All the major releases seem to get their own threads (Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Dragon Age, Battlefield, etc.)
How about games you are playing right now that might not be big on people's radars?
Has anyone here played Metro 2033? I'm a sucker for these Russian games based on Russian sci-fi novels (also check out the STALKER series, based on Roadside Picnic). I usually prefer sandbox to scripted games but this is the first game in years to really draw me into the story and world and make me feel like I am the character that I am playing. It helps that there are so many gadgets and readouts that are not part of the hud, but are part of the character's equipment. There's a lot of depth to the gameplay as well. I've played through half the game and I started watching some playthroughs on youtube and most people aren't using the stealth element programmed into the game where you can silently kill and sneak around in the darkness. This is a very frightening game. For the most part, you are with another character but for the times that you are alone, I can barely continue playing.
The story is your usual post-apocalyptic tale but to me, this is really what Fallout 3 should have looked like (yes, I know Fallout 3 is satire). Most of the game is set in Moscow's metro system which is full of frightening things but sometimes you emerge onto the surface of the city, under nuclear winter. It's not your usual mutants and monsters either. There's a fair bit of supernatural and phantoms and ghosts and echoes of the past that appear as well. For a game that's mostly about a really dead world, the characters you meet and the situations that people are in really make it alive.
(Both videos are on older DX10 hardware, it looks better on DX11 hardware). Also a lot more immersive if you play with Russian audio.
One caveat is that this game takes much more computing power than Crysis to run smoothly with maximum settings and the latest DX11 features like DOF and Tessellation. That said, it scales down to lower hardware well and is also available for Xbox 360 albeit not as pretty.
PC Gaming - not mega at all thread
