PC games

[Fooz]

Hey guys im getting my first custom built gaming pc and i was wondering what games would be great to get.
Single player and multiplayer are both ok and i do prefer rpgs and fps but im open to suggestions

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb


Its not amazing but its good enough.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Recettear!

Just saying, it's damn good and cheap.

Beyond that... the Battlefield series?

 

[Solo-Wing]

http://svc.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/analysis.aspx This should help.

 

[mireko]

Dragon Age: Origins

Fallout: New Vegas

The Orange Box

These are all much better on the PC.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

My suggestions:

- MMO: Guild Wars
- FPS: Team Fortess 2
- RPG: Mount and Blade: Warband
- Strategy: King's Bounty: The Legend
- Other: Minecraft

 

[Danceofmasks]

The steam sale just ended, right? Missed the boat on cheap games there ...

Anyhow, for a fans of rpg and fps, I'd recommend Deus Ex.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Batman: Arkham Asylum (recommend getting a wired 360 controller for games like these, roughly $20)

Actually, Batman: Arkham Asylum controls better with mouse + keyboard.
As opposed to Assassin's Creed 2, which doesn't.

 

[Georgie_Leech]

If you enjoy Western RPGs... rather, RPG's in gener- no, wait, any kind of adventure lover...

Screw it, if you like games at all, you'll probably like this:

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/baldurs_gate_2_complete#s_0

 

[Oxford The Cat]

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb

Yikes, that will be one under performing machine.

The Core i5 cpus are way down in price now that the i7 is out, I'd take that over any similarly priced Phenom chipset.

Put at least 8 GB of RAM in it as well, Vista and 7 use quite a bit, and so will everything else on it once you get going (Anti-virus, etc.)
Aside from that, ensure that you get an 800 / 900 watt power supply or it will be under performing because it doesn't have the juice it needs.


Edit: Sorry, I thought you were looking for rig suggestions when I first glanced.
Take whatever money you were going to spend on a game and put it into RAM, and a power supply if it's below 700 watt.

Then go for Oblivion with mods from TesNexus and Fallout NV with mods from NVNexus.
Mount & Blade: Warband is also a good time.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb

Yikes, that will be one under performing machine.

The Core i5 cpus are way down in price now that the i7 is out, I'd take that over any similarly priced Phenom chipset.

Put at least 8 GB of RAM in it as well, Vista and 7 use quite a bit, and so will everything else on it once you get going (Anti-virus, etc.)
Aside from that, ensure that you get an 800 / 900 watt power supply or it will be under performing because it doesn't have the juice it needs.


Edit: Sorry, I thought you were looking for rig suggestions when I first glanced.
Take whatever money you were going to spend on a game and put it into RAM, and a power supply if it's below 700 watt.

Then go for Oblivion with mods from TesNexus and Fallout NV with mods from NVNexus.
Mount & Blade: Warband is also a good time.

Em isn't 8 gbs a bit excessive at the moment?

FPS: Battlefield games and CoD(maybe preferably older ones), TF2, CS, L4D games and Red Faction, Orange Box(which has TF2), Killing Floor.
RPG: Knights of the Old Republic, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate games, Divine Divinity, Guild Wars(is online but heavily instanced), Titan Quest, Mass Effect games Morrowind and Oblivion.
RTS: Dawn of War series and Company of Heroes series, Battle for Middle Earth games, Age of games, Dragonshard(isn't that good compared to others) Startcraft and Command and Conquer. Total War series is good but quite different style to others mentioned while DoW2 is similar to others focuses heavily on actual territory control and unit micro.
Others: Puzzle Quest games, Beyond Good and Evil, Hawx(for cheap), DMC 3 & 4 and PoP games.

 

[Binerexis]

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb

Yikes, that will be one under performing machine.

The Core i5 cpus are way down in price now that the i7 is out, I'd take that over any similarly priced Phenom chipset.

Put at least 8 GB of RAM in it as well, Vista and 7 use quite a bit, and so will everything else on it once you get going (Anti-virus, etc.)
Aside from that, ensure that you get an 800 / 900 watt power supply or it will be under performing because it doesn't have the juice it needs.


Edit: Sorry, I thought you were looking for rig suggestions when I first glanced.
Take whatever money you were going to spend on a game and put it into RAM, and a power supply if it's below 700 watt.

Then go for Oblivion with mods from TesNexus and Fallout NV with mods from NVNexus.
Mount & Blade: Warband is also a good time.

Em isn't 8 gbs a bit excessive at the moment?

You may as well throw 8gb in a machine but only if you have a 64bit system. If you have a 32bit system, it wouldn't get utilized.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb

Yikes, that will be one under performing machine.

The Core i5 cpus are way down in price now that the i7 is out, I'd take that over any similarly priced Phenom chipset.

Put at least 8 GB of RAM in it as well, Vista and 7 use quite a bit, and so will everything else on it once you get going (Anti-virus, etc.)
Aside from that, ensure that you get an 800 / 900 watt power supply or it will be under performing because it doesn't have the juice it needs.


Edit: Sorry, I thought you were looking for rig suggestions when I first glanced.
Take whatever money you were going to spend on a game and put it into RAM, and a power supply if it's below 700 watt.

Then go for Oblivion with mods from TesNexus and Fallout NV with mods from NVNexus.
Mount & Blade: Warband is also a good time.

Em isn't 8 gbs a bit excessive at the moment?

You may as well throw 8gb in a machine but only if you have a 64bit system. If you have a 32bit system, it wouldn't get utilized.

Even with 64 bit I still think it is a tad much. Not so much on the needed side but on the money side but I suppose it all depends on his budget and what he is getting OS wise.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

Cpu: amd phenom II
Gpu:gtx 460
Ram: 4gb

Yikes, that will be one under performing machine.

The Core i5 cpus are way down in price now that the i7 is out, I'd take that over any similarly priced Phenom chipset.

Put at least 8 GB of RAM in it as well, Vista and 7 use quite a bit, and so will everything else on it once you get going (Anti-virus, etc.)
Aside from that, ensure that you get an 800 / 900 watt power supply or it will be under performing because it doesn't have the juice it needs.


Edit: Sorry, I thought you were looking for rig suggestions when I first glanced.
Take whatever money you were going to spend on a game and put it into RAM, and a power supply if it's below 700 watt.

Then go for Oblivion with mods from TesNexus and Fallout NV with mods from NVNexus.
Mount & Blade: Warband is also a good time.

I've go most newer games on PC and I run all of them at full screen, max rez, max settings with no FPS drops at all and im on an quad core 3.2ghz AMD processor and an older GPU (nvidia 260)

Intel is a bit overpriced for the performance you get IMO.

OP that rig as long as it's dual core and up will run games just nicely. You might need to turn down the AA a bit but you'll be fine, don't let people talk smack about you having an AMD processor. They are awesome.

8gb is overkill. I can run a web browser with multiple tabs open,2 instances of wow, windows media player streaming videos from my server all on 3 monitors at the same time without any noticeable lag in performance. I cap out at around 75% ram usage with just 4 GB.

 

[octafish]

A quick couple.

Minecraft, jump on the Beta don't mess with the classic. Dig, baby, dig.

STALKER any and all games, moddable and imersive, they may stretch you machine a little but it will still look better than a console game.

The Witcher, the gameplay isn't super and the inventory system is a little umm retro but it has the most mature moral choices of any game I can remember.

Bad Company 2 is the best Multi around, but get TF2 as well.

 

[Oxford The Cat]

.....and an older GPU (nvidia 260)

OP that rig as long as it's dual core and up will run games just nicely. You might need to turn down the AA a bit but you'll be fine, don't let people talk smack about you having an AMD processor. They are awesome.

8gb is overkill. I can run a web browser with multiple tabs open,2 instances of wow, windows media player streaming videos from my server all on 3 monitors at the same time without any noticeable lag in performance. I cap out at around 75% ram usage with just 4 GB.

Not wishing to be confrontational, but there is a distinct smell of 'something rotten in Denmark' coming from this post.....

