Suggestions For A Good PC Game?

[pantsBoots]

And let me be clear I’m talking about the originals.

Ken sent me

 

[mikethompson]

I have no idea about modern computer games. One of my wife's students said that Star Wars Battlefront was free to download, but the platform/engine it is on is complicated to use.

Honestly, Civilization II and Master Of Orion 2 might be my all time favs.

 

[mawnansmiff]

I used to play the excellent Wizball on my old Commodore 64. Don't know if it ever made it to PC though ?

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[danimalia]

I've been playing Skyrim for the last month or so. It is an action RPG though, so not very strategic.

One of my favorite games of all time.... Is Stardew Valley. I cannot stress enough just how satisfying and addictive I found it. I must have sunk 500 hours or more into various playthroughs. Just a delight.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Company of Heroes 1 & 2 are excellent strategy games and cheap on Steam. Elite Sniper 2, 3 and 4 are great WWII sniper games.

 

[hauntedmyst]

I have no idea about modern computer games. One of my wife's students said that Star Wars Battlefront was free to download, but the platform/engine it is on is complicated to use.

Honestly, Civilization II and Master Of Orion 2 might be my all time favs

You might like Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. It's older but cheap on steam. It's built on Age of Empire engine.

 

[captainsousie]

I've been playing Skyrim for the last month or so. It is an action RPG though, so not very strategic.

One of my favorite games of all time.... Is Stardew Valley. I cannot stress enough just how satisfying and addictive I found it. I must have sunk 500 hours or more into various playthroughs. Just a delight.

+1 for Stardew Valley. It's stupidly addictive and there are so many options and paths you can take.

 

[hauntedmyst]

I've been playing Skyrim for the last month or so. It is an action RPG though, so not very strategic.

One of my favorite games of all time.... Is Stardew Valley. I cannot stress enough just how satisfying and addictive I found it. I must have sunk 500 hours or more into various playthroughs. Just a delight.

That's how I felt about playing the original Starseige Tribes. Just an amazing game. At one point I was the number 1 ranked player in the world. When I told my wife, her response was "Wow, what a tremendous waste of time!" Women, they just don't understand the importance of futuristic simulated first person computer battles with jetpacks and Spinfusors.

 

[olkofri]

Starseige

Ah-hah! Now I see why you mistyped 'Dietrich' in your sig. ?

 

[BarrelProof]

No one listen to @BROBS

If you start playing Lemmings, you may never stop. You heard it here first.

 

[Mr.Mike]

Dark souls if you like slamming your head against the wall.

 

[captainsousie]

No one listen to @BROBS

If you start playing Lemmings, you may never stop. You heard it here first.

Worms would be almost as bad in my opinion.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

If you're a fan of sci-fi then Mass Effect is required playing.

Steam Franchise: Mass Effect

store.steampowered.com

Luckily the original trilogy is getting a remastered version this year, so that should be good (the most recent game in the series was a huge letdown, but given that the new release is just the first trilogy with a fresh coat of paint it should be the same great games we had a decade ago).
Mass Effect is an action/RPG trilogy made by Bioware from 2007-2012.
Maybe you're familiar with Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights, those people made Mass Effect.

If you're at all a fan of Game of Thrones you're probably going to want to play "The Witcher" series of games (or maybe you've seen the Netflix show of the same name).

The Witcher Games Sale

Steam Autumn Sale is Here!

store.steampowered.com

The first two games are much more RPG heavy than the third, so of course the third game is much more popular, but the whole series is very well done.

 

[pappymac]

I'm looking for a PC game, something epic and binge worthy to waste the weekend on. Im more interested in something strategic and fun rather than just dazzling graphics and what not. I haven't played computer games in the last 15 years. Back then WOW was the thing and I played it a good bit. It was alot of grinding though and got boring. I believe I also played Rome Total War and one of the Sid Meier Civilization games and they were interesting.

What are all the nerds playing these days?

I went through the same thing with WOW about six or seven years ago and quit after I ran through the Pandaria expansion. One of my sons convinced me to try it out again in December so I bought the latest expansion - Shadowlands - and started playing it again.

I find the new storylines and some of the other changes they've made to be interesting enough that I've sat at the computer playing and three hours will pass very quickly. You also get to go back and play in the previous expansion storylines.

 

[finnian3]

I wish I could get the original Total War XL to work. Someone took the Total War game, made a MOD so that all historical factions were playable in the game. Can't get it to run on my new PC even in retro mode.

Currently playing Pathfinder Kingmaker.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Ah-hah! Now I see why you mistyped 'Dietrich' in your sig. ?

Oh sure, make fun of my dyslexia! You would probably give a double amputee a jump rope for his birthday and then ask to see him use it!

 

[elasmo]

Depends on your PC specs, and what platform you're buying from. As a mostly Steam user, the Holiday Sale ended a couple weeks ago and it's been looking rather grim for pricing. I would never buy a PC game at full price. I just built myself a new PC and bought about 5 games during the sale. Working through Yakuza Like a Dragon right now.

 

[Mr.Mike]

I wish I could get the original Total War XL to work. Someone took the Total War game, made a MOD so that all historical factions were playable in the game. Can't get it to run on my new PC even in retro mode.

Currently playing Pathfinder Kingmaker.

Create a new partition and install an older version of Windows on it.