PC gaming for the first time

What games would you suggest to a person who has hardly ever touched PC gaming before? Getting a gaming PC again soon for the first time since I was a teen, I am interested mostly in the deep, weird, and sometimes just funny experiences that only seem to exist on PC. I am most interested in: Space Station 13 (used to play) Kenshi Deus Ex Crusader Kings II Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom Thief I & II Vampire Bloodlines Mount & Blade: Warband Postal Honey Select Elona E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy Already play on Linux: Dwarf Fortress Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 21: The World Already played in the past: Valve games (mostly Gary's mod) Elder Scrolls games Stalker Games

>>2595 Go play fallout 1 and 2 and new vegas. The first two games are great and new vegas was well liked by those who loathed fallout 3. 3 sucked and so did 4.

>>2595 Arma 3

>>2596 Ah man, I loved New Vegas on console. I will have to mod it and try the first two. UnderRail also looks worth playing. >>2597 Great suggestion

I don't wanna invest any time into a game (WLOG whatever artproduct) unless I know that each my playthrough moment shall be great. So I'd be interested in, for each game name, an accompanying terse sentence explaining why it's good. Then, I can look up maybe promising ones, to see if it's worth playing.

>>2599 OP here, Haven't actually played most of the games yet, but here is a brief summary of the impression I get from some of them. >Space Station 13 An absolutely hysterical round-based multiplayer Space Station simulator with simulations of chemistry, the human body, air pressure, botany, electronics, robotics, genetics, and on and on and on. Has an impenetrable interface. >Kenshi In this open-world mix of RPG, physics combat games, RTS, simulation games that took 10 years to make, you can build a squad and freely interact with a brutal and unique post-apocalyptic oriental world, engaging in slave trading, building bases, influencing factions, performing drug trades, and splitting up you squad. Some people hate the interface, some people say it's tight and you get used to it. >Crusader Kings II An incestuous, plague-ridden grand strategy game where you build your empire across Medieval Europe while appointing horses to your court and marrying the pope. Costs a lot of money for all of the expansions, which you pretty much need for the full experience. >Elona An open-world roguelike RPG which allows you to be everything from a pianist to an 8 armed mutant to a slug, has the depth of classic Roguelikes but its own completely unique gameplay that has kept the community alive and developing the game for 13 years. >E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy An RPG shooter in the vein of Deus Ex set in a Warhammer 40K and Blade Runner setting, both praised for its depth of gameplay and panned for its flaws, but tries new things and achieves fun core gameplay. >Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead A roguelike in a post-apocalyptic zombie setting with countless character customization options and what has been called the most extensive crafting system ever created.

>>2600 *Warhammer 40K and Blade Runner inspired setting

Are you saying you don't have a PC at all, or that you just don't have one with the hardware for gaming? Because several games on your list are old or light enough to run okay if your hardware isn't ancient, and I'm sure some even run on Wine. I know Elona does.

>>2595 definitely try out SUPERHOT. Short, sweet, and cyber.

>>2602 I only have a programming laptop, I find dual booting or emulation is always too much of a headache to be worth it. I am getting a new PC for lots of different reasons and it's finally time to try these games I've been interested in for a long time.

>>2595 Sounds like my kind of thread. Some recommendations on top of my head: >UnReal World Since you posted some sandbox/rogue-like games take a look at this gem. A Finnish iron age survival simulation rogue-like. Continuously in development for almost two decades and programmed by two Finns who have an autistic interest in a primitive lifestyle. Be sure to check out their YouTube channel if you have an interest in those things. You can get the game for free on their website. >The Stanley Parable I really liked it when it came out, since I already played the HL2 mod it was based on. Basically you follow the story of a man called Stanley and his wild ride through a non-linear story telling experiment. I wouldn't say its especially deep, but my 16year old me liked the attempt at achieving something different. >The Void Another niche source game. On my backlog for a long time and still on my first playthorugh right now. Seems more like an art experiment than a video game sometimes and is hard to describe but it has this fantastic dark, ambient atmosphere. You are a lost soul in an entity called "The Void". You can only survive by collecting and growing color and nurturing the sisters who in change give you information and access to their chambers. There are also the Brothers who rule this domain and will hunt you down if you break their codex. >Gothic 1&2 Gothic 2 was probably one of the best RPG's I have played. If it weren't for a lot of bugs and some rough edges probably one of the best games aswell. Very atmospheric gritty world and your choices really do seem to have an impact on people and your game. Organic design: NPC's have a daily routine, talk to each other and you're just a "normal" guy like them, having to work hard for everything, nothing is gifted to you. The world is meticulously crafted and allows you to explore alot. There are several different factions you can choose to join which will shape your playthrough very differently. It's pretty hard and can be unforgiving, taking a wrong turn or saying the wrong words to the wrong person can really fuarrrk you over, but I believe there's also a feeling of reward in that. >Exanima An interesting take on the action RPG/dungeon crawler genre. The thing is that everything, especially combat is physics based. So not only the speed or weight of the weapon and how hard you swing it will affect its impact, even the weight, height and physique of your character will make a difference. In development for some years by a small group, had a lot of problems at first but is shaping up now. It also has one of the best and most accurate armor systems I have EVER seen in gaming. Its mostly historically accurate and allows you to wear several layers of equipment. E.g.: Undershirt>quilted tunic>chainmail>plate mail. I haven't really played it for a while now but I do believe its worth checking out solely for its novelty. >Stardew Valley Nice "little" farming sim in the footsteps of games like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing. In development for 8 years by Eric Barone, who did the programming, art and music all by himself I believe. It's actually pretty massive and allows you to spend hours on end on expanding your farm and collecting stuff. It does get a littlebit grindy and repetitive at some point but the sandbox gameplay makes up for that. Just focus on the things you enjoy, the villagers are also interesting characters and each of them has their own story they will tell if you befriend them.

