erasmus|]

Also, World of Goo is a pretty fun puzzle game.

[cruxis]

From my brief glimpse, I see no one has mentioned the greatest game of all time...

The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time.

Puzzle Adventure. Greatest game to have ever been created.

[SkyBreaker]

Originally Posted by cruxis

From my brief glimpse, I see no one has mentioned the greatest game of all time...

The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time.

Puzzle Adventure. Greatest game to have ever been created.

Definitely a great game, but I wouldn't recommend replaying games from that generation (read: classic games) that are filled with huge amounts of nostalgic goodness... because you may realise that they don't live up to the picture your nostalgia has painted of them...

Talking from experience here, booted up my SNES the other day to mess around on some old classics... and yeah, wasn't pretty.

[ToRDeathsFang]

I love relaxing with a good MMO game. Atm i'm playing Oblivion and Dragon Age 2. All thoughts of stress gone out the window ^_^

What i DO NOT recommend playing when stressed is Amnesia all though that should be pretty obvious. Scariest shit ever ._____________.

[Estancia]

Dead space 2.
Play at night, full volume, alone and off all the light.

[Maynarde]

Originally Posted by Estancia

Dead space 2.
Play at night, full volume, alone and off all the light.

I did this exact same thing with that exact game, Amnesia too. During a thunderstorm even.

I found that I spent half the time progressing through the game, and the other half curled up in a ball in the corner of the room rocking back and forth and crying. Like a boss! *flex*

[Brultze]

I would suggest Sanctum(a FPS TD), Frozen Synaspe(a turn based strategy game) and Magicka. These are the 3 games I play besides SC2 atm

[ShinyA]

I've been playing League of Legends when not playing SC2 and I'm waiting for DotA 2.

I played DotA a lot in the past as well so that's probably why