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Speaking with Stardock TechSupport, they did say that they hoped to release a patch when Win7 is officially released, but didnt have a firm timetable.. or even a firm yes/no to the patch.
Just to reiterate, you can juryrig DA and GalCiv2 to run on Win7, just none of the other expansions.
Otherwise?
Mass Effect (I liked it?)
The Witcher (really. do it.)
Dwarf Fortress? (it's ascii...)
Batman:Arkham Asylum was amazing.
Someone mentioned Minerva for HL2? Wonderful wonderful (free) storyline. Play it. It took me maybe 4-5 hours, if I remember properly, which is impressive considering plenty of 60$ games take 8 and have crap for value.
In Re: Oblivion, I really loved the Assassin guild line. I won't say anymore.
In Re: Fallout 3? I dunno. Meh. It was pretty slick, but I wasn't caught up in the story.
Assassin's Creed? meh. It's got some fun mechanics, but, again, the story utterly failed to grab my interest.
Other thoughts: I enjoyed Psychonauts. And Dawn of Discov... oh damn. RTS-type. Risen was fun? Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was also good. Drakensang is good for your RPG kicks, imo.
Also: GOG.COM. "Good Old Games . Com"
EDIT: I just realized thats possibly because I always play it in Sandbox mode. My bad!
Are Witcher and STALKER really that good? I havent played them at all.
STALKER has that great STALKING and SCAVENGING feeling to it.
Also, Torchlight comes out next week for $20. It is also an action-rpg w/ a great art style & looks very promising.
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It's also a lot better since it was released, fixing bugs and loading screens that made me quit playing the first time.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
In the Vizima chapters it meant I only had to interrupt my DS adventure now and then for a few moments.
Sounds like a win-win.
STALKER is its own experience, and there's absolutely nothing else like it.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Make sure to get all the patches. For the American version they put back everything they had to cut to sell it in the US. Nudity, cursing, blod, etc. Plus some bonus adventures from the community and such.
I've finally been working my way through that. One good thing is that you can pretty much drop it for however long you want if you burn out, and then come back, wander straight into the enxt fight, and away you go again.
Also 3x double cast = awesome. Except against Black Dragons. I hate black dragons.
ill chime in for Street Fighter 4 is you at all like that sort of game. Hell, I never was very good at SF (more of a Tekken/Soul Calibur player) but the online support is quite good. A lot of fun to play. - get a controller though.
Also seconding (fourthing?) Stalker and The Witcher...and Titan's Quest. Too bad you missed the D2D crazy 5 dollar sale.
Echoing the STALKER love, too. Both Shadow and Clear Sky are glitchy, poorly-optimized messes on their faces, but there is some serious... frankly, magic at work. It's deeply atmospheric, the gunplay is tense and exciting, the world has a degree of authenticity (albeit with a heavy sci-fi frosting), and in spite of admittedly numerous problems it somehow comes together into something really special. I maintain that Shadow has some of the best balance between exploration, combat, and dungeon crawling that I've seen in a shooter to date.
If you're not opposed to point-and-click adventure games, Overclocked: A History of Violence is pretty good. Rather bleak, as it basically breaks down the hero even as he's trying to sort out why five kids appeared out of nowhere and went ballistic in downtown NYC, but it's remarkably compelling. Most of the puzzles consist of sorting through flashbacks, working through each kid's memory and using their own recordings to trigger responses from the others. Interesting stuff; I'd try the demo and see if it does it for you, though mostly it's a preview of the puzzles and flashback mechanism.
Now playing: Teardown and Baldur's Gate 3 (co-op)
Sunday Spotlight: Horror Tales: The Wine
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2023/
Company of Heroes + Expansion, Frontlines, Full Spectrum Warrior + Expansion, Juiced 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Titan Quest + Expansion, Dawn of War + Expansions and Dawn of War II for $100.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, although I don't know when I'll have enough time to play all these games. Then again, Assassins Creed is 5 bucks right now on steam and although I really don't want it... it says to me if I'm patient I can just grab the games that I want when they go on sale. What do you guys think?
I'd recommend giving Poxnora a good look. It combines turn-based strategy a-la Disgaea or FFT, collectible cards, rpg elements, and deck-building strategies into a sweet package with a sweet community.
It is free to try the starter decks and download the client. Unfortunately, it isn't going to show off your new computer at all.
Just a suggestion. I have a hard time making time for other games now because of this addiction.
It's a must play.
It's like combining H.P Lovecraft with Hellraiser.
