Screw PC gamer, let's make our own 'top 100 PC games list'

[Lonyo]

Bioshock

Would you kindly include this strangely-unpopular game. Incredible sounds, unreal sights and of course, the plasmids. Fort Frolic was a dark masterpiece of a level, one of the best I’ve ever played. This game had three legendary gaming characters and at least three of my all-time ultimate gaming moments.

Bioshock should get an honourable mention as the game with the worst plot twist, most disappointing story, and most linear gameplay that destroys its own concept.

 

[Arcadio]

GTAIII - Many games tried to copy its style after it was released. It popularized the concept of sandbox-style playing.

 

[Kabob]

GTAIII - Many games tried to copy its style after it was released. It popularized the concept of sandbox-style playing.

That was a port from the console version, are you really gonna add that to the "top 100 PC games" list?

 

[Kabob]

starcraft defined the (balanced) asymmetric RTS. every human unit had a mirror orc unit with similar abilities in warcraft2

This.

Not just Warcraft, but pretty much every RTS game had two factions with nearly identical units, Starcraft was the first major success for having various factions that played nothing alike.

 

[JackSpadesSI]

Bioshock should get an honourable mention as the game with the worst plot twist, most disappointing story, and most linear gameplay that destroys its own concept.

No. Bioshock was a great game.

 

[KMFJD]

This.

Not just Warcraft, but pretty much every RTS game had two factions with nearly identical units, Starcraft was the first major success for having various factions that played nothing alike.

? Age of Empires had this before Starcraft

 

[acheron]

This.

Not just Warcraft, but pretty much every RTS game had two factions with nearly identical units, Starcraft was the first major success for having various factions that played nothing alike.

Eh, I thought of that too, but the first C&C had that at the same time WC2 was out. NOD and GDI were very different.

 

[TheSlamma]

Thief 2

Thief was the original first person SNEAKER, Looking Glass listened to the fans and made Thief 2. Played through this one and even though I didn't like it as much as 2 Thief Deadly Shadows many times, on expert.

 

[lozina]

My other favorites have been mentioned except these three:

1. Master of Magic

Even the new title Elemental: War of Magic cannot capture the magic of this timeless classic.

2. Railroad Tycoon

Come on, the father of the millions of tycoon copy cats out there. And still the best one! Though the newer Railroad Tycoon titles from PopTop are quite good too!

3. Pirate's Gold

Another Sid Meier classic.

 

[Patterner]

Nice, someone finally mentioned MoM and Pirates, so I don't have to mention those. I would also add Populous as the first of "play god" style RTS (even though they weren't called that then).

I also second Homeworld and Homeworld 2, Mechwarrior 2, The first Thief, the Ultima series (though for my money IV was the best followed *very* closely by VII) and Syndicate (such a good game).

I really *wanted* to like Deus Ex, but I just couldn't get into it for some reason.

 

[goobernoodles]

This thread is flawwed, but I'll chime in with my favorites anyway.

1) Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Multiplayer w/ OSP):

The most balanced, intense, and competitive multiplayer game I've ever played.

2) Age of Empires 2 (Better than I, III was meh...)

One of the best RTS's I've ever played. Great multiplayer and a single player.

3) Half-Life 2

One of, if not the best single player FPS I've ever played.

4) Counter-Strike (1.6 & Source)

Classic.

5) Most of the Battlefield series. BF1942, BF2, BC2, and hopefully BF3.

6) Maxis games: Sim City 2000, Sim Tower, Sim Ant

All really fun games.

7) Subspace: Continuum

A free, multiplayer 2d spaceship shooter game. Surprisingly open and fun.

8) Command & Conquer & Red Alert series.

An awesome RTS.

9) Rainbow 6 & Rogue Spear

The genre that got me into multiplay

10) Oregon Trail 2

I wonder how many hours I played this game back in elementary and middle school. Fun stuff.

 

[Rezident]

Bioshock should get an honourable mention as the game with the worst plot twist, most disappointing story, and most linear gameplay that destroys its own concept.

