Please recommend a PC game

[Seb]

I play one new game every five years. Last was Half Life 2 (and Portal). Wow! Before that GTA3. Oh I played Max Payne at some point, that was good. I'm finished with Championship Manager.

What's best from about 2008-2010, thank you?


Okay, I'm getting Painkiller and Amnesia The Dark Descent, which should take care of first personers. Starcraft 2 looks like a modern Command and Conquer Red Alert so I'll try that. Just Cause 2 should do for sandbox, right?

Are football games actually fun?

[Leus]

[pembo]

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, if you are willing to put up with the difficult levelling system, will keep you going for ages.

Amnesia, brave man. Never played anything as scary as that, really well made.

Starcraft 2 is probably not worth it, the game is all about multiplayer online. Don't get me wrong, the single player is decent, but the dedication to get to a reasonable standard so that you are winning is quite high.

I pretty much agree with what Leus has said, although I think Fallout 3 is better than New Vegas, but they are both still very good.


Football games are only good with friends and beers, give them a miss.

[Leus]

New Vegas because of playing blackjack in leopard-print pyjamas, lucky hat and shades. But Fallout 3 is roughly as good, I agree.

Oblivion loses it in the late game for me (compared with, say, Skyrim, or ME2 which I would choose ahead of any of my list), when the levelling system and repetitive endgame killed the buzz for me. I hear it can be modded into a very good game though.

[Lazarus]

Ruse


1st real team strategy game

tactical ww2 game


Link


Run ecomony , manage armies and upgrade etc.

Fake tanks etc makes Total War look dated. Basically command and conquer but a good game.
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[ReggieK]

Wisden cricket manager 1999.
Excellent all round game and can be got at a bargain price
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[Seb]

Got a bunch of those demoed up through Steam. Thanks chaps.

Already two of them don't start, in different ways! Is this common? Graphics card issues standard?

[Leus]

It depends. You need the latest drivers for sound and video cards. Steam will install video drivers for you if you check the menus in the steam app. To play modern games you need a reasonably decent graphics card, but other problems do obviously crop up.

[The Reverend]

For Christmas I bought myself Star Wars: The Old Republic (Best MMORPG?) Skyrim (Best RPG?) and Battlefield 3 (Best Online FPS?) but haven't got around to even loading one of them up yet, because I'm still playing Quake Live for free. Classic pure FPS gaming.

[Seb]

I've been playing Rome Total War since yesterday so thanks for the tip on that one. As games go I'm quite Rimmer.

[RobGibraltar]

Civ V
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[Seb]

I've literally been playing Rome for over 24 hours. I thought it was about 10am now.

[Seb]

[pembo]

That show was great, Time Commanders I think it was called?

[Checkov]

Time commanders with Eddie Mair I think, then went shit when the Hamster took over. Tell me if you find a live torrent.