StarCraft II, Napoleon: Total War, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mass Effect 2: Love it or hate it, PC gaming seems to be having a great year.
And that's just what has already hit, if you're a PC gamer you've got quite a glut of games to look forward to for the rest of the year. Here's the short list: Civilization V, R.U.S.E, Dead Rising 2, Medal of Honor, Fallout: New Vegas, Fable III, LEGO Universe and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Cultured Vultures: In the spirit of preserving some kind of history of this industry, we’ve decided to list some of the best games that you just simply can’t get hold of digitally at the minute.
I just started playing Spec op. I've had it for years on steam and forgot about it. Such a good game.
Yes great game spec ops! Since the time we’ve been asking sony to make one:/
Auto Modelista.. a PS2 capcom racer!! A blast to play and great graphics!
Maximo!
Rival Schools!
all the games in the above list are bang on. this is the only reason we need backwards compatibility and physical presense of games for the upcoming future, no matter what.
Honorable mention to the excellent Driveclub, one of the best racing games of all-time and one of my favourite games ever.
yes! incredible rain effects; so good to drive along in rain with your Spotify playlist blaring
I really wanted a MotorStorm using the same engine, Driveclub is easily one of the best looking games on PS4 and I'm surprised they didn't even give it a PS4 Pro patch.
I adored Driveclub and the Bike expansion. I also loved Motorstorm. Evolution shutting down was a crime
Outrun Online Arcade, Sega Rally Online Arcade, After Burner Climax... all good stuff. I keep my 360 hooked up to play these as well as the TMNT games that were also delisted.
wow...I have all of them except the Nintendo ones either in physical or digital version.
Also..Deadpool the Game is missing on that list.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
StarCraft II is the absolute summit of this PC year, but I am personally looking forward to Mafia 2 (probably the best on PC).
So far its been great with plenty of awesome big name exclusives as well as some small time stuff too. StarCraft II will really breath new life into PC retail sales temporarily (due to the largely retail exclusivity aka not on Steam, Impulse, etc) and hopefully get more people into PC gaming as a result.
Starcraft 2 with it's huge advertising budget brought back the already shinning luster of PC gaming to the masses that forgot.
The great console hype is winding down and the PC will continue to dominate as usual.
With developers happy about DX11 the PC is about to flex it's muscles again as DX10 and Vistas sucked.
Check out Metro 2033 or Stalker Call of Pripyat in DX11 mode for aw inspiring graphical detail.
Starcraft 2 Diablo 3 Fallout:New Vegas WOW:Cataclysm Star Wars:The Old Republic Doom 4 Portal 2 Rage Mafia 2 are just a handful of games that are really going to be big hits on the PC.
Bubbles up
With the awesome sales at D2D and Steam in the recent past two months and the new games that have been released so far. I have enough games to play the rest of this year and next, so yes, awesome year.