PC-Game Recommendations.

[YingDerpington]

Recently i've gone through a period of intense boredom due to the fact that i've finished all of the current PC games I own probably 4 or more times over. It would be really great if any of you guys would be able to recommend some great PC games for me to purchase in the future. (most games i've enjoyed seem to indicate a preference for RPG's and the like)

games I have enjoyed (just for an idea of what kind i'm looking for):
Mount & Blade (the entire series)
Medieval Total War 2
Dungeon Keeper 2
Heroes V (expansions as well)
Diablo 1 and 2
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Dragon Age - Origins
KOTOR 1 and 2
Star Wars BF2
Morrowing, Oblivion, Skyrim
Fallout 3 and NV

Currently Looking into:
Jade Empire
Titan Quest

PC Info(it's a laptop and not all that great for new releases):
Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 @ 2.0 GHz
4 GB Ram (roughly 3 GB usable according to system checks)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family (not sure on specifics)

If anyone could help me with this I would be really appreciative.

 

[Fappy]

Torchlight 2. Pretty sure your laptop should have no problem running it.

 

[DugMachine]

If you like Diablo you'll love Torchlight 2

 

[DoPo]

If you like Diablo you'll love Torchlight 2

Entirely this. I played TL2 recently. It's a reworked version of Diablo, basically - go kills stuff and take loot. Pretty fun if you're looking for Diablo experience. And sicne you are looking at TQ, I'm pretty sure you'll love TL2. TL1 is also good, by the way, even if it's older. For the next 3 hours, you can get it for cheap, DRM free and multiplatform, along with several other games with Humble Indie Bundle 6 [https://www.humblebundle.com/]. Just giving you the heads up.

Arcanum might be of interest - made by the same guys who did Bloodlines and it shows. It's more Fallout-y, though and older, dunno if that would put you off. I had great fun with it.

VtM - Redemption is also worth mentioning. Whether you decide to follow up on the mention is up to you, though. It's connected to Bloodlines on very general terms, i.e., both are set in the same universe but that's it. Gameplay-wise, Redemption is closer to Diablo but with less hack&slash-y focus. All in all, if you liked the world of Bloodlines, you might want to check out Redemption, it's good in that regard.

Deus Ex - it might be the closest thing to Bloodlines of all other games. Also, quite good on it's own.

Neverwinter Nights - both 1 and 2 might suit you, since you liked KOTOR, DA:O, and are looking at Jade Empire - NWN is made by BioWare so it's pretty close to KOTOR/DA:O in gameplay, NWN 2 is by Obsidian (who also made KOTOR 2) but still close to 1 and by extension the other games. The expansions for the games have the better story than the original campaigns, though.

Mass Effect - still BioWare. I find most of their games are similar enough to each other so you can either go for all of them or not.

Disciples - really similar to the Heroes series. Quite good. I recommend 2, which I've played, but 1 is also supposed to be good. From what I've seen, 3 is kind of "meh", though, but I admit - I don't really know much about it.

Etherlords - somewhat similar to Heroes, I suppose - it has overhead adventure map, resources but also turn based combat. It's more like Magic the Gathering in terms of combat, though - your hero gets spells to summon creatures and do other stuff.

 

[Greyhamster]

Titan Quest is a very fun game, unfortunately it's a bit slow paced at times (I'm at level 30 or something now, it's been ages since I last leveled or got a piece of loot worth picking up)
Then again, it's something like 5 bucks, definitely worth it in my eyes.

Torchlight 1 is also good but a bit repetitive in environments and enemies. Torchlight 2 seems to be a lot better. If you miss the humble bundle I'd get TL2 instead of starting with 1, since 2 is 1/3 higher priced but a lot better.

I can also heavily recommend Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. A first person RPG. Story isn't much, but the combat is awesome. It's made by the guys who are soon releasing Dishonored, which looks awesome as well (but is a new release and therefore expensive, prolly best to wait a while)
Dark Messiah has a nice amount of freedom. It's not class based or something, rather you can pick skills from different skill trees. Basically, you can mix and match thief/warrior/mage skills and approach the game in different ways. Very fun game.

Last but not least, if you like online fighting with swords: War of the Roses has been released today (30 euros) which is very much like Mount and Blade but multiplayer only. Appearantly it's also a bit faster paced. A week from now Chivalry Medieval Warfare will be released, in the same genre.


ALSO! If you have a controller: DARK SOULS. If not, don't play it. I heard it sucks with keyboard. But it's an awesome game.

 

[YingDerpington]

Arcanum might be of interest - made by the same guys who did Bloodlines and it shows. It's more Fallout-y, though and older, dunno if that would put you off. I had great fun with it.

VtM - Redemption is also worth mentioning. Whether you decide to follow up on the mention is up to you, though. It's connected to Bloodlines on very general terms, i.e., both are set in the same universe but that's it. Gameplay-wise, Redemption is closer to Diablo but with less hack&slash-y focus. All in all, if you liked the world of Bloodlines, you might want to check out Redemption, it's good in that regard.

