JDub's Desert Island Consensus Game Jamboree

Guys, the mistake you are all making is, in an attempt to pick games that no-one can ever get bored of, you're picking games that everyone has already played to death and is already bored of.

These are not vetoes as such, but points to think about. I feel it's unfair of me to veto things considering the fact that if we were stuck on an island I'd be dead in a week as a result of some hilarious mishap or another, so I shouldn't be so selfish as to try to impose my tastes onto the survivors.

But…

Everybody's Golf is not as varied and infinite as you think. At a certain point you realise it's a game that consists entirely of timing a couple of button pressed correctly. Once you can do this consistently it dies utterly.

I personally never want to play Street Fighter again in any of it's forms.

When was the last time you had a race on Mario Kart and something you'd never seen before happened?

Even Persona eventually becomes a time sink of grinding through dungeons.

Also, you're picking games that get frustrating. You do that and inevitably someone is going to yeet the controllers into the sea.

So to make suggestions of my own.

I think you're onto something with music games, but Rock Band might not be the correct choice, as again it has an end point where you learn to press the buttons at the right time. I propose we replace it with two games - Singstar and Rocksmith, plus all the DLC for both. If we're going to be stuck on an island we may as well hone ourselves into the greatest middle-aged boyband ever to stalk the Earth.

As a shooter, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a great choice, but has anyone considered Titanfall 2?

If I'm overthinking the concept of the desert island, and in fact we're just trying to find games everyone likes then perhaps one of the Portal games?

Really, if you want something to take to a desert island we could do worse than just taking my Steam Library. Well over a thousand games, 90% of them unplayed, probably 20% of them unplayable, most of them unfathomable bundle-filler. We'd never get to the bottom of it.

As a shooter, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a great choice, but has anyone considered Titanfall 2?

Titanfall 2 is incredible, but it's got no offline multiplayer, as far as I remember? I would absolutely champion Titanfall 2, if we can get some Attrition going, but the campaign is too short and not that replayable (source: I have never had the urge to replay it).

Ah, you might be right. But then almost no shooter has offline multiplayer these days, does it? That really cuts down on what you can choose as a multiplayer shooter to basically the pre-broadband era.

I'm getting my own island.

This is like Home Alone.

We’re reached the 6th night on the island and suddenly someone stops, gasps and says “feltmonkey!”

There's no way we'll last 6 days. On day one Mart will eat all the snacks, then on day two we'll make a half-hearted and completely uncoordinated attempt to eat JDub who will kill us all effortlessly.

We should have added Dreams or whatever that game building app Aniki worked on was. Then when we get bored of playing games we can make new ones for each other.

This would also give us all a good reason to not kill each other.

I think you'd be well advised to kill and eat me before I inflict whatever game I've created on you.

Yeah, because none of us have gotten weirdly obsessive about half-baked/just-shit games before.

There's no way we'll last 6 days.

HEY, WAIT A DAMN MINU-

On day one Mart will eat all the snacks

Okay, fair.

I knew bringing Hitman was a waste of time when we could kill one another for entertainment without wasting a valuable game space on the plane.

"No, Society of Gamesplaying Gentlemen and Womenfolk. You are the demons."

List is decent but uninspiring. I’m getting my own island, with hookers, and blackjack.

Also, for all this talk of online/offline, local multiplayer, etc, doesn’t Hitman 3 actually need an online connection?

Also, for all this talk of online/offline, local multiplayer, etc, doesn’t Hitman 3 actually need an online connection?

We have to have Hitman 3, surely. I think that's as close to a universal-appeal game as we've got on here.

It requires online server connection to work properly, so no.

Ahem.