Favorite PC Game

[Zoom-boing]

Quite enjoy the Hoyle Games -- Parcheesi, Backgammon, Rummy Squares and Gin. NOT Gin Rummy, Gin. Fav card game.

Just installed Pinball (Creep Night). Forgot we had it, kids confiscated it long ago. Got it way back in 1996 to use with our bo-hee-moth gateway computer. Didn't think it would work on the laptops but it does. Fun, fun, fun game.

Zoo Tycoon is a blast. They have a new tycoon game called Prison Tycoon. lol Might get that.

 

[Ringel05]

Favorite PC Game:

Name that honkey.

Ooooooh..... Personal Computer game. My bad......

 

[Uncensored2008]

They released 5 new screenshots around Christmas, it looks absolutely beautiful.

It would be nice if Rockstar could make it run decently. The only way to get GTA IV to run well was to throw absurd amounts of hardware at it.

 

[bobcollum]

They released 5 new screenshots around Christmas, it looks absolutely beautiful.

It would be nice if Rockstar could make it run decently. The only way to get GTA IV to run well was to throw absurd amounts of hardware at it.

The problem is they're now made for the consoles, and mapped to the PC. PS3s and Xboxes are pretty powerful from a graphical perspective.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The problem is they're now made for the consoles, and mapped to the PC. PS3s and Xboxes are pretty powerful from a graphical perspective.

PS3 and XBox 360 are both 7 year old hardware. The issue is with porting. Rockstar is lazy and doesn't bother with even basic optimization. Many titles were initially developed for consoles, such as FEAR 3, yet it runs well and is optimized for modern DX11 hardware, instead of the DX9 XBox code that is two generations out of date. Even on-board graphics, such as the Intel i3 HD Graphics 3000 trounce the abilities of the PS3 in regards to MFLOPS, shader engines, tessellation, Anistropic and antialiasing. The AMD and Nvidia cards make the ancient consoles a joke.

The issue is with scaling - it's easier to scale down than to scale up. Building a game around the console engines means a massive scale up to the modern graphics hardware. Scaling down from the PC to the XBox is a far easier task. (PS3 isn't a Direct X system, so not relevant to porting one way or the other.)

 

[Zoom-boing]

Favorite PC Game:

Name that honkey.

Ooooooh..... Personal Computer game. My bad......

 

[Dajjal]

I just played Serious Sam 3 all the way up to the last, big Boss. But that is too hard to play so I gave up without finishing the game. Up until the final boss it is possible to retreat from numerous enemies and hide. Then you can pick them off in smaller numbers. But the final big boss fires blasts that destroy all the buildings, and there are numerous other enemies firing rockets at you from all directions. I get killed every time.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Wow, I didn't even get that far. SS3 was a pain.

 

[George Costanza]

I get most of my games from GameHouse. I think I pay them $4.95 per month which entitles me to one game per month. I have been with them for a number of years and probably have close to 40 games on my computer from that site. It is an excellent site for games in case you are not familiar with it. My favorites:

Roads of Rome
Dynomite
Zuma
Plants and Zombies

There are lots of others - I'm at the office right now. If I was at home, I could list a dozen more that I play all the time.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I get most of my games from GameHouse. I think I pay them $4.95 per month which entitles me to one game per month. I have been with them for a number of years and probably have close to 40 games on my computer from that site. It is an excellent site for games in case you are not familiar with it. My favorites:

Roads of Rome
Dynomite
Zuma
Plants and Zombies

There are lots of others - I'm at the office right now. If I was at home, I could list a dozen more that I play all the time.

Do you belong to Steam?

Plants Vs. Zombies is like $2 on Steam. There are TONS of games for less than $5.

Good Old Games is another excellent site.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Baulders Gate and Stalker

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Man...the number of hours I played Civilization in the 90's...

 

[Chassit]

Civilization, I have played every version tat has come out and am still playing Civ V. The closest runner up would be Rome Total War. I am anxiously awaiting Rome 2 this fall!

 

[Emir]

Europe Universalis 3. THE strategy game; Paradox's jewel. Though Crusader Kings II is a close second.

 

[newmoon100]

Mine is pong

 

[Uncensored2008]

Mine is pong

Plasma Pong is pretty cool.

Plasma Pong - Download

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I tell you what though - my all time favorite would have to be Lego Racer...
My son is now 19 years old, graduating high school this year and will leave home in the fall.
Lego racer was his favorite game when he was 10 or so. We played many hours seeing who could do better. We were cleaning out the computer desk last year and I ran across the CD of this game. I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.
I still have it...and will probably always keep it.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I tell you what though - my all time favorite would have to be Lego Racer...
My son is now 19 years old, graduating high school this year and will leave home in the fall.
Lego racer was his favorite game when he was 10 or so. We played many hours seeing who could do better. We were cleaning out the computer desk last year and I ran across the CD of this game. I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.
I still have it...and will probably always keep it.

Ever play Wacky Wheels? That was the favorite of my kids when they were young.

3D Realms Site: Wacky Wheels

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I tell you what though - my all time favorite would have to be Lego Racer...
My son is now 19 years old, graduating high school this year and will leave home in the fall.
Lego racer was his favorite game when he was 10 or so. We played many hours seeing who could do better. We were cleaning out the computer desk last year and I ran across the CD of this game. I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.
I still have it...and will probably always keep it.

Ever play Wacky Wheels? That was the favorite of my kids when they were young.

3D Realms Site: Wacky Wheels

There was one something like that....what the heck was it called?....shoot....every car was different, some had rockets, some had electric shot - one even produced a tornado...dang can't remember that game....OH YEAH!! - Twisted metal!

 

[Bleipriester]

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour

+ Customized options.ini (To make the game run on modern CPUs and to get my native resolution)

+ Compatibility mode XP SP2 (To make the game run better)

+ Antialiasing added by AMD Vision Engine Control Center

+ FUPF Patch (Uncut patch for German politically cut version, restores orginal fraction names, human voices, suicide bomber, adds ingame clock, etc.)

+ NPROJECT Mod (Restores some orginal unit and General comments that have been hidden before release, fixes many, many bugs, improves graphics, improves AI, edits and adds some General´s promotions, adds some units and completes the challenge campaign. I do not use the edited and new maps in order to make BONB run properly)

+ Camera Mod (Makes it possible to adjust max camera height. This is perfect for Full HD, I think:
CameraHeight = 400.0
MaxCameraHeight = 600.0
MinCameraHeight = 120.0)

+ BONB Mod (Improves graphics, adds new weather effects)

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