What is your Mount Rushmore of PC games?

[OptimumSlinky]

TIE Fighter. Wing Commander. Command & Conquer. Half-Life. Deus Ex. Quake 2 over a LAN. CS Beta 5.2

 

[TallBill]

TIE Fighter. Wing Commander. Command & Conquer. Half-Life. Deus Ex. Quake 2 over a LAN. CS Beta 5.2

Awesome list Gotcha beat by two betas on CS. Beta 3 was amazing. I could still draw a perfect map of DE_Dust

 

[OVerLoRDI]

1. Unreal Tournament is what got me hooked

HEADSHOT!
MONSTER KILL!

That red font and the corresponding sound will never be forgotten.

2. Counter Strike Source

I didn't have broadband until 2004. Life was awful. I got broadband and Half Life 2 at the same time. CS:S consumed a huge amount of time.

3. Diablo 2

My friends and I, not having broadband, played loads of this over LAN. We have so many legitimate level 90 characters/parties and hordes of storage characters packed to the gills with gold and green items.

4. Total Annihilation

Way ahead of its time when it was released in 1997. It was a technical achievement, that was too resource hungry for the hardware of the day. Plus the music was epic.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Here's an image I took back when I was still in the Navy, of my barracks room wall after I covered it with little 8.5"x11" printed posters representing all my favorite games ever, or most of them:

That is a fantastic idea. I'm doing this before my fiance moves it.

 

[Geosurface]

That is a fantastic idea. I'm doing this before my fiance moves it.

If you really want to print some of those, I can give you the files I made. It required more work with some of those to get them looking decent in an 8.5x11 format than you might think.

Let me know.

 

[styrafoam]

Quake 2: pretty much cut my online gaming teeth on Q2DM, plus all of the great mods gave this one tons of life.

Half Life: went from Q2 to HL. Played more TFC and CS than i care to admit.

Battlefield 1942: Played the vanilla version more than any mod, but had lots of fun with desert combat, a star wars mod whose name escapes me, forgotten hope, and a few others

If i were to go from time spent then the last one would have to go to WoW. Swore i would never play a MMO, some close friends/coworkers started and convinced me to try. Played it since early in vanilla with only maybe a couple weeks of not having my account active. I for the most part started to hate it early in Cataclysm, quit when how bad the panda bears expansion was going to be started to get fleshed out. Still have to admit that i had tons of fun through lich king, and small amounts in cata.

 

[styrafoam]

4. Total Annihilation

Way ahead of its time when it was released in 1997. It was a technical achievement, that was too resource hungry for the hardware of the day. Plus the music was epic.

My funny story about total annihilation: came out around the same time as another RTS called Dark Reign, they were both on special at CompUSA the same week. I only had money to spare for one game, and picked Dark Reign because the box for TotalA didn't do it justice at all, and i hadn't read any reviews. Tried TotalA a few months later and was mad that i didn't even bother to try to read up before i went shopping. Bought TotalA soon after.

 

[Craig234]

My funny story about total annihilation: came out around the same time as another RTS called Dark Reign, they were both on special at CompUSA the same week. I only had money to spare for one game, and picked Dark Reign because the box for TotalA didn't do it justice at all, and i hadn't read any reviews. Tried TotalA a few months later and was mad that i didn't even bother to try to read up before i went shopping. Bought TotalA soon after.

My funny story about TA is that I tried a game on someone's computer, a couple minutes in built a laser tower and just hated the feel of the game and said 'not for me'.

Not long after I played it more and it became one of my favorite games of all time.

In your story, not that Dark Reign was bad, but who knew how good TA was? I think a lot of people picked Dark Reign over TA at first.

 

[HarvardAce]

Foundations of my PC gaming history?

1) Depth Charge. Along with some game-show related games (Card Shark, Classic Concentration, Wheel of Fortune) this was my first exposure to PC games back in the mid 80's.
2) Gemstone III/IV - my first exposure to an MMO, played it back when we had Prodigy as an online service. I remember being really excited when AOL went unlimited because it meant I could play more than a few hours a month.
3) Doom - I remember countless hours playing Doom over the modem with my cousins who lived down the street. Then we got some mod that allowed us to record our own sound effects for all the guns/monsters and had a lot of fun with that.
4) Starcraft - played a lot of this freshman year with my roommates and continued to go back to it throughout college. Led to lots of yelling and shouting and accusations of "cheese" tactics amongst us.

