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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Getback on November 22, 2009, 11:18:30 PM
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I enjoyed Diablo I and II and also like Wolfenstein. So with that in mind what would any of you suggest.
I don't like online games other than AH.
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The Witcher is a good indie game. buy the special edition, preferably the euro version (its not censored).
Assassins Creed also fun.
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call of duty games (if you dont mind the first person shooting)
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May just be my wide variety of games, but I like the games you mentioned, and many more, but my personal favorite right now is:
Bioshock - FPS, Placed in 1950's, Guns (Pistol/Tommy gun/Chemical thrower, etc.) and Genetic Mutations (Telekinesis, fire flames/Lightning/Ice with hands, etc.), very good story line with player chosen story, to an extent of course. Very explorable world, yes there is a set path, but you don't have to follow it until you darn well feel like it.
I just beat it today (lost my old save of 70% to a reformat and finally re-installed), and I plan to go back through it to find things I missed and try different story paths. :)
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Rome: Total War
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You might like Crysis, replace pendant with nanosuit and Nazis with Koreans and it's sort of the same thing as Wolfenstein. Oh and instead of trying to exploit some crazy mystic world it's alien technology.
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Torchlight is a Diablo clone developed by some former Diablo developers (?), and it's pretty f'n fun. Single player only... with pets!
http://www.torchlightgame.com/
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Im not tryin to hijack here but does anyone know of a good PC game similar to Fallout 3 where you can explore the world and do what you want?
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Not really no, Fallout 3 rocks in that regard. Almost all other shooting games seem to keep you corralled into a zone or lane. Another thing I love about it is the mods. Everything from turning drab brown into summer or fall to a specific weapon or armor. It is very easy to mod, and fallout nexus has thousands. Enough so that you never really need to get bored with it.
The Total War series is good if your into strategy games.
Bioshock was fun once, but all the action was on this giant spaceship.
Lots of puzzle solving, etc.
I ran through Crysis once, and promptly deleted it off my HD. Not worth the money IMO.
If your looking for a new game, go back to fallout.
Try either "summer" or "Autumn". Either will totally change your fallout experience.
No more barren wasteland, just lots of bad guys hiding in the trees.
Add "Enclave Enabled" to give you more bad guys to shoot at. (Brings the Enclave guys in right away)
From there it would depend on what kind of character you like to play.
Although I highly recommend
HeroinZeroWeaponMod (Loads of new weapons carried by enemys and at merchants)
MoreMapMarkers
Alternate Start Role players. Pretty much title says it all. Instead of the vault, start Fallout as any one of several possible models, refuge, mechanic, Regulator, its a long long list. Some of them are very tough to start with.
For new places, Shady Sands and Rockville add several quests, new merchants, etc.
VDSP for some new interesting perks.
Megaton Scavengers gives you 3 more people to sell stuff to. And their $$$ resets faster than most merchants.
Of the DLC, I like Zeta the best, Point Lookout is pretty good, The Pitt and Anchorage are fair.
Anchorage is a lot more linearly scripted like most shooters.
The Pitt is gritty, tough choices, esp for a good or neutral character.
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Try Mount and Blade. It is a first person perspective game in which you can fight 'medieval' style battles on foot or mounted while leading armies of various sorts of soldiers. There is a thriving mod community as well with mods ranging from cavemen battles to book adaptations and even some sci-fi mods as well.
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Agree, Mount and Blade is a blast!
It too has a big world, that lets you go where you choose.
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Getback,
I loved those games too. These filled the void nicely.
"Commandos 2" and "Hidden and Dangerous 2" are both a little older but were very well put together games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos_2:_Men_of_Courage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos_2:_Men_of_Courage)
Commandos 2 is a 3rd person squad based real time espionage game that puts you in control of several characters that must sneak around WW2 Europe using their varying attributes to complete their missions. Not all characters are used on all the missions but you can switch between the ones that are available. The piece de resistance is CO-OP play were both players can control any number of the available characters to complete the mission.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Commandos2Box.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5K4-YW2zE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5K4-YW2zE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_&_Dangerous_2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_&_Dangerous_2)
Hidden and Dangerous 2 is a squad based 1st person tactical shooter. You are in control of up to 4 characters sneaking through WW2 Europe. You choose your characters from a pool of about 24 that have different abilities and strengths. The load-outs for the characters are completely customizable and depend on their physical strength and what uniforms and backpacks you use. (i.e. your sniper can also carry a machine gun besides his rifle or as many hand guns that fit in his pockets or extra ammo for the other characters.) You can switch between first person view and control of all the characters in your squad and also command their movements in first person view or on a pop-up map. You also control their aggressiveness. This is great for setting up ambushes and cover fire. Items can be gathered off of dead NPC's. Sneak is the operative word, you have a sound level meter to help stay quiet.( some characters are not good at staying quiet.) Oh, and the expansion pack "Sabre Squadron" adds CO-OP mode.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Hidden_%26_Dangerous_2.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSD0Kjq_8xQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSD0Kjq_8xQ)
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Sim City 4.
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If you liked Baldur's Gate and the Neverwinter Nights series (or pretty much any of the Forgotten Realms games) check out Dragon Age: Origins.
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Bioshock was fun once, but all the action was on this giant spaceship.
Lots of puzzle solving, etc.
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Bioshock was in a city (Rapture) under the Atlantic Ocean, no spaceships involved. :)
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The Witcher is a good indie game. buy the special edition, preferably the euro version (its not censored).
