New rig. Need games.

DapperGent

I just bought a new PC moving up from my poor old 700mhz antique to a badass all knobs and whistles yokey.

Not having a machine capable of running new releases for the past couple of years I haven't really kept abreast of what the best games are for the last ages.

Could people post up what they consider to have been the "must have" games of the past while? I just don't feel that running CM 03-04 with full detail on 26 leagues is doing my machine the justice it so richly deserves.

Online stuff is cool also cos I'll be getting broadband in in a week or so.

Cheers lads.

Samson

There's a few must have games listed here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168574

rabbitinlights

Far cry and Thief III are great.

what kinda GFX card did you get?


Sean

DapperGent

ATI Radeon 128 if I remember correctly.

DapperGent

C'mon lads. Dapper needs a new pair of shoez.

I'm purchasing some form of audio-visual entertainment this very day so any kind of advice would be sweet.

At the moment Far Cry is in the lead.

silverside

Far Cry is an absolute must. and it's quite cheap on the web now.

Other than that you have GTA Vice City (or new one out soon?),
Xiii (I like it's style although its not a graphics-showoff),
Splinter Cell (havent played it myself),
Unreal Tournament 2004 (nice graphics but a bit too fast and furious for me).

amp

GTA: Vice City is also a must and on your machine it'll play sweet. Make sure you patch it.

I'd also go for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time which is an exquisite platformer and the lovely Knight of the old Republic (KOTOR) for some hardcore Star Wars RPGness.

That'll keep you going for a while

Jim

Battlefield 1942 / Vietnam!!

L5

Far Cry is a must if your wanting to stretch the limits of your new pc.

Stephen

I highly recommend Far Cry, GTA Vice City and Unreal Tournament 2004. Far Cry's graphics are utterly gorgeous if your hardware can keep up.

What model of ATI Radeon have you got? Radeon is a whole family of cards with a broad range of specifications. If you got one of those lidl pc's last thursday it'll be a 9600XT.

DapperGent

Thanks lads.

Stephen - 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro is it's full name.

I went the traditional Dell route, the PC is cool only drawback is it's slightly noisier than my old one which I wasn't expecting.

amp

Well the jump from 700mhz to whatever P4 you have is a noisy one alright. Plus you've probably got a fan on your graphics card and possibly even one on your northbridge.

Woden

that graphics card will handle pretty much anything you will throw at it, i too recommend the battlefield games

RE*AC*TOR

All the below games look really good. I personally like them all, some would disagree with a few.

First Person Shooter:
Far Cry
Deus Ex 2
Unreal 2
Call Of Duty (not quite as good looking as the rest)
*edit* Halo

Third Person Shooter/Action:
Grand Theft Auto 3 / Vice City
Max Payne 2
Hitman Contracts
*edit* Splinter Cell / Pandora Tomorrow

Real Time Strategy:
Command And Conquer Generals + Zero Hour Expansion
Perimeter
Ground Control 2 (not Officially released yet )

Role Playing:
Star Wars Kinghts Of The Old Republic

Sport:
Pro Evoution Soccer 3
Need For Speed Underground (racing is a sport);)

*edit* haven't played Painkiller, but its suppoded to be gorgeous - gameplay -wise much in the style of serious sam.

Tusky

Battlefield vietnam !

Knights of the old republic
( star wars RPG and one of best games ive ever pld )

Vice City

Unreal Tournament 2004 ( for sheer wow value )

Lafortezza

Nethack

DapperGent

I need some nethack. Feel the power of raw Ascii!!!!

tman

Vice City and Far Cry are what i'd go for - now's a great time to buy far cry, with the 1.2 patch imminent

bambam

+1 for far cry & +1 for online Call of Duty

DapperGent

Far Cry it is!

I wanted Vice City as well but it's out of stock everywhere. Including play.com.

I was playing GTA 3 with everything turned all the way up. Looked sweet.

i_am_dogboy

here are a few that may not challenge your machine much, but still worth while

homeworld 2 - fantastic space strategy with an excellent story, very nice graphics and some of the best sound your likely to hear in a game

no one lives forever 2 - under rated first person shooter with very simplistic rpg element and great humour

broken sword 3 - it's just brilliant

Stormfox1020

If you have broadband, plunge into all the battlefield games. If you dont stay well away from them, until you do get it. The single player is bollocks.

ozt9vdujny3srf

Thief 3 is brilliant, graphics are sublime, have to turn them down a bit on my ti4600 though.

amarc

I can't believe no-one's metioned Counter-Strike... it's like the crack pipe of FPS games

tman

Originally posted by amarc
I can't believe no-one's metioned Counter-Strike... it's like the crack pipe of FPS games

give me far cry any day tbh, the nice tidy line of chaz of fps games.

Pepe LeFrits

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~peda/thrust/

oh yea

Moriarty

I refuse to respond in any meaningful way because you called it your "rig".

Words fail me.

Mutz

Direct X 9! Feck sake, this means new gfx card time. Already have a nifty gf4 ti4600 128mb :dunno:

Moriarty

No it doesn't. Directx9 runs perfectly on gf4s, aswell as a whole load of other cards.

Stephen

Rig? Isn't that what truck drivers call their cabs?

Moriarty

Indeed.

tba

although they would run on my 386, I tentatively suggest Uplink and Galatic civilisations.

Also

Rise of Nations
Battlefield Vietnam
Star Wars knights of the Old Republic
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
GTA Vice City
Age of Mythology

RE*AC*TOR

Originally posted by Moriarty
No it doesn't. Directx9 runs perfectly on gf4s, aswell as a whole load of other cards.

I think a little qualification on that statement is necessary. As directx is backward compatible - it will run on all directx capable graphics cards - eg a geforce 2. However, a GF4 ti4600 will not be able to take advantage of many of the new features of directx 9.