PC games, Any suggestions?

[Eduku]

Go with the Witcher, it's great and not really all that sexist. Geralt just has sex with a lot of women, but it's not like they're portrayed as lesser beings or anything.

Yeah, every time I hear 'sexist' and 'The Witcher' together, I feel like kicking a baby rabbit or something.

 

[Aeshi]

Killing Floor and Alien Swarm are pretty good and don't cost a lot (Alien Swarm is free)

 

[Beryl77]

You have the Orange box, so I assume you've played Portal. Portal 2 will be released in February 9 and so far it looks amazing and if you've liked Portal 1 you should really get this one.

 

[repeating integers]

*standard OJN game recommendation, coming riiiight up*

Homeworld.

The single best RTS (and, IMO, game) of all time. 11 years old, but the only thing that's aged is the graphics.

A whole slew of my fanboyish reasons for choosing the pure awesomness of Homeworld can be found here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.233628-A-Complete-Game?page=2#8250565

Other than Homeworld, the Mass Effect games are pretty good on the 360, I can't imagine they'd get any worse on PC. Same for Halo 2 (and the guy who said you should buy Call of Duty instead - not gonna name any names, you know who you are - well... catch fire and die, please). Dunno about Halo: CE, I haven't had the fortune of playing it yet.

 

[DSK-]

Here is a list of games I have enjoyed for the PC:

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic (1 & 2)
Max Payne
Unreal Tournament (released in 1999)
Black & White
Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Most Wanted
Neverwinter nights 2
Supreme Commander
Total Annihilation
Quake 3
Warcraft 3 & Frozen Throne
Starcraft & Brood War
Homeworld 1 & 2

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Go with the Witcher, it's great and not really all that sexist. Geralt just has sex with a lot of women, but it's not like they're portrayed as lesser beings or anything.

Yeah, every time I hear 'sexist' and 'The Witcher' together, I feel like kicking a baby rabbit or something.

Besides, most of it is completely optional.

Deus Ex is also defenatly worth taking a look at, it is the best PC game ever.

 

[Merkavar]

get the witcher. i liked it. it had a good story and the consequences for you actions show up 2 hours later so you cant just reload a saved game.

i also like the combat system and the alchemy system.

 

[Slavik_91]

the whole C&C series apart from Tiberian Twilight
Mafia II
Civ V

 

[RanD00M]

Mount and Blade: Warband will eat up many, many, many hours of your life.

 

[vivalahelvig]

Naturally you should also buy Mafia, possibly Mafia 2, definitely PoP: Sands of Time and definitely KotOR.

Hey is mafia 2 good? like is it really fun and stuff, im thinking of buying it (when it goes on sale on steam)

 

[Squilookle]

Crysis makes for an excellent pseudo non-linear game, and whilst the story's a bit lacklustre it's far better than anyone gives it credit for; just like with people, if you're pretty you're instantaneously deemed shallow.

You do realise it was specifically Crysis and Doom 3 that codified that saying, don't you? And with good reason. Besides, she's played Far Cry 2 so she won't find anything better in Crysis...

If you want tropical jungle mayhem just get Just Cause 2. It will have something in it to entertain you until the day you die.

 

[Woodsey]

Naturally you should also buy Mafia, possibly Mafia 2, definitely PoP: Sands of Time and definitely KotOR.

Hey is mafia 2 good? like is it really fun and stuff, im thinking of buying it (when it goes on sale on steam)

Depends on what you want from it.

The first thing to know is that despite the open-world, it's not a sandbox like GTA and there's no real interest in allowing the player to branch from the storyline. You can, but I doubt you'll find yourself wanting too.

The acting is astounding, it looks great on even an average rig, the gunplay feels weighty and solid and the driving on simulation is great.

My real issue with the game is that it starts far stronger then it ends, and they seemed to get so trigger happy with cutting stuff they couldn't get to work that you don't get to know some of the characters anywhere near as well as you should.

Still, I really enjoyed it (as my 52 hours of game time on Steam should tell you...) and would still thoroughly recommend it, if only because there's nothing else quite like it on the market.

I'd play on hard first, and depending on how you play you'll get anywhere from 10-15 hours on that difficulty.

 

[Vault101]

You have the Orange ox, so I assume you've played Portal. Portal 2 will be released in February 9 and so far it looks amazing and if you've liked Portal 1 you should really get this one.

I would be insane not too

 

[Woodsey]

Crysis makes for an excellent pseudo non-linear game, and whilst the story's a bit lacklustre it's far better than anyone gives it credit for; just like with people, if you're pretty you're instantaneously deemed shallow.

You do realise it was specifically Crysis and Doom 3 that codified that saying, don't you? And with good reason. Besides, she's played Far Cry 2 so she won't find anything better in Crysis...

What the fu-

Crysis and Far Cry 2 are nothing alike.

 

[Imbechile]

Deus ex best game EVER!

 

[Rickyvantof]

Company of Heroes
Best RTS ever

 

[Googenstien]

PLanescape Torment from GOG.com is only 9.99. Its one of the best story RPG ever and is still tons of fun to play.

I was so pissed for years that I bought the game and somehow it disappeared, now for 10 bucks I can download it and its been enhanced to work on all new OS's. Yes the game is from 1999, but its well worth it.

 

[Vault101]

Go with the Witcher, it's great and not really all that sexist. Geralt just has sex with a lot of women, but it's not like they're portrayed as lesser beings or anything.

Yeah your probably right, by sexist I ment games that are like "OOHHHH LOOK BOOOOOOOOOOOOBS!!!!" But most title's are a little more mature than that anyway and they are video games so its kinda silly of me to complain

 

[jamesworkshop]

Crysis makes for an excellent pseudo non-linear game, and whilst the story's a bit lacklustre it's far better than anyone gives it credit for; just like with people, if you're pretty you're instantaneously deemed shallow.

You do realise it was specifically Crysis and Doom 3 that codified that saying, don't you? And with good reason. Besides, she's played Far Cry 2 so she won't find anything better in Crysis...

What the fu-

Crysis and Far Cry 2 are nothing alike.

More importantly Crysis stomps over Farcry 2

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry-2

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/crysis


Ignoring the graphics delta and Farcry 2 is worse than the first Farcry
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry

 

[Woodsey]

Crysis makes for an excellent pseudo non-linear game, and whilst the story's a bit lacklustre it's far better than anyone gives it credit for; just like with people, if you're pretty you're instantaneously deemed shallow.

You do realise it was specifically Crysis and Doom 3 that codified that saying, don't you? And with good reason. Besides, she's played Far Cry 2 so she won't find anything better in Crysis...

What the fu-

Crysis and Far Cry 2 are nothing alike.

More importantly Crysis stomps over Farcry 2

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry-2

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/crysis


Ignoring the graphics delta and Farcry 2 is worse than the first Farcry
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry

Metacritic doesn't really prove anything (although I would agree that Crysis is far better).