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[Alexhans]

Well, I've made this post because I have bought a NEW computer after, let's see... one, two, three... NINE years and I want to enjoy it while I still can.  In March I start college and I doubt I'll be able to play much.
   What I want is you to recommend me GREAT games of different genres for me to try because I've been out of the modern game world for too long.  I've been living pretty much on abandonware and low req freeware.
   I will point you some of the games I've played and enjoyed so you can have some kind of guideline but feel free to suggest whatever you like.  I'm open to everything.   Don’t suggest LCS or Dwarf Fortress though,  I will surely play them.
   If you add links with info on the game and/or personal experiences I would greatly appreciate it.
   Mind you, I don’t have Internet connection at home right now so it’s all mainly for single play.

   Next are the genres with some games I enjoyed and below, between brackets, a list of the games to play.
   
TBS (Turn Based Strategy):  Civilization, Heroes, Worms, KOEI games.
(Civ IV)
      I love TBS games because they actually give me time to think what the best possible solution is.  Addicted to CIV.
      Europa Universalis is another of my favorites (although it is really RTS you can adjust the speeds in such ways that feels like a TBS)
   
RTS (Real Time Strategy):  Age Of Empires, Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Total War.
(Starcraft, Empire Earth, Homeworld, Black & White 2)
      I suck at these but want to give them a second chance.  I loved Warcraft 2, liked AOE 2 but spent most of my time toying with the editor, won C & C Red Alert 2 and really liked it. 
      I also played a demo of Shogun Total War and loved the difference of the battle system.  Tactics here actually mean something.  Plus there's no endless resource gathering but smart fighting.
      
FPS (First Person Shooter): Counter Strike & Mods, Quake 3.
(Halo)
      I'm a CS former addict. I've wasted so many hours playing it on LAN or on the NET... I'm a crackshot really
      Apart from that, I don't really enjoy much FPS’s where all you do is shoot shoot shoot frantically.  I prefer games that reward good aim (Like playing Day of Defeat being a Scharschuzer, or something like that).  I liked Quake 3 arena too but disliked Red Faction's Single player.  I don't like having to save bullets like in Half-Life!
      
Action / Adventure:  GTA, Metal Gear, Hitman, Max Payne.
(The Path of Neo, Simpsons Hit & Run)
      I’m not fond of games that just mean pressing buttons at the right moment.  I want fun, content, possibilities and a good story.  I loved GTA (I played very few of the newer versions though).  Hitman was awesome but hard. Max Payne was great even though I played so little.  Metal Gear:  Now that’s what I call a game! I won the first one and can’t wait to play the sequels.

Sports:  NBA, NFL, NHL, PES, Championship manager,
(2k9)
      Sport games are great.  I like them to be challenging but fair… NO RUBBERBANDING!  I love NBA games.  I spent sooo many years playing NBA Jam Extreme , I love Pro Evolution/Winning Eleven Series, had fun with Fifa in multiplayer and also enjoy tennis, NFL, NHL, all of them really.  Even Olympic games once in a while.  Related to sports, I became seriously addicted to Championship Manager until the save game message told me that I couldn’t afford to stop breathing   It’s been a long time since I last played a racing game but all NFS are great.

RPG (Role Playing Game): Fallout 1, 2, Arcanum
(Fallout 3, Planescape Torment)
      Haven’t played very much of this but absolutely loved Fallout 1 and 2, I enjoyed Arcanum too.  I just don’t like games where you spend far more time click-slaying monsters to get xp than making decisions.  I prefer turn based combat.

Graphic Adventure: Monkey Island, Indy Jones Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max.
(Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, GK 3, Larry 7)
      Ahhh! My area of expertise.  I have played (and beaten) so many GA games… The old ones from Sierra and Lucasarts and so many indie ones made with AGS (Adventure Game Studio).  My favorites are MI and Indy Jones but I could also mention DOT, S&M, Full Throttle, Larry, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, etc.
      I haven’t tried new ones (well, after 2000 ones, hehe) like GK3, The Longest Journey, Larry 7.  What  can you tell me?  Any good GA released this last years?

Sim / Management:   Aerobiz, Gamebiz, Roller Coaster, Pizza Tycoon, Mad Tv, Sim City, Sims.
(Sims 2, Spore, Tropico 2, Roller Coaster 3)
      I believe this is my favourite genre.  Sim City is to me the GOD OF ALL GAMES, balance and perfection.  I always loved good tycoons like Roller Coaster, Theme Hospital, Transport Tycoon, Pizza Tycoon… Mad Tv was another hard but great game.  Tropico must be one of my favorites for all its possibilties and the way you can examine every little detail (look at the people’s stats!) and it actually means something. 
      I also claim to have discovered The Sims earlier than anyone buying when nobody knew about it (in Argentina) and become addicted for a long time.  I just love strategy combined with a live and developing world / simulator.

