PC Gamers - help!

[lathany]

I want some recommendations for a PC game. I've plenty to keep me occupied on the Playstation for months and months, but with the duo often in there now I really need something to retreat to on the PC as well.

The PC games I enjoy are the Baldur's Gate saga (but Icewind Dale bored me to tears), all the Diablos, Chaos Gate (ie. Warhammer 40k) plus various point-and-click adventures (Black Mirror, All the Monkey Islands, Both Darkfalls, etc.) I've also played the earlier Warcrafts but I find, after half-way, the missions get too long. I don't want a on-line-based game, 'cos I don't have that much time or that much flexible time. Sound and graphics are really not a high priority I just want some decent game play, puzzles and/or plot.

What else? Oh, yeah. My PC is Windows 98 with the stuff that implies. I have absolutely no cravings for new games (which is as well given the system spec) just because they are new.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I assume you've played Planescape Torment (just checking).

I played it once and didn't like it. Mainly, I think, because I'd just come from BGII and PT uses the earlier game engine. This might be the time to bring it back out and have another go.

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, it is actually somewhat improved by running on a modern-ish PC, as you can copy all the CDs to the hard disk. This speeds up the game loading a lot (and you don't have to swap CDs). It's also worth picking up the unoffical fix pack (http://www.planescape-torment.org/) which fixes quite a few bugs.