$300 bucks to spend, ideas?

[Disclaimer: I haven't played PC games since like 2006, so any game suggestions 2006+ are OK!]

I've got $300 bucks to spend! on games! PC only of course. Any ideas?

I've got COD4, World in Conflict and Crysis already.

So now I'm looking for Rise of Nations kind of games, building something, doing war, etc. any new games like that?

Also I'm becoming a big fan of COD4 (just from the videos on here), so I do like these games in which

we're a miliaty power or something.

Thanks for your suggestions!

dude if you don't have the orange box that is a 120% must get!!! U MUST BUY THE ORANGE BOX!!

Also I like the Witcher and C&C Tiberium wars.

Battlefield 2 and 2142 arn't bad either!

- Medieval Total War

- Unreal Tournament 3

- Orange Box

- C & C 3

- Rise of Legends

- Company of Heroes

- Dawn of War 40k

- Rome Total War

- Warcraft III

- Civilization 4 ( if you like turn based)

- Age of Empires III

- Supreme Commander

What are your computer specs? You might consider funding $300 there. As for games.

Must Get:

Sins of a Solar Empire

Audiosurf

Orange Box

CS:S (if you don't already have it).

BF2 or 2142 (I wouldn't invest in both. One is enough to get you your FPS fix).

Maybe Gears of War? Fun game with Co-op.

To the OP: do you have a good video card/good pc? if not u might want to buy a good video card first.

But if considering Battlefield 2 or Battlefield 2142, get BF2142. The vehicles are more balanced in that game and its a more refined game in general.

Also some general comments in regards to Battlefield 2 and BF2142:

-in Battlefield 2, there's 7 classes.....7! talk about unnessarily complex; in BF2142 there's 4.

-in BF2, jets and helicopters own the battlefield. in BF2142, as I mentioned earilyer, the vehicles are much more balanced.

-I think, in general, there's probably more cheaters in BF2 compared to BF2142. i don't have any concrete proof but on youtube there seems to be a lot more cheat videos for BF2 compared to BF2142. also, DICE (battlefield's develoer) said they would stop releasing patches for BF2. the last patch was Nov 2006 iirc. if you don' beleive me, look it up on google (don't make me do that work for u).

Sup Com

Battlefield (series get'em all or go home)

Orange Box

Total War (M2tw and RTW)

DoW (with expansions up to DC)

CoH (with expansion)

That's good :D

Thanks for the replies! I have a 7900GS, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB ram. I'm hoping this would suffice?!halivingston

get a new vid card. Maybe wait for a 9 series card to come out in that price range.

Bioshock and all the Thief games. Oh and The Witcher. biggest_loser

[QUOTE="halivingston"]Thanks for the replies! I have a 7900GS, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB ram. I'm hoping this would suffice?!Hector_01

get a new vid card. Maybe wait for a 9 series card to come out in that price range.

I have a GeForce Go 7600 in my laptop and I can run games like Half-Life 2, Condemned, BF2, Penumbra Black Plague and Doom 3 all on high on 1024x768 at 30+ fps. So if his 7900GS is better than my card (which I presume it is) then he doesn't have to upgrade his video card unless he wants to run Crysis on high at 30+ fps.

Oh yeah, I also have a 2GHZ Core 2 Duo and 2GB Ram which I'm very happy with.

Considering the games you have, you must have a pretty good PC, so the games I recommend that I find really, really fun are:

Warcraft III Battlechest

Battlefield 2: The Complete Collection

The Orange Box

Guild Wars + expansions (Guild Wars 2 coming soon though)

Starcraft II (is coming out, seriously get it! Save your money to get it! It's like the Halo/Gran Turismo/Mario for the PC, practially)

RTS and FPS & (MMO's) are the PCs forte, so... yeah have fun, dude!

[QUOTE="halivingston"]Thanks for the replies! I have a 7900GS, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB ram. I'm hoping this would suffice?!Hector_01

get a new vid card. Maybe wait for a 9 series card to come out in that price range.

i agree, get a new video card, ur present card is pretty weak. get a geforce 9600gt, 8800 or ati 3870. all 3 are fast cards. the 9600gt goes for $149.99 on newegg.com.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000048&Description=9600+gt&name=Video+Cards

Orange Box is without a doubt the best value you will find, so get that for sure. Also, more RAM is always good.Orcishman05

huh? the OP has 4gb's of RAM, he's maxed out if he has a 32-bit OS.

I was under the impression 4GB would be enough! I'm on 64bit Vista, but still, 4GB ... don't want to spend more money there. I've ordered the 9600GT!

