Need Advice from Avid Gamers please

AdamJK_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Compared to what, exactly?

Battlefield is the largest-selling FPS game series to date is it not? (BF1942 onwards - fair enough that COD/HALO etc match or exceed unit per unit sales now but the BF series still has the lead.) Personally I gave up on it after Bad Company 2, as I have with most FPS these days as they're all just dumbed down console ports, not to mention the Origin system that EA are plugging these days.

Planetside 2 isn't the best but it's hugely imersive and it's a born and bred PC shooter. Makes it top notch in my book.

OP; Sorry for the thread hijack.

Avoriaz

AirCooledHeaven wrote: »

Of course I wouldn't buy him vodka, he much prefers whisky...

Sensible chap.

Good reply too. :beer:

Avoriaz

scooby359 wrote: »

Just curious, would you buy him a bottle of vodka for Christmas? Or a !!!!!! DVD?..

I was going to ask if she was OK with him drinking, smoking and having sex too but maybe the game is to tempt him away from that stuff.

-TangleFoot-

AdamJK wrote: »

Battlefield is the largest-selling FPS game series to date is it not?

Retail? Quite possibly. Digital distribution - for the PC in particular - is another matter entirely and in any case doesn't answer the question: is this game fun?

Alas, the answer to that one is entirely subjective.

AdamJK_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Retail? Quite possibly. Digital distribution - for the PC in particular - is another matter entirely and in any case doesn't answer the question: is this game fun?

Alas, the answer to that one is entirely subjective.

You'll get no argument from me on that one chap - can't remember when I actually purchased a retail game. Not to mention when you do, you often have to spend hours downloading several large 'updates' anyway via Steam etc which seems to me to be a bit daft considering you could just have downloaded the entire game to start with.

-TangleFoot-

AdamJK wrote: »

...can't remember when I actually purchased a retail game.

Neither can I... but that's because Tesco deleted my order history.

JasX

Only cautions I'd make is
1- Some of the games mentioned to date are a little dated, if he was after them he'd possibly have mentioned them/saved up for them already
2-Steam always has several very good value daily post xmas sales so I'd wager all games mentioned above will be 50%-75% off at some point immediately after xmas -hence possibly some form of steam wallet gift card would maximise games per £ value you get plus see him end up with something he wants
3-In the interim recommend he plays Planetside 2 -free to play and a very well polished multiplayer coop (Planetside 1 was groundbreaking in its day, the sequel is high quality and has moved to a microtransaction business model but at least being free-to-play he can try it to see if he likes it)