The IW "Top 10 PC Games Ever" list!

[Sweet Melinda]

1. Baldur's Gate 2
2. Fallout
3. Vampire Bloodlines
4. Champions of Krynn
5. Neverwinter nights
6. Sims 2
7. Eve
8. Sam and Max - anyone played this?
9. Rise of nations
10 Icewind dale 2

[Sever]

Welcome to IW Sweet Melinda! [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]

I did play Sam 'n Max once on a friend's computer quite a while back. Not bad, but i didn't get too far. Curse of Monkey Island was more in my league. But i gotta love the cartoon doggies!

[edit: Almost forgot! Do we call you Sweety, or Mel? ]

[ 09-06-2005, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: Sever ]

[Lignoba]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sweet Melinda:
[QB] 8. Sam and Max - anyone played this?


Heck yea Ive played Sam and Max, it was sweet. Ripping messages out of cats stomachs... playing highway surfing... ahhh, the good ol days [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Hayashi]

Tough call for some of 'em...

1. Jagged Alliance 2
2. Ultima IV
3. BG2
4. X-Com: UFO Defence (the 1st in the series)
5. Falcon 4
6. European Air War
7. Red Baron 3D
8. Fallout 2
9. Planescape Torment
10. Starflight 2 (hilarious & fun)

[Zink Whistlefly]

There's a fair few more entries now so I'll update the list later today. Things are slowing down now so we're probably approaching the final list.

X-Com: UFO Enemy Unknown was really addictive (although I'm with you guys on TFTD too!). I remember playing it on my 486 DX4-100, and I had to switch the "Turbo" button on the front of my case off to slow it down to 16 MHz or something because it ran so hopelessly fast lol. Rotating the Earth about on its Axis (on full speed) used to rotate to quickly I couldn't see it move!

Felix you have a few Amiga games in there (long live the Amiga!) but I've restricted this poll to just PC games otherwise there would be a little too much spread in the results. What would you like me to do with the list, or do you fancy putting another one together?

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: Felix you have a few Amiga games in there (long live the Amiga!) but I've restricted this poll to just PC games otherwise there would be a little too much spread in the results. What would you like me to do with the list, or do you fancy putting another one together?

PC games? Can you Paaleease define PC?

[Dreamer128]

1. Planescape Torment
2. Conflict: Freespace 2
3. Wing Commander IV
4. Baldurs Gate 2
5. Baldurs Gate
6. Knights of the Old Republic
7. Conflict: Freespace
8. Rome: Total War
9. GTA: San Andreas
10.Deus Ex

Planescape is seventh? There is no justice left in this world. A few weeks ago, I spend half the night discussing Ravel with some friends. Rome: Total War, although a great game, wouldn't normally get a 8th place on the last (at the expense of other strategy games such as Emperor: Battle for Dune, Warcraft (1) and Red Alert), but the countless mods give it immense replay value. Speaking of mods, after the Restoration Mod for Knights of the Old Republic 2 is released, it might get a few more mentions. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Zink Whistlefly]

Originally posted by Felix The Assassin: quote: Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: Felix you have a few Amiga games in there (long live the Amiga!) but I've restricted this poll to just PC games otherwise there would be a little too much spread in the results. What would you like me to do with the list, or do you fancy putting another one together?

PC games? Can you Paaleease define PC? [/QUOTE]Well, basically, very very simply, putting it in standard terms so the average everyday layman can understand it, a PC game is, in essence, a game, that is very much played on a PC .

Seriously though games like Elite were cross platform so that's a perfectly valid entry, but is there anything in your list that wasn't cross platform, such as Cosmic Balance? The only reason I've tried to restrict the poll to PC games only is to make the results gathering easier, otherwise we could be dealing with many hundreds of titles, rather than the slightly more restricted list of games that were playable on, or made specifically for, a PC.

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: quote: Originally posted by Felix The Assassin: quote: Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: Felix you have a few Amiga games in there (long live the Amiga!) but I've restricted this poll to just PC games otherwise there would be a little too much spread in the results. What would you like me to do with the list, or do you fancy putting another one together?

PC games? Can you Paaleease define PC? [/QUOTE]Well, basically, very very simply, putting it in standard terms so the average everyday layman can understand it, a PC game is, in essence, a game, that is very much played on a PC .

Seriously though games like Elite were cross platform so that's a perfectly valid entry, but is there anything in your list that wasn't cross platform, such as Cosmic Balance? The only reason I've tried to restrict the poll to PC games only is to make the results gathering easier, otherwise we could be dealing with many hundreds of titles, rather than the slightly more restricted list of games that were playable on, or made specifically for, a PC. [/QUOTE]What do you mean cross platform? Amiga perhaps? Amiga was powered by a Motorola 680xx series, just like Macs, Suns, and others of the day.
So, as I understand this, we can through 'Moores Law' out the window? The evolution of microprocessing, the devolpment of transistors, and the changing of the micron form mold on CPUs as well? Can we call Intel up and say hey, revert back to 8080 CPUs so we can call them PCs again? Me thinks NOT! This is your thread, I'll behave, but keep in mind this fact. Not all PCs are based off of what you have described above. You see, before the hip hop misconception rage of PC ( Dell, Compaq, HP, Alienware et al.) Apple, Rockwell, Commodore, Atari, IBM, and Texas Instruments produced Personal Computers. That was way before your published birthdate of 1980. So, I ask again, could you re-define PC? - Or, should we disreagrd history, and only call modern day, name brand Wintel based personal computers, PCs?

[Zink Whistlefly]

Originally posted by Felix The Assassin: quote: Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: quote: Originally posted by Felix The Assassin: quote: Originally posted by Zink Whistlefly: Felix you have a few Amiga games in there (long live the Amiga!) but I've restricted this poll to just PC games otherwise there would be a little too much spread in the results. What would you like me to do with the list, or do you fancy putting another one together?

PC games? Can you Paaleease define PC? [/QUOTE]Well, basically, very very simply, putting it in standard terms so the average everyday layman can understand it, a PC game is, in essence, a game, that is very much played on a PC .

Seriously though games like Elite were cross platform so that's a perfectly valid entry, but is there anything in your list that wasn't cross platform, such as Cosmic Balance? The only reason I've tried to restrict the poll to PC games only is to make the results gathering easier, otherwise we could be dealing with many hundreds of titles, rather than the slightly more restricted list of games that were playable on, or made specifically for, a PC. [/QUOTE]What do you mean cross platform? Amiga perhaps? Amiga was powered by a Motorola 680xx series, just like Macs, Suns, and others of the day.
So, as I understand this, we can through 'Moores Law' out the window? The evolution of microprocessing, the devolpment of transistors, and the changing of the micron form mold on CPUs as well? Can we call Intel up and say hey, revert back to 8080 CPUs so we can call them PCs again? Me thinks NOT! This is your thread, I'll behave, but keep in mind this fact. Not all PCs are based off of what you have described above. You see, before the hip hop misconception rage of PC ( Dell, Compaq, HP, Alienware et al.) Apple, Rockwell, Commodore, Atari, IBM, and Texas Instruments produced Personal Computers. That was way before your published birthdate of 1980. So, I ask again, could you re-define PC? - Or, should we disreagrd history, and only call modern day, name brand Wintel based personal computers, PCs? [/QUOTE]Felix - Consoles use micro-processors too, in fact very little seperates the X-Box from the PC technically, yet it is a console. Classifying anything with a microprocessor as a Personal Computer is a completely moot point so I'll make this nice and easy - "IBM PC compatible" games. Now stop being difficult [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

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