New gamer - what 3 games should I get?

[Clarkson]

You can get the GOTY edition (witcher 3) for about 20 quid which is the game + both expansions. Cd keys.

 

[Jay794]

Crysis 1 or 3
StarCraft 2
Arkham City

Gives you a good mix of genres

 

[SPG]

Dirty Bomb (FREE)

Wolfenstein
Mass Effect 1
Starcraft 2

 

[Craig R]

GTA V
Civilization V
The Witcher 3

Hundreds of hours of gameplay with those 3 alone.

 

[linktoinsanity]

GTA V
Company of Heroes 2/Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance
Half Life 2 (Great story, might help pull you into FPS games)

 

[Spuddy]

I quite like the building/strategy sort of games.

Doom

LOL wut!? .. The complete opposite of what he asked for.


Id recommend Witcher 3 like most others have.

I'd also recommend Age of Empires 2 HD instead of Civilisation V.

3rd game - Cities Skylines.

 

[Fishbait]

Portal2 is funny & good in single player, can be hilarious in co-op. Also has user made levels.
Banished is a great building/sim game & can be modded big time.

 

[Glanza]

Witcher 3 , Doom and Cities Skyline.

 

[robin66]

Going to have to say GTA V and The Witcher 3 also.

Doom is good as mentioned as well.

But you have so much choice. As they are so many good games over the past couple of years that you can pick up on sale most of the time anyway.

 

[ED209]

Portal 1 and 2

 

[VIPER258]

Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3

 

[Narj]

Witcher 3
Brothers or Ori
GTA V

Good mix there. Cities: Skylines if you like building.

 

[linktoinsanity]

LOL wut!? .. The complete opposite of what he asked for.

Let's see:

I quite like the building/strategy sort of games. Also adventure ones are good. Shooting ones I'm not sure I like much but would be willing to try

Seems like there is room in there for recommending First Person Shooters.

 

[Bolton7935]

world of warcraft
overwatch
starcraft

anything made by blizzard generally awesome

 

[suenstar]

Difficult to narrow it down to just three with a mix of genres.

GTA V is a very good game, the main game is a decent length and there's plenty of online content.
World of Warcraft you can always try as I believe it's got a free to play element nowadays, not a huge fan myself as I prefer a bit more of a team focus when it comes to MMO games.

Strategy - Depending on what era you prefer, Crusader King/Europa Universalis/Hearts of Iron (Paradox Interactive's grand strategy titles can be insanely addictive). Europa Universalis IV is one of my all-time favourite games.
Building - Planet Coaster & Cities: Skylines are both excellent with a lot of out of the box content with added mod support.
Roleplay - Witcher 3 and Divinity: Original Sin will give you the best of the two major styles.

Another game that can be somewhat time consuming but can easily be played in short sessions is The Binding of Isaac, it's fairly simple in graphics but in terms of gameplay it gets very complex the more times you play it as there's hundreds of unlocks that randomise the action.

 

[dirtybeatfreak]

Another game that can be somewhat time consuming but can easily be played in short sessions is The Binding of Isaac, it's fairly simple in graphics but in terms of gameplay it gets very complex the more times you play it as there's hundreds of unlocks that randomise the action.

<3 Binding of Isaac, great little game.

 

[suenstar]

<3 Binding of Isaac, great little game.

With the Antibirth mod, I can easily lose a whole evening to Isaac.

 

[ssmacc]

Supreme Commander & Forged Alliance expansion pack.

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