Favorite PC Game

[XPostFacto]

I have played Skyrim so much that I am taking a sabbatical from it.

I just finished playing Assassins Creed 4, Black Flag, what an awesome game. After doing all the Assassins Creed franchise games, I went to Mass Effect 3, an equally awesome game.

I just finished Aliens, Colonial Marines, an incredibly hard game, so hard, I was forced to play it at the lowest level of Recruit and still got my head handed to me. I don't see myself replaying Aliens again. The game is very linear with no surprises, other than the aliens are extremely tough.

I suppose my next group of games will be to catch up and buy Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Other than those, there doesn't seem to be much left on the horizon for PC games, and I will not move over to console games, which game manufacturers appear to be trying to steer everyone.

I hear you;

I tried to start playing again, but couldn't get into it. Steam reports that I put 186 hours into it the first time - that seems to be it for me.

I still need to finish Black Flag, but can only take it in small doses - it's so repetitive.

I'm actually playing Rage again. Most of the bugs appear to be fixed now.

I hate Steam along with Origin, but you just have to install their crap and their endless updates before you can play their games. It's ridiculous because I can't play online. Those updates put me in trouble with my satellite system, having to endure a download limit of 10 Gigabytes per month. Go over that limit, and watch your Internet access slow to a crawl.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I never did finish the original Assasins Creed or ACIII. I bogged down trying to save the Indian village. I just couldn't make the time limit. With AC1, I never could finish the missions before Memory Block 6, but in playing all the sequels, I found out what happened, anyway.

I liked Black Flag, but never did all the forts or finish all the side missions on the various islands, nor did I do too many of the diving sequences. Having to hide from the sharks annoyed me, and they seemed to be very repetitive. The treasure just wasn't worth it, besides my fleet was making me plenty of gold, already.

The Assassins Creed and Mass Effect games are great, but they can all benefit with being able to save when and ever you want, rather than making it through checkpoints.

The Aliens game was bad because it started out hard. It was next to impossible to get through the long mission to the landing pad. It was way too far between checkpoints, and after dying over and over, Aliens didn't cut it for me because it became so frustrating to play, albeit a bit short. A game should be made interesting to play, and the player should be able to enjoy it. I saw very little enjoyable with Aliens CM.

Its the eavesdropping missions that get me in Black Flag. I find them boring and tedious. So I play for awhile, then do a main quest, which is one of four tasks. When it cycles to the eavesdropping, I quit and come back in a week or two.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I play war games. Current favorite is Advanced Tactics Gold sold by Matrix.

I also play online in Dungeons and Dragons online.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I play war games. Current favorite is Advanced Tactics Gold sold by Matrix.

I also play online in Dungeons and Dragons online.

I just bought D&D Daggerdale for 2 bucks a couple days ago. Have yet to play it. I loved the Baulders Gate series back in the day.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[XPostFacto]

I never did finish the original Assasins Creed or ACIII. I bogged down trying to save the Indian village. I just couldn't make the time limit. With AC1, I never could finish the missions before Memory Block 6, but in playing all the sequels, I found out what happened, anyway.

I liked Black Flag, but never did all the forts or finish all the side missions on the various islands, nor did I do too many of the diving sequences. Having to hide from the sharks annoyed me, and they seemed to be very repetitive. The treasure just wasn't worth it, besides my fleet was making me plenty of gold, already.

The Assassins Creed and Mass Effect games are great, but they can all benefit with being able to save when and ever you want, rather than making it through checkpoints.

The Aliens game was bad because it started out hard. It was next to impossible to get through the long mission to the landing pad. It was way too far between checkpoints, and after dying over and over, Aliens didn't cut it for me because it became so frustrating to play, albeit a bit short. A game should be made interesting to play, and the player should be able to enjoy it. I saw very little enjoyable with Aliens CM.

Its the eavesdropping missions that get me in Black Flag. I find them boring and tedious. So I play for awhile, then do a main quest, which is one of four tasks. When it cycles to the eavesdropping, I quit and come back in a week or two.

Yeah, those were the ones, as in AC III, where you had to stay within that stupid circle. I always kept getting caught. Often the best way was to run along the rooftops, but when you ran out of roof tops, then it got tricky.

That section where you had to sneak into the assassins camp without killing anyone was a royal pain. It took about 100 attempts to make that one. After I made it, the rest of the missions were a piece of cake.

 

[XPostFacto]

I've been playing catchup by buying old games. I just bought Dead Space. What a horrible game.

In every game I have played since 1993, I have always used the right mouse key to make my character move forward. Well, that's not allowed in DS. I am stuck using my W key, and I despise it. I can't get used to it, and I'm being constantly killed by the monsters. Of course, the lack of save features is quite annoying as well, forcing me to have to go back and repeat sections. The game also consists of constant back tracking to accomplish tasks. If you haven't played this game, don't get it. It SUCKS!

