(02-12-2014, 07:04 AM)delroth Wrote: [ -> ]Look at stuff on gog.com? These games will run well on any machine and there are some cool gems in there.
http://www.gog.com/game/beyond_good_and_evil
http://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_2
http://www.gog.com/game/zeus_poseidon
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From that list, we've had RCT2 + its expansion packs for years, and he doesn't really care. In fact, he doesn't really care about strategy-based games at all (with a few exceptions). In general, he actually doesn't seem to chose the most fun game available to him a lot of the time, for example choosing mind-numbing iOS games which are designed to be no fun without IAPs, but not buying these IAPs, or games which look like they were made in a shed by someone trying to learn DirectX, and cost £2 at maplin.
However, based on what he's spent the last year or so doing, I can confidently say he seems to like (like meaning plays to enjoy, not plays to waste time):
PC:
Minecraft - He usually plays with my other brother and his friends on my other brother's server.
Team Fortress 2 - A load of his friends have discovered TF2 in the last month or so, so they play that a lot.
War Thunder - Upon inheriting my other brother's HD 6450, and knowing it had enabled him to play War Thunder, he wanted to play the thing he'd watched his older brother play a lot.
PS2:
Star Wars Battlefront II - I have this for PS2, and he doesn't feel he needs to ask me to use it, unlike the XBox.
iOS:
Galaxy on Fire 2 - If you're not familiar, this is a pretty good space fighter game, which has a plot etc.
Infinity Blade - Sword-fighting and killing monsters etc
Basically, he'd like a PC game best as a previously shared computer has been relabelled as mostly his, as he's the only one who uses it, so doesn't want it to sit in a corner while he plays something else.
Everything he likes involves killing something, but I'm pretty sure it's more the 3D and real-time interaction, not the brutal murder which is the main draw.
If I get him something too old, even if it's a classic, he'll assume I got it because it was cheap, not because it was something he should play, and hence probably won't play it.
He does seem to like things with a plot, and doesn't have anything with a plot for PC. Therefore something with a plot would probably be best.
In many ways he's a pain to buy for, because there are things I've got him before which have gone down very differently than expected. What he's had for the last few years has been HALO Mega Bloks, simply because after watching me play HALO, and being told by our mother he can't play it himself, he saw it as a workaround. However, he just builds everything once (which usually turns into me building it because he can't be bothered finding the pieces), and it ends up in a cupboard. This is not what I want to see happen to a gift.
tl;dr: Sorry, but due to my brother being odd, he's unlikely to actually play any of the previous suggestions.