Recommendation for a weekend of gaming?

Seanoog · 21 Apr 2017 at 14:02

Rezident said:
Bioshock Infinite would make for a great weekend.

Weekend of gaming for me, is a short but compelling story, or some sandbox madness.
Bio-shock Infinity
Life is strange
Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Portal Series

syks · 21 Apr 2017 at 14:19

defo recommend bioshock infinite, its amazing! really sucks you in, gameplay is great and story is pretty good...I didn't like mordor, I found it very boring and got bored to hell after a few hrs so uninstalled it lol

heartburnron · 21 Apr 2017 at 18:46

You can't go wrong with Bioshock Infinite - one of my favourite games ever. Singularity is a really fun FPS with a cool story that lasts around 11 hours.

lee32uk · 22 Apr 2017 at 00:46

The 1st Bioshock game is still the best in the series if you have somehow missed it.

Paul_cz · 22 Apr 2017 at 07:28

For Witcher 3 you would need about five or six weekends. It would be worth it though. But if you insist on finishing the game in one weekend, I enjoyed these shorter games lately:

South Park: Stick of Truth
SOMA
Firewatch
Doom

However, as wonderful as these games are...you should really get TW3 and accept that it will take you longer

Disco_P · 22 Apr 2017 at 08:51

Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom and doom.

It's 12-15 hours of pure and simple fun.

chef-borjan · 22 Apr 2017 at 09:25

Doom is another great shout, although depending on the OP it might not be too relaxing to play!

Bioshock infinite is also okay, although I'm not sure why people give it as much praise as they do.

Spec Ops the Line will hold you over for half a day, and if you are a thinker will mess with your mind a lot longer!

Choimaloy75 · 22 Apr 2017 at 11:33

Disco_P said:
Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom and doom.

It's 12-15 hours of pure and simple fun.

Just started playing this now and it is fps fun.

Teknobry · 22 Apr 2017 at 12:05

mad max sounds perfect. can be done in a weekend, looks amazing, relaxing to play in between missions, good story and has a very definite ending!

TonyTurbo78 · 22 Apr 2017 at 12:08

Mad max in a weekend??? I've 80 hours on it and I've still not reached the last territories. Mind you, I do like to do collectibles though and the world is great. Fantastic game was a real sleeper hit.

heartburnron · 22 Apr 2017 at 13:51

Yeah I don't think Mad Max could be done in a weekend. In my opinion it's a great game for the first 30 hours or so but then it get's very repetitive. And there wasn't much of a story for me as in incentive to keep going. I gave up on it after sinking 48 hours into it. I did really enjoy the majority of those though.

DONOHUE07 · 22 Apr 2017 at 17:16

Mad Max can't be done in a single weekend, not a chance. Great game though

Ole · 24 Apr 2017 at 10:02

By way of update... spent the Friday night playing around on the Factorio demo, which was great, but not quite what I was after. This was then followed by a long Overwatch session.

On Saturday, swayed by @Paul_cz 's comments, I downloaded The Witcher 3 GOTY edition! While I don't normally have loads of time for gaming, I decided that, given the rave reviews, slowly plodding through TW3 was bound to be an awesome experience. I sunk a load of time in over the weekend - no regrets so far! It's amazing.

Any tips on a fun build for a first play-through?

Disco_P · 24 Apr 2017 at 11:07

Unless playing Witcher 3 on the highest difficulty there isn't much need to min max your stats and think super hard about gear and abilities. I'd recommend picking stuff that looks fun to play with.

Learn when to roll and when to dodge. Rolling should only be used to get away from enemies when you need distance, dodging is what you should be doing far more often. You can parry humans by hitting the block button when their health bar glows red. Hitting someone who is on fire puts out the fire.

DO NOT SHOVE DIJKSTRA ASIDE FORCEFULLY.
You haven't met him yet and won't for a while plus this choice doesn't appear until the late game but it has massive consequences which are objectively severely worse than otherwise.

Mercutio · 24 Apr 2017 at 12:00

Haggisman said:
What about Satellite Reign? Cyberpunk RPG/strategy type hybrid, short enough to finish in a weekend i reckon

Is this looking ok now it's done. I kinda played it a bit and didn't get into it. Loved Syndicate.

Glanza · 24 Apr 2017 at 12:51

Pillars of Eternity.

CGrieves · 3 May 2017 at 13:22

Haggisman said:
Factorio is pretty relaxing, it's more about being thoughtful and planning in advance than chaotic micromanaging; getting your production lines running as smoothly & efficiently as possible.

Haven't had much interaction with the enemies yet, but so far it's been a case of setting up a few gun turrets behind a wall, make sure they have a steady stream of ammo, and forget about it

Haha, you can never really "forget" about attacks, the enemies get more damaging and durable as you progress/pollute and kill more of them.

My factory now takes about 5 mins to walk across, has 1.3GW of solar power, and a continuous double-thick concrete wall with two-row-deep laser turrets around the entire perimeter, and only now can I truly forget about them

Just about to install nuclear power....

Haggisman · 3 May 2017 at 15:13

CGrieves said:
Haha, you can never really "forget" about attacks, the enemies get more damaging and durable as you progress/pollute and kill more of them.

Yeah, we've gotten to that stage now!

However it's nothing an army of robots equipped with a non-stop supply of repair packs can't handle

Only annoying thing is the behemoths stopping the trains!