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I have had playstation for a while, but aside from Petz, Rollercoaster tycoon, and the sims <4 I never had a pc that could handle games.

I was gifted a used custom gaming PC cuz the owner was getting a new one! I have an $80 steam gift card I'd love to spend on multiple pop culture classic games I've missed out on and can only enjoy on PC/Xbox.. my favorite are 3rd person rpg with exploration as an important element in learning about the lore/story. Some sort of reward for exploring thar isn't loot.

Games I loved

Control
Horizon zero dawn
Persona 5/royal Those three are S tier life changing, think about forever types
Bishop trilogy (2 is best @me bro)
P5 strikers
Persona 4 golden
Final fantasy, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15
Catherine Full Body
Alan Wake
Ni no Kuni2
The forgotten city
Until dawn
A plague tale 1 innocence
TLOU1
Uncharted 1-3
Portal 1 & 2

Meh

life is strange 1
TLOU2
Nier automata (ikr, wtf? )

Did not finish/Gave up for lack of interest

Mass effect 1 (and thus none of the sequels)
Little nightmares
Fallout 4
Cyberpunk 2077 and not for glitch reasons
Ghostwire

So far the only game I'm sure of is the fable series but I dont even know what version to get? It often gets confusing for older games for a newbie

Computer details: Intel i9, 32gb ram, and Nvidia GeForce rtx 2070

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'll chime in with the obligatory New Vegas recommendation.

It's so different than Fallout 4 it's really hard to describe. No looter shooter stuff, no focus on clearing the next dungeon. The world is there, it's alive, it's reactive, and you decide what to do and where to go. I've spent many hours scouring the world, and I always find something new. And when I say something new, I'm not talking about a copy/pasted skill magazine or bobblehead. I mean new quests, new lore, new perspectives It's the closest I've ever seen a video game come to emulating real-world ideological conflict, and I adore it. The player freedom is off the chain, too. Hell, you can kill every NPC and still beat the game. Love it, rant over.

You can play New Vegas without mods, and I'd say it actually functions well (everyone's machine handles the game differently though, tbh), but I recommend following this guide, at least the base version, to mod your game. Not strictly necessary, though. I'd hate to recommend you a game you have to spend hours fixing before you can play it.

As for Fable, there's two versions on Steam. Fable: The Lost Chapters is the original Xbox release, and Fable Anniversary is the 360-era remaster. The only real differences between the two are:

Fable Anniversary has remastered graphics. (As for if they're better, that comes down to personal preference. I personally like the way Fable: TLC looks more)
Fable Anniversary has controller support.
Fable Anniversary has an added hard mode.

The controller support makes Anniversary my preferred way to play on Steam, but the remaster kinda destroyed the game's atmosphere. I'd still rather just boot up my Xbox copy of Fable TLC so I can have my cake and, furthermore, eat it as well.