Your Top 5 PC Games of all time?

[adelphi]

d/generation
ancient art of war
starcraft
halflife
rtcw

 

[dragonic]

1. Civilization 2
2. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
3. SimCity 2000
4. Mohaa
5. Age of Mythology

 

[runzwithsizorz]

More than 5, but if I had to choose 5..

1. Myst This started it all for me
2. System shock 2
3. Deus Ex
4. Thief series
5. Unreal (the first one)

 

[Winchester]

no particular order.
1.) Half-Life & Mods (Day of Defeat)
2.) Age of Empires series
3.) Starcraft
4.) Wolfenstein 3d (orignal)
5.) Battlefield 1942 & Mods (Desert Combat)

 

[AlphaNex]

If I thought about it, this list would be different. But just popping it out of my head it would be:

1. Doom
2. Half Life
3. Freespace 2
4. Wing Commander 2 or 3 (I know thats 2, cant decide).
5. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries


I thought this up in 2 minutes. If I spent anymore time I would have a brain meltdown. Diablo would be up there with number 2 or 3. Warcraft 2 as well. Oh and probably Baldurs Gate. Uh and system shock 2. That conan game, and oregon trail... Team Fortres........ see, these lists stress me out lol.

But DooM is #1 for sure. Ill never forget going into sears and playing doom on one of the display computers. The grotesquely overweight manager would come out and say things like "This aint no arcade boy, get out of here". To which I would reply "Why, grotesquely overweight manager guy, why on earth would you have a computer setting out in the middle of the isle with doom loaded on it if not to attract the attention of curios customers seeking to test said program?" To which he would get angry and I would walk away, only to return and haunt him a couple days later.

I may have left the grotesquely overweight bit out, its been awhile.

 

[lordex]

I'm gonna cheat by going by series.

1. The Civilization series.
2. Doom/Doom II.
3. Diablo II + LOD.
4. Tie Fighter.
5. SimCity/SimCity 2000.

Honerable Mention: RTCW: Enemy Territory, and Medieval Total War.

 

[Descartes]

These questions are difficult, but:

Tribes
Quake 2
Battlefield 1942
Age of Empires

Those are the four that got the most play from me, and they're the ones I derived the most enjoyment from for a considerable length of time. AOE absolutely owned me for many months.

 

[BFG10K]

I'll have to split between FPSes and other because it's too difficult for me to rank all of the games.

FPSes
(1) Return To Castle Wolfestein.
(2) Undying.
(3) Medal of Honour.
(4) Jedi Knight II.
(5) Unreal.

Other
(1) Starcraft.
(2) TIE Fighter.
(3) Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator II.
(4) X-Wing.
(5) Warcraft II.

 

[apoppin]

PC games that are 'memorable' with some replay value (in alphabetical order):

Alice
Thief II
Max Payne
NOLF
RtCW
Unreal

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: 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

LOL. My first pc was 8088 9.54mhz with hercules too :beer:

Best games ever:

The one and only MILLENIUM and DEUTEROS
Defender of the crown
North and South
Half Life
Unreal (I+II+Tournaments)

 

[mundane]

1. Ultima VII (Black Gate + Serpent's Isle)
2. Fallout Series
3. Civilization Series
4. X-com series
5. Any and all "classic" games by LucasArts

tons more.

edit: Forgot Syndicate, Syndicate Wars.

 

[Challenger]

1. Unreal
2. Thief series
3. UT
4. MOHAA
5. RTCW

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: 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

re: Stars! Great little space Civ type game. It wasn't graphically impressive, but a lot of fun.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: 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

WTF?? WING COMMANDER? How did I forgot that?? MEMORIES :moon: :brokenheart:
I just remembered EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (MY GOD)

 

[Cremaster]

Didn't anyone play Carmageddon????

 

[lordex]

Originally posted by: Cremaster
Didn't anyone play Carmageddon????

Call me freak - I loved that game! The sequel wasn't as cool though.

 

[Whitedog]

1. Deus Ex (by Leaps and Bounds!)
2. Doom2 (That game made me sh1t my pants)
3. Quake2 Custom Levels - Death Match (1st internet deathmatch game I played)
4. ALL the old "Gold Box" SSI AD&D games (That's all I played in the 386 days)
5. Diablo 1 & 2

I'm 40. I've bought and played "hundreds" of PC games. As good as graphics are these days, they still don't stack up like they used to.

