Recommend some games for me

So Ive been a console gamer for pretty much my whole life but today I went out and bought myself a good PC. Basically Im wondering which games released in the last few years are must plays. Ive missed out on so much good PC games and I think its time to catch up :)

Yeah i got a

Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.RK-Mara

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.Penguin_dragon

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

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Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.sSubZerOo

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Yeah but we wont be able to know if he had that or not unless he tells us his specs. Were waiting *angry fist shake*

[QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"]

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.sSubZerOo

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Linky? :D

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"]

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.Penguin_dragon

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Yeah but we wont be able to know if he had that or not unless he tells us his specs. Were waiting *angry fist shake*

He probably just realized he bought something with craptastic integrated video and is now embarassed.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"]

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.Forerunner-117

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Linky? :D

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8651167&type=product&id=1195599780039

Audiosurf

Sins of a Solar Empire

CoD4

Orange Box

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

[QUOTE="Forerunner-117"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"]

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.sSubZerOo

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Linky? :D

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8651167&type=product&id=1195599780039

OMG I didn't even know that they had a "NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS" for laptops! I thought the 8600 was the best out right now :o

Man I'd be soooo tempted to buy this except for one thing: the processor

I mean, 1.67GHz? With an 8800GTS? That's pretty imba if you ask me lol

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="Forerunner-117"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"]

Yeah i got a [QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Could we get your PC specs? ''Good PC'' doesn't tell much. As far as we know, it could have a horrible integrated graphics chip that can't run any of the newer games.Forerunner-117

Yeah I got a "good PC" or so the people at Circuit City said. It turns out if I wanted to do any kind of gaming on it I would have to swap out basically every part on it.

Actually you guys should check out the Gateway laptop selling for $1200 at Bestbuy... It has amazing specs for the price.. 17inch screen, core2duo, 3gb ddr2 ram, and 8800 GTS 512mb... I would expect seeing a setup like that for laptop selling high teens to the 2000+ range.

Linky? :D

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8651167&type=product&id=1195599780039

OMG I didn't even know that they had a "NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS" for laptops! I thought the 8600 was the best out right now :o

Man I'd be soooo tempted to buy this except for one thing: the processor

I mean, 1.67GHz? With an 8800GTS? That's pretty imba if you ask me lol

It said something about a Centrino "enchanced with interrelated intel C2D T5450." What exactly does this mean?

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

smcg69

Back to the topic at hand.

Thats actually not craptastic! Its absolute overkill!

But i will remain on topic. If your into FPS get Crysis, you just have to with a godly computer like that.

It said something about a Centrino "enchanced with interrelated intel C2D T5450." What exactly does this mean?

Swiftstrike5

Oh really? I didn't see that. But I have no idea what that means lol Anyone know?

Not sure but I have read user reviews, every one who has said they have played recent games on it have said it runs wonderfully. Many reviewers said they bought a processor upgrade for it as well.. They said thats the only minus is the processor is alittle slow.

[QUOTE="smcg69"]

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

Penguin_dragon

Back to the topic at hand.

Thats actually not craptastic! Its absolute overkill!

But i will remain on topic. If your into FPS get Crysis, you just have to with a godly computer like that.

Im so happy you said that. I know very little about PC specs but I trusted him to get me a good one. And yeah I love FPS. I think I might pick crysis up tomorrow.

Besides Crysis, try to get Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike, maybeQuake Wars?

What other genre do you like?

[QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"][QUOTE="smcg69"]

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

smcg69

Back to the topic at hand.

Thats actually not craptastic! Its absolute overkill!

But i will remain on topic. If your into FPS get Crysis, you just have to with a godly computer like that.

Im so happy you said that. I know very little about PC specs but I trusted him to get me a good one. And yeah I love FPS. I think I might pick crysis up tomorrow.

FPS/Action:

Crysis, Orange Box, Bioshock, chronicles of Riddick, FEAR, Other Half-Lifes, Condemned... An amazing game is Alien Swarm.. get a lan party going with that game and its AMAZING..

RTS:

Sins of a Solar Empire, company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, Homeworld Series, Command and Conquer 3, Warcraft 3, Age of Mythology, and Starcraft.

TBS:

Rome Total War, Medevil Total War 2, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Galactic Civilization 2, Civilization 4.

