pick me a new PC game from steam

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I want to get a new PC game, but can't pick one out.

Here is what I have
startcraft 2
company of heros
men of war
swtor
iracing
witcher 2
Skyrim
GTA IV i forgot about this one
Arma II


I really want something I can play on both my laptop and desktop. No racing games, iracing fills that for me. I really don't want to use a controller either, just keyboard and touchpad.

I would really like a new RTS game since those are easily playable on laptops, but am open to other suggestions. And yes it does have to be off of steam.
 
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dice1998
Team Fortress 2.
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Well everybody should have that it's free and an awesome game.

What about an old classic like Sim City 4? You can even play that with the touched on your laptop.
 
I don't know much about RTS games but if you haven't looked into Arma II I recommend you do so. It's really not for everyone (because it's a hardcore military sim, is poorly optimised and quite rough around the edges) but its like BF3 times 1,000 (yes, it's Battlefield 3,000).

You can be a commander in it which has elements of RTS, you can be a squad leader which is purely tactical rather than strategic or you can be just about anything else. In the online multiplayer you can be a supply truck driver if need be, or you can be a transport chopper pilot, tanker, artillery spotter, artillery operator, sniper, DMR, grenadier, medic, ambulance driver, even a civilian in some RPG servers I think.

If you get Combined Ops (Arma II and A2: Operation Arrowhead) you get at least four pretty big maps, there's more vehicles and guns than you can shake a dog at, oh and you can control animals too now that I mention it. I remember once I played a mission where I was a rooster trying to get from one place to a wildlife protection SUV thing whilst being hunted by poachers. It was intense, but what kind of person poaches roosters?
 
New RTS huh? Well I love Company of Heroes and I really really like Warhammer 40 000: Dawn of War 2 too. Same people made that. It's different and actually a tactical game instead of strategy since there is no base-building. Especially Chaos Rising is great. I've played DoW2 for 120 hours. The orks are so funny lol.
 
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neema_t
I don't know much about RTS games but if you haven't looked into Arma II I recommend you do so. It's really not for everyone (because it's a hardcore military sim, is poorly optimised and quite rough around the edges) but its like BF3 times 1,000 (yes, it's Battlefield 3,000).

You can be a commander in it which has elements of RTS, you can be a squad leader which is purely tactical rather than strategic or you can be just about anything else. In the online multiplayer you can be a supply truck driver if need be, or you can be a transport chopper pilot, tanker, artillery spotter, artillery operator, sniper, DMR, grenadier, medic, ambulance driver, even a civilian in some RPG servers I think.

If you get Combined Ops (Arma II and A2: Operation Arrowhead) you get at least four pretty big maps, there's more vehicles and guns than you can shake a dog at, oh and you can control animals too now that I mention it. I remember once I played a mission where I was a rooster trying to get from one place to a wildlife protection SUV thing whilst being hunted by poachers. It was intense, but what kind of person poaches roosters?
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I've got Arma II. I love that game, wish I had enough free time to play it. It's really the shooter I've always dreamed of, but now I just don't have time to devote to it. That's why I'm wanting something I can play on the laptop. I need something I can sit and play and still watch the kids run around.

I never thought of warhammer. I actually use to play it before it was ever a video game. Is it the same as actually playing warhammer 4k, but just a video game? Or did they change it a bunch to make it a video game?
 
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What about the newer shogun total war? What's everyone think of it?
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I quite like the total war series.

The big difference from normal RTS games is although you recruit over turns, once you are in battle you are left with what you have there is no build this and spam infantry.

Its a lot more realistic approach.

Also its not purely an RTS. You need to manage economy and diplomatic relations etc.





BTW was ARMA 2 supposed to come to consoles at some point?
 
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Total Annihilation. Oh wait, that's only off GOG.com.

That's basically the grandfather of all strategic RTS. And it is showing its age but it still has the same gameplay from times past (damn hard to serve you right for thinking you can beat it!)

You could try the original Supreme Commander, but that may struggle with your laptop as it uses the CPU quite a lot to calculate all the unit positions and so on on a 81x81km maps. And you can zoom out to see the whole battlefield at a glance! Supreme Commander 2 has a more casual feel to it as when you play skirmish and/or multiplayer (isn't available anymore, I believe) games can end pretty quickly due to streamlined research points progression. The original is more structured and more by the numbers (as in: You must have this to have these units. Next tier, need new units).

Anomaly Warzone Earth should be pretty easy to play on a laptop as its basically similar to Company of Heroes, just more of a tower defence style of game. Also most of the time, its not time limited during missions I believe. Voice acting isn't quite that great though but they're not really part of the game anyhow.

ISn't ARMA 2 supposed to be quite demanding and would struggle to run on a laptop under any circumstances?
 
Portal and Portal 2 are on a huge sale right now due to the release of the PTI. They're like $6.99 or something for both of them. I highly recommend them.
 
StarCraft 2, assuming that is what you meant by Startcraft 2. But it isn't on Steam from what I recall, but available for direct download from Blizzard.

The Warhammar games, from what I know, play quite a bit like most RTS games, perhaps a bit more tactical? I've not played them personally but just seen some gameplay. Still, it isn't like the tabletop game, with being turn based and what not ;)
 
Oh the way my brain read that list was, more or less.

Thread Title: Help me find a game...

Want a new game, can't pick one out

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End list of games.

Thought that was the list he was considering :lol: Brain saw "here is what I have" as just another title in the list.

EDIT: I'll add I don't see much point in getting another RTS game when one already has the best RTS available.
 