Deus Ex - it might be the closest thing to Bloodlines of all other games. Also, quite good on it's own.

Neverwinter Nights - both 1 and 2 might suit you, since you liked KOTOR, DA:O, and are looking at Jade Empire - NWN is made by BioWare so it's pretty close to KOTOR/DA:O in gameplay, NWN 2 is by Obsidian (who also made KOTOR 2) but still close to 1 and by extension the other games. The expansions for the games have the better story than the original campaigns, though.

Mass Effect - still BioWare. I find most of their games are similar enough to each other so you can either go for all of them or not.

Disciples - really similar to the Heroes series. Quite good. I recommend 2, which I've played, but 1 is also supposed to be good. From what I've seen, 3 is kind of "meh", though, but I admit - I don't really know much about it.

Etherlords - somewhat similar to Heroes, I suppose - it has overhead adventure map, resources but also turn based combat. It's more like Magic the Gathering in terms of combat, though - your hero gets spells to summon creatures and do other stuff.

Alright, Arcanum sounds pretty good, I looked at Redemption a while ago and it seemed pretty good but I couldn't find many in-depth gameplay reviews, played the Original NWN and it's expansions and liked them so I think I might try NWN2 actually, hopefully it's gotten rid of the more annoying stuff, I've got Mass Effect 1-3 on my 360 so that's all good , I shall definitely try out Disciples 1 and 2, I enjoyed playing 3 but some of the glitches were a bit saddening to me. As for Etherlords, a Might and Magic crossed with MtG? Sounds like a dream come true!

 

[YingDerpington]

Titan Quest is a very fun game, unfortunately it's a bit slow paced at times (I'm at level 30 or something now, it's been ages since I last leveled or got a piece of loot worth picking up)
Then again, it's something like 5 bucks, definitely worth it in my eyes.

Torchlight 1 is also good but a bit repetitive in environments and enemies. Torchlight 2 seems to be a lot better. If you miss the humble bundle I'd get TL2 instead of starting with 1, since 2 is 1/3 higher priced but a lot better.

I can also heavily recommend Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. A first person RPG. Story isn't much, but the combat is awesome. It's made by the guys who are soon releasing Dishonored, which looks awesome as well (but is a new release and therefore expensive, prolly best to wait a while)
Dark Messiah has a nice amount of freedom. It's not class based or something, rather you can pick skills from different skill trees. Basically, you can mix and match thief/warrior/mage skills and approach the game in different ways. Very fun game.

Last but not least, if you like online fighting with swords: War of the Roses has been released today (30 euros) which is very much like Mount and Blade but multiplayer only. Appearantly it's also a bit faster paced. A week from now Chivalry Medieval Warfare will be released, in the same genre.


ALSO! If you have a controller: DARK SOULS. If not, don't play it. I heard it sucks with keyboard. But it's an awesome game.

Alright, sounds like a point towards Titan Quest, i'll definitely be giving that a shot now, Torchlight 2 seems to be the recommendation on everyone's lips here so that's another definite, as for Dark Messiah, is it taxing graphically or do they keep it simple (or at least configurable to very low settings), I would rather avoid Dark Souls though, It was bad enough playing it on a friends PS3, playing with an even unfriendlier controller (keyboard and mouse) would just make it even easier to die against an ever so gentle breeze.

 

[Greyhamster]

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Huh, didn't actually take your laptop into account. I don't know. It's a Source game from 2006. I think you should be able to run it since you can run Medieval 2 TW and Skyrim and stuff, but I don't know. One of the (dis)advantages of a good desktop is you never have to worry about such things
On the other hand, aren't intel 4 chipset graphic chips plain bad? I believe I have one on my laptop, can't even run Slender.

I'd also take a look at the humble bundle. Contains some neat games.

 

[Solo-Wing]

I would like some Recommendations as well

Specs:
AMD A6-3670 2.7Ghz
8.00 GB DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
GeForce GT 520

And PC games I have seriously loved:
Team Fortress 2
Oblivion (I got Skyrim on my Xbox so don't recommend that)
Amnesia
Bastion
Just Cause 2
Bioshock 1/2
Call of duty 4
Cave Story +
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Garrys Mod
Left 4 Dead 2
Portal 1/2
Super Meat Boy
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Torchlight

 

[YingDerpington]

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Huh, didn't actually take your laptop into account. I don't know. It's a Source game from 2006. I think you should be able to run it since you can run Medieval 2 TW and Skyrim and stuff, but I don't know. One of the (dis)advantages of a good desktop is you never have to worry about such things
On the other hand, aren't intel 4 chipset graphic chips plain bad? I believe I have one on my laptop, can't even run Slender.

I'd also take a look at the humble bundle. Contains some neat games.

