Desert Island Games. - by gunsmoke
Jason Moyer on 25/2/2011 at 21:49
PC
Operation Flashpoint
Out Of The Park Baseball
Richard Burns Rally
No need for Minecraft SINCE I'D BE LIVING IT.
Neb on 26/2/2011 at 00:25
Operation Flashpoint + expansion packs. (Resistance is awesome).
Thief Trilogy and all of the fan missions.
Any decent shogi software + a handful of AI engines.
PigLick on 26/2/2011 at 02:54
PC
Morrowind GOTY edition - been playing this game for years now, and still havent plumbed the depths of stuff to do in it, or even finished the actual storyline
San Andreas - see above
Pirates!(the new sid mier version) - great little pick up and play game, though it does have some depth to the gameplay as well.
Bluegrime on 26/2/2011 at 05:00
PS3
Demon Souls - This game is the cats meow for me. The impossible goal of being 'good' at it should be enough to keep me busy between building coconut radios and stuff.
Dungeon Maker 2 - Technically a PS2 title but I'll be sure to pack one with the ability to play them. Provided it isn't cheating this is one of my favorite sandbox games ever.
Marvel vs Capcom 2 - Downloaded and played online this will provide me with infinite hours of swearing at the ocean and kicking sand at hermit crabs.
Metal Gear Solid 4 - If Dungeon Maker 2 is cheating then I choose this for the hideously addictive online mode.
T-Smith on 26/2/2011 at 08:13
PC
* Team Fortress 2 - All that free time means I'll finally be able to grind for hats!
* Thief 2 + FMs - Hell, if I'm there long enough maybe I'll teach myself how to use DromEd.
* Super Meat Boy - As if the standard levels didn't take long enough, fan made worlds plus access to the editor ensure I'll be ragequitting for a good while.
I would have put Minecraft, but everyone's already picked it. 3D Space Cadet Pinball for Windows was also a close 4th.
demagogue on 26/2/2011 at 16:53
PC. If I'm really on a desert island with an outlet and absolutely nothing else to do, then I'm probably going to want to spend more time making games than playing them, then I'd probably do it on Doom 3 after it goes open source, since I know it now, starting with Dark Mod FMs, then some branch-versions of Dark Mod (a cyberpunk branch, ninja branch...), making maps for all of those, then building into completely other genres (RTS, RPG...). Hopefully I can still have Visual C++, Photoshop, Lightwave, Motion Builder, Audacity, etc. Then I guess 2 real games, Civilization and IL-2.
Edit: I forgot my beloved Hardwar. I might substitute Civ for that.
Sinister Handed on 26/2/2011 at 17:57
iPhone. I'd play Angry Birds, Carcassonne and Words with Friends while I waited for someone to track my GPS signal.
Okay, seriously, PC.
Bad Company 2 - I spent hours playing Battlefield 2 with my friends and I'd finally have the time to do so here too.
Team Fortress 2 - There's what? 400 ridiculous achievements now? I could play that one for ages.
Minecraft - Eventually I'll build a blueprint on how to make a way off the island using trees and dirt blocks.
Neb on 26/2/2011 at 20:01
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
So, you're stuck all by yourself far from civilization (but for some strange reason have HDTV, a PC, and power,lol)
analogies are perhaps too 18th century. Get with the times and it's
under house arrest by oppressive regime (and your parole officer will only let you have three games, the monster.)smallfry on 26/2/2011 at 20:44
(PC of course)
Team Fortress 2 - I've already played an embarrassingly large number of hours and I'm STILL not sick of it. Plus, I would need some sort of multiplayer game otherwise I might go crazy being completely alone.
Angband or Nethack - something that I don't play now because I don't have the time. But being on a desert island, I feel this is the perfect type of game.
Chess? - I thought I might want to have one of my favorite games, like Deus Ex or System Shock 2, but I feel like I would get sick of those after a while. I think something like a multiplayer chess game would be really good since it takes so long to master and every game's different.
Good thread gunsmoke! I like thinking about this kind of thing and seeing what others come up with :)
demagogue on 27/2/2011 at 00:16
Quote Posted by smallfry
but I feel like I would get sick of those after a while. I think something like a multiplayer chess game would be really good since it takes so long to master and every game's different.
That's a good point, and (assuming I could play multiplayer) if I were thinking that way I might get Chess, Go, and Magic, and then get a ton of pdf books on them and study them and work my way up to grandmaster for each one, something you could actually spend a lifetime working towards. But I don't know if I could actually be that disciplined when the time came to choose. Thank goodness we don't have to make this kind of choice IRL.
edit: Of course, an alternative is to just make a bloody Chess & Go set and some makeshift Magic cards on the island. Save the PC for the vidya games.
