Can you recommend me some games for my Mum?

[Lord Beautiful]

Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

Or, if she can't get into fighting games, Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Any Tycoon games, or The Sims perhaps?

 

[SomeBrianDude]

I would go for the Monkey Island series. They're great games, and hilarious to boot.

 

[TBman]

have you thought of Homeworld?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI&feature=colike

 

[Lilani]

So it's my Mum's birthday on Saturday and i was going to get her Stacking, a neat looking puzzle game from Double Fine but the computer she has is very basic and can't run it.

It can run her favorite games: Plants vs Zombies and the Lego games. She also likes Lego Rock Raiders and Settlers 6.

Bearing all this in mind I would appreciate suggestions on games she might like.

She likes games which are not hard, strategy based and fun. She will not play any first person/third person games because she can't handle moving around in 3D. Old games are fine as well, probably preferred because the computer isn't great.

Hm, if she doesn't mind artsy or narrative-based games, how about Bastion or Braid?

 

[Launcelot111]

Some old school Lucasarts adventures are called for here. Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle?

Also, Chip's Challenge

 

[Baralak]

Look around on GOG. There's bound to be something there to tickle her fancy, and it's all but guaranteed that 90% of the games there will run on her PC, however bad it is.

 

[thegoldenwang]

I would definitely recommend Skylanders: Spyros Adventure. i picked it up recently because I needed something kinda on the easy side to play with my GF. A very worthwhile purchase although you can eat through alot of money with it lol.

 

[Sarahcidal]

If you have a wii I recommend the Trauma series. They're pretty addictive and my friends who dislike gaming even found them enjoyable

 

[OpticalJunction]

can't help you I'm afraid. My mom doesn't even use the computer, let alone play computer games.

 

[ben---neb]

So it's my Mum's birthday on Saturday and i was going to get her Stacking, a neat looking puzzle game from Double Fine but the computer she has is very basic and can't run it.

It can run her favorite games: Plants vs Zombies and the Lego games. She also likes Lego Rock Raiders and Settlers 6.

Bearing all this in mind I would appreciate suggestions on games she might like.

She likes games which are not hard, strategy based and fun. She will not play any first person/third person games because she can't handle moving around in 3D. Old games are fine as well, probably preferred because the computer isn't great.

Hm, if she doesn't mind artsy or narrative-based games, how about Bastion or Braid?

I thought of that but Braid is too 'out there' for her and Bastion is too combat heavy. She did enjoy Super Mario Bros for the DS but even then I had to do the hard jumps for her!

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

If you have a Kinect & Xbox, I bought my mom Zumba fitness for her birthday and half of the time she's on the xbox more than I am. /shrugs.

 

[RhetoricalFish]

So it's my Mum's birthday on Saturday and i was going to get her Stacking, a neat looking puzzle game from Double Fine but the computer she has is very basic and can't run it.

It can run her favorite games: Plants vs Zombies and the Lego games. She also likes Lego Rock Raiders and Settlers 6.

Bearing all this in mind I would appreciate suggestions on games she might like.

She likes games which are not hard, strategy based and fun. She will not play any first person/third person games because she can't handle moving around in 3D. Old games are fine as well, probably preferred because the computer isn't great.

Hm, if she doesn't mind artsy or narrative-based games, how about Bastion or Braid?

I thought of that but Braid is too 'out there' for her and Bastion is too combat heavy. She did enjoy Super Mario Bros for the DS but even then I had to do the hard jumps for her!

Although I have no idea if that also falls under the category 'too out there', but what about Limbo? It's intuitive, short and has some really smart puzzles without being too hard.