Source Engine? Yeah I think my laptop can handle those, I can run Skyrim... Just not very well ,
Also yes, intel 4 chipset graphic chips are possibly some of the worst you could possibly have. ever. for all time. I would've got one with an ATI card but in 2008 I was young, reckless and thought that you could replace a laptops graphics card just like a desktops. I can't use steam because I live in Australia and have a 6gb download cap on my internet (and it's for 4 people), back onto the graphics card, it's very iffy, Halo 2 it will lag up a storm, but for DA:O it runs almost perfectly... and I've proven that it's not the other software at fault for these issues.

 

[YingDerpington]

I would like some Recommendations as well

Specs:
AMD A6-3670 2.7Ghz
8.00 GB DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
GeForce GT 520

And PC games I have seriously loved:
Team Fortress 2
Oblivion (I got Skyrim on my Xbox so don't recommend that)
Amnesia
Bastion
Just Cause 2
Bioshock 1/2
Call of duty 4
Cave Story +
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Garrys Mod
Left 4 Dead 2
Portal 1/2
Super Meat Boy
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Torchlight

Sir, have you considered playing Half-Life...? Either that or I would recommend Tom Clancy Ghost Recon (any of them really), if you liked CoD4 and HAWX you would enjoy that. Try System Shock as well, it's kinda the prequel to Bioshock (in a roundabout way), if you enjoyed Garrys Mod I would make a stretch and say you might enjoy Minecraft, because in Ben Croshaws words "unlike Garrys Mod it makes you work for your big explosions"... I'm paraphrasing there but I think you get the point.

 

[Solo-Wing]

I would like some Recommendations as well

Specs:
AMD A6-3670 2.7Ghz
8.00 GB DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
GeForce GT 520

And PC games I have seriously loved:
Team Fortress 2
Oblivion (I got Skyrim on my Xbox so don't recommend that)
Amnesia
Bastion
Just Cause 2
Bioshock 1/2
Call of duty 4
Cave Story +
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Garrys Mod
Left 4 Dead 2
Portal 1/2
Super Meat Boy
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Torchlight

Sir, have you considered playing Half-Life...? Either that or I would recommend Tom Clancy Ghost Recon (any of them really), if you liked CoD4 and HAWX you would enjoy that. Try System Shock as well, it's kinda the prequel to Bioshock (in a roundabout way), if you enjoyed Garrys Mod I would make a stretch and say you might enjoy Minecraft, because in Ben Croshaws words "unlike Garrys Mod it makes you work for your big explosions"... I'm paraphrasing there but I think you get the point.

Got Half-life 2 and both episodes. It was okay but I have played better. Never played the original though.

Also own Minecraft. It is great.

 

[DoPo]

I can also heavily recommend Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend Dark Messiah. It's not a bad game, mind you, it's just a forgettable one. I suppose if you are quite into M&M it's worth checking out, or if you want to see first person melee combat (that's not TES), but as a game on it's own it could be somewhat boring. I'd heavily recommend getting the Heroes pack from Steam, though - it has Dark Messiah along with all of Heroes 5, so for the latter alone it's worth it, DM is just an OK bonus. However, OP already has H5.

Also, something I forgot to mention - the Witcher games are quite good. Both of them. Well, the second is supposed to be better, but I have yet to play it. I really liked the first one, though

 

[DoPo]

Got Half-life 2 and both episodes. It was okay but I have played better. Never played the original though.

Black Mesa. Go. Now!

Other than that, Morrowind. The Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 [http://www.ornitocopter.net/v3-0-release/] came out recently, so it might be worth checking out.

Terraria is really Minecraft-like, from what I've heard, so you might like that.

Spec Ops: The Line - I finished it yesterday and really liked it. It is one of my favourite games. It's on the short side, though, I also started it yesterday. The campaign takes around 8 hours, give or take.

Torchlight 2 if it wasn't obvious.

 

[Darmy647]

Killing floor, a pretty fun FPS if your a fan of shooting endless waves of zombies.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Black Mesa
Oblivion ( Get mods)
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Darksiders 2
Sleeping Dogs
Blacklight Retribution
Team Fortress 2
Cave Story
Bastion
Amnesia
Batman Arkham Series
Skyrim
Battlefield 3( You should be able to play it medium)
Ys series
Cry of Fear
Project Zomboid
Shank
Shank 2
The Walking Dead
Total Was series ( I heard Shogun was good. But I played Empire and dear god is it boring)
F.E.A.R
War of the Roses
Hitman Series
Psychonauts
Costume Quest ( Halloween will be here soon!)

This should keep you busy.

 

[Something Witty]

I would like some Recommendations as well

Specs:
AMD A6-3670 2.7Ghz
8.00 GB DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
GeForce GT 520

And PC games I have seriously loved:
Amnesia

If you haven't checked out Frictional's first foray into horror, the Penumbra series, make sure you do.