RPG:

Vampires the Masquerade, Baldur's Gate 2, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, Guild Wars (requires internet, no monthly fee), Diablo 2, Witcher...

Space sims (my personal favorite so I had to put it in hehe)

X3 Reunion, Freespace 2 (one of the best games of all time), Freelancer, Jupiter..

Send a message if you want to find out how to get Freespace 2.. Its free now and heavily modded.

Supreme Commander, World in Conflict, Company of Heroes, Command & Conquer 3, Sins of a Solar Empire, Gothic 3, Neverwinter Nights 2, The Witcher, STALKER, Crysis, Galactic Civilizations 2, Civilization IV, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Lord of the Rings Online, Sam & Max: Season One, GTR2, Medieval 2 Total War and dozens more.

Many multiplatform games like Oblivion are really worth replaying with mods. Many old Elder Scrolls fans couldn't even stand Oblivion without mods.

Besides Crysis, try to get Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike, maybeQuake Wars?

What other genre do you like?

thecasualnoob

I love RPGs. Ive never really played an MMORPG but Id say I could get into them.

[QUOTE="thecasualnoob"]

Besides Crysis, try to get Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike, maybeQuake Wars?

What other genre do you like?

smcg69

I love RPGs. Ive never really played an MMORPG but Id say I could get into them.

The Witcher for RPG and LOTRO for casual MMORPG.

just dont start with crysis and the orange box, leave the best for last ;D

CoD4 is also really good but really short, playing short games at first could be a good ideia...

one more thought, if you like to laugh while u play get sam & max, any episode will do, it wont make any use of ur computer but im having alot of fun with it...

Hello.

Need for Speed Most Wanted

F.E.A.R

The Sims 2

The Movies

Age of Empires 3

Battlefield 2

FarCry

Overlord

Company of Heroes

Command and Conquer series

Civilization III & IV

WarCraft III

Disciples II Gold

Galactic Civilizations II

Diablo series

Battle for Middle-Earth series

Age of Empires III

Star Wars: Empire at War

Puzzle Quest

Super Collapse 3

Star Wars: Battlefront II

Emperor: Battle for Dune

...and probably lots of other great games that I haven't played yet. ;)

[QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"][QUOTE="smcg69"]

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

smcg69

Back to the topic at hand.

Thats actually not craptastic! Its absolute overkill!

But i will remain on topic. If your into FPS get Crysis, you just have to with a godly computer like that.

Im so happy you said that. I know very little about PC specs but I trusted him to get me a good one. And yeah I love FPS. I think I might pick crysis up tomorrow.

May I ask how much you paid for that rig? Id really like to know...

[QUOTE="smcg69"][QUOTE="Penguin_dragon"][QUOTE="smcg69"]

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

BarkingMidget

Back to the topic at hand.

Thats actually not craptastic! Its absolute overkill!

But i will remain on topic. If your into FPS get Crysis, you just have to with a godly computer like that.

Im so happy you said that. I know very little about PC specs but I trusted him to get me a good one. And yeah I love FPS. I think I might pick crysis up tomorrow.

May I ask how much you paid for that rig? Id really like to know...

For the whole thing it was roughly 3200 euro. Im not sure what that is in dollars. Maybe about 4500 or a bit more. I decided to go for a high end PC so it would last me for a long time. Well hopefully it does because i won't be able to afford to upgrade for a good while

With a processor upgrade that laptop is like the same as my desktop, just with a slightly better graphics cardTermite551

Yep, same here :|

Anyway, back on topic, I recommend these games TC:

Crysis

WarCraft 3 Battlechest

Orange Box

Counter-Strike: Source

Company of Heroes

http://www.metacritic.com/games/pc/scores/

Go from the top down and look up any game that sound interesting.

Intel® CoreTM Quad-Core Processor QX6850 (3.46GHz,1333MHz,8MB cache) DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards.

Im not 100% sure about the rest to be honest. My friend is really into PCs and he just said he would get everything I neeed to be able to play the best games out at the moment

smcg69

consider getting crysis, call of duty 4, orange box, unreal tournament 3, bioshock, supreme commander, company of heroes, overlord, rainbow six vegas. sins of the solar empire, battlefield 2142

there is a sticky thread of guy who have virutally all the games coming for pc later this year. there are plenty of games on the list that you could would want to consider when they come out.