Help a fussy gamer out? Edit: Thanks, you guys have been a great help so far!

L4D2, assassins creed series, borderlands, crysis series, halo series, fallout series. If you want to try some indie games then Limbo, orcs must die, bastion, psychonauts.

If you loved Monkey Island, I'm assuming you've played Day of the Tentacle? If you haven't, there's no game I could recommend more.

Machinarium and Bulletstorm come to mind right off the bat. Killing Floor, left4dead series, and Serious Sam series are also really fun. Painkiller: Black Edition also fun. Gah, 5/6 of those are FPS's. Mind is drawing a blank on the other categories. I'll see if I can remember any more later.

"Bioshock - Was fun, but a little too scary for my liking, especially when playing at night. Yes I'm a wimp." Try Amnesia. You'll love it.

On a serious note, going off of the Hard Reset 'a little too short' comment and the CSS comment, I'll recommend any Serious Sam game except for Serious Sam 2. They're all phenomenal shooters, and kind of have the feel of what you would get from Hard Reset, but lengthened, and with a good deal of variety.

Hard Reset is getting DLC that expands the game. Good thing I am backlogged.

Stupid question, but have you played the first Deus Ex? Human Revolution was more or less the same game, but ten years later in real-world time. It's pretty much my favorite game of all time, and if you liked the only sequel that is worthy of the Deus Ex name, you'll probably like the first. Unless you can't get past the flat land full of square-faced people, that is.

I have M&M VI, but I haven't bothered to install it. I still play III, though, and it's currently installed on my rig. You may want to play that if you want a trip down nostalgia road, because it's entertaining (if not simplistic, it does show its age.)

I'm going to go a step further and make some game suggestions that are in the "Sort of like X, but also kind of Y" department, since those are always useful: Fable (and I mean 1, maybe 2) was an entertaining third-person RPG, which may or may not be on Steam at the moment. The third game was dumbed down for the WoW crowd, though, so I'd further suggest Kingdoms of Amalur if you go that route, which feels like a slightly more modern Fable with the ability to roll girls. (yay) If you enjoyed Mafia, then there's The Godfather, which may or may not float your boat, or even Scarface. Both were fine games, both kind of flew under the GTA-influenced radar. As for Monkey Island, you should very clearly be playing classic Sierra point-and-clicks, like King's Quest and Space Quest, which I grew up on as well. Maybe Quest for Glory, namely III and maybe IV, possibly I and II if you have the patience for games with parsers. They're not as comedy-based, though; for that, Sam and Max or Full Throttle. Lucasarts, yay! Also, Grim Fandango.

I'm just scraping the top of my jaded gamer brain. To echo earlier suggestions, LA Noire has excellent, creepy facial animations and you should try it, and it actually feels like you're doing detective work and not being led by the nose. Left4Dead is great for spree-killing and trying to get four assholes to work together. Psychonauts was a very fun and quirky/funny romp. KOTOR and KOTOR II are still my favorite Bioware RPGs. Jedi Outcast II/Jedi Academy have the best lightsaber dueling system I've seen in a Star Wars game, and I played them long after I should have.

I have to stop now, because I could write about games forever.

" Half-Life series - Who doesn't love HL? "

I havent even tried!

idk if you wrote but mafia is one of the best games for me