I am, once again, a PC gamer. I need help.
I know I was a PC gamer back in 1994, when I had a PC that could run "Sim Tower." Within a year my PC began to lag behind the needs of then-modern games. I was a PC gamer at least a little when, in 2004, I bought a desktop machine that allowed me to both explore "Second Life" and play through "Half-Life 2." It soon lagged as well.
By 2007, I no longer considered myself a PC gamer, even though my favorite game of that year was one I played on my computer. I couldn’t run "Crysis" that year or even games half as demanding -- not at home, not when I had time to play at my leisure. This year I tried to finally play the acclaimed "Company of Heroes" and my 2004 machine couldn't hack it.
On Friday, however, I bought a laptop that a friend promised would give me "blazing" performance. I bought it, credit is due, so I could play "Spore."
I do not have "Spore" yet, but I do have this machine upon which these words were typed. And over the weekend I tried to at least be ready to catch up with the best of high-end PC gaming. I loaded my press-access Steam account and started downloading: "Company of Heroes," "Sam & Max," "Trackmania," "Titan Quest," "STALKER," all games about which I’d heard wonderful things but that I had not played because of my lack of a good gaming PC. I've downloaded the "Red Alert 3" beta too.
I’m ready, my newly fellow PC gamers. But tell me, what else am I missing? What never-on-console PC games from this decade must I play?
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