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A lot of people are posting console ports in this thread like KOTOR and Mass Effect. Personally I think they should be left out unless they were heavily improved through mods.
My list:
1) SC2
2) WC3
3) Minecraft
4) Civ 5 (BNW made it really great IMO)
5) Dragon Age Origins (with mods)
6) SC:BW (sorry, I didn't play it much before SC2 came out...)
7) Rome Total War
8) TES Oblivion (with mods)
9) Crusader Kings 2
10) Civ 4
Unfortunately I never got around to playing Half Life 2, Skyrim, Portal 2, Alpha Centurai, Baldurs gate, diablo 2, hotline miami, etc. which probably would have taken some spots on this list. Hopefully I'll get around to playing them someday soon (I've been procrastinating with Half Life 2 for almost a decade now?!)
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Craaap. I hate ranking games in this manner (or anything tbph) because I love the variety that art and entertainment allow, and because a game like Thief is so different and impossible to compare with say, Brood War. That being said I will then just list a bunch of games that had a major emotional impact on me growing up. Also for games like Mass Effect, I honestly view that as a single entity but for that one I'll choose my favorite of the three. They are (in no particular order):
- Thief: The Dark Project
- Star Wars: Tie Fighter
- Half-Life
- Starcraft (includes Brood War)
- Diablo
- Star Wars: KOTOR
- Mass Effect I
- Warcraft II
- No One Lives Forever II
- Dragon Age: Origins
I guess that means give each of these games a rating of 5.5 as I don't want to play favoritism for the above reasons.
The problem with this only top 10 is that I've been playing PC games since the mid 1980's and could also go on to list these games as additionally having big impacts on my life as a gamer:
- Team Fortress 2
- F.E.A.R.
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Bioshock
- Batman: Arkham Asylumn
- Half-Life 2
- Portal
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Deus Ex
- Theif II: The Metal Age
- Sim City 2000
- Diablo II
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Eye of the Beholder
- Ultima III: Exodus
Seriously, I could go on from here as well...
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Beyond Starcraft and Planescape I could probably interchange the order of the games, but I'll try and put them in a meaningful order.
1. Starcraft - Brood War
2. Planescape: Torment
3. Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic II
4. World of Warcraft
5. Dragon Age: Origins
6. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
7. Heroes of Newerth
8. Hitman: Blood Money
9. Rome: Total War
10. Civilization IV
My list was primarily based off hours spent in the game, how often I recommend(ed) it to friends, and the amount I obsessed thinking about it when not playing it. These lists are difficult to compose because it might change depending on the mood I'm in (especially from 3 and onwards.) BW and PS:T are sacrosanct in their positions.
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1. StarCraft II
2. StarCraft: Brood War - I've been playing since 2000 and have had an amazing time with the game but I have to say that SC2 has been a much more intensive ride for me, year for year
3. Deus Ex
4. Knights of the Old Republic I
5. League of Legends
6. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Some of the gameplay actually supersedes DX2000 in my opinion, but the shitty boss battles take it down a few notches
7. Heroes of Might and Magic III / Heroes Chronicles
8. WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
9. Halo: Combat Evolved
10. Unreal Tournament - not sure if I want the classic '99 one or the 2004 one (invasion RPG so fun :D)
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My top 10:
1. Warcraft III
2. Heroes of Might and Magic III
3. Counter-Strike
4. Left 4 Dead 2
5. Age of Empires
6. Starcraft Brood War
7. Command and Conquer: Red Alert
8. Starcarft II
9. Dota 2
10. Age of Empires II
Many old-school games ^^
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I'm not quite sure about how to rank them (it's so hard to compare different genres...), but here's my list anyway:
1. Civilization IV - The sequel doesn't even come close.
2. WarCraft III - The most played game at all LAN parties I've been to.
3. StarCraft 2 - I'm torn between SC:BW and SC2. I prefer the regular ladder in SC2, but I can't really forgive that they destroyed what was UMS maps.
