Good games to buy?

[edyzmedieval]

Ok, so I have like some money to buy 2 games. Any genre, I dont care. My notebook is powerful enough to run M2TW on max, so no problems.

Just suggest. Except FIFA 2008. I cancelled my order because it would arrive in November...

[Ferret]

bioshock, medal of honour airborne, crysis (when its out) and im sure you can find some others.

[econ21]

Some games that are not too ancient which I have enjoyed:

Excellent
Vampire Bloodlines - best CRPG since Baldur's Gate 2
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 - second best CRPG since BG2

Very good
Civilisation 4 - just as addictive as Civ2, but more nourishing.
Dawn of War Dark Crusade - possibly the only RTS worth playing IMO.
Jade Empire - well done CRPG with simple "beat em up" combat.
Mafia - idiosyncratic (driving old cars and shooting a bit), but good story.
Max Payne 2 - possibly the only shooter worth playing IMO.
Bioshock - rather like Morrowind, succeeds spectacularly in building a world; less successful as a game.

[pevergreen]

Mount and Blade.

[edyzmedieval]

CIv 4 played it, nice game. M&B, have it, played it a dozen times, bored of it...

Something else guys? Which is fresh out on the market and is good.

[Fragony]

Not exactly fresh but Rise of Nations is a great game for laptop. Clean visuals, and thankfully isometric 2d. Hate games like Command&Conquer that are psuedo 3d. It's a bit like Civ4 but real-time, I call awesome

[Ferret]

I'm just making do with what I've got until Crysis and CoD4 come out, they're both going to be great games. (actually I might get Halo 3 later today seeing as I have 2 xbox 360s)

[Husar]

Not exactly fresh but Rise of Nations is a great game for laptop. Clean visuals, and thankfully isometric 2d. Hate games like Command&Conquer that are psuedo 3d. It's a bit like Civ4 but real-time, I call awesome

Rise of Nations is 3D, actually, but a nice game, yes.

[Fragony]

I'm just making do with what I've got until Crysis and CoD4 come out, they're both going to be great games. (actually I might get Halo 3 later today seeing as I have 2 xbox 360s)

Good! why have one breakdown if you caan have two breakdowns

No I am not bitter.

@Husar, no it isn't

[Kekvit Irae]

Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot

[Lorenzo_H]

Mate, you need Company of Heroes. Get Opposing Fronts too, while you are at it.

[Bellum]

Hmm, buy NWN2 if you don't already have it. And then save the rest of your money to buy Spore. Or save all of your money, buy Spore twice, and give me one copy.

[Kekvit Irae]

Eh, I found NWN2 a bit inferior to NWN, mostly due to the lack of the large modding community that NWN has. I didn't find NWN2 superior except for the graphics update and the update to 3.5 ruleset.

[Bellum]

I didn't like NWN. It might have had good mods, but I didn't play them because of constant internet problems.

I always thought NWN to be inferior to Baulders Gate, and NWN2 was a step back in the right direction.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I haven't tried yet but my friends at the LIB enthusiastically recommend Morrowind and Oblivion. (The fans even managed to get vote for a dedicated board at our forum for the two.)
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[Bootsiuv]

NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer is coming soon, and it looks interesting.

Other games include World in Conflict, which looks very nice.

Resident Evil 4 is a good game for only 20 bucks, although the graphics are a bit on the poor side (at least that's what I've heard, I've found them to be very good, and it's definitely a good old fashioned scary game, which is always welcome).

And of course the other big names right now, like Bioshock, and Crysis and Hellgate: London in the near future are but a few.

Galactic Civ II seems to be fun, although it's CtD randomly on me every time I've tried to play for an extended period....so it seems unstable at best.

And then a little farther down the pipline are games like Far Cry 2: Episode 2, and Sins of a Solar Empire both look very exciting....

In other words, it's a good time to be a PC gamer (even better if you have Vista and a DX10 supporting video card).

[Bellum]

I haven't tried yet but my friends at the LIB enthusiastically recommend Morrowind and Oblivion. (The fans even managed to get vote for a dedicated board at our forum for the two.)

Of course, if you don't have Morrowind by now, you really should. It's one of those games that are really exeptional.

[Mouzafphaerre]

Of course, if you don't have Morrowind by now, you really should. It's one of those games that are really exeptional.

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Thanks. I got the games but haven't yet had the chance to try them.
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[Kekvit Irae]

I second that Morrowind vote, especially with both expansions, which you can get dirt cheap.

[edyzmedieval]

Does Company of Heroes have single player?
Because I need only Singleplayer games...

[Spino]

Does Company of Heroes have single player?
Because I need only Singleplayer games...

Of course it does, the original CoH has a great single player campaign. CoH: Opposing Fronts, comes with two single player campaigns, one for the Germans and one for the Brits.