Honorable mentions:
1) Homeworld - great gameplay and graphics at the time, loved the story, but the soundtrack is the one thing that still stays with me to this day.
2) Everquest - first 3D MMO, never made it past probably level 35 but I remember exploring and being amazed at the world that SOE created.
3) SimCity 2000 - spent a lot of time playing it, along with some of the other Sim family of games (SimTower, SimFarm, SimEarth)
4) Counterstrike - never really got into the quake style FPSes as I wasn't twitchy enough, but I really enjoyed Counterstrike and its iterations over the years.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Quake2 Loki's Minions CTF
System Shock
Day of Defeat: A half-life Modification
DayZ

 

[Agent11]

wing commander privateer, starseige: tribes, civilization, Shogun:total war

 

[Modular]

FarCry and Oblivion were really it for me. I started with FarCry and played the Matto Mods and everything. That game was amazing. The best part about it was the multiplayer. I think most people's PC's couldn't run it well enough, which is why it never really caught on for more than a few years.

 

[TechAZ]

1. Space Quest / most Sierra/Dynamix games early 90's era. Front page sports football was amazing to me. Unless I'm wearing rose tinted glasses, this was the best football sim in history.

2. Doom - Spent many hours connecting to my buddies computer doing deathmatch.

3. Diablo - Many hours spent on this game

4. Star Wars Galaxies


SWG was the only game that I would sink 12 hours into in a day. It didn't happen often, but if the wife was at work it was like paradise for me. Such a deep deep game with a huge world. I was floored with the complexity and freedom of it all.

 

[poohbear]

The total war series, but also the Quest for glory series. Total war consumed my weekends to the point that it messed up a relationship my gf @ the time! I stay away from them now, so bloody addictive!

 

[zinfamous]

That is a fantastic idea. I'm doing this before my fiance moves it.

LMAO!




caps

 

[biostud]

F-15 Strike Eagle II
Dune II
Civilization
Wolfenstein 3D

 

[styrafoam]

My funny story about TA is that I tried a game on someone's computer, a couple minutes in built a laser tower and just hated the feel of the game and said 'not for me'.

Not long after I played it more and it became one of my favorite games of all time.

In your story, not that Dark Reign was bad, but who knew how good TA was? I think a lot of people picked Dark Reign over TA at first.

Yeah, just funny to think that it would wind up being one of the best and i put it down. If anything it just makes me miss waiting for Sunday to come so i could dig the new Compusa flyer out of the newspaper. Walking in and having 2 full aisles of games to look at and actual sales worth leaving the house for.

 

[JoetheLion]

Albion
Baldur's Gate 2
Fallout 2
Heroes of Might and Magic III

 

[moonbogg]

DOOM II
C&C
TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC
UNREAL TOURNAMENT

Loved many others, but these have to be the ones that really started me off strong in the beginning.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

Quake2 Loki's Minions CTF
System Shock
Day of Defeat: A half-life Modification
DayZ

hell yeah man I was a hardcore LMCTF player. I won a couple tournaments back in the day, they were HPB 2 player tourneys. I was one of the best high pingers when it came to mid air rail shots. Off hand grapple was soo sick! You just flew around levels! Man. Miss that game bad.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

hell yeah man I was a hardcore LMCTF player. I won a couple tournaments back in the day, they were HPB 2 player tourneys. I was one of the best high pingers when it came to mid air rail shots. Off hand grapple was soo sick! You just flew around levels! Man. Miss that game bad.

Yeah, if you ever touched the ground in that game you were bad. lol There hasn't been as athletic a game as LMCTF since.

We used to set up small LANs and play with some custom scripts so that we could have all the LM and Threewave CTF powerups and accessories, so we had dual grappling, 8 powerups, extra armor, etc. Getting the Strength rune, Powernail, and Quad Damage was awesome. When you had that, every rocket you fired sounded like a nuke going off.

I did also really like Three Team CTF, but that never really got off the ground. We lanned it a couple times with 20+ people, and it was awesome, but 18 was like the minimum fun game because the maps were larger.

 

[Specop 007]

Unreal Tournament
World of Warcraft
Halflife
Counterstrike

 

[DigDog]

AD&D

plus, every game posted in this thread;


:biggrin:

but no seriously, if i had but ONE game to play for the rest of my life, it would be this http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/4/3241/wipeout20972.jpg

 

[RedRooster]

Grand Prix Legends
Front Page Sports Baseball Pro 98
Unreal Tournament
Tribes

Its been a long time since I played PC games, but those first two I remember dumping a TON of time into. Back before fantasy sports were big(or that we knew about them), my friend and I would literally play 24 hour straight sessions of FPSBB each managing our baseball teams on my single computer!
UT was the greatest arena shooter ever made and Tribes' jetpacks rocked my socks.

 

[Arg Clin]

Hard to pick just 4.

1) Dragon Age Origins
2) KOTOR
3) Mass Effect 1
4) The Witcher 2

I suppose the common denominator here is memorable characters/NPCs and brilliantly written stories.