Just bought a new computer, looking for games

[Myrmex]

I just bought a new computer, for cheap. It's got 1.4 gigahertz, 512 MB RAM, and uh, some other stuff.

Anyway, I've been using a mac for years, and have missed out on almost every game to ever come out. I can't run the next gen stuff, like DoW2, cause it needs dual core and more than 2x my processor speed. I think WoW is probably the upper limit of graphics for me.

Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is already on my list. What else should I get?

[Trazoi]

You could try some of the nice freeware out there; most have generally have lower software requirements. I'd recommend Cave Story (http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/index.php) (although that has a Mac version) or Spelunky (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4017.0) (Win only right now) for starters; I'm sure other people would have suggestions.

Since you have an older computer, you should also check out Good Old Games. (http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/) They're a downloadble game store that specialises in old, can't-easily-find-in-the-stores stuff, sold really cheap. Generally all the games there are reasonable; check out the ones in the genres that interest you. Their latest newsletter said they'd be getting a Might & Magic pack soon (games 1 through 6) if you're interested in the series. And if you're into RPGs and haven't played Fallout or Fallout 2, I'd recommend picking those up.

Edit: Just checked the GOG site: they've got Heroes of Might and Magic III. They've also got a good deal on Beyond Good and Evil & Prince of Persia: Sands of Time that's worth checking out.

[Cristo Meyers]

One thing I'd do is go ahead and get another 512 mb of RAM. It's a fairly cheap upgrade and helps quite a bit.

In terms of gaming. Fallout 3 is excellent, and they've re-released 1, 2, and Tactics as a set. F.E.A.R. is an excellent FPS, though it's a bit high in the system reqs. Medieval 2: Total War is a great RTS/TBS hybrid. Sins of a Solar Empire is a great RTS.

[chiasaur11]

Well, for really old games, Marathon's free (http://source.bungie.org/get/)and X-Com's cheap.

Both good picks.

And for new stuff:

Go Valve. They rule so very hard. Orange Box is love.

[Oregano]

I think you can download the first two Elder Scrolls for free nowadays of the Bethesda site and you should check out Morrowind(and possibly Oblivion if you can run it). Morrowind is my fave.

[shadowxknight]

I just bought a new computer, for cheap. It's got 1.4 gigahertz, 512 MB RAM, and uh, some other stuff.

Anyway, I've been using a mac for years, and have missed out on almost every game to ever come out. I can't run the next gen stuff, like DoW2, cause it needs dual core and more than 2x my processor speed. I think WoW is probably the upper limit of graphics for me.

Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is already on my list. What else should I get?

Warcraft 3+expansion.

[Dogmantra]

The original NWN is pretty good, if you can play online with friends. Dirt cheap, too. NWN2 is also good if you can run it.

Yeah, and Morrowind, but that's been mentioned already.

[Quayleman]

If you like Heroes, I would suggest Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri, if you can find it.

[Mando Knight]

One thing I'd do is go ahead and get another 512 mb of RAM. It's a fairly cheap upgrade and helps quite a bit.

I'd go with adding 3584 MB of RAM. Max the thing out, whydon'tcha?

[factotum]

In terms of gaming. Fallout 3 is excellent

Which is lovely, except the MINIMUM spec to run it includes a 2.4GHz CPU...

I'd say Diablo 2 plus expansion would be a good choice. You don't say what the 3D card in the machine is--if it's anything halfway reasonable then the GTA3 series games (GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas--especially San Andreas) would be good to go for.

[Crispy Dave]

Warcraft 3+expansion.

seconded. All those who appose say "nay" all those who agree "yay".

[Mx.Silver]

The original NWN is pretty good, if you can play online with friends.
If you're not an online gamer though, avoid it. It's single player is terrible.

NWN2 is also good if you can run it.
He can't; possessing a 2.4 GHz processor is a minimum requirement.

As someone who made a similar switch in computers for the express reason of games, I can relate to this. HoMM 3 is good (although GoG.com don't have it for sale yet, I was able to pick it up along with 4 four about £5 a few months back) as is HoMM 2. 1 is okay, but hasn't aged too well. 4 should be avoided and you'll struggle to run 5.

Games that you should seriously look into are Baldur's Gate and it's Sequel, which you can probably still find in most online stores usually relatively cheaply. Planescape: Torment is a must if you can get hold of it, which isn't that easy. Fallout 1 and 2 are also good (although these were re-realesd on Mac Os X a couple of years back so you may already have them) and the Icewind Dale games aren't bad either.

