Hey guys, I really need a new game

I've tried a lot of different games this past month and they kinda make me sick and bored, so I'm looking for more suggestions.

Here is a list I composed on my opinions of popular games - see if you think any other games would fit my tastes.

Oblivion: Played it, fabulous game, done with it.
Guild Wars: Played it, great game, didn't enjoy it at all.
Battlfield 2: Played it, great game, most frustrating game ever.
Counter Strike Source: Played it, wasn't that good 2md most friustrating game ever.
Fable: Played it, loved it, wish fable 2 would come out now
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: Played it, absolutely loved it, that was 5 years ago
Dungeons and Dragons Online: Played it for many many hours, kinda got bored around the 800 hours mark
Rise of Nation: Played it, loved it, sick of it now
Call fo Duty 4: Beat it twice, multiplayer was enjoyable, now just kinda annoying
Crysis: Beat it, great game.
Call of Duty 2: Beat it, now I'm kinda sick of shooters
Assassin's Creed: Beat it, enjyed every second.
World of Warcraft: Played it, took a blood oath never to get sucked in.
Maplestory: Played it, Loved it, hated myself for that
Halo: under impressed

So can you guys think of any games that I might enjoy? Open to any type of game. thanks a lot!

It may be my recent overwhelming feeling of pessimism, but I feel that a lot of recent games are missing the "fun". Maybe I'm not just playing the right games, or maybe I've played too many games - but I feel that a lot of the more modern video games, though they are beautiful, and technological breakthroughs, lost the "fun" somewhere in the development. There is something simple and amusing that I haven't felt in a game for a while.

Help me, I need more games that are simply fun in themselves. I don't need photo-realistic water rendering, or advanced weather systems, or ai that can outsmart me, I want the good old fun that dissapeared somewhere.

Sure, go tell me to go buy a wii, but I'll be bored in a month. Go ahead and defend your games, but does anyone play any games that are quiet simply amusing and fun in themselves? I'm not looking for some cheap flash-based puzzle game, but rather any *real* game that is fun just to play.

Any ideas?? please help me. thank you.

So I got into a little argument with a professor of mine about the influences of modern media on the current generation. He offered me the challenge to write a final research paper about the benefits of Video Games on individuals and the new generation. He said, that if it is 100% believable, he would make that research paper my final grade for the semester. As a result - I'm looking to you guys for help:

What are your ideas on the benefits of video games on an individual as well as the benefits to the next generation?

And I need sources to back up my point: studies, research papers, statistics, journals....

Ideas on what you think the benefits are, and if anyone knows any reliable sources I could look up I would forever be grateful.

Thanks alot.

I apologize that this might not be the right place for this question, but maybe some one can help me.

I'm in charge of designing the sound effects for a film festival entree. What I still need to find is a really good police siren. Not a siren that any royalty free website would have, but a good sounding siren that goes through the different stages that a police car goes through, a handful of the shortsound bursts, then a section of the longer bursts and so on.

When I load either Fear combat or guild wars, my computer instantly shuts off, which is kinda annoying.

The game will launch, I see a black screen, it will begin to load, then I hear the click and sound of my hardrive shuting off, and my monitor goes into idle mode.

Then my computer automatically re-boots and runs normally, and tells me that it recovered from a serious error.

I'm currently running

a HP Pavilion Meda Center TV m7480n Desktop PC, 2 gigs of ram, dual 3.0 prossessor, Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE video card, and XP pro.

FEAR/GW was working fine until I loaded my restore point from november, due to some problems with using Premiere Pro.

I'm having some trouble finding the solution, as I don't know the problem.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks.

if this helps heres a list of games that work for me:

Oblivion - yes

Quake 3 - yes

Enemy Territory/Wolfenstein - yes

Halo - yes

Dungeons and Dragons Online - yes

HL2 - yes

Guild Wars - NOPE - game crashes after update

and FEAR combat: crashes once I select a gun

any ideas? thanks

ha ha, let me rephrase - my *grandmother* wants me to find her a game that "makes her think" ha ha....

I'm looking for a PC game that excersizes your brain. Kinda like the brain games on the DS, but I want a game I can play on my pc.

any suggestions? thanks alot.

I apologize for posting this here, but I'm trying to post my problem everywhere I can. If someone could move this to the right forum I'de appreciate it:

I'm running an HP Pavilon Home Media Center XP edition
2 gigs RAM, dual 3ghz processor, GeForce 7300LE graphics (128mb) and Realtek HD card (built into the motherboard)

I'm an avid gamer, frequently using Voicechat programs. After a few in-game feedback complaints I did a couple voice checks w/ my mic in windows audio recorder.

Somehow when my computer plays music or any other sort of audio, the music is also played through the microphone. For example, I have my gaming headset on, and I'm playing some music through windows media player, at the same time I talk on my mic and record it using windows audio recorder. On the recorded .wav file you can clearly hear the music as well as my talking. This ends up being a huge problem if I'm talking while someone else is talking in-game, causing horrendous feedback.

And I can not find the source of this problem. I've posted on multiple boards, from PCworld forums to the ddo forums. Just yesterday I uninstalled all my audio codecs and drivers, but the problem persists.

I don't know when this problem arose - as someone only recently pointed out the problem to me in-game.
heres a picture of my audio settings:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/Faction3/AudioSettings.jpg