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This is a timely thread. I've been thinking about taking my DSL out of its little corner and playing with it again.

I have some recommendations for you, OP. I will second the suggestions of Animal Crossing: Wild World, Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, and Ghost Trick, but wanted to give special mention to the following:

• Elite Beat Agents - This is a rhythm game where you tap circles and draw lines while following the beat of a song, as secret agents dance in the background and try to save the world. I know it sounds kooky, and it is, but that's half the fun. The Japanese original, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, was such a huge cult hit that they came out with the English version in Elite Beat Agents. There are a bunch of great songs on it, and the covers are actually decent (a couple are better than the original). Each song opens with a story that introduces someone in need of your help -- and somehow it's your dancing/cheering which pushes him/her to succeed. The stories are often hilarious, but there is one that will rip your heart out and make you teary. Absolutely love this game. (Screen protector strongly recommended!)
  
  
• Rhythm Heaven - Another rhythm-based game, but these two are just really fun and I decided to recommend both. Rhythm Heaven is different from Elite Beat Agents in that it's more a collection of mini games you need to beat in order to advance. There are about 5 mini games (I think) in a collection, and once you beat each one individually, you are given a 'recap' round that basically mashes them all together. This game looks deceptively simple but can be so damn difficult at times that achieving success is so satisfying! The beats in this game are very catchy.
  
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Lovely RPG. I thought the visuals were beautiful, and it was fun to play. Not much to say except it's a Zelda game, an awesome and fun one at that. The game makes use of the DSL's touchscreen. Controls may be kind of a bit hard to familiarize yourself with if you're used to normal console controls for Zelda, but after a while you get the hang of it and it's really fun to slash your sword around.
  
  
• Advance Wars: Dual Strike - Tactical turn-based strategy game where you try to battle it out with enemies and crush them all. I didn't think I'd like it, but I'm SO glad I gave it a try. I remember staying up late into the night playing this. It's really addicting. There's a sequel, Days of Ruin, but I've never played that so can't give a personal opinion on it. It comes highly recommended, though.
  
  
• Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Take the original Harvest Moon games that were about farming and raising animals and getting to know people in your town, and add in some RPG-ish dungeon crawling (where you can also tame monsters to help out on your farm), and you have Rune Factory. I will always have a soft spot for Harvest Moon games; this just adds another element to it.
  
  
• New Super Mario Brothers - The DS iteration of Mario. Not sure what to really say except it's a fun platformer, and it reminds me of Super Mario 3 when I played.
  
  
• Mario Kart DS - This is fun, and there's just something addictive about it that kept me coming back for yet another round. I liked this version, though some people do say the controls are a bit off, but I never experienced that.
  
  Other games that have been strongly recommended by others (but I have not played):
  
  
• Final Fantasy III
  
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
  
• Dragon Quest IX
  
• Radiant Historia
  
• Kirby Canvas Curse
  
• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
  
  
  

Dark Souls - You’ve probably heard about this one plenty of times. Fantastic game, brutally challenging. It has one of the most eerie atmospheres I’ve ever experienced in a game. It’s just come to my attention that Amazon will be giving accounts that bought Dark Souls through them a $5 credit towards Dark Souls 2 (post from Tony, Amazon’s gaming rep, here). Some advice if you get this game: 1. Play with a controller. 2. Get DSFix, a fan-made mod that fixes various things about the port like making the game run at true 1080p and unlocking the framerate so you can get 60fps and not 30fps.

Mount & Blade: Warband - I have logged over 160 hours in this hack’n’slash medieval simulator, and that’s just me playing the singleplayer campaign. There are people with thousands of hours played in the game’s multiplayer. Its graphics are not the prettiest, but the game is ridiculously fun. I’ve never seen it go under $5 so if you haven’t played it and you have any interest at all in being a badass sword fighter, leading a mob of knights or vikings or archers around and pillaging or saving villages and sieging/defending castles, becoming a lord or even a king/queen, get this game. Warband also has some awesome mods worth looking into, like a Roman era total conversion if you’re into that.

Metro Last Light - This game is best played after its sequel, Metro 2033 (also on sale, though it was next-to-nothing in price in that one THQ Humble Bundle). It seriously is a great FPS, better (in my sincere opinion, please don’t downvote me) than Bioshock: Infinite by miles and miles. Probably my game of the year. Insanely atmospheric and beautiful. If you enjoyed the Fallout series at all, or post-apocalyptic settings, this game is a super treat. The only drawback is that it doesn’t have much in the way of replay value since one playthrough will be enough for most, but there is a lot of detail crafted into the game’s world that’s worth exploring. On harder difficulties, the game is very tense, with scarce amounts of ammo and very dangerous situations. You can go through most of the game stealthily as well, so you may have one playthrough where you’re Rambo and another where you’re Solid Snake; a choice I always find nice.