Comman and Conquer and Command and Conquer: Red Alert (games which did more to make the RTS genre than anything else around) are now freeware and can be found for download here. (http://forums.commandandconquer.com/jforum/posts/list/6967.page) If you enjoy action RPGs, then Diablo 2 should probably be somewhere on your list as well.

[Mystic Muse]

if you can run it, Fable the lost chapters.

[Mx.Silver]

Which is lovely, except the MINIMUM spec to run it includes a 2.4GHz CPU...

Yeah, it seems a lot of these suggestions have been ignoring the hardware limitations. Essentially, if it came out within the last couple of years I highly doubt Myrmex's computer is going to be able to handle it.


if you can run it, Fable the lost chapters.
Its minimum specs are within his computer's capacity.

[Corlindale]

Good old games in various genres:

RPG
Baldur's Gate II + Expansion (haven't really played 1)
Arcanum - Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura (if you can get past the somewhat clunky combat and interface this is actually a real gem)
Morrowind (pure awesome)

"RPG"
Diablo II + Expansion (not necessarily best game ever, but certainly the game I've played the most. Still awesome, I have yet to find something better in this genre)
Final Fantasy VII + VIII (among the few Final Fantasy titles that exist for PC. They're not that hard to get running properly, so if you don't have a Playstation they're a nice way to get aquainted with the excellency of (most of) the Final Fantasy series. Opinions seem to be divided as to the quality of VIII, but I personally really like both games)

RTS:
Starcraft (it has aged extremely well, still one of my favourite RTS-titles, and still has a very active online community, if you like that sort of thing)
Sacrifice (an overlooked gem, very interesting take on the genre)

TBS:
Civilization II + III (best turn-based strategy series out there. You may also be able to run IV).
Alpha Centauri
Echoing everyone: Heroes :smallwink:

FPS/FPSRPG
Deus Ex (this may actually be the best game ever)
System Shock II (still scary, I first played it just a year ago - and I'm afraid to play more... May be a bit hard to find, though)
Unreal Tournament (the first game is still my favourite of the series - great fun in multiplayer and surprisingly decent in single - and so moddable it's almost silly).
Half-Life (The first Half-Life is still very good in both single and multiplayer. Also, an enormous amount of mods available)

Misc:
The Longest Journey (one of my favourite adventure-games)
Abe's Odyssee + Exodus (great puzzle-platformer games)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (really interesting third person shooter game, with great comedy)

Ah, now I feel like digging most of these up again...:smallsmile:

[Celesyne]

I absolutely agree with several these, my first computer was well into the pentium 4 2.0 ghz phase, but i was running a pentium 2 slot A 666MhZ processor, and playing morrowind with no issues :smallbiggrin: .

My mini list for an older computer must have:

RPG:

Quadruple agree on Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and expansions + Planescape: Torment

Morrowind + Expansions, you can more than run it, grated you vid card isnt junk, and there are probably 100000000 billion hours worth of gameplay unmodded

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, your system may struggle a bit with them, but they are worth it in spades, truley excellent games.

Diablo 2 + expansion, great game, enjoyed it for quite some time, just gets boring fast on sigle player after about level 30.

Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 are great, if nothing alike save in the xp gain area.

RTS:

Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 they are both older, your system can run them with no problems, and they are absolute gems of games.

Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2 are good, but may strain your system, not sure on the reqs for #2

Age of Empires 2 and the expansion. Great game, lots o fun.

FPS/FPS style-sims

Unreal Tournament and 2K4

Call of Duty 1 and 2

Heavy Gear 1 , can't make any reccomendations on the 2nd as i never played it.

Mechwarrior 2&3 you should be able to run them, but i dont have the box with req's on them anymore.

Overall, those are all games i would HIGHLY recommend to anyone.

on my own personal front, I'm looking for something similar to space empires 4, like the ship customization, but less...... hard, it just spanks my butt. I love Sins but it doesnt give me the customization i want.

I am looking for anything else with a gripping story. I seem to have lost touch with WoW and pretty well everything else i play and really just need a game with a story that grabs you and drags ou in, with maybe a little good gameplay on the way. the last really excellent story i have played was Mass Effect and am dieing for a good epic storyline.

[Myrmex]

I already have Starcarft + Expansion, and have been playing that for years. Unfortunately, the original disc & its CDkey is lost, so I can't put it on the new computer. Which is a bummer, because I can't host and it crashes faitl frequently (SC carbon didn't do a perfect job fixing stability issues on OS X).

