Built a Rig and now there is nothing good to play?

KidShenanigans

Took my time and was gearing up for some epic games, but nothing. unless I am living under a rock. I just cannot find anything aside from FPS. Looking for recommendations.

Goumindong

So not to be a dick but (this is the part where I am going to be a bit of a goose) this is your first post here. You didn't tell us what you liked and haven't referenced what makes a game good or your requirements for a good game. Have you looked at the other threads or done a search or looked on games on Steam?

I just don't understand the point of this post

urahonky

Tomb Raider. Ultra settings.

You can thank me later.

KidShenanigans

Yeah sorry i should of posted more. I really enjoy RPGs and anything this has a great story. Not much on the action but more wanting a solid, well crafted story.

Bubby

There's almost nothing in recent years that isn't just endless violence, aside from TWD and a handful of smaller indie things. Part of why I've been thinking of quitting gaming altogether.

LostNinja

As far as story goes; brothers and gone home are usually pretty well liked. I also think that Tomb Raider, Dishonored, and Spec Ops: the line have pretty great stories as well, though they might be heavier on the action than you may like. Also the Steam thread has all been pretty hooked on the Mass Effect trilogy again (think it was a sale recently) if you haven't played through it yet.

RT800

Yeah the epic triple-A RPG market's felt pretty dry lately.

But hey DA: Inquisition and ESO are on the horizon.

Personally I could really use a new Fallout game.

And I can always play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Again.

TychoCelchuuu

The Witcher 2.

Bubby

You guys are listing extremely action and violence heavy games. Dishonored is a legit choice, though. Tomb Raider might as well be Transformers, just constant killing and explosions.

Big Classy

The Witcher series is great for lore and story junkies.

BrocksMullet

He said he likes RPG's, which tend to have violence, even if it's just a plumber bopping turtles on the head, I think he's ok with some of it, just not action. Sounds like he's looking for something with a story he can enjoy, and some menus.

If you're looking to avoid both action and violence, and play a really cool, small non-traditional RPG with a great choice and consequence system, I can't recommend Paper's, Please highly enough.

But, again, you're likely better off going to the Steam thread, which doubles as the general PC gaming thread around here. Also, maybe mention some games you've enjoyed in the past. Also, how important is it that you work out your computer, a lot of games aren't that taxing nowadays.

Shogun

Bubby wrote: »

There's almost nothing in recent years that isn't just endless violence, aside from TWD and a handful of smaller indie things. Part of why I've been thinking of quitting gaming altogether.

you should without a doubt do this very thing

Mercutio87

Well, I don't know about epics, but here's some of the games I really liked recently.
Puzzles: Portal 2, Antichamber, Braid, The Stanley Parable
Adventure: Botanicula, Psychonauts, Kentucky Route Zero, Bastion
Story games that will punch you in the feels: To the Moon, Thomas was Alone, Spec Ops the Line(FPS), Papers Please, Papo & Yo
Take a nice walk simulators: MirrorMoon EP, Gone Home

There is usually a steady drip of recommendations for new or newly found games on Steam in the G&T steam thread.

urahonky

Yeah if you built a rig to play PC games and only enjoy RPGs you're going to have a bad time. I mean you can get a ton of graphics mods and general enhancements for Skyrim that will keep you busy forever but the PC scene is primarily Action right now.

TychoCelchuuu

urahonky wrote: »

Yeah if you built a rig to play PC games and only enjoy RPGs you're going to have a bad time. I mean you can get a ton of graphics mods and general enhancements for Skyrim that will keep you busy forever but the PC scene is primarily Action right now.

Well, that's definitely false, but a lot of the recent and upcoming PC RPGs aren't very resource intensive (Spiderweb Software games, Shadowrun, Wasteland II, the new Torment game, Obsidian's new RPG, Dead State, the South Park RPG, the Penny Arcade RPGs, Consortium, Age of Decadence, and so on don't really need powerful PCs).

urahonky

Alright well I said it wrong. It sounded like he bought a beefy rig to play some mind-blowingly graphical games.

Took my time and was gearing up for some epic games, but nothing

Is the quote I'm going off of. The only expansive game on that list you provided would be... Uh..... Yeah, nothing really "epic".

SyphonBlue

If you're looking for good RPGs, you might want to start looking in 1999.

Lawndart

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Yeah if you built a rig to play PC games and only enjoy RPGs you're going to have a bad time. I mean you can get a ton of graphics mods and general enhancements for Skyrim that will keep you busy forever but the PC scene is primarily Action right now.

Well, that's definitely false, but a lot of the recent and upcoming PC RPGs aren't very resource intensive (Spiderweb Software games, Shadowrun, Wasteland II, the new Torment game, Obsidian's new RPG, Dead State, the South Park RPG, the Penny Arcade RPGs, Consortium, Age of Decadence, and so on don't really need powerful PCs).

