The Best PC Game: Discussion Thread
I won't do this list until the end of January. Feel free to gather your lists and send them in though
You have until January 22nd to make a list of your top 15 PC games. Please submit your list to me via Private Message(it helps me with organization). Feel free to use this thread to discuss games, and if you feel the need to post your list please use SPOILER TAGS.
Have fun.
Do I have to pick games I've played?
Your list you build it however you want. I will build my list from the PC games I've played. And yes, the mods I used will factor into my decisions.
Half life
Will definitely be in my list somewhere.Originally Posted by MikeHunt
And that brings another question... how does Counter Strike/TF2 et al go? Are they to be considered games in their own right or are they mods that increase the awesomeness of Half Life?
I think anything that was sold at one time should count as a game itself.
So you are saying that TF2 can't be entered as a stand alone?
It hasn't always been free to play.
Mmm, so it hasn't. For some reason my brain went "Half Life Mod to F2P"... before realising that was TF Classic that was purely a HL mod whilst TF2 was bundled in The Orange Box before standalone before F2P.
Counter-Strike
Tie-Fighter
Next poll.
I must spread some reputation around before giving it to the entirely correct gentleman again.
Sim City 2000
Unreal Tournament 2004
I loved the sports vibe from UT2004, it really made you feel like you were part of some kind of online entertainment world of gibs. Sim City 2000 I mostly played on the PSX, and I felt 3000 surpassed it in every single way. SC4 was pretty good too, but I found it just a bit too tough to get into.
At least one or two classic Sierra games are going to sneak onto my list. Those defined at least a couple years of my childhood.
Civilization (probably III, though I could go for IV, V or II)
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Football Manager (well more likely one of the last SI Championship Manager ones, maybe 00/01)
DEUS EX
Obviously Half-Life has already been said. Total Annihilation will likely get a nod, and I feel that something from the Total War series should be there, I just don't know what.
I just started putting down a small list.... ergh. So many and so many more I haven't even thought of.
ARGH
Fallout: New Vegas is better than Fallout 3.
This is a hard list. I mentally discount everything after, say, 2005, when I ended up mostly playing it on consoles anyway. I won't do one of those things where I say "Oh I played this on another system" and discount it, but I'm still going to heavily favour the SPIRIT of the PC.
It is, and although I finished it about 3 times, it never grabbed hold of my soul the say Fallout 3 did. Tricky one.
Worms.
YUS
One of my great LAN party stories revolves around a game of Worms. Well, at least it was being played, briefly, with no actual relation to the story.
I remember sitting up all night with Worms 2 at a friend's house with a bunch of school friends and because it was the 90s and he actually had internet, someone had put his desktop wallpaper as this naked old woman taking her false teeth out. After every round of Worms it would go back to the desktop and we'd be shocked once again.
Battle Raper
New Vegas is prettier than Fallout 3 but I'd argue that it is an inferior game.
Looking forward to how this turns out. I only recently (last couple of years) discovered Bethesda and I'm pretty out of the loop when it comes to good PC games. Hopefully this countdown will help educate me.
I've only ever had one period in my life where my PC was pimp enough to play proper computer games when they came out and that was back around the '00 mark or so. Other than that I've always been a console guy. I'm interested to see what pops up here but I don't think I'll submit a list since it would be so early '00s heavy.
If I had to name the best PC games, it'd be based off how many times I've replayed them over the years:
1. Curse of Monkey Island
2. MDK2
3. Half Life 2
4. Worms
5. Deus Ex
6. Left 4 Dead 2
7. Duke Nukem 3D
8. Mass Effect 2
9. F.E.A.R.
10. Freedom Force
11. Oddworld: Abe's Exodus
12. Max Payne 2
13. Unreal Tournament '99
14. Quake 2
15. Skyrim
*Honorable mention: (Not a "PC" game, but still...) Descent II
Last edited by VHS; December 20th, 2013 at 6:55 PM.
If I went by that it would be Civilization III. I played that game constantly back in the day.
Some more games to think about...
Company of Heroes
Dawn of War: Warhammer 40K
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Warcraft III
Half-Life 2
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead
Civilization IV
Battlefield 2
VVVVVV (liked it so much I paid $5 for it for my 3DS to play it again)
Di fucking ablo II
This isn't my final list, or even in order, but while I usually have to check other lists to help me brainstorm this time I was able to rattle off 15 tremendous games from the top of my head. It's going to be tough.
1. The Sims 2
2. Creatures
3. Neverwinter Nights
4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
5. TIE Fighter
6. The Secret of Monkey Island
7. Diablo
8. Civilization IV
9. Theme Hospital
10. Morrowind
11. Unreal Tournament 99
12. Fallout: New Vegas
13. Sim City 3000
14. StarCraft
15. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
This is difficult because there were loads of games I had on PC, which I could have had on PSX or PS2.