>>2595 >Planescape: Torment best wRPG, story-rich with interesting characters, reads like a book >Fallout 1 and 2 also great post-apocalyptic RPG with lots of freedom and interaction >The Longest Journey point-and-click adventure with nice story but very bad outdated graphics >Primordia not a classic but nice sci-fi adventure game with robots I enjoyed >Hyper Light Drifter amazing looking pixel art game that's a bit like early Zelda >Bastion another game like that with 10/10 art direction >Monkey Island 1/2/3, Grim Fandango classic point-and-click adventure games >Clive Barker's Undying fun horror shooter >Brutal Doom classic Doom with fun addons, 2016 Doom is deemed very fun also but I haven't played it >A PS1/PS2 emulator to play the PS stuff >A SNES emulator to play the SNES stuff >A NeoGeo emulator to play Metal Slug

I finally got my PC today and my friend helped me build it. Hype! The games in this thread look incredible.

>>2653 I second the Void Never have I felt so anxious from a game before

>>2655 Congrats! Be sure to check out GOG (good old games) as it sometimes has the same prices as steam without DRM or the soykafty online stuff. If you don't mind steam, humble bundle sometimes has keys for a steal. And there's also Epic Games, with their own launcher and ecology that give away popular games for free every few weeks. It's owned by the chinese company tencent and has a kinda bad reputation with steam users, personally I don't use it but I guess its worth checking out (or at least looking into) if you want the free games.

>>2657 GOG is nice. Also OP, whatever you do, stay away from F2P online games, they're designed to be addictive and a massive time sink.

>>2653 showcasing the armor layering just because it is so awesome

Having a great time so far, I've gone from playing Civilization Revolutions on my PS3 like a pleb to playing Civ IV with total conversion mods that make it MUCH larger. I don't know why I waited for so long. Also, both me and my girlfriend are enjoying Honey Select. I think modding might be the best part of this. >>2672 This almost got me kicked out of McDonald's

>>2595 Return of the Obra Dinn is amazing.

>>2595 S.T.A.L.K.E.R

Wow, this thread is matching up well with my tastes. I think of... Vampire: the Masquerade -- Bloodlines: you already said this one, but I will reiterate it; play it sooner rather than later. Hotline Miami (pic related): topdown, psychedelic ultraviolence with an unusual, fast-paced gameplay loop (small stages, squishy character, immediate restarts), an incredible soundtrack, and all the fun of pretending to be an animal; better than my description would suggest Yume Nikki: topdown exploration of bizzare, interconnected dreamscapes; lonely, melancholic, and creepy in a way that's hard to pin down Bernband: exploration of an alien city with no other objective than "being there"; takes all of about an hour to complete Naissancee: another exploration-based game with minor first-person platforming; traverse a massive, futuristic superstructure alone with your thoughts Nethack: my personal favorite of the classic, dungeon-crawling roguelikes; in-development since the 1980s; embraces the idea that it's what you don't know that will kill you (but honestly, there are tons of interesting roguelikes) F.E.A.R.(came out on multiple systems, but still largely a PC game): horror-action, single-player FPS with a slowmo mechanic; still well-regarded for its enemy squad AI in spite of its age, while its visual effects are among the most aesthetically-compelling of all games I've played VA-11 HallA: animesque cyberpunk bartending assorted MUDs: the grandfathers of MMOs as we know them, accessed through a textual interface; a lot of these exist, covering various genres and styles, but player populations are generally low; Sindome is worth looking at, but maybe start with something more newbie-friendly or even a deserted MUD where you can learn in peace

>>2595 Stalker PUBG Arma3 Age of Empires 2 Assault Cube Minetest OpenSpades

>>2595 Cave Story (freeware, there's a linux torrent inside I2P) Myth 2: SoulBlighter Superhot >>2653 What game is your second screenshot?

>>2854 This is the I2P torrent by the way. http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=TorrentDetail&id=31783

>>2595 Sil is my favorite rougelike. http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/

Steam for linux has WINE built into it these days, a gaming-tuned version valve calls Proton. I've been able to get my Windows games to work with very little effort. Just a heads up.

>>2856 Thanks for this. I'm going to try this out tomorrow while I'm waiting on experiments to run at work. Looks like a real labor of love.

>>2857 >a gaming-tuned version valve calls Proton Is proton actually based on wine source? I didn't know that. Or are you just saying they do the same thing? I agree though, every game I've run with proton has worked very well. I'd also recommend playonlinux. For a while I was a "I'm just going to configure wine myself because I'm not a pleb" snob, but playonlinux's default config is really stable for whatever reason. I can usually just launch arbitrary exes directly from my file manager as if I were on windows.

