The BEST PC games of all time

[The Ace]

Am I the only one who likes "Adventure Pinball, Forgotten Island ?"

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, I used to have Pinball on my old laptop...hours of fun!

 

[Yugi]

Oops! I forgot that too. Fun game for traveling and home.

 

[Aleksei]

Fallout 2, no doubt.

 

[Joel007]

I am rapidly falling in love with "Empire at War: Forces of Corruption".
There's just something awesome about a super star destroyer suddenly hyperspacing into a battle and filling half the map

 

[Frozeninja]

Hmmm... My list.

Heroes of Might and Magic III
Warcraft III
Unreal Tournament
Max Payne 1 + 2

 

[Gunny]

Freelancer Vanilla
Freelancer Crossfire Mod
Ghost Recon
StarWars BF 2 for MP
Sim City 4 / Rush Hour

I thought I would like X3, boy was I suckered.

 

[Thor_Doomhammer]

Starcraft
Warcraft III
Morrowind
The Age of Empires Series (Including Age of Mythology)
Knights of the Old Republic
Jedi Academy(there's something way too fun about throwing people around with your level 3 Grip power)

My favorite companies are Blizzard, Ensemble Studios, and Lucasarts.

 

[Joel007]

Good choices doomey! I agree with all of them (slamming people quickly into walls with that grip kills them instantly... not to mention the fun of "fishing" people from a lower level and watching them run back down to get their guns )

 

[devilsgrin]

Daggerfall! - there is no single game i have ever put as many hours into as The Elder Scrolls 2.
Oblivion
Kotor 1 & 2
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (and Throne of Bhaal... it ended perfectly and the only way(s) it could end properly)
Neverwinter Nights 2 (way moreso than one)
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (bloody buggy good fun)
The Sims and the Sims 2

 

[Happy Joe]

I tend toward fps games though I did like Diablo 2,
Quake 2 & 3
Serious Sam and second encounter
Farcry
Diablo 2 and expansion
Half life and its mods

Underrated games that I also liked;
Painkiller
Sacred

IMO to be a great game it must have good entertainment value when replayed, and it needs to continuously give better challenges and new situations/enemies. Open environments where there are multiple routes to a goal are alway a plus.
Some games excel only during LAN play (the 3rd Serious SAM (for PCs) in cooperative mode after a few beers with friends can be a gas.)

Enjoy!

 

[Joel007]

I loved the stake gun from painkiller... shooting a zombie so full of stakes that he looks like a walking pincusion is great fun
I loved watching my brother play half-life (he never reloads without emptying a clip) as he ran around the corner with one bullet in his machine-gun, and then dodged loads of shots while reloading

 

[Happy Joe]

Yup! the stake gun was fun ... As fun weapons go though; it is hard to beat the sticky bombs or land sharks in "Armed and Dangerous".
"get it off, get it off"... boom

Enjoy!

 

[Thor_Doomhammer]

Daggerfall! - there is no single game i have ever put as many hours into as The Elder Scrolls 2.
Oblivion
Kotor 1 & 2
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (and Throne of Bhaal... it ended perfectly and the only way(s) it could end properly)
Neverwinter Nights 2 (way moreso than one)
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (bloody buggy good fun)
The Sims and the Sims 2

I have two questions:

1) Does anyone know where to find a copy of Elder Scrolls 2?

2) Was it just me, or was the second KOTOR nowhere near as good as the first one?

 

[mosaix]

Monkey Island
Monkey Island II

 

[Lenny]

Has anyone put Black and White down? That's a good game.

 

[bruno-1012]

OK taking you back in time:

Sherlock (bought in '92 but I still play it today)
Elite
Prince of Persia
PGA Tour
Commander Keen (all 3)
Jill of the Jungle

Coming more up to date.

The various Doom incarnations
Call of Duty
Max Payne
Far Cry
Tomb Raider (most of them)

Its all about playability and repeat business as far as I consider top games.
Great graphics don't do it for me if I only play the game once


stuck here at the moment with only an office laptop (underpowered for games). Only things on it are Sherlock, Mahjong and Tiger Woods 2004.

Thw TW will only play with all settings at minimum!

Can't wait to get back home.

An interesting story - at Xmas 2005 a woman in my office was having a meal with her new fiancé's extended family. His aunt was going on and on about how her grandson had been given a copy of GTA (not sure which one) as a present - lots of choruses of 'how can anyone even think that was a good idea'...'what sort of sicko dreams these things up?'....'How can a company make these games for kids?' (ignoring the age restriction of course)

The young lady bided her time until replying 'actually, it was my brother that thought it up.'

Sudden silence.....

 

[Lenny]

Men, eh? We're all monsters. Giving little kids horrific games.

Does Minesweeper count as a PC game? Because I think that's a damn good game.

And Hover! It was a Windows 95 game! I loved it.

 

[Thor_Doomhammer]

Man, what ever happened to Hover? That game was so much fun it was ridiculous

 

[Lenny]

The HOVER! Game Download Site

I think I've just found it.

EDIT: It doesn't work.

Back to Google goes I.

EDIT2: It does work!

I was just extracting it wrong.