PC Gaming...?
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Well you would probably want to specify a genre your interested in. For instance, you could like first person shooters, and someone would recommend to you Dangerous Waters, a objectively fantastic game, and you'd spend the next fifty hours playing Microsoft fucking excel and reading a five hundred and seventy page manual (not a guide, manual).
Just my suggestion.
Just my suggestion.
Download steam, buy the orange box and maybe Counter Strike if you have the money (this is for the cost of 1 new game). Profit?
Oh honorable mention to Company of Heroes and Age of Empires though Age is rather old now.
Oh honorable mention to Company of Heroes and Age of Empires though Age is rather old now.
My favourites are Left 4 Dead and Dawn of War II at the moment. Warcraft III's is a bucket of fun, Half Life series is brilliant, Portal. Just, really, avoid the ports, and look for the games designed specifically for the PC.
Ooh, and Crysis is good, I loved that.
Ooh, and Crysis is good, I loved that.
PCs have every game under the sun, what games do you like? Shooty shooty, stabby stabby? Zoomy zoomy?
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Fallout 3
Crysis
Orange Box (you'd have to be mental not to get a collection of 3 great games and 2 expansions for so cheap)
Some Call of Duty game
Another solid idea is get Steam (a program that lets you view various games and purchase them digitally) and look over their lists since it links directly to Meta Critic.
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Fallout 3
Crysis
Orange Box (you'd have to be mental not to get a collection of 3 great games and 2 expansions for so cheap)
Some Call of Duty game
Another solid idea is get Steam (a program that lets you view various games and purchase them digitally) and look over their lists since it links directly to Meta Critic.
Here here!Sephychu said:
Also... I did most of my PC gaming 10 years ago. Now it's more "I play what's on Kongregate if I'm going to be gaming on the computer." But I also play Command and Conquer: Generals, and Rise of Nations. Oh and I also have ZSNES, which is really sweet.
Oh, and it was a "not to mention" sort of thing, my quoting this and all, I also play Team Fortress 2, but it's not on my computer, it's on a friend's... cause I'm cheap.
Here is my review of Osmos.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.170506-Review-Osmos-PC (rating *****)
I also recommend Machinarium. Here is a review which I will write now. Machinarium is a really good point and click adventure game. It uses a revolutionary mouse pointer interface which may be new and surprising to console gamers buy you might come to love it. (rating *****)
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 is a really good strategy game about guiding a Civilization through history. It has the best title screen of any game ever and is probably a bargain now. (rating *****)
As for new releases there is Flotilla by blendo games. Demo review: Flotilla is a humorous game about exploring space. You explore a random galaxy and sometimes fight in 3d space battles which are not as confusing as you thing think they might be as they are turn based and don't have too many ships. (rating *****)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.170506-Review-Osmos-PC (rating *****)
I also recommend Machinarium. Here is a review which I will write now. Machinarium is a really good point and click adventure game. It uses a revolutionary mouse pointer interface which may be new and surprising to console gamers buy you might come to love it. (rating *****)
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 is a really good strategy game about guiding a Civilization through history. It has the best title screen of any game ever and is probably a bargain now. (rating *****)
As for new releases there is Flotilla by blendo games. Demo review: Flotilla is a humorous game about exploring space. You explore a random galaxy and sometimes fight in 3d space battles which are not as confusing as you thing think they might be as they are turn based and don't have too many ships. (rating *****)
A bunch of people have already said to set yourself up with a Steam account, I would add my recommendation to the list. Really, it depends on what type of games you like to play. The PC is a much better platform for certain types of games, like RTS games. There are a ton to choose from, and some have already been mentioned here. Star Craft and Rise of Nations come to mind. I suppose I would be remiss not to mention a game like The Sims, which also really only plays well on the PC.
Definitely get Company of Heroes. I'm pretty sure you can get the original, and both standalone expansions off steam for under $40. One of the best value purchases you can make. Company of Heroes is in my opinion one of the best RTS games ever made, and it's what made me convinced to get into serious PC gaming and build the gaming PC on which I am typing right now.
Medieval 2:Total War is an amazing game also, especially with mods like Stainless Steel and Third Age:Total War. I wouldn't recommend getting Empire or Napoleon Total War, as although those games look a bit better than stock Med 2(but not better looking than modded Med 2) both of those games have serious modding issues.
If you like FPS games, and especially realistic FPS games, get ARMA 2.
If you like Space simulators, get X3:Terran Conflict or X3: Reunion with the XTM mod.
And this goes without saying, but of course you need to get the Orange Box off Steam. TF2, Half Life 2, Portal, all for about $30 is amazing value.
Medieval 2:Total War is an amazing game also, especially with mods like Stainless Steel and Third Age:Total War. I wouldn't recommend getting Empire or Napoleon Total War, as although those games look a bit better than stock Med 2(but not better looking than modded Med 2) both of those games have serious modding issues.
If you like FPS games, and especially realistic FPS games, get ARMA 2.
If you like Space simulators, get X3:Terran Conflict or X3: Reunion with the XTM mod.
And this goes without saying, but of course you need to get the Orange Box off Steam. TF2, Half Life 2, Portal, all for about $30 is amazing value.
afrosan said:
If you want a crash course to PC gaming, go get some of the following: Orange Box, Baldurs gate, Deux Ex, Homeworlds, Sins of a Solar Empire, Daggerfall/Morrowind, Civ 4, BattleFeild 2, Starcraft, Diablo 2,Warcraft 3, X-COM series (on steam for like a $1) Company of Heroes, Freelancer and your pick of a random European developed RPG that doesn't suck (risen/gothic/the witcher).
Their all represent something pretty unique and distinctive about PC gaming not found on consoles, and have their own community styles and demographics. All of them have aged very well, and remain very playable. The only real exception is possibly the first X-com and Daggerfall. It isn't a inclusive list, but since you haven't specified any particular genre, they are all games with relatively broad appeal. If you like something from that list, go deeper.
Their isn't too many recent releases stuff on the list because for the majority of them, they all have relatively equivalent console versions anyway. Otherwise, if not, their heavily derived formulas set up in these previously mentioned games, and don't surpass the original in any way except graphics. Even then, most of the graphics are still pretty good. Only Deus Ex, Baldurs Gate, and Daggerfall will be noticeably bad.
What this says here and you also get to try a bunch of RTS's. Get the Orange box. This will give you TF2 as well as HL2 and Portal.Aby_Z said:
I would (personaly) get Warcraft 3 and/or Starcraft. Warcraft 3 I can vouch for being a very good game despite it's age, and is still played by other online I think. Starcraft I have never had but I have heard that it was very good. I would probably get the new one though.
TF2, Bad Company 2, both FPS's if your into that sort of thing, Plants vs Zombies as a time waster, get Mass Effect 2, anticipate Starcraft2 DEFINETLY, and perhaps Diablo 3 if you have the time or money.
Was gonna say CoH but you've covered it. Very fun tactical RTS. It's much less focused on base building than the classic RTS games (Starcraft, Command and Conquer) and more on controlling infantry squads or tanks. There's a demo up on Steam.Emphraim said:
The Orange Box is great if you have even a passing interest in shooters. Half-Life 2 and both expansions, as well as Team Fortress 2 and Portal. TF2 is a fantastic multiplayer shooter, HL2 is a modern classic, and Portal is...Portal.
Starcraft 2, if it ever comes out (although it is on the horizon, I can see the light).
Oh and um Tuesday/5.
Oh and um Tuesday/5.