5. World of WarCraft - A lot of Blizzard games...
4. StarCraft: Brood War
6. Myst - Maybe the best adventure game.
7. Baldur's Gate II
8. Dungeon Keeper - I just loved playing this game as a kid 
9. Heroes of Might and Magic III
10. King's Quest VI - Another wonderful adventure game. The best in the King's Quest series.
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No particular order.
- Starcraft: Brood War
- Civilization IV
- XCOM: UFO Defense
- Hell Night
- NetHack
- Minecraft
Actually, I'm out. I never was one to buy much games xD
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- Starcraft: Brood War
- Civilization Series
- Minecraft
- TribalTrouble
- Battle for Westnoth
- Portal
- Portal 2
- Diablo series
- Star Craft 2
- Beyond Good & Evi
- Psychonauts
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1. Baldur's Gate 2
2. League of Legends ( I know, but there is a reason why it's so successful. Took the best parts of Dota and made it simplified enough for casuals to enjoy)
3. Diablo II (Nostalgia, the good multiplayer world, addictiveness. It's a terrible game if you look at it piece by piece but there was something about it that made you play it over and over again)
4. Simcity 2000
5. Broodwar
6. Counter-strike
7. Star Wars X Wing Alliance (God, this game had a great playthrough storyline with a lot of action)
8. Dragon age origins
9. Rome: Total War
10. Black & White
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On July 27 2013 13:55 Djzapz wrote:Show nested quote +On July 27 2013 13:33 Brett wrote:On July 27 2013 12:38 Djzapz wrote:
1: Starcraft Brood War - Best 1v1 multiplayer game
2: Counter Strike 1.6 - Best team multiplayer game
3: Diablo 2:LOD - Best time sink, incredibly satisfying game to collect loot
4: The Last Of Us - Best single player story-driven game, despite being limited by PS3's obsolete hardware and technologies. The rustling of my feels was priceless. This game was surprising and impressive in its unique ability to do that to me.
5: Chrono Trigger - Best RPG, previously my favorite SP game, may resist the test of time better than The Last Of Us.
6: Mass Effect 2 - An excellent RPG, with most of the qualities of the trilogy and none of the faults.
7: Bioshock Infinite - A great game with a fun, interesting story. A bit crippled by its largely standard gameplay.
8: Tomb Raider - Great action game which did a fine job maintaining the feeling of urgency and danger.
9: Civilization 5 - Just a fun time
10: The Witcher 2 - Fun SP game which gives a challenge. Gameplay is different from most games I play.
This is a list of games which are my favorites for my reasons. I don't like racing games, I don't like sports games, and I'm especially picky with certain genres. The list has many story-driven games, as I've been more into those lately. My list doesn't include games which I consider to be classics or games which were awesome at the time - it only includes games which I STILL consider to be amazing games. PC games, dude! Brett 8/10 will have to do... 9/10 considering that Chrono Trigger can easily be emulated on PC.
to clarify, emulating on a PC does not count. This is a game about PC games. Simultaneous releases or nearly
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My votes are more about franchises, in a way, but not quite. Meh.
1. Starcraft
2. Doom
3. WarCraft
4. Quake
5. Dune 2
6. Metroid/Castlevania
7. Civilization
8. Shadow of the Colossus Portal
9. Final Fantasy
10. Zelda
edit: shit, you want solid PC... then Shadow of the Colossus is out. Hm, put in Portal then, whatever.
edit2: No Metroid game was ever made for PC? WTF.. then call it Metroid/Castlevania, because people usually name the whole genre with these two series. And Castlevania has some PC titles.
Honorable mention: Stronghold.
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1. StarCraft: Brood War
2. Age of Empires: Rise of Rome
3. StarCraft 2: HotS
4. Call of Duty 2
5. Company of Heroes
6. Call of Duty 4 (promod)
7. Empire Earth: AoE
8. Rise of Nations
9. CS: Source (GO here too, didn't play 1.6)
10. Doom
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1. Doom
2. Baldur's Gate 2
3. Star Wars: Tie Fighter
4. Starcraft 1: Brood War
5. Half-Life 2
6. Sim City 2000
7. Age of Empires: The Conquerors
8. The Secret of Monkey Island
9. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
10. Diablo
Im definitely a little biased towards doom, but with it's massive sales, kickstart of deathmatch (People were slacking off at school and work playing doom deathmatches) and creation of the first large speedrunning communities in 1994 I can feel too terrible putting it first. Doom set the groundworks in a multitude of areas and is still played by many today. I've seen many mapmaking projects that get anywhere between 1-50 people working on them today.
