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Games for my dad - Huhuh - 01-16-2013
My dad smashed his foot a while back and it still gives him grief when it's not elevated. This is a problem when he sits at his computer desk, and so he can only play games on his laptop while lying down.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a slower paced game (preferably playable with one hand because playing from a lying position is uncomfortable with two hands) for him? At the moment he's stuck playing Windows Chess and Mahjong.
He's a fan of shooters (Insurgency, FEAR, Quake, Left 4 Dead) and World of Tanks, but might be open to a few of the easier RTS games (he liked AoE II way back, then he tried CoH and got slaughtered) or maybe tower defense.
He dislikes RPGs as he finds there's just too much to explore to get the fully experience (yeah he likes his games relatively simple).
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.
RE: Games for my dad - Jason753 - 01-16-2013
Command and Conquer Generals. ITs fun
The first one is a little old but the zero:Hour is nice grafs. have to have the fisrt one to get the second. Its simple
RE: Games for my dad - Anaximander - 01-16-2013
Shogun/Total War is slow but fun.
Civilization too, but it's easy to get lost in if you want to explore every aspect like in many RPG games.
I've been playing planetside 2 for a couple of days and it's quite fun - the large maps and vehicle make for less of a "twitch based" shooter which is probably good if he's lying down. And it's free to play.
FarCry 3. If you play it sneaky, you've got a lot of time to scout out camps and choose a strategy that suits you. Can be very slow-paced if you choose to play it like that.
XCom. Blast from the past; slow ol' school gameplay, micromanagement and everything.
Torchlight 2. A one-armed monkey could play this game (great if you've got a decent touchpad on the laptop - the constant clicking on stuff is much nicer on your fingers when you can just tap the touchpad), and it's still fun.
Disco. Show him how to afk-powertrade for you
RE: Games for my dad - Loken - 01-16-2013
Turn based strategy games sound like a sure bet for his current situation.
RE: Games for my dad - sindroms - 01-16-2013
Civilization V and IV.
RE: Games for my dad - Ichiru - 01-16-2013
Battle for Wesnoth.
RE: Games for my dad - Coin - 01-16-2013
get him mining. pew pew pew pay pirate pew pew pew
RE: Games for my dad - DSE)Spartan - 01-16-2013
I would look on the internet for MAME - emulator.
That way he can play all the old arcade - games (10.000+ old school games)
Lots of shooters there !
Good luck & hope he gets well soon !
RE: Games for my dad - nOmnomnOm - 01-16-2013
Red Alert 3 or Age of Empires 2
OH! and Minecraft!
RE: Games for my dad - Anomander - 01-16-2013
Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War + Winter Assault + Dark Crusade
first single player, then he could try play online
Orcs Must Die!
simple and extremely fun 'tower defence' with elements of hack & slash, shooting and magic!