Other Genres:
      Feel free to add any game you feel like it doesn’t belong to one of the mentioned genres.  Simulators maybe?  I loved Combat Flight Sim 2 but I don’t have a joystick right now.  Fighting games?  I suck at these, can’t make a three button combination right but enjoyed Virtua Fighter, MK, Killer Instinct and Tekken (for Hwa-Rang).  Survival / Horror?  I prefer watching others play Slent Hll, Rsident Evil or Alone in the Dark.  The tension kills me and the puzzle’s usually annoy me.  Give me an easy one.  Puzzle ? The Incredible Machine Rules! Give me something like it.  Not too abstract, progressively hard and I’ll love it.


   Oh, and add the game with the best graphics you can think of that can work properly in the following computer so I can dazzle my dad and convince him to forget the money he paid (about 40 %) to buy my computer.

Processor:     Q6600
Mother:      P5Q-E
Ram:      OCZ Platinum 4 Gb
VGA:      HD Saphire 4870
Hard Disk:      1 Tb (Yes!)

   Remember I live in Argentina and we are a thirld world country.  I paid it more than you:  3,5 x us$ + shipment + inflation so this was the best I could get right now.  Remember I came from a 9 years old PC!

[Alexhans]

To Get/try/play List:
RTS
Dawn of War 2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Supreme Commander
Galactic Civilizations
World in Conflict
Company of Heroes

TBS/RTS
Sword of the Stars
Total War (all of them.  Medieval 1,2 Shogun, Rome)

TBS
Romance of the three kingdoms (VIII, V)
Heroes of Might & Magic (IV, V)

unkown genre
Fire Emblem

To play Online (if I get Internet. Wich I will probably do due to it's great advantages  )
Left 4 Dead
Team Fortress II

RPG
Fallout 3, Tactics
Mass Effect

Puzzle
Puzzle Quest

[inaluct]

Ball Bullet Gun for the SNES. It's a difficult turn based strategy game from a top down view. You can easily download an English fan translation.

[Derakon]

I think I'm pretty much obligated to mention Fusillade at this point.

I'd also recommend trying out Spelunky and Iji if your computer is running Windows (you didn't specify). They're both free and lots of fun.

[Gunner-Chan]

Just getting into it, but I can recommend Operation Flashpoint if you want what could be considered a "Soldier sim".

[Org]

Dawn of War 2
Great RTS

[DJ]

I just finished Medal of Honor Airborne and it was a blast. Beautiful terrain and fairly non-linear missions. Sadly, the game is very short (only six missions, which I finished in two days), so it might not be a good investment if you won't play multiplayer. But you should definitely rent it if you can.

[Mephisto]

I would recommend Sins of a Solar Empire or Supreme Commander for RTS. Throw Galactic Civilizations in for good measure.

Then there's Sword of the Stars for a RTS/TBS hybrid.

I enjoyed the Star Wars Battlefront series, too.

You can't tell what kind of games I like, can you?

[Zai]

I must recommend all Romance of the Three Kingdoms games. They win my soul.

My favorite out of the ones I've played is VIII, mainly because it has an effective (or what I would call effective) system of rankings, so you can play as an officer rising through the ranks rather than just as a ruler as in the other games. V is good too. I like to play it on my PSP when I'm traveling (emulating the English PSX version, not playing the Japanese PSP version; knowing some katakana can get you only so far in such a text-heavy game).

[Onlyhestands]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
best game ever

[Mad Larks]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Its awesome.

Also, I noted that you have written Planescape: Torment under the RPGs. Kudos on that. Three other games I can heartily recommend are Painkiller (FPS), Psychonauts(Uhh...adventure, I guess.) and Serious Sam(FPS).

I don't care what bad things people have to say about Serious Sam, its hilarious and awesome.

[Cheeetar]

Left 4 Dead is great if you like co-op, not so much if you don't. It has no single player.

[Zai]

Oh yeah. The obvious World of Warcraft. The Touhou games. Any good old S/NES games if you don't have moral qualms with emulating, especially the Fire Emblem games. Spore can be pretty fun too, mainly with the creation of creatures.

[woose1]

Oh yeah. The obvious World of Warcraft.

I didn't know anyone else here played that.

[Jay]

I absolutely have to recommend The Sims 3.
Comes out in the US in June.
As I don't live in Argentina, I can't give an accurate date there, but I assume it's very similar to ours.
Until then, there's The Sims 2 and its many expansion packs/stuff packs.
Because they took the very same route as the original.
And Spore.
Spore is very much like The Sims with creatures that evolve through several stages over millions/billions of what's actually called years rather than The Sims' days.
It mashes several genres into one game, doing no particular one terribly notably, but they're releasing expansions that will make it better.
Starts out with the fast-paced 2D topdown eat-or-be-eaten cell stage, then the 3D adventuring creature stage, next-up tribal stage small-scale RTS, then civilization stage large-scale RTS (entire planet), finally 4X space stage.
And did I mention a vast majority of the content you'll ever see in the game, from the animals to the spaceships is player-created, even though you never directly interact with other players?