I also have D2 and LoD, and it's worn thin after what feels like a decade of play. I probably WILL pick up the original, cause it was tons of fun. Hopefully D3 will run on this machine, and SC2, but I doubt it. By the time Blizzard releases those games.

Installed Warcraft 3 last night, unfortunately lost the CD key to the expansion, though. Have the disc, though. It's great! I can play with my graphical settings on high and play huge LotR maps with 12 players online without much lag. If I turned the settings down, I don't think I'd have a problem.

Fallout & Baldur's Gate will definitely both go on the list. I've played both, briefly, back in the day, and they were a blast. Dungeon Siege was like Diablo lite, and Diablo's not that complex of a game. I don't think I'm going to touch it. Dungeon Keeper 2 I played on a friend's computer this Xmas break, and it was super crashy. I beat the game, messed around with custom maps, and feel confident saying I don't want to go back.

Orange Box will be a must have, as will Deus Ex. I had a Deus Ex demo way back in the day, for an old mac, and it was AWESOME. I'm not really into the FPS, though.

I already had both FF7&8 for PS, and thought 8 was stupid. Loved 7, played the crap out of it, and am not really ready to go back. I'd pick up 9, if it was available for computers (is it?).

Morrowind is like a graphically lite Oblivion, right? Cause I could go for that. 'Course, if it has the same stupid "enemies level with you" system, I don't think I'll get it. Unless there's a mod that fixes that.

Any good turn based strategies out there? I have played many hours of Civ3&4, and don't feel like logging any more hours on those games.

Also, are there any good strategy/fantasy games out there with a strong D&D feel? I played most of the way through ToEE, and even after patching the crap out of it, still found it too buggy. Eventually, the interface for spell preparation & combat got to be too much work, and I couldn't bring myself back to playing it. It was a cool idea, though.

[edit]
Forgot to mention graphics card: GeForce4 440 Go with 32MB of "memory size".

Anyway, off to see what DotA's like without the Frozen Throne expansion.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Turn based strategies I can't help with... unless you're looking for flash games. Although Flash Games are days of fun.

As for other games, I've heard good things about The Orange Box, but haven't been able to verify the claims. I also don't know the specs or if you can run it.

But I know one game you can run: The original Crysis Sarcasm! =D

[chiasaur11]

Turn based strategies I can't help with... unless you're looking for flash games. Although Flash Games are days of fun.

As for other games, I've heard good things about The Orange Box, but haven't been able to verify the claims. I also don't know the specs or if you can run it.

But I know one game you can run: The original Crysis Sarcasm! =D

Can't remember X-Com?

For SHAME sir.

Turn based tactics at its finest.

Deus Ex might run. It's considered by some to be a gamer's Citizen Kane.

Well worth the ten bucks on steam, and it's free on gametap for a sampler.

[Johnny Blade]

I'm going to recommend Jagged Alliance 2. It had pretty crappy graphics even for '99, but everything about them and the interface/gameplay as well is very functional, so it aged well enough.
The game's a turn-based tactics one, by the way, much like the also recommended X-Com, only that the rest is a bit different.
First, you hire mercenaries to liberate some little banana republic. Your mercenaries will come across grizzled rebels, a veritable sweatshop, the local organized crime etc., and they will comment on some of that stuff. They're not as fledged-out as RPG NPCs, but they get around 100 lines each, and they usually give them a lot of character.
Second, the strategic part is essentially a board game. You conquer cities to generate income through silver/gold mines and pay your troops (mercenaries and stationary militia) as well as equipment with it.
There are a few sidequests, but essentially, it's moving mercs around to conquer the map while hearing cool one-liners.


EDIT: Also, there are many mods for it, and some are even good.

2nd EDIT: You can, by the way, have up to 18 mercenaries, divided in as many squads of up to 6 as you wish.
Also, this game has some hilarious cutscenes and lines. If you somehow don't like the idea of dark humor in a game about toppling a dictator, well, you might not like this, but really, it's hilarious.


Morrowind is like a graphically lite Oblivion, right? Cause I could go for that. 'Course, if it has the same stupid "enemies level with you" system, I don't think I'll get it. Unless there's a mod that fixes that.