It's like 10 bucks, and is the best reason to find your Steam account. It's probably the best way to "take a break" inbetween singleplayer games.
Even if you don't like real time strategy games, Heroes of Newerth is worth looking at. It's pretty much a repackaged version of DOTA. I think it's still invite-only for the beta, but there are a lot of people on this forum who have spares. (Savage 2 by the same developers is freeware right now, too. If you want something free and shiny to look at.)
World of Goo is a bit odd and extremely cheap right now. Go buy it for a dollar or five. Or ten or twenty. I didn't pay that much. ;-)
Spelunky!!! Retro platformer. Absolutely brutal, you'll die over and over again. Freeware. My personal GOTY.
Elaborate! Those were big letters and I am interested.
And now I'm going to go Audiosurf some Mastodon. And Mars Volta. And maybe some Minus the Bear.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I don't really see all the fuss about Audiosurf. It's okay. Nothing to rave about.
Unless you have friends who surf the same music you do. Then it's absolutely amazing. Just not worth it if you're a loner.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
HoN is a terrible recommendation for a newcomer to PC gaming who dislikes RTS games. It's one of the most noob hostile games ever. And a lot of people can simply get no fun out of it. It's pretty much a niche thing for hardcore DOTA players.
Whenever I buy a new album, I always audiosurf it. It kind of makes you feel much more immersed into the music than you would think.
I think the best thing to ask would be:
Do you like visualizations in music players?
Would you like to have a game based on those visualizations that is actually fun?
Audiosurf is pretty much that.
Say, they haven't made it compatible with music downloaded with a Zune pass yet have they? That would be rad, my Zune Pass collection has more than tripled the amount of other music I own.
edit: I still love the game, don't get me wrong, it's just been awhile since I played it and I was curious.
See, I enjoy my music enough that I prefer to listen to it without interfacing with it through a game which requires me to think about things other than the music and constantly puts little sound blips all over the place. I like music, I just don't like the game too much.
Without the tracks-generated-from-music thing, Audiosurf wouldn't be notable at all. Yes, I'm aware that that's sort of the point. There's just a void between the music and the play experience that I find very distracting. The generated play-area doesn't quite completely line up with the music, but it's not divorced from what I'm hearing, either. It's almost a vicarious experience type thing. Contrast with Guitar Hero/Rock Band, where the music plays a more direct part in the gameplay. I get a lot more immersed and get more satisfaction from playing that.
TL;DR - I'm not a huge fan of Audiosurf and it has nothing to do with my music.
Possibly; I've only played it a few times. I mentioned it because it's not really an RTS; it's more of a top-down RPG action game. It's also free right now, so the entry/exit level is pretty minimal. I do notice that the OP specifically mentioned single-player FPS games, so it probably was a bad recommendation.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
WTF is DOTA?
Also I'm not a newb. I've been playing Civ since Civ II was on the new release shelf. I just took a few years off because between drinking, women and starting a band I didn't have enough free time to justify upgrading my PC or buying a new one.
Now that modern recording technology has made it trivially inexpensive to record 16 simultaneous tracks in your basement however, I needed something whose CPU wouldn't drop frames and working with the RAW files my DSLR was generating was obnoxious to the point that I'd backlogged over 10k photos that I'd taken and uploaded to my external hard drive, but never even bothered to try to work through.
So at the same time I find myself with a laptop who does a lovely job of playing videogames on the side of doing all that other shit.
Also Bioshock is super cool but GTA IV has completely sidetracked me from spending time playing anything else. Any time I have for videogames basically goes to GTA IV, despite Rockstar's best attempts at making their PC port completely fucking unplayable.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Basically it's 2 teams of 5 guys running back and forth for 40 mins and if you join as a newbie your team will bitch at you the entire time and eventually try to get you blacklisted. Everytime you die and your opponents level up you can hear them gnash their teeth if you open your window. That *plof* sound? Your teammate in Brazil popped some veins.
Pretty much one of the worse gaming communities you can find yourself playing in. Until you're banned.
It can be pretty fun if someone that you know plays it and shows you how to play any one role well enough to have fun with it.
But yeah, otherwise, not so much.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Unless you're running that whole Windows 7 thing. If that's the case then wait until they fix it.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Yes, I'm standing by the game that abuses me and ignoring the game that just wants me to let it be so good to me. I realize that.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
After PC GTA3 we shouldn't be surprised.
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I have beat Rygar on the NES and many of you have not.
Well, to be fair, Vice City and San Andreas were WONDERFUL ports. I expected GTA:IV to be of the same quality. But then I was just disappointed.