So after years of using roommates' machines, and having finished a well-paying highly stressful recent job, I rewarded myself by buying an XBox Slim off of eBay. Which I guess was foolish of me. The thing arrived with only the 4GB hard drive, so I had to buy a decent-sized one in order for it to do anything, and even then it started freezing nearly constantly. If left off overnight it will start up and work for maybe an hour before freezing at first, and then quickly degrade to the point where it can't even start up properly.
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posted by Navelgazer
on Jun 15, 2013 -
16 answers
I'm trying to recall a video game from around 10-15 years ago, that I never played, where my only real reference is a letter in a video game magazine. The best I can recall is inside.
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posted by handybitesize
on May 16, 2013 -
5 answers
What are the most innovative, creatively cutting-edge, yet polished, video games on the market at the moment? Especially in terms of their premise or storyline or story world (not so much their technical capability). For example, the conversation-based game about a bickering married couple called Facade.
posted by dontjumplarry
on Apr 16, 2013 -
27 answers
Need some iPhone games that are as engrossing as Civilization, SimCity, and Age of Empires. (Yes, I already have Civilization Revolution and SimCity DLX.)
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posted by Afroblanco
on Mar 28, 2013 -
19 answers
I used to play
a lot of PC games, but in the past 10 years moved towards console gaming. I realise I've missed a whole era of games that only really work with a mouse and keyboard. My absolute favourites were creative, engaging, long play games, such as
Rollercoaster Tycoon and
Civilization. I never really played to win. I played for creative ends. The best times I had playing Rollercoaster Tycoon was in
sandbox mode the only limits being my imagination. Those were the days. What (PC) games offer the equivalent of this now?
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posted by 0bvious
on Mar 26, 2013 -
15 answers
My girlfriend and I really enjoyed playing Walking Dead together. I controlled it, but she made all the dialogue choices and helped solve puzzles. What are some other games like that? She's not really a gamer and doesn't really get FPS controls (yet) so stuff like co-op portal and even minecraft is out. I'm going to try and see how it goes with Braid next, but are there any other games like Walking Dead where people who aren't actively controlling it can help make meaningful decisions or contributions? I was also thinking Heavy Rain, but I don't have a Playstation, only a pc and Xbox.
posted by empath
on Mar 9, 2013 -
24 answers
I'm trying to find the name of a computer game I played when I was very young. Circa 1986-7 ish. Details inside.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Jan 1, 2013 -
5 answers
OMIGOD I just played "Dear Esther" for the first time. This is the absolute sweet spot for me for gaming/interactive fiction. Please help me find more.
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posted by jbickers
on Nov 15, 2012 -
25 answers
I like playing L4D with my friends on the other side of the world, but my ping is awful. What are some good, accessible PC games where this won't matter?
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posted by 23
on Nov 4, 2012 -
5 answers
Which Big Fish games are worth playing? And within that group, which are fun to play on a laptop with only the touchpad?
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posted by jbickers
on Oct 26, 2012 -
13 answers
I'm looking for video games that I could read aloud and describe as I play so that one of my friends who is blind could participate. We would be doing this over Skype. Ideally, we'd like games with multiple choices and decisions that affect the gameplay or story, less linear games and fairly complicated gameplay. We wouldn't want anything in real time, anything that requires coordination or games where the visuals are essential.
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posted by shirobara
on Sep 27, 2012 -
36 answers
History of Games 101. I need to learn more about the history of gaming. Ideally getting a solid overview of the continuum of ancient games such as dice, chess and Go, all the way up through present day video games. Please recommend some books for me.
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posted by gnutron
on May 18, 2012 -
8 answers
What video games take place on multiple (but finite/not many) two-dimensional planes?
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posted by 23
on May 16, 2012 -
18 answers
When we left our heroine, it was 2002 and she was an avid JRPG player, wise in the ways of the spiky haired menu-based combatants. She returns, older if not wiser, to do battle again, in--okay, wait, what are all these games, and why do they expect me to know how to play them already? Help me find some training wheels, experienced gamer-types.
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posted by gracedissolved
on May 13, 2012 -
16 answers
I've been a long-time fan of the
Myst series, but up until recently with
Fez I didn't realize how much I missed atmospheric games based heavily on exploration and worldbuilding-type puzzles. Can anyone recommend more?
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posted by flatluigi
on May 2, 2012 -
17 answers
Can you tell me which games for either the NES, SNES, or Genesis (or their contemporaries) had the visual appearance of your character change logically when you got a new item? I'm not looking for something like Final Fantasy I, where the appearance changes due to an event, but you otherwise look the same, no matter which armor you have on; I'm looking for games like Metroid, where Samus's Power Suit and Varia Suit are different armors, and your character looks different as a result. Not looking for examples from later-gen systems such as Playstation onward, which seem much more likely to do this.
posted by Greg Nog
on Apr 20, 2012 -
21 answers
I plan to spend 2 weeks in the west coast to one day move there. I am hoping to travel to various cities and explore video game related places. I want to network and talk to people from all video game walks of life, from indie developers to touring game studios. What places should I visit? What studios does tours?
I was planning to tour around late June, but should I center it around PAX Prime?
posted by RockyK
on Apr 17, 2012 -
10 answers
I need help finding a 2D game about running a restaurant- and it involved a lot of mini-games and menial tasks. Very simple graphics, too.
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posted by Askiba
on Feb 22, 2012 -
8 answers
I really, really liked the flash game 3 Slices, recently posted on the blue. I also loved Lemmings. What other flash or internet-based games would I like that I can play on my (old) laptop?
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posted by shortyJBot
on Jan 22, 2012 -
8 answers
So I know about computers and I know about software. I don't know how they go together for games and wondering if there's an easy way to tell if my computer can run certain games.
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posted by lilkeith07
on Dec 28, 2011 -
2 answers
I want to compose scores for video games as a career. I have no idea how to get there. I'm looking for advice from composers, game designers, and people generally working at the intersection of music and video games.
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posted by bumpjump
on Dec 7, 2011 -
11 answers
Are there games that were invented as computer games and then became popular as real world games?
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posted by vacapinta
on Sep 27, 2011 -
21 answers
Descriptive video for the blind and visually impaired... for videogames? Does this exist? I’d like to do it. I know there are a million videos of people playing videogames around, but I'd like to do ones tailored for people who can't see.
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posted by marble
on Jul 27, 2011 -
7 answers
I want to play more games like Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, Liberal Crime Squad, etc. No, not rogue-likes: games with a similiar "made of text" interface.
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posted by Askiba
on Jul 26, 2011 -
10 answers
Educational videogames tend to be aimed at children and/or not much fun to play (and/or both). "Typing of the Dead" is a great exception. Are there other truly addictive videogames a grownup can enjoy while learning something? The subject being taught is irrelevant-- I'd just love for my gaming time to result in some sort of useful skill.
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posted by yankeefog
on Jul 6, 2011 -
13 answers
L.A. Noire has lots of references to Bioshock -- namely (heh), Fontaine and Ryan.
Why?
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posted by bardic
on May 30, 2011 -
8 answers
I'm still trying to connect my upcoming XBOX 360 to my computer monitor. The monitor has only VGA and DVI-D inputs and no audio output, however, so I'm having issues tracking down what needs to be done. Currently I'm fairly sure I've got what I need for
video, but I still need help figuring out
how to connect audio.
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posted by flatluigi
on Feb 10, 2011 -
14 answers
There's this quasi-educatainment game that I had in the 80s. It was CGA graphics, on MS-DOS... The idea was breeding cats with dominant and recessive genes. The only cat game I can seem to find online is Alley Cat, but that's nothing like it. This game is a grid of something like 4 cats across, and 2 down. I don't remember what the exact point of the game was.
posted by symbioid
on Feb 9, 2011 -
4 answers
I'm getting an XBOX 360 shortly, but I have a few questions about setting it up. For one, my television is very bad, so I'd like to use my computer monitor for it - should picking up a VGA cable be fine?
Secondly, I'm not sure how the XBOX's audio ports are set up - can I just plug my headset with a standard headphone and microphone plug into it, or do I need adapters?
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posted by flatluigi
on Feb 3, 2011 -
11 answers
I don't want to play this video game any more, but I want to know what happens. Where on the Internet can I find a plot summary of Nier?
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posted by aparrish
on Feb 1, 2011 -
6 answers
What are the classic games for the Nintendo DS? And, bonus, what are the best games that can be played in five minute increments?
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posted by kingjoeshmoe
on Dec 25, 2010 -
25 answers
Are there any examples of platformer games used for educational purposes?
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posted by gwint
on Sep 18, 2010 -
9 answers
My curiosity has been piqued by this line in
Extra Lives: "The technology BioWare uses to manage in-game dialogue is closely minded, and parts of it are patented." Which parts?
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posted by danb
on Sep 5, 2010 -
9 answers
Does anybody know of a computer game that is what I would call "Parallel Strategy"? That is, it's not realtime in the sense that there are discrete turns, but it's not turn based, because plays are not sequential, but played in parallel (that is, all players make their moves in the alloted time for the turn/round). When the time is over for that round, conflict resolution rules happen...
posted by symbioid
on Jul 7, 2010 -
19 answers
Looking for a mid-90s PC puzzle game based on a cube. Holo or Light or something -- New age/tribal music... I don't remember exactly how it worked, but you try to get the marked side of the cube to land face down on a specific square on a grid (I think the location kept moving, though I'm not sure). Anyways, it might have come with my old IBM Pentium as a prepackaged thing. Any ideas?
posted by symbioid
on Jun 21, 2010 -
5 answers
Can you recommend some Nintendo DS games for me? I love Animal Crossing and the Harvest Moon games.
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posted by leesh
on Mar 31, 2010 -
24 answers
I grow weary of hard games and/or games that require massive investment of time and energy for any payoff. Please recommend easy, casual video games for me.
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posted by AugieAugustus
on Mar 29, 2010 -
26 answers
Need help with setting up my PC for live streaming video, with an emphasis on high-quality sound and video.
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posted by flatluigi
on Mar 26, 2010 -
0 answers
