I recently moved to Nantucket for the summer to work at a Farm full time. I brought my Xbox 360 with me and both Black Ops and Black Ops II. Problem is, I can't get good internet at all. I would love some suggestions on good games that don't require internet. I already beat Black Ops campaign on veteran and I'm halfway through Black Ops II campaign on veteran as well.

I can afford to spend 200-ish dollars on games. There isn't really a game store around here but I'm not so rural that Amazon can't deliver to my house. I would love your suggestions.

 

What have you played and what are you looking for?

I'd suggest Red Dead Redemption no matter what. Maybe you'd like Mass Effect if you haven't played that yet. There's Halo, if you're more into FPS games.

Also, there's personal taste and then there's COD. Just saying, it's like the lowest rung of game you can get besides shit like Angry Birds.

 

Not repetitive greed motivated shooters, for starters. Mass Effect series, crackdown, dragon age 1, batman arkham, saints row series, fable 1, red dead redemption.....huge amount of choices out there.

 

Bioshock 1 and Bioshock Infinite

 

Neverwinter Nights is really long, so if you want an RPG you could play that, or get Diablo 2 with a bunch of mods. Warhammer 40k games are good too but they are RTS. If you want FPS then CS:CZ or SWAT, they are fun to play.

 

I have played Dues Ex Human Revolution, Bioshock 1 and 2 (including Mirandas Den), Portal, and spent like 150 dollars worth of quarters over the past 5 years playing gmaes at the arcade

Looked up Red Dead Redemption, looks good. Halo I wouldn't want to get if I don't have good internet, I feel like I would be neglecting a huge part of the game and that would bother me.

Ha, yeah. I mostly just play it with friends. Multiplayer isn't really fun otherwise. I do think the campaigns are entertaining.

Batman Arkham Asylum looks good. People did really talk up Saints Row, I'll check it out.

Why not Bioshock 2? I liked Bioshock 2.

I thought Warhammer 40k was like Dungeons and Dragons. It's not a dice game? I'll check it out.

Thanks so much for your input everyone, I think I've got a great place to start.

 

Meh. I for one will take a good singleplayer experience over multiplayer any day. Multiplayer is hugely overrated. Not to say that I don't ever indulge in it, but there's way to much focus on it these days. I suggest you reconsider, I thought Halo's singleplayer was really good.

It's a tabletop RPG, but they've adapted the setting into video games like the Dawn of War RTS games and the Space Marine third-person shooter.

 

I'd recommend Dark Souls if you're in to RPG. It's a pretty decent time-sink though you might rage at the amount of times you die in the game. Either than that, there's always Skyrim or the Assassin's Creed series.

Edit: Oh and you might as well get Demon Souls as well. It's the game that Dark Souls was built from with near similar levels of difficulty.

 

Demon's Souls is a PS3 exclusive.

 

I would definitely second Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins (Don't get two. It's awful. EA fucked it over.) and the Assassins Creed series (starting with II. I is eh.). Skyrim alone will suck up a lot of your time. That game is crack.

Someone said Fable one, but I don't know if you can play that on the 360. I would recommend getting Fable two though, first game I played on the 360 and still one of my favorites.

 

Fable 1 is backwards compatible, and by far the best in the series IMO.

 

So far the consensus is

Red Dead Redemption
Assassin's Creed but only II and III
Skyrim
Fable
Bioshock Infinite
Warhammer 40k
Batman Arkham Asylum

As soon as my first paycheck comes through (fucking two week delay) I'm definitely buying a few of these.

 

Warhammer and Warhammer 40k has a good series of books too, if you are interested

 

Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption, and Mass Effect games are all essentials. They'll entertain you for months.

 

1. Sell XBox
2. Buy a PC
3. ???
4. Profit

 

1 and Infinite were better. Not saying 2 was bad, just not as good. Lesser of two goods.

But yea, PC Master Race and all that

 

The first Assassin's Creed is good, and you're going to want to play it to know what the hell is going on in the next games.

There's also this if you're willing to save up around $1,000. Though I'd suggest keeping the Xbox. There are some console exclusive games that are still worth playing, like Halo and Red Dead. Being an idort is the true master race.

(Yes, I know Halo 1 and 2 are for the PC as well, but 3, ODST, Reach and 4 aren't. I think it's better to have the series on one platform rather than jumping from PC to Xbox partway through the series).

 

Personally, I think it's worth having an Xbox 360 or PS3 just for Red Dead Redemption. I'm a bit of a Western fan, but really, it's an awesome game. Shame that it never got released on PC.

 

Buy the Saints Row series, 1, 2 and 3. I cannot stress enough how much fun these games are. In my opinion they easily kick the living shit out of GTA. A random mission in SR3 is you driving down the roads of suburbs in a convertible at over a hundred miles an hour having a fist fight with a tiger while animal activist groups chase you and shoot at you with rocket launchers. The series is pure batshit insanity fun through and through.

 

The only games that I would personally recommend that haven't already been mentioned are Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Entirely offline and I got a good 80+ hours of enjoyment out of both combined. You can get more if you're a completionist.