Best 5 games of the last 6/8 months....
Discussion
It will totaly depend on the type of game you prefer really.
One mans meat and all that..
You can get all sorts of experiences from the same genre.
Some driving games are simulators, others involve weapons, jumps and boosts.
Some FPS (first person shooter) games involve full on, fairly authentic WW2 gunfire, others involve guns that shoot slime and stuff at aliens or monsters.
You could simply google for the best selling games or most popular probably, but that may not make them the best in many peoples eyes.Plus often the online ability of many can make of break them for many people.
Battle field 2 would be a good example.Pretty poor as a single player event, superb online!.
I could for example suggest how utterly boring Doom 3 was to me, then a million people will tell you i am mad.
I could say how much i love GT Legends (GTL), Rfactor and GTR, but you may prefer a fast and furious slant so Need For Speed Underground 2 would be better.
Some people lose months of their lives to online universes in games such as World Of Warcraft and Eve, others prefer a single player experience and lose just as much time with things like Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
Very hard to suggest a top 5 for me, i could only tell you what i dedicated the most time too if that would help?.
As for PC specs, it's much the same story.How fussy are you?.Do you want maximum eye candy in games and large resolutions, or are you happy to play on lower details and lower FPS (frames per second)?.
On that front, PC wise it is always best to get the maximum you can afford.PC technology gets old FAST so you don't have to spend a fortune to get a decent gaming rig that will run most things well and look pretty.
However, if you don't go cutting edge, you can forget maximum details, a 1600x1200 + resolution and high FPS in more modern games.
That is especially evident in car racing games for example.You can spend an age getting something running well and looking nice only to find that when you slap 35 A.I cars into your race, you find out your graphics card runs like an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping (thanks Black Adder).
That wasn't a great deal of help really was it?
Maybe tell us what you like or what you prefer and the suggestions will come thick and fast.
One mans meat and all that..
You can get all sorts of experiences from the same genre.
Some driving games are simulators, others involve weapons, jumps and boosts.
Some FPS (first person shooter) games involve full on, fairly authentic WW2 gunfire, others involve guns that shoot slime and stuff at aliens or monsters.
You could simply google for the best selling games or most popular probably, but that may not make them the best in many peoples eyes.Plus often the online ability of many can make of break them for many people.
Battle field 2 would be a good example.Pretty poor as a single player event, superb online!.
I could for example suggest how utterly boring Doom 3 was to me, then a million people will tell you i am mad.
I could say how much i love GT Legends (GTL), Rfactor and GTR, but you may prefer a fast and furious slant so Need For Speed Underground 2 would be better.
Some people lose months of their lives to online universes in games such as World Of Warcraft and Eve, others prefer a single player experience and lose just as much time with things like Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
Very hard to suggest a top 5 for me, i could only tell you what i dedicated the most time too if that would help?.
As for PC specs, it's much the same story.How fussy are you?.Do you want maximum eye candy in games and large resolutions, or are you happy to play on lower details and lower FPS (frames per second)?.
On that front, PC wise it is always best to get the maximum you can afford.PC technology gets old FAST so you don't have to spend a fortune to get a decent gaming rig that will run most things well and look pretty.
However, if you don't go cutting edge, you can forget maximum details, a 1600x1200 + resolution and high FPS in more modern games.
That is especially evident in car racing games for example.You can spend an age getting something running well and looking nice only to find that when you slap 35 A.I cars into your race, you find out your graphics card runs like an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping (thanks Black Adder).
That wasn't a great deal of help really was it?
Maybe tell us what you like or what you prefer and the suggestions will come thick and fast.
Edited by Digby on Sunday 1st October 18:20
Porbably the same as most on here, true life drivers and fps.
Trouble is, here and elsewhere, everyones is talking in groups of capital letters, RTL, ETC ETC, its not as easy to work out what they're talking about.
Im coming from a ps2 thats about on its last legs, but games I played and enjoyed on that would be Grand Tourismo and any of the Splinter Cell or earlier Doom style stuff.
Nothing original, but my pc is spec isnt huge.... xp2,p4 3.00 gb,512 ram, radeon x300 graphics.
