Need PC Gaming Advice Please

[Xeogred]

I would just like to randomly say that Blood is one of the hardest old school FPS's I've ever played. I can clear Duke Nukem pretty easily and do fine in Shadow Warrior when it's not crashing, play all Doom WAD's on HMP or UV sometimes, but yeah... Blood utterly destroys me.

[J T]

While I agree with MrPopo, I feel the need to add to that. Do your research first. The Steam forums are a great place to find out how a multiplatform game is on the PC. Some games have gotten terrible console ports. For example, I played The Suffering on the PC and I could never load a save. I'd save, but for whatever reason, I couldn't load a save game.

I don't believe I ever had that problem. The main advantage of The Suffering for PC though is that it is free:

http://the-suffering.en.softonic.com/

[J T]

Actually, since you're new here you probably missed this list I made in the past of retail games that have since turned to free legal downloads (and a few that were free from the start):


Alien Swarm

America’s Army 3

Area 51 (regional restrictions)

Battle Forge

BC Kid (aka Bonk)

Beneath a Steel Sky

Cave Story

Command & Conquer

De Blob

Death Rally

Dungeons & Dragons Online

Elder Scrolls: Arena (now with easy installer)

Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (now with easy installer)

F.E.A.R. Combat

Full Spectrum Warrior (regional restrictions)

Goonies

Grand Theft Auto I & II, plus Wild Metal

Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe

League of Legends

Lord of the Rings Online

Marathon (series)

Mech Commander (series)

Mechwarrior 4

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (regional restrictions)

Railroad Tycoon Deluxe

R-Type

Sam & Max- Abe Lincoln Must Die

Savage: Battle for Newerth

Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine

The Suffering (regional restrictions)

Trackmania: Nations Forever

Tribes 2

Tyrian 2000

The Ur Quan Masteres (aka Star Control 2)

3D Realms shareware page (Duke Nukem, Blake Stone, etc)

Cinemaware games (It Came From the Desert, Defender of the Crown, etc.)

[MrPopo]

You left off System Shock from your list JT.

[J T]

You left off System Shock from your list JT.

Is that release considered legal? It's definitely a must play game, but I never included it because I wasn't sure if it was an official free release or not.

[MrPopo]

Honestly I'm not sure. It's in that weird grey area of legality.

[jeffro11]

As far as I'm concerned. If you can no longer buy it in stores, it's fair game. But hey, thats just me!

[BoringSupreez]

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Red Alert should also be on JT's list.

[J T]

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Red Alert should also be on JT's list.

The Command & Conquer link takes you to all of those.

[Wombatula]

Been thinking about picking up one of these to use for older games.

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

Is this at all feasible or will it not run any games older than my current gaming rig will? I know I could build a rig for older games a lot cheaper but this just seems damned cool to me.