So I'm on a post apocalyptic kick...

[Mr Bean]

At the start of this month I was just finishing off another 65 hours in the Capital Wasteland of Fallout 3 finally finishing off all the DLC I had bought but never played (Damn you Steam deals) and a week back I finished off a 100% run in the Mojave of Fallout New Vegas, right now I'm just about to start a fully modded up game of Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl and have Call of Pripyat and Metro 2033 downloading.

What am I missing? Stalker was a pretty short game as I recall as is Metro, never got around to playing Call of Pripyat (Steam sales) so what is left on my shooty, gathering post apocalyptic games list of things I've not yet played? I'm not interested in going back to old Fallout as I like my wandering to be in first person. Are there any games (console games are okay to mention I have a 360) I've left off my list to play after the bombs fall?

[Panzersharkcat]

Well, do you care for mods at all? I can recommend good quest mods for NV and FO3 but that's it.

[weemadando]

Give Day A a shot and see if you care for it.

If you don't have ArmA already I think the free MP only client is compatible.

[Mr Bean]

Well, do you care for mods at all? I can recommend good quest mods for NV and FO3 but that's it.

I ran with over forty mods with FO3 and twenty in NV including one or two of the extra content mods.

As for Day A I have Arma 1/2 (Horray Steam sales) but it does not play well to begin with on my computer, adding a mod still in Alpha does not sound like a great idea.
Besides I want to wait until they have a little more content so I don't burn out on it.

[Stark]

Once you've played Metro, what's the point of playing any other regular 'post apocalypse' games besides grinding? At least ArmA mods can claim emergence and multi, rather than the cut and paste of Beth games.

I mean what does Fallout do to sell the environment or 'post apocalypse'? Arguably less than ArmA mods or Metro. They're just better timesinks.

Joke option: Spec Ops The Line

[weemadando]

I've still got to sack up and keep playing Metro. It's too good at being scary.

[Stark]

Its kind of a shame it looks like they listened to whiny internet reviews and Last Light will just be Last Call of Duty Light. At least we got Metro and Dead Island before the genre went back to sucking.

[Mr Bean]

My only problem of Metro is the lack of wandering. I know the path I'm on, I know what I will encounter, I played it twice (One standard, one pacifist run) through already which means I already remember where every enemy is going to be and every nice bit of kit is. It's why I prefer Fallout and Stalker to Metro despite the fact I can freely admit that Metro is a great game and better in several ways to both of them. But the fact your stuck into cut scenes at several points irks the heck out of me. I know he's going to get ganked, I know that guy is mutant chow no matter what I do, even if I save up my instant murder death kill weapon. Or out and out cheat and have eighty grenades to use during a chase scene I can't save the guy. He's pre-destined to die and I always hate that. If saving him required me to be perfect then fine give me a goal to strive for rather than just simply ignoring any enemy except ones swiping at me because I know he's going to die and I'm not.

It's a game that only works once in that regard while Fallout and Stalker don't because I have options, I can retreat and fall back, I can snipe, stab or sneak. And unlike Metro I've got mods out the ass for Fallout and Stalker so I can make old new again. Playing through Fallout 3 I was building my own town in the wasteland. I had the four trades giving me a cut of their profits as they stopped in. I had saved dozens of super-mutant prisoners and given them shelter in my settlement, in exchange they had moved in helping boost my defenses, scavenging for goods to sell to my merchants, opening shops of their own or growing food to feed my people.

In New Vegas by contrast I was recruiting talent for the Lucky 38 after convincing House to let me re-open the Casino and run it for him. In the mean time I had my own private hideout I was slowly building as I started recruiting my own band of Mercenaries both to guard my home and the Lucky 38. I also had the World of Pain which is in the venue of the Vaults in Fallout, little enclosed areas with their own stories as you explore the remains of civilization except instead of having two interesting vaults and four more that had a tiny bit of loot or story that mod added 100+ locations of which a good thirty or an extra ten hours of quality content as I dug through the stories of what had been and what was.

The mods for Fallout vastly increased my enjoyment as both of them felt like you were building towards something. And I am a sucker for empire building in games that are not implicitly empire building.

[Stark]

There are plenty of explore em ups that aren't post apocalyptic'. Do you want to play those?

[Mr Bean]

There are plenty of explore em ups that aren't post apocalyptic'. Do you want to play those?

Go ahead if you have examples

[Panzersharkcat]

The mods for Fallout vastly increased my enjoyment as both of them felt like you were building towards something. And I am a sucker for empire building in games that are not implicitly empire building.

Well, if you don't have it already, Mothership Zeta Crew may be for you. I kind of spoiled the plot of the whole thing if you read the first part of what I posted in User Fiction, though. There are plenty of mods for that mod, too.

[MrDakka]

And I am a sucker for empire building in games that are not implicitly empire building.

Nope. You're not the only one who thinks that building your own settlement in the middle of the wasteland is cool. F3 and F:NV were both fun sandbox games for me, but I was constantly being reminded how jealous I am of PC players with their almighty GECK. When I first saw that mod on nexus for F3 and then for F:NV...

I need to start saving money for a decent gaming rig.

[Aaron MkII]

There are plenty of explore em ups that aren't post apocalyptic'. Do you want to play those?

Go ahead if you have examples

Red Dead Redemption
Dead Island
Kingdom of Amular
Dragons Dogma

[Executor32]

Speaking of Dead Island, it's currently twelve bucks on Steam as a Midweek Madness special.

[someone_else]

have you looked at Day Z (a mod for Arma 2)?
It seems to totally rock even if it's a relatively buggy (unifinished) mod. My computer cannot hold it (netbook), but a friend is having lots of fun with it.

You have not posted in the thread we have about it (where you find a bit of info about it), I assume you didn't read it. But I may also be stating the obvious.

The obvious must be clearly stated every now and then, just to be sure.

[Executor32]

It was already mentioned, but ando and Bean both misspelled it as Day A.

[weemadando]

Phone autocorrect is a whore.

[Mr Bean]

Phone autocorrect is a whore.

Quoting a autocorrecting whore is a bastard.

As I said above I'm going to give Day Z some time before trying it out least I get burned out on it before all the fun features get added. Not to mention ARMA does not play nice with my computer and requires some trickery to even let me let the game launch.

[Lord Relvenous]

Borderlands has a somewhat post-apocalyptic feel, with the bandits and trash shacks and decrepit stuffs. It's an older game, so don't know if you've played it, but it does a good job at mixing the FPS and RPG elements while also having fun humor and sweet weapons. As a bonus, if you pick it up now (and get the GOTY edition, ofc) you can finish it right before BL2 drops in September. It lacks the large scale sandbox element, however.

Just an idea.

[Mr Bean]

Well I've beaten Stalker, not sure if I even want to play Clear Skies but I never have so I'm going to give it a shot. Stalker reminded me why I grew to hate the game when in act 3 after spending the entire game being able to sneak around picking off guys or leading baddies into environmental hazards you suddenly have to fight your way past a full Battalion of brainwashed Monolith bastard all of whom are armed with high end gear and lots of grenades and with no one to trade with or talk to, backtracking will result in respawns so you have to go in loaded to bear. I thought 700 rounds would be enough plus twenty medpacks, bandages, food and anti-rad medicine but after killing (And I counted) two hundred and seventy three brainwashed idiots I had to swap to enemy weaponry because I had totally run out of ammo for everything but my sidearm even with scavenging. It was like Deus Ex the new one where you get into all sorts of habits to fight intelligent enemies then the last level is a frigging zombie level where all your sneaking and non lethal skills go to waste because fuck it we want a zombie level and now the Stalker needs to be Rambo.