Jasper
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 10:11 AM |
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Recommend a FPS and driving game for a 'non-gamer'
A mate of mine is seriously non-techie and not a gamer at all. However, he does rather like a simple game to play on his PC that involves killing
things, preferably zombie/monster type stuff to while away 30 minutes or fun driving games. He's tried playing some of the more involved
complicated new FPS on a mates machine but he really doesn't like games that are too hard and involve figuring out a load of stuff, and nothing
that involves real war/battle scenarios like Call of Duty. And anything like GT5 is way beyond him.
To give you an idea his all time favour game at the arcade is House of the Dead series and on PS2 is Burnout Takedown.
So can anybody recommend any good simple fun FPS or driving games for PC or even PS3 which he's thinking of getting.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Humbug
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 10:23 AM |
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Neer heard of an FPS but a drving game for a non-driver could be:
get in your car
put a portable DVD player on your dashboard
Put Bullitt DVD into player, fast forward to the chase scene
Play film from that point, holding steering wheel and making brum-brum noises and screeching
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 10:33 AM |
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I am the same as your friend...
I don't have any suggestions as I am clueless in gaming etc...
My fave game is PS1/2 Crash Bandicoot
[/embarassed]
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Jasper
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 10:39 AM |
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FPS - First Person Shooter = basically killing things games.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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bi22le
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 11:05 AM |
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Need for speed underground is quite an arcady driving game.
If he wants basic though the best way would be to go old school gaming.
PS2 converted games or old PC games from 2000 ish.
FPS would say Halo (the original and part 2 are quality shoot till you die basic FPS games) is a good one to consider.
Driving - not many good non similator games for the PC. Simply becasue you need a steering wheel really and it all gets a bit serious from then.
How about GTA? That has the best of both worlds (3rd person though). True crime is another along these lines.
Can you tell I am a massive gamer!!!
HTH
Biz
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mrwibble
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 12:12 PM |
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i used to play house of dead years ago on my mates xbox? he had the guns and we could complete the whole thing before we left for work...
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beagley
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 12:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bi22le
Need for speed underground is quite an arcady driving game.
Biz
I second that! Need For Speed is a game that can be played in small segments, the learning curve is almost non-existent and its pretty fun. No where
CLOSE to real life driving physics so it sounds like that would be a good fit for your friend.
I haven't really played too many FPS lately, I was always a fan of the Time Crisis series that Namco put out for the PS1 and PS2. Has he looked
at getting the MAME emulator for all the old arcade games? Its a program that you run on your computer that emulates (pretends to be) old arcade
machines. If you have the ROMs (games) you can load them up and play all sorts of games.
If interested U2U me and I can give you some more info.
Beags
I'm not scared!!! I'm just marking my territory.
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scudderfish
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 01:13 PM |
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For a FPS, have a look at Half Life 2
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beagley
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 01:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
For a FPS, have a look at Half Life 2
Ooooo....... I can't tell you how many hours I spent in college playing that game, well technically it was Half Life 1. There is a lot of
thinking and puzzle solving required in that game and it is incredibly hard to put down. That has been one of the few game series that made me tense
while playing it. GREAT GAME! You're going to make me dig it out of the closet and fire it up again.
I'm not scared!!! I'm just marking my territory.
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jlparsons
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 02:19 PM |
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Driving game - can't beat gran tourismo.
FPS - for fun and monsters, half-life 1&2. For realistic modern combat, operation flashpoint, dragon rising. Very tough game (realistic
damage/injury, no saves...) and takes a long while to get into it, but WOW is it enjoyable once you've learnt it.
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 02:21 PM |
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For a FPS game, I recommend 'Battlefield 4 Free' LINKY
As for a driving game, I've not tried it but there's another free one here.
LINKY
There are more games here LINKY
HTH 
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
Latest Picture (14 Sept 2014)
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Ivan
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 02:42 PM |
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FPS - "Serious Sam 01" is a simple one I enjoy with lots of monsters to kill - only starts getting hard for beginners near the end.
"Race 07" is another simple driving game.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 04:33 PM |
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Bubble Bobble!
I remember it on our family C64.....
http://nintendo8.com/game/90/bubble_bobble/
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Liam
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| posted on 23/4/11 at 08:10 PM |
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For a no-brains FPS try left 4 dead and/or left for dead 2. Will be dead cheap on Steam. They are designed as co-op multiplayer really, but I play
them single player offline when I need a quick pick up and play frag fest. Not quite killing things, but portal is also amazing and portal 2 has just
been released (even more amazing).
As suggested above, it is possible to set up MAME on a PC with all your favourite arcade games and you can even get a light gun working too (or use
the mouse but that isn't really the same).
[Edited on 23/4/11 by Liam]
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Jasper
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| posted on 26/4/11 at 09:29 AM |
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Cheers chaps
Half-Life - my all time favourite PC game......
Can somebody point me in the direction of some MAME ROMS. I used to have it all working years ago, but don't have any ROMS saved. XMBC media
player has a MAME plug-in so you can play ROMS on the TV via my HTPC.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 26/4/11 at 04:02 PM |
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Actually if he likes Burnout they've made Revenge and Dominator for the PS2, I have them both and would still be playing them but for our PS2
slowly giving up the ghost
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iank
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| posted on 26/4/11 at 05:48 PM |
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One easy FPS for the casual gamer is OpenArena. Easy to dip in and out of and the easy skill level is a very easy way to ease into it.
Has the bonus that it doesn't tax your hardware too much and is free for Windows, Mac and Linux 
http://www.openarena.ws/smfnews.php
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Liam
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| posted on 26/4/11 at 11:31 PM |
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I get MAME roms from Planet Emulation. It's all in french but it's a decent site, always kept up to date and fast download speed.
It's pretty self evident what to click on despite the frenchy-ness (or if not just give me a shout).
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Mr G
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| posted on 9/7/11 at 04:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
Bubble Bobble!
I remember it on our family C64.....
http://nintendo8.com/game/90/bubble_bobble/
We knocked up a 'demo' for that back in the day
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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