What should I get?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-12-10 12:24am

Okay, this is for the holidays. I'll have some $$ to burn and time to kill. Over the course of the chat, some games have come up... but I can't make up my mind...

So, the choices are:

WH40K: Dawn of War
Rome: Total War
Half-Life 2
Call of Duty
Knights of the Old Republic
HALO

These are gonna be the PC versions; I don't have a console, nor do I want one. I'm running a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop, DVD-ROM, Celeron 1.8ghz processor, XP Home Edition, 256 RAM, 20 gig free.

I'm also gonna be on a telephone line, entirely dial-up, max speed about 56 kbps. Slow-ass internet, in other words; therefore, good single-player campaigns are a necessity.

Which one would you pick and why? Any other suggestions? Recommendations?

EDIT: Damn, can a mod add an "Other" option? Thanks...

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-12-10 12:25am

Rome is like crack. Only it's good for you. Really.

*takes another hit* Ahhh....

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-10 03:01am

Well, If your not looking for the best graphics and want Action, CoD is the best thing today.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-12-10 03:04am

If you want the most game for your buck, go Half-Life 2. The HL2 modding community is simply massive, within the next year you'll see countless mods that are essentially a new game for you to play.
Rome is good, but I think you may find after a while you get a little tired of the game. Half-Life 2 will (at least within the next couple months), end up providing you with many many options to choose from. Consider it an investment in a long term game

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-12-10 03:05am

WH40K: Dawn of War
Don't know this game so cant say anything about it.

Rome: Total War
Kickass If you like strategy and bigg battles, not so good if you think it is red alert or comand & concuer.

Half-Life 2
Wery good game but might be a pain to install with a slow internet conection

Call of Duty
Great FPS shooter, HL2 is better IMHO but due to the reasons abowe..

Knights of the Old Republic
Old game and the new one is in the works

HALO
Would kill your system spec, and the worst shooter out of those three.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-12-10 03:36am

Dawn of War!

Cleanse, purge, kill! 'Nuff said!

SecondStorm · Post by **SecondStorm** » 2004-12-10 03:59am

Rome, definately Rome. You can get alot of game time out of that game.
And when you get tired of Vanilla R:TW then theres plenty of mods to try out already.

Dawn of War is a good game but thats it. Ive got the same amount of RAM and 2 ghz processor and for me to load a game takes AGES. At least 2 mins per load. And yes I have counted the seconds many time while grinding my teeth and banging on keyboard.

*pats keyboard* There there honey Daddy is sorry, it hurt me more than it hurt you.

And Faram what makes you say that HALO would kill his comp ?

It works fine on mine.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-12-10 04:00am

Dawn of War: Kickass. Get it.

Rome Total War: Like Cyran said, like crack, only good for you....

Call of Duty: Some kickass SP missions, and great online play once you get yourself a decent connection. Definetely a must-have FPS, IMO.

HL2: Haven't played it yet, seeing as my current hardware setup is insufficient.

Halo PC: The game is kickass, but the porting was done poorly, and performance suffers massively if you don't have a high-end machine. Also, it is quite dated.

KOTOR: Pure RPG goodness.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-12-10 04:12am

Will you buy Half Life 2, you will go buy it now

Then you will buy the other games on the list because frankly you made a kickass list of games to pick from

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2004-12-10 04:23am

JediNeophyte wrote:Dawn of War!

Cleanse, purge, kill! 'Nuff said!

death animations make it fun enough.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-12-10 05:14am

Dawn of War: Crack for RTS. Will draw you in and spit you out a Wh40k fan.

"Do you hear the voices too!!?!?!?"

Half-Life 2: Also crack, except for FPSs. The gravity gun is a physics orgasm.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-12-10 05:55am

Rome or CoD, the best of the choices you gave in my oppinion.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-12-10 07:06am

Fight on, Noble Roman. Tomorrow your sword arm will ache with overuse!

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-12-10 09:57am

Shinova wrote:Dawn of War: Crack for RTS. Will draw you in and spit you out a Wh40k fan.

Jesus, that's true. I'd never even heard of WH40K until I played DoW.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-12-10 10:51am

Chardok wrote:Fight on, Noble Roman. Tomorrow your sword arm will ache with overuse!

"It's a kick up the toga!" (Yes, I have gotten this in the speeches... twice.)

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-12-10 10:52am

Captain_Cyran wrote:
Chardok wrote:Fight on, Noble Roman. Tomorrow your sword arm will ache with overuse!
"It's a kick up the toga!" (Yes, I have gotten this in the speeches... twice.)

Seriously? BWAAAAHAHAHAHA. I hope you fired that general, or made him the governor of a crap province in BFE

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-12-10 10:54am

Chardok wrote:
Captain_Cyran wrote:
Chardok wrote:Fight on, Noble Roman. Tomorrow your sword arm will ache with overuse!
"It's a kick up the toga!" (Yes, I have gotten this in the speeches... twice.)
Seriously? BWAAAAHAHAHAHA. I hope you fired that general, or made him the governor of a crap province in BFE

Considering he then managed to slaughter the enemy force with almost no losses, no, I did not.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-12-10 03:27pm

Probably Kotor, since it's very cheap now, and one of the better RPGs around. I don't like any of the other games you listed.

Rome gets repetetive, just another improvement of Shogun.
I have Dawn of War but I think it's seriously unbalanced which ruins all fun for me.
I don't like the other games because I find FPS games boring plus almost all 3D games with the exception of the Unreal Engine games (with the exception of Klingon Honor Guard and Elite Force 2) give me headaches and make me sick within half an hour. Apparantly a lot of people have this with Half Life 2 because of the realism, but to me it's not realism related because I've had this problem since Wolf 3D.

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