Maybe one that won't break Nova Prospekt this time?

That would be preferable, yes.

Civ V > Nova Prospekt

Half-Life 2 > Everything

But any decent computer nowadays can run HL2 on high so I'll need to look at another benchmark game

Any decent computer nowadays can run Civ V at least on low, which doesn't even look THAT bad.

is it wrong that I spent three times as much time staring at that wolf statue thing than I did at anything else in this entry

Hopefully not...I did too. '-'

Half-Life 2 > Everything

Portal 2 disagrees

@Sumiki @Ziko Not at all :3

@Bman NO U

wait that was Xiko wat

Okay, but let's just get this out of the way.

If it can't run Crysis, it's not worth buying

Fair point. I don't think I can afford anything that can play Crysis on max, but I can definitely buy something powerful enough to run it.