Im a little iffy with AoE: The Conquerors. Great game but I think this is my weakest choice in the list.
Also, I felt the atmosphere of diablo 1 was far superior to diablo 2.
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My list
1Brood war. I have never loved a game like this before or after, where even a long losing streak left me looking for more.
2 Kotor1 One of the few games I can replay over and over
2a kotor2 I really like these games
3 D2. Pity blizzard made the third a console game but released the pc port first.
4Civ3 so many hours of my life gone forver.
5 dota The closest I ever got to bw for my competitive drive.
5a dota 2
6 TF2 I like hats ok
7 quake such a great shooter
8Half life just such a great game
9 Portal
10 Fall out 3. I think it took the the series a bit beyond the first games, but its close with the other games and new vegas
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1. Starcraft: Brood War - Greatest game of all time, still some of the best moments of my life have been staying up til 2am watching progamers..
2. Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 - Sunk countless hours into this as a kid, this was really the first thing to get me into business
3. Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
4. Age of Empires II: Conquerers
5. Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Really defined the RTS genre and made it what it is today
6. Age of Empires III
7. Counter Strike
8. Flight Simulator 2004
9. Europa Universalis III
10. Bioshock 1
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1. TES III: Morrowind. OMG I played this for like 300 hours, I am still so in love with Vvardenfell. I'm going to get into ESO when it comes out just so I can go back to Morrowind and nerdgasm. I wrote fan non-fiction for this game. And it was published on the internet.
2. Baldur's Gate II. I missed the boat on Planescape: Torment when it was current, so this still holds a special place in my heart.
3. StarCraft. I played the original WAY more than Brood War. No regrets. This game was fantastic even in vanilla.
4. Portal. Highest concentration of perfect game design I have ever seen.
5. Dwarf Fortress. Especially drunk.
6. Total Annihilation. This game was hideously balanced for competitive play, but it was SO COOOOOOL. God, I would make custom games with indestructible defensive structures so I could build an army of stealth fighters and individually micro them to dodge missiles, just because the combat physics were that good.
7. Dragon Age: Origins. In my opinion, the pinnacle of the BioWare cinematic RPG line. Super fun combat, great writing, pretty cool original IP.
8. SimCity 2000. Another one on the "holy crap how did I have that many hundreds of hours to put into a game" bandwagon. Then I found a copy (in French!) floating around the web and downloaded it last year, and it was still just as awesome.
9. TES V: Skyrim. Like Morrowind, but with way better combat and graphics, but in a less cool province.
10. Asheron's Call. I'm not sure this game really deserves its place on this list, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for introducing me to the idea that playing videogames with other people (whoa!) could be lots of fun.
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1. Starcraft: Brood War
2. Quake 3
3. Counter Strike
4. Warcraft 3
5. Warcraft 2
6. NFS 3
7. Fifa 2000
8. Borderlands
9. Transport Tycoon
10. Starcraft 2
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Okay here we go.
1. Starcraft: Brood War. Invented competitive RTS, a genre I still worship today. Showed how a game can live its own life with a community behind it, and how games can become more than just a video game.
2. Quake 3. With its many variants and mods, still imo the best multiplayer shooter today. Too bad it's dead.
3. Planescape: Torment. Black Isle's crowning achievement from the Interplay glory days. Combined atmosphere with great writing. Better than Baldur's Gate series just because of the setting.
4. Master of Orion 2. One of the very first 4x games with multiplayer. It took forever but we had time back then.
5. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. The best designed roguelike available to play today. Combines infinite variation with its own oddball sense of balance.
6. XCOM: UFO Defense. Only a 6th? Seems like it should be higher? Well, the competition is fierce. We have two 90s era Microprose games now, so let's find something else.