I dont want to buy a game if its not going to run.Ram is cheap, so not worried, more concerned about the graphics capabilities.
Cheers
F
Trouble is, here and elsewhere, everyones is talking in groups of capital letters, RTL, ETC ETC, its not as easy to work out what they're talking about.
Im coming from a ps2 thats about on its last legs, but games I played and enjoyed on that would be Grand Tourismo and any of the Splinter Cell or earlier Doom style stuff.
Nothing original, but my pc is spec isnt huge.... xp2,p4 3.00 gb,512 ram, radeon x300 graphics.
I dont want to buy a game if its not going to run.Ram is cheap, so not worried, more concerned about the graphics capabilities.
Cheers
F
yep, my parents have that too, except with a gig of RAM. I have the same spec but with a spanglier graphics card and only 512mb of RAM... stuff runs more slowly on my PC than on theirs. They can run HL2, call of duty 2, civ 4, GTL etc. all as well as my PC can. I need to buy some RAM I think.
Other than rFactor I haven't really bought a game over the last 6-8 months. If you're not buying the best PC available to run the very latest games on at the highest level graphics levels look at older games (12-18months old) which you can do. You'll have much more fun that way maxxing them out than running something newer at low or meduim settings.
Older games that I pretty much max out on my machine. (2Ghz AMD, 1GB RAM, 7800GS 256mb AGP nVidia card)
Rome : TotalWar
GTR & GTL
Theif : Deadly Shadows
Battlefield 2 (except some very big city maps)
Doom 3
Older games that I pretty much max out on my machine. (2Ghz AMD, 1GB RAM, 7800GS 256mb AGP nVidia card)
Rome : TotalWar
GTR & GTL
Theif : Deadly Shadows
Battlefield 2 (except some very big city maps)
Doom 3
Furyous said:
Sounds like more ram, maybe another 512 ?
If I was going to go for another card, without spending a fortune, any recommendations?
Cheers fellas, looks like pc gaming is the way forward.
F
If I was going to go for another card, without spending a fortune, any recommendations?
Cheers fellas, looks like pc gaming is the way forward.
F
I play the odd game with my XP 2.5ghz, 1gb, Geforce GT6600 and found that when I increased ram from 512 to 1gb there was a huge jump in my machines performance.
I actually bought the ram because I use the machine for work and need more ram for VMware stuff.
D_Mike said:
yep, my parents have that too, except with a gig of RAM. I have the same spec but with a spanglier graphics card and only 512mb of RAM... stuff runs more slowly on my PC than on theirs. They can run HL2, call of duty 2, civ 4, GTL etc. all as well as my PC can. I need to buy some RAM I think.
I've got twin 7800GTXs mated to an Athlon X2 and 2GB of RAM, and I'm really annoyed at how slow some games seem to run at the settings I want them to.
I think I have to reassess my priorities. But I feel cheated out of my money for the game if I'm not getting the ultra quality textures with 8x AA at 1280x1024.
-DeaDLocK- said:
D_Mike said:
yep, my parents have that too, except with a gig of RAM. I have the same spec but with a spanglier graphics card and only 512mb of RAM... stuff runs more slowly on my PC than on theirs. They can run HL2, call of duty 2, civ 4, GTL etc. all as well as my PC can. I need to buy some RAM I think.
I've got twin 7800GTXs mated to an Athlon X2 and 2GB of RAM, and I'm really annoyed at how slow some games seem to run at the settings I want them to.
I think I have to reassess my priorities. But I feel cheated out of my money for the game if I'm not getting the ultra quality textures with 8x AA at 1280x1024.
-DeaDLocK- said:
I've got twin 7800GTXs mated to an Athlon X2 and 2GB of RAM, and I'm really annoyed at how slow some games seem to run at the settings I want them to.
I think I have to reassess my priorities. But I feel cheated out of my money for the game if I'm not getting the ultra quality textures with 8x AA at 1280x1024.
I think you have a problem somwhere if your stuttering at 1280x max everything, when using 7800GTX in SLi, have you tried using everest ?
normally tells you where the bottle necks are.
Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff