I've never been much of a PC gamer. Even on my old rig, all I played was Halo and UT2004. Don't get me wrong, I love both of those games, but still, I think now that I have my new rig I should grow up a little when it comes to PC gaming.
Yesterday I pre-purchased the Orange Box on Steam despite telling myself I would be buying it for the 360 instead. I figured that it's cheaper, and I need to learn to play FPS games with keyboard/mouse again. So I've been rocking TF2 beta today, and loving every second of it.
But TF2 can't last forever, so I need som suggestions. Bear in mind that my history with PC games is absolutely abysmal, so feel free to list off some oldies...I guarantee I won't have played them.
In other news, I've been playing Skate more than Halo 3. Master Chief can wait as far as I'm concerned, I just want my picture on the front of Thrasher first.
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If you like RTS get World in Conflict, it's AMAZING...
If you like mindless shooting, Straglehold is gorgeous and fun...
Black and White 2 if you've got a god-complex... (and it's badass)
Homeworld 2 if you want a pimp space RTS...
Battlefield 2 is another good on-line shooter...
There's LOTS more of course, but that's just a sample of the better games I've played semi-recently.
I'd say go for the Command And Conquer first decade box for RTS. City of Heroes and City of Villains is fun, altho its a 15$ fee per month, but if your big on other plaync games that covers them aswell.
<--- salami_tsunami
obviously your top priority is to play through hl2 and ep1 if you haven't yet,
If you really want to show off your graphics card, AND you already have steam AND it is the most criminally underrated game in the history of gaming, ever, get TRACKMANIA UNITED off of steam. it's AMAZING!@!!!!!!1111010100101001
If you loved matchbox cars doing loops and shit as a kid you will love it
OK some other nice graphics-whorey games
FPS:
Chronicles of Riddick
THIEF deadly shadows
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Bioshizzle
Painkiller black (also on steam)
Oblivion (shooter/rpg, still looks great on a good rig)
Hitman Blood money (3d person, so sue me)
RTS:
World in Conflict IS amazing
Supreme Commander (I love this game, but a little more for the die-hard rts)
Medieval 2: Total War - a true "must have", in my top five all time games
Others:
Psychonauts
C&C 3 - pretty good. looks pretty.
DiRT (another game with kickass graphics)
Flight Simulator X (real time weather change- woohoo!)
IL2 Sturmovik 1942 collection (for flight sim fans only, like X)
another good steam game is xpand rally if you like rally racing. really nice graphics and physics
also, I agree with rock, pirates is win
Left 4 Dead
DONE
i do believe kane and lynch are coming soon too.
max payne 2, oblivion, warhammer 40k, guild wars, many many more.
Half-Life 1 / Opposing Forces / Blue Shift
Alien Vs Predator 2
Brothers In Arms : Road to Hill 30 & Earned in Blood
Delta Force series
BioShock
STALKER
Red Orchestra
Armed Assault (ArmA)
Operation Flashpoint (OFP)
Savage
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (and Enemy Territory)
Day of Defeat Source
Call of Duty Series
Warsow (free & quake like, but you can wall jump!)
Unreal Anthology (Unreal 1, UT, Unreal 2, UT2k4)
Deus Ex I & II
Thief Series
Oblivion / Morrowind
Battlefield series
Dreamfall The Longest Journey and Indigo Prophecy are some good adventure games.
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
BioShock
Stalker
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Supreme Commander
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Sam and Max (the new series)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Sam & Max (episodic)
All of the old Lucasarts adventure games you can find:
Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, etc.
Prey
Diablo 2
Beyond Good & Evil
Fallout 1 & 2
Command & Conquer (any of the collection would be good)
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
All the Half Life stuff (but you said you're getting Orange box, so I guess most of it's covered)
That's a good list to start anyway, also, I agree with just about everything above me (except not a big fan of BF2, still too buggy).
Simcity 3000 or Simcity 4
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Starcraft
Commander Keen (shareware)
ChexQuest (also shareware)
What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed (weird and difficult puzzle game)
GalCiv2
Civilization 4
Fallout
Civilization 4
Hearts of Iron 2-extremely deep WWII sim. WARNING: hardcore only
Europa Universalis 3 (same dev as HOI2, both are great)
Galactic Civilizations 2
Bioshock
Company of Heroes
Dawn of War
Medieval 2 Total War (good, but Rome Total War is way better)
Oblivion or Morrowind
And a ton of others I won't bother listing...
And download some emulators. They run on pretty much anything. Also, if you have PS1 games and your Playstation broke, you can play them on your PC with emulators (happened to me).
Kings Quest series
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island series
Ultima VII
Ultima Online
Civilization series
Diablo 2
Empire Earth
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 Episodes
Oblivion
Bioshock
Hellgate London Beta is mucho excelente. Orange Box will win (obviously). Starcraft 2 will spread like the black plague.
Anything Dyslixec recommends is solid as well...
Supreme Commander and Starcraft for RTSs
Half Life 2, Battlefield series, Counter Strike, TF2, Fear Combat, Unreal Tournament, etc. etc. etc. for shooters.