... firstly, using a game released in 2004 with a minimum RAM requirement of 512k and GPU RAM of 32MB as a benchmark is hardly useful when someone is purchasing a PC for gaming in 2011.

Secondly, given that my rig occasionally gets busy with 8GB under certain circumstances and at max settings I call shenanigans on the claim that yours does just fine at with "newer games" at 4 GB... unless of course they're not run at anywhere near max settings / res.

Thirdly, and perhaps most tellingly, a 260 can only run two monitors at once. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from that.

Bottom line is, if you're going through the trouble to build it, build it right so that it will run next year's games, not just games from 2004. It will be marginally more expensive and generally more pleasant to use.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

OP that rig as long as it's dual core and up will run games just nicely. You might need to turn down the AA a bit but you'll be fine, don't let people talk smack about you having an AMD processor. They are awesome.

8gb is overkill. I can run a web browser with multiple tabs open,2 instances of wow, windows media player streaming videos from my server all on 3 monitors at the same time without any noticeable lag in performance. I cap out at around 75% ram usage with just 4 GB.

Not wishing to be confrontational, but there is a distinct smell of 'something rotten in Denmark' coming from this post.....

... firstly, using a game released in 2004 with a minimum RAM requirement of 512k as a benchmark is hardly useful when someone is purchasing a PC for gaming in 2011.

Secondly, given that my rig occasionally gets busy with 8GB at max settings I call shenanigans on the claim that yours does just fine at with "newer games" at 4 GB... unless of course they're not run at anywhere near max settings / res.

Thirdly, and perhaps most tellingly, a 260 can only run two monitors at once. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from that.

Bottom line is, if you're going through the trouble to build it, build it right so that it will run next year's games, not just games from 2004. It will be marginally more expensive and generally more pleasant to use.

ok, I play black ops while streaming music etc as well with no problems at all. none. maxed out settings etc. I have a second video card that runs the 3rd monitor in my sli slot that isnt in SLI mode it exists only to run my 3rd monitor.

to prove my point by your standards I just opened 2 copies of black ops on both monitors (the two hooked to the 260) loaded up a map and I was still at maybe 80% with TWO copies open of a game that was released less than a year ago with pandora streaming and this webpage open and wow running in the background.

What I was trying to portray here is that 8gb of ram really isnt an issue. if the person is strapped on cash and wants both good performance in a build and wants to have money left over to buy games. 4gb of ram will do just fine and still offer them good performance.

 

[MrTub]

OP that rig as long as it's dual core and up will run games just nicely. You might need to turn down the AA a bit but you'll be fine, don't let people talk smack about you having an AMD processor. They are awesome.

8gb is overkill. I can run a web browser with multiple tabs open,2 instances of wow, windows media player streaming videos from my server all on 3 monitors at the same time without any noticeable lag in performance. I cap out at around 75% ram usage with just 4 GB.

Not wishing to be confrontational, but there is a distinct smell of 'something rotten in Denmark' coming from this post.....

... firstly, using a game released in 2004 with a minimum RAM requirement of 512k as a benchmark is hardly useful when someone is purchasing a PC for gaming in 2011.

Secondly, given that my rig occasionally gets busy with 8GB at max settings I call shenanigans on the claim that yours does just fine at with "newer games" at 4 GB... unless of course they're not run at anywhere near max settings / res.

Thirdly, and perhaps most tellingly, a 260 can only run two monitors at once. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from that.

Bottom line is, if you're going through the trouble to build it, build it right so that it will run next year's games, not just games from 2004. It will be marginally more expensive and generally more pleasant to use.

8gb ram is overkill. I got a q9550 2,88ghz intel processor and a gtx 480 and I can play crysis warhead with full settings (1920x1200) with Opera ( around 10 tabs) Vent, speed fan,tuneup spotify,utorrent,AVG, steam, MSI afterburner and lots more and I got 4gb ddr2 ram and I still cap at around 85-90% so you can play perfectly fine with 4gb but if you would buy a new computer these days I would atleast get 6gb just so I know that i have a lot more then I need.

PS I'm using 64bit w7

 

[Chibz]

Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2, Civ 2 Gold or Test of Time. Whatever floats your boat.