Samurai Pizza Cats, Loony Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Care Bears and Captain Planet. Who knew Captain Planet was right all along. Bob Dole, that's who. Bob Dole.

BTW, does anyone knows if there is a Space Sim / FPS / RPG hybrid game with the freedom to explore planets and land on them or it doesn't exist ?

Possibly Planetary Annihilation? I hear mixed things. It might be 50% off on steam still. Sins of a Solar Empire, Endless SPace, Starbound, Starforge, Eve Online, and Space Engineers are a few I can think of.

For standard RPGs, Child of Light was mentioned. If you're a fan, South Park: The Stick of Truth. If not Costume Quest. They just released an updated version of Baldurs Gate 2. If you don't mind a bit of modding You can look into Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, or STALKER (with Complete or Lost Alpha). If you're looking more into loot grinding then maybe Diablo III/Path of Exile/Torchlight/Grim Dawn.

Not sure if it's your kind of thing but Life is Feudal looks kinda fun.

Worse comes to worse you can always break into your backlog. Hit up some Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander.

If you want to get really good at gaming the only thing you can do is practice, practice, practice. I have trouble with twitch shooters because of medication, but I found a niche role, and even though my KDR wasn't great I still played a valuable role on a team frequently in the top - 5 of TWL or whatever it was.. But I haven't payed a shooter competitively since CoD2. And you really need to have a competitive edge. I don't have it anymore. But I'm really good at certain games. A lot of people find Divinity OS difficult. I find it pretty easy - granted I started playing on normal because I was told how difficult it was and it's been a walk. But a game like Skyrim? I play it on easy. Not because I don't mind the challenge, it's just I would much rather enjoy the game experience instead of micromanaging potions every fight. I thought Professor Layton was difficult, but Phoenix Wright was easy.

The key is don't be afraid to play on easy. Don't be afraid to use guides. Don't get into the mindset that only real gamers start in hard mode. Start in easy and learn the game. If it's too easy restart in normal - beat it and then try hard. The most important thing about gaming is to have fun. Starting a game in the hardest mode and getting destroyed is not fun. Again, the key is practice. Lots and lots of practice.

I think some of these people complaining are nuts. I understand, some people might not like because it isn't a specific sub genre. However, some of the reasons are pretty nit-picky.

I mean, you need outside resources to figure out where to go? Why? Did you not read your journal? Did you not pay attention to the main NPCs in the main areas. They give you directions and it's recorded in your journal. It's not difficult. You don't even need to follow your journal. Often you just end up in and area and there is an update by an party conversation.

Most of the puzzles are just common sense.

The only thing difficult about the game is combat. It takes practice. I know some people like to just jump in on the hardest difficulty, and some people can. I started off easy, because I'm not great at Strat RPGs, or CRPGs. So I started easy to get the feel of the game during beta. Once it got too easy I restarted, based on what mistakes I made building my previous character and started in Normal. Normal got too easy. I could kill a group of 6 lvl 11 goblins with my lvl 9 group.

Think of it like Batman/Arkham games, but the detective mode requires you to actually figure things out. Read, and pay attention to what you're doing and what NPCs say to you.

If you think D:OS is difficult, go back and play Fallout 1 & 2 - way harder on easy mode compared to Divinity in Hard mode.

I don't really have a preference. Race or hair colour isn't all that important to me. With that said, I've never been a big fan of Asian girls, but I've started to like this one, and she's really nice. Easy to talk to. I'm not too picky about looks. I'm not vain or shallow, but I do have to be attracted to the person. I am very picky when it comes to personality. If I had to chose between the most beautiful woman in the world but totally vapid, or a homely looking girl who can carry on a conversation I'll go with the homely girl every time.

I think it's silly to have preferences. Someone comes along and is pretty amazing to you, but isn't Caucasian or blond with blue eyes are you just going to shut her down because she isn't your type?

@Planeforger:

The thing is, Fallout 3 IS a spin-off. Fallout 3 is all about your character. The whole game is based around you. The rest of the series is not based on your character at all. In FO1, 2 and NV it's more about the landscape and how the world adapted after nuclear war.

You don't need to create your own story it's written for you as soon as you start the game. I don't like one game more or less, however, there are parts of New Vegas that I dislike more than parts of FO3. The fact that New Vegas was in development for awhile, and the engine is the same, how is it so unstable?

I like the idea of factions, but I think they could have been implemented better. I never chose a faction because I didn't like any of them. Why would I want to join the Bombers if, after I risk my life to get across, they express displeasure in me being there, but allow me to stay only if I put my life on the line to help them after I just spent time running from missiles being fired at me, and oh, if you find anymore missiles bring them to us so we can use them to keep blasting random people.

I didn't like the main quest in New Vegas.I played it for about 200 hours and never felt like finishing it. I wanted to find out where the story for FO3 went. I didn't care about the New Vegas Strip of the surrounding area because the game was so unstable in that area I was afraid to go into it.

