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

[Koudelka]

Baldurs Gate II

 

[acx]

Total Annihilation
Magic the Gathering: Online
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Comanche
Armored Fist 2
Delta Force

 

[NAC]

The list looks pretty impressive. I'm happy with most of the orders, but want to add votes to:

Doom - if you weren't a teenager or older when it was released, then you have no idea the impact Doom had on gaming. The previous year they released Wolfenstein 3d, and that was considered groundbreaking. And then doom came out, and the the FPS was born. Amazing. I remember fear. Emptying all my ammo at a twiching body off in the distance. Uh... it looked threatening on my roommate's 386, screen shrunken to a 2" square. And the pure joy of chainsawing through a room full of pink demons.

Neverwinter nights

Ultima 7 - actually in my heart it is Ultima III - which I played forever and finally, finally solved. But Ultima 7 clearly took the genre to a new level.

Civ 1

And two nominations:

Tetris. More popular on consoles, but I think it deserves to be on a top 100 list for PC games as well.

Scorched Earth! Simple. Addictive.

 

[akugami]

Nice list going there. I'd like to add that IMHO, a "best of" list should only contain two types of games. Games that are stellar examples of their genre (example being Starcraft and Deus Ex) or innovative games that creates a new genre or helps push the genre forward (example being Wolfenstein 3D).

Two games would need to be included and that's Tetris, as mentioned by NAC, and Bejeweled. Simplistic but mind numbingly satisfying at times. I mean, millions of hours lost on these games gotta mean they did something right.

 

[Teknic]

Jagged Alliance 2!!

 

[dmoney1980]

Great thread! Scrolling through all the posts has brought back some great memories....

below are a few of my all time favorites

Max Payne

UT 2004

No One Lives Forever 2

Far Cry

Battlefield 2142

Icewind Dale 2

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

ME 1 and 2

and of course all the classics - Doom, Half Life, etc

 

[raasco]

Max Payne

This

 

[mazeroth]

Asheron's Call. One of the finest MMORPG games to ever be made. I quit 4 years ago and I still miss it to this day. Talk about an addiction.

Quake 1. My god. The first time I played the demo and saw the real shadows being cast I about shit myself. We would use the fly command in the console and just hover around looking at the shadows. The game itself was revolutionary.

Half Life 2. No game has ever sucked me in to the atmosphere like Half Life 2. I felt as if I was in the game. I'd get home from work around 10 PM, put on my headphones, turn out the lights and enter a new world for a few hours each night.

 

[notty22]

Had a flashback to another game that drove gaming forward for me.
The Mechwarrior series. It started in Dos, like Quake, then came Windows editions and 3dFX support , when actual 3D hardware emerged. Definitely room in MY top 100

 

[Monster_Munch]

Battlezone 1998 deserves a mention. It's the best game I've played that mixes first person shooter with RTS. You give orders to build turrets and ships, but you can also jump into the ships and control them yourself to fight off the evil space commies.

It's free to download from www.battlezone1.net as well.

 

[SolidSnake42]

Easily the four best FPS on the PC have to be:

HL1
HL2
System Shock 2
Deus Ex

 

[DominionSeraph]

First.

 

[-Slacker-]

Gothic 1 & 2

Gave me more sense of progress than any other rpg I've played. A lot of rpg's rely pretty much on "numbers" and killing more things to increase more numbers to kill more things that get progressively tougher as you go along - nothing is too strong for you because these games are made so that enemies are more or less in your tier of strength and are easily defeated.

In the gothic franchise, however, you start out as a piece of crap, and no npc gives two shits about you. There are serious restrictions in what you can fight, because almost everything is tougher than you, so you can't just plow through everything you see like in some hack and slash game, you have to pick your fights carefully.

The great thing about it is that a lot of the enemies you'll be fighting in latter chapters can also be found at the beginning, and this is how the game sets it's barriers and restrictions in it's open sandbox world, a lot better than separate stages or silly invisible walls. Come face to face with an orc at level 1~5 and it will quickly brush you off in one blow. This is a good thing, because then it's all the more satisfying when you get really strong (the end-game kind of strong) and start plowing through hordes of orcs without breaking a sweat.

