I think Viscera Cleanup Detail is the perfect game for someone who's become averse to war games

Yes, Tropico is very very fun and pretty simple to pick up and learn. They don't throw all sorts of impossible shit at you early and teach you just about everything through the missions.

Also Civ 4 and Civilization Colonization are pretty good if Civ 5 is too ridiculous for you. Civilization Revolution is also a really basic but fun little game for console.

Civ 2 is the best Civ

I never played anything before 4 admittedly. I think the Colonies one was the first one I ever played.

Also on the subject of micro-management games, Rollercoaster Tycoon and The Movies are the shit.

i loooooved civ 2 and would play it all the time. i just can't get into 4 or 5, and i'm not sure why.

System Shock 2

Fuck you Tricks, just fuck you :sad:

Sleeping Dogs if you wanna run around Hong Kong beating people up. I second the Gone Home suggestion and Tropico, Skyrim, Portal, Fallout, and Civ. The Half-Life games are great. Team Fortress 2 is fun and cartoony violence so that might be good. I also enjoy Alice: Madness Returns, Remember Me, and Dishonored. Not all of these are FPSes but whatever.

Sleeping Dogs is not brought up nearly as much as it should be

KC @ 5/8/2014 22:46

Sleeping Dogs is not brought up nearly as much as it should be

I'm so glad they're working on a sequel.

Are they really?! That's the first I've heard about that, I'm so hype now.

As far as GTA clones go, Sleeping Dogs is probably the very best next to SR. I love that it's melee based opposed to gunplay. So fun just running through gangs and kicking everyone's head off. The story was surprisingly fantastic too.

Yeah! It's called Sleeping Dogs: Triad Wars. They announced it this past fall.

KC @ 5/8/2014 19:12

Fuck you Tricks, just fuck you :sad:

what did I do omg don't sad

Try Call of Duty or Battlefield 4