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best of 2006 pc games
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shortylickens
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I guess I cant complain. They even stated it was a pretty dry year for quality games.
As I've been saying since '99: "Maybe next year will be better."
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Ok what do you guys think of my list here? Are there any that you think aren't worth buying? Or are there any games that aren't on my list that you think are worth buying?
Quake 4
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Neverwinter Nights 2
Oblivion
F.E.A.R
Company of Heroes
Medieval II: Total War
Battlefield 2142
Prey
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Scarface: The World is Yours
FarCry
Quake 4
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Neverwinter Nights 2
Oblivion
F.E.A.R
Company of Heroes
Medieval II: Total War
Battlefield 2142
Prey
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Scarface: The World is Yours
FarCry
shortylickens
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Its just my personal opinion but Quake 4 and Prey arent that great. MUCH better than Doom 3 but that isnt saying much.
Lots of people like them.
A BUNCH of folks have been pissing and moaning about Battlefield 2142. Apparently its even more bug-ridden than the other games and not even as much fun.
I think that Neverwinter Nights 2 and Oblivion are perfect examples of the industry dumbing down quality RPG's to mak them more interesting to the average American consumer (who gets dumber every year).
Both games were huge dissapointments but I did manage to play them for a little while.
You might actually have a little fun with them but I cant make promises. They are both still very expensive and maybe you should wait until they come down in price.
Despite all the detractors I though FEAR and FarCry were both pretty good shooters. They have good, original stories and interesting levels. And again, (despite what some people said) some pretty intelligent enemies that will try to flank you and hide out until you pass by them.
Half-life 2 was similar. The designers focused more on story, interesting maps and a handful of intelligent, resourceful enemies rather than a shooting fest that lasts through tons of boring levels. Havent played HL: Episode 1 yet.
Didnt care to play anything else on your list, so I cant comment.
P.S.: Try to find the DVD editions of those games, if possible.
They make installation so much easier and they also make it easy to keep track of discs.
Lots of people like them.
A BUNCH of folks have been pissing and moaning about Battlefield 2142. Apparently its even more bug-ridden than the other games and not even as much fun.
I think that Neverwinter Nights 2 and Oblivion are perfect examples of the industry dumbing down quality RPG's to mak them more interesting to the average American consumer (who gets dumber every year).
Both games were huge dissapointments but I did manage to play them for a little while.
You might actually have a little fun with them but I cant make promises. They are both still very expensive and maybe you should wait until they come down in price.
Despite all the detractors I though FEAR and FarCry were both pretty good shooters. They have good, original stories and interesting levels. And again, (despite what some people said) some pretty intelligent enemies that will try to flank you and hide out until you pass by them.
Half-life 2 was similar. The designers focused more on story, interesting maps and a handful of intelligent, resourceful enemies rather than a shooting fest that lasts through tons of boring levels. Havent played HL: Episode 1 yet.
Didnt care to play anything else on your list, so I cant comment.
P.S.: Try to find the DVD editions of those games, if possible.
They make installation so much easier and they also make it easy to keep track of discs.
Get Oblivion on sale. It's a reaily in-depth experience, and worth $20-40 dollars. I paid $75 for mine at launch and I think I've gotten the $75 out of it.
Half Life 2 didn't come out in 2006
Never heard of Call of Cthulu
I hear BF2142 is trash
I've heard meh things about Prey
Never heard of Condemned
Dunno how Scarface is
FarCry didn't come out in 2006
Schadenfroh
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Quake 4 - Alright, nothing really new, although I got bored of it after 20 minutes.
Half-Life 2 - Great game. Really loved this and would get this and eps. 1
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - ?
Neverwinter Nights 2 - ?
Oblivion - gets very repetitive. I keep saying I will play through on a new character, just never do however.
F.E.A.R - Trash, way over hyped. Graphics are pretty good, but nothing special. I had to force myself to finish this one.
Company of Heroes - heard way good thing, just havent tried it.
Medieval II: Total War - ?
Battlefield 2142 - Have BF2, hadnt played it in 6 months, recently installed it, and havent played it in the past 2 weeks. Just seems bland.
Prey - its OK, nothing too special. The gravity stuff it pretty cool, but other than that not much else.
Condemned: Criminal Origins - played about the first hour and a half of this. Really kind of liked, beautiful graphics, different sort of gameplay, and somewhat intriguing story.
Scarface: The World is Yours - will have to try this.
FarCry - beautiful game, played this on Xbox, loved it. Still have yet to play it on PC.
May I also suggest:
KOTOR 2
Counter Strike
GTR2 if your into racing
Unreal Tournament
I have heard some good things about the new Splinter Cell, although I havent played it myself
GRAW
Half-Life 2 - Great game. Really loved this and would get this and eps. 1
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - ?
Neverwinter Nights 2 - ?
Oblivion - gets very repetitive. I keep saying I will play through on a new character, just never do however.
F.E.A.R - Trash, way over hyped. Graphics are pretty good, but nothing special. I had to force myself to finish this one.
Company of Heroes - heard way good thing, just havent tried it.