 

[XPostFacto]

I just bought Titanfall and was excited about playing it. Luckily I hadn't opened it up yet so read on the Internet about it. Seems it's multi-player, only with no single player. I can't play online, so I took it back to Walmart and got a refund. I need to bring my reading glasses with me so I can see the small print.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I just bought Titanfall and was excited about playing it. Luckily I hadn't opened it up yet so read on the Internet about it. Seems it's multi-player, only with no single player. I can't play online, so I took it back to Walmart and got a refund. I need to bring my reading glasses with me so I can see the small print.

Unfortunately, online games make the most money - so they dominate development. Even the Elder Scrolls are going to an online only environment.

 

[martybegan]

I just bought Titanfall and was excited about playing it. Luckily I hadn't opened it up yet so read on the Internet about it. Seems it's multi-player, only with no single player. I can't play online, so I took it back to Walmart and got a refund. I need to bring my reading glasses with me so I can see the small print.

Unfortunately, online games make the most money - so they dominate development. Even the Elder Scrolls are going to an online only environment.

I have a feeling the Elder Scrolls will continue to be released as single player games as well. They make too much money off of them, and they have plenty of lands/timeframes still to explore.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

I do not think the franchise can top Skyrim. I believe online MMO is the next step in the elder scroll saga.

 

[SteadyMercury]

I've been playing the prerelease of Contagion.

Spent a way too many hours over the winter playing Don't Starve, that is some seriously addicting shit.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I have a feeling the Elder Scrolls will continue to be released as single player games as well. They make too much money off of them, and they have plenty of lands/timeframes still to explore.

I hope you're right, but remember that WarCraft was a hugely successful single player franchise, as was Call of Duty.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I do not think the franchise can top Skyrim. I believe online MMO is the next step in the elder scroll saga.

Oblivion was a great game. It was hard to see how anything could top it, but Skyrim did. The Elder Scrolls MMO will be online on March 30 - this Sunday. Bethesda claims a half-million pre-orders; not quite WOW - but an impressive launch.

 

[XPostFacto]

The only time I ever played an online game was Left 4 Dead. My satellite never lagged on me, but every time I got into a game, nobody knew how to play it, so I had to initiate the action. Then the idiots would end up shooting me in the back, but would never revive me. Of course, they'd steal all the med packs right out from under me. One guy kept shooting me so much, that I just turned around and emptied my M4 into him. Of course, he got revived. I got the impression that they wanted me off the game. I couldn't tell because I didn't have communication configured so I didn't hear all the insults they were probably throwing my way. So my first attempt at multiplaying wasn't much fun. Even if I had unlimited bandwidth, I'd never play online.

 

[PredFan]

Hands down its World if Warcraft.

 

[XPostFacto]

I have a feeling the Elder Scrolls will continue to be released as single player games as well. They make too much money off of them, and they have plenty of lands/timeframes still to explore.

I hope you're right, but remember that WarCraft was a hugely successful single player franchise, as was Call of Duty.

I thought about buying the latest installment of WOW, but I discovered that you only buy a subscription to play it so i just shelved that idea. PC games seem to be disappearing from the shelves. I hate to think that if I want to continue game-playing, I'm going to have to resort to Xbox 360 or Xbox 1. Unless I could play that on my PC, I don't see me buying one of them, anytime soon. My wife hogs the 40 inch Sony, and I'm risking divorce if I started using it for gaming purposes.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I thought about buying the latest installment of WOW, but I discovered that you only buy a subscription to play it so i just shelved that idea. PC games seem to be disappearing from the shelves. I hate to think that if I want to continue game-playing, I'm going to have to resort to Xbox 360 or Xbox 1. Unless I could play that on my PC, I don't see me buying one of them, anytime soon. My wife hogs the 40 inch Sony, and I'm risking divorce if I started using it for gaming purposes.

Actually, PC games are at their highest level in history, and outsell any console.

You can thank Steam for that. Not only that, Greenlight is returning innovation for games.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Greenlight is a joke dude. Steam has now okayed self publishing by developers. The main page is now constantly flooded with garbage and games over a decade old of which some wont even run properly on new rigs.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Greenlight is a joke dude. Steam has now okayed self publishing by developers. The main page is now constantly flooded with garbage and games over a decade old of which some wont even run properly on new rigs.

Personally, I've not come up with a single game on Steam that hasn't run on my 64 bit Windows 7 rig. I even bought Heretic and Hexen again, because they are retooled to run on modern hardware. With all the texture replacements, Heretic even looks pretty good.

Greenlight is a great idea, a massive boost to innovation.