First person shooter as in "first person shooter" or is it an online multiple player/co-op game that is played through the perception of a first person's eyes?

a game is NOT a "FPS" unless a single person can play it, offline.

so I found my saved game.

I installed Fallout 3 on a new computre

then copied the saved games from the old computer onto the new computer - put them in the same directory on the new computer. BUT, on teh new computer, there is no "LOAD" or "Continue" option, only - "start a new game"? Anyone have any other ideas what I have to do to make my saved games work on the new computer? everything otherwise is same OS, same patch level, etc.

man, how do you pick just one - there are a ton of really _great_ games

 If I _have_ to pick just one?

Star Wars Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy

good story, great action, strong visuals and sound, fantastic gameplay, _huge_ replay value for how you build your character and their force powers, and how you use which weapons. Can you play the game with _only_ force powers? How much can you get by WITHOUT using any force powers? I have probably played through this game a half dozen times, and could easily do it again...

dark messiah was a fun game - great? no, but fun and satisfying.

Timing overall depends on your play style - mid teens probably - 14-16 hours, maybe a little more if you don't rush. If you realy pushed, it is probably possible you could finish it in 10 hours - I don't think faster.

I have a 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram and a 256mb Radeon X850 Pro - it _mostly_ ran okay. There were times my PC could not keep up - for instance, the game effectively "paused" several times during the ghoul chase.

Fighting was nicely done - you _need_ to kick, you _need_ to block, and different styles have replay value

Magic can be _very_ powerful, and is actually necessary

traps and puzzles are limited, and avoidable without great problem

rpg functions are limited - you basically bank credits and spend them on updates of skills - weapon usage, magic, etc. It helps make you plan on how you are going to grow your character. It's okay.

overall - yes a very fun game

unfortunately, if you actually read what I wrote, I never said a multiplayer gamer wasn't a hardcore gamer, just said they were totally different.

Some of it depends on time, some on choice. I play the single player versions. More simple or less challenging? eh, perhaps. It is the challenge of the game, it's weapon options, and level design - me against the game. I can do this in 30 minutes a week, or I can do this in 4 hours a week - rarely get more time than that to play. I can learn how to play at my own pace, save, and move on. Sometimes I die alot, sometimes I move through a game easily. Depends on the game, my own strategy, and the challenge that the game designers put in place.

Play online? I have. Do I rock? No. Do I suck? define suck. On equal footing, equal terrain, equal armament, chances are that after 25 years of gaming I'll kick your tookas. The problem is that you have the map memorized, know where the armor is, know where the super powerup is, know where the megakill power is, know where the best weapons are. With the couple hours a week I get to play, online multiplayer against people who memorize the game is not a challenge, it is more of an exercise in frustration.

So, whether or not you are a hardcore gamer does not matter whether you play online or not - as I said, they are different beasts.

 So, yeah, if you have spent 30 hours memorizing the game, have all the power ups, and come around the corner with a rocket launcher, and I am standing there naked with a pistol and you blow me up, yeah, I suck, but don't even pretend that's skill...

it depends on what you want

First Person Shooter

Online Multiplayer

Role Player

Strategy

You'll see recommendations for each - you already have all of these as responses. Personally, I couldn't care less about online multiplayers - so that drops the entire BF series. I also can't stand the sheer repetition involved with most of the strategy games like Warcraft.

For First Person Shooters

Half-Life (and sequels), Call of Duty (and sequel), FEAR, Far Cry, Medal of Honor (and sequels) - that is over 100 hours worth of games to keep you busy...

easy question.

NONE. 

Don't play online - never will - couldn't care less. A game is fully complete WITHOUT a multiplayer online version. Gamespot and other sites who rate a game poorly because it has a weak multiplayer, or no multiplayer, do NOT understand real gamers.

Hardcore PC gamers are COMPLETELY different than Hardcore Online PC Gamers.

Never met an online game I could not do without. Online versions are just for people who have tons of free time on their hands, can memorize all the maps, program macros, and spend all of their time perfecting their game. People with a couple hours a week can't reasonably expect to play online and be competitive.

Errr.

Sorry for earlier erroneous info. Yes, Component video cables CAN carry the information for a 1080p signal. If you cannot get a 1080 signal across the component cables, one of four things is happening:

1. Your device cannot output 1080 across the component cables

2. Your device cannot receive 1080 across the component cables

3. You have a failure in either device, or in the component cables you are using

4. Your interface has a resolution limitation - for instance DVI input cannot accept 1080 on your device - this I do not know.

My set is a 55inch Sony SXRD - Sony's reference set for 1080 HDef. It cannot be configured to ACCEPT a 1080 signal across component cables. This is a TV configuration limitation, NOT, as I had assumed, a cable limitation.

So, for me, the only way I could get 1080 to my TV was HDMI. That does, however, truly rock.

Apologies for earlier error in post.

38, maybe 40 years?

Pong when new, A pre-Atari console from Sears when I was about 8, maybe 10 years old.

 Heck, I WROTE my first game in 1977 on a TRS-80...