serious catch up time

[vinopete]

after several years of not even turning the ps3 on, i have rediscovered my love for gaming. work and kids meant that i just lost all track of new game series and releases, i was given farcry 3 and dishonored for xmas and now im hooked all over again, like the c64 and megadrive years of old. my question is where to go now. i've got lots of catching up to do

the game series im looking at are the following: assassins creed, infamous, fallout, crysis, hitman

should i go for the latest release of each or is it worth starting from the beginning? are there any other title series that i should consider along the first\third person shooter or adventure lines (im not into the online multiplayer stuff). all advice and recommendations muchly appreciated.

[Blakey58]

Fallout 3 is amazing but you will lose so many hours of your life to it. Assasins creed I'd say play from the start it's a great series and you can perfect your technique with every game only played the first infamous but never found it overly brilliant and didn't even finish it. Half life series is good, can get 3 games in 'the orange box' for consoles.

[Jasandjules]

As above, Fallout 3 is a time vampire - you will switch it on for "an hour" and 4-5 hours later will wonder where the hell the time went.

For online gaming, Battlefield 3.

[Gun]

Have a look at the Mass Effect games, also Portal and Portal 2.

[Timsta]

Yep, Fallout3 for lone gaming, BF3 for online fun.

[MissChief]

Gun said:

Have a look at the Mass Effect games, also Portal and Portal 2.

This is an excelelnt shout. You can get the trilogy for PS3 now and each game will stand you for circa 40 hours of gameplay if you take your time. An Epic trilogy!

[myvision]

Hitman is excellent

[caduceus]

MissChief said:

Gun said:

Have a look at the Mass Effect games, also Portal and Portal 2.

This is an excelelnt shout.

Indeed it is. Whatever excelelnt is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI_RlDHTBE

[vinopete]

Blakey58 said:

Fallout 3 is amazing but you will lose so many hours of your life to it. Assasins creed I'd say play from the start it's a great series and you can perfect your technique with every game only played the first infamous but never found it overly brilliant and didn't even finish it. Half life series is good, can get 3 games in 'the orange box' for consoles.

cheers guys, looks like i might start with fallout games then. hearing a lot of praise for fallout 3 but not new vegas. was that not as good then? im looking forward to bioshock infinate, crysis 3, aliens colonial marines and the last of us, they all look to be some of the games of 2013. and gtaV if that is ever released!

[Timsta]

New Vegas has been made deeper and is more complex, but in doing that they've lost most of the fun!

[Rowan138]

just cause 2, for mindless destruction and fking around

[vinopete]

Rowan138 said:

just cause 2, for mindless destruction and fking around

not heard of that one but just checked out the ps3 review on ign. looks like a slightly unhinged version of farcry3, i love it. certainly up there on the to do list. thanks

[siovey]

+1 on Fallout 3. Make sure you get the "game of the year edition" as you get all of the dlc included and one of those adds extra "level ups". I've played over 1000+ hours on that game and 500+ on Oblivion by the same developer. Truly epic games!

[Jasandjules]

Ooh, Skyrim also!

[Slink]

yes, skyrim, you need skyrim.

skyrim is good, its very good. in skyrim you can shout at dragons, my favourite is "HUUUUURRRRRGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

[Timsta]

vinopete said:

Rowan138 said:

just cause 2, for mindless destruction and fking around

not heard of that one but just checked out the ps3 review on ign. looks like a slightly unhinged version of farcry3, i love it. certainly up there on the to do list. thanks

It's great for just jumping on when you only have a few minutes to kill. No real missions, just fun.

[dmulally]

The latest Hitman is rubbish.

My pic of the games are:

La Noire
Heavy Rain
Skyrim
Mass Effect 2 or 3.

[vinopete]

need to look into l.a noire and heavy rain but so far the to buy list (in no particular order) is as follows:

• hitman absolution
• fallout 3
• fallout new vegas
• infamous 2
• assassins creed 3
• just cause 2

thats a fair few hours gaming right there

i tried skyrim but it was all a bit too serious.

[dmulally]

vinopete said:

need to look into l.a noire and heavy rain but so far the to buy list (in no particular order) is as follows:

• hitman absolution - weekend
• fallout 3 - months
• fallout new vegas - weeks
• infamous 2 - weekend
• assassins creed 3 - couple of weekends
• just cause 2 - weekend

thats a fair few hours gaming right there

i tried skyrim but it was all a bit too serious.

Chucked in how long roughly I spent on those. Some could be hires. Fallout 3 is Skyrim with guns.

[vinopete]

dmulally said:

Chucked in how long roughly I spent on those. Some could be hires. Fallout 3 is Skyrim with guns.

isnt everything better with guns?

downloaded "just cause 2" last night from playstation store. not bad for £7. need to find an instruction manual online now for the controls etc. going to finish deus ex hr this evening then i'll try it. new crysis 3 trailer looks amazing, only 2 weeks to wait for that