Bored of DotA? Try League of Legends 
Joke aside, thereās plenty to do around IMO. Depends whatās your taste.
Have you tried Portal? Kind of 3D puzzle with some robots ā¦ and a piece of cake 
The first opus is good enough story-wise, the second is even better. I doubt theyāll make a third one though.
In the puzzle area, thereās Mirrorās Edge too. Havent finished it yet (bought it during Steamās Black Friday), but just as refreshing as Portal. You donāt get to see that many games go AAA on such a different concept than the usual āFPSā.
You like turn-based strategy ? You might have a go at āCiv : Beyond Earthā. Iām still sceptical as what the hell they tried to do with the game exactly. Not only for gameplay, but for the general UI as well. Thereās no real tutorial, a lack that infuriates me the most for a modern game. However, if you liked previous Civs as I did, it both keeps some mechanics and introduces new ones that aināt bad. And itās in the future ^^
But Iād rather advise you to try āEndless Legendā. Itās like Civ 5, but not as simplified. Much more refreshing, IMO, than āCiv : BEā. It keeps the classical āmedival fantasyā with a lot of interpretation and magic.
And if youāre more into the combat-turn, you might wanna try āHeroes of Might and Magicā. The nĀ°5 is definitely worth the play, though the campaign is too lengthy for me (not playing at it though currently).
But as for now, Iāve just finished āWolfenstein : The New Orderā. Pretty nice overall. The end is more about sorrow than being bad, I donāt get why people get upset about it and always expect a happy ending.
Now Iām into āShadow of Mordorā. A ābeat them upā oriented game, good fun killing orcs, anxious as what the hell they produced as scenario, being a LOTR book fan.
EDIT : as a recommandation, you might wanna try āThe Stanley Parableā. Itās more of an āart gameā than anything else, but youāll have some guaranteed laughter and thereās some serious reflexion about āwhatās a game reallyā. There are several paths. Try as much as possible to make most on your owns, then see a guide to discover the hidden (and sometimes hard to find) ones.
Iāve just finally managed to play through The Witcher 2. So good, better in every aspect compared to the first one. Even though it is already a few years old it still looks absolutely gorgeous. It is currently the best RPG Iāve every played.
Other than that Iām working on my backlog. Iāve tried playing the first Bioshock but it hasnāt really caught my attention. Iām having way more fun with the first Borderlands due to playing it in coop with a friend.
After that I think it is time I give both Portals a play.
ended up playing kerbal for a while. induced some fear about how hard infinity may or may not be
Probably not as hard as KSP.
Definitely not as hard as Orbiter
I havenāt played Skyrim much since release and Iāve been getting excited reading about the mods that are out for it now.
Iām in the process of reinstalling Skyrim and going ham on all sorts of mods and game overhauls to play a basically entirely new game. The most important ones will be Requiem and Frostfall. Requiem fixes the leveling issues and overall makes the game much much more difficult and more akin to older RPGs where the world is the world and itās hard as hell. Frostfall essentially adds weather that can kill you, so you need to have a tent, cloaks, warm clothing, etc to live through blizzards or heavy ran without freezing. There are a few more overhauls Iāll be running but mostly minor details when compared to what Requiem and Frostfall will change.
Iām excited to try it out but I have so few time in between classes, homework, sports, and soon to be work that I will only be able to get in an hour here or there. Iāll get there some time! Maybe I should spend less time on forums and more time gamingā¦
Skyrim is a nice enough game indeed. Some people point out that many aspects (specialization-wise) are not as evolved as the older āElder Scrollsā (no pun intended ^^), especially āMorrowindā. The simplified system is mostly due to the console adaptpation.
Due to this, you might not consider Skyrim as a ārealā RPG. If youāre more into creating your own character sheet, having some randoms thrown at you, secrets not at all obvious and quests with no markers on the map, Iād strongly suggest to you āLegend of Grimrock 2ā. First one is nice, but the āall dungeonā type wasnāt that good IMO. Plus they improved a lot of things in the nĀ°2.
Nonetheless, I consider āSkyrimā a good game.
If youāre looking for some extra mods, you may want to look at those who add armors / weapons / items. The vanilla game isnāt diversified at all, and the extensions didnāt bring that much overall.
Also, I strongly suggest āSkyUIā mod if you want the GUI to be more PC-friendly. Should be easy to find on the site āNexus Modā
Try not to go overboard with the mods. Last time I played Skyrim I couldnāt help but install hundreds of them (seriously, though most of them were graphical), and then spent a week weeding out the incompatible ones before I could start a proper playthrough.
I know. Iām about to say I did play Oblivion, but I never played anything before that. I fell in love with Oblivion when I was younger. It was the greatest game I had played at the time and I loved all the options you had to doā¦whatever you wanted! I was super stoked for Skyrim(also It was my freshman year in college, so I was able to upgrade my pc to run it) and I was a little disappointed with what it had. I could see where the console port parts of the game got in the way of gameplay and what it would be like on the pc.
I have turned all of this off in my current playthrough, as well as added the survival mods and other mods that change the way the game is played and makes it MUCH harder. I consider it an RPG only because Iām choosing to play through like one, with all the difficulty and thoughtprocesses behind it instead of just following the questline.
Having said that, Iām always looking for new games and I will definitely look at Legend of Grimrock 2. Thanks for the heads up!
I have SkyUI and many graphical mods
Too lateā¦
According to my Mod Organizer I have only 44 installed. I havenāt had any conflicts. I did a lot of research between what mods worked with others and built it from the ground up to ensure I wouldnāt have many, if any, conflicts. I do have quite a few graphical mods, but they are just apart of the major overhauls that make the game look awesome.
Thereās a utility called BOSS that should help weed out incompatible plugins and optimise load order and stuff for you. If you have more than 4 or 5 major content mods Iād consider using it, as it helps resolve incompatibilities and the like.
In addition to this, if you use Mod Organizer as opposed to Nexus mod manager, it has BOSS built it and will let you know if you have any incompatibilities and take care of that for you.
Yeah, but I like that NMM has good support for other games now too. I want to limit the amount of specialised modding clients I have floating around on my PC, especially now that the Steam Workshop can easily take care of most mods these days.
Itās a shame KSP havenāt added Workshop support yet, and that their mod developers have mostly gone with Curse rather than NMM. Though some have also got Github pages, which I prefer.
I donāt have too much time to play a wide variety so I can handle a separate manager for ksp, skyrim, and planetary annihilation.
Agreed(for ksp), I donāt think they ever will support it either. I know you just said youāre opposed to specialized mod managers but ksp has one called CKAN and it makes installing mods significantly easier and less time consumingā¦you just select what you want and click apply!
Edit: alot of modders put their stuff on kerbal stuff as well.
I always preferred the extra control that Wrye Bash gave for mod managing but perhaps other mod managers have caught up in features now. One of most useful features was the compatability patch generation. It wasnāt a magic button, mainly just merged leveled lists and a few other things, but along side other compatabilty tools like BOSS it helped.
Yeah. I prefer Github though, as I get emails when the developers push a new release out.
I would not recommend BOSS at the moment as itās been superseeded by LOOT (same people, better system).
Having just (last week) set up 216 mods and made it all compatible (gosh, that was a 2 day binge) I had the pleasure of learning how to mod ārightāā¦
Google S.T.E.P and start there, it explains from scratch (as if you knew nothing) how to mod Skyrim ācorrectlyāā¦ It was a massive help, if only I knew about it earlier.
Try out Space Engineers! I think you would like it!