Your Top 5 PC Games of all time?

[CrowDog]

I am wondering what gamers around here consider to be the best PC games ever. My vote may not be great because my short PC gaming career has mostly consisted of Counter Strike

1) Early CS
2) Icewind Dale 2
3) Half Life
4) Madden
5) Unreal Tournament

 

[igowerf]

1) Deus Ex
2) Total Annihilation
3) Medal of Honor
4) C&C: Red Alert 2
5) Warcraft III

 

[BlueWeasel]

1) Original Quake
2) Half-Life
3) Asheron's Call
4) Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1998-ish)
5) GTA3 Vice City

 

[DefRef]

1. Half-Life
2. Quake 2/Quake 3/Unreal/Unreal Tournament/UT2K3 (YEARS of life lost...)
3. GTA3/VC
4. Deus Ex
5. MOH:AA

 

[Mucman]

Sooooo difficult! Ask me again, and I'll have a different list

1 Ultima VII
2 Masters of Magic
3 The Longest Journey
4 Civilization
5 Star Control II

How old are you guys??? I guess you haven't been playing PC games for very long

 

[hdeck]

Half-Life and it's mods
Everquest
Myst
Sim City
Quake

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Mucman

How old are you guys??? I guess you haven't been playing PC games for very long

I'm 20, but I didn't get a nice PC until 1998... a shiny new Dell Dimension XPS R400. 400Mhz Pentium 2, 64MB RAM, 8MB Permedia 2, 10GB hdd, Zip 100, Turtle Beach Montego A3D. R0XX)RING SYSTEM.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: Mucman

How old are you guys??? I guess you haven't been playing PC games for very long

I'm 20, but I didn't get a nice PC until 1998... a shiny new Dell Dimension XPS R400. 400Mhz Pentium 2, 64MB RAM, 8MB Permedia 2, 10GB hdd, Zip 100, Turtle Beach Montego A3D. R0XX)RING SYSTEM.

I guess I should consider myself lucky to start off so early. I'm 23 now but I started in '88.

My first box was an Intel 8086 2.4MHz 1MB, 10MB HD, and a monochrome monitor

 

[igowerf]

We actually had an AMD 386 with Windows 3.1 for a while, but all I played were text adventures and Leisure Suit Larry. They were fun, but pretty hard for a 10 year old to figure out...

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: igowerf
We actually had an AMD 386 with Windows 3.1 for a while, but all I played were text adventures and Leisure Suit Larry. They were fun, but pretty hard for a 10 year old to figure out...

Space Quest I was my first ever game! I didn't think it was that tricky... definitely made me a better speller

 

[sillymofo]

I've played many PC games, but the ones that left biggest impressions (and many sleepless nights were):

1. Dunes (the original game)
2. Age of Empires (from the begining to Age of Kings)
3. Unreal Tournament
4. Counter Strike
5. Cannon Fodder

 

[igowerf]

I don't remember that names of the text adventures that I played. I just remember wandering around a lot and dying at just about every turn. I did figure out the commands of "Light lantern with matches" and "melt ice" in one game where I was stuck behind an ice wall. I was pretty proud of that.

Actually, one of my favorite games for a while was Gorillas, written in QBASIC.

 

[shadowfaX]

I don't game enough, unfortunately, but of the games I've played, I particularly loved...

the Icewind Dale series
the original Fallouts (1 & 2)
tie between Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey
and a tossup between Q3a (although I must give credit to Q2 for getting me interested in the Quake series) and CS
No One Lives Forever

I also lost about two years with Diablo II...

and of course, I haven't been around too long, so my gaming repertoire is rather modest. I guess it also doesn't help that I started gaming in 9th grade (only a few years ago)... Excuses, excuses...

Gorillas! I remember playing that game. I spent some time playing, too...

 

[suklee]

I'm with Mucman. Ask me again and I'll have another set of 5. There have been sooo many good games! Some favorites from the early 90s:

1) Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
2) Battle of Britain - it's BOB!!!
3) Syndicate - this is one of my favorites of all time!
4) Wing Commander
5) *Anything* quest - King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry. wait that didn't have "quest" in it, but oh well...

I started around 1990 - my first PC was a Packard Bell (yuck!) 386 SX-16MHz with a DD floppy (720k), not even HD (1.44MB)! I remember distinctly a time when my friend and I spent forever trying to figure out why my computer couldn't read his floppies... it took us a long time to figure out that his disks were HD and my drive was DD

 

[styrafoam]

1. Baldur's Gate 1&2 +T.O.B.
2. Half Life(I spent so much time playing TFC and CS online from '98-'01 it makes me ill)
3. QuakeII(my first real multiplayer games so lots of fond memories)
4. Battlefield 1942+expansions(current multiplayer favorite)
5. I can't decide between HOMM3, XCOM, IWD, fallout, Red Alert, Total Annihilation and Myth2

 

[sandorski]

1) Civilization
2) Civilization 2
3) Half Life + Mods
4) Warcraft
5) Unreal

 

[boran]

1: Baldurs Gate series
2: Half Life and extras
3: GTA series
4: Morrowind series
5: Stars!

 

[new2AMD]

Lemonade stand
Oregon Trail
Getting my name to fill the screen and loop
tic tac toe

Elementary school computer in the 80's.

 

[optimistic]

Originally posted by: new2AMD
Lemonade stand
Oregon Trail
Getting my name to fill the screen and loop
tic tac toe

Elementary school computer in the 80's.

You forgot the Incredible Machine

And boran, what's stars?

My top 5 (similar to others) & I started with a 386SX 33MHz. I'm 21.

SimCity 2000
Baldur's Gate
Wing Commander
Battlezone
Call of Duty

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: igowerf
We actually had an AMD 386 with Windows 3.1 for a while, but all I played were text adventures and Leisure Suit Larry. They were fun, but pretty hard for a 10 year old to figure out...

LOL i remember there use to be these adult questions that you had to answer before you could play LSL in 'adult' mode. I had to spend like an hour of guessing before i could play usually.

 

[Hadsus]

1. Everquest (most entertaining MMORPG)
2. Aces of the Deep (most entertaining warfare)
3. Doom (first FPS with breakthrough graphics)
4. Masters of Magic (most entertaining TBS)
5. Soldier of Fortune 2 multiplay (most visceral shooter)

Honorable mention:
Unreal Tournament
Command and Conquer (original)
Total Annihilation
Warcraft 2
Alpha Centauri + expansion
Duke Nukem series (Apogee sidescroller)

 

[Drakkon]

Doom
Starcraft
Warcraft 2
Wolfenstein 3d (the original not the pos version the released a while back)
Joust - funnest game ever on the ol 286

 

[Blackjack2000]

My top 5 would probably look something like this

1. HL (esp. CS)
2. C&C Red Alert 1
3. Sim City 2000
4. Falcon 3.0
5. Civilzation 2

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: igowerf
We actually had an AMD 386 with Windows 3.1 for a while, but all I played were text adventures and Leisure Suit Larry. They were fun, but pretty hard for a 10 year old to figure out...

LOL i remember there use to be these adult questions that you had to answer before you could play LSL in 'adult' mode. I had to spend like an hour of guessing before i could play usually.

Yeah! Same here. Eventually, I had the questions memorized but I didn't know what they meant...

 

[The Green Bean]

1. CS
2. CnC generals
3. CnC RA2
4. Mohaa
5. Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets (old is gold) I can't seem to find it online..I had downloaded it for free 2 years ago but I lost the floppies..Now that same site charges