Man, I just can't say enough how a lot of the PS2 and DS games that I was getting were the same friggin' thing over and over again but the PC titles that I've been doing for the past six months now have all, for the most part, been highly original.

I played Drakensang for the first time last night. On first load it blue screened but once I switched res to 800 X 600 and turned off High Textures it ran smooth as silk and still looked awesome graphically even with bloom affect engaged and foliage turned up to medium.

This turned out way better than I had expected. You can play the game, mouse only and Diablo style or control your character with the WASD keys to give it a more hands-on and arcade/action like feel.

What I really really like about this is that it is an Gothic / Two Worlds kind of game but follows along with Pen N Paper RPG designs where everything you do depends on your learned skills and earn attributes VS dice rolls.

Also you can enlist NPCs to join your party (where as in Two Worlds and Gothic you're always going solo no matter how tough the area you have to travel through) but not only that, you can also change control over the NPC and let your main character follow in AI mode or vice versa. I believe you can have as many as four to a party.

Empire Total War, I thought it'd be the least tactical game out there...

Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia. 2 dara well spent.

I recently got Medieval II + expansion. I like diddling around no the overhead map a lot more than the actual fighting which usually turns out to be a sloppy mess of screaming argonauts.

Also, East India Company I adapted to this game easier than Patrician or Port Royale but as Medieval II dropping into direct battles isn't enjoyable and scramble for auto resolve if possible. East India is addictive and put I put a good sixteen hours into the game over a period of three days. The problem with the direct ships battles is that the AI is terrible and your ships hardly ever follow your command and it also takes five minutes to load into that mode, then another five minutes to load out after it has finished.

At least loading into battle goes quicker in Total War. interesting - will investigate.

I like the battles, the only part of the series I didn't like was Medieval 2, partly because of the tactics, partly because of my disdain of the period...

Dead Space. I went into the game expecting it to be a horrible linear TPS with no horror. Well the horror is non-existent but the gameplay is good.

I think it's funny how it does a great job on the stereotypes. Hot blond big breasted bimbo, goth girl, nerd dude, and stoner(?) are awesome. Funny. :)

The GoG images don't do the game justice. It looks much much better. And it's a lot of fun too it got bad reviews but those reviews were aimed at the XBox version. The PC incarnation cleaned up most of the bugs.

Quite a lot actually. Gabriel Knight has hugely impressed me. Before I knew it as "that game that inspired Broken Sword" but now I'm just in love with it. I even love Tim Curry's half-assed Creole accent that tends to slip into generic Southern drawl and even Californian beach dude occasionally.

I bought Anachronox based on Chris Avellone's (non-personal) recommendation. I didn't really know what to expect but frankly it looked like a western developer trying to make a JRPG and horribly misinterpreting it - like Sudeki - but it's actually more like a sci-fi Bioware game that isn't KOTOR or Mass Effect and was made some time ago and has the Final Fantasy ATB system (more or less).

Age of Wonders has me hooked with its blend of Tolkien-style fantasy RPGing and CIv-lite gameplay. I always like this kind of game in theory but find it daunting, boring or like it doesn't live up to its promise. Not so with AoW. Finally, Ghost Trick. I thought it would be good - or that it at least had the potential - since it's made by the Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban creator, but I was kind of wary. Especially as Miles Edgeworth Investigates became the only Ace Attorney I couldn't be bothered to finish - I've been playing it for nearly a year now, having started playing somewhat fittingly in Narita Airport near Tokyo, last March. In the end it turns out it's incredibly creative and imaginative, with all the charm of the AA series but far better gameplay.

Dead Space 2. Fixed mouse controls and the suits don't look stupid as they did from early screens and promo art. Overall game is just phenomenal.

Max Payne held up better than I expected recently and was surprisingly still a classic for me. Not just the shooting action and level design, but the presentation was still top notch.

I never expected Fallout: New Vegas to be as good as it was. I expected Fallout 3 with some better writing but what I got was easily one of the best RPGs ever made in my opinion.

007: Blood Stone was a surprisingly fun way to waste 5 or so hours for $20. Not brilliant by any means but for a Bond fan who likes cover-based shooters it was better than I expected it to be based on older Bond games like Nightfire and Quantum of Solace which were crappy as all hell.

I haven't played much past the first few levels yet but Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was surprisingly fun. I got it for $20 at Walmart on a lark, didn't even know a PC version was coming, and was surprised to see it had full video options, good performance and (with a 360 controller) pretty great gameplay. The stealth levels are particularly fun for this stealth game fan.

Lastly the point and click adventure game Lost Horizon blew me away with a great demo and I bought the full version imported from the UK right away. Stunning graphics, an Indiana Jones feel and great voice acting, plus puzzles that are fun more than annoying.

That's how i feel about games on all platforms , pc games included.

Very surprising...guess I'll have to give that a look.
Kb/mouse controls no good?

Saw King Arthur on Steam on sale for $2.99.

I knew nothing about this game, glanced at the screenshots, and said why not?

I like it.