Most demanding PC games out right now?

I know Crysis 3 is one of them. What are the others?

Are there many games out there that are demanding or are people just preparing for 8th gen?

I've been told that apparently COD: Ghosts is super demanding. Like, more so than Battlefield 4, even. Then, yeah, there's Crysis 3. Also try out Metro: Last Light. The STALKER games are pretty demanding, for their time, at least. Not quite on par with more recent games like C3 and M:LL. They can be made more demanding (and much prettier) with some really great mods. I haven't played Arma 3 myself, but I have every reason to believe it's also quite heavy on the system at high settings.

If you wanna put your PC through the gauntlet, download Planetside 2. In certain settings, it's not very demanding, assuming you've got a decent system, at least. But when there's the giant battle going on, with hundreds of players on screen, driving vehicles, shooting guns and rockets, blowing shit up, it'll bring most systems to their knees.

This was such a long generation (8 years) that games as a whole haven't got that much more demanding in the last couple of years (those with 2-3 year highend cards are basically getting the same setting now as when they bought there cards).

Demanding is kind of hard to figure out since a lot of people label a poorly optimized game as "demanding" (getting crap performance in a game that doesn't look significantly better than any other game isn't demanding even though that's what some people call it).

Maxing out ARMA 2 with pitched large scale battles can strain many PCs.

True, I can max it out really fine but when I add range of view to 100% it's like on 20fps for me. (280X)

Arma 3, Crysis 3, Metro 2033/Last Light, BF4, The Witcher 2, Tomb Raider......GTA V?

The Witcher 2 is only with uber sampling on...

Assassins creed 4 black flag, nfs rivals. But the most demanding out there is WATCH DOGS releasing in 2014 february

GTA IV :P

And Kerbal Space Program.

Are Far Cry 3 and Tomb Raider PC strainers? (thinking about buying them)

I can play Mass Effect 2-3, Skyrim, Grid 2, Bioshock Infinite, Deus Ex Human Revolation, Portal 2, Dishonored, and Max Payne 3. All on high to medium high settings.

I tried playing Hitman: Absolution and The Witcher 2 and it was just too much for my system to handle. Here are my specs if it helps.

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Toshiba Satellite S870-BT2G22 Laptop

Intel Core i7 2.30GHz (3.30GHz Turbo Boost 2.0), 6MB L3 Cache

AMD Radeon HD 7670M Series 1GB DDR3

8GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory

298 GB Western Digital (SATA) Hard Drive, 5400 RPM, 8MB cache

Realtek High Definition Audio

MS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

If ghosts truly taxes the pc more then it's horribly optimized as it looks worse then bf4 in every regard.

What do you mean by that? Do badly optimized games count?

ARMA has 0 art style and runs awful on everything.

My thoughts exactly. Haven't played it, but that's what I've been told. Also, the recommended specs are pretty heavy. Which is weird, because, considering that the game exists on the PS3/360, there's no reason it shouldn't run on a 8800gt, at settings that look like the last-gen console version.