>>3228 Not the other poster, but yeah, Proton is Valve's fork of Wine. It works great in my experience, too, but it's still not to the point where I could run Linux full-time on my gaming desktop, unfortunately. Part-time, yeah.

>>2857 Do they have to be bought through Steam? Or can you just add random .exes?

>>3230 Yeah, Proton is open-source, and you can compile it yourself. I haven't personally done so, so I don't know how difficult it is, but it's here on Github (with what looks like instructions): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

>>3231 Should've clarified that I meant running .exes through Steam, compiling it looks absolutely soul-crippling.

>>3232 Oh, yeah, sorry-- I didn't answer that question directly. I'm not really an expert on this; I've just played around with Proton a bit in my free time. But-- I don't think that you can run random executables with Proton; that requires compiling it yourself.

>>3233 Thanks anyways. I assumed you could, since it's possible to add random .exes as shortcuts within Steam on Windows. No idea if that's an option on Linux, or whether opening those shortcuts runs them within Proton.

>>3234 Adding "non-steam games" as they call them is an option on Linux. Idk if you can use proton with them. Idk if you can use proton without steam either. Proton is just a wine fork so you can always use playonlinux or lutris (or just plain wine) instead.

Ultima 7

I'm addicted to team fortress 2 right now, and that's free. Hitman Blood Money and Splinter Cell Chaos theory are rad, Insurgency, Day of Infamy, and rising storm 2 are awesome immersive war games.

I regularly see people saying that GOG games are "cryptographically signed", is there a way to download these signatures from GOG's servers? Even a simple hash sum would suffice in worst case. The purpose is checking authenticity of pirated games of course, that's the whole purpose of non-DRM games, to share with friends, and how do friends check if those games are authentic?

Portal and Portal 2 are amongst the best games ever made. If you haven't played them yet, I cannot recommend strongly enough.

>>2595 Heroes of Might and Magic 3

>>2595 If you like weird and sometimes funny experiences try out half-life 2 with mods, there are pretty cool ones out there

>>2595 >observer its a cyberpunk masterpiece

tf2 is entertaining imo

>>3638 You can't be serious, the games have next to zero replayability once you solve the puzzles.

>>2595 Since I'm currently playing Crusader Kings II, let me give you an honest to heart review for this. First off, you are much better off pirating the game then paying for it, unless you are somewhat rich and can afford at least 300 dollars worth of DLC because base game that went free to play on steam now without them is literally a demo version, and not worth your time. If you haven't played any grand strategy games before I advise you not to start with CK2 , it is hell for new players and you will find yourself spending hours on forums and googling stuff; the mechanics are very complicated and you will have to read a lot to understand how to play it correctly. Also if you are playing it for the first time I would advise you to start with already suggested realms because the developers of the game didn't pay much attention to "lesser" important countries you may be emotionally attached to; you will encounter a lot of complicated problems that otherwise you wouldn't have if you played with a more "important" realm, there are also barely any achievements on steam for less popular realms if you are into achievement hunting. That being said I think its a great game in the end that could be much better if paradox wasn't a greedy cunt, it will make you feel like a king if you succeed but be also prepared to lose nerves over it. I still spend hours on it daily and there are still things to discover in game. My advice would be to play it slow and steady, plan ahead and never trust anyone, things will almost always turn against you so be prepared. Deus Vult.

Use PC to mod games https://www.deviantart.com/streetmodders

>>3946 And mod your hardware too

>>2595 Based on your interest in roguelikes, you might like Caves of Qud. It has a story and a semi-randomly generated map. Pic is said map. >>2854 Not op, but it's UnReal World

>>2595 if you are searching for something cheap and can play the games you listed.I suggest an old optiplex or a t3500(old DELL workstation) you can get both under 500 dollars epecialy the t3500(under 300) buy a cheap gpu if you have to.

>>3651 >puzzle game is not fun once you solve the puzzles yeah

>>2600 >E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy >You gain brouzouf

>>4272 Certain puzzle games can retain replayability once you complete the puzzles, primarily through actively allowing and encouraging optimisation. For example something like a Zachtronics game where you are encouraged to go back to old levels and improve or replace your solutions with things like histograms to see how you compare.

imo the best pc games are >final fantasy xiv >pathologic 2 >kenshi also been playing a little ski resort management sim called snowtopia - it's very basic but the comfy factor is off the charts. Omori was also very close to being a good game, but the "epic twist" is pretty obvious from the start and never goes deeper than that, Yume Nikki is still king of RPGMaker

