Now I used to be a massive gamer years ago when Halflife and the like were out but I have really lost touch with it all over the years, my PC is due to be replaced and I am going to get a decent spec machine to play games, I was wondering what the folks here rate as their favourite games currently.

I have seen bloodbowl mentioned I will check this out I used to like Xcom that is the best TBS I have seen but I also loved total war, I still have never seen world at war people seem to rave about that!


So what are your top 5 current games for the PC

I only really play 3 so havnt got a top 5 sorry

#1 - GTA IV : like the randomness and the messin about you can do ! not just the killing people but the graphics too ! the missions are good to work through too : dont like multiplayer too much

#2 - COD 4 : good on Multiplayer - love it - Im not that good though but i do ok/real good sometimes : single players good too but i aint played it too much and haven't got right far at all

#3 - COD 2 : like the old war style of this version of COD : it plays good too : im sure a mate once told me that this was supposed to be better than COD 3


ill have to try the cod 5 sometime but i even heard that wasn't much special ! it might be ok after a doo or two on it though !

Are they on the PC JC?, I have an Xbox and I play all that type of game on that, seeing how my PC has had it I thought I may as well get a good one so I can check out games likw world of war and that empire total war look good

Cheers for the input though mate

On the PC Electric man yea

i got a 2.4 quad core in december : Radeon 4870 : 4 gig of ram

all run fantastic : and with a good laser mouse and keyboard

X box pad works with GTA IV ,, i got one for drivin and use mouse and keys to shoot !

pc's rock for shootin games !

atb

Nice one JC I am looking at graphics cards now, the 4870 looks good but I have seen people say ATI cards cause glitches and NVidia are better?, I will have a good luck buying a graphics card is a black art

I wont go into my top 5 games of all time but these are my top 5 that I've played recently. I've not been play any FPS recently though.

Empire Total amazing game huge battles and an Empire to run to boot. You mentioned it so I wont go on.

Neverwinter Nights 2 super RPG game can't think of a better character creation game as it's based on AD&D and comes with a huge amount of options spells items ect. It's been out for a while but still looks good. It's around £7.50 to buy and is well worth it. Mask Of The Betrayer Expansion Pack is also pretty good, but thought Storm Of Zehir Expansion Pack was a pile of toss. Great single player very geeky multiplayer depending on what server you use, but your expected to stay in character and join a forum on most.

Dawn of War 2 I know there are alot of haters because it changed formats, but I really like it and runs really well on my lappy. Plus there are a ton of new maps coming out and a couple of weeks along with a map editor.

Speaking of Relic Company of Heroes is fucking amazing! If you like micro management combat games and it will test your rig to the max on high settings. Great multiplayer and single player. Again it's been out for a while so you can pick it up dirt cheap, but be warned the patches will take hours as Relic are super proactive when it comes to patching.

And lastly I've posted enough about it Blood Bowl. It's a tough game to play when your getting beat because you cant just go GG and quit like you can in most other games. Players age and die, but the game goes on.

Ones to watch out for.

Star Craft 2 Can't wait for this one as I missed the first one comes out around September

CoD Mod 2 not sure when its out but I'll be there

Battlefield 1943 out before the end of the year The battlefield series is by far the greatest FPS made to date.

I am defo getting empire it look brilliant, thanks for the input parka boy at the minute gaming is massive there is so many games these days its hard to keep up.

Defo looking to get a saphire 4870 x2 2Gb, is that the one you got JC?, anyone else have any experience with this?

Fave games I keep going back to

Rome Total War, DungeonKeeper, Star wars Knights of the Old republic, Elder Scrolls Oblivion, COD4

e2a
Empire TW looks amazing but I dont think my pc could run it

now don't get me wrong, i like shooters, rpg's, adventures etc.

but racing games and driving sims are the creme de la bollox of pc gaming for me

some memorable one's include

test drive unlimited

gtr 1&2 (gtr2 with the drift mod and logitech momo force feedback wheel = heavan )

gt legends


as for shooters far cry was awesome and i wanna try crysis but havent got it yet


the monkey island series was always a fave of mine, can't wait to see if they will do a "monkey island 5"

Fallout 3 easily one of the best PC games of recent times. and if you haven't played it already, don't forget Half Life 2! C&C3/RA3 is quite good on the RTS front, quite similar to thier predicessors. Along with most of those already mentioned, should keep you busy for a while

Having just built and old school gaming rig I havn't found anything that will tempt me off the xbox.

The settlers is keeping me entertained for a bit but its bollx really, just bought COD4 but tis not all that on the PC. COD5 was balls on the xbox so will be balls on the PC Crysis is just a overhyped graphics look what we can do with our engine showoff.

So in answer to the origional post...... dunno not found anything yet but let me know if you do

p.s i may have got out of bed the wrong side today!

Volc.

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Had ATI cards my whole life as have all the boys at work not had any probs with any of them, know a few ppl who are realy anti Nvidia. you card you want is the Asus mars check it out haha then see if you can a. afford one b. find one of the 1000 that havnt already been sold

Total war series, medieval II especially!