Those are my top 3 recommendations, but there are a lot of others (the new Tomb Raider, Bioshock: Infinite for $20 holy cow, Civilization V, et cetera) that are really good games as well. One thing’s for sure: this sale combined with the Greenlight sale and the new Paradox Humble Bundle… I have too many games to play. Too many games.

As someone who's owned a Switch since launch, I say the joycon and comfort grip are fine i'll try to put this in sections.

Controller: You can try the pro controller, but in my experience with the two i've bought, I've found that the left stick if you flick it on direction it bounces back the other direction, you may not find this to be an issue right away, but it caused a lot of issues for me when playing Sonic Mania and other games that require quick stick movement.

Cases: If you can get your hand on the Zelda Special Edition case that'd be great, but otherwise [This](https://www.amazon.com/TAKECASE-Nintendo-Switch-Case-Microfiber-Guarantee /dp/B06XYPPJ6M/ref=pd_cp_63_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RBHQCTFZSKGBBVMX8GZ2) and This seem to be pretty good hefty cases.

Also This protective slim case should serve as nice armor to protect it from scratches.

Games: Personally i'd reccomend, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2 (my fav), Sonic Mania, Mario Kart 8, Snipperclips (if you have someone to play with), these are all games I mostly enjoy, i'd recommend ARMS as well, but i found the game more frustrating than fun.


Screen Protector: This one shall do they're all mostly the same, just different price points and popularity, the on difference between some is tempered glass vs plastic.

I say always go with Tempered glass, unless you prefer the plastic for one reason or another

UPDATED: Added more games and comments.

• Skyrim: Legendary Edition (old version, get this if you prefer more mods) or Skyrim: Special Edition (new version, get this if you prefer better graphics over mods). I prefer the old version as there are far more mods that I think are very important to playing the best game possible.
  
  
• Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Amazing. The best Fallout game. Definitely worth getting.
  
  
• Fallout 4 (with or without the season pass) This is another amazing game and I would definitely get the season pass with it.
  
  
• Hitman (2016). Great game. Would definitely recommend. Some players had connection issues when the game first came out and left bad reviews, but I never had a single problem. Blood Money is still the best Hitman game, but this one is still worth getting.
  
  
• Hitman: Blood Money Best game of the Hitman series.
  
  
• Hitman: Absolution
  
  
• Telltale - Game of Thrones (season 1) if you like Game of Thrones and story-based games
  
  
• Telltale - The Walking Dead (season 1) if you like The Walking Dead and story-based games. There are more seasons if you enjoy the first one.
  
  
• Telltale - The Wolf Among Us
  
  
• Telltale - Batman (season 1) if you like Batman and story-based games
  
  
• Telltale - Tales from the Borderlands if you liked the Borderlands games
  
  
• The Long Dark. The game may appear simple on the outside but it's very difficult and it makes you realize how hard it would be to survive in the wilderness.
  
  
• Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition
  
  
• Firewatch
  
  
• SOMA
  
  
• Risen Franchise Pack
  
  
• Ryse: Son of Rome
  
  
• Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
  
  
• Dragon Age: Inquisition or Dragon Age: Inquisition Game of the Year. Not available on Steam, so check Cheap Shark for the best price, as you should with all games.
  
  
• Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
  
  
• The Forest
  
  
• KHOLAT based on the real mystery of the Dyatlov Pass incident
  
  
• Outlast
  
  
• Murdered: Soul Suspect
  
  
• Layers of Fear or Layers of Fear: Masterpiece Edition
  
  
• Dead Secret
  
  
• 35MM
  
  
• Mafia II
  
  
• Investigator
  
  
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  
  
• Shadows Peak
  
  
• Bohemian Killing
  
  
• The Town of Light
  
  
• I Am Alive
  
  
• The Park
  
  Always check Cheap Shark for the best prices.

If it's the Gold edition: Yes.

If it's not the Gold edition, then get it from Amazon instead or wait til the Steam Summer Sale and get it then.

The Gold edition adds all the DLC and the first expansion (the second is not out yet), all of which are high quality and the expansion in particular is very well done. The above link is $20 but is for Gold, plus Civ IV Complete, plus XCOM: Enemy Unknown. If you don't want those other games, like I said, just wait til the summer sale.

