Braid
To the moon
Company of Heroes
Castle Crashers
Magicka


These are probably the most enjoyable games i've played in the last decade.

But seeing as you'd like to use your new graphics card to some use, which is kinda the opposite of wanting to play a good game try

rage, witcher 2, mass effect 2, anno2027


If you want some awesome old games you're going to need a console

Conquers bad fur day(n64), Hercules great adventures (ps1), grim fandango (old windows, maybe win 7 compatable version out there)

Another good stack to sift through are the desperado games, Commandoes, chiago 1930, jagged alliance, fallout 2.
3d isometic view, realtime stratedgy. better gameplay concepts then any new game to date, what i consider poor/outdated controls.



I figure you're gonna get spammed with mainstream stuff so im trying to give you variety.

walleteater

How the hell is Rayman Origins not worth full price? What does a game have to do to be considered worthy of full price? Lets take a look at Rayman Origins. Outstanding gameplay? Check. Perfect level design? Check. Perfect difficulty curve? Check. At the absolute top quality of its genre? Check. Great amount of content? Check. Three dimensions? Nope. Ok never mind guys. I see where I've got it all wrong now. It's missing a whole dimension, therefore it doesn't deserve the price point that other games on the market with lower quality do. I sincerely apologise for being so ignorant.

burgeg

I think MS is/will go casual from now on.

I think they would LIKE to keep both audiences, but instead of having a knock-down fight with Sony over "core" gamers who are actually a very small portion of the potential customers, instead they will say "Ok we'll go left, Sony you go right" and each take a different piece of the customer base.

Fighting over a small customer base (hardcore gamers) is not profitable.

Companies are not boneheaded fanboys like people are.

Companies do what is rational.

Cutting each others throats is not good for business.

Each of the 3 console companies are trying to stay out of each others way and grab a different piece of the audience, so they can all maximize their profits.

They are not gonna sit there and fight over 3-5 million hardcore gamers, spending billions on ads and IP's, when they can just market Kinect games and make easy profits.

LazySloth718