7. Fallout 2. Introducing the horrors of drug addiction, prostitution, organized crime and things much worse to a poor innocent ten year-old. Better than Fallout 1 not because it is that much better, just because it is larger and longer.
8. Warcraft 3. The Frozen Throne. Not because it was that spectacular on its own, it gets a mention for the most succesful implementation of user generated content ever. Even if War3 melee and campaigns bored you, custom maps had everything you could possibly want, from casual fun stuff like Uther Party, to the living videogame hell like DotA.
9. Europa Universalis 3. Putting the 3rd 'cuz I haven't played the new one yet. Having a strategy game titan like EU so far down the list seems unfair and wrong, but honestly the titles here are all so good. EU3 showed us you didn't need silly Blizzard things like death animations or balance to have fun playing a game.
10. Company of Heroes. IMO the best of Relic's RTS games. With less emphasis on economy and more on tactics and micro, Relic finally found a good balance with CoH. Combined with nice graphics and some of the most engaging audio in any RTS game it gets my last point.
So yeah. Gaming _was_ better in the 90s. It's not just nostalgia.
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Been a PC gamer since 1996. This is a very personal list...I care about how the games affected me, not necessarily the 'best' games.
1. Planescape: Torment (1999). Replayed it this year. Still the best. The combat isn't really that bad...not worse than say Arcanum or Baldur's Gate 1. The writing, creativity, variety of philosophies and characters. It's truly great.
2: The Void (2009). Amazing, stupidly amazing game. If a game was a rich and epic poem this would be it. Game as art but uses the Game part very effectively to build emotions and gives an incredibly unique experience to the player. Check it out on Steam if you like weird, hard, crazy, explorative gaming experiences that aren't afraid to hide LOTS of things from the player, quite intentionally.
3. Deus Ex (2000). Replayed it this year, still amazing, and still does some things that new games do not have the guts to do.
4. Vampire: Bloodlines (2004). Possibly the best written game of all time. Very replayable because it's always a joy to play through with a new bloodline.
5. Baldur's Gate 2: ToB (2000, 2001). Epic.
6. Star Control 2 (1992). I love this game. And it ain't just nostalgia: I first played it in 2007. Download it for free here (called ur-quan masters for copyright reasons) http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
7. Alpha Protocol (2010) I know...WTF, right? It's in my top 10 because it is simply a joy to play over and over again. Like Vampire, I doubt I will ever tire of playing this game. Best example of plot reactivity I've seen in a game.
8. Grim Fandango (1998). Replayed this year. I would usually have this in the top 5, but I think it actually doesn't hold up quite as well over time as some other adventure games like MI2. Still, it has the most engrossing and immersive writing/atmosphere/overall ambiance and mood of any game I've played. So well written. Shitty controls and some stupid puzzles though.
9. Fallout (1997). The sense of freedom in this game is almost unrivaled (except from Bethesda games), and unlike Bethesda games it is well written and has compelling quests/characters.
10a/10b. System Shock 2/Half-Life (1998/1999). Can't choose between the two. I just can't. So...I guess just pick one. I do think Half-Life 1 holds up better than Half-Life 2. System Shock 2 is great as well.
Honorable Mentions: (roughly in order, probably forgetting some good ones)
Fallout 2
Monkey Island 2
The Longest Journey
Morrowind
Civilization 2
Mass Effect 1
Half-Life 2
The Walking Dead
Full Throttle
Bioshock
Portal
Braid
Maniac Mansion: DoTT
Quake
Monkey Island 3
Fallout: New Vegas
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Ok then, heres mine. Note: Im very much a Blizzard game player and I know I rather play few games more over many games a little. I've probably missed lots of great games on peoples list but when I get hooked into a game I can play it for weeks or month without barely touching any other game.
1. World of Warcraft. Much can be said about it, the common perception seem to be overall more negative than positive. But for me this game has taken more hours of my life than any other game. And even if you dont enjoy the game anymore (or ever did), no one can deny that this game has been one of the most (if not the most) successful game ever and absolutely crushing everything any other game company could muster in the same genre. When people make "greatest games of all times" lists in 10, 15 or 20 years when WoW servers might have closed, people will put things into perspective and this game will be high up on lists everywhere.