The CoH series also sports excellent player vs. AI gameplay. There are also plenty of mods and user made maps available for the CoH games.

Check out the modding section of Relic's CoH forums...

http://forums.relicnews.com/forumdisplay.php?f=189

[Ferret]

I just got CoH OF but can't get the bloomin' thing to work on my computer!

[Zenicetus]

Of course it does, the original CoH has a great single player campaign. CoH: Opposing Fronts, comes with two single player campaigns, one for the Germans and one for the Brits.

The CoH series also sports excellent player vs. AI gameplay. There are also plenty of mods and user made maps available for the CoH games.

I dunno... just my opinion (or taste in games), but I just couldn't get past the first half dozen or so missions in CoH. Too many events were scripted instead of reactive AI....

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Things like -- "watch out, 8 Tigers just rolled in from the north!".... or "quick, you must abandon the town square and fall back to X position, because you're suddenly under artillery bombardment".

Individual enemy units reacted fairly well, but they were propped up by these scripted actions that, once you learned what would happen, could be fairly easily countered. It also killed any replay value for me, since the missions basically play out the same way each time, and you're locked into limited choices of what units you can build for each mission. I think I've been spoiled recently by playing more dynamic, open-ended strategy games like RTW, M2TW, and GalCiv2. But it's just personal taste. Obviously a lot of people do like the game.

Games I've enjoyed this year besides M2TW:

Galactic Civilizations II -- get it with the Dark Avatar Expansion. No tactical battles, but it's the best turn-based strategy game I've played in the last few years, with great developer support. It's not a graphics showcase but it does have a very cool 3D ship builder module, where you can create your own designs from supplied parts.

Bioshock -- I agree with econ21 that it's more style than substance.... basically a first person shooter in very fancy dress. The style is so good it's worth it, and I'm not even a big fan of FPS games. Check the SecureRom thread here to see if you're comfortable with the DRM. I only bought it because the publisher is promising a SecureRom removal tool (which is more than CA has done for Kingdoms) and is dropping the limited activations after a certain period.

Silent Hunter 4 -- the best WWII sub sim ever made (IMO). It requires patience, and it needs the Trigger Maru mega-mod to reach full potential (search the subsim.com forum for more info).

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Bioshock,Sim City, SIms, Elder Scrolls IV, Quest for Glory and King's Quest. Will keep you busy.

[Lord Winter]

Excellent
Vampire Bloodlines - best CRPG since Baldur's Gate 2

Just curious what the requirments for this are? My pc can't run anythin much past RTW on medium

[Bellum]

I need to check out Vampire Bloodlines, then...

And, personally, I pefered Dawn of War over CoH.

[Bootsiuv]

@Zeneticus

I've found GalCiv2 to be unstable at best....It always crashes....I have XP SP2 with a VisionTek Radeon 1550x (256 MB), and 768 MB of Ram.

That should be more than enough to play the game, as, like you said, it's pretty low on the requirements. I've checked the site for any solutions, and have found that I should update my drivers. I have done so, and it still crashes after 30-50 turns.

I suppose I'll have to wait for Sins of a Solar Empire before I have an enjoyable spacefaring experience.

A few things about GalCiv2 irked me, anyways. The fact that the planets don't orbit the stars realistically takes away much from the immersion IMO. The colony build screen is also a little ridiculous....those are some MASSIVE structures you must be building, if you can only fit one in a few hundred thousand square kilometers.

I was very fond of Imperium Galactica II, but it suffered from some of the same issues.

I'm still waiting for a space Civ game that looks somewhat realistic. Give me vast distances when I zoom in close....I want to feel like I'm playing over light-years of space. Even the gigantic galaxies in GalCiv2 are far too close together, and bear little resemblance to reality. The same red and blue dust clouds in the background every game is also disappointing....they could have changed it up, and added more of the beautiful objects that we see in space. The entire game, while fun, is too abstract for my tastes.

I'm hoping Sins of a Solar Empire will address some of these realism issues.

On one last note, Freelancer was a very fun game. Probably the best space game I've ever played, with the most unique and entertaining locations.

[econ21]

Just curious what the requirments for this are? My pc can't run anythin much past RTW on medium

I suspect you will be out of luck. It uses the Half Life 2 engine, which I think is more demanding than RTW. There's a good website that checks if your computer can run certain games.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

[Lorenzo_H]

Does Company of Heroes have single player?
Because I need only Singleplayer games...

CoH campaigns are pure brilliance from start to finish. Cutscenes are funny and engaging. Missions are varied and statifying.

[lars573]

I like the Opposing fronts British Caen campagin much more than the American Normandy campagin. I haven't really played the Panzer elite Market Garden campagin yet.