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EDIT: I'll add I don't see much point in getting another RTS game when one already has the best RTS available.
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I know, I just don't know what other types of games i could play on my laptop. I've got a dedicated gaming PC, so I'm just looking for something that will work with my trackpad (pr whatever it's called) on my laptop. RTS is the only thing I can think of that I wouldn't need a mouse.

After thinking about it, I'm just going to go get starcraft 2 and put it on my laptop also. That should get me by until diablo 3 comes out.
 
Shogan Total War 2 is a great game, but it is a bit of a computer eater, not very laptop friendly. I bought Command & Conquer : Red Alert 3 for about £3 on steam a year or so ago, is laptop friendly and personally I really enjoyed it.

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Excellent RTS-RPG type game, its a strategy game with characters that build and level up throughout the game, I really enjoyed it.


Terreria - Not an RTS at all... Its more like a 2d Minecraft mixed with an action RPG - I saw the trailer for it and thought it was so awesome I bought it, reminds me of a super nintendo game, but still modern, it was cheap as chips.
 
Bigbazz
Shogan Total War 2 is a great game, but it is a bit of a computer eater, not very laptop friendly.
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My laptop seems pretty decent at running games. I've run diablo 3 maxed out, SWTOR almost maxed, and company of heros maxed out. It's got an i7 2630, 4 gig of ram and a GT 555m. Not the greatest laptop around, but it seems to do better then i thought it would.
 
Just get a small-ish mouse for the laptop when you want to game on it perhaps? Honestly sounds like it handles things about as well as my desktop most of the time :lol:

To me, SC2 is just so hard to compete with because of the multiplayer.
 
Well League of Legends isn't on Steam but it's free I'm fairly sure. Massive multiplayer community there too and fairly easy to run although that's not an issue apparently.
 
Going on what you said about not knowing what other typical genres than RTS might run well on a laptop, I don't know how you feel about indie games but here's some I've enjoyed:

Cave Story + (2D platformer)
Machinarium (point & click)
Gemini Rue (P&C)
Terraria (basically Minecraft with proper enemies in 2D)
Limbo (2D platformer, very dark)
Jamestown (top down shoot 'em up)
Atom Zombie Smasher (not sure how to describe it but I'd say it's a strategy game)

Sanctum, I can't remember if I mentioned it or not but I meant to. It's a combination of tower defence and FPS, I don't know how well it would run though because there can be a lot going on at once.

The current daily deal (Steel Storm: Burning Retribution) is ok too, if you've ever played Future Cop LAPD or one of the Strike games (Desert Strike, Nuclear Strike) then it's kind of like that. Not incredible but enough fun for the price.

People seem to go mad for Braid and Bastion, but I've never really understood why (then again, I have no idea what Bastion even is).

Older games might be worth trying, Rainbow Six 3 Gold being one, Ghost Recon (just Ghost Recon, not Advanced Warfighter) another. There are a few Star Wars games too (Dark Forces, Jedi Academy, Republic Commando, KOTOR), Doom and Quake are still great games to play, Wolfenstein 3D might be going back a little too far though. Deus Ex (not Invisible War nor Human Revolution) might run well too, though it's very time consuming so if you don't get a lot of time to play you might want something a bit more gratifying. The Dig is an old Lucas Arts point & click game directed by Steven Spielberg and voiced in part by a killer robot from the future (Robert Patrick, aka T-1000 from Terminator 2). Very old and tricky, but it'll definitely run on a laptop.

I must admit I completely missed your laptop requirement when I read your post, that must be three of us in this thread now that managed to misread part of it. I hope you didn't somehow sneak 'I hate indie games' in there too...

When I'm just looking to buy a game with nothing particular in mind I go to the 'under £7/£4' section and sort it by metacritic score, just to see what there is that's generally considered to be a good game. If a game has no score or has a low one but I still like the sound of the game, YouTube is a good place to go to help make up your mind.

Hopefully this post will give you some ideas, but who knows?

Oh and look up some indie bundles, like the humble bundle and indie royale, you pay what you want (for some of them anyway) and you can get the games as Steam redeem codes. I don't know what's on at the moment but I've personally only ever bought the two that I mentioned.
 
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Bigbazz
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Excellent RTS-RPG type game, its a strategy game with characters that build and level up throughout the game, I really enjoyed it.
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That comment reminded me. Warcraft 3 could be described as a RTS-RPG as well.

Although League of Legend is running with that formula though. As I understand it.
 
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That comment reminded me. Warcraft 3 could be described as a RTS-RPG as well.

Although League of Legend is running with that formula though. As I understand it.
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Yep very similar games in that aspect. With that said Warcraft 3 is an all time classic, though as an RTS and graphically it is a little dated, the RPG aspect of it makes up for that.
 
bevo
My laptop seems pretty decent at running games. I've run diablo 3 maxed out, SWTOR almost maxed, and company of heros maxed out. It's got an i7 2630, 4 gig of ram and a GT 555m. Not the greatest laptop around, but it seems to do better then i thought it would.
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In that case I recomend you try it.


There is a demo of shogun total war 2 on steam if your still not sure.
 
Company of Heroes is a must. Not sure if the big sale is over, 9.99 for all 3. Fantastic games, the multiplayer is a bit of a learning curve as a lot of people are good. But its one of those games where even if you lose it's fun as hell.
 
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Company of Heroes is a must. Not sure if the big sale is over, 9.99 for all 3. Fantastic games, the multiplayer is a bit of a learning curve as a lot of people are good. But its one of those games where even if you lose it's fun as hell.
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I've already got it. Had it on my list of games i have. Diablo 3 comes out tonight, so no need for a new game now.
 

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