joeistheman

http://store.steampowered.com/app/901735/?snr=1_7_15__13
 
This is the Stronghold Series which I can vouch for as being an awesome RTS series. There are two packs:
 
Stronghold 1 & 2 (Main game) + Stronghold Legends (King Arthur, etc.) + Stronghold Crusader & Stronghold Crusader Extreme (Set during the Crusades.) This pack is $19.99 The pack above + Stronghold 3. This pack is $49.99

Skyrim
Cube World (brand new voxel rpg, inde game that is insanely amazing, look at it on youtube. You may have trouble getting it since the servers keep getting ddosed and are just flooding in general so they are shutting them down and bringing them back up randomly :P)
Saints Row 3 (Personally I just like this game because it is really mindless and silly)
Left 4 Dead 2 (For playing with friends)

The Witcher II  (Great RPG and graphical showcase game)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (or the sequel, Arkham City if you don't care about plot)
Borderlands 2 (Great cooporative co op game.   Shines on PC with lots of customizable options.  Super cheap so you can probably get the game, all the DLC characters (Mechromancer and Pyshco) as well as the Season Pass (all 4 DLC campaigns and the level cap increase) for $40-$60).
Left 4 Dead 2  (Kind of an older game now, but a co-op classic with ace gameplay.  Super cheap and still a blast to play with others.  Virtually all PC gamers have this one)
Portal 2  (Physics based puzzle game with a great single player and seperate co-op mode.)

If you want some smaller, indie games that I consider classics, look for Bastion (isometric beat-em-up with RPG elements), Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Survival Horror where running and hiding is your only way to survive), and FTL ('8-bit' starship sim).  They are all relitively cheap and Bastion and FTL both have amazing soundtracks.

Must have games for me would be:
FarCry 3
Bioshock Infinite
Tomb Raider
Assassins Creed III
Crysis 3
Dead Space 3

just wait for the summer sale. If your looking for multiplayer games then cs go, chivilry, torchlight 2, and really anything else that looks cool. Also which josephtesta are you?

Far Cry 3
L4D2
Crysis 3
Mafia 2
FTL: Faster Than Light

Free to play games that will occupy you till then :3
Blacklight Retribution
Team Fortress 2
Planetside 2
Tribez

Don't buy games on Steam yet. Wait for the Steam summer sale which should be coming up very soon.

If he is planning to run a hackintosh, there is no confirmation on a hack boot for Haswell yet. So Ivy is a better and safer bet.