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[OrlanisWorks]

I've been enjoying The Journey Down. A fun and stylish point-and-click. Check that indie out.

 

[NoMoreTrolls]

I've picked up Pillars of Eternity today, though I likely shouldn't be starting a RPG so soon before the Witcher
I'll look through the other games that have been suggested and pick up one or two to tide me over until Tuesday (and beyond, of course)

Also picked up the Orange Box, CS:GO, Fallout New Vegas and 3, and STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl. Should be good for a while

 

[Mozz-eyes]

Attila mothafuckin total war

 

[GECK]

Company of heroes 2

I recommend not playing this awful game.

Do play the original though.

 

[HalfwayOrb]

Looking at my Steam list that is PC only, I recommend:

Age of Empires 2: HD Edition
Amnesia The Dark Descent
Anno 2070
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2: Enhanced Edition
Banished
Cities Skylines
Civilization V Complete
Company of Heroes
Dawn of Discovery + Venice
Divinity 2: Developer's Cut
Dirt Rally (early access on Steam)
Drakensang
Evil Genius
FEAR + Extraction Point + Perseus Mandate
Fallout 1 and 2
Gothic 2: Gold Edition
MS Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
Morrowind with Overhaul mod
Painkiller: Black Edition
Perimeter + Emperor's Testament
Prison Architect (early access on Steam)
Restaurant Empire 2
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Risen
Scratches: Director's Cut
Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall DC
Sins of a Solar Empire
Space Rangers HD
Startopia
Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance
Torchlight 2
Tropico 4 then 5
Wings of Prey
Wizardry 8
X3: Albion Prelude

 

[SwarfegaHead]

I love arma 3, but the controls are quite complex. Its worth learning but I wouldn't classify it as mouse and keyboard noob friendly.

But I can't argue about how it is an awesome game that I play above all others.

ArmA is about as complex as you make it, I think. I mean, you can play the vanilla campaign and it's not much more complicated than directing a couple of squadmates in a rainbow six game. If you want to get big into the multiplayer and the more mil-sim aspects the game gets deep quick. But if thats not your deal then theres lots of mods that are lots of fun to just goof around with friends.

I'd say if nothing else, ArmA could be considered noob friendly if youre not used to FPS aiming/movement with mouse and keyboard. It's far from a twitch shooter and wouldn't be a bad place to get accustomed to general mouse and keyboard movement, as its generally slower and more deliberate.

 

[kamineko]

Deus Ex (not human revolution)
System Shock 2
Thief 1 and 2
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 with respective addons
Planescape: Torment
Jagged Alliance 2
Fallout 1 and 2

All of the above games can be modded with little effort to support modern resolutions and fix any remaining bugs or restore cut content.

If you're looking for something newer besides the suggestions that others have already made, have a look at:

Expeditions: Conquistador
Xenonauts

Well-executed, my friend.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas with mods! =)

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Some other great PC-only RPGs listed (not enough Planescape: Torment, but...), but I haven't seen this mentioned yet: NoMore...be the one who puts the modern classic Legend of Grimrock 2 over 100,000 sales. Be the guy. Be the champion.

lord have mercy did you just suggest to a new pc gamer to play wizardry 6/7? Really?

I really need to get back to that, but the lack of animation messed with my mind.

 

[impact]

CS:GO is the only shooter worth playing

get started, you're far behind


I'm gonna go ahead and tell you dontbelievetheirlies.jpg on Arma. Game is fucking awful and jank as hell. Maybe if you like dull simulation games get it.

 

[Skyzard]

BF:BC2
Chivalry Medieval Warfare
Cities Skyline
Civilization 5
Evolve
Quake Live
Serious Sam 3
Shadow Warrior
Sonic Generations
Starcraft 2
Trackmania 2 stadium
Zeno Clash

 

[draetenth]

I've picked up Pillars of Eternity today, though I likely shouldn't be starting a RPG so soon before the Witcher
I'll look through the other games that have been suggested and pick up one or two to tide me over until Tuesday (and beyond, of course)

Also picked up the Orange Box, CS:GO, Fallout New Vegas and 3, and STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl. Should be good for a while

Yeah, you should be good. The Steam and GOG summer sales should be starting in a month or two so you should think about saving some cash now. You can use the sales to get the other games people recommend.

I know GOG has some really nice "theme" sales (like RPG classics bundle).

Are you interested in modding for Fallout 3 & New Vegas?

If so, you should check out:

Gopher's Fallout 3 modding tutorial and Gopher's New Vegas modding tutorial
Simple Fallout 3 guide with mod recommendations - Fallout 3 doesn't work too well on Windows 7 (not sure about 8) so you might need to use this guide to get it to run.

Advanced Fallout 3 Modding Guide
Advanced Fallout New Vegas Modding guide

Both of these guides list pretty much the best mods around that are supposed to be able to work together. They are pretty detailed guides so you should be alright with modding as long as you pay attention.

If you haven't played either game before, I recommend you avoid big changes like Fallout Wanderer's Edition and Project Nevada. Stick to the Unofficial Patches (all the guides list the patches), texture packs (like NMC, Vurt's floral overhaul), and Weather + Lightning Mods though it depends on how vanilla of a experience you want. At the minimum, you should use the unofficial patches to help reduce the crashing.

Be warned if you mod: it can be a time consuming project depending on how many mods you want and how hard it is to pick up modding itself.

IIRC Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is a bit buggy without unoffical patches (it's been awhile since I played it though).

I recommend using Zone Reclamation Project which is just bugfixes without altering the game too much (like the popular alternative - Stalker Complete does).

 

[SliChillax]

I stumbled upon Insurgency, never heard about it before and bought it cheap. It's one of my favorite fos shooters at the moment, very intense and the sound is amazing.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Dota2, all 40k warhammer franchise (they go on sale a lot), eurotruck sim2

 

[mbmonk]

OP: If you haven't played Portal 1 or Portal 2 those would be good M&K learning games.

ArmA is about as complex as you make it, I think. I mean, you can play the vanilla campaign and it's not much more complicated than directing a couple of squadmates in a rainbow six game. If you want to get big into the multiplayer and the more mil-sim aspects the game gets deep quick. But if thats not your deal then theres lots of mods that are lots of fun to just goof around with friends.

I'd say if nothing else, ArmA could be considered noob friendly if youre not used to FPS aiming/movement with mouse and keyboard. It's far from a twitch shooter and wouldn't be a bad place to get accustomed to general mouse and keyboard movement, as its generally slower and more deliberate.

Arma 3 has about 3 billion different buttons for controls ( hyperbole ) that one can easily hit by accident and completely screw up the experience. Imagine a newb double tapping Left Alt by accident. He would have no idea what was going on or how to get out of it. So just because someone doesn't plan to use the other controls doesn't mean they don't matter.

I have been playing Arma for a couple of months and I tonight still didn't know how to load a flare into the under the barrel grenade launcher. That is in the campaign.

I am not 100% familiar with the easiest settings of Arma 3, so if I am mistaken then I apologize to the OP, devil, and yourself.

But if I was trying to get used to mouse keyboard, I imagine I would want a game that has limited number of abilities for the player to get used to, or has really great tutorials. Arma 3 fails on both accounts in my book.

That is why I suggested games like Half Life ( great game, Single player so the user can take their time and reload the game if they die, also it has a solid progression in terms of weapons & teaching players the systems of the game ).

Valve & Blizzard really do tutorials, teaching, and progression really well in my opinion. They aren't 100% perfect but they do those things better than most.