However, about your post, one thing does worry me:

>Also, is it a better game to play with friends or against random strangers?

Neither! Civ V is primarily a single player game. You can play it multiplayer, and as of a patch released a few days ago this is a much more pleasant experience, however the primary draw is single player. If you really are set on playing multiplayer (which some people do, and they enjoy it) I'd say play with friends where possible. Games can be very long, and you don't want a stranger flaking on you 2-3 hours into a game.

I agree with some of the other people. I like buying headphones and adding a mic.
I use this mic and then i have audio technica headphones They might be a tad expensive but I got them for about $100. I would recommend a cheaper headset but i don't have one :/ sorry. I play cs go with my friends all the time and they haven't complained about my mic at all so hopefully that helps you out :)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/24860/
http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-2-Complete-Collection-Download/dp/B00480OTRS
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-B2CCUS/battlefield-2-complete-collection

Did you even look for Battlefield 2? Its on Steam / Origin / Amazon among others.

But anyways, the Project Reality mod for BF2 is really great and still popular.

ARMA 2 / 3 are really fun and popular as well.

Other than that there aren't many other military games worth playing in my opinion.

Personally I would rank them (From best to worst):

1. ARMA 3
   
2. Project Reality
   
3. ARMA 2
   
4. BF2 Vanilla

The Humble Bundles no longer give you keys. You can either redeem it to your account or make a "gift link" that you give to whoever you want to gift it to. Trading the "spare" games is against the rules of Humble Bundle and the couple places I know of that do trading, like /r/SteamGameSwap. I imagine it's still done, but it's probably pretty risky and their value (especially those in the bottom two tiers) are surely pretty low now.

Also, that Bioshock Infinite for Rust would be a terrible trade for the other person. Why would they trade you a $20 game for one that they could get along with a litany of other games for $20 through the Humble Bundle, buy for $13 on Amazon right now, or wait for a sale on Steam when it drops down to $5 or so.

I would just get the second tier. Spec Ops: The Line, The Darkness II, XCOM Declassified, and Mafia II is a good deal for $8.24. Gift the games you already own.

Dark Souls, most definitely. All of the people I have convinced to purchase the game have clocked in around 90+ hours as well. Really well made game, aside from GFWL, not that it particularly matters in your case considering ping is a problem for you already and Dark Souls PVP is already always laggy (at least in my experience) regardless. It's also on sale on sale for $7.50 due to the huge Amazon sale going on. The DLC is fantastic, as well. Probably the best part of the game, in fact.

I recommend you to start with this, if you have access to a PS3: Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection

The story is a huge part of MGS and starting with 5 could be quite confusing. I suggest that you play at least MGS3 and Peacewalker first. The events from MGS Ground Zeroes and therefore MGS 5 connect directly to these two games.

If you want to play all games in the chronological order: MGS 3, MGS Peacewalker, MGS Ground Zeroes, MGS 5, Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, MGS, MGS 2, MGS 4 (There are more games in the series, but these are the main ones. Also, I'm not saying, that this is the best way to play the games, but one possible way.)

Yes, but get the original Legendary Edition with all DLCs from Amazon for only 18 bucks. It has way more mods, no paid mods, and the modded version will look better than the SE. The disk version includes a Steam key, and I bought that same item from Amazon not too long ago -- it arrived quickly and in good condition.

Heya!

Yeah, exactly!...That thingy :)

Been working great for us!

What are you using? The wired controllers I assume?

Idk how old she is so My recommendation is to get here one of those nintendo gift cards that she can use in the shop. That way you don't have to worry if she will like what ever game you get her & she can pick out what interests her the most. May I also recommend a carrying case and a SD card. I will link both if you want to take a look and figure something out. The reason I posted the 400 gig sd is because you want to (even though it's not necessary) future proof for when those downloads start to stack up.

Case: https://www.amazon.com/Orzly-Carry-Case-Compatible-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B01NAUKS62/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=Nintendo+switch+case&qid=1567021561&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011&rnid=2661617011&s=gateway&sr=8-3

SD card: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-400GB-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B074RNRM2B/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?keywords=Micro+SD+card&qid=1567021659&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFLM0szQllHMUFTRzMmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAzMTk1MjkxVklHVjJXMjNTREJLJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA0NTgwNjMxNlpMUE5RRVZVU08md2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

You should check out Shadow Warrior - it's on sale for $7.99 right now and it's at least 20 hours of solid FPS gameplay (or maybe i take a long time playing it..). Its a remake of the 90's game by the way, but quite extended and the graphics are great.