Great stuff if ya ask me. I wish they'd make some nice graphic adventures like they used to, maybe they still do :?:

SOF2, SOF2, SOF2, SOF2 AND SOF2

I like first person shooters.

Fallout 3 is hard to get into at first, it seem a bit boaring, but once you're into it it's soooo good. Half Life is just widely regarded as a must play. Call of Duty 5 is sweet. I love Bio Shock but it's a bit of a pig resources wise (don't even bother with it if you've got a realtek audio card). Crysis and crysis warhead blow you away IF you can get the framerate.

Fallout 3 isn't a simple fun shooter like the rest, but it's at the top of my 5 cause you can play it multiple times and still descover stuff you didn't the first time round. Complex and satisfying with a lot of choices to be made.

1. Half Life 2
2. Fallout 3
3. Crysis / Warhead
4. Call of Duty 5
5. Bio Shock

e2a, I know I said fallout 3 is at the top of my list, but half life 2 is just essential.

It's an amazing game. The only weakness I think it has is that there really isn't much difference in the troops you get from country to country so it has less replay value than the other Total Wars.

Oh yeah I think it's ubershitty that they don't just give you all the units and depending on what version and where you buy the game depends on what "free" () unit you get. Very cheap if you ask me, I mean do they expect people to buy multiply copies so you can have the complete game?

But it's great not being able to cavalry spam thanks to the square formation. If I had to change one thing about the game it wouldn't be to add fantasy units to add variation, but would be to make it that your general didn't die within 2 secs of being in combat. The AI will do it's best to attack your general and RT so it's a good idea to keep your reserves in square formation around them and behind your main line.

Combat has alot to with moral now and a general is the linchpin that holds your army on the field. RT does a better job damaging to moral than it does killing troops until late tech.

It does make for more stratagy than the past games. I'm not sure if they have patched it but last time I played there was a bug in the game that made it impossible to finish the British campaign as the game would constantly crash (Something to do with the native yanks.)

defintely go with

Bioshock - amazing atmosphere and storie and graphics

COD4 - all round sick as fuck needed to be longer...

Crysis - just to trip out in the spaceship and see what all the fuzz was about

Oblivion if youve got a year of your life to spare/waste

Doom 3 its old but still looks amazing and in the dark with sound up its hardcore!

and there just the fps which imo is where pc gaming is at...



they do need to bringback those adventure games like monkey island though with todays technology...

GRID is good if you are into racing games,

Devil May Cry 4 isn't bad either.

Can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned.

Minesweeper , Solataire and Chess too

fps

I loved dungeon keeper, glad someone else liked it too!

I spend more time on My PS3 or x-360, but when it comes to PC - for me, I love Battlefield 2. The game rocks

omg i havent played BF2 in years, i'm playing cod4 etc on the ps3, i forgot about BF2 after reading this and being reminded i feel like going and buying a top spec pc just to play BF2 again, BEST FPS EVER .... i was waiting for battlefield on the ps3 for a long time only to be badly dissapointed they just cant get it right on a console, and i am not a pc gaming fan, but i have to accept that fact . sadly.

You don't need a top spec machine to run BF2 maxed out, but I'd guess you will for the new battlefield.



I thought it was poo myself quake 4 is the game that Doom 3 wanted to be and Bioshock had me shitting my pants although I didn't like it at first I think it's well worth a play now.

I loved Dungeon Keeper too

If you like that kind of game then another couple of oldish games to try that will run on relatively low spec machines are Evil Genius and Startopia. Of the two I think Evil Genius is the better, you get to be the Bond villain making a sinister base full of nefarious traps and the trap mechanics work better than in Dungeon Keeper, in that you basically just loaded up areas with the best traps you had, whereas in Evil Genius you can link the traps, so you can set up mazes with fans that blow enemy agents into other traps & all kinds of other cunning stuff.

Thanks for all the replies boys, I went out and bought a new PC and got Empire total war I have hammered it loads, I am surprised world of warcraft didn't get mentioned ?, thats a game I have never even seen but I have heard people hail it!

Not even sure if I have 5 games installed on my PC right now

1) Empire Total War
2) Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
3) Football Manager 07
4) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
5) gotta go check - until 4 months ago this list would be just World of Warcraft - broke that addiction though (I just posted in the addiction thread actually - synchronicity)


Track Mania - Online stunt racing this is pretty good actually I havent played it in ages.

Edit - I hadnt read the post above me either and then said wow - more syncronicity.

Empire Total War is awesome if you got the rig to play it on btw.

4Gb Ram , Q6600 2.7GHzOC, 9800 GTX on a 32" 1080p monitor - not the best resolution but I can sit 10 feet away np

World of Warcraft will take over you life, its good, tooo good

best games from this old skool gamer

Quakeworld Teamfortress - G21

Original Command and Conquer (was truly revolutionary)

Half-Life the Orange box...

5 games in 1 box for a fucking great price.

Portal will drive you insane, but fuck me the whole package is just insanely ACE.

world of warcraft is a pile of shit Neverwinter Nights 2 is leagues better as is Oblivion but you can only play that single player. WoW is the Spice Girls of PC gaming. Dull graphics, repetitive action and to boot you have to pay monthly for it! Like what the fuck? It's just one of those games that can easily hook you, my taste alarms kicked when when I played it as it reminded me of a bad mega drive RPG. It's got about as much atmosphere as a roll of sellotape.