>>2595 >Doom 1/2 One, they're classics. Doom 1 episode one plays kinda like a proto-survival-horror, but the rest of D1 and all of D2 is more fast-paced. You shouldn't expect a perfect experience, because they were the first big FPS games and there were design decisions that we don't use anymore (highly randomized damage, anyone?) but they're overall good games and the level design still holds up. Two, get you a GZDoom and you'll have a giant library of mods to work with. From recreating WolfTNO's dual wielding, to stomping around as a spellcasting gunslinging dragon, to Megaman X-inspired robot car girl mode, to a simulationist tactical FPS experience, there's some really fuarrrking good soykaf out there and it's free. If you don't wanna give Bethesda money for a game from 94 you can use FreeDoom (which has tougher levels overall because it leans more into modern hardware and thus more enemies). Or, y'know, do five minutes' googling and find a totally legit copy somewhere. >EYE: Divine Cybermancy This soykaf is a TRIP. It's also dense as fuarrrk. There's a few guides lying around somewhere in the net. Your legs are OK. >Risk of Rain 2 A roguelite minus the randomly generated levels. Really fuarrrking good; gameplay revolves around searching the current area for items before starting a bossfight, balancing the need for upgrades against the slowly-ticking-upward difficulty. Difficulty levels are "Easy", "Medium", "Hard", "Impossible", "I SEE YOU", "I'M COMING FOR YOU", "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA". More fun with co-op. >RUINER Hotline Miami clone on the surface, with some neat upgrade paths and a sense of style that kills as hard as you do. Also, ignore the anon who suggested brutal doom. Brootl Doot is a technical achievement in many ways--it showed that you really can do headshots/locational damage in the GZDoom engine--but it's spaghetti nightmares under the hood and just not balanced well (the "brutality bonus" mechanic is completely fuarrrking worthless). If you want a Brutal Doom-like experience that's a little better balanced, try JohnnyDoom (adds different execute bonuses based on the enemy you kill, and a super meter) or BDLite (smaller, simpler Brutal Doom despaghettified). You can also try one of the many, many mods that implement modern-ish reloading weapons and a quick kick button.

silent hill 2 is free lol

>>2595 Play whatever as normal; then mod it. I recommend SKYRIM; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5O_jb-tds

>Mount & Blade: Warband Good choice OP, luv me medieval warlord simulator. Once you have a good understanding of the mechanics get the Viking Conquest DLC, it's better than the base game in almost every way if you don't let the difficulty level filter you (and avoid the soykafty story mode). Some good conversion mods are Gekokujo Daimyo edition (Sengoku era Japan setting), Honour & Glory (pike and shot era eastern europe) and 457 AD (migration era roman empire + surroundings). The latter 2 are still receiving updates, so that should tell you how robust the modding scene still is for this game.

I want a flight-sim where you control large heavy planes.

>>4431 I just downloaded EYE divine cybermancy I'll post results.

>>2595 Arcanum: Of steamworks and magick obscura Eye of the beholder II Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup Master of Orion Project Zomboid Blood (the fps) Rimworld

>>2595 >I am interested mostly in the weird, and sometimes just funny experiences that only seem to exist on PC. Many people have suggested EYE. For another excellent Source Engine experience: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Introduce Orcs, Necromancers and Mercenaries to the power of your boot in some of the best first person physics based magic and melee combat on the PC. https://youtu.be/XQB_B2P8vKA

Does anyone know of any good space ship orbit/landing simulators that use a terminal (unix) interface? Samething that shows various parameters (altitude, ground/orbital speed, fuel, apogee/perigee etc.) and allows to change settings with keyboard keys.

Are there any Pokemon games natively for PC? I'm not counting emulators.

>>5103 There is PokeMMO but it's kinda like emulator

>>5104 Never played it but how? Because of Java?

>>5105 because the game derives from the gba version, so it feels awkward while playing it on pc

Is HALO on pc now? I find it amusing that HALO is an Xbox-exclusive despite Xbox and Windows OS being part of Microsoft.

Bioshock is alright, and it doesn't have any dated interface or mechanics or anything that make it suck

>>5203 Yeah the Master Chief Collection released on PC a year ago and has mod support for Halo CE so far.

You should try out MOBAs, despite what everyone says. Playthrough many FPS out there. Be wary of the version you get because some engines don't work as well depending on the version you get. HL in specific can ruin your experience because of patches breaking the game. You can try some fun MMOs too, give TERA a shot. SS13 is awesome, but takes sometime to get into it. Try out the X series of games for spehhhhsssss. X3 in specific is amazing, especially when you start getting into the simulation aspect. If you care about driving or flying, get a stick/wheel before you do. It makes the experience so much more pleasent and relaxing. Join a War Thunder discord and play with a group. Playthrough the RTS classics too, SC, CC, and WC. After playing through that mountain, you can always emulate everything you've ever wanted to play.

>>5012 X-Plane, MS Flight Simulator or Prepar3D. If your hardware can't support the above games (and you don't want to spend the rest of your life buying 3rd party addons) GOG has IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 which goes for around $2 when it's on sale. But it's a combat flight simulator...

anyone want to rec me some good bo​omer shooters? anything from the early doom clones to half life (or modern shooters in this retro style). i'd also be interested in recs for good immersive sims... preferably ones that are less inscrutable than system shock.

>>5306 Descent 1-3 and Overload

>>5239 Please don't recommend SS13 to people... I've played it a while and I can tell you now that it's definitely an overrated game, I could write a whole manifesto on why the game is just bad... why the community.. is bad.. and why it'll keep being bad. Anyways OP play a real game like Darkwood, it's one of the best horror games I've ever played in my life.