Assassins Creed also fun.
I agree, The Witcher is a great game and The Enhanced (US) version is now available that's uncensored like the EU release was. It's a couple of years old now but the game still looks great and is one of the better RPGs released in the last couple of years. Assassins Creed is also a great game.
Might also want to check out Borderlands and Dragon Age, two more excellent games.
ack-ack
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Want a cool highly interactive 3d game with puzzles and a storyline?
Penumbra... :O
http://www.penumbragame.com/game.php (http://www.penumbragame.com/game.php)
Some truly cool stuff and creepy at times...it's a challenge though.
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Battlefield 1942/2142-I own 1942, and it is pretty fun, don't know about 2142 though.
Star Wars Episode I Pod Racer for the N64 - Get project64 off the internet, as well as the SWEIPR rom, install Project64, set graphics up to highest, and load SWEIPR. The graphics look great, frame rates get a huge boost, and the sound is far less tinny. Plus, the game is fairly challenging, so there is that fun factor when you finally beat it.
Minesweeper. :o
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Fallout 3 - Best free roaming game out there.
Bioshock - Beautiful art deco atmosphere, original game play and fun.
Portal - Only for those who like puzzle games. Short, but original and challenging. Great story line.
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I enjoyed Diablo I and II and also like Wolfenstein. So with that in mind what would any of you suggest.
I don't like online games other than AH.
A friend gave me Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls IV. Combines the first-person aspect with a more fantasy setting. I've not played Fallout, so I don't know how they compare, but I would consider Oblivion to have a fairly large and open world to explore. There is a central theme/quest, but lots of side quests and things to just do at random if you choose.
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pickin up Dragons Age: Origin tonite .. from what I hear you wont hear from me again for awhile (LOL) ..nephew got it and vanished for a bit over a week ..watched him play a bit and it looks awesome (PC version) ..will be interestin.
Thinkin my german army is gonna sit awhile in Hearts of Iron 3 if I get sucked into Dragon's Age :)
-GE aka Frank
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"What is a good PC game?"
Depends entirely on what you like.
Right now I am splitting my time between the following, excluding AH:
Left 4 Dead 2: Zombie killing goodness and, surprisingly, enough of an improvement on the original to make it worth the money. A must-buy, IMO. Such a simple concept and about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. First person shooter; play with or against friends.
Empire: Total War: Several months on and I am still playing. Outstanding value for the money. Civilization meets an RTS in the 18th Century.
Dragon Age: Origins: Im still trying to get into this one... but an awful lot of people like it. Role-playing, sword and shield-type game.
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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is great only if you willing to spend countless hours getting mods (and making them work).
The original game itself (aka unmodded) was released too late and it shows that the game's 1st person view and interface fell far behind what online MMO's and other 1st person games had achieved. the interface is rather clunky and the game mechanics rather stale.
the mods though, fix all that and make it a truly great game.
you do need a high end machine to run it though.
Many have posted Empire Total War and I agree. I have it and its unbelievably good. However the games you posted you liked were all action /1st person shooters... but empire has both strategy and knuckle gripping combat.
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Mount and blade is a gem.
The game itself ended up more like an engine demonstrator and the real content is in the mods. When you get tired of it, start going through the long list of excellent mods - many of them are total conversion from early roman times to WWI. Graphics are more than decent for my tase, but if it is not enough and your rig can handle it, look for the graphic enhancement mods.
I am now back to playing... Fallout2. They don't make them like they used to.
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Fallout 3 is fantastic. I like the fact that you can roam the world as you please. There are a few expansion packs. I picked those up but haven't had time to get to them yet.
I've heard a few people mention "Mount and Blade". That sounds like an interesting one I might try next. I was very disappointed with the Call of Duty:World at War when it came out. I can't justify spending $60 bucks for Modern Warfare 2 just yet.
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Try ArmA II
Cheers
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If you like zombies Either all of the Resident Evil Games or try Left 4 Dead 1 or 2. I havn't played L4D2 yet, but I heard it was a great game.
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Well depending on your operating system sense alot of the really great older games are just written to play on any Win OS up to windows xp 32bit OS some dont work on XP Pro 64 bit
32 bit OS Games, All of the Call of Duty Games the offline storyline missions are great, they online action is fun to , Nova logic games I.E Landwarrior series, Delta Force series, There's a couple of good Air type games also by Nova Logic. Battlefield 2 , All of the Medal Of Honor Series, i guess it just depends on what you enjoy playing..
My system now just wont play all of my older 32bit OS games, so i still keep a PC with xp 32 on it, to play them. Games im playing now on my 64Bit and really like are Modern Warfare 1 and 2 , Resident Evil, L4D, trying the L4D2 Demo ( lol fun) Fallout 1, 2 and of course AH2
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Company of Heroes, the ONLY WW2 RTS that actually works well (as in gameplay wise). You use cover systems and resource gathering (by taking strategic points like in Battlefield). And the units are all historically recreated such as Panzer IV's and Wirblewinds and so on. The models are very detailed and the game has AMAZING graphics plus you get lots of cool battles involving infantry and tanks and even a tactical airstrike here and there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAeSDzaglDg
All this is taken from ONE GAME of COH, it is one of my videos. It involves myself and Skyguns (an ex- AH2 player, who left not out of choice :cry).
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yes i agree, Company of Heroes is amazing :cheers: