Absolute must play PC games.

[Omnipotent]

Commander Keen

[orinthia]

Privateer
-Your death is the will of... GOD!

Plays like the old wing commander games but you do things for yourself. Freelance for money, upgrade your ship, and blow shit up. Has a story line that ends but the game continues. The sequel is also pretty good, though both are old dos games. Really need a joystick for them as mouse/kb controls tend to suck.

[TacoTaru]

I loved Myst and Riven but most people absolutely fucking hate those games.

Also Dark Forces was comically good and the original Fallouts obviously are winners.

[The Blackrose]

Master of Orion 2.

I need to find more games like Civ/HoMM games, but haven't been able to find any near the quality of them.

Sins of a Solar Empire.

[Kisamoo]

Freelancer, which has 200 player servers out there with at least 100+ players usually. X3: Terran Conflict for a single player version of the same-type of game. Space-sim-economy games are amazingly fun.

[Guitarman]

Clive Barker's Undying
Shadow Warrior (really fucking funny shooter).

[Dezzimal]

Fallout3 is too much story for me

Fair enough, imo its only too much if you are hell-bent on reading every little scrap of story they throw at you in books/computer terminals/notes. I do and it is quite a bit of reading, but there is definitely the minimal story route where you only need to talk to people to move forward in the game.

Most people prefer to spend their time playing the game, not debugging it

Low blow/trolling. Bugs suck but fully patched its pretty stable.

[Merovingian]

Dunno if someone said it, but a game i would say it's a must is Jade Empire(Although there's a original xbox version).

[Klain]

Doom/Quake/Unreal
Nox
Descent
Morrowind/Oblivion
The Outforce
Creature Shock (Personally never played the second)
Demonophobia

[Boyiee]

Fair enough, imo its only too much if you are hell-bent on reading every little scrap of story they throw at you in books/computer terminals/notes. I do and it is quite a bit of reading, but there is definitely the minimal story route where you only need to talk to people to move forward in the game.




Low blow/trolling. Bugs suck but fully patched its pretty stable.

Dezz your sig reminds me of these tshirts:

Spoiler: show

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[sleekmotorwurkz]

Ive always been a fan of Clive Barker's Undying. FPS with some magic casting, puzzle elements, and a mystery/horror feel to it. First time I ever played it, had it on surround sound with the lights off almost made me wet myself.

[Souj]

So I got this job at Dunkin Donuts(lulz) and I'll be working a 10pm-4am shift. They are extremely dead during that time with around 1-3 hours of actual work. The rest of the time I've got time to do w/e and I'm allowed to use my laptop, so I figured I'd load it up with pc games and tv/movies.

Problem is I've never really messed with PC games much, so I'm not sure what's good and I'm looking for some suggestions.

I already know about Portal, Witcher, L4D, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.
I don't like FPSs much and I don't think I'll have internet.

[Foxer]

SC2

[Kiarax]

Don't forget about emulators... you should be able to run anything up to the Dreamcast unless your laptop is really shitty.

[Souj]

It's pretty up to date. I was able to run ff14 beta on it, albeit it was a little laggy.

[Kaelan?]

Look up stuff on Steam, see if you like anything. Other than what you mentioned, I've got Civ 5, Last Remnant and Disciples 3, which all eat up time pretty well.

[Correction]

Indie/casual titles off Steam are the way to go, can hop in and out of them in the rare cases where you actually need to do work. Get Terraria, Plants vs Zombies, Super Meat Boy and you're set for a month.

[Dryr]

I don't think I'll have internet.

Dunkin' doesn't have wifi like every other coffee place there is?

If they did, obviously netflix/hulu/surfing would kill more time. As far as offline games go for a laptop, best bet would be steam indies, get some old rts maybe?

Also, if they did have wifi and your laptop can handle ffIV, I would say get WoW. Even if you haven't liked it in the past, it would make time fly at work.

[Isiolia]

So I got this job at Dunkin Donuts(lulz) and I'll be working a 10pm-4am shift. They are extremely dead during that time with around 1-3 hours of actual work. The rest of the time I've got time to do w/e and I'm allowed to use my laptop, so I figured I'd load it up with pc games and tv/movies.

Problem is I've never really messed with PC games much, so I'm not sure what's good and I'm looking for some suggestions.

I already know about Portal, Witcher, L4D, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.
I don't like FPSs much and I don't think I'll have internet.

Gog.com for direct-download versions of a lot of PC classics tweaked to run in a current OS (if necessary), relatively cheap, with no DRM.

They have some of the older Bioware n' Obsidian RPGs (or you can find them on Amazon pretty readily). Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, etc.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ is a project that runs old Lucasarts engine adventure games. They have several available for free on the site. The Adventure genre might be worth looking into in general, since it's typically not been a big genre on consoles, and barring really long cutscenes/conversations (*cough*Longest Journey*cough*), should be easy to walk away from to help customers or whatever.

[Bregor]

So a friend of mine is staying with me for a bit before he starts school, and we had intended to waste my days off work playing FFXIV. But instead he wanted me to try Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete, and we've played it nonstop for the past week or so. How am I just finding out about this game now? Custom multiplayer games are amazing.

What else am I missing that's in the same turn-based strategy mold?