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Basically I've gotten to the point where through preconcieved notions and personal taste I have ran out of games to play. Current games that I actively cycle through.
WoW - Pretty self explanatory, the content as a non raider has become stale and the PvP is broken right now
HotS - Not enough carry potential, I am about 400 games in and every game feels the same at this point, just lost it's luster
Sc2 - Waiting for LotV but the game just doesn't have enough social appeal to me personally, always feels lonely.
Hearthstone - Turns take too long and it's agonizingly boring
Smite - Love the gameplay but it feels like a really small scene with a high barrier to ranked and from what I hear ranked is pretty toxic (i hate that word)
Guild Wars 2 - Done everything I need to, waiting till expansion at this point because the events are getting repetitive
Eve - Resubbed to this about 300 times in the past and always have the same problem, the fun just isn't instantly accessible enough for my short attention span and/or I am bad at finding it
CSGO - played CS for so long that it's kind of lost that draw for me, might come back later who knows
I got so bored last night I even installed SWTOR again to try it out but remembered why I stopped playing.
I'm not really sure what to play at this point, I like playing competitive, something with a scene big or small (in the case of smite its the barrier of entry + hearing ranked is really toxic more than the community size). I'm just so incredibly bored and already spend all of my possible free time doing other things but due to location I just have to much of it. Taken to learning Blender lately and I still have a ton of free time to kill.
Any suggestions on a game that might be fun to pick up? I enjoy MMO's but there doesn't seem to be any decent ones out right now. What games would be worth picking up and investing time into?
 
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Homeworld remastered! It's fucken great and everyone should give it a look.
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Something from the "Age of" series? Great games and still pretty decent playerbases (1k+ players, AOE2 has 6k+) for some good action.
A MOBA? LoL/Dota.
Speedrunning? Very competitive (you've got yourself, the clock and others to compete against.), great community, lots of choice.
As for MMO's, im playing on a private WoW server atm. Just head over to /r/wowservers if you want to find one yourself. Or theres something like TERA you could try.
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If it didnt have to be "competitive" i'd highly recommend some borderlands, playing far too much of it myself recently. But really..CSGO man...super good... 
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On March 22 2015 07:38 Capped wrote:Something from the "Age of" series? Great games and still pretty decent playerbases (1k+ players, AOE2 has 6k+) for some good action. A MOBA? LoL/Dota. Speedrunning? Very competitive (you've got yourself, the clock and others to compete against.), great community, lots of choice. As for MMO's, im playing on a private WoW server atm. Just head over to /r/wowservers if you want to find one yourself. Or theres something like TERA you could try. -- If it didnt have to be "competitive" i'd highly recommend some borderlands, playing far too much of it myself recently. But really..CSGO man...super good...
I want to love CSGO so much but I played so much 1.5/1.6 back in the day that the game just feels like "ugh" more CS. I also have a bad taste from when CSGO launched and the ladder was complete trash and full of hacking which has kind of carried over to my perception of it now.
I wouldn't mind getting back into Dota but the game lengths are a little too much for me since I get frustrated easily and being stuck frustrated for upwards of an hour causes me to get very very frustrated.
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A bit of Vice City never hurts
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Civ IV Beyond the Sword with the Realism Invictus mod :D
single player tho i guess
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Do you enjoy single player games at all? There are some awesome rogue-likes out right now that deliver in the replay value department. Like if you haven't gotten around to trying The Binding of Isaac yet I would absolutely recommend it, Spelunky is also a good buy though I would take BOI Rebirth for the money. I'm also a bit of a broken record when it comes to suggesting Dark Souls. Between experiencing the game casually, doing challenge/speed runs and invading/dueling you can put an absurd amount of time in to that game. The downside is you basically need an xbox 360 controller.
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On March 22 2015 09:10 claybones wrote:
Do you enjoy single player games at all? There are some awesome rogue-likes out right now that deliver in the replay value department. Like if you haven't gotten around to trying The Binding of Isaac yet I would absolutely recommend it, Spelunky is also a good buy though I would take BOI Rebirth for the money. I'm also a bit of a broken record when it comes to suggesting Dark Souls. Between experiencing the game casually, doing challenge/speed runs and invading/dueling you can put an absurd amount of time in to that game. The downside is you basically need an xbox 360 controller.
I'm also gonna recommend the hell out of Binding of Isaac, hundreds of hours of replayability. One of my absolute favorite games ever.
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I was just like you, then i started playing doom mods and have sunk thousands of hrs into it. otherwise thumbs up on BL2
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Have you thought about trying some of the earlier games? Games like prince of persia, dangerous dave, doom, etc... Those games take a while to finish and test your reaction time and such. Only thing is that it's all SP nowadays but even then, it's a ton of fun and quite the experience if you've never tried them before 
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On March 22 2015 10:40 ZAiNs wrote:
Quake Live or Ultra SF4?
I've been wanting to get into SF4 but the scene seems way too different compared to normal online games for me to get into, like it seems like as an outsider getting involved in the community would be extremely hard.
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Are you looking for multiplayer games? If you are willing to look for something else amnesia the dark descent is pretty fantastic, psychonaunts, LoZ Wind Waker, Super Mario 3d world is hard as hell of you arent used to it. I dunno what kinds of games are you looking for?
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Obviously you should play bw...
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On March 22 2015 08:56 bookwyrm wrote:
Civ IV Beyond the Sword with the Realism Invictus mod :D
single player tho i guess
hmm sounds interesting
couple of issues i had with Civ 4 though
Bad AI (Still better than Civ 5 though)
AI does not forgive you on negatives even after hundreds of years from what i remember
I will still give it a shot though.
As for OP my recommendations
Banished (put around 100 hours total)
Game dev tycoon (actually really good, put around 40 hours into it)
This war of mine
Wasteland 2
Lords of Xulima (Hard as heck old school RPG, again i am at 40 hours)
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realism invictus is a brutal game, many pieces, very difficult. many AI issues have been fixed by the mod. It is really a whole nother game. I play on Immortal - i'll give you a cookie if you can beat it on that difficulty :D
also if we're talking about total conversion mods, shout out to better than wolves for minecraft
edit: if you play realism invictus make sure you get the svn version!!
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Borderlands 1 or Borderlands 2 or Borderlands The PreSequel.
THe DLC Content for BL1 and BL2 is also good.
if u shop around carefully you can pick up BL2 with all the DLC for $10 and you can get BL1 and all its DLC for about $7.
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Try some moba not the blizz moba .. the difficult to get in ones and you'll never get better even you tried moba's.
dota 2 or maybe LoL(i don't play lol so i can't vouch on it) . It's the best playing with your friends.
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I think the answer is all but obvious, SC1 : Brood War.
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