Your favourite PC game of recent times

[mrskalniel]

Have been berating my husband about his choices of games posted in this thread (mostly agree but some shocking omissions!)...

To put this in context I am pretty much an RPG gamer, not really into FPS (reaction times a bit slow!). I guess my favourite recent PC games would be:

Fallout 3: NV - brilliant, so much better than Fallout 3, great story, great setting, generally excellent.

Dragon Age: cannot BELIEVE my husband did not include this but fantastic storyline and setting (lots of lore) - and yes, Alastair certainly helps (mm, perhaps that explains it...)

Dragon Age 2: Not getting as much praise as DA:O, but really a good game. Had to take a different tack from DA:O really and definitely had some issues but really enjoyed the story and character development.

The Witcher 2: Husband having built my rig specifically in order to play this back at end of May, I am finally getting round to playing it now and really enjoying it. Voice acting a massive up-step from the first game and it looks REALLY perty on my computer (mr kalniel keeps watching over my shoulder and looking slightly envious so must be good...). So far storyline is OK but The Witcher has never really been about storyline to me so much as immersion and it's doing a good job of that so far.

Finally - and a bit of a step 'outside the box' - it just has to be Plants vs Zombies. it is great. That is all.

- mrskalniel

[Firdelore]

BF3 is by far my favourite PC game at the moment, though it would be even better if I could play in Ultra settings at 60 FPS

[Twirl]

CSS is still my favourite PC game - I'm yet to purchase BF3 but all my friends seem to think it's amazing so I will give it a go.

[prateek76]

It's a pretty small game not a AAA by any means but i absolutely fell in love with Machinarium, it's an amazingly charming point and click game.
After completing it I felt so happy i urge you to give it a try you can sample it and play the first couple of 'stages here' http://machinarium.net/demo/

I agree... got it as part of humble bundle and loved it!
Small.. fun ... and very very charming!!

[pooley]

For me I would say Crysis and Crysis Warhead and I've also enjoyed BFBC2 Ooh and I gotta mention the Stalker series.

[pariahloki]

Lately I've been playing hours of Witcher 2 and Battlefield 3.

[Grey M@a]

I'll give a shout out to the Indie scene at present. They offer a lot more game time to me than the usual rehash/sequel AAA titles atm. This year I have been giving most the time to The Binding of Isaac, Super Meatboy, VVVVVV, Jamestown.

Collectively in the last 3 months these games have had around 200 hours into them easily (Super Meatboy and Isaac mainly) I do still play AAA titles, BF3, Batman Arkham City/Asylum, Dawn of War 2 etc plus countless others. Just think the Indie scene has offered more in the way of enjoyment this year.