- Medieval Total War

- Unreal Tournament 3

- Orange Box

- C & C 3

- Rise of Legends

- Company of Heroes

- Dawn of War 40k

- Rome Total War

- Warcraft III

- Civilization 4 ( if you like turn based)

- Age of Empires III

- Supreme Commander

LaNoOm

i agree

So now I'm looking for Rise of Nations kind of games, building something, doing war, etc. any new games like that?

halivingston

I think you'd really enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire. It's kind of a like a cross between Civilization and an RTS, and it's set in space. You should also try Supreme Commander, although I would just get the Forged Alliance expansion pack, which can be played as a standalone, and forget the original game. SC is entirely a skirmish/multiplayer game, and Forged Alliance makes some massive improvements, both in terms of unit balance and in the interface, which was kind of clunky in the original game.

First of all buy a good gaming headset. Then go buy Counter-Strike source, unreal anthology, BF 2 ,BF 2142, SWAT 4, STALKER, FEAR, and every thing else......

just rember buy you only get a few $50 out of the 300

[QUOTE="halivingston"]

So now I'm looking for Rise of Nations kind of games, building something, doing war, etc. any new games like that?

cmdrmonkey

I think you'd really enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire. It's kind of a like a cross between Civilization and an RTS, and it's set in space. You should also try Supreme Commander, although I would just get the Forged Alliance expansion pack, which can be played as a standalone, and forget the original game. SC is entirely a skirmish/multiplayer game, and Forged Alliance makes some massive improvements, both in terms of unit balance and in the interface, which was kind of clunky in the original game.

But can't you only play as the expansion race in multiplayer if you only own the expansion pack?

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"][QUOTE="halivingston"]

So now I'm looking for Rise of Nations kind of games, building something, doing war, etc. any new games like that?

Xavier_12

I think you'd really enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire. It's kind of a like a cross between Civilization and an RTS, and it's set in space. You should also try Supreme Commander, although I would just get the Forged Alliance expansion pack, which can be played as a standalone, and forget the original game. SC is entirely a skirmish/multiplayer game, and Forged Alliance makes some massive improvements, both in terms of unit balance and in the interface, which was kind of clunky in the original game.

But can't you only play as the expansion race in multiplayer if you only own the expansion pack?

You can play as any of the four races. Forged Alliance is a standalone. You don't need the original game. And as I said before, it fixes the cumbersome and confusing interface from the original game, and fixes a lot of issues with unit balance.

I was under the impression 4GB would be enough! I'm on 64bit Vista, but still, 4GB ... don't want to spend more money there. I've ordered the 9600GT!

halivingston

4gb's of RAM is way more than plenty. and good luck with the 9600GT.

but if u plan on gaming online i suggest battlefield 2142. search youtube for videos to see what it is like if ur uncertain (do this for any games u are considering). but again, i suggest bf2142 over bf2 because bf2142 is more balanced and more streamlined (less classes to learn and take into consideration).

BTW, for both battlefield 2142 and bf2, there's a free mod (that's also a tiny download) that lets you play OFFLINE, single player with up to 128 bots (if ur computer can handle it) on full size maps (default in game is to only allow 16 bots on the smallest maps). but again, only 128 bots if ur pc can handle it. i have a c2d processor 1.67ghz and my pc can only smoothly handle maybe 70 bots.

Unreal tournament 3
Orange Box
The elder scrolls: Oblivion
F.E.A.R

[QUOTE="Xavier_12"][QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"][QUOTE="halivingston"]

So now I'm looking for Rise of Nations kind of games, building something, doing war, etc. any new games like that?

cmdrmonkey

I think you'd really enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire. It's kind of a like a cross between Civilization and an RTS, and it's set in space. You should also try Supreme Commander, although I would just get the Forged Alliance expansion pack, which can be played as a standalone, and forget the original game. SC is entirely a skirmish/multiplayer game, and Forged Alliance makes some massive improvements, both in terms of unit balance and in the interface, which was kind of clunky in the original game.

But can't you only play as the expansion race in multiplayer if you only own the expansion pack?

You can play as any of the four races. Forged Alliance is a standalone. You don't need the original game. And as I said before, it fixes the cumbersome and confusing interface from the original game, and fixes a lot of issues with unit balance.

Good to know, thanks.

F.E.A.R

The Witcher

PUZZLE QUEST!!!TeamR

I will have to agree. I thought this game would be complete crap but it turned out to be pretty deep once you get into it.