And don't forget to mod games to get a little extra out of them. Street Fighter 2X NL https://newlegacy.fr Skyrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAxp2hasgs

deus ex 1 age of empires series operation flashpoint cold war crisis or the newer arma games tropico 3 (without expansion pack) stalker crusader kings 3

>>5306 check out insurgency, only game with realistic combat i've ever played really

>>5306 dark forces deus ex 1

>>5306 Devil Daggers Here's a review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6NIsMEyCE

>>2595 Is OP still here? I'd recommend checking out the point & click genre. My favourites are: Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Primordia, Myst (only because of the sequel), Riven, The Secret of Monkey Island and Loom.

>>5461 Does anyone play unmodded SKYRIM? Haha.

chivalry is just plain fun. insurgency has great, more realistic mechanics. trackmania is really nice although i haven't played a lot of the new one (i most enjoy the community servers with custom maps and radios). if you want a good story, play ESC. it's free on itch.io. more of a "visual novel" but very nice vibes and a great story. VA-11 Hall-A is also great.

I recommend if you wanna emulate games for consoles such as NES, SNES, GBA, etc, you should get RetroArch. It's on steam and you can download it from their website.

>>5635 Yes. I do. On my Switch, Handheld skyrim was a big deal to me. Hell, I never installed any mods on PC outside of visual improvements.

>>5306 someone mentioned dark forces, which is a good rec. jedi outcast was also really good. >>5593 >>5636 the insurgency recs are good. if you like insurgency, definitely try rising storm 2 and red orchestra 2. i've been playing foxhole a lot, that's a pretty wild experience that i haven't had anywhere else in games

>>5690 I recommend a real emulator for each of those over some crappy wrapper trying to claim credit for other people's work.

Space Station 14 is a FOSS recreation of SS13, and it's just got mature enough to play. The community's small (though there's always a busy server) and it doesn't have all the absurd depth of some SS13 servers yet (no mining level for instance) but new features are added every single week.

>>5695 Space Station 14 fuarrrking SUCKS. Just try and drag a locker or an object that fills up a whole tile through a doorway and watch as your char starts spazzing out due to movement not taking place on a cardinal grid anymore, but despite this construction and doors, and walls all do. Have to be honest, chief. There's a certain point at which you should just give up the trappings of SS13 and just make your own game WITH the parts of SS13 you want, not try and make SS13, except fundamentally break it due to the fact that the art direction doesn't support pixel based 2D movement. (Something like project zomboid for example manages because walls are thin and even though the map takes place on a grid, there's no equivalent to "pulling" something through a doorway on it.) Additionally, the UI experience is godawful compared to byond, the way that you have to click on a tiny icon on a backpack sprite to open up your backpack, AND have the backpack window pop up in the middle of your screen is not really something I'd call user-friendly, since more often than not you're interacting with objects adjacent to your character... the need for a precision click is also bizzare considering how large backpack/belt sprites are too. The only thing that's actually been improved is gunplay, because you can now see how many shots you have left in your gun before it runs out of bullets without having to examine it. Intents have also been removed, replaced with a soykafty toggle that more often than not results in you smashing a door when you really meant to interact with it. Additionally grab intent doesn't exist and disarm intent works completely separate from 'harm/help', as a toggle that doesn't care if you're on harm mode or not. It's soykaf because the game doesn't provide any idea as to whether you have to be on disarm+harm to push people over, or if just disarm by itself is fine. The 'harm toggle' change has also made it harder to cuff someone since if you have either disarm or harm on and you click someone with handcuffs in your active hand you just end up beating them with the cuffs instead. I'll also say that the development team is more focused on adding chemicals and ghostroles rather than actually working on core systems that don't exist yet, like the ability to actually evaluate what type of damage your wounds are, or to be able to examine someone and actually be able to tell what they're wearing. There's no indication as to whether or not the former's being done concurrently with the 'real soykaf' of the game since the developers are a group of thoroughly unlikable and snooty people. There's also the fact that the game's come this far and there's no actual map editor yet, I believe you have to make a private server for yourself in sandbox mode and build a map yourself, which is honestly kind of baffling since it's a far worse experience than using fastDMM or the actual BYOND map editor. As of yet the only 'superior' features it actually touts are the changes to gunplay I mentioned and that you can now play Doom through the arcade machines (albeit it'll play like soykaf and be really laggy and janky), as well as the fact that C# is infinitessimally easier to work with than DM code. It still suffers from SS13's fatal flaw, however, in that there's nothing to actually do except grief or sabotage people, since mechanically the game's systems exist soley so that people can die in entertaining ways.

>>5696 Who hurt you? SS14 works for me (and presumably all the others playing too), no problems with dragging. > the UI experience is godawful compared to byond Nothing beats BYOND, it's awful UI is legendary. Given the pace of development, I wouldn't be surprised if ss14 overtakes ss13 in a few months. The main advantage of SS14 is that it runs flawlessly on Linux, which SS13 never will (I believe it runs on an embedded version of Internet Explorer).

>>5697 Sorry buddy, but this type of rationality is exactly why I'm planning on using the SS14 codebase for a commercial project of mine, and yes, I can actually do that since it's MIT-licensed, no, I will not give them any more credit than a tiny, teeny, small 1 pt font sized 'credit' in the options menu. You reap what you sow.

