[PC] Recommend me a video game

[Fifthfiend]

You know how you're always saying to yourselves, "Gosh I love telling people my opinions, yet when I offer them to people unsolicited, I get strange looks / told to fuck off / pepper spray in my eyes"?

Well today is your opinions' lucky day, becaus I am soliciting them.

Now that we have established that Dragon Age is balls, recommend me a game that isn't balls.

Conditions:

1. I have to be able to buy it on Steam.

That is pretty much all the conditions.

[Eldezar]

Plants vs. Zombies.

[Krylo]

Dragon Age.



But for serious: KotoR is available on Steam now, FO3 GotY, and Bloodlines.

[bluestarultor]

Monkey Island, if you don't already have it. My only complaint is that you don't get the VA with the classic graphics. I dislike the new cartoony style. It just sacrifices something after the series started with the most realistic graphics they had at the time.

[mauve]

If through some horrible, horrible fluke you've never played Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episodes 1&2, you should resolve that right now.

The Left4Dead franchise is a lot of fun, if you've never played it.

GMod is a blast if you like building vehicles and death machines for no reason other than for the lulz. It's basically a sandbox in which you have access to all of the props, ragdolls, and AI-controlled NPCs from Half-Life, Portal and TF2. (You have to own the aforementioned games in order to access the models, though.)

[Grimpond]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

If through some horrible, horrible fluke you've never played Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episodes 1&2, you should resolve that right now.

What's half life? I've heard of it, but never played it myself

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Grimpond

What's half life? I've heard of it, but never played it myself

Depending on the opinion you hear, it's either the greatest FPS ever made, or the greatest game ever made. If you haven't played at least Half-Life 2 I'd recommend that, though of course if you play the old Half-Life game first I guess it'll make a little more sense to you (but really the story is pretty easy to catch up with even starting at just Half-Life 2). Then there are two "expansion packs" (but not really) for Half-Life 2 called Episode 1 and Episode 2 that basically just go ahead and continue the story directly after Half-Life 2 ends so they're really just short episode sequels that together are basically forming the sequel. The creators would have called them Half-Life 3 if they had thought of it but they can't go back in time now.

If you're confused enough at this point, perhaps you are dazed enough to just go ahead and buy Half-Life 2. And go ahead and buy Portal while you're at it, why not?

Anyway, Fifth, why don't you play Undying? It's a cool game.

[mauve]

Originally Posted by Grimpond

What's half life? I've heard of it, but never played it myself

Only the most awesome space-zombie vs Action Scientists first-person shooter ever.

Warning: the following is a Mauve Nerd Rant:

It combines Valve's excellent storytelling with fun gameplay and sidekicks/npcs you actually care about. It's a very immersive experience: There are no actual cutscenes, npcs chat to you in real time, letting you decide if you want to pay attention or not. Despite the fact that your character is of the mute hero variety, you still feel like you have a degree of control over what's going on. Puzzles have multiple solutions with a surprising degree of real-world physics: To climb up to a ledge just out of reach, for example, you can stack some boxes, create a see-saw-type device out of a fallen beam, weigh down that beam on one end to create a ramp, etc. The variety in the gameplay, from exploring areas to driving a wide range of vehicles to controlling a swarm of alien bugs, keeps the gameplay from getting repetative. The levels are complex, the graphics surprisingly detailed, and the voice acting is above-par (except for Barney, but that's okay.). Oh, and hitting headcrab zombies with a crowbar is awesome.

HL2 and Episodes 1 and 2 are better than the original, although the cliffhanger ending will drive you crazy. And yeah, you don't really need to play the original to get what's going on; I didn't play it until after I'd completed all the later episodes.
/end nerd rant

[CABAL49]

Fallout: New Vegas is coming out soon.

[Viridis]

Team Fortress 2. Maybe wait until it goes on sale again, but even at $20 it's a good deal for the amount of time you can squeeze from it. Still updating, too.