PC games

[Spartan Bannana]

Thanks for all of your suggestions, here's my current list of incumbents:
STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl
The Valve Steam Pack
Far Cry 2
Oblivion
Maybe Morrowind
Orange Box(if it doesn't come with the steam pack)
Civ 4

 

[Credge]

Just FYI, I don't live in a cave, all the bolded ones I have played on my 360, Orange Box is probably worth picking up on PC though, and if some of these games have good mods it could be worth a second look.

All of the games you bolded, except for Brothers in Arms, is far superior on the PC. The Orange Box is just that much better as it actually gets patched and has tons of new things added rather frequently. Mainly for TF2.

Oblivion can be turned in to an amazingly amazing game with the mods. I'm talking... above and beyond amazing. Of course, if you've already played it then it won't be anything special as the core of the game is pretty much the same.

CoD 4 is just... plain better. I don't know how to explain it. No need to pay cash for maps, as the maps are patched in for free. Everything about FPS games are just plain ol' better on PC. Until you've actually played PC FPS for a length of time, you'll think differently. However, once you go back to console FPS you'll find the controls clunky, unresponsive, and just really, really poor.

 

[PersianLlama]

Thanks for all of your suggestions, here's my current list of incumbents:
STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl
The Valve Steam Pack
Far Cry 2
Oblivion
Maybe Morrowind
Orange Box(if it doesn't come with the steam pack)
Civ 4

Excellent, post your Steam ID when you get the Valve games.
Mines: ShayanTheIranian

 

[EvilEngineNumberNine]

System Shock 2. Fallout. Imperatives of PC gaming.

Now, if you're willing, and if you don't mind paying at least sixty dollars for a force-feedback steering wheel, pick up just about anything by SimBin Studios. They make just about the best racing simulators on the market, and everybody knows that, short of Gran Turismo, only the PC has any "real" racing titles for it.

Actually an X-Box 360 controller works surprisingly well for PC racing games. I've been using one ever since my G-25 went tits-up on me.

 

[Logan Keller]

So, if you have an SLI setup with two 768-mb-of-RAM cards, how much RAM would your OS recognize if you had 4 gigs of RAM and it was a 32 bit OS?

About 2464 mb.

Thank you, PersianLlama- I've always been curious about that....

Now, Spartan Bannana, I also recommend The Witcher- it has a wonderful story, as well as a very badass protagonist... But it is an rpg, so maybe you'd like it, maybe not. If you do get the game, though, get the Enhanced Edition.

Your Welcome, and yar The Witcher kicks ass, I'm just too broke to afford the Enhanced Edition (I have the original, but I wants the extras)

Wasn't the original version going to get a download of some sort to make it the same as the enhanced edition?

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

So, if you have an SLI setup with two 768-mb-of-RAM cards, how much RAM would your OS recognize if you had 4 gigs of RAM and it was a 32 bit OS?

About 2464 mb.

Thank you, PersianLlama- I've always been curious about that....

Now, Spartan Bannana, I also recommend The Witcher- it has a wonderful story, as well as a very badass protagonist... But it is an rpg, so maybe you'd like it, maybe not. If you do get the game, though, get the Enhanced Edition.

Your Welcome, and yar The Witcher kicks ass, I'm just too broke to afford the Enhanced Edition (I have the original, but I wants the extras)

Wasn't the original version going to get a download of some sort to make it the same as the enhanced edition?

It has. All you need to do is register your game online, then go here: http://www.thewitcher.com/community/en/www/installation_of_twee_in_four_easy_steps.html and follow the steps on that page.

 

[Jamanticus]

Thanks for all of your suggestions, here's my current list of incumbents:
STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl
The Valve Steam Pack
Far Cry 2
Oblivion
Maybe Morrowind
Orange Box(if it doesn't come with the steam pack)
Civ 4

Oh- I recently found an oldie but a goodie:
Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines.......... It's an action rpg about being a vampire in Los Angeles, and it has some *incredible* characters.
Seriously, you should get it- it also has one of the best storylines I've seen for a long time. Its graphics are decent, considering it was made in 2004, and the atmosphere is very immersive.

 

[Xhumed]

Well, if you like RTS's (I know some mutants don't) you can't go far wrong with the Dawn Of War lot. I recommend getting the original and first 2 expansions bundle. If you have Vista some jiggery pokery may be necessary though i.e. needing to download a specific file for them to run. It's all directX9's fault.

Also Evil Genius is super fun.

 

[gigiboyb]

-Valve complete pack
-Starcraft
-Dawn of War platinum and Soulstorm

Thats like $200 and thousands of hours of fun to have.

-I enjoyed the ID pack from steam but it up to you.

 

[gigiboyb]

Oh, BTW does anyone know how to suggest a game for Review on Zero Punctuation?

 

[Gotham Soul]

Yeah.

Don't.

To learn how to suggest a game for review on ZP, watch the beginning of his CoD4 review.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/24-Call-of-Duty-4

 

[Boober the Pig]

If you haven't been playing PC games you missed: No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, Clive Barker's Undying, Serious Sam: First and Second Encounter, Painkiller, and Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I'm surprised nobodies mentioned Deus Ex series yet

 

[Xaryn Mar]

I would recommend (and some of them has been listed earlier):
RPG:
Planescape: Torment.
Morrowind.
Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
RTS:
Starcraft.
Dawn of War series.
The Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth 2 series.
FPS
Jedi Knight 2 outcast.
Jedi Academy.
Simulators:
Silent Hunter III (German submarines).
B17 Flying Fortress (a bit old).

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Forgot to mention a classic:
The Secret of monkey Island. (if you can find it anywhere)

 

[Jamanticus]

I'm surprised nobodies mentioned Deus Ex series yet

Oh yeah- the Deus Ex series. Get it, too.... As well as the "Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines" game that I mentioned earlier.

Both of those series are similar; it's just that one's about a nano-augmented supersoldier and the other is about a vampire. Both of them involve back-stabbing and intrigue out the wazoo, which makes all of them quite good games (although my favorite would have to be the original Deus Ex, followed by the aforementioned vampire game, then Invisible War)

 

[PersianLlama]

So, if you have an SLI setup with two 768-mb-of-RAM cards, how much RAM would your OS recognize if you had 4 gigs of RAM and it was a 32 bit OS?

About 2464 mb.

Thank you, PersianLlama- I've always been curious about that....

Now, Spartan Bannana, I also recommend The Witcher- it has a wonderful story, as well as a very badass protagonist... But it is an rpg, so maybe you'd like it, maybe not. If you do get the game, though, get the Enhanced Edition.

Your Welcome, and yar The Witcher kicks ass, I'm just too broke to afford the Enhanced Edition (I have the original, but I wants the extras)

Wasn't the original version going to get a download of some sort to make it the same as the enhanced edition?

It has. All you need to do is register your game online, then go here: http://www.thewitcher.com/community/en/www/installation_of_twee_in_four_easy_steps.html and follow the steps on that page.

Yeah I know, I just want the bonus stuff

 

[Iori Branford]

Exile. Avernum. Geneforge.

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