SF2 fan-mod https://newlegacy.fr To select any charecters secret special colour in Super Street Fighter ii turbo new legacy. Hold start then Highlight The random box, then Highlight Zangief, then Highlight Akuma/Gouki, Then Highlight Fei-Long, Then Again Highlight The Random Box, and Go to your Desired Charecter and Release Start button. Then Highlight the desired charecter and press LP+HP+LK+HK at the Same time. Note: This Code will only work in Ver 0.5.

>>5704 New Legacy v0.6 is released. https://newlegacy.fr/releases.html

Sanitarium and Twinsen's Oddyssey ( Little Big Adventure )

>>5748 No more claw loops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6-cUUWPI8

I can't recommend Mirror's Edge enough. The game is still stunning, and the time trials are amazing. That experience of going around a level, looking for possible routes and shortcuts, before trying to get the execution down and chain it all together just fits so perfectly for me. It's like half a puzzle game. The difficulty is tuned really well, too, you usually have about 2 seconds leeway on the execution with the ideal intended route. Enough to make you feel good without tearing your hair out. Revisiting the campaign after having done the time trials also gives that dark souls 1 kind of feeling, like when backtracking through an area where you're already familiar with the enemies and shortcuts, and you just make an absolute mockery out of the game. You won't even see the police that is supposed to be chasing you. The themes and setting are pretty cyperpunk too, but the story's kind of ass. The game is absolutely one of a kind, there's nothing that plays remotely like it out there, and it does it damn well. It's also got a gorgeous art style, and one of the best soundtracks out there. I honestly think it's a game everyone ought to play once. Both for the novelty factor and for just being very good at what it does. It'll run on anything nowadays, too.

Try Tux kart, it's like Mario Kart, but open source, and on Linux.

>>5753 Still prefer the original SSF2X despite its flaws

>>2596 3 and 4 are actually great, you dork

Fallout 2 & Fallout New Vegas Baldur's Gate 2 Pillars of Eternity 2 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (KotOR 2) Morrowind (use OpenMW) Daggerfall https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files Enderal (Skyrim total conversion mod) DooM 2 (use Zandronum or Gzdoom) Duke Nukem 3d (use eduke32) https://www.moddb.com/games/the-amc-tc & https://www.moddb.com/mods/castlevania-simons-destiny Blood (best build engine game) Shadow warrior (classic) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territory/ Return to Castle Wolfenstein Touhou Portal 1 & Portal 2 Deus Ex System Shock 2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy katawa shoujo http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/ Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone Chantelise: A Tale of Two Sisters Rosenkreuzstilette (a Megaman clone) >>2595 Halo Custom edition * Install Halo: Custom Edition: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=410 * Install HEK (Halo Editing Kit): http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=411 * Download a tag pack (for map editing. you also need HEK): http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6690 and/or https://haloce3.com/downloads/tags/misc-tags/complete-halo-pc-tagset/ * Install the newest patch (removes CD check, etc.): http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6798 * Download some custom maps http://hce.halomaps.org/ and https://haloce3.com/ce/ * Blam Script reference: http://www.modacity.net/docs/bslbible/ * (optional) Install the Dedicated Server: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6797 * (optional) Install Open Sauce. * (optional) Install Halo Anti Cheat (it actually isn't an anti-cheat): http://client.haloanticheat.com/release.zip (old version) or http://devieth.halonet.net/index.html (new version) * Install Lumoria: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=1&sid=41 Tip: you need to launch HCE with --devmode and --console startup options to get the developer console. Tip: type map_name name (without the file extension) into the developer console to play a custom map. Alternately, you can use a custom UI.map Tip: HaloCE on GNU/Linux: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=50108 Note: Halo Maps requires you to allow cookies.

to add on to >>5806 Touhou and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are both big series, so it's a little daunting where to start. For S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I'd recommend Shadow of Chernobyl as a good entry point into the series. As for Touhou, this is debatable since there are many draws to the series. In general though, most would say that you should start with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Some would say it's outdated but most versions that are still available (and executable on today's hardware) come patched with the features most 2HU games enjoy. It also has the added benefit of essentially being free (if I recall correctly, ZUN said that he doesn't mind people getting illegitimate copies of EoSD since he's lost the files and will never be able to port it to newer hardware).

Armed assault 3 with all dlcs and mods, the only game you ever need to play for the rest of your life.

I'm playing INFERNAX on pc >>5753 >>5771 I didn't mind the flakiness of ST/SF2X https://youtu.be/Ne8zbDXdYQ4?t=548 Bonus~ https://youtu.be/geLyLGCxzL4 https://youtu.be/L7rFCoEsjpE

>>5932 SSF2X RYU trials https://youtu.be/9vMp84k6sak

Fable: The Lost Chapters (ignore Fable Anniversary) is an excellent game for PC. It's better on Xbox, but still very fun to play on PC. It's rough around the edges in some areas because it was an ambitious small studio game that got the attention of Microsoft who wanted to make it their flagship RPG, but if you want a game to just vibe in, Fable's perfect for that. The PC version also has some neat mods, although nothing to the scale of what the Elder Scrolls community has come up with (we're a small community with home-grown tools). Although if you want a typical quests-and-stats fantasy RPG, this isn't the game to play; even one of the co-creators calls it the first "walking sim with a bit more to do," and it's more inspired by Monty Python etc than Tolkien for example.

