Suggest a Game -- Win a Loom Point Contest

[PanPan]

Heroes & Generals. If its not said already. Pretty fun played it for awhile.

[CrazyCracka420]

I really liked the game Ultima. It sounds really nerdy and it is.... The game cost money now a days but there is a free version which is the best because it isn't ruined by useless crap. The one I will be suggesting is managed by a community and is really great. Its called UO Second Age.

http://www.uosecondage.com/

It's basically an MMORPG although if you play on the free uo second age shard its only like 300 people. You start off slow leveling your character you get money, items, and skills. It's actually a hardcore mmorpg because anyone can kill you out of guard zones and take all your stuff. But it is really enjoyable.

You can trade with npc's and other players. Make money or level skills by mining, blacksmithing, swordfighting, magic etc.

You might nt to read up on the forums before playing to know how to play the game.

That is a very awesome shard, I just get bored of UO after playing it for about a month at a time.  Ultima Online was an amazing game, but they started going downhill around pub 16 (maybe even before).  The rule sets in the early days were the best I've ever seen for an MMORPG.  Would be awesome if other games were to carry on that amazing rule set, but gameplay like WoW and GW are what set the standard and everyone seems to copy them.  It's carebear city, and that's why I no longer play MMORPG's.

Open world PVP, but with consequences (i.e. a criminal system).  Guarded cities (most of them anyways), the ability to steal from people and loot corpses of people and NPC's.  Open world house placement system, player run economy, no questing, no instances for dungeons (i.e. you have to compete for resources).  Also when you die, almost everything on you drops to your corpse (which can be looted, if you're a non-criminal though, and someone outside your party/faction loots you, they become a criminal for 2 minutes and are attackable by anyone without consequences, aside from the criminal now being able to attack you forever until you die)

Also UO 2nd age usually has about 700 people online (although I'd wager at least 200 are 2nd accounts of people who are AFK macro'ing skills)

I had a lot of fun playing Wurm online, but the skill leveling is just RIDICULOUSLY slow, I mean you'd have to play for years at just one skill to be even decent at it. Not sure how people even get their fighting skills up.

[Riddaren]

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter
Free D&D mmorpg. Beta released 30 April.
http://nw.perfectworld.com

[LordRichrich]

Wargame: Airland battle

It's in beta right now, but still great fun.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/222750/

Ok, how to describe this. It's a modern era stratergy game. Imagine crossing company oh heroes with RTW style battles but ARMA realism.

There's an INSANE level of detail. You have to resupply your own men, #ap and #he, armour, movement speed, infantry transports.

The beta is multi-player, you build a "deck" of units, the more units within a group (ie, infantry, planes, vehicles, tanks, logistics etc) the more expensive it becomes. You have to try and build a well rounded deck. The game has true line of site, but if your recon can see something that your long range artillery can't, you can still bombard it. You have to use true style tactics to achieve victory, ie you NEED to support your aggressive groups and you need to protect your areas, planes can be long range.

I'm really bad at explaining this, but there's a stupid amount to cover. Steep learning curve, a million different ways to do stuff.

Graphics wise, it's great. Being a strat game, you spend a lot of time zoomed out, but you can zoom in close, I mean REALLY close and it just looks wonderful. Explosions, tracers, missiles, rockets, shells, smoke, everything is done amazingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTcBWF6ig8 - Gameplay (no commentary afaik)

Battles are up to 10 vs 10. Many nations, US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Swden, Denmark and more.

Also deck bonuses, IE you can choose to select from one nations armoury, which limits you but lets you deploy more troops, or you can specialise into mechansied which gives your vechiles more exp but less points to spend on recon or something.

Really fun game, especially when you play with friends

[Leesin]

That is a very awesome shard, I just get bored of UO after playing it for about a month at a time.  Ultima Online was an amazing game, but they started going downhill around pub 16 (maybe even before).  The rule sets in the early days were the best I've ever seen for an MMORPG.  Would be awesome if other games were to carry on that amazing rule set, but gameplay like WoW and GW are what set the standard and everyone seems to copy them.  It's carebear city, and that's why I no longer play MMORPG's.

