Furthermore if possible, DRM-Free games or sites I can find them from.
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Furthermore if possible, DRM-Free games or sites I can find them from.
Red alert 3 is good and the mp has been killed so it should fit your criteria of rts
gog.com if you didn't know about them already. I'd recommend the stalker games for an excellent fps/rpg game.
Nice mate. I'll give it a look. Reason why I want single player only is because of my ISP. I'm not in control of the bill so I got bad connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by erudito87
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4191215187
Yeah I have just come across that site. I was thinking of getting into the Witcher Series and from what I have read that site is in partnership with CDPR and they share my views for DRM. So I think I will get the Witcher series from there. Thanks for the game tip too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marenghi
S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a great single player FPS
http://www.gog.com/game/stalker_shadow_of_chernobyl
EDIT: SOrry, dunno how I missed the fact it had already been mentioned!
that speed/ping should be fine for multilayer i mind playing on 56k modem line.... counter strike 1.1-1.6 then source and i think i only got 5k down and about 2k up and 100-250 ping
You'll be able to play games with that no worry !!Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Brown_Light
Ping is more important than anything I think, give it a try!
You can pick up the Gold edition of Medieval 2 total war on Amazon for £6.08 atm. Probably thier best game in the series. Well worth a play through.
Loads of the older games do not need a faster connection. Eg you can play red alert at full speed with a 300ms ping :P
As others have already said, ping or latency is much more important for gaming than bandwidth as the amount of data being transferred is negligible but the speed at which the data gets to and from the game server is important to reduce lag. Jitter is also worth taking in to account, the higher the jitter, the more variable your ping results were which indicates instability on the connection, which is not good for fast paced gaming.
Check out http://www.pingtest.net/ for a better test for checking out if your network connection can handle online gaming.
That being said, if you just don't like online gaming or still have issues with online gaming, GOG has already been mentioned and they are one of the best sites for non-DLC games that I am aware of, plus they make sure all the old classics they sell work on modern operating systems.
I assume then that this is a good Ping ratio with a Jitter of 3ms?Quote:
Originally Posted by Allen
http://www.pingtest.net/result/118532842.png
You have my sympathies, it wasn't that long ago since i had a ****ty talk talk connection. Now I have plusnet and love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Brown_Light
this is mine and i play loads of online fps's
http://www.pingtest.net/result/118666667.png
everyones postig pingtests for some reason. so heres mine :)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/118667348.png
probably helps that the Hibernia transatlantic 2TB line goes under my house and surfaces 1/2 mile away ;)
as for games, try Stalker lost alpha http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha
couple of game breaking bugs in it, but easy enough to work around
- don't kill the sin members in the house,
- save before going in train tunnel on helicopter escape then find location for the bandit documents from sin guy, reload save then go get documents before going in tunnel
also from http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/s...eeware-2159679
suffering and area51 both now free.
For RTS you could look at the re-release of Homeworld. It does have online but its mainly single player.
That will be fine playing any online game TBH.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Brown_Light
wolfenstein New order is a good singe player fps
Thanks everyone for the tips. I've decided to check out this game, Valkyria Chronicles. I enjoyed the anime years ago and checked out the turn based RPG format and it looks fun.
RTS with single player?
Well, I have to recommend StarCraft 2, lots of good deals on it currently as well.
I'm replaying FarCry at the moment and it's a good solid FPS. And tough as nuts unless your patient. Its certainly not a COD style game where you can run in guns blazing.
Same goes for sequels and also the Crysis series. Also worth a punt is Metro 2033, and Wolfenstein.
Another vote for Wolfenstein - New Order here in the FPS catergory. I really expected it to be mediocre and it really wasn't! Dishonored or Deus Ex Human Revolution might be worth a punt too if you fancy more sneaky stealth and a more open approach to combat.
As far as RTS games go I've been playing a LOT of Tropico 5 recently. Not everyones cup of tea but I prefer Civ style games over Command and Conquer type stuff these days :)
If you want a not combat based RTS, take a look at Banished. Its along the lines of Tropico, but with a lot more focus on realism and longevity / survival of the population rather than goal based.
I built a large village out of a few "banished" folk, and ended up having them all starve to death after a bad winter because I didn't have the foresight to prepare for a hurricane destroying my crops mid summer Grr!
New entry: Cities Skylines! :D
Just checked the game out. Looks interesting. A lot of the games I'm seeing now offer much more diversity for play compared to consoles. Happy I switched. I was looking at this game on GOG and Steam, it's cheaper on GOG but the download size is much bigger on Steam. I have noticed this with many games on Steam compared to their non DRM counter parts. Has anyone else noticed this? Why is there such a difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chadders87
Dishounered is on my list as it looks great. I've completed Deus Ex - Human Revolution on my X360 recently. Are there any differences to warrant a replay apart from controls and visual upgrades. Mod support there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Knoxville
GOG doesn't have any AAA titles that are current so because they're not on par graphically with say the latest Wolfenstein (60gb was it?) they have much smaller download sizes. I'm sure in a couple of years GOG will have the same size downloads that we're seeing now as the current games become old and DRM is less of a concern for the publishers.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Brown_Light
I heard Spec Ops: The Line was good (it's third-person though).
Couple of corrections - firstly GOG have some AAA current games, they just pick and chose them very carefully. The Witcher 3 is going to be the most obvious example, though obviously there's the publisher connection. But they also have an interest in good RPGs and certain studios, so you'll find new games from Larian and Obsidian often appear on GOG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marenghi
The Witcher 3 is at least on par graphically with the latest games from anyone else.
But secondly, and more pertinently, he was talking about why the same game has a different size on GOG vs Steam :p
The answer is of course, the Steam wrapper, which is partly DRM, and partly to do with they way they stream updates and so on. Depending on the game engine, this can lead to some very large downloads for even minor patches (but doesn't always). It depends on the way the game data is packaged by the game engine.
It's actually 3rd person but is probably the most under-rated game I have ever played.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadnessX
Played it through co-op with a friend, we both thoroughly enjoyed it (and it came with a Humble Bundle iirc)