What's the best way to play MGS 1 in 2014? I don't own an original PlayStation so it's not like I'm about to buy an old copy of that off ebay or something.

I did find this collection though it seems overpriced and isn't sold directly by amazon.

Here are a bunch of games on sale at the moment (assuming you're on PC). Hopefully something sparks your interest.

Shadow Warrior $7.99

Tomb Raider $7.00

BioShock Infinite $7.49

Payday 2 $9.99

I don't think so, in July the Metal Gear Solid Legacy collection is going to be released that includes MGS 1,2,3,4, Peace Walker, VR missions, and the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 for $50. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck and can experience the entire story.

http://www.amazon.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-Collection-Playstation-3/dp/B00CTKHXFO/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1369015735&sr=8-17&keywords=Metal+gear+solid

I'm not going to recommend multiplatform games as I'm unsure of whether or not you have a 360/Wii/etc.

1. Valkyria Chronicles - (Mostly) Turn-based strategy game, with RPG elements. Gets pretty hard (at least for me) decently long.
   
   
2. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection - Pretty much every canon Metal Gear game. Stealth-Action at it's finest with an insane story and cast of characters. Includes the HD remasters of MGS2 and 3.
   
   
3. Yakuza 4 - RPG/Brawler set in a fictionalized Kabukichō (a well known Red light district in Tokyo). You can spend your time cracking skulls, doing random favors for people, playing mahjong, or chatting it up with a hostess.

My current setup is a pair of Sony MDR-V6's (a bit out of your price range) plus this. It clips right onto your mic's cord, and I've found it to be pretty good on sensitivity.

I didn't want it until I found this.

I dont play much FIFA online so its not a huge problem. I just tried and I found a game rather quickly. Most people pirate the game so IDK if they'd be able to play the game online. I'll go look at how many players are online and let you know. Also if you do get it for PC i'll definitely play you.

So if you're still looking into it, here is BF2 on sale on Amazon for digital download for $5, that's a great price for this game, especially since it includes all the DLC. Here you go.

I would look through the Amazon MAYhem Sale

Tons of good games on sale on there.

A few highlights:

Mark of the Ninja, $3.75

Sleeping Dogs Bundle, $12.99

Firaxis Complete Pack (X-Com EU, Civ V, Civ IV), $19.99

Desert To Sea bundle (Bioshock 1 & 2, Spec Ops: The Line, $9.99

with the controller receiver do-jiggy, this puts Arkham City up to like $26! If you look at it that way, at least... Sounds awesome, but not sure...

BTW: to use wireless 360 controller with windows, this is the gidget needed:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HZFCT2

Amazon is selling it for $30, with a 15% off code available.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009SPZ11Q

Offer code is "Gooncave".

I've seen this floating around the interwebs, but I've never actually used it myself.

It's actually on sale on amazon bundled with Civ IV and Civ V for $20 at this very moment.

It is currently available packaged together with Civ IV Complete and Civ V Gold for $19.99 as part of Amazon's MAYhem sale. It'll be available by itself for $9.99 some time in the next couple days.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CPBZDPE/ref=s9_al_ft_g367_ir06?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1VBYNR3CME9X77VVBBNJ&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1578044162&pf_rd_i=1000716161

I have something ridiculous like 500+ hours across all the Souls games and I cannot for the life of me understand how people play them without a controller. If you can borrow your brother's controller, all you need is one of these to play on your PC. If you're really used to keyboard and mouse you might be fine, but it seems crazy to me...have you ever played The Witcher? The gameplay is really similar to that. Aim isn't that important as /u/Zoraji said, and it's more about being able to button mash quickly and intuitively. I find it a lot harder to do that on a keyboard.

Graphics on PC aren't a lot better, although there are some ways you can fuck around with the settings to improve them. I would Google around. I actually just reinstalled DS1 after years of not playing it, so I'm not sure what has changed since it switched to Steamworks. The original dscfix and dsfix are no longer compatible, for one thing, but I think there was a dsfix update.

Hmm, missed that.

One of these:

http://i.imgur.com/FDKeNvN.png

http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-ZM-MIC1-Microphone/dp/B00029MTMQ

http://www.modmic.com/collections/frontpage

Maybe?

Fuck it. Buying both as we speak. It's time I give myself an excuse to invest in one of these anyways.