Favorite PC Game

[Remodeling Maidiac]

[ame=http://youtu.be/sLNh5HPbQPo]Cleaning Up Steam - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Uncensored2008]

I'm not denying that Steam has a lot of old games, Heretic is from 1998 - all I said is the ones I've bothered with, run.

 

[XPostFacto]

I can get most of the games to play on my PC, but I'm running Windows 8 Pro, which seems to present a lot of problems for old games. The other day, I tried to install Half-Life. It installed, but when I went to start game play, it kept telling me that I hadn't inserted the game CD. So I ejected it and reinserted the disk. Still, the game wouldn't recognize that the disk was there.

I know that Steam has a solution, but they want me to purchase the game all over. I won't be doing that because I already own a copy.

I had a problem installing Grand Theft Auto IV, so I had to go into the compatibility settings and trick the game into believing that I was running Vista vs. Win 8, since 8 was unheard of when the game was first created.

I can't say much for GTA IV, though, other than it appears to be an indoctrination attempt to train foreigners on how many ways you can say the F word. The game sucks, and I never got past the first 2 levels of it. Driving games don't quite cut it for me.

 

[XPostFacto]

I'm not denying that Steam has a lot of old games, Heretic is from 1998 - all I said is the ones I've bothered with, run.

I used to play Heretic and Hexen way back when. They were good games, but I fear their graphics would suffer on my advanced machine. I'm into the epic games like Mass Effect and Assassins Creed. Now, with the lack of forthcoming games, I figure that Uncensored and I are probably relegated to going back to playing old games like Heretic, now. The future doesn't look too bright at this point.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I can get most of the games to play on my PC, but I'm running Windows 8 Pro, which seems to present a lot of problems for old games. The other day, I tried to install Half-Life. It installed, but when I went to start game play, it kept telling me that I hadn't inserted the game CD. So I ejected it and reinserted the disk. Still, the game wouldn't recognize that the disk was there.

I know that Steam has a solution, but they want me to purchase the game all over. I won't be doing that because I already own a copy.

I had a problem installing Grand Theft Auto IV, so I had to go into the compatibility settings and trick the game into believing that I was running Vista vs. Win 8, since 8 was unheard of when the game was first created.

I can't say much for GTA IV, though, other than it appears to be an indoctrination attempt to train foreigners on how many ways you can say the F word. The game sucks, and I never got past the first 2 levels of it. Driving games don't quite cut it for me.

Actually, if you link your game to your Steam account, they will update it for you, and patch it so it will run. I've run Half-Life on my Surface Pro II - which is Windows 8.1, without issue.

You might want to check this out; it is the original Half-Life, using the Steam Engine. Really well done.

Black Mesa: Re-visit the world that started the Half-Life continuum

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Yeah, I got to play commandos again thanks to Steam. Then I realized why I stopped playing commandos. It's ridiculously hard. lol.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I'm not denying that Steam has a lot of old games, Heretic is from 1998 - all I said is the ones I've bothered with, run.

I used to play Heretic and Hexen way back when. They were good games, but I fear their graphics would suffer on my advanced machine. I'm into the epic games like Mass Effect and Assassins Creed. Now, with the lack of forthcoming games, I figure that Uncensored and I are probably relegated to going back to playing old games like Heretic, now. The future doesn't look too bright at this point.

All patched up, Heretic runs 1080P - with a nice set of user developed replacement textures.

ZDoom ? View topic - Hexen and Heretic High Resolution Texture Packs for GZDoom

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Any of you gonna pay the 15 bucks per month to play the new ElderScrolls?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Nope

And that $15 a month is AFTER buying it for $60

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Nope

And that $15 a month is AFTER buying it for $60

Yeah, I felt burned after the last Star Wars installment. Bought it at launch and a few months later it was free.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Nope

And that $15 a month is AFTER buying it for $60

Yeah, I felt burned after the last Star Wars installment. Bought it at launch and a few months later it was free.

We'll see how well this does.

Bethesda is already hedging, and talking about a single player version.

 

[XPostFacto]

The game makers seem to think that everybody has an extremely fast internet connection with no download limits, yet that is just the opposite. I know people, who are still on dialup. Not everybody lives in the big city.

I have heard that the game makers claim they are losing money creating single players when most gamers play it for 8 minutes, and then run to the multiplayer game. How can you possibly learn how to play a game by going right to multiplayer? You have to play at single play to learn the game. That must be why when I played Left 4 Dead on line, no body knew how to play the game. I even heard one guy say that he was just going to watch what everybody else did.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The game makers seem to think that everybody has an extremely fast internet connection with no download limits, yet that is just the opposite. I know people, who are still on dialup. Not everybody lives in the big city.

I have heard that the game makers claim they are losing money creating single players when most gamers play it for 8 minutes, and then run to the multiplayer game. How can you possibly learn how to play a game by going right to multiplayer? You have to play at single play to learn the game. That must be why when I played Left 4 Dead on line, no body knew how to play the game. I even heard one guy say that he was just going to watch what everybody else did.

Battlefield 3 had a fun single player game. It was worth the $20 I paid for it just for the single player portion. That said, the single player part did virtually NOTHING to prepare me for the online side. The two parts were so different that they had no relation to each other.

Left4Dead single player is great, I have almost as much fun with bots as I do with human partners.

 

[martybegan]

Any of you gonna pay the 15 bucks per month to play the new ElderScrolls?

I have a feeling I am going to get sucked into it.

 

[XPostFacto]

Heck, I just finished all the Mass Effect series, then did Deus Ex, Human Revolution. Now, I'm back playing Skyrim as my 15th Nord, with emphasis on archery skills, since I am an archer in real life. Game for game, you can't beat Skyrim, even though I already know what is going to happen. Yeah, I have Dawnguard and Dragonborn, but never bought Hearthfire.

Maybe I should go on Amazon.com and buy the other 3 previous games before Oblivion. Anybody know whether these games will work with Windows 8? If they work with Windows 7, I know they will work with Windows 8.

 

[martybegan]

Any of you gonna pay the 15 bucks per month to play the new ElderScrolls?

I have a feeling I am going to get sucked into it.

aaaand I got sucked into it.

At level 13 right now (out of 50, plus some veteran levels they add) and I am having an enjoyable time so far.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Any of you gonna pay the 15 bucks per month to play the new ElderScrolls?

I have a feeling I am going to get sucked into it.

aaaand I got sucked into it.

At level 13 right now (out of 50, plus some veteran levels they add) and I am having an enjoyable time so far.

I got sucked back into Skyrim, so have no desire to play the online game. I can't believe how much I missed during the first play. I did nothing with the Thieves Guild the first time - and that is a very deep and detailed story.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Any of you gonna pay the 15 bucks per month to play the new ElderScrolls?

I have a feeling I am going to get sucked into it.

I did like an idiot. Played for two days, I'm now done with it.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I just can't get into MMOS.

 

[martybegan]

I have a feeling I am going to get sucked into it.

aaaand I got sucked into it.

At level 13 right now (out of 50, plus some veteran levels they add) and I am having an enjoyable time so far.

I got sucked back into Skyrim, so have no desire to play the online game. I can't believe how much I missed during the first play. I did nothing with the Thieves Guild the first time - and that is a very deep and detailed story.

never really did the thieves guild, have always played as a heavily armored sword and board type.

and not surprisingly i'm doing the same thing in ESO.