If you were to get one game for Christmas

[lokodezine]

If I was to get one game for Christmas what would you recommend me getting?

-- I dont have any games for Pc besides COD 1 so all games are fair game.
I like strategy games and action type games.

[rspassey]

Doom3, FarCry, GuildWars, AOE 3, BF2

They are all good.

[DragonNOA1]

PoP: Two Thrones

[kirab]

Half-Life 2 with Counter-Strike: Source if you don't already have it.

[ztx]

For strategy, if you like military/war, I'd suggest Command and Conquer: Generals and Zero Hour. If you perfer some more to the past, with knights and such, I'd suggest Age of Empires: II, or maybe even Age of Empires: III. If your into more fantasy/magic type of theme, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne, might be what your looking for. A really good one would be Starcraft, has this sci-fi type of theme. There's a whole bunch more, can't really remember them right now. ;s

[Dark Nova]

for me, either battlefeild2, Call-of-duty2, or half-life2. i have tons of games i need recent fps to play online.

best games ever:
strategie: Starcraft, warcraft2, Ages-of-empire2
FPS: Half-life and counterstike, rainbowsix3, medal-of-honnor

[jfk]

I love FPS games, so I would get COD2, F.E.A.R., or BF2.

[FantasySoul]

If for me I'll get call of duty2 and F.E.A.R.Or have you played the expansion for COD?United Offensive.

[pam123]

The games I wanted got postponed till spring 2006.
So no Dreamfall or Oblivion, but I'm getting really interested in F.E.A.R. .

[DragonNOA1]

Originally Posted by pam123 ... but I'm getting really interested in F.E.A.R. .

It's about time! It has only been out for a month now.

[catacon]

BF2. I think I might ask for that. The demo is cool.

[maxnik]

Originally Posted by catacon BF2. I think I might ask for that. The demo is cool.

it's best online, then you can join squads, use VoIP and do all the good stuff

[catacon]

Yup, the online is fun. Gets a little boring with only one level, though.

[Jaggannath]

Personally, instead of buying the latest games expensively, buy a few slightly older ones that are on sale or in the bargain bin

And look for Evil Genius... a lot of fun

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by maxnik it's best online, then you can join squads, use VoIP and do all the good stuff

Not fair, I don't get to enjoy it online, my Ping to US servers is so big that ever time I get into one I'm lagging and get headshotted. It's a great game, BF2, however.

[Stuey]

Originally Posted by ryan124712 Not fair, I don't get to enjoy it online, my Ping to US servers is so big that ever time I get into one I'm lagging and get headshotted. It's a great game, BF2, however.

I don't understand why you would get such high ping. I play on international servers and the ping is usually playable.

I suggest BF2 too for online play, and FEAR for the story single player mode.

[tomster2300]

I play on international servers all the time and my ping is usually reasonable enough to play on. There's MANY servers in the UK too.

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by Stuey83 I don't understand why you would get such high ping. I play on international servers and the ping is usually playable. I suggest BF2 too for online play, and FEAR for the story single player mode.

It might be a cause of slow internet connection too, I don't have blazing high speed internet, but when a few friends and I would coordinate, I would host the game from my house, and we would all get on it, and wow was it much more playable.

[Stuey]

Originally Posted by ryan124712 It might be a cause of slow internet connection too, I don't have blazing high speed internet, but when a few friends and I would coordinate, I would host the game from my house, and we would all get on it, and wow was it much more playable.

When I moved into my apartment in late August, our internet connection was horrible. We had 256 kbit download and upload speeds, and while I sometimes suffered lag when attempting to connect, the game speed was no different than with a mbit connection.

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by Stuey83 When I moved into my apartment in late August, our internet connection was horrible. We had 256 kbit download and upload speeds, and while I sometimes suffered lag when attempting to connect, the game speed was no different than with a mbit connection.

This is very odd. Then there must be something interfering with my connection; everyone else here seems to be fine when they connect to international ones.

[arthur666]

Christmas came early for me. I got GT Legends (had to get UK version from Gogames, no US version yet). It's great, if you like driving games with straight-up racing (no prostitutes or picking out your driver's clothes, sorry boys). It's so good that I would use an expletive if it were allowed. Taking a Mini Cooper toe-to-toe with a 'stang on a short track is fun.
Christmas Mk.II wil be February 2nd when Oblivion is on my hard drive.

[Jaggannath]

Originally Posted by arthur666 Christmas came early for me. I got GT Legends (had to get UK version from Gogames, no US version yet). It's great, if you like driving games with straight-up racing (no prostitutes or picking out your driver's clothes, sorry boys). It's so good that I would use an expletive if it were allowed. Taking a Mini Cooper toe-to-toe with a 'stang on a short track is fun. Christmas Mk.II wil be February 2nd when Oblivion is on my hard drive.

So GT Legends is the goods?? I got a mate who loves that series, he's a really top driver, I'm sure he'll be happy to hear it

[Nuclear Krusader]

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

[tomster2300]

Originally Posted by Nuclear Krusader I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

What do you mean by this.

[Nuclear Krusader]

???

You must be very new to computer gaming if you haven't heard of that game.

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=531

[tomster2300]

Originally Posted by Nuclear Krusader ??? You must be very new to computer gaming if you haven't heard of that game. http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=531

Suppose so. Most of my old school gaming was Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, and King's Quest - our computers were an old IBM (with a cd drive upgrade) and then a packard bell. Not much ran on them. I mainly grew up on consoles - my old nintendo (original) and sega genesis were my workhorses back in the day. Then came the Gameboy, Sega Gamegear, N64, dreamcast, ps2, and xbox. I love me a console.

[mystvearn]

need for speed most wanted

[danyabrat]

I'd like to get AOE III. because you know, they say it sux compared to AOEII; but if AOEII dies I'll have to play III, I'm not going to pay $70 for it

[danyabrat]

btw is someone cares, we don't celebrate christmas on Dec25 in Russia, we celebrate it on Jan7(because russian christianity has whacked out calendary), and it's a religious holiday. our main holiday is new year

[Turbo91Bird]

I would say Battlefield 2, Half Life 2, FEAR, Doom3, Star Wars:Battlefront 2. If you get Battlefield 2, make sure you get the Spec Ops expansion pack too.