Good games to start out with?

[TerminalVelocity]

Finally installed Windows on my PC, and I've been looking for some games to start out with.  The only games I've really played are like Minecraft, Portal, and TF2.  What do you recommend?

[hmminteresting]

Finally installed Windows on my PC, and I've been looking for some games to start out with.  The only games I've really played are like Minecraft, Portal, and TF2.  What do you recommend?

Killing floor if you like zombies, 

BF4 if you like FPS or CSGO

GTA, Darksiders for 3rd person stuff as well as witcher which is on sale now so buy it

Binding of isaac

saints row

South park game is amazing as well if youre into it

I like having something like age of empires on in the background if im watching something or generally chilling on the web

[Weak1ings]

Kerbal Space Program. 

[Fulgrim]

Here's some titles /series of games i quite enjoyed, look into reviews of each then give whichever ones you like the look of a go.

 

Mass Effect trilogy

Dragon Age trilogy

The Witcher trilogy (3rd one is out in a few days)

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Skyrim (mod the fuck out of it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

Black Mesa

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 4

Bioshock trilogy

F.E.A.R trilogy

Metro 2033

Metro Last Light

S.T.A.L.K.E.R trilogy

Star Wars: Knight Of The Old Republic 1 & 2

System Shock 2

Max Payne trilogy

[hmminteresting]

Here's some titles /series of games i quite enjoyed, look into reviews of each then give whichever ones you like the look of a go.

 

 

Metro 2033

Metro Last Light

 

Never got into the Metro games. Are they much different from other games from the same genre?

[Fulgrim]

Never got into the Metro games. Are they much different from other games from the same genre?

I guess it falls under the action category, but it also has other elements in it (horror, post-apocalyptic etc) - watch some reviews of it, and see what you think of it.

 

Everyone has different tastes & opinions.

[manikyath]

depending on your style of games (sorted under playstyle)

 

kerbal space program

cities:skylines

farming simulator 15

besiege

 

Gmod

rust

 

half life series (and have your shiny new GPU sit idle)

 

honestly, more people should give racer ( http://racer.nl/) a try, but sadly the community made cars are disappearing faster than the official download server can give you the game.

[Kevin_Walter]

I guess it falls under the action category, but it also has other elements in it (horror, post-apocalyptic etc) - watch some reviews of it, and see what you think of it.

 

Everyone has different tastes & opinions.

 

Definitely more of a shooter, not an action game.

 

Never got into the Metro games. Are they much different from other games from the same genre?

 

It all depends on your own personal taste and what you didn't like about the games themselves. Not every shooter is the same as another. Plenty of them are different. Metro is very different to Call of Duty, for instance... and Bioshock is nothing like Team Fortress 2. Yet they're all technically "shooters".

[hmminteresting]

Definitely more of a shooter, not an action game.

 

 

It all depends on your own personal taste and what you didn't like about the games themselves. Not every shooter is the same as another. Plenty of them are different. Metro is very different to Call of Duty, for instance... and Bioshock is nothing like Team Fortress 2. Yet they're all technically "shooters".

True, I hate COD but love BF, dont mind bioshock. Would you say metro is in the same line as fallout, bioshock and skyrim? or?

[Kevin_Walter]

True, I hate COD but love BF, dont mind bioshock. Would you say metro is in the same line as fallout, bioshock and skyrim? or?

 

As far as atmosphere (the "feeling" the game has), I'd say Metro is closest to Bioshock out of those 3, though the setting is post-apocalyptic, so more in line with Fallout from a marketing standpoint.

 

Fallout tends to have more humor, but Metro is more serious.

 

Metro is nothing like Skyrim. Skyrim isn't really a shooter (unless you count running around with a bow and arrow in the same vein as shooting people), it's mostly just an open-world RPG. Metro is very linear.

 

Honestly, I'd say Metro is the same as none of those games. The only thing I'd really compare Metro to is the Stalker series, though Stalker is more of an open-world survival game, and Metro is linear and story based. They both have a pretty similar mood though.

[Rekx]

Go play crysis 3 on high details and just look at the textures :-)

MP: CS:GO, League of Legends, GTA 5, Arma 3, Dayz or War Thunder.

SP: Metro, Crysis 1/2/3, Just Curse 2, Total War, Cities Skylines, Grid 1

(can't believe no has mention this) Batman Arkham series.

[Wind]

Mafia II.

[BestBOTEU]

dota 2, csgo (i dont recommend starting with mm) play alot of deathmatch (not matchmaking deathmatch), surf maps, bhop maps. DiRT Rally is really fun, dark souls 2, chivalry medieval warfare, GTA V for sure, i dont recommend payday 2 at all, it really is too easy to get money and xp by farming 1 easy heist instead of doing 30 mins heist and getting less than you could by farming, got bored from it in like 3 days no joke, gta v kinda makes up for that, you could still farm missions but the money you get decreases the more you do the same mission, and you get heists which are really fun, very rewarding and somewhat challenging compared to payday 2, and you STILL have tons of options to do whatever you want in gta v (golf, tennis, trolling, motorcycle stunts and etc...), bfbc2 is one of my fav games, tho i dont know if the community is still alive.

all of the games ive listed i guarantee you will get atleast 50 hours on no problem. 

[tomison25]

go for PC exclusives first and foremost. Play the games you cannot get anywhere else.