What it is, the textures and graphics engines were very simple back in those days, so the programmers spent most of the time "writing a good game".
Now-a-days so much time is spent coding the graphics and effects engine and painting textures and making "levels", there's not much energy left in "writing a good game" is seems. Once in a while you get a "good one" at best, but that's about it.

I'm afraid that's what Doom3 is going to be. They've spend all these years perfecting the "graphics engine" and making it "pretty", I'm afraid the game itself will be not more than making your way "through another level" blasting everything in site.... until you get to the end and "kill the boss".

Maybe this time it will be John Carmack's head on a stick instead of John Romero's. (The Boss in Doom2 was actually John Romero's head on a pole).

*Sigh*......I hope one day they "get back to the basics"

Cheers.

 

[theRedMosquito]

1. Half Life

2. Quake

3. Warcraft II

4. Deus Ex

5. NOLF

 

[Camofrog]

In no particular order ( all tho i tried to put fav to least fav) pretty much still play all (or at least half) of them occasionally...

BF1942 - all expansions and mods
SW:KOTOR
MOHAA - original & spearhead & breakthrough
HALO
C&C Generals - & Zero hour
Rainbow six 3: Raven shield
Americas army
Commandos 3
Splinter cell*
IGI:2 covert strike
Hitman 2 (had hitman 1 too)
NWN - & shadows of undertide
GTA: Vice city
Mafia
Max Payne 2
Enter the Matrix
James Bond 007: Nightfire
Midnight club 2
Thief Series - (1&2)*
Delta force: Black Hawk Down
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
Ghost Recon
Deus Ex 1*
Tribes 2*
Star Craft - & Brood wars
Age of Empires - & expansion
Galactic battlegrounds - & clone wars exp
Star wars: rogue squadron
Empire Earth
Civilization*
Dune*
Star wars: jedi knight dark forces 2*
Mech warrior 4*
Comanche 4
Quake 3 - & team arena
Half life - CS & other mods
Giants Citizen Kabuto*
roller coaster tycoon*
the sims*
sim city 3000*

all but a few of the older ones i have on my HD (I'm almost 80gb in just games)
the ones with * i dont have installed........yet ......again.

Im not trying to brag i like a lot of different games.......

Im 23 and have been playin since 1996 (or so) my first comp was a Sony VAIO 500mhz p3 with a 16mb ati card & a 13gb HD, 128 mb ram...

 

[Camofrog]

"whitedog" you should try Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic....... it is a very well written game.

 

[NeoV]

#5 - Call of Duty
#4 - Quake 1/2/3 (RA, Painkeep, so much fun)
#3 - StarCraft ( I still hear the Dark Archon calling for me....)
#2 - Warcrat 2/3
#1 - Syndicate - still the best

 

[HJB417]

1) QWTF
2) Warcraft
3) C&C 1
4) Warcraft 2
5) Privateer

 

[Mucman]

Whitedog, I totally agree with you. I played a text based MUD for the longest time, and was thouroughly entertained. Ice Wind Dale barely kept my attention for over 5 hours, and Dungeon Siege only lasted about a week for me. I can't believe I forgot to put Deus Ex on my list

This thread is bringing me too much nostalgia of the golden age of Mucman's gaming days... let this thread die

 

[Palek]

1. Deus Ex - the game of all games
2. UFO Enemy Unknown - best EVER turn-based strategy!!!
3. Dune 2 - the granddaddy of all RTS'es
4. Sam & Max / Day of the Tentacle (could not decide, both were too good) - LucasArts at their finest
5. Jedi Knight Jedi Outcast / Outcast - awesome, well-rounded action games

Honourable mentions: X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Freespace I & II - great space sims

This list would be representative of how much time I spent playing these games. I completed Deux Ex, UFO and Dune 2 several times slightly changing my playing style each time. They were just that good. Almost any LucasArts adventure game would be suitable for 4th place but these two were the ones I remember most. I could not make up my mind about Jedi Outcast and Outcast (that voxel grahpics game that looked stunning at the time it was released). Outcast has slightly outdated graphics but a great story and an AMAZING soundtrack, while Jedi Outcast features excellent action and gorgeous graphics.

 

[dnuggett]

1. Oregon Trail
2. King's Quest
3. Leisure Suit Larry
4. BF1942
5. America's Army