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z999   09-25-2008 at 09:51:28 PM

hi,
Till today I've been using a pretty old computer (a P4 w/ radeon 9600) that couldn't run any games that came out after 2005-2006. now I've bought a new computer (Q6600 w/ radeon 4870, notice a pattern?:).
Now I want to complete the gap that was created and I want to play those games (got some cash I saved for the PC and haven't used). what games that came out in the 2006-today period are big hits? must play games? I've put on my list things like assasins creed, bioshock, crysis, GRiD, spore and games like that.
btw. I play all genres.
thx,
ziv :)

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emp   09-25-2008 at 09:57:28 PM
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STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, STALKER Clear Sky, Overlord, The Orange Box, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2, Lost Planet Extreme Conditions, Supreme commander, Supreme commander: Forged Alliance, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (And the Kane's Wrath expansion), Space Siege, Titan Quest (And it's expansion),

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copasetic   09-25-2008 at 10:04:38 PM
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I'll add F.E.A.R to that list.

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z999   09-25-2008 at 10:12:56 PM
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both stalkers were already in the list C&C I did play (didn't finish...), finished HL2 but not chapter 1 nor chapter 2, supreme commander is a good one for the list. some games I question are: lost planet (just can't remember what it was exactly but I remember I didn't get excited over it), ghost reckon,overlord?, space siege?? FEAR is also already in the list.
thx, I'm going to sleep thanks for the quick response.
ziv :)

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jay_l_a   09-25-2008 at 10:34:48 PM
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Oblivion

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emp   09-25-2008 at 10:40:39 PM
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Quake 4, Serious Sam 2

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evensen007   09-25-2008 at 10:49:39 PM
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Oblivion, Fable:Lost Chapters.

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jay_l_a   09-25-2008 at 11:00:30 PM
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Don't even think about getting Fable for the PC, it'll make you sad.

It's the buggiest piece of junk I've ever had the misfortune to install.

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bobwya   09-26-2008 at 12:56:14 AM
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Assasins Creed didn't exactly grab me when I tried it out on a friends system... But I had "console" game third-person viewpoint. Maybe I missed something or didn't play it for long enough...

Hows about some old skool games that wouldn't play well on a 9600:

  • Doom 3
  • Far Cry
  • BF2/BF2142


but will play smooth, and with max'ed quality out on 4870!! I still play them a lot myself...

I lot of newer games send me to sleep. So much time is spent on the graphics they seem to forget to design the game...

Bob

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z999   09-26-2008 at 09:05:04 AM
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actually some of those I did play. serious sam, far cry and fable (which I thought was kinda good except the end).

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llama_man   09-26-2008 at 10:03:08 AM
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If you like strategy games;

Galactic Civilizations II
Civilization IV
Company of Heroes

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radnor   09-26-2008 at 01:47:41 PM
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Turok - 2 DVDs its quite nice actually. Peeps here think too much about crysis.

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woodeneye   09-26-2008 at 02:03:12 PM
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Battlefield 2
For all its faults,3 years after its release, it still has more people playing than Crysis,FFOW and fear combined.

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gamerk316   09-26-2008 at 03:10:53 PM
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llama_man wrote :

If you like strategy games;

Galactic Civilizations II
Civilization IV
Company of Heroes



Beat me to them...I'll throw Sins of a Solar Empire on there as well.

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