A list of recommended games by the ggFTW community.
Starting this thread out, corrections, suggestions, and recommendations needed.
This is how it will work:
I will edit and update the main post with the recommendations and suggestions from the posts in this thread. Only one recommendation is needed to get it on the list. Here's the catch: I will also tag your name to the games you recommend. Additional recommendations will tag their names on the game as well. This serves a few purposes:
1) It can be an indicator of the quality of the game, as usually more recommendations = more better
2) Not everyone has the same tastes. If you don't like the games a user has recommended, you can put less
weight on their recommendations when deciding whether to play a game they have recommended or not. The
opposite applies, if you find a user that consistantly recommended games you liked, you can put more weight
on their recommendations of games you decide to try.
3) Attaching a name to a recommendation will force users to try and recommend genuinely good games. While
taste is one thing, there are games that are...let's face it, objectively bad. If someone recommends
bad games consistently, they'll put less merit on their recommendations, and make themselves out to be that guy. Nobody wants to be that guy.
If you are posting a recommendation, and the game is not already on the list, please include the
information needed. Only recommend games that you have actually played! "Play" will vary for
each genre. For example, if it's an RPG, don't recommend it unless you've played almost all of it! If it's an online shooter,
don't recommend it unless you've acquired most of the guns, tried all the features, played 20~ hours
online! There is no real guideline (and it'd be hard to make one!) to whether you "played" a game or not, use your best judgement! Also,
if a game has almost identical ports and you've played one of them, you've played both.
This will be the format of the list:
Platform(s) and Genre(s) | Game Name | Computer Specs | Payment Model | Multiplayer? | English?
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In-depth explanation
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Platforms and Genres:
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ACT - Action
ADV - Adventure
ARC - Arcade
DEF - Defense
SIM - Simulation
RTS - Real Time Strategy
STR - Strategy
STH - Stealth
SAN - Sandbox
PUZ - Puzzle
PLT - Platformer
RCE - Racing
RLS - Rail Shooter
HOR - Horror
MIN - Mini-games
FGT - Fighting
FPS - First Person Shooter
TPS - Third Person Shooter
RPG - Role Playing Game
MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online
SPT - Sport
MSC - Music, Rhythm
SHMUP - Shoot Em Up
??? - Games which would span across too many genres, or cannot be accurately labeled as any existing genre.
VN - Visual Novel
NES - Nintendo Entertainment System
SNES - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
GB - Gameboy
GBA - Gameboy Advanced
PS1 - Playstation 1
SAT - Sega Saturn
N64 - Nintendo 64
DC - Dreamcast
XBOX - Xbox (duh?)
PS2 - Playstation 2
GC - Gamecube
360 - Xbox 360
PS3 - Playstation 3
WII - Nintendo Wii
NDS - Nintendo DS
PSP - Playstation Portable
PSV - Playstation Vita
3DS - Nintendo 3DS
PC - Computer, Windows
MAC - Apple Macintosh
iOS - iOS (iPhones, iPods, iPads...)
AND - Android
BLK - BlackBerry
ARC - Arcade
Alright, for my sanity and yours, if a game supports a large amount of players in a consistent world, it
will be a MMO. Otherwise, it will be labeled as Online. No online label is needed if it's already an MMO.
Just use your judgment on a "large" amount of players. For sub-categories like mystery, it'll go under puzzle.
Hack and Slash, action. Again, just try to use your best judgement, I only included specific labels for the more popular sub-genres.
There are older platforms and more obscure platforms, but I can't see anyone recommending games from
those. If someone does though, make something up if it's not already on here. Yes, we will count
visual novels and other gray area "games" as games. I'm not going to go into this, trying to argue
what is a game and what isn't is like trying to argue what constitutes as a sport. If it's even possible
to argue whether or not it's a game or not, it's a game.
Computer Specs:
Low/Med/High will be used. Low would be a game just about any computer this decade could run.
Med would be a game that any computer within 5~ years could run. High would be a game that a computer within 2~ years could run.
When I say "could run", I mean someone will be able to play it on at least the lowest settings at
an acceptable constant framerate of at least 30, and without horrible loading times or something.
Payment Model:
P2P - Pay to Play, this refers to games with subscription fees.
B2P - Buy to Play, this refers to MMOs that only need to be bought once
F2P - Free to Play, Any game that is free to acquire and play.
w/ CS - with Cash Shop, used with the above payment model labels, it means the game has a method for
players to spend real money on something in game, whether it be aesthetics or advantages. DLCs do not
count.
Multiplayer:
(number here)P - Amount of players LOCAL multiplayer the game supports. Meaning, the other players
are within physical reach, right next to you!
O - Signifies the game is online play only. Not needed if the game genre is a MMO.
SO - The game supports online play. It can be played offline as well.
English:
NE - Not english. The game isn't available in english.
Once you have found a game you want to try, do a quick google search and research it a bit! This list will
not cover all the nuances and such of each game!
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Last edited by Harlequin; 10-22-2012 at 12:06 PM.
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Sequels separately if they have different names, genres, or anything. If everything is identical except something like the number in the name that indicates what it's iteration in the series, NAME HERE 1/2/3/4 is ok.
Also your list showed me a silly flaw I overlooked; A game can be online play only, or can be offline and support online play. Changed the multiplayer part to add:
O = Online only
SO = Supports online play, but can be played offline
RK, split the list based on consoles. CTRL+F is only useful if we know what we are looking for; not so much for people looking for new games under a specific console.
Organizing by platform and then just shoving the multi-platforms into their own kinda-somewhat-not really organized section is the best I can think of. If anyone else has a better method, I'm all ears.
Beat em up I feel can go into action, but if enough people whine about it, I'll make it it's own genre. Defense added. Flight if enough people whine about it. Mini-game added. Rail shooter if enough people whine about it. Run and gun could be platformer, TPS, action, but again, whining. Roguelikes for RPG, unless whining.
Organizing by platform and then just shoving the multi-platforms into their own kinda-somewhat-not really organized section is the best I can think of. If anyone else has a better method, I'm all ears.
Beat em up I feel can go into action, but if enough people whine about it, I'll make it it's own genre. Defense added. Flight if enough people whine about it. Mini-game added. Rail shooter if enough people whine about it. Run and gun could be platformer, TPS, action, but again, whining. Roguelikes for RPG, unless whining.
I don't know how to best sort this on forum, but you can just link your first post with a spreadsheet of games. I made a sample pivot table for you using the first few games. The only problem is that when you have multiple genres under a single game, it becomes confusing and too messy to sort through the data. If anyone know how to better do this using VLOOKUP or array equations, go for it.
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