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Title: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2012, 03:15:34 AM
Ok, so I researched GW2 more and now can't wait for it.  :blush:

And it got me completely and utterly bored with WoW (I have been playing it lately waiting for MoP but now don't feel like doing so anymore).

So I'm looking for a game, preferably a RPG, to occupy me in the meantime. I have not played many games of the last few years, mainly due to Mac issues but I finally broke down and installed Windows on bootcamp so I'm open pretty much for anything.

Of the "big" RPGs of the last few years I played only Dragon Age series. So what should I get? Witcher? Skyrim? Something else? Preferably it should not be too taxing on people with motion sickness issues as that rules me out.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Grey Fox on July 28, 2012, 08:10:39 AM
You played Fable III right?
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2012, 08:29:03 AM
Yeah.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: szmik on July 28, 2012, 08:35:13 AM
LotRo if you like Tolkien lore, otherwise it's just another MMORPG with no PvP to speak of

Have you played Mass Effect?
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Caliga on July 28, 2012, 12:58:51 PM
Yeah, definitely Mass Effect if you've never played it.

How about... goodbye?
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2012, 04:18:36 PM
Thanks for the suggestions, guys, but I don't really like sci-fi rpgs. Also not looking for a MMORPG (in response to LOTRO), just a single player game for a month.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: sbr on July 28, 2012, 10:53:50 PM
The Witcher games are supposed to be very good, though I didn't like the first one that much.

There is lots of straight sex though.

EDIT:  The Steam version will run on the Mac too.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Syt on July 28, 2012, 11:23:18 PM
ME1 doesn't play nice with my laptop - the dialogue/sound effects cut out or get garbled every few minutes (i.e. a couple lines in almost every dialogue). There's a couple of possible solutions (editing the .ini, using external soundcard instead of onboard, switch off overclocking, switching from software to hardware audio or vice versa, turn off Steam overlay etc.), but none has helped me. It really ruins the gameplay.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Syt on July 28, 2012, 11:23:50 PM
Quote from: sbr on July 28, 2012, 10:53:50 PM
The Witcher games are supposed to be very good, though I didn't like the first one that much.

There is lots of straight sex though.

EDIT:  The Steam version will run on the Mac too.

Pretty sure Marty has played Witcher 1 at least.
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: Jaron on July 29, 2012, 01:46:42 PM
Play Skyrim!
Title: Re: What game should I get while waiting for Guild Wars 2?
Post by: frunk on July 30, 2012, 07:46:29 AM
If you are seriously geeking out on GW2 you could pick up Guild Wars Platinum Edition (https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?dnv=4829112648&action=toggleCategory&category=4#featured) and work on the Hall of Monuments (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hall_of_monuments) to get some GW2 items/titles.  Personally I wouldn't bother at this late stage, but just for linking the accounts you'll get 3 points out of a useful 30 (and another 2-3 are fairly easy to get).