So I'll settle for ones which work best on PC, point and click stuff (command and conquer etc)
loom. i liked loom
minesweeper
oregon trail
list done
I liked Oregon Trail 2 more
I did an Oregon Trail speed run once. Just floored it, didn't stop for anything except to shoot stuff for meat, forded every river and rushed every hill, and we made it in just a few weeks. Well, I say we, only one person survived the trip.
pretty sure doom, wolfenstein and a command and conquer are somewhere on my list
After a bit more thinking my list shall also be mmorpg heavy.
Damn hard list.
Big Red Racing that you got free with every Epson printer in the 90's.
Also Football Manager should be very high on this list, but only if people vote for the same version.
So my number 1 will probably be "Football Manager (any year)". As it's basically the same game.
If we do all the FMs as one, though, where do we draw the line? All the Unreal Tournaments are almost the same game. Eventually we can start sliding down the slope and I can cram all the Elder Scrolls games into one entry, which I wouldn't mind but it'd probably mess up the list a bit.
OK, can everyone who wants to put FM in their list, make a deal which version we put in?
I still have so much stuff to play from the Humble Bundle and I am just feeling all nostalgic and wanting to go back and sink a billion hours into Oblivion or Neverwinter Nights again. Or Theme Hospital. Damn, the PC has always been such a great platform.
you can. Or you could put multiple versions on your list.
Is Maniac Mansion a PC game or a C64 game? I can't really remember. That game's pretty historic though, nothing I've played since has quite captured the same feeling.
It was on the NES as well, but I'm sure it was on some home computer of some sort.
1) Hook
2) Leisure Suit Larry 2
3) Leisure Suit Larry 3
4) Portal
5) Freecell
That's all I can think of
CM 01-02 for me, probably. I think. Maybe.
That's a different game series FFS!
It's the exact same game series as FM, you plonker.
Current day CM isn't the same game series as old day CM.
No it isn't.
I'm very aware of the split between the companies. But CM 01/02 is no in the same franchise as FM05.
I'm not having it.
Hmmm....
Sports Interactive games:
Championship Manager
Championship Manager '93
Championship Manager 2
Championship Manager 96/97
Championship Manager 97/98
Championship Manager 3
Championship Manager: Season 00/01
Championship Manager: Season 01/02
Championship Manager 4
Championship Manager: Season 03/04
Football Manager 2005 (4 November 2004 for PC/Mac)
Football Manager 2006 (21 October 2005 for PC/Mac & April for PSP)
Football Manager 2007 (20 October 2006 for PC/Mac & PSP)
Football Manager 2008 (October 2007 for PC/Mac & PSP and March 2008 for Xbox 360)
Football Manager 2009 (14 November 2008 for PC/Mac & PSP)
Football Manager 2010 (30 October 2009 for PC/Mac & PSP and April for iPhone)
Football Manager 2011 (5 November 2010 for PC/Mac, December for PSP & iPhone and April for iPad)
Football Manager 2012 (21 October 2011 for PC/Mac, PSP, December for iPhone & iPad and April for Android)
Football Manager 2013 (November 2, 2012 for PC/Mac)
"Football Manager 2014" (31 October 2013 for PC/Mac/Linux)
Football Manager Live (23 January 2009)
Can we just agree that we are at least going to go with one of the Sports Interactive titles and you don't want to put forward Player Manager 2011 by EA Sports or something?
BOLLOCKS. BOLLOCKS.Hmmm....
Sports Interactive games:
this is going to be a hard list
Do PCs mean all home computers including the 8 -and 16- bit machines? My list may well include:
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max hit the road
Secret of Monkey Island 2
Civ IV
CM 01/02
Eye of the Beholder
Command and Conquer - Red Alert
Frontier
X-Wing Alliance
Quake
I'm going to sit this list out. I've been exclusively a console gamer since the PSX, and any game I've played on PC has also been available on consoles.
I don't see why it wouldn't. I possibly have something from my C64 on my list
C64 and Spectrum list next please.
My fave PC game hasnt even been mentioned yet.
Are we doing lists in here or PMing them?
Didn't even read the thread.
Why am I not surprised that you didn't know CM and FM ARE THE SAME FUCKING GAME BY SI.
PM them to me. You have quite a while to do it though.
What's the deadline?
THEY ARE NOT, SHUT UP YOU CUNT.Didn't even read the thread.
Why am I not surprised that you didn't know CM and FM ARE THE SAME FUCKING GAME BY SI.
PS. Tell me which FM you are voting for.
here are the details again.
Why am I just now noticing discussion should have two s's.
Dunno, but my Mac usually checks and fixes that for me.
The Rick is from the 90's and is spelling it with 'tude.
Start thinking on your lists. January 22nd wool be here before you know it.
I've been conducting a scientific study for the purposes of my list
Mods are such a huge factor. They're why KOTOR has topped my list before making the list. My list may be a bit odd as I'm going to try to favor so games I played on PC rank higher than those I may have played on console that were also on PC (BioShock Infinite immediately comes to mind as a recent case here.)
