I Just Joined the PC Master Race, What games should i buy???

[Woodsey]

The Myst series.

Not kidding. It should be illegal to not play those games.

I can only assume you're recommending Myst as some sort of sadistic rite of passage ordeal.

If you haven't already start playing the Half-Life games.
Start With Black Mesa, the mod for the original half-life that just came out.

Might not be great to start with yet, doesn't include Xen at the moment.

Do you have to own the original to play that or something, or is it it's own game that you just download and play?

Go into your Steam library, click on the drop-down that says 'all games' and click 'tools', then look for Source SDK 2007. Install that and then you can play (once you've downloaded Black Mesa, obviously). If you don't have the SDK, it'll come with most Source-based games (Google for a list of them).

 

[TheFPSisDead]

GPU: eVGA Geforce GTX 570, OCed to 850mhz

Is that brand new? And did you build it yourself?

Because you got a GPU from late 2010 when you could've gotten a summer 2012 GTX 660Ti for the same price and with higher performance...

I'm not sure about the higher performance, according to some of the website i visited, the gtx 570 was benching higher, please see: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+570


So i thought i was getting a good deal *shrugs*

 

[Amaror]

Dragon Age Origins and get the HD textures mod von nexus.
Faster than light
To the moon

 

[Istronen]

There is a genre that hasn't been mentioned here yet. I think you should also consider trying racing games! Many of the recent ones are quite good and I can recommend the DiRT series, get all 4 games since they're all good and offer a little variety too. Then there's the Need For Speed series, I'd recommend all games released from Pro Street or Undercover onwards (including those two). Test Drive Unlimited 2 may also be worth a look but I don't fully recommend it as many of the single player races are very hard, at least the driving school was and to me it seemed like the most happenings are on multiplayer races but I didn't find them interesting at all since everybody already had the fastest cars and the people tend to be elitistic.

If you really want to become a proud PC gamer, I recommend grabbing the Grand Theft Auto games, they are really good and offer action, driving and humour. At first you mau want to try GTA IV and Episodes From Liberty City since those are the newest and look the nicest but don't forget San Andreas. That game as A LOT to do and it's very varied.

This should get you started along with those from other people. All your spare time will propably sink into gaming but it's worth it as long as you don't completely forget the outside world and your friends Good luck, pal. May you game on splendidly!

 

[Isalan]

Much Snipping Has Occured

Copy pasted from another thread I posted in with essentially the same question.

Binding of Isaac is a damn fine little indy, especially if you like your twin stick shooter/ roguelikes.
Witcher 2 is well worth a playthrough or 2.
Knights of the Old Republic 1&2 are really very good as well. 1 is probably better than 2 for story, though 2 is by no means a bad game, and recently made it to steam. The MMO version goes free to play soon iirc, so a chance to brush up on your lore.
Orcs Must Die 1&2 are also well worth your time, especially if you can find someone to do co-op with in 2.
Also, Bastion. If you write the rest of the post off as the deranged frothing jibberish of a delusional madman, still get Bastion. One of the finest soundtracks in gaming and a great, great game to boot.

Also, FTL is a great little game, well worth a shot if you have even a passing intrest in space combat, exploration and strategy.

 

[DugMachine]

Any Valve game.

Skyrim

Binding of Issac

 

[The Name's Bond]

Firstly welcome to the master race, second Team Fortress 2, one of the best team based capture point games made

 

[Vivi22]

Lot's of good recommendations here. I will say that some older classics like HL, Deus Ex, X-Com, Alpha Centauri, Starcraft Brood War, etc. are all must plays and easily obtained.

I've seen some recommendations for Civ V and Dawn of War as well. Personally, I like Civ 4 a lot more than Civ V so I'd recommend that. As for Dawn of War, I haven't played the first one but I heard it's the better one. I wouldn't recommend Dawn of War 2 unless you're either interested in a real time strategy but not typically very good at them, or you like being bored to tears. Honestly, I picked up the game and one of it's expansions in a Steam sale as I was getting into Warhammer 40k, and it's really just not a good game. It's basically a dumbed down squad based RTS but with not nearly enough of the S to live up to that acronym.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Also, Bastion. If you write the rest of the post off as the deranged frothing jibberish of a delusional madman, still get Bastion. One of the finest soundtracks in gaming and a great, great game to boot.

Never understood the Bastion love. Yes, it's pretty and has a nice soundtrack, but the combat's a dull click-fest lacking in any depth. I played it through once but just can't be bothered firing it up again.

Anyway...

Welcome to PC gaming, OP. That means one thing: the world of mods has opened up for you.

You need to buy Knights of the Old Republic 2 on Steam. Then head here: http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/file/197-tsl-restored-content-mod/

This is KotOR2 with the content that was cut due to LucasArts rushing the game restored, as best fans have been able to do.

Then go install Morrowind and Deus Ex with fan-made graphics update mods. You know it's the right thing to do!

