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Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« on: August 23, 2012, 09:08:57 PM »
Gan wants to go into the game industry, but so far his experience with games is "Flash games and League of Legends"

This list's goals is to give Gan wide exposure to video games as a whole. I have picked, what I believe to be the best in their respective genres (on the Mac OS)


Also important to mention again these are all Mac OS. (Wesnoth is iOS)



First Person Shooter:
Halo: Combat Evolved - what popularized the modern FPS, very good, and the demo is free!

Left 4 Dead - Best Co-Op Shooter around, would recommend if kurt or moe has it.


RPG:
Fallout 1 - A great example of a classic turn based RPG. Mac OS version is hard to track down and expensive, however, so torrenting will almost be required.

Knights of the Old Republic - A good example of a Turn/Action RPG, and STAR WARS!

RTS:
Star Wars: Empire at War - Good example of Space and Land RTS

Turn Based Strategy
Civilization 5 - Good example of Strategy on a large Scale

Battle for Wesnoth - Best turn based iOS game, plays a lot like Fire Emblem.

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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 10:38:22 PM »
Probably not gonna happen. My dad is going thermonuclear war on anyone who plays games in the household. Cause games take up time and are inconvenient for him.
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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 11:51:49 PM »
As dumb as it sounds playing bad games can give you some insight if you have good games to compare with. I've seen numerous mistakes that occur in more than one game and can be easily avoided. I really hate the ones which clearly had a huge art budget and yet they are long and repetitive and dull.
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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 11:58:18 PM »
Quote from: Gan on August 23, 2012, 10:38:22 PM
Probably not gonna happen. My dad is going thermonuclear war on anyone who plays games in the household. Cause games take up time and are inconvenient for him.

2 things wrong with this post:

1. You play league of legends all the time

2. You're like a Sophomore at college and you're dad still won't let you play video games... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2012, 12:38:55 AM »
Quote from: Gnome on August 23, 2012, 11:58:18 PM
2 things wrong with this post:

1. You play league of legends all the time

2. You're like a Sophomore at college and you're dad still won't let you play video games... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He's right ya know.
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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 11:07:38 AM »
1. Ocarina of time. No excuse gan. You have an N64, and it's the greatest game ever.

As for halo, he doesn't have an Xbox. Don't waste your money. TF2 is free, for mac, and the most fun you'll have with an FPS.

Or goldeneye 007 for N64 is pretty awesome. But its best when played multiplayer.
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2012, 11:13:10 AM »
Oh, and for RTS: Age of Empires. You have a slightly old Mac running 10.5 or lower, and I think the Mac version will work. It's tons of fun.

I completely agree that you should play more games. Good authors read a lot, so good programmers and game makers should play a lot of games.

Play a Zelda game. OoT is a MUST PLAY for anyone with an N64. It's probably the best Zelda game, and a great introduction to the series.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2012, 11:39:23 AM »
I played Age of Empires and I bought Age of Mythology and those are some fun RTS games. I wasn't exactly a pro at them but whatever.
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2012, 02:31:42 PM »
Psst... connors... tell him how great OoT is!
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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2012, 09:26:50 PM »
Some good suggestions all around. I did not know gan had an N64, of course he needs to play OoT!

Also, Halo 1 was released for mac  8)
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2012, 10:58:30 AM »
K. But no one should EVER be forced to buy a modern system by online people who really have no control over him.  :P
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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2012, 06:48:18 PM »
Quote from: Zoo on August 25, 2012, 10:58:30 AM
K. But no one should EVER be forced to buy a modern system by online people who really have no control over him.  :P

That was the point of the list being Mac OS only  ;)

I had tons more games I'd recommend over what I said, but they aren't on mac. (just an example: I have 35 games on steam. 6 of which are OS X compatible.)
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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2012, 08:22:06 PM »
I wish I still could play Hammerfight....
That was a good physics game.
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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2012, 08:28:09 PM »
He has an N64. Commence long N64 list of awesome:
-OoT
-Majora's Mask
-Goldeneye 007/ perfect dark
-Super mario 64
-Mario Kart 64
-Banjo Kazooie (I really need to buy that one.)
-STARFOX 64!!!! DO AN AILERON ROLL!!!!!
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Re: Gan's Required "To-Play" list
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2012, 08:50:28 PM »
Got Starfox 64 and Mario Kart 64.
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