>>5957 SSF2X Boxer M.BISON trials https://youtu.be/8NF8qJ8Wxno

>>5806 >Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Use ET Legacy instead. It has a working server browser and other small improvements. There are even official builds and a flatpak for GNU/Linux, too!

>>6084 P.S. If you get FPS lag, you need to type the following to the console \seta r_primitives 2 and restart the game. There are also some other tweaks as well: \seta com_hunkMegs 512 \seta com_maxfps 76 \seta com_soundMegs 128 \seta com_zoneMegs 128 \seta cg_noVoiceChats 1 https://antman.info/wolf/cvar/

>>2595 I know you're looking for weird and new experiences but >Kenshi you have to have a lot of patience with this one. it's not for everyone. in fact I'd say it's not for most people. it's really rough around the edges and pretty janky >Mount & Blade: Warband if you've played the first game then this is pretty much more of the same but with mostly good additions and a few questionable decisions but overall an improvement. still got that old school jank but perfectly playable even if it still gets a little too slow in my opinion at endgame. >stalker if you like stalker, play metro. they aren't the same experience at all but they share similar aesthetics

I find PC gaming really really hard if not impossible so I gave up on it. People who pc game soykaf are like wizards to me

>>2595 Quake, Quake 3, Battlefield 1942 (requires gamespy patch), Battlefield Vietnam (requires gamespy patch), Battlefield 2 (requires something, also look into the "sandbox mod" if you can get BF2 working), Project Reality (former mod for BF2, now standalone and free), Call of Duty 1 and United Offensive expansion pack (have map editor and idtech3 .pk3's - easy to mod), Call of Duty 4 (original release, has mod tools and map editor), Stalker (Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky [worst of three but good if you like the others], and Call of Pripyat), Warzone 2100 (2.3.9), FEAR 1 and expansions, Rollercoaster Tycoon 1-3, Trackmania Nations/United Forever, Trackmania 2, Serious Sam 1&2 Classic, The Sims (if you can get 1 working, great, otherwise 3 is the best for building -- I never really play the sim part), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Railroad Tycoon 2, Halo: Combat Evolved (original release and download Custom Edition if the MP is still active for custom maps), Shadow Warrior Classic (Redux), Duke Nukem 3D (Megaton Edition if you can find it), Audiosurf, Distance, Tron 2.0, first two Thief games (if you don't mind older graphics), Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (hard tactical game), SWAT4 (I like RvS more but this is still good)

Playing arcade games with a save state is such a time-saver...

>>2595 Shadow Tactics since you like Theif and might like a tactical rpg built around stealth that has multiple ways to complete a level. I'm more into platformers but I won't recommend any since you didn't list any.

What are pc ports so bad? If studios are so scared of pc sales eating into console sales, release the pc port afterwards. I rather a late but working pc port than a crappy pc port.

>>5807 > since he's lost the files and will never be able to port it to newer hardware And I was hoping he would open source the old games someday. Damn, Japanese devs don't give a soykaf about their source codes.

>>6950 Ironically, people focus on PC ports, but the console "ports" are often just as bad. The recent Star Wars game was a mess on all platforms, but I guess console gamers have lower standards (or publishers have more control over the media that focus on console - likely both.) However, we get buggy releases on all platforms because shareholders want return on investment yesterday, and the longer they wait the longer it takes to reinvest elsewhere. Publishers therefore push studios to release their game as soon as possible, because retards are always going to buy the next Star Wars or Call Of Duty regardless of what state it's in. Once they make their millions, they go into damage control to maintain their reputation, and for media to give them free publicity. Rinse and repeat.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Mugen Lifeweb The Dark Mod Enderal Project Reality Squad Oolite Orbiter Xplane Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar VA-11 Hall-A Kerbal Space Program Abuse Endorfun

>>6950 >>6954 It's a 100% tech issue. Unreal engine and DirectX 12 are a developer minefield. Most of those problems could've been avoided by sane defaults and decent documentation.

i really hate video games and PC gaming is a total chore. I really hate that people think that means your tech inept. No. PC gaming is just a fuarrrking chore added onto the already tedious nature of video games. im so sick of video games being all anyone can talk about. im so sick of consoles being worthless. the home pc market was a mistake

>>6955 Shogo: Mobile Assault Division Gunman Chronicles Hellish Quart City of Heroes Endless Forest

>>2595 Most of my picks are already rec'd in this thread, but I'll say: >Stalker >Fallout >DCSS (dungeon crawl stone soup) >Baldur's Gate 1+2 >>2653 >UnReal World Tried to run v3.63 on Linux Mint and got this error. "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 204: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != NULL' failed!" Since I am a potato brain, does anyone have advice on how to fix this?

I remember when Diablo was only on PC cos Blizzard didn't want to compromise on tech specs.... Oh well. Back to Path of Exile.

>>5306 Don't know if it counts, but I think ULTRAKILL is neat.

Just wanted to say you have great taste OP. Do you also happen to be a fan of SsethTzentach the game reviewer?

