List Your Favorite PC Games
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Mine is Far Cry. Absolutely love it.
Medieval total war and runescape. I don't play anything else.
A game I've been enjoying recently is DEFCON, released by Introversion, an independent game developer in the UK. Basically, it's global thermonuclear war, played out against up to five opponents. Plus it's only £10, and free to download the demo.
Depends on the genre, but one's I've been playing lately are:
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (best looking urban combat FPS)
Condemned: Criminal Origins (awesome melee fighting game with best in-door graphics)
Civilization 4
Psychonauts (hilarious adventure game)
Battle for Middle-Earth II (RTS game)
Tomb Raider: Legend (adventure game with beautiful graphics)
And I have a crapload of other games which are also awesome, but these are the ones I've been playing lately since listing my favs would be too long and I tend to not buy a game that isn't good in the first place, heh.
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Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (best looking urban combat FPS)
Condemned: Criminal Origins (awesome melee fighting game with best in-door graphics)
Civilization 4
Psychonauts (hilarious adventure game)
Battle for Middle-Earth II (RTS game)
Tomb Raider: Legend (adventure game with beautiful graphics)
And I have a crapload of other games which are also awesome, but these are the ones I've been playing lately since listing my favs would be too long and I tend to not buy a game that isn't good in the first place, heh.
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Favorite single player game:
Prey--for first person shooters, this one is it. If you think you've seen it all, this game will surprise and probably shock you. First, it uses the Doom3 engine, except it's modified. It runs about as smoothly FPS-wise as Doom3 and it is about as demanding on the hardware. You play as a Cherokee indian guy who gets abducted with his girlfiend by aliens, but you, the protagonist has special powers. You can switch from normal mode and spirit mode, which allows you do to special things, like see things that aren't normally there, and get through special passages.
The graphics are simply amazing. Like I said, it's about as demanding of the hardware as Doom3, but the graphics and visuals are quite a bit better. The lighting and the realism of the models are much improved. Your guy uses mainly alien weapons that are biological, so they're wet and slimy looking. And the way the light shines on the weapons as you pass by light sources is--well, you just have to see it. The special effects are amazing, the force fields, the spirit mode, all interact and change the way you see things. Very immersive.
The game play is what really makes the game unique. This is the first game I've played in a long time that has really fucked with me. The enemies are intelligent and pretty challenging, even for normal difficulty. But the game is still a bit too easy. A lot of the game takes place on an alien ship, which the artists did an excellent job on. But this is the first game that has introduced (to my knowledge) a true seemless warp gate. You walk up to a thin panel, and you can see what's on the other side, just by looking at it. Walk behind it--nothing. Just the opposite side. But walk THROUGH it and it takes you to another place. Doesn't stop for a game load or anything. Doesn't even chop up. Very weird and very trippy.
The game also does some VERY weird gravity effects. So if you're not completely confused by the seemless teleporters, you will be fucked up by the gravity switches. There's nothing that fucks with your orientation more than navigating through an area when the gravity keeps getting switched. One moment, you're walking on the floor. The next, you're on the ceiling, the next, you're on the walls. You're trying to get your bearings, while throwing grenades at enemies, and instead of falling, your grenades appear to fall upwards, or sideways, if you happen to be walking on a wall. It is awesome.
You also drive a spacecraft that wraps around you and shoots fireballs and has a tractor beam. Driving it around is a lot of fun and the levels you travel through are beautifully done. The artists did a wonderful job.
I found myself saying, "Holy shit!" a lot when I was playing this game. If you've never played this game and you like FPS games, you cannot miss it. In my opinion, it is about on par, maybe even better than Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2 is really good too.
For multiplayer, my favorite is Far Cry. Mainly because I am awesome at it.
Prey--for first person shooters, this one is it. If you think you've seen it all, this game will surprise and probably shock you. First, it uses the Doom3 engine, except it's modified. It runs about as smoothly FPS-wise as Doom3 and it is about as demanding on the hardware. You play as a Cherokee indian guy who gets abducted with his girlfiend by aliens, but you, the protagonist has special powers. You can switch from normal mode and spirit mode, which allows you do to special things, like see things that aren't normally there, and get through special passages.
The graphics are simply amazing. Like I said, it's about as demanding of the hardware as Doom3, but the graphics and visuals are quite a bit better. The lighting and the realism of the models are much improved. Your guy uses mainly alien weapons that are biological, so they're wet and slimy looking. And the way the light shines on the weapons as you pass by light sources is--well, you just have to see it. The special effects are amazing, the force fields, the spirit mode, all interact and change the way you see things. Very immersive.
The game play is what really makes the game unique. This is the first game I've played in a long time that has really fucked with me. The enemies are intelligent and pretty challenging, even for normal difficulty. But the game is still a bit too easy. A lot of the game takes place on an alien ship, which the artists did an excellent job on. But this is the first game that has introduced (to my knowledge) a true seemless warp gate. You walk up to a thin panel, and you can see what's on the other side, just by looking at it. Walk behind it--nothing. Just the opposite side. But walk THROUGH it and it takes you to another place. Doesn't stop for a game load or anything. Doesn't even chop up. Very weird and very trippy.
The game also does some VERY weird gravity effects. So if you're not completely confused by the seemless teleporters, you will be fucked up by the gravity switches. There's nothing that fucks with your orientation more than navigating through an area when the gravity keeps getting switched. One moment, you're walking on the floor. The next, you're on the ceiling, the next, you're on the walls. You're trying to get your bearings, while throwing grenades at enemies, and instead of falling, your grenades appear to fall upwards, or sideways, if you happen to be walking on a wall. It is awesome.
You also drive a spacecraft that wraps around you and shoots fireballs and has a tractor beam. Driving it around is a lot of fun and the levels you travel through are beautifully done. The artists did a wonderful job.
I found myself saying, "Holy shit!" a lot when I was playing this game. If you've never played this game and you like FPS games, you cannot miss it. In my opinion, it is about on par, maybe even better than Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2 is really good too.
For multiplayer, my favorite is Far Cry. Mainly because I am awesome at it.
FarCry was the first game that made me realise graphics could really make a game.
RTS would have be the C & C games the next addition is out next year, I can't wait.
At the moment I am playing Age Of Empires 3 it Okay but it doesnt have as much action as I would like. But Im new to it and only playing it on easy so far.
Also I have Rome Total wars which I know will be good as Medival wars is a great game.
RTS would have be the C & C games the next addition is out next year, I can't wait.
At the moment I am playing Age Of Empires 3 it Okay but it doesnt have as much action as I would like. But Im new to it and only playing it on easy so far.
Also I have Rome Total wars which I know will be good as Medival wars is a great game.
lol, those games were so much fun to play multiplayer with friends. I remember playing my buddies at Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. We'd dial each other up on our 14000 baud modems and connect through the setup program. Especially Doom and Doom 2 because the games were so simple and it was easy to create levels, so we'd create our own WADs and play those.
Duke Nukem was fun too. "Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. But I'm all out of gum."
Oh, I loved the build engine!! Have you ever played Redneck Rampage? I still find myself coming back to that one (even though it's slightly unpredictable in XP). Such good memories linked to those games.
<i>Half Life II.</i> That's all you need to know.
I got two abyssal whip drops last night...that's 3.8 million...
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