Kinda.
Morrowind isn't just graphically lite, though, parts of it simply don't look good. Partly because in a lot of areas the palette consists of brown, grey, and greyish brown. Also brownish grey sometimes, but only when you're lucky.
(There are also areas that are the same painted red.)
Other areas make up for it, though. Telvanni towns are pretty amazing, as you'll see when you play it. The flora of Morrowind is interesting.
Also, you'll start out being horribly slow. Horribly.
And combat is a bit, well, meh. Spellcasters require constant resting, and as a fighter, you just click at things till they fall over (Blocking works like this: it either happens, or not. You have no influence.). Oblivion is much more interesting in that regard, making movement more important and actually including maneuvers.
Also, many enemies don't scale (especially important ones), meaning the game can be broken any way you want it. :smallwink:

But, it has an incredible amount of dialogue, most of which is written only, but seriously, the quality alone is worth it.
Also, while the quest design is a bit more lackluster than in Oblivion, the plotlines are great. The main quest is simply straightforward everyday stuff, but it's done amazingly well.
And you will hear the music in your dreams. (As soon as you hear the enemy nearby melody, you'll have nightmares of cliff racers.)

Anyway, I may have accentuated the negative points here a little, but overall, if those don't put you off too much, you should get it. It's a great game. Just not really the same as Oblivion - the basic feel is the same, but some important parts are noticeably different.

[factotum]

on my own personal front, I'm looking for something similar to space empires 4, like the ship customization, but less...... hard, it just spanks my butt. I love Sins but it doesnt give me the customization i want.

I am looking for anything else with a gripping story.

I was about to suggest Galactic Civilizations II till you mentioned the "gripping story" part. Have you considered The Witcher?

GCII would be a good turn-based strategy for you, Myrmex--OK, it's more 4X than TBS, but a fun game all the same. Oh, and you can forget my earlier suggestion of the GTA3 games, they won't work well on a graphics card with only 32Mb of RAM--tried the original on my laptop, which has that much graphics RAM, and was getting about a frame every 3 seconds!

[Triaxx]

Freelancer is fun. There's not expressly a lot of customization, but the gameplay makes up for it.

Turn-based has gotten this far and no one has mentioned Battle For Wesnoth? Yes, it will kick your ass, but that's part of the fun.

[Shikton]

I'll put up this site (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest) for you. Good resource to see if you can run games.

All games I wanted to recommend are probably all posted (haven't read through everything), but I'll still list 'em:
Baldur's Gate series
Icewind Dale series
Planescape: Torment
Final Fantasy VII (must have)
Fallout series (meaning F1 and F2 since you can't run F3)
Monkey Island series

Probably more, but I suppose you need to afford to buy these games as well.

[Knaight]

I'm going to reccomend the usual. Pick up DROD(start with Journey to Rooted hold, don't touch the RPG until you have done the rest, King Dugan's Dungeon is free), Lugaru, and you might as well pre-order Overgrowth. Mount and Blade should work, so pick that up as well.

[jamroar]

I think you can download the first two Elder Scrolls for free nowadays of the Bethesda site and you should check out Morrowind(and possibly Oblivion if you can run it). Morrowind is my fave.

Oblivion is way out. Should be able to handle Morrowind and its expansions, though. The Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic games are nice too.

What graphics card are we talking about?

[Rustic Dude]

For Fantasy strategy games, I recommend the Warlords Battlecry series. Long games with lots of units, sides, and a RPG component: You've got a hero, who levels through the battles, as well as his army.
Awesome 2D graphics.

Turn-based games...I'd recommend Gates of Troy. A timeeater. Pretty good 2D graphics, a crapload of factions, and it can be pretty challenging. Also, lots of diplomacy options.

If you want a "Diablo" game, I'd go for Sacred. Much better than Dungeon Siege for my tastes.

[jamroar]

If you want a "Diablo" game, I'd go for Sacred. Much better than Dungeon Siege for my tastes.

IMO, Dungeon Siege is good for just one thing, that is the excellent Ultima remake mods using its engine.

[Vorpal word]

Blizzard's games are good, especially Starcraft and Warcraft 3. I'd really recommend Starcraft 2 but don't think your PC will run it.

Otherwise, IMO Civ 4 is not a good choice, I heard it's excellent but many people (including me) have not managed to run it even when all requirements are met. Orange Box is supposed to be awesome, sadly I don't have it myself. As other strategy games try AOE (but be warned that AOE 3 is completely different from the other two, so if you want medieval combat don't get it) or maybe Stronghold 2. Heroes of Might and Magic is great, I recommend it.

[endoperez]

Dominions 3 is a fantasy turn-based strategy that would also have worked on a Mac. Try the demo before buying. It's still full-price unless you catch a sale at Sharpnel Games' store), the interface is "quirky" and it's not for everyone...