Medieval II: Total War - ?
Battlefield 2142 - Have BF2, hadnt played it in 6 months, recently installed it, and havent played it in the past 2 weeks. Just seems bland.
Prey - its OK, nothing too special. The gravity stuff it pretty cool, but other than that not much else.
Condemned: Criminal Origins - played about the first hour and a half of this. Really kind of liked, beautiful graphics, different sort of gameplay, and somewhat intriguing story.
Scarface: The World is Yours - will have to try this.
FarCry - beautiful game, played this on Xbox, loved it. Still have yet to play it on PC.
May I also suggest:
KOTOR 2
Counter Strike
GTR2 if your into racing
Unreal Tournament
I have heard some good things about the new Splinter Cell, although I havent played it myself
GRAW
I guess I'm one of the detractors because we have pretty much opposite views of these games. While not groundbreaking, I thought both Quake 4 and Prey were a lot of fun to actually play.
FarCry is highly overrated. Yeah, the jungle looks great, but what else is there? As much as people bash games like Halo for being repetative, FarCry is just as bad. The levels are like this: beach, jungle, jungle, jungle hut, jungle, jungle village, etc... The AI is fairly bad and often cheap and I saw no signs of enemies trying to hide from me. I may have seen some flanking a time or two, but for the most part the enemies just made a bee line straight for me.
As for FEAR, I still haven't gone all the way through, but what I have played is nothing special. It has some freaky moments, but you spend most of your time fighting the exact same type of soldier. The levels all look the same and are all warehouse and loading dock type areas. Again, I haven't made it all the way through, but the game simply hasn't given me any reason to... it's just your typical industrial looking PC shooter with some freaky girl thrown in.
Without knowing anything about Scarface, I'd say everything on your list is a solid game worth owning.
aha pontifex...we meet again...engarde!
look at the thread title :thumbsup:
Anyway, I'm just being a dillhole
Finished it last night - had a lot of fun. Now I need to go through and play the Dark Side.
The game does show that it's almost two years old - looks like they made some minor tweaks to the original KOTOR engine. Voice quality is good, battle is fun, the characters you team with have deep, fleshed out stories, and the plot sends you for a trip across the galaxy and back.
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Wow, I did not like very many games from last year. Never realised it until now.
Best game I played in 2006 was Call of Duty 2, I really enjoyed that one.
KT
Far Cry is actually a lot of fun if you play it more like a stealth game. What they really did well is the code that determines whether an enemy can see you or not. If you go prone in the grass they won't be able to see you until you get close, and if you run and hide after they've seen you, they don't automatically know where you are from then on. They go to your last known location and start searching for you from there.
Nohr
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HamburgerBoy
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I can't believe Hitman: Blood Money hasn't had a single mention in this thread so far. They took Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, improved the graphics to making it the best looking game out so far, improved the AI to giving it the best stealth AI out so far, took out all the filler/buffer levels, and made the remaining levels epic and original. Aside from a couple minor hiccups in Murder of Crows and ...Better Watch Out the game is perfect.
What else is there? Realistic combat, relatively non-linear gameplay, lots of tension because of the autosave system, long game length, and much more. Just as repetitive as Halo?
lol, not even close. Almost every island level is different from the other and never are the same exact islands copied and pasted. There's escape oriented ones focused on driving from hordes of mutants, there's tactical ones focused on taking out groups of enemies in short bunches, there's all-out massacre islands where everyone knows where you're at and you have to kill them all, there's slower paced sniping type islands... repetitive scenery, maybe. Repetitive gameplay, hell no. Not to mention that there are indoor levels as well, not just island levels.
The AI was excellent for the marines. They made cover behind trees and rocks (even if the trees were often too narrow to completely conceal them) when you were shooting them and flanked you when you were trying to get a better shot. Sure, the jumping mutant AI wasn't genius but why should it be? They're just dumb mutants.
:thumbsup:
That too. It's easily the best game to come out in 2004 and taking into consideration all games after Deus Ex, it's the second best, beaten only by Hitman: Blood Money.
What else is there? Realistic combat, relatively non-linear gameplay, lots of tension because of the autosave system, long game length, and much more. Just as repetitive as Halo?
lol, not even close. Almost every island level is different from the other and never are the same exact islands copied and pasted. There's escape oriented ones focused on driving from hordes of mutants, there's tactical ones focused on taking out groups of enemies in short bunches, there's all-out massacre islands where everyone knows where you're at and you have to kill them all, there's slower paced sniping type islands... repetitive scenery, maybe. Repetitive gameplay, hell no. Not to mention that there are indoor levels as well, not just island levels.
The AI was excellent for the marines. They made cover behind trees and rocks (even if the trees were often too narrow to completely conceal them) when you were shooting them and flanked you when you were trying to get a better shot. Sure, the jumping mutant AI wasn't genius but why should it be? They're just dumb mutants.
:thumbsup:
That too. It's easily the best game to come out in 2004 and taking into consideration all games after Deus Ex, it's the second best, beaten only by Hitman: Blood Money.
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