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Posted August 12, 2013
Mass Effect series, Cryostasis, and Arcanum. All great games, and while I've enjoyed many, many others, these stick in my mind the most.
Posted August 12, 2013
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carnival73: I guess it would've been more accurate to say "PC games this side of 2010."
EV Nova doesn't count then? It was one of my first purchases for download (well, it's a shareware, so purchase after download in order to get a code to unlock it), in September 2008 (if the e-mail timestamp is correct), and even then only after procastrinating about it for a few years (it was released in 2002).

I don't know if it's my most memorable game download purchase, bit it is one I do remember very fondly (also the predecessors, which I didn't buy but acquired elseways), and pick up to play time and again.
Posted August 12, 2013
Portal 2; it's fashionable to consider the first game better, but the first game will be forever tainted in my eyes as the game that caused ten thousand unfunny jackasses to start making idiotic cake references, while the intro to Portal 2 impressed me as few video game intros have. And then the game lived up to it.
Posted August 12, 2013
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timppu: Hard to say, especially since I still mainly play the older backlog. But some:

Crysis 2: I always really liked the intro music, and it is still the game I like to show to anyone as a showpiece of modern gaming, even though it is not my favorite FPS game.

LIMBO: There was always something fascinating about this little platformer.

I guess I also pick Portal, there's no denying of its originality, and the antagonist is funny. I might even replay that at some point, even though the game is very linear.

My view on Spec Ops: The Line

Too bad I heard so much praise of it, so the story etc. didn't take me by surprise, and it was easier to concentrate on its bad parts, like very linear and repetitive gameplay, very restricted levels etc. It annoyed me a lot how some levels made you feel you were on an edge of a very vast area to explore, but you were still guided through a very narrow path through it.

But a bit like Crysis 2, I've felt it is a very good game to show esp. non-gamers what modern gaming is about. It certainly has that feeling of "Wow! It is like you are in a real movie!" especially when you are watching someone else play it, similar like I guess any new Call of Duty game has etc. Rather than showing them Minecraft and they go like "Huh? What the heck are you doing there?".
Yeah, The Line is heavily story-based so all of the levels are pretty much on a strict rail with very limited wandering around any given area to uncover intel.

Same with Max Payne 3 which I would have to say is the epitome of theatrical shooters - the game progresses as a full on Hollywood movie allowing you intermittent sessions of putting on fancy stunt acting but still forced to keep to a tight script.
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carnival73: I guess it would've been more accurate to say "PC games this side of 2010."
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Maighstir: EV Nova doesn't count then? It was one of my first purchases for download (well, it's a shareware, so purchase after download in order to get a code to unlock it), in September 2008 (if the e-mail timestamp is correct), and even then only after procastrinating about it for a few years (it was released in 2002).

I don't know if it's my most memorable game download purchase, bit it is one I do remember very fondly (also the predecessors, which I didn't buy but acquired elseways), and pick up to play time and again.
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That's one helluva price tag

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/
Post edited August 12, 2013 by carnival73
Posted August 12, 2013
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carnival73: That's one helluva price tag
Which is partially why it took so long for me to decide it was worth it. But hey, I've gotten more fun out of that than Torchlight, which I found reason enough to buy thrice.
Post edited August 12, 2013 by Maighstir
Posted August 12, 2013
Anachronox! That game be crazy fun!
Cargo; The Quest for Gravity, although not in a good way - so many naked Verne Troyers, So many!
I've recently upgraded my system from a box struggling to cope with PS2 era games to one that will run anything, the first 2 games I've experienced that make full use of my new hardware have been the racers Flatout: Ultimate Carnage and Burnout: Paradise - so pretty, so much fun!
Oh and I'll +1 portal too - awesome!
Post edited August 12, 2013 by Fever_Discordia
Posted August 12, 2013
Wait we are actually supposed to play digital games?! :O I thought we just amassed them to help make Skynet a reality or something. My one would probably be To The Moon. My reasoning is because it is a totally new type of game for me and without digital I doubt would ever have seen the light of day. Also I can recommend it to people and they can go and buy it for feck all digitally but if it was a physical copy it would probably cost a fortune due to rarity.
Posted August 12, 2013
X-COM: UFO Defense

Then I started to buy the other games digitally. Then in box form. Then I got Enemy Unknown. I'm now the X-COM Guy at work.

..That's X-COM baby!
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