OK, what game shuold I get

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » April 11th, 2009, 14:03

new PC in the post, apparantly it's powerful enought to navigate the moon on a weekend jaunt through the Kuniper belt or something. Probably.

Anyway, point is that my last PC is 6 years old and struggled with HL2 / Portal so I never even bothered trying to drown it in newer games (ie last 2 years or so.

so......... what to get first? I'm almost certainly going to revive my eve account, if only to fly around see how pretty it is and then log off thinking "it's still eve and I'm still over it". HL2 and portal will probably get another run through but what's new / good / going to blow my pants off?

tyvmuchly

*generally like explosions, guns and car chases, fps, spaceships, rts, and all of the above exploding, less keen on tekken and all that.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » April 11th, 2009, 14:06

Well, I would have said Oblivion, but it doesn't match what you want.

Stalker is a good bet, so's Cod4.

Post by **deject** » April 11th, 2009, 14:15

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Bioshock
Fallout 3
COD4
Call of Juarez

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 11th, 2009, 15:27

Crysis. It's not a very good game but excellent to stress-test your new computer.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » April 11th, 2009, 15:28

Dawn of war 2

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 11th, 2009, 15:29

ooh, and any of the total war series, if you like RTS and world domination that is.

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 11th, 2009, 16:58

Team fortress 2.
Left4Dead.
Stalker and stalker clear sky. First one is a better story, second one is shinier.
Bioshock.
Dawn of war 2.
Burnout paradise.
H.A.W.X (it's great!)
FarCry 2
COD4 (not world at war though, the story is poo)

I'll say Oblivion, just because it's so damn purty once you put all the upgraded texture packs on it that's it's worth a sweep and walk around.

Godfather 2 is out now, looks good, haven't tried it yet.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 11th, 2009, 17:02

CoD4, no question, the SP is bloody awesome.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 11th, 2009, 17:22

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:CoD4, no question, the SP is the only saving grace to this utterly fucking derivative FPS cash-cow

Fixed.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R, and all it's add-ons (it has it's flaws, but it is still ace).

The Witcher (pure beardy, single player RPG lovely-ness)

Mass Effect (stinks of console but the plot makes the first play-through a corker)

I'd avoid Bioshock and Fallout 3. Cheaper, easier, and more fun to buy a bottle of Absinth; drink it, and then run as fast as you can into a brick wall.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » April 11th, 2009, 17:29

Oh yeah, The Witcher Enhanced Edition (as mentioned by Sheriff) is a good bet.

Not FPS'y but good anyway, and you've got SWORDS!

Post by **deject** » April 11th, 2009, 17:40

Sheriff Fatman wrote:Mass Effect (stinks of console but the plot makes the first play-through a corker)

I'd avoid Bioshock and Fallout 3. Cheaper, easier, and more fun to buy a bottle of Absinth; drink it, and then run as fast as you can into a brick wall.

Oh yes, I forgot about Mass Effect, thoroughly enjoyable.

I'm not sure why you don't like Fallout 3 or Bioshock, as they're rather quite awesome.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » April 11th, 2009, 17:53

deject wrote:
I'm not sure why you don't like Fallout 3 or Bioshock, as they're rather quite awesome.

They're awesome games until it dawns on you how fucking bored you are and go play something else.

Come to think of it there's quite a lot of those around - games that once loaded you play compulsively for week until suddenly you get distracted by the paint drying on your next door neigbour's wall. For some reason nothing can entice you to go to the effort of reloading the game to finish it, so it sits on your hard drive like a lost puppy. You keep meaning to finish it off, but there's always something better to do, like collecting a thousand bear arses in Generic MMONG.

Talking of spaceships, X3: Terran Conflict is a very shiny single player game that fits rights into that category.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 11th, 2009, 17:56

deject wrote:I'm not sure why you don't like Fallout 3 or Bioshock, as they're rather quite awesome.

I found them both to be paper-thin, plot-wise; bored the fuck out of me. Still, I remember we disagreed about Mass Effect, and I was proved wrong there

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 11th, 2009, 18:01

friznit wrote:Talking of spaceships, X3: Terran Conflict is a very shiny single player game that fits rights into that category.

**OPINION ALERT**

And yet it is really slow, utterly confusing and a total waste of hdd space as far as I'm concerned.

I got a bit bored of bioshock by the end, I'm glad it was short and you could vary the pace quite well. Fallout 3 I enjoyed from start to finish, but then I was waiting ten years for that game.

Post by **deject** » April 11th, 2009, 18:26

Sheriff Fatman wrote:
I found them both to be paper-thin, plot-wise; bored the fuck out of me. Still, I remember we disagreed about Mass Effect, and I was proved wrong there

Fallout 3's main quest is relatively thin, but the real meat of the game is in the vast expanse and all the side quests there are to discover. There's easily 40+ hours of side quests and exploration in the game.

Bioshock's plot is rather linear, and draws heavily from System Shock 2, but I wasn't bored at all when I played it. The gameplay was more bland than the plot I thought. Even at that it was a great game. *shrug*

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 11th, 2009, 18:47

Bioshock was passable.

Nothing particularly wrong with it, but linear shooter, uninspired story, and by the end, boring. I only completed it because I was feeling stubborn.

Not like say, a Half life game, where you only stop for essential biological functions, and only then if you really need to.

L4D and TF2 are fine, but both suffer from overplaying.

Hawx is just good clean arcade flight-simmish-type-thing fun.

CoD4, cheryl didn't like it, I imagine that was partly the hormones she was on at the time. The MP can be a bit inaccessible I think, especially on hardcore servers.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 11th, 2009, 18:56

deject wrote:
Fallout 3's main quest is relatively thin, but the real meat of the game is in the vast expanse and all the side quests there are to discover. There's easily 40+ hours of side quests and exploration in the game.

See, this is one of my major gripes about FO3. Yes, there are a multitude of side quests, and yes, they keep you occupied for hours outside the main quest. However, making shitty side-quests that in no way relate to the main quest is a cheap way of extending a poor game.

You can play FO3 two ways; stick to the main plot and finish in a few hours, or run around doing completely unrelated quests and get many more hours out of it. I applaud them for attempting to make an expansive game, some of the side quests were pretty good, but they were mere distractions; they had little bearing on the game as a whole.

Post by **deject** » April 11th, 2009, 19:08

That's the thing though, they aren't shitty. The side quests are often more entertaining and fun to do than the main quest. In fact, I prefer to think of them all as "main" quests really, the "your father" quest is the only one essential to finishing the game, sure, but the majority of the other ones are not lame throwaways. But I guess if you hate fun then so be it

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 11th, 2009, 19:15

Fallout 3, no comment, just do it
Unreal Tournament 3 is good for stress testing and a UT-style carnage every now and then is also good
Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, good games, used to suffer from overplaying syndrome, nowadays it's just an excuse
World of Warcraft don't even think about it.
Call of Duty 4
Day of Defeat: Source (it has dangerous brians, you don't need more reason than that)
Not-Quite-Dawn-Of-War 2
Red Alert 3

Post by **deject** » April 11th, 2009, 19:51

I don't get it, they're really the draw of the game. You're thrust out into this new world, it's only natural for you to explore.