Either that or you're wrong. That is a lot of polarized statements for one post. I'd say the developers know more about "it's own concept" than you do.

Do you really think it is the worst? The most disappointing? Is it actually the "most linear" of any game that's ever been made? I think you are just trying to be overly dramatic and the result is drivel.

Let's look at a fact instead, it got a Metacritic score of 96%. I'll give you a clue: you're wrong.

 

[zinfamous]

Nice, someone finally mentioned MoM and Pirates, so I don't have to mention those. I would also add Populous as the first of "play god" style RTS (even though they weren't called that then).

I really loved Populous, though I only ever played it on the SNES. I wonder how different that was to the PC manner of playing it.

I think what I liked about it was that it was damn different from anything else I had played--it was before I played any kind of RTS, Sim, or any PC genre other than the Sierra adventure games, so it was so very different for me. fun, fun game.


That being said, where do the Sierra "Quest" games belong?
Space/King's/Police/Hero belong somewhere, right? maybe as one package?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Either that or you're wrong. That is a lot of polarized statements for one post. I'd say the developers know more about "it's own concept" than you do.

Do you really think it is the worst? The most disappointing? Is it actually the "most linear" of any game that's ever been made? I think you are just trying to be overly dramatic and the result is drivel.

Let's look at a fact instead, it got a Metacritic score of 96%. I'll give you a clue: you're wrong.

He might be going overboard, but he isn't completely off. There's a pretty big disparity between the using rating and the reviewer rating for bioshock (especially on PC where their were glaring porting issues). While it was a decent game, it is also the most overrated game of all time. It was always more of a 7 or 8.

 

[Castiel]

Still remember needing 8mb of memory for it.

 

[Kabob]

? Age of Empires had this before Starcraft

Age of Empires? That's one of the more cookie-cutter RTS games out there (not that it's a bad thing) I played AoE and AoE 2 and no matter what faction you choose you played it the same way. In Starcraft 2 they are intentionally very different (Creep, Pylon Range, etc).

Eh, I thought of that too, but the first C&C had that at the same time WC2 was out. NOD and GDI were very different.

Yeah, to a degree the units were different but nothing close to the level SC.

 

[you2]

A couple of less common games I enjoyed (not sure if they have been mentioned):
age of wonders shadow magic
unreal (the original; today i think it is kind of a sucky game but back in 1999 it was great)
wizadry 8
tie fighter
king bounty legend
space rangers 2 reboot
far cry
(I won't mention common games like duke nukem, b. gates, ...)

 

[Atreus21]

Okay so here's the list as it stands so far. My additions are as follows:

Imperium Galactica II
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident (IG2's spiritual successor)
XCOM 2: Terror From the Deep
Jagged Alliance 2
Red Baron
Abuse
Freelancer

Including my additions, the list of nominations, in alphabetical order, is as follows:

Adventure
Kings Quest V
Psychonauts

Arcade
Plants vs. Zombies

First-Person Variants (suggestions for subcategories welcome)
Bad Company 2
Battlefield Series
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Doom
Doom 3
F.E.A.R.
Farcry
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Jedi Knight 2
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Marathon 2
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
No One Lives Forever
Painkiller
Portal
Prey
Quake
Quake 4
Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Serious Sam: The First Edition
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Starsiege: Tribes
Strife
System Shock 2
Tribes
Unreal
Wolfenstein 3D

MMOs
Asheron's Call
Everquest
Guild Wars
Planetside
Ultima Online
World of Warcraft

Multiplayer
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
Global Agenda
Left 4 Dead
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress Classic
Unreal Tournament 98

RPGs
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate II
Deus Ex
Diablo
Diablo 2
Dragon Age Origins
Fable I
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Gothic Series
Knights of the Old Republic
Mass Effect Series
Morrowind
Neverwinter Nights
Oblivion
Planescape: Torment
Titan Quest
Ultima 7
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Wasteland
Wizardy 8

RTS
Age of Empires Series
Age of Mythology
Command and Conquer 1
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Company of Heroes
Dune 2
Heroes of Newerth
Rise of Nations
Rome: Total War
Star Wars: Rebellion
Starcraft
Warcraft II