The Elder Scrolls Morrowind (get a wabbajack modlist) The Elder Scrolls Skrim (get a wabbajack modlist) The Elder Scrolls Oblivion (get a wabbajack modlist) X4: Foundations X3: Terran Conflict World of Warcraft Classic

Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, Mass Effect 1 & 2, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, Borderlands, Borderands 2, Terraria, The Sims 4 All those will keep you busy for like, 5 years.

>>2595 get honey select 2 betterepack when you want to grab it.

play ballistic zen. its a indie (and i mean it) project made over 5 years or something and is a great experience that doesn't require you to sweat your ballsacks off

Playing SKYRIM with all the mods installed. Heh. I hope the engine can take it.

>>2595 underrail rules but if the game is too hard or you get stuck go online and look up a build and just use that one. It is possible to comfortably win fights against multiple opponents on normal difficulty but you need to build your character right in order to do that. Luckily there are lots of people online who will happily share their builds with you.

>>7275 Path of Exile 2 gonna blow Diablo 4 out of the water....

>>5306 HROT is pretty decent. Quake-ish aesthetic, solid shooting, decent level design, looks retro without looking like a modern game trying to look "retro" (ie. soykaf) Speaking of Quake, be sure to check out the Arcane Dimensions mod if you haven't already. The levels are masterful and it fixes Quake's lacking variety by adding a plethora of new monsters and a new weapon or two.

>>2595 Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Gold Edition >>3639 And this.

>>5016 >>6955 Thirding Dark Messiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnxgQMSsc8c

PS5Pro news is why console gaming is the worst... I'm using fightcade to play fighting games online with others. It's so satisfying...

>>8033 PS5PRO unintentionally pushing sony console players to pc gaming. Heh.

>>8056 PS5PRO cost too much. Who's gonna pay that amount of money?

Beast thugs? Shadow of doubt? Caves of Qud? Stellaris? Arcanum?

>>8086 Not enough people SONY fails at pricing

>>5805 3 was, for its flaws (and good God there are a lot), is at the very least serviceable. 4 is just legitimately miserable all the way through, gutting the gameplay for minecraft soykaf, and the plot and world are just absolute nonsense.

>>5805 Fallout 4 is not a good RPG experience but the shooter mechanics have improved over previous entries. They removed karma, faction reputation and made SPECIAL stats matter very little since you can just increase them to 10 with perks. The dialog system is very bad since you now have dumb dialog wheel thing and you don't know what each of the option even does since they are labeled like "Yes", "No", "Tell me more" and "Sarcastic". Even if you always treat NPCs badly, they don't seem to care because no one gets angry. You can just talk to them again and they seem to have completely forgotten your past behavior. Also, all dialog is voiced and there is no way to turn it off. That's a problem if you install (or make) a mod because suddenly your player character becomes totally mute for xxx hours. There are also some other problems with the game. For example, the fact that they hand out you free power armor at level 1. And why do random raiders also have power armor? And all guns are just pipe rifles.

>>8144 Fallout 4 had the potential to be great with its improved gunplay and interesting art direction but squandered it with boring common denominator soykaf story, and piss poor writing. Fallout 4's only real benefit to gaming as a whole is that it might serve to get console npcs into RPGs with more depth.

>>8144 Agreed but i think you arent harsh enough. They destroyed everything about the game. The shooter mechanics felt closer to a FPS genre shooter game, but within the context of the rest of the gameplay i would say the gunplay felt even worse than Fallout 3. Instead of being an immersive RPG with an engaging world that i could lose many hours exploring and engaging with like New Vegas and Fallout 3, it was an empty boring lifeless FPS game masquerading as an RPG. The writing was atrocious too. I cant see how anyone could justify rating it better than like a 4/10

>>2595 Evenicle - PC exclusive erotic JRPG Sengoku Rance - PC exclusive erotic TRPG Katawa Shoujo - PC exclusive VN Umineko: When They Cry series - VNs best experienced on PC Legend of Heroes series - JRPGs best experienced on PC (DRM-free on GOG) Chaos; Head - VN best experienced on PC Fate: Stay/Night - VN best experienced on PC Muv Luv - VN best experienced on PC Senran Kagura series - Fanservice games best experienced on PC due to censorship on consoles Hyperdimension Neptunia series - JRPGs best experienced on PC due to censorship on consoles (DRM-free on GOG) Dragon Age: Origins - RPG best experienced on PC due to enhanced controls/visuals/mods Fallout: New Vegas - RPG best experienced on PC due to mods Metroid Prime - Has to be emulated, but can be modded into PrimeHack

Remember to mod EVERYTHING especially for single player games. Yeah!

>>5695 Not this person, but I'll sh1ll ss14 again. It's a pretty great game if you can look past the tranny admins. Just note that the game is, much like lainchan, a 30/70 mix of troons/channers. Servers listed in order of fun (and troon-human ratio): Hullrot Goobstation Wizden (wizden is honestly still loads of fun, just avoid the admins like the plague)

Playing Capcom vs Marvel series; it can get quite chaotic and crazy.

Play whatever you like but graphically mod it like crazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKI4-s_cs8Y

>>2595 >>4362 >>6087 >Kenshi Would anyone be interested in having a lainchan kenshi multiplayer server ? https://github.com/The404Studios/Kenshi-Online

>>9291 if i can i connect from a soykafty linux laptop, sure thing