 

[Doom972]

Since you got a very powerful computer, I guess you want some games that make good use of its hardware. These games are not my absolute all-time favorites, but are some of my favorites that make good use of the PC's hardware:

Deus Ex Human Revolution - The original Deus Ex is far superior, but its graphics are very outdated.
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines - Make sure to download the latest community patch, as this game is very buggy and broken otherwise.
The Witcher - Play the first before the second. Your items and story decisions can be imported to W2.
Skyrim - Far superior to the console versions since you have mods, community fixes, and broken quests can be fixed using console commands.
Legend of Grimrock - A great indie dungeon crawler.

 

[Hawkeye 131]

Good, gooooooooood.

1) Mass Effect 1 & 2
2) Deus Ex: Human Revolution
3) Crysis
4) BioShock
5) Left 4 Dead 2
6) Portal 2
7) Entire Half-life series
8) Black Mesa
9) Sins of a Solar Empire
10) SW:KoToR 1 & 2

Just to name a few. And welcome to the promise land my friend!

-Hawk

 

[Solo-Wing]

Everything by Valve.
Civ IV and V.
Sanctum
Amnesia the Dark Decent
Skyrim
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Fallout NV
Cave Story +
Bastion
AAAAaaAAaaaAAAaa For the Awesome!
The Binding of Issac

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Why would you need to buy any more games? You already have access to MINESWEEPER! And possibly Freecell.

Or get skyrim/any other game that lets you create anything you want and is 10000% better than the console version.

 

[Tallim]

The Void

Warzone 2100 - This is free, no excuse.

AI War

Solium Infernum - although you need to play multiplayer to get the most out of this.

La-Mulana - or you could get the original freeware version but the enhanced version is brilliant.

Silent Storm

 

[perkl]

Let's skip everything you can get on a console. While KB&M are more accurate controls, the games aren't that different.

Wargame: European Escalation. You will never, ever, get anything like it on a console. This is modern PC gaming at its best. Recommended to absolutely everyone who likes strategy games. Despite the deceiving looks, it's not a RTS. It just happens to move in real time.

Dungeons of Dredmor. An user-friendly roguelike with 10 levels of dungeon and a big bad waiting at the bottom. Permadeath is the only way to play; took me about 60 hours to kill Dredmor for the first time. Complexity out the wazoo with huge amount of strategies to discover.

The Cat and the Coup. It's free, it takes about 15 minutes and you may learn something.

Darwinia and DEFCON: Everybody Dies. I don't want to spoil any surprises, but the mood. My god, it is so thick you can cut it with a knife and serve on plates.

Other stuff to try: some source port of Doom (I recommend Skulltag), Time Gentlemen Please!, Dawn of War 2 in co-op mode, MAME, Civilization IV, Frozen Synapse, Total War: Napoleon with the random join-option enabled and if you really must have something pretty to play Battlefield 3 or Skyrim with mods.

 

[Andrew_C]

Kerbal Space Program, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Dwarf Fortress

 

[Joccaren]

Depends on what you like.

4X strategy:
-Civilization IV. Best in the Civ series, though with Gods and Kings 5 gets close. Get the Beyond the Sword Expansion, and its amazing, with a few great mods out there too. All turn based, on a regular square grid.
-Any Total War game [Though I remember hearing Empire wasn't as good as it could have been, though you'll have to ask someone else on that]. Great grand strategy games, with tactical combat carried out in real time with some reasonable level of depth.

RTS:
-Starcraft 2. Fast paced, quite well balanced, massive online community, focused on Multiplayer but has a single player campaign. Small scale overall.
-Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Very slow paced [Games take several hours to complete most of the time], rather poorly balanced overall [Against the AI you don't notice all that much though]. Small online community that dependent on who you get in a game can be hostile to new members, but not always. Focused on Single Player, has no campaign. Massive Scale.

FPS:
-Battlefield 3. If you're looking for one of the newer 'Hyper realistic' [Lolwat] FPS games, BF3 is the go to. Vehicles, terrain destruction, large maps and 64 players help the gameplay, whilst the graphics are absolutely stunning.
-Tribes Ascend. If you don't like modern hyperealistic shooters, this is probably the best go to in modern times. Interesting play mechanics with skiing, and guns that don't have instant travel bullets, and if they do then they deal pathetic damage. Quite fun all in all.
-Black Mesa. Half Life 1 Remake in the Source Engine. If you want an FPS focused on the campaign, with great atmosphere and with occasional breaks from just shooting things for you to complete other tasks [Some minor platforming, solving some minor puzzles], this is definitely the go to game.

Sandbox:
-Batman Arkham City. Looks great on the PC, very well polished and is fun to play. Not much more to say - the combat is a joy, the story is good and it paces itself well - as well as actually having a couple of good boss fights.
-Sleeping Dogs. Looks amazing on the PC [Shaders and reflections anyway, especially in the rain. Textures are ok, but faces look kinda bad IMO compared to some other PC titles]. Fun to play, somewhat interesting story, and all of Hong Kong to treat as your playground. In addition, the driving being overly arcady means it controls ok on the PC in that department, and it can be hilarious some of the things you do.

Other than that, I'll leave it for you to decide. RPGs are these days too broad in what people consider to be and not to be RPGs to be able to give a decent recommendation, MMOs I hate and don't play, and most other types of games I generally ignore.