I really liked exploring the DC ruins. The scaling broke the immersion for me, though. Mao Guai and Death Claws should be confined to certain area. Same with robots, and the end-game soldiers.

Both games had fairly bland landscapes, but it worked a bit better for FO3 because 1/3 or the landscape was the ruins, so there was lots to do. New Vegas was fairly flat though, and besides the Strip there weren't a lot of interesting areas. I really liked RepConn , Helios One, Black Mountain, Nipton and Vault 22.

I liked to explore a lot more in Fallout 3. The cities mattered as there was always something to do in them. Boulder City? It's just there and is pretty much forgotten after the first pass-through.

Both Fallout Games could have been better, but when Obsidian was brought on for New Vegas I was expecting much more and it wasn't there for me. Still a fun game though.

@MuD3: What type of music are you trying to listen to? What type of music do your parents or older siblings listen to? A lot of people take musical influences from their parents...either they like it or don't.

I listen to all kinds of music - 50s Rock n Roll, rhythm and blues, Surf, swing, Rockabilly, 70s and 80s Punk, heavy metal, nu-metal, doom metal, thrash metal, grunge, classical, show tunes, country, bluegrass, hillbilly, hellbilly, Lucifarian gospel, punk-ska, 80s/early 90s rap, alt-rock, etc.

Unfortunately a lot of it sucks.

I disagree with Mass Effect having a great story, only because Bioware recycles the same basic story over and over. Their games are far too predictable.

As far as Skyrim not having a great story? I disagree somewhat. The story offered by Bethesda is not very good, but it's really easy to create your own story and that's where Bethesda strives. it's why people buy their games because people are only limited by their imaginations. I like Skyrim. Spent over 200 hours in that world. I don't think I even got half through the main quest because I was too busy exploring and making my own quests.

Shadowrun Returns is interesting. I like The Swapper, Bastion, and Gone Home. The Longest Journey is a classic. The Metro games are pretty entertaining. If the game has voice actors, as long as they make the story believable it'll get a pass. If the voice acting is cheesy, no matter how good the story should be it'll fall flat.

And games like Uncharted have great voice acting. At least the main roles are believable so the game world feels believable that's why it gets far more praise than it may deserve.

@AmazonTreeBoa: Haha. OK. I respect your opinion. I listed those movies because someone said they were having trouble finding movies that scared them. And he said he was afraid of the ocean, but wasn't afraid of sharks. So I listed some movie that person may find more scary because they take place in, around or near water. Those movies won't necessarily be scary to you or I, but the person I was responding to may find them scary. Quite frankly I haven't even seen half the movies I listed. They're just movies I knew existed or found out about as I was doing some light research.

I don't find slasher movies scary, but a lot of people do. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy the odd one. They're still fun. Just because they aren't scary to me doesn't mean they aren't entertaining and I won't watch them.

Any time I go to my friends house we go rent as many budget horror movies and try to watch them all in one day. Most of them are hilarious, and some are hilariously bad, but there is always a gem or two. I like bad horror movies. I also like good horror movies. The thing is, I never compare the two types.

The worst movie I saw in theaters was Batman & Robin. The worst horror movie would either be Mama or Virus.

I'll try to list my favourite horror movies: Cape Fear (both), Psycho, Alien, Aliens, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead Trilogy, Halloween and 1st remake (until H2O), 28 Day/Months Later, Hills Have Eyes, Audition, Three Extremes, The Conjuring, Sinister, Videodrome, The Thing, House of 1000 Corpses, Les Diabolique, A Nightmare on Elm St., Manhunter, SIlence of the Lambs, Hannibal Rising, The Cube, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, American Psycho, Ginger Snaps, The Conjuring, Dressed To Kill, Body Double - that's all I can think of right now. As far as the classics, I've either seen it and haven't listed it or probably haven't seen it. I haven't seen a lot of classics.

I mostly watch "B"-movies, so my list of good horror isn't very extensive. Mainly because it's hard to find good horror in writing.

For whatever reason Child's Play movies scare the crap out of me, but I can get through them. Puppet Master though? No way. I get to the scene with the leeches and that's enough.

@LostProphetFLCL: Like I said, Sphere was panned by critics. A lot of people didn't like the movie. It was a slower movie, but it was really messed up. I mentioned the movie, mentioned that it didn't get a good reception and left it up to the person to make his/her own decision.

The thing with the horror genre it is a vague term, and Abyss, I believe is considered Sci-Fi horror. Again, it's a slower movie though.

The original Anaconda wasn't bad. It had its moment. Remember I recommended it to someone who is afraid of, essentially water. It isn't like Lake Placid which was intentionally cheesy, it was meant as a horror/suspense, and any time the group has to walk through water it is pretty suspenseful.

As I said earlier, a horror movies job isn't to scare you, because it's really difficult to scare people. But if it can pull you in and create suspense and emotion than it does a pretty good job. The issue with Anaconda, like a lot of the predator vs. prey-type movies is most of the 'prey' are jerks and deserve what they get which removes any emotion from the movie.

There are easily worse horror movies than those I listed.