Still, it has lots of things like magic items, spells and nations. The nations include such things as frost giants, cannibalistic giants, amphibious giants, fire-people, flying-people, human nations based on romans, celts, aztecs, conan, inquisition or stories about King Arthur. Everything is represented by sprites, but almost everything also has a description... word > picture.

[Inhuman Bot]

Iji! (http://http://www.remar.se/daniel/iji.php)
Also
Trilby, the art of theft and Adventures in the galaxy of fantabulous wonderment. (http://http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm)

[Heroic]

What sort of graphics card do you have?
Nvidia? Or others?
Because I was able to run Oblivion on my old crappy computer which was Pentium 4 Ghz and an Nvidia 5600. Maybe you can run it too, but on Low settings.

Ahhh, god bless my new computer capable of playing Fallout 3 and Crysis on ultra high :smallbiggrin:

[Mx.Silver]

I was about to suggest Galactic Civilizations II till you mentioned the "gripping story" part. Have you considered The Witcher?

Needs a 2.4 GHz processor.


I already had both FF7&8 for PS, and thought 8 was stupid. Loved 7, played the crap out of it, and am not really ready to go back. I'd pick up 9, if it was available for computers (is it?).
No, more's the pity (it's the only 3d FF I rate particularly highly).


Any good turn based strategies out there? I have played many hours of Civ3&4, and don't feel like logging any more hours on those games.
Not many, it's something of a dying breed these dies. There Dominions 3, as endoperez suggested, which would also fulfil the fantasy request. It does have probably the most insanely complicated rules of any TBS I've encountered though so if you're not fond of really long learning curves it may not be to your tastes. It's also harder to get hold of outside of the USA, although that may not matter to you (it is the main reason I don't own it though).
There's also Battle For Wesnoth, although I never got into it as the RNG is so massively important it borders on being a luck-based game. A lot of people seem to like it though.

[Inhuman Bot]

Ahhh, god bless my new computer capable of playing Fallout 3 and Crysis on ultra high :smallbiggrin:

Either a lier or a time traveler, eh? :smallwink: :smalltongue:

[factotum]

Needs a 2.4 GHz processor.


I'm fully aware of that--the person I was responding to wasn't the original poster and therefore presumably doesn't have the same restrictions.

[Triaxx]

Is this new computer a dual core? If it is, then most games that want a 2.4 can be played because they're much faster, despite the numbers.

[Rustic Dude]

Either a lier or a time traveler, eh? :smallwink: :smalltongue:

Well, my computer can do that, and yours too. The question is....How much FPS? :smalltongue:

[MrPig]

The MechCommander games are freeware now.

[Myrmex]

So I bought NWN: Diamond, and it didn't work at all. But I played some on my friend's PC, and other than getting killed by goblins immediately and hating playing a turn based game in real time, I can see the appeal.

Talk about NWN! What are good patches? Good builds? Good mods? How do I play as DM? Is it hard or just time consuming?


Is this new computer a dual core? If it is, then most games that want a 2.4 can be played because they're much faster, despite the numbers.

Negative.

[Optimystik]

To the people suggesting Oblivion and even Warcraft III, why are you setting him up for an evening of pain and tears? Lots of stores don't even take the discs back once opened.

OP: Buy RAM first. Srsly.

[Myrmex]

To the people suggesting Oblivion and even Warcraft III, why are you setting him up for an evening of pain and tears? Lots of stores don't even take the discs back once opened.

OP: Buy RAM first. Srsly.

Warcraft 3 runs fine, though on epic maps with 12 players & graphics on high it slows down.

It's funny; a lot of you don't seem able to parse well what games are demanding and what ones aren't. I wonder why that is.

[Narudude360]

In terms of gaming. Fallout 3 is excellent, and they've re-released 1, 2, and Tactics as a set. F.E.A.R. is an excellent FPS, though it's a bit high in the system reqs. Medieval 2: Total War is a great RTS/TBS hybrid. Sins of a Solar Empire is a great RTS.

All of those games require dual-core, and quite a bit more RAM (%200 more) than he has. But I have to reccomend Starcraft, Diablo II, and Half Life. Those are classics that can replace Fallout 3 (Diablo II), SoaSE and Medieval 2 (Starcraft), and F.E.A.R. (Half Life). If you can find a version of Fallout I or II that doesn't run in DOS, get that. Or just download Steam and buy the Direct Download version.

[Optimystik]

It's funny; a lot of you don't seem able to parse well what games are demanding and what ones aren't. I wonder why that is.

512 MB and 1.4GHz was a long time ago for many of us, would be my guess.

On my old rig with similar specs, War III stuttered unless I cranked the visuals down, so that's what I was going off of.

