Recommend me some PC games pls!

[chinangel]

I have a new gaming pc, for specs well...it can run crysis 3 at suggested specs, so it's a bit powerful I suppose. I am curious what people are playing so...lemme have it!

 

[Keoul]

Bioshock
Skyrim (mods are an awesome addition on PC)
Minecraft (Dling maps are also good)

Those 3 should satisfy most tastes, one with a good story, one with a lot of exploration but still with story and one just plain exploration.

 

[Crises^]

FPS:

Counter strike: GO
Battle field 3
team fortress 2
Half life 2

RPG: (so many different types of RPG on pc so kind of hard to suggest for you)

Witcher series
Skyrim
maybe try an mmo or a moba game like:

WOW
Guild wars 2
Dota 2
League of legends

RTS:

Total war series
Civilisation
Star craft 2

Racing:

Shift2

Horror:

Amnesia dark decent


Also try out Dayz when the stand alone comes out or if you like army sims get arma 2 and try the free dayz mod.
There is a lot of games I could suggest so if you let me know what kind of games your into I'll narrow it for you.
Also there are a lot of good free to play games also so don't be afraid to try multiple ones out.

 

[Ulkjen]

Let me start with cheap:
Free- Neverwinter, Planetside 2. The Hidden mod (need Steam), TeamFortress 2 Best ones off the top of my head.

Cheap- Terraria, Minecraft, Arma2 (with DayZ Mod), Audiosurf, Super Meat Boy, Mount and Blade Warband (Avoid With Fire and Sword... AVOID IT.), Skyrim.

I have no real suggestions for normal pricing games that are in the $50+ category. Bite me.

 

[moggett88]

Kerbal Space Program! Tons of fun, and its still in beta (I think) so should not be that expensive yet. I think you can buy it either through their own site or through Steam.

I play it nearly everyday (despite having had it for months already), and am jealous of your decent specs...(my bigger ships tend to require a graphical downgrade...)

 

[DazZ.]

There is no point in listing every good PC game.

What genres do you like and what sort of things do you want?
There are so many "top whatever games of whatever month" just asking for a load of good games is pointless and you could just find another thread with exactly the same content, unless you make it specific.

 

[The AmeriCanadian Gamer]

Xonotic. Xonotic. Xonotic. I can't promote this game enough. Its a hyper-fast arena shooter that is very satisfying. Its open source and 100% free. The NA population is low (the game really needs more promotion, hint hint escapist) but the EU scene is pretty good.

Go grab it at xonotic.org

I would also recommend Smite, TF2, Blacklight: Retribution and Tribes: Ascend. All really fun games that deserve a glance.

 

[joshthor]

Music Game: Audiosurf
Horror: Amnesia the dark descent
Platformer: Bastion, Braid, and Super Meat Boy
Shooter: CS:GO
RPG: Dragon Age: Origins, The Witcher
Stealth: Dishonored, Deus EX: HR
Strategy: FTL, Frozen Synapse
Moba: League of Legends

 

[Launcelot111]

Most of my time goes into either Binding of Isaac or League of Legends, which cost a total of $3 and run on my thoroughly average laptop. I have no idea what would put your shiny new PC to good use

 

[F'Angus]

Age of Empires 2 HD just got released on steam. If you're looking for an RTS game that'd be a good one to go for. Or any of the Total War series.

 

[MrsBloo]

DCUniverse Online! PSO 2 <3 Tomb raider is always good. Some one already said terraria and bioshock Infinite. I cant lie i like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, hmmm Dark Souls 2, Diablo, you can go old school and play the old Fall outs Remember Me, Starbound <--- just like terraria & of course minecraft. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, The Elder Scrolls Online, Broken Age, Dragon Age 3, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Battlefield 4, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Metro: Last Light, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Sims lol. some new some old, and not even out yet. but here ya are! there are lots more but maybe a batter question for the audience is to ask what type of games do you prefer? ^_^

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Metro 2033. That game looks beautiful at highest, but it puts my frames per second in the shitter. And metro last light probably. I haven't played it myself yet, but that game looks like it'll be better than its predecessor.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Team Fortress 2
Planetside 2
Blacklight Retribution
Left 4 Dead 2 ( Don't bother getting 1, all the levels in 1 got ported to 2)
The Elder Scrolls 4 oblivion ( With Mods)
The Elder Scrolls SKyrim ( With Mods, but I'd wait maybe till 2014 for more mods to come out)
Witcher 2
Witcher 1 ( If you can get into it. Read my review)
Rayman Origins ( Impossible without another player or your Jesus)
Sonic Generations ( Also, be sure to get Unleashed Project)
Counter Strike GLobal Offensive ( If you like that sort of thing)
Bioshock Infinite
Far Cry 3
Bioshock 1
Saints Row The Third
Mafia 2
Sleping Dogs
Hitman Absolution ( I'd get it on sale)
Both Batman games
Total War Shogun 2
Hard Reset
Alice Madness Returns
Dragon Age Origins ( Maybe. A bit unoptimised)
Bastion
Alice: Madness Returns
Entire Half Life Series
Black Mesa
Cry of Fear

That should keep you busy.

 

[Quazimofo]

FPS:

Counter strike: GO
Battle field 3
team fortress 2
Half life 2

RPG: (so many different types of RPG on pc so kind of hard to suggest for you)

Witcher series
Skyrim
maybe try an mmo or a moba game like:

WOW
Guild wars 2
Dota 2
League of legends

RTS:

Total war series
Civilisation
Star craft 2

Racing:

Shift2

Horror:

Amnesia dark decent


Also try out Dayz when the stand alone comes out or if you like army sims get arma 2 and try the free dayz mod.
There is a lot of games I could suggest so if you let me know what kind of games your into I'll narrow it for you.
Also there are a lot of good free to play games also so don't be afraid to try multiple ones out.

