I recommend Counter Strike: Source. I am totally addicted to the zombie escape server on there. I could literally play it for hours with only bathroom breaks.
I got the Asus G73 Notebook, and it can run everything, including Crysis 2 maxed out. Forget the keyboard though. Hook up a wireless 360 controller and get a program called Pinnacle Profiler. Pretty much anything worth playing, I got it. And it runs perfect, most of the time. A few games aren't totally optimized. If the game ain't running maxed out on pretty much everything, then that's a software issue, not a hardware problem. In the end, I usually end up playing racing games though. I like other stuff, but I always fall back to racing games. I suppose it's because of the pick up and play quality of most racing games. You can play them in very short bursts, just like you would your typical iPhone game. Split/Second is very underrated.
Orange Box is a must! Comes with TF2, Portal and all the Half Life 2 games. If you like RTS games, Starcraft 2 is probably the best choice right now. I tried the Shogun 2 demo on steam and found it boring, it's very graphic intensive but I'm sure you can run it. Another strategy game I can recommend is Civilization 5, really love that game. Dragon Age 2 is an alright choice but I'd like to know what GPU your laptop has. I have a GTX280M that ran Dragon Age origins just fine but when I ran DA2, I had to lower the specs and I was only getting 30 ish which was disappointing, I heard it's optimized for ATI cards. If you get it, remember to get the HD texture pack from the bioware website. If you're looking for FPSes, I can recommend Crysis 2. BF BC2 was a nightmare on my laptop. Couldn't run it on DX10 as there was this weird graphic problem where there would be random pop ins of color that would make it unplayable, only managed to run it on DX9. Black Ops actually ran fine on my laptop with no 'unplayable lag' but I grew bored of it fast.
BC2 and COD:BO will both run fine on a G73. Everything will run fine on a G73. I recommend going to Amazon.com. PC games sell for ridiculously cheap, often times new ones. Saint's Row 2, for the PC, for example, sells on Amazon brand new for less than $1. A ton of games sell for $5 or less. You have to pay $4 shipping, but that's still $5. Saint's Row 2 is a bad port. Don't buy it. That's just an example. I have around 30 PC games. Most I bought off of Amazon for $10 or less. I also lucked out with a copy of Oblivion from a flee market for $1. Gears of War is pretty awesome for the PC. Not much in the way of MP, but I always hated Gears of War MP anyway. Anyway, download the Games for Windows Live client. From there, you can purchase a digital copy of Gears of War for $20. A physical copy is extremely hard to find. They added levels to the PC version, so it's not the same as the 360. It's like a director's cut version. Gears of War 2 was never released for the PC, obviously. The first one is, as a single player game, still great though. And, if you have a Xbox live account, you can get Halo 2 for the PC and earn achievements for playing it. Pretty cool, if you already have achievements for beating Halo 3, ODST, and Reach, then why not add Halo 2 to the list.
Nobody mention Sims 3. Although its old, you can mod the crap out of it still. Dragon Age 2 is a must. Dont get Black Ops, might as well get Crysis 2. Also, if your a nostagic person, get emulators, defiently ps2 and n64 emu. Games coming out you might want to set some money aside for is Portal 2, the new Deux, and Hitman 5
like previously stated, TF2 has a good bots mode, but the medic won't heal you. He'll just shoot needles at you.
Counter Strike Source Starcraft 2 ARMA 2 if you are into realistic FPS games Morrowind Portal 2 when it comes out Crysis 2
ok i bought bfbc2 and the orange box but when I want to play BFBC2 i get this error saying "there is already another update instance running" what do i do?
It's kinda a niche genre, but I for one freaking love sims 3 on pc. My friends make fun of me for it.
Um exit ouy. Go to where you installed it and run the updater exe and it will update for about an hour. And then it should work (don't try to play it while it updates)
Excellent choice of game I have all 3 installed myself. I've been toying with the idea of buying the highest spec gaming pc I can sometime soon as well. I might have one built as I'm finding it hard to keep track of what is the best graphics card and cpus recently. I miss the days when a voodoo card and pentium would run everything.
6970? Well no...the GTX 580 is better...but costs a lot more too. As for dual-GPU single cards there are the 6990 and the GTX 590, but they are for extreme enthusiasts that can spend $700 on graphics alone. I say grab yourself a GTX 560 Ti ($200-$250) if you can OR: A GTX 460 ($150-$200) if you can't pay as much.
