Consoles sold, PC rig built, recommend me some games...

[Longnosedgoblin]

I sold my ps3 last year and having finished everything I wanted to on the 360 that is up to sale as well. I have built a PC for general media duties but it is good enough for gaming so my question is what PC exclusives have I been missing. By the way the last time I had a gaming PC I was playing doom 3!!!!

There are a few cross platform games I may get and I want to tinker with dolphin emulation, but I am most interested in things I won't have seen on this gen of consoles.

[speedlolita]

Honestly, I don't think there's that much unless you look into indie stuff or older stuff.

I like how you're interesting in Wii emulation when you've just sold your consoles too.

[Longnosedgoblin]

Indie and older stuff is fine, and you cant play GameCube games on the 360 or ps3!

[Zaki]

Civilisation 5 (expect to lose touch with the outside world).

[wakka]

Commander Keen. Aliens Ate My Babysitter is often considered the classic, but Secret Of The Oracle is probably my favourite.

[speedlolita]

My votes go to No One Live Forever 2, Far Cry and Call of Duty.

[smouty]

Grab a copy of Arma II Combined Ops and download the Day Z mod.
Totally infuriating to play but unique.

http://dayzmod.com/

[speedlolita]

I'm waiting on the standalone client for DayZ. Look very fun though.

[Longnosedgoblin]

I am starting with hotline Miami, looks pretty good. I had forgotten the no one lives forever games, never played them so shall give them a go. Is the day z mod any good, it not The same as war z I take it?

[Baseley09]

You have so done the right thing.

Hotline Miami is cool, i'm also waiting for the standalone of Day Z though it is available in official form as a mod for Arma II on Steam now which makes things a lot easier I understand.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224580/

BUT ABOVE ALL GAMES......you need to get involved wit Chivalry, it's the most fun in years

http://store.steampowered.com/app/219640/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

[Longnosedgoblin]

Ha ha that chivalry does look fun.

[speedlolita]

Yeah I want to try that out too!

[eastyy]

X3 series space sim along the lines of elite takes a lot of hours to get to but if you have the patience well worth it i now have a space fleet at my command (though supposedly the next game in the x series is due this year

Baldurs gate 2 my fav rpg looking a bit dated now though i think beamdog are updating it the same they did with 1

Skyrim with mods if your rig is up for it can be made to look far beyond what the console version is

Stalker series ...great games i have not played them for ages while there a bit unpolished still worth a try

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines vastly underated rpg with tons of unoffical patches out there has such a great atmosphere

homeworld 1,2 /sins of the solar empire / Genesis Rising....there are more space rts games but cannot remember the titles well worth checking out though

company of heroes possibly my fav rts as it has the satisfaction of a decent action game but unlike so many rts games it avoids the rush syndrome and encourages to keep troops alive

Hostile waters a hybrid rts action game (bit like carrier command)

[originalbadboy]

Planetside 2
Civ5
Simcity (out Friday)
Torchlight I & II
Sins of a Solar Empire
Tribes : Ascend

In reality exclusives (for me) on the PC tend to only fall into a couple of categories, RTS and Sim style games. There are a couple of FPS games that are worth it though.

[Baseley09]

How could I forget Planetside 2! That's what online FPS PC gaming is about, consoles couldn't compete.