Topic: PC Gaming Thread - page 15. (Read 14350 times)

No, is it any good?

Has anyone played The Forest?

Cool, thanks for the link. CS > BF imo though. Who needs vehicles

Just found an origin key for it, for only 17500 dogecoins. In case you're still interested
http://www.stuffcoins.com/details/13840-battlefield-3/

It's a shame! Well, you could not have played anyways if you downloaded yesterday; for some reason all those who did can't get the game to activate in Origin.

Hope that's fixed soon, I haven't played Battlefield since Battlefield 1942 ten years ago

I'd recommend the first fable. Amazing game and story, you'll be surprised by all the twists and turns.

I always played the multiplayer UMS games. Diplomacy, Cat vs. Mouse, and all those fun games. Tower defense matches were great.

I remember getting pretty decent at risk and destroying everyone almost every time.

Was planning on getting that days ago but I kept putting it off lol

Missed it

You won't find a good browser based one as most of the time they're crappy cash shop games but there are all sorts of games series like Settlers, Sim City and Stronghold that deal with that type of building genre which I really like actually That said, I think some of the latest building games have been really sucky lately they simplified them too much and now there are less features overall

Oh yes, Tropico 5 is a pretty good game to play, you're an island dictator and you have to build it until you win various objectives or you can just play in a sandbox mode, I don't think that Tropico 5 was that much of a leap from Tropico 4 though.

Can someone recommend a good kingdom building type browser game?

Since you have one Paradox game on the list.... the rest of them (Victoria II and Crusader Kings II, esp.). They also have a Mount & Blade line which uses a very dated-looking engine, but is interesting, kind of a first-person-slasher mixed with RTS battles and a difficult-to-describe-but-very-RPG, semi-RTS meta-game (if you grab M&B, definitely get the Floris mod!)... I believe they've licensed the engine out to another company actually using it to create some kind of ship-focused game soon (maybe already out), and while the idea's super-cool, I'm pretty skeptical. EU4 is good and very polished (relatively), but honestly, I'm not particularly fond of it. CK2 is more arcade-like and a good bit goofy (esp. with DLC, though they made an awesome step toward tangential learning with boat-loads of Wikipedia links), while Vic2 is unbelievably clunky and complicated, which I kind of like. EU4 has a very tedious voting system for Catholics (it's not terribly powerful... really, you could completely ignore it, but it "feels too wrong" to ignore it), but if you're not Catholic, you either need to select a late start date (so you can go Protestant) or choose a non-West nation, which has pretty severe disadvantages. Switching from Catholic to Protestant early on can be devastating, too, especially if you're a large empire by then. Outside that, though, it's a very well-made game.

AoE3, I didn't particularly like, either (I was expecting to!). You may want to consider something more like Eador, which is a TBS with the AoE combat style and a fascinating part-RPG meta-game (the earlier Eador:Genesis is superior for user-experience [new one has very slow animations you'll want to use Cheat Engine to speedhack] while MotBW has a better graphics engine) -- Eador has more flavor, too, IMO. There's also the Armored Princess series (fun fact: she's not really armored at all and almost naked), though this is much less Civ-like -- you don't build any kind of empire. AP can be quite difficult, fwiw. Heroes of Might and Magic is another decent one if you're shopping for something AoE-like.

Definitely go ahead and grab Skyrim. Morrowind was my favorite, but it's pretty dated, and even though I'm nostalgic, it's clear the systems they implemented in Skyrim and Oblivion are superior. Aesthetically, I hated Oblivion (blood and fire, blood and fire, blood and fire -- okay, a magic painting -- blood and fire, blood and fire, blood and fire), but it's a solid game otherwise.

Dragon Age is interesting. I'm not sure I'd recommend it. I had fun playing Origins. It's kind of simple compared to others on the list, but it's still fun. I'm not sure what I'd call it for the sake of suggesting... it's really not casual, but it's definitely not hardcore, either. It focuses on character development and does it fairly well, but the story itself, I don't even remember. I only played it once through, and mods out weren't well-developed at the time... maybe there's some cool stuff, these days.

If you're into story and character development, though, it may be worth having a look at the Walking Dead series for "something different." I've edited and added to this about four times, now, though, so I'll shut up, now.

Then when i had time to play love strategies and FRP-RPG and some FPS.

Maybe best FRP-RPG for me is lands of lore, strategies that is tough one old series starcraft and warcraft 2, FPS in old days doom was LEGEND.

Now days i played booth starcraft 2, like it. For FPS my older kid loves that more then I now. I all in RPG n MMORPG (if I find time for this), mainly play DOTA2 every second day 1 game.

Now kids are more fun then playing games.

The elder scrolls series is a must play and is probably the best series of games.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of spamming keys at all. Pre-plan templates sound good.


Actually yeah I played the demo of that a while ago and I really liked it. Thanks for reminding me about that game. I'll add it to my list of games to play.

In case anyone is interested: Battlefield 3 is free to download for today only, officialy from EA!
https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/buy/battlefield-3/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition?LSsiteID=c1Tj0Njalu4-mE5nLZKkXMLZWpkay2clwg&c=c1Tj0Njalu4&sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&utm_campaign=origin-aff-us-ls-aff&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=affiliate

NEO Scavenger is a pretty good game if you like scavenge-survival games you should definitely try it.

I seriously can't understand the people who defend online games that make you pay for cheats in order to play on even terms.

There are lots of games worth buying. And there are lots of crappy F2P games.

You liked Morrowind more than Oblivion?

If you like medieval games then I'm sure would love to play Mount and blade if you haven't already. Mount And Blade: Warband is my favorite which I would recommend anyone who likes the traditional RPG and medieval game. If you enjoy history then you could further the experience by installing a few mods which just makes the game feel like a real simulator.

Other than my suggestion, I would recommend getting Morrowind and Skyrim.