I can only imagine that The Witcher 3 will be potentially "resource intensive" to make up for all of those games and then some.

Heck, turning on uber-sampling in The Witcher 2 might still be enough to test the muscle of a new PC rig.

But most of the PC games that are pushing the graphics envelope tend to be action games.

Gaslight

So why did you go to the trouble of buy/building a high-end PC if there are no PC games coming out you care about? Didn't you do any research first? Most people build gaming machines with specific current or upcoming games in mind.

BlueBlue

didn't the dark souls 2 just come out, those are epic right
oh, it has the action though. hmm

well what's a game from the past that you were into that fits the bill

diablo 3 I guess is rpg-ish but I don't know if it's any good or anything
hearthstone is a card game
mobas are on pc, have you tried any mobas before, maybe it's the genre you never knew you wanted

Lord_Snot

Bubby wrote: »

There's almost nothing in recent years that isn't just endless violence, aside from TWD and a handful of smaller indie things. Part of why I've been thinking of quitting gaming altogether.

You should play Hotline Miami. It's a non-violent exploration of Russo-American relations and an allegory for the Cold War. I think you'd dig it!

Sterica

This thread was going real well until you all starting live-acting a three stooges performance.

Stop dogpiling Bubby and stick to the topic.

Dhalphir

When I read this topic, my first thought was - does he feel guilty? Does he feel like he built a rig and singlehandedly killed gaming?

Donovan Puppyfucker

Eschalon Book 3 just came out! The Eschalon series are fantastic old-school RPGs, you'd probably love it. It won't push your computer graphically, as it was designed and written to run on integrated graphics setups.

Drake

If you want to push your system with a nice, long and solid RPG, The Witcher 2 is a good choice. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas come to mind too. They may seem very FPS but you can shift into a kind of turn based system with the VATS.

BrocksMullet

Not sure if he's reading the thread anymore...

Drake

New posters often don't understand how chatty we are around here.

Scratchy

The steam thread is pretty spot on for recommendations @KidShenanigans .

Epic RPG's are kind of hit and miss at the moment but there is an amazing assortment of new and old games that are always being discussed that I would consider "epic". I would very much recommend lurking in the steam thread a bit, then posting one or two things there, then going apeshit crazy by involving yourself in multiplayer matches and other assorted revelry with the fine people that peruse it.

Everyone there is a fine upstanding member of one society or the other and they'd probably be pretty nice.

TychoCelchuuu

BrocksMullet wrote: »

Not sure if he's reading the thread anymore...

It took OP a month to reply last time, I'd expect our next reply some time in April.

Wyborn

If you built a beefy rig and are looking to put it through its paces, Witcher 2 is one of the ideal choices

I like playing it with a controller but KBAM is apparently very functional

And they give it away for free in boxes of Lucky Charms every two months so you might as well just get it

Monger

Current/ongoing stuff off the top of my head:
-The Walking Dead
-The Wolf Among Us
-The Banner Saga
-Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall (supposedly pretty amazing, but I haven't gotten around to it yet)
-South Park: The Stick of Truth (if and only if you like South Park)

Dark Souls 2 is out on the PC at the end of April. Granted, that's more actiony. I think Wasteland 2 is sometime in the middle of the year. It's currently in beta. Pillars of Eternity at the end of the year. Dragon Age: Inquisition as well, if that turns out alright. Witcher 3 at the beginning of next year. Torment: Tides of Numenera is somewhere in there, too.


Last year had a ton of narrative-focused indie games, of which I can at least recommend:
-Gone Home
-Brothers
-Papers, Please
-The Stanley Parable


If you never played Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines, maybe get on that. Or The Witcher 1 and 2. Or modded Morrowind/Skyrim. Or the various Mass Effects. Or Dragon Age: Origins. Or Alpha Protocol. Or Knights of the Old Republic 1 and, especially, 2. Or, like, a ton of other stuff over the past couple decades.

Shogun

Kotor 2 with that mod that completes the game maybe.

RT800

*pays thousands of dollars for high-end gaming pc*

*spends most most of his time playing super hexagon*

Big Classy

As someone who just lost his pc to water damage, this thread really irks me. If I'd just built a new rig, I'd be playing all the games regardless of what genre I find most entertaining. Hell, when I built mine, I played Fallout 3 and had a blast doing it.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Big Classy wrote: »

As someone who just lost his pc to water damage, this thread really irks me. If I'd just built a new rig, I'd be playing all the games regardless of what genre I find most entertaining. Hell, when I built mine, I played Fallout 3 and had a blast doing it.

That is because Fallout 3 owns bones.