2. Civilization II. Kept me busy so much before I got hooked into WoW. I tried both Civ3 and Alpha Centauri and neither of them kept me playing for more than one play through. But Civ2 I could play over and over and over again winning in different ways with different styles or just fooling around going to war with everyone. Awesome game.
3. Baldurs Gate II (and ToB expansion). Didnt spend as close as much time on this one as many others on the list. And the I never found this game to have the same replayability as say Civ2. But I dont think any other game has had me more interested during my first play through. The story is freaking amazing, probably the best. Irenicus is the best villain of all games of all time. I can hear so many of the conversations with him in my head any time I think of it, whoever voice acted him did an absolutely stellar job. I cannot be caged! I cannot be controlled! Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools! So while this might not win any prizes in the hours-spent-on-category, its enough to make me put it as 3rd.
4. Starcraft II. Its gotta go somewhere. Again for different reasons than most of the above, namely e-sports reasons. I played it a descent amount during WoL but barely touched HotS. Yet it still keeps me there at my computer watching just about any major tournament. The combined skill ceiling of pure mechinics plus strategical thinking blows any other game out of the water.
5. Warcraft II. Im not sure why, but I never got hooked by Warcraft III. I played the first campaign and a bit of the second but kinda lost interest, and I generally didnt like the hero system and limited supply count. Warcraft II however I did play a lot and was probably my first real online multiplayer experience. I had lots of fun playing both "macro games" and silly 32x32 maps on Battle.net. I also enjoyed making funny maps with the editor and playing around with it.
6. Counter Strike. I never played Half Life and it took me a long time to try CS. But when I eventually did it made me put a good amount of hours into it. It shines when you can play 3v3/4v4/5v5's with friends and might still be my top game in that category. Perfect for LANs. But as I also spent a good deal online it gets a solid 6th spot on my list.
7. Dota II. Lots of "II's" on my list I realize, lol. Anyway, its very much possible this will be way higher if I am to make another list in a year or two. As I said, I often play few games a lot rather than many a little. And right now, that one game I play a lot is Dota II. Not much to say since I havent played it for that long compared to many other games, but I thoroughly enjoy it. Its also great to watch as an esport.
The last three games will be slightly harder to judge as theres not many left that has had me hooked for a long time. I think I'll just finish up with a few good-but-not-great Blizzard games and something else. So...
Edit: I know the OP said dont edit, so here is what 8-10 looked like pre-edit:
+ Show Spoiler +8. Diablo III. Good game, great skill system. Item hunting kept me hooked for a while but eventually that just gets boring after a while too. Its not anywhere as bad as people try to make it out to be, but to me its not a top contender either.
9. Diablo II. About as good for its time as D3 was for its own time I feel. Same here, had me playing a good amount of hours and had me spending a fair amount of time hunting for items to maximize my char, but eventually I got bored of this game too.
10. Age of Empires II. And another "II" last on the list lol. Not much to say. Good game, fun to play through, but wasnt that massive time consumer many other games were.
But I didnt just remember another game I spent a lot of time on. Namely:
8. Realms of Arkania: Star Trail. Its probably sort of a random game to be on the list. I was very young when playing it and my English was lacking back then. Its also the 2nd game in a trilogy of three games. Funnily enough I never tried either of the other two. I cant remember how we exactly came to play exactly this game and no other, it doesnt make any sense looking back at it. Maybe it was just a random game purchase that went right? But it was my first RPG experience (which evertually would be topped off by BG2) and for that reason it still holds a special place in my heart. And for its time it was probably a solid RPG.
9. Diablo III. Good game, great skill system, somewhat lacking story (imo). Item hunting kept me hooked for a while but eventually that just gets boring after a while too. Its not anywhere as bad as people try to make it out to be, but to me its not a top contender either.
10. Diablo II. About as good for its time as D3 was for its own time I feel. Same here, had me playing a good amount of hours and had me spending a fair amount of time hunting for items to maximize my char, but eventually I got bored of this game too.
Edit: Spelling and shizzle.
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