The only thing I can see going for it is that going out in a live party is fun, but you can do that in so many better games.

hi i think command 7conquer 3 tiberium wars is the nuts

Team Fortress 2 + fat joint = joy

1.quake 3 arena

2.quake 4

3. quake live

4.doom 95

5.jazz rabbit

1-Operation Flashpoint
2-Battlefield 2
3-GTR2
4-Dues ex
5-IL2 sturmovik

Most fun i had......

can i say facebook texas holdem? ive never played a proper PC game.. got a 360.. so dont see the point in it..

heres my top 5 xbox games..

GTA Vice City didnt enjoy the following 3 ( or is it 4?)

The Darkness...

COD4

F.E.A.R.

Mercenaries

-half life 2
-conflict freespace/freespace 2
-star wars knights of the old republic
-total war(preferrably rome)
-football manager(any recent)

freespace 2 is an epic space shooter yet to be matched in its genre
and although it is not much more than glorified spreadsheets football manager will eat away at your free time if you are a football fan.

I've been re-playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky - those games are brilliant - really deep, and hours of fun. If you liked Fallout 3, then you'll love those two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaHcMxfJlhY

check this out boys...

headshots my good man, headshots - a mouse moves a lot faster than a joypad and is much more accurate. (not to mention the mods, etc).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hubnd9-OHpc

Word...


...ya like that mvd??...

hahahahahahaha QUALITY!! methinks that one is making the list. cheers bud

Yep.

And if you like F.E.A.R. on the 360 Mr_C then you really should play it on the PC, the PC version wees all over the console version (like pretty much every FPS that out on both PC and console...) The PC really is the system for FPS games.

E2A I did enjoy F.E.A.R. a lot, after some initial doubts about it due to my cack PC. But once I had the hardware it was a belting good game - call me perverse but I particularly enjoyed nailing the enemies to the walls by the head with headshots using that gun that fired big fuckoff tentpeg thingys, then laughing like fuck when I'd come back to an area and see the walls decorated by the hanging corpses Most satisfying

I've played my pc games to death (love half-life and co... great games.. also really obsessed with stronghold etc) but I can't focus on choosing another one as I am waiting for starcraft II!...... then again it's apparently also coming on mac at the same time

Got to say my fav is half life2

BF2 - except no other, well apart from the MOD Project Reality

The best thing about PC gaming is the freedom the community has to create additions and even new forms of the game using the engine etc from the original. A prime example being counterstrike. That was a community made and released game using half life original. Which turned out to be far more popular and a far better game than the original. Then you have games like Battlefield. Where the community releases mods and addons, create new content and also play with the engine and game to make things different. That's the biggest single difference between PC and specific game stations like the 360. As well as that, the mouse is certainly better for FPS. No doubt about that at all. There's more freedom with PC games. The community can do more with PC games.

1. Counterstrike (PC)
2. Battlefield 1942 (PC)
3. Battlefield 2 (PC)
4. Cod 4 (Xbox)
5. PGR 4 (Xbox)

right im a gamer for life pc only aswell no more conolse jockery for me i do own a 360 pad for certain game genres

heres my top 5 kinda hard to choose as of wide game styles (maybe bit biast? aint got clue how to spell that 1)

no1 halflife 2 orange box for like£20-30 or something, wide choices there seriously good fps games and portal is nice brain workout
plus biggest online comunity on pc (not sure. but it gotta be man?)means lots of free mods add ons etc and always games online and new fwends

no2 cod 4 not fan of cod online (bring back or make shiny cod uo ) but the single is just amazing i love all ghilled up most imersive mission ive ever played

no3 fallout3 plus all of its add ons whole set available now or soon ive just got me hands on last add on and im gunna do the whole feckin lot i couldnt count how manny times ive clocked this 1

no4 gta 4 only bad thing bout this was how it runs on slow pc's (well it wont at all) but once its patched and ure sitting on a quad or decent dual core its a keaper

no5 bf2 i love this game man overun with nobs now but can find odd server that has thoose true epic games cant wait for next pc release suposedly being made in the shadows got 2142 aswell but its the dam colour its so boring to play

ye im big staker fan man tbh tho ive only completed clear sky once that come out i lost interest in first , might load up in winter and apply some hd textures etc
gotta love the zone

Haha fellow Dungeon Keeper fans! I was so obsessed with playing that game during high school, probably explains my grades during the first six months I had it! I always thought Bullfrog were going to release a DK3, there was a trailer for it at the end of the 2nd game. Wasn't Bullfrog a subsidiary of Blizzard? Fucking ace game anyway! And the Elder Scrolls has got to be my all time favourite! Haha even makes me think back to the first RPG I ever played, which was called Ultima 8! Man that's a walk down memory lane. My first ever game I played which I loved was Battle City, talk about retro!

dont know about the top5, but 5 games i usually play is wow, aion, cod4, dota, halo