[warty goblin]

Hmm, I used a system of similar power until fairly recently- a little worse in the CPU department but better in the GPU. Here's my recollections.

1) I could sort of run Oblivion using Oldblivion, but in all honesty it really wasn't worth it. Besides the constant crashes and the bit where it looked like low res footage of an armpit, a lot of the shaders weren't, at least when I used it, terribly well carried over. Chamelion and invisibility in particular didn't visually work at all, and particle effects were sort of borked.

2) I did manage to play Civ 4, but it was a near thing and required the patch. I'd download the demo and see if that works.

3) Actually true in general, if there's a demo, try that first. It doesn't give a 100% accurate portrait of actual game performance since there's often significant engine changes between demo (particularly pre release) and the game going gold. But it's still a useful indicator.

4) In general I had fairly good luck with games that ran on either the original XBox or PS2- usually the former as there were more ports from that system than the Playstation.

5) I also occasionally 'future proofed' my game collection, which is to say I'd pick up a game I knew I wouldn't be able to run on the assumption that at some point in the future I would be able to do so.

6) Specific recommendations: Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is hellova good time, and is available via Impulse for not all that much. It'll also run on almost anything.

[factotum]

If you can find a version of Fallout I or II that doesn't run in DOS, get that.

Both Fallout and Fallout 2 were Windows games. Fallout also came with a DOS version, but Fallout 2 didn't--and even then, you got BOTH versions with Fallout, so he doesn't have to look very hard!

[Cristo Meyers]

Both Fallout and Fallout 2 were Windows games. Fallout also came with a DOS version, but Fallout 2 didn't--and even then, you got BOTH versions with Fallout, so he doesn't have to look very hard!

Hell, he can just go to pretty much any store and get the Fallout Trilogy for $20.

[Inhuman Bot]

Hell, he can just go to pretty much any store and get the Fallout Trilogy for $20.

Or better yet, get them for 5$ each at GoG (http://http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/). GoG is also having a sale, so you can get both Fallout games for 5$. You have to use your credit card, of course, but I haven't had any issues with it myself.

As a side note, having finished Fallout 1, I decided to buy Fallout 2, from GoG. However, in the buy 1 get 1 free list, I noticed Sacrifice, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Fallout: Tactics, all of which I've heard good things about. (Well, not so much the last one..) Anyone have an opinion on which I should take with Fallout 2?
/steal

[Miss Nobody]

Talk about NWN! What are good patches? Good builds? Good mods? How do I play as DM? Is it hard or just time consuming?


Check out the Player Resource Consortium. It adds a ton of new classes, races, feats and stuff. This is the manual (http://www.nwnprc.com/nwn/index.html) and you can download it from here (http://www.nwnprc.com/downloads.php?cat_id=2).

If you're looking for more games you could check out Spellforce, an RTS/RPG hybrid that should work on your PC. Other good games that I can recommend are Giants : Citizen Kabuto, American McGee's Alice, the first Call of Duty, Sacrifice, the first two Gothic games, Beyond Good and Evil, Operation Flashpoint and, if it works, Warhammer 40k : Dawn of War.

[Zen Monkey]

For an older computer and turn-based strategy, I'd recomment Chaos Gate if you can find it. I wasn't a big warhammer 40k fan, but still enjoyed the game alot because it plays very similarly to the first XCom game.

[Myrmex]

Hell, he can just go to pretty much any store and get the Fallout Trilogy for $20.

I almost did that, but ended up getting NWN Diamond instead, so I could play with my friend.

Anyone know about any DRM on the Fallout Trilogy? I'd hate to get suit-shanked again.

[edit]
And thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look into Chaos Gate. I find the 40k universe very fun & appealing, but both DoW 1 & 2 did absolutely nothing for me. DoW 1 felt like Starcraft lite and DoW 2 was easy mode CoH (omg that is an amazing game).

[Lord Seth]

I just bought a new computer, for cheap. It's got 1.4 gigahertz, 512 MB RAM, and uh, some other stuff.

Anyway, I've been using a mac for years, and have missed out on almost every game to ever come out. I can't run the next gen stuff, like DoW2, cause it needs dual core and more than 2x my processor speed. I think WoW is probably the upper limit of graphics for me.

Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is already on my list. What else should I get?You should put your new Windows computer to work by playing NetHack.

[Triaxx]

Tactics is tons of fun. It's not exactly in line with the rest of the Fallout Sphere, but it's tons of fun nonetheless.