Open world PVP, but with consequences (i.e. a criminal system).  Guarded cities (most of them anyways), the ability to steal from people and loot corpses of people and NPC's.  Open world house placement system, player run economy, no questing, no instances for dungeons (i.e. you have to compete for resources).  Also when you die, almost everything on you drops to your corpse (which can be looted, if you're a non-criminal though, and someone outside your party/faction loots you, they become a criminal for 2 minutes and are attackable by anyone without consequences, aside from the criminal now being able to attack you forever until you die)

Also UO 2nd age usually has about 700 people online (although I'd wager at least 200 are 2nd accounts of people who are AFK macro'ing skills)

So true, I first played UO probably about 14 years ago, it was amazingly awesome up until the big change where EA got involved, then I noticed the game started falling apart, I eventually stopped playing the official shards, stopped my subscription and went to play free-shards. Though Before UO was ruined, it was the best MMORPG I've ever played, even to this day there is no MMORPG I've played since then that can even compare to the awesomeness and fun I experienced in pre-turd Ultima Online.

I've tried playing UO Second Age and other free shards in recent years but they just don't compare anymore, I think it's how stale the small communities get and it basically feels like an empty version of 14 years ago, I think the other thing is that I just don't know anyone who plays these shards and alot of the players are old elitist arseholes who all know eachother, making solo progress quite difficult.

[Strudog]

You've probably already played this but someone has to point it out.

A very simple game that, is hard to get good at and that is hard to learn is Starcraft 2, it can be both rewarding and frustrating but is a briiliant game if you like the RTS kind of genre. The game never gets old or not very competitive as there is always someone better than you.

Watch some videos of it on youtube gets you in the mood to play, (HusI love youtarcraft is a good one to watch)

[CrazyCracka420]

yeah leesin you really need at least one other buddy playing with you, or you're very susceptible to getting ganked (even taking all the normal precautions of trapped pouches, lots of pots, bandies, etc).  And like you said, most of the people playing, are hard core old schooler's who have all their scripts and macro's ready to roll you if you make the slightest mistake.

My bro and me come back to UO 2nd age every few years it seems like for a month or two and get bored by it (lack of people is the main thing really), and it's a very old game.  I love the rule set, but we get spoiled by newer graphics and content, and it's a pretty big ghost world outside of town, mainly just PK's trying to gank you in large groups, virtually no targets for a thief.

Wish some MMORPG's would take a chance and try a different ruleset than the instanced dungeons, "friendly" PVP, no loot drops, no house placement, equipment based instead of skilled based, etc.  But that's not just MMO's, a lot of games fall into the same type of gameplay and rulesets because it has been proven to make money (look at first person shooters).  Publishers are all about making money, not making the best games they can (which I'm sure is obvious to most people reading this).  Just consider all the genre's that are really not tapped into.  Think of all the cool MMO environments that haven't even been explored (Zombie apocalypse, wild west, American colonization, medieval Europe, etc). 

[Leshma]

Bitcoin mining was a great game before but few months ago it went live. It was much easier to play during beta, when everyone was still learning how to play. Right now, you're most likely going to lose your credits if you're not uber skilled.

It's combination of already mentioned and quite famous game called Real Life and another great game The Internets. Quite addictive and quest rewards are material if you want them to be.

[Kafein]

Bitcoin mining was a great game before but few months ago it went live. It was much easier to play during beta, when everyone was still learning how to play. Right now, you're most likely going to lose your credits if you're not uber skilled.

It's combination of already mentioned and quite famous game called Real Life and another great game The Internets. Quite addictive and quest rewards are material if you want them to be.

Bitcoin is internet fishing : you set up your equipment in a good spot, sleep the whole day and wake up when you catch something.

[Grumpy_Nic]

Defiance is probably interesting. Playing it since some days, there is pve, pvp, coop. Free world with events, missions... Its a bit strange at the beginning but after you know how most of the stuff works its fun and something different than crpg.

[darmaster]

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[Jarold]

Second game I will suggest besides UO is...

I just got done playing a really awesome mod. It doesn't fit any of your criteria really.  But I loved it. If you have minecraft and loved the fallout games then you should get this mod.

It's great fun for fan boys like me and just a fun game to play while waiting on downloads or something. It's basically a survival game of looting and exploring. SINGLEPLAYER.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1589714-adv-147-fallout-rebuilding-humanity-v121-30000-downloads/

[Fuma Kotaro]

I suggest binary domain it moght be not the one fitting the most but still its really fun playing it
sry I can't give you a link right now either search for binary domain in youtube or google or wait until I am home :p
My second suggestion would be battle for middle earth (1 2 rise of the whichking and edain mod)
you might know it already if not so same thing like before

[StuLLe]

Best game out there:

Mortal Online

(got alot of bad critics, cause the beginning is damn hard, but I have never found anything similar in terms of complexity and freedom of a sandbox. If you wanna keep a RL, better dont start )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmjv-0gMK0&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

I believe it fulfills all mentioned criteria you guys are looking for. 

[Dezilagel]

Hello Kitty Online