I could go on about how the story and character interaction fits perfectly into this you're-weak-at-first-but-you-kick-ass-later mechanic, and how getting into disputes with rival npc's actually gets you emotionally involved withouth so much as a cheesy "they killed my wife and kids and dog and turtle, and now I'm aaannngry garrr!!111" cliche, but ... oh, I already did. Never mind then.

Anyway, this game definitely deserves to be high in the top 100.

 

[Rezident]

Hitman

Never going to be the best games ever or everybody’s cup of tea but at times I found some of these games brilliant. Some of the missions, and the different ways and weapons you could execute them with ranged from true stealth through sheer firepower to the absolutely hilarious. I had a lot of fun replaying some of these missions repeatedly, particularly Blood Money and Hitman: Contracts.

Anyone else enjoy Agent 47? They would definitely make my top 100.

 

[acheron]

Good point on Tetris. Certainly reached the height of its popularity on the Game Boy, but it showed up on PCs first. The Spectrum Holobyte version was my first encounter with it.

 

[Castiel]

Max Payne

This

X100000

Max Payne was awesome

 

[boozie]

fuck this game. it pretty much put the nail in the coffin for FPS games for me as it encourages noob tactics like spamming and camping. Single player was def fun, but by no means top 100 game of all time! same goes for MW2

Give me Quake, Quake 2, UT/ UT2004 any day over this overhyped garbage

Now I can appreciate CS 1.3 as good as the next guy (probably much better actually). Who didn't like jumping around corners and raping campers with a m4 mid air?

Fact is camping is effective, deal with it. Spamming is effective, deal with it. If you want to play an arcadey shooter then stick to arcadey shooters. I haven't even played MW2, but along the lines of tactical combat, it behooves one to use good tactics.

I was the awpwh0re in CS raping your face while you cried all the way home. I was the guy that spammed you through the wall because you tried to hide behind it but I knew you were there.

These games aren't meant for rambo meatheads. You're welcome to have fun with them, but complaining about that stuff just seems dumb.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Fact is camping is effective, deal with it. Spamming is effective, deal with it. If you want to play an arcadey shooter then stick to arcadey shooters. I haven't even played MW2, but along the lines of tactical combat, it behooves one to use good tactics.

But that's just the thing: they've fooled you into grinding. You'd be better off playing The Oregon Trail -- at least that shooter is wrapped in a good game.

 

[boozie]

But that's just the thing: they've fooled you into grinding. You'd be better off playing The Oregon Trail -- at least that shooter is wrapped in a good game.

I guess I don't get what "just" is referring to. I was talking about tactics in a tactical game. I wasn't defending anything about the mmofps genre anywhere.

I don't even think the mmofps aspect was brought up by the other two posters that have chimed in on this game either...

 

[RatboyX]

Zork

 

[ikachu]

Little Big Adventure (AKA Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure)
Hero's Quest (later re-released as Quest for Glory)
Alien Legacy
Might and Magic III (I liked World of Xeen too)
Any of the LucasArts adventures: Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, etc...
Warlords

 

[TheVrolok]

C&C/RA (I loved both originals), Pick a Sierra Adventure Game (King's/QFG/Space), Doom, Quake, ME, Deus Ex, WC3, KOTOR, BG1/2, Diablo 2, Starcraft, HL1/2, CounterStrike, Team Fortress, WoW, Planescape Torment, Civ IV, V:TM Bloodlines, Far Cry .. goes on and on

 

[JoshGuru7]

I've probably posted my list a dozen times on these forums by now, but it hasn't changed much lately.

1. Tie Fighter
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Lords of the Realm 2
4. Bioware RPGs
5. Asheron's Call
6. Age of Empires II
7. Planescape Torment
8. Zork
9. Star Wars Galaxies
10. Day of the Tentacle

The only games that have been mentioned that I would do not consider in the top 100 are Planetside, Black and White, Painkiller and Doom 3.

 

[Patterner]

Zork

This.

I also wanted to mention the Might and Magic series. I wasted so much time playing these. Not sure which one is best...maybe IV: Clouds of Xeen?

 

[MagickMan]

Betrayal at Krondor is somewhere on the list, as well as Zork and Bard's Tale.