I'd like to expand on the RTS and RPG lists.
For more western RPGs, try out bioware's classics (KOTOR, first dragon age, jade empire etc.) or perhaps some of obsidian's or black isle's work. There are plenty of classics, though those are 3 good big names to get you started.
Mass effect the trilogy is worth playing though at least once; as even though quality varies from game to game and sub-arc to sub-arc, it is overall an excellent series.
For Jrpgs, a friend of mine recommends things such as final fantasy, last remnant, fire emblem, fire emblem, and fire emblem. (I cant remember more, and am not well versed with jrpgs... Wait, play persona 3 and 4. Everyone seems to like those. Anyway, I cant remember more, and jrpgs are far from my strong suit, popular opinion does have SOME merit).

For RTS
Supreme commander:
The land units cannot march in formation if you have more than 3. this is fact. Don't even bother trying. The games can drag on as well, the campaigns are fairly limited (no more than 20 missions across both the original game and forged allince, the expansion), and forged alliance's missions do like to pull some out of nowhere dick moves on you when the map expands, but it's an interesting experience and the 3 factions have just enough toys that it's worth trying them all out. For example, if you are a fan of the concept of land-battleships, both the UEF and Cybran have something for you, though the cybran are a bit more literal, and slow. Also, the scale is NUTS. End game you'll be cranking out hundreds mid-high tier units in but minutes.
Just remember, the prime ACU dies, you lose. And he's fragile. Keep it safe.

Star Wars: Empire at war
Ok i'm running out of time (in-class right now), so i'll make the rest of these short.
Space battles in this game kick ass. not terribly large scale so you can have fun with micro-managing and shooting specific hardpoints on the larger ships (i.e anything bigger than a corellian corvette, which is what leia was on in the opening of episode IV if you aren't a star wars geek).

Sins of a Solar Empire:
Supreme commander scale x1.5, and it's in space. It's awesome.

LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 2:
an interesting resource gathering system and a fun system for progression during the campaign, and I just enjoy the combat since it's unit based, and unit based is great.

Company of heroes:
It's great, and thanks to the cover system and attention to detail it's got plenty of room for some very fun micro-managing. Buy it. Buy it twice. I'ts "highest rated RTS of all time" with damn good reason.

Company of Heroes:
I wasn't kidding when i say buy it twice. its too late to save thq, but relic still earned that money.

As for the total war games. start with rome. It's still great and you learn to appreciate the advancements they've made since then. But seriously, start with Rome 1, then skip empire and napoleon, but play every one they have made since rome. Grand scale, nice tactical variety, great aesthetics, great unit variety, the grand campagin opens up even more options for putting your enemies in a corner before you even manage a battle yourself (because auto-resolve is sometimes your friend)



Edit:

Oh, and did i mention that the more recent total war games, and company of heroes, are absolutely beautiful? The graphical quality is truly amazing, and the animations are pretty good too.

 

[loc978]

For RTS
Supreme commander:
The land units cannot march in formation if you have more than 3. this is fact. Don't even bother trying. The games can drag on as well, the campaigns are fairly limited (no more than 20 missions across both the original game and forged allince, the expansion), and forged alliance's missions do like to pull some out of nowhere dick moves on you when the map expands, but it's an interesting experience and the 3 factions have just enough toys that it's worth trying them all out. For example, if you are a fan of the concept of land-battleships, both the UEF and Cybran have something for you, though the cybran are a bit more literal, and slow. Also, the scale is NUTS. End game you'll be cranking out hundreds mid-high tier units in but minutes.
Just remember, the prime ACU dies, you lose. And he's fragile. Keep it safe.

Further expansion: try out some mods. Black Ops adds all sorts of low and high-tier units (and makes the game much harder on your CPU), rebalances the game in interesting ways, and generally increases the scale of engagements.
...all of which necessitates a pretty powerful PC. I still have yet to meet an i7 system I can't tax to the nines with that 6-year-old game and its 17 processing threads.

Sins of a Solar Empire:
Supreme commander scale x1.5, and it's in space. It's awesome.

Unfortunately limited to a single processing thread. Expect much slowdown on any system ever built for large engagements, especially with the Star Wars mod [http://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-a-galactic-empire].
Still more than worth your time, though.

...and yes, those were the only recommendations I had for this thread. Everything else I really enjoy on PC is even older (or just retro with negligible system requirements, like Terraria).

 

[Tahaneira]

Age of Mythology. One of the best RTS games I have ever played and one I fanboy about to this very day. It's basically Age of Empires, but with gods and mythological monsters. How can that possibly be a bad thing.

 

[puff ball]

Jim sterling's video the beautiful irony of pc gaming is relevant for this thread. high end graphics do not a good pc game make here lies a list of lesser known (although i have no doubt fairly familiar to the escapist)titles i like all found on steam.

Depths of Peril
fallen enchantress
FTL
Mount and blade warband
reccettear an item shops tale
sanctum
terraria
vampire the masquerade bloodlines

these titles are light on the machine but heavy on the heart.also team fortress 2 is free play it play it now, no excuses.

 

[yamy]

Black Mesa! It's a remake of the original Half-Life with the new source engine and its completely free as long as you already own a game that runs on the Source engine.