PC Budget Game Recommend-o-thread

Dont be at yourself

I'm incredibly bored with the current crop of PC games and would like something to tide me over until something worth playing comes out.

Recommend some PC games available on budget, or fairly cheap, that are still entertaining today. I'm open to anything, but preferably something a bit different. I don't want to play yet another generic first person shooter.

Also, any good RPGs for a beginner? Baldur's Gate and Fallout are apparently good, right?

Quigs Snr

Playing the original Baldurs Gate myself now. Pretty good. Worth a look though as a 1st person RPG is Anachronox, recently released on budget. Great game. Better again though, with the same engine from the same developer is Planescape Torment.

Another good RPG is Deus Ex. If you don't already have it, that one should be your first port of call.

On the sold out label, Z Steel Soldiers is a decent RTS type game, as is Homeworld (space RTS). Starlancer (Xplosiv label), is another good space game out on budget.

If adventure games are your thing, I like Grim fandango and Escape from Monkey Island.

For a non-Genric 1st Person game, try out thief 2 on Sold Out.

KdjaCL

Anything on Sold out range is good imo.

FAKK2
ONI
Spec Ops
Dues Ex
Progect IGI

And the other range of €7 games Smyths have the best collection of them.

kdjac

Big Chief

i done the same last week, i managed to pick up -

1) Escape From Monkey Island - €20 (had played it on ps2 but missed out huge gaps due to only ever playing it in a friends house)

2) Severance: Blade Of Darkness - €7 - When i had it a couple of years back my old spec pc couldnt run it very well but it always took my fancy, so when i seen it i picked it up again now i have much stronger pc

3) Age Of Empires €10 (?) - keeps you entertained i suppose if you like strategy games

trying to remember what else i seen on the bargain shelfs last week when i was at game, nothing springing to mind though, if i do remember will pop it up

GoneShootin

Thief
AOE
Colin McRae Rally
TOCA
Half-Life
SOF
NOLF
Serious Sam

etc.....

Snaga

Smyths --> Homeworld

Samson

If you have a credit card, play.com are selling Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast for £14.99 sterling delivered.

http://www.playserver1.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=PC&title=102359

Retr0gamer

Unfortunately like all raven games jedi knight 2 is a bit crap.

Grim fandango had me pissing myself laughing.

oeNeo

I can vouch for Homeworld too. Once you get stuck into it it's absolutely brilliant, maybe one of the best games I've played. Graphics are sweet and you don't need a beast of a machine to play it either.

It gets my seal of approval!

Bard

If you're a fan of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (I'm not ... really...), it's going in HMV (well, in Swords at least...) on budget and on sale for only €3.99 ... as are a bunch of other games...

Pugsley

Starcraft and Dues Ex would be two of my main recommendations.

DiscoStu

not buying fallout games makes baby jesus cry(except fallout tactics).

Celt

Fallout and Fallout 2 are pure class, get them, get them NOW.

spooky donkey

To be completely different there are some good pin ball games out on those budget lables i baught a few myself. Tils and actiction pinball. There are also some good car games colin Mcrea rally, rage rally. Grim fandango rock as well and im not normally into those thye of games. ( i dident like monkey island )

Or you can always try to find atomic bomber man, now theres a game and a half.

po0k

Insane
Iwar2:EdgeOfChaos
Hostile Waters(I'vestill to get this one msyelf - class game though)

Placebo

Bleh DIABLO 2 probably , dungeion siege .

RPGS eh
Ive got Grandia 2 , Ragnarok online , Final fantasy 8(or is it 7).
Il give u a lend if u want .

Try Black and white , its pretty good .

spooky donkey

Are all those RPG`s out on budget already?

Dungeon seige was class if a bit short though.

LoGiE

Defo check out
Homeworld
Alien Vs Predator
Fallout
Fallout 2

I still play fallout 2 to this day:)

Squall

If youre looking for fallout then you might have a look around for the fallout radioactive box( Fallout, Fallout 2 and tactics in one)Think i picked it up for €25 in Game in Cork.

Got independance war 2 edge of chaos a few days ago for €13. Fairly good game, involving storyline, graphics arent bad and its long so good for killing time (Its a space flight sim btw).

Homeworlds and Deus ex both definately worth a look

If your lucky (which i never was) you might find the starcraft and broodwar boxed set thingy somewhere

Ryo Hazuki

DEUS EX!

Any Rainbow 6 Game.

Red Alert 2

Delta Force

Kali

Colin McRae Rally 2 is €8 in Game, as is Heros of Might & Magic 3, Warcraft 1 & 2, Thief 1 & 2.. all worth playing lots.

Mark

Well obviously Deus Ex, no question. Also some good uns are:
Fallout series
Baldurs Gate
Planescape:Torment
Crimson Skies
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island series
Giants:Citizen Kabuto
Starcraft and expansion

I heartily recommend GF (hilarious) and SC(genius) out of that list

po0k

Falcon4 with SuperPack3

Like watching a movie.

cr1spy

sacrifice and giants

both sold out, and both hugley under rated and under bought.

beautiful and original and definitely worth 8 euro

spooky donkey

I just played expendable an old game but fun and its only 1.99 in game at the mo. Great fun for 2 quid!

Greenbean

Commandos 2, 9.99 on amazon.co.uk.

po0k

Giants rocked.

sacrifice got a bit repetiitve for my taste after a while.

^CwAzY^

Grim Fandango,
Monkey Island,
Myst

tman

aliens vs predator
soul reaver 1 (my copy keeps crashing at the same place tho )
resident evil 1, 2 & 3


been playing the first warcraft quite a lot recently so i'm gonna see if i can find warcraft 2 going cheap today... or maybe succumb to the temptation of finally buying dues ex.

Bleh DIABLO 2 probably , dungeion siege .

RPGS eh
Ive got Grandia 2 , Ragnarok online , Final fantasy 8(or is it 7).
Il give u a lend if u want .

Try Black and white , its pretty good .

is dungeon seige out on budget???
definitely going to buy that if i see it

DRakE

Serious Sam 1/2
Half-Life
HL: BLue-Shift (like 5 hrs gaming max, but it's worrth it)
Hitman1 (2 is not budget yet id say)
Championship Manager (even if it's an old one it's fecking 1336)

Brerrabbit

I would also heartily recommend hitman; rather difficult and very immersive. Also Deus-ex.