Side Scroller
Abuse
Duke Nukem 1
Duke Nukem 2

Simulation
Falcon 3.0
Freelancer
GTR2
Mechwarrior 2
Oregon Trail 2
Privateer
Railroad Tycoon 2
Red Baron
Silent Service II
Sim City 2000
The Sims Series
Wing Commander 1
Wing Commander 2
X-Wing/TIE Fighter Series

Space Combat Simulation
Freespace 2
Homeworld 1
Homeworld 2
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Sins of a Solar Empire

Tactical
Jagged Alliance 2
Syndicate
XCOM 2: Terror From the Deep
XCOM: UFO Defense

Turn-Based Strategy
Alpha Centauri
Civilization 1
Heroes of Might and Magic Series
Imperium Galactica II
King's Bounty: The Legend
Lords of the Realm 2
Master of Magic
Master of Orion
Master of Orion 2
Pirates! Gold

?
Assassin's Creed
Black and White
Black and White 2
Dungeon Keeper
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto 4
Populous: The Beginning
Space Rangers 2: Reboot
Star Control 2
Subspace: Continuum
Thief 2
Thief: The Dark Project
Warhammer: Dark Omen


I was thinking of ways to vote. PM me your top 100 rankings and I'll compile them into a ranking. How long should I wait until voting ends?

EDIT: I will make a category system to make voting easier. Back tomorrow.
EDIT2: Have some very broad categories. Applied Above. Need help clarifying the Question Mark category. Suggestions welcome.

 

[RPD]

Quake1. Oh, you want me to justify this?


What do you say about Quake1? Practically the birth of competitive FPS gaming and certainly so via TCP/IP. One of the first games to make use of 3d graphics cards. One of the longest running online communities. A game engine whose code still survives in games put out today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quake_-_family_tree_2.svg). Also a game engine that had more revisions within Quake than outside of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quake_-_family_tree.svg). The birth of tcp/ip free service game browsers (qspy) - as opposed to dwango and khali. The beginning of North America's largest lan tournament - QuakeCon. The birth of machinima. The birth of rocket arena. The birth of Team Fortress. One of the most modifiable games ever made with a built in c-code language called QuakeC. The soundtrack was developed by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame. It runs on everything from Dos to Solaris to Sega Saturn. The source code was released into GPL in 99.

Blah, blah, blah. I'm tired of typing. Look, good games come and go, but games that are as revolutionary as Quake was are very few and very far between. That is the reason regardless of what game I enjoy at the current moment, I will always have to recommend Quake first.

:thumbsup:

 

[RPD]

Also I'll add any of the Kings Quests games could be on here. I think V was one of the most popular if I can remember right. Very early game that had some what ever open environments and if you never played through it before, a very hard difficulty scale. (Atleast for the age I was playing them at)

If BG is on here Never Winter Nights should be as well. Great game.

 

[zinfamous]

would it be easier to have people rank a top 5, or maybe top 10 list from the set options, then compile something based off of tiered voting?

I like tiered voting.

 

[zinfamous]

Also I'll add any of the Kings Quests games could be on here. I think V was one of the most popular if I can remember right. Very early game that had some what ever open environments and if you never played through it before, a very hard difficulty scale. (Atleast for the age I was playing them at)

If BG is on here Never Winter Nights should be as well. Great game.

yeah, the Sierra "Quest" games were just so awesome. They were my first PC game experience, and pretty much what i considered PC gaming to be for so many years.

I would think that all of them could be piled into one single spot in a top 100 list, no?

 

[Atreus21]

See post #118.

 

[RPD]

Or have some sort of categories, I mean 100 games is just SO many.

To Zin, I would agree to just compiling the series into 1 spot. I still remember playing them in elementary school (I'm 30 now ROFL) with my buddies. I started after III and always remember those tense moments of some evil character that would kill you once he got you, all the while you are frantically typing out just random commands. USE AXE, CLOSE DOOR OMFG RUNNNNN

 

[zinfamous]

Is it too late to nominate QWOP???