07-17-2005, 01:22 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 176
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Looking for a new Desktop PC game - suggestions?
I am in a gaming crisis right now. I like to have a desktop PC game that I can play an hour before bed to unwind. I haven't been able to find one that's just right here recently and I am bored with the ones I already have.
Games I've played lately
Half-Life 2 (finished it)
CounterStrike (fun but too much cheating)
City of Heroes. (Too repetative)
Age of Mythology (I had a blast with it for a year. But sort of "yawn" now)
What are your suggestions? I am experiencing F.D.D (Fun deprivation disorder!) :lol:
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07-17-2005, 03:58 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,959
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Guild Wars. Period. :mrgreen:
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07-17-2005, 02:04 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 65
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Hands down Battlefield 2.
This is an excellent online multiplayer game that appears so far to be relatively cheat free at the minute. Also try SWAT 4 for some single player action.
At the minute I am addicted to Battlefield 2 and trying to advance towards the rank of corporal.
MacBriar
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07-18-2005, 12:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 176
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Both Battlefield 2 and Guild Wars did catch my eye. I downloaded the demo of Battlefield 2 and it seemed fun, but I had trouble with the controls (couldn't map buttons right) is it better in the full version?
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07-25-2005, 01:12 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 69
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Suggestion for Desktop Game
Try Nethack (Windows XP Version) and the related variant, SlashEM. Here is a good overview site for both games:
http://www.nethack.de/
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07-25-2005, 04:12 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 181
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What genres of games are you looking at?
If you like racing I recommend Need For Speed Underground 2. I had a lot of fun with that, and it ran fine on my Thinkpad T41 too! Of course you should try the demo first. I forget where I downloaded it before I got it, but I think it should be somewhere on the EA site. Hopefully that will help treat your case of F.D.D! :wink:
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07-26-2005, 01:22 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 67
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Tribes Vengeance is very good. Especially the one player mode.
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07-28-2005, 07:20 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 794
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Civilization 3 is a really good strategy game that you can buy at WalMart for $10. You will end up playing this game many times over. It is a really interesting game where you start as a primitive setteler. What you do is colonize as much land as possible. It is turn based so as you complete each turn, years go by. The point of the game is to build a nation, build technology, protect your citizens, create foreign relations, start a war if you have to, etc. It is really fun, but hard. You can start out inventing the wheel and advance in technology all the way to making tanks, star-wars-like lazer defense technology, stealth bomber, etc. But what the game takes is discipline, because you have to be a leader who knows how to use the nation's resources. You have to learn to be smart economically, militarily, diplomatically, etc. If you started spending 85% on leisure investments, then you would not have enough money to protect your own country. Or if you spent too much money on the military, then life in your country would get boring and your citizens will mutiny. Imagine if US citizens of the states of Washington and Oregon mutinied and allied themselves w/Canada! In the game, situations like that do happen. But what is really cool is you have a choice to be one of 16 different nations, including Russia, England, or the USA, or you can customize your own. So playing the game is kind of like playing real life. Many times in the game while playing the USA, I have risen to be world power...but competing w/China militarily. Now that's ironic... I think this game has won awards or reconitions like Editor's Choice and others.
There are two really great games that I am waiting for: 1) Tomb Raider: Legend, & 2) Fallout 3...
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07-28-2005, 10:07 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 398
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Originally Posted by MacBriar
Hands down Battlefield 2.
This is an excellent online multiplayer game that appears so far to be relatively cheat free at the minute. Also try SWAT 4 for some single player action.
At the minute I am addicted to Battlefield 2 and trying to advance towards the rank of corporal.
MacBriar
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YES YES YES. Battlefield2 is awsome. I managed to get to Lance Corporal this morning. G36c here I come :lol: :lol:
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07-28-2005, 06:06 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 113
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If you haven't already played them, then Black Hawk Down & Joint Ops are very good. The latter is the better one imo. My games-mad collegue is raving about Battlefield 2 now however, so am loooking forward to trying that soon.
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