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[AleHop]

I used to play, and still do it sometimes, probably the best submarine simulator Silent Hunter III and mods can make games much better, funnier or whatever you prefer.



Among the more normal PC games I think GTA San Andreas was the best I remember. You could load it with all kind of mods.

[rclark]

 mikathegreat2, on 17 March 2010 - 04:34 PM, said:

Battlefield Bad Company 2=great game!

Single player is awesome, not as funny as BC1 but the action was better! Multiplayer is good too but nowhere near as good as MW2! I'll give it an A-!

Bad Company 2 was fantastic, loved the multiplayer in particular. You could knock down just about every building in the game if you shot enough shells/rockets/grenades at it. Battlefield 3 has way better graphics than BC2, but the gameplay seems a bit more constrained to me... Nowhere near as total damage to buildings is possible, which totally changes the gameplay in multiplayer.

[Rainmaster]

Looks interesting (recommend changing to HD as ever)..

[Massa]

Does anyone play F1 2012?  I found out it came out for Mac OS X yesterday.  Kind of interested, but I'd have to invest in some sort of gaming controller for the Mac, and I'm not going to do that unless it's really worth it.  Any reviews of the game from the perspective of TF1 users?  Thanks.

[The Shadow]

I've been playing Diablo 3 since launch. Probably the only one here that does. Critics are mostly unimpressed with it I guess, but as I game mainly with my friends, it's pretty fun throughout. Made some bucks on the auction house, which is a plus I guess..

[ecapdeville]

 Massa, on 22 December 2012 - 02:20 AM, said:

Does anyone play F1 2012?  I found out it came out for Mac OS X yesterday.

Really? I didn't know that!... I play the game in the Xbox360, with the microsoft wheel and a 40" screen... awesome!!!! great game... I dont know anything about control wheels for Mac

I´ll put a pic later of my gear.

[Massa]

I plugged in my PC controller to see what would happen, and sure enough, the Mac recognized it.  Now it's just a matter of me figuring out how to get within 107% of the real-life lap times.  I didn't realize you could lose so much traction while going so slowly.  I drive exactly like the real Massa.

[ecapdeville]

 Massa, on 20 January 2013 - 04:50 PM, said:

I plugged in my PC controller to see what would happen, and sure enough, the Mac recognized it.

Hey... thats good news! what kind of controller do you have?

[Massa]

I used this.  It was actually recommended to me years ago on this very forum by Yoda McFly when I started playing rFactor on PC and, as now, didn't have the space for a wheel.



The only downside to gaming on a Mac is that the USB ports are on the back of the iMac, so you end up with a bad kink in the controller's cable.  Then it rips.  And then you can no longer turn right.  I guess I can still use it for NASCAR games.

So I replaced it with an Xbox controller from Logitech that is actually designed to work on a Mac.  Had I been intelligent, I would have gone wireless, but I never learn.

[Rainmaster]

Read about the upcoming Thief game on RPS (if you don't know what RPS you're in the wrong place), decided to go back and play the originals, since they're a bargain on Steam. Glad I did, one of the better ways of procrastinating I've found.

[Quiet One]

Try Monaco. As usual lately, multi player seems the core of the concept (and I never got the idea about MP), but I am having a blast in SP so I am sure it is worth it.

My present list of games is unusually big so I find myself jumping from one to the other: Monaco, Tropico 4, Bioshock Infinite, Hellgate Global, Don't Starve and Prison Architect. (Plus the usual Broderlands 2 and Skyrim sessions)

If you don't try at least 2 of these games you are a pitiful person.

[The Shadow]

The Old Republic for me at the moment. Now that it's sorta free

[Rainmaster]

 Quiet One, on 26 April 2013 - 07:10 PM, said:

Try Monaco. As usual lately, multi player seems the core of the concept (and I never got the idea about MP), but I am having a blast in SP so I am sure it is worth it.

My present list of games is unusually big so I find myself jumping from one to the other: Monaco, Tropico 4, Bioshock Infinite, Hellgate Global, Don't Starve and Prison Architect. (Plus the usual Broderlands 2 and Skyrim sessions)

If you don't try at least 2 of these games you are a pitiful person.

I was going to write something about Monaco! I also heard about that in RPS. Looks very interesting, it's already on my extremely well populated Steam wishlist.

I keep seeing Don't Starve on the Steam homepage but never clicked it, just had a look. It's been wishlisted. I'll check out the others. Not that I value your opinion or anything like that.

I think I'm going to play the the first BioShocks and perhaps leave Infinite, since I watched a very good walkthrough already .

But before all of this I still need to buy a decent PC (not that all of these games actually require that much horsepower).

Edited by Rainmaster, 26 April 2013 - 07:41 PM.

[Quiet One]

I only enjoyed Infinite, having tried the previous 2 without any success.

As for the hardware, I noticed that in the past 5 years or so the incidence of hardware in the game's performance has dropped. My rig is 4 years old and can run most of the new games with graphics options high. When some of them struggle is usually more due to the game itself than to the hardware.