Games like Marathon, Descent, Wing Commander III, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, Doom, Hexen, Civilization, Sim City 2000 and others I played relentlessly on the computer as a kid will rank.
Last edited by Atty; January 2nd, 2014 at 12:20 PM.
Playing through Bioshock: Infinite now. There's a chance it could squeeze its way onto my list. It's beautiful, with a pretty fascinating story so far, though I understand where people's comments about it being a mediocre shooter come from. I never quite feel like I'm sufficiently in control of any weapon, and aside from one vigor so far all the stuff's pretty generic.
So many good Star Wars games, too. I could probably do a top 15 of them alone. I miss old school LucasArts, they used to take such pride in making games that really gripped you and gave you a special world to play around in.
FM11 for me, the last one that I was truly addicted to.
I haven't decided what my number one is going to be yet, FM11, Civ 4 and Minecraft are the top contenders. Jesus I love Minecraft so much.
Civ IV is fantastic. I tried Civ V but found it far too cartoony and for every new feature it seemed like they removed or overly simplified two or three more. Then came endless DLC...
Best Star Wars game could make a fun mini list.
I don't really get the "mediocre shooter" vibe at all, but then most FPS that I play are either older or Halo so it's entirely possible that there's some much better fitting FPS feel that I just am completely unaware of.
The change in unit stacking makes the game. As for the endless DLC, the first expansion pack definitely enhances the game. I've not yet played the second one, but I feel like it couldn't definitely improve a great game.
Civ 4 is still probably going to be in my list, but after a lot of Civ 5 this holidays that's probably going to go ahead of it.
Civilization could prove interesting in the overall list as I could see votes being split amongst different titles.
Has Diablo been mentioned yet?
This is true. I was thinking of putting Civ 2 on my list, not 4.
I was also thinking Civ 2, as I played that so much growing up.
I think I'm going to get a Civilization right now and play it. Sounds like 4 is the one to go with over 5, yes?
Civ V is the better game in my opinion. Civ IV becomes a case of who can build the biggest stack of doom wheras V needs a bit more thought. The new expansion is great, it makes cultural play and diplomacy much more interesting.
X-Com will be on my list, I played the shit out of that last year.
Another contender for number one will be Total Extreme Wrestling, I have lost hundreds of hours to every version of that game.
X-Com is probably going to be my #1. I was thinking of putting the original, but I actually think the new one is better. It's very true to the original, it has pretty much everything the old one has, but it's so much cleaner.
I need to make sure to include StarCraft.
The Rick, I know your love for all things Star Wars so you should definitely put Best Star Wars Game on your pole. And then on your list of polls we want you to do as well.
Hah, no.
Yoda is the biggest pussy in SciFi. At the sign of adversity he left and hid. By that measure Jar Jar is more noble and loyal than Yoda.
Well, I decided to give Civ 4 a try as it was only 4.99 on Steam and I seem to have lost a day of my life. Fancy that.
If it was Civ 5 game of the year complete edition you would have lost a day and a half.
I always tell people if you want to play Civ make sure you don't have anything else planned for the day.
Don't forget. We are just over 2 weeks away from the deadline.
Here is how my list is shaping up as of now.
WoW has always been a weird one for me. It's by far the most popular MMORPG ever, to the point that nothing that comes after may ever top it as the entire genre may be fading with the game itself. But that seems to be the only thing going for it, during its reign it arguably did more HARM to PC games than good. Remember not too long ago when everyone was calling PC a dead console? WoW was cited as a big reason why...if you were a PC gamer, you were probably a WoW gamer, and didn't have time to play anything else. Not to mention all the failed and/or underwhelming WoW clones that followed in an attempt to get a piece of that pie.
It didn't really innovate anything, either, other than putting together a bunch of the better pre-existing ideas in MMO land, polishing it, and attaching a recognizable license. It's the Rolling Stones of PC gaming history.
If an MMO makes my list, it'll probably be EverQuest or Ultima Online. I reaallly want to put DAOC on there because I loved that game, but I can't deny that it was so, so bad.
LOTRO will be very high on my list.
Why?
Not a shot at LOTRO just legitimately curious.
Didnt anyone enjoy any of the Age of Empires/Mythology games?
Made me fall in love with the concept of MMO gaming. A brilliantly realised world, what is still the best defined class system I've found in an mmorpg, great story quests and instances, the kindest gaming community I've come across so far and the pioneers of the free-to-play model.
GW2, WoW and FF 14 will also probably make my list.
WoW will definitely be on my list. I got REALLY into it for awhile before stopping cold turkey. I only played a few months, but it consumed every second I wasn't at work. It was a full on addiction and once I was out, I refused to ever go back. It was so amazingly addictive.
I never got the hype around WoW. I tried it and got to level 60 in my free week trial (before I had a job) and didn't think it was worth paying for more.
Age of Empires II
i still fire it up once and a while
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