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Surprised to see only a couple of mentions of Runescape. I don't know exactly when I started - probably around 2002 or 2003, it was definitely Runescape 2 - but my family had only recently gotten dial-up Internet and we had a particularly garbage computer that couldn't do much else. I had a fair...

So, in Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, one of the classes has a passive skill that does literally nothing except cause Handsome Jack (the antagonist of the second game and the anti-hero(?) of this one) to say a snarky 'inspiring' quote, followed by the text 'Inspired' flowing across the screen with...

I've been very pleased with my Switch. I was a little worried about it being a Zelda machine - and make no mistake, Breath of the Wild is a killer app if you enjoy open world games at all (assuming you don't own a Wii U) - but it's also an excellent platform for indie games I would usually wait...

Yeah, I don't really consider anything a 'guilty pleasure', just games I enjoy that I might catch flak for, which mostly just means I don't bring 'em up. Amongst my group, that's The Sims in general, like so many others here.

I miss Metroid so much. It's one of the longest-running series with so few entries, I'm deeply disappointed how long it's been since Other M seems to have killed it off. At least Super and Zero Mission are some of the best games ever made.

Huh, I thought A Machine for Pigs was widely regarded as a pretty big flop. Steam has it pretty low with mostly mixed reviews. I couldn't get past an hour or so in. Amnesia was great, though I sort of get why they tried something new. There were some points (like the jail-ish place that was...

Hah, I'm in the exact same boat. I'd been waffling on Stellaris for a while, but $12 plus a bunch of other games was too good to pass up. Then I bought all the DLC and have been putting way too many hours into it.

Being a clan leader is like attempting to herd a group of particularly feral, vicious cats by use of a remotely controlled roomba. Recruiting, retention, drama, coordination, and just getting people to all be online to do stuff is a nightmare. I was an officer in one and later got promoted to...

I went through them like water before 2012 or so. With the cheaper kind something would inevitably go wrong just from largely normal use - a speaker would go out, a turny fob would break, etc. etc. I bought an on-sale 'gaming' headset that worked beautifully for two and a half years until the...

Long War for the newer XCOM games, hands down. The first one was an amazing technical achievement simply because XCOM 2012 wasn't designed to be modded. That gave it a lot of issues, but it really helped flesh out and deepen the core game (which was, in all honestly, centered around getting one...

This is an old thread, so probably not useful to the OP, but for anyone in a similar boat; X-Box One is now pretty cheap. You can find 'em at $250. Mind you, it looks like the 360 is going for $70 or $80 used, so that 'cheap' factor is relative to the fact that Xbone is still a...

If I had to pick a single adjective, it'd probably be 'retro'. I like nearly every genre, but the most consistently fantastic are the ol' sidescrolling platformers, and especially their newer incarnations. Shovel Knight, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, and all the old Nintendo standbys. Within...

There's this classic little gem on the NES called Crystalis. It was sort of like The Legend of Zelda only with crappier dungeons and more RPG elements (including level ups) and a pretty decent plot for its time. It did get remade on the Game Boy Color in 2000, but that was almost entirely a...

This is sort of adjacent to the topic, but thinking about it, a lot of people I gamed with in my younger years were god-awful winners. They would brag over the most ridiculous stunts that got them an undeserved win, rub it in the other participants face, and just generally be obnoxious. I've...

There are a lot of people already doing just this and let me tell you, you won't be getting the kind of audience the original question is positing without a lot of sweat, dedication, and time. I've been doing this in one form or another for a while and the results are decidedly mediocre...

This almost feels more like a philosophical question rather than a practical one. As Lord Sanity said up thread, board games are certainly gaming. But within popular parlance, 'gaming' does have a particular meaning and does refer to a particular industry, and mobile games are more adjacent to...

I'm surprised to see so many answers of 'Atari' and so few for the NES. My parents bought an NES when I was two, and some of my earliest memories are playing Crystalis or Snake Rattle 'n Roll (the former because it's an action-RPG where your stats eventually make you invincible, the latter...

Skimming the thread, I'm surprised nobody mentions using it for Gamecube games - maybe I'm just a product of my time, but after the old Gamecube's disc drive gave up the ghost, keeping the Wii around was paramount for a Pikmin, Wind Waker, etc. box. I will admit that I didn't have whole ton...

I'm in a similar boat - I still have a little anxiety about what happens if Valve goes out of business, but for the most part the price is right and you can't beat the convenience of having all those games at your fingertips. (Outside of big downloads and constant patches, grumble grumble)...

While going through my Steam library, farming up trading cards, I found this little game called Kholat. A friend asked if I was playing it, I said 'no not really', and somehow I wound up streaming it. I doubt I would have played it otherwise, but it represents a genre of 'game' that has never...