Recently built a new PC, i5-6500, R9 390, 8GB RAM, should be able to handle most games. But I have been out of the loop for nearly 10 years, and the last PC games I played back then were old titles anyway.

Some random games/series that I enjoyed back in the day: Diablo 2, Age of Empires, Age of Wonders, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Hitman, Medieval2:Total War, Stronghold, Quake 1, Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Rollercoaster Tycoon, basically I'm into strategy, FPS, and RPG. Not really interest in racing, sports, or simulators.

Some recent games I've tried and what I thought of them:
Skyrim I've played for a few hours but got bored, it seems slow paced.
Doom 2016 demo - I really liked this, fast paced, old school style singleplayer FPS. Will definitely be buying full version when it's on sale.
War Thunder is really good for a quick game here and there, can be frustrating sometimes but it's free so can't complain.
Path of Exile - as with Skyrim, I played this for a short time and then stopped. It's seems like a nice modern version of D2 but hasn't got the storyline or atmosphere, I'd rather just play D2.
Far Cry 3/4 - had these on PS3 and liked them a lot, wouldn't mind playing through them again on PC because of mouse and keyboard, so anything similar would be goood.
The Last of Us - again a PS3 title but this is one of my all time favourite games, is there anything similar on PC?
Minecraft - was fun for a while, but it as there's no real point to it I eventually got bored. Open world/sandbox games aren't really my thing.

Can anyone recommend anything?

Cant go wrong with d2 still

Diablo 2
League of Legends
Path of Exile
DOTA 2
EOTA (WC3 mod) like DotA and LoL but you can build structures to upgrade your creeps

diablo 2

diablo3 man. now everybody says it sucks compared to diablo2, cause everybody played it 1 month and got bored. so, play it 1 month

world of warcraft. seems slow paced but once you get some mounts, it really quickens. and since the unification of the auction houses, you can make gold fast!

starcraft2: nobody says you should get beaten by obese chinese kids. You can do the campaigns, is so many stories and cool movies! and there is co-op missions vs AI, it really rocks. and Arcade is really good custom maps with rich story

This post was edited by the_rest on Aug 13 2016 10:21am

The Dark Souls Series
Witcher 3
Plenty of new Total War games too.

Age of Mythology

alone in the dark xbox 360 game
best game

Heroes and Generals(pretty grindy though)
Counter Strike
Gary's Mod

POE