Greatest PC Game Survey

[Rheinmetall]

I don't expect everyone to agree with top-5, top-10 etc lists but who ever thought that Portal 2 is better than Portal 1 and that also it's the second best game of all times? Not even the developers in Valve would ever dare to put their game so high in the list.
I don't play so often pc games to have a valid opinion about the absolute top 10, but personally I would surely include games like Age of Empires, C&C Red Alert, Planescape: Torment, Fallout 2, World of Warcraft, Doom, Civilization II, The Sims, Mortal Kombat and Diablo II, among the others.

 

[Aetherlblade]

And im missing Dune 1, Homeworlds, Supreme Commander, Command and conquer 3 and red alert 2. Tjeez, that list is just soooo wrong..!

 

[Omnicide]

My own top 5 (doesn't show you your top 10)

1. MechWarrior 2

You are correct, sir! That was the exact game I thought of bringing up when I saw the thread title.

My top 5:

1. Mechwarrior 2
2. Worms Armageddon
3. Morrowind
4. Deus Ex
5. (In my head I now want to cram every Valve game and every Blizzard game into this spot.)

As far as Dorkly's top 10 goes, I think I am most offended by the presense of Mass Effect 2. Good game, but not a good PC game. That one was a console port right out of console port land. I have a full keyboard, why is it that one key is assigned to sprint/take cover/interact with the world around me? Who came up with that idea?

 

[irishda]

My own top 5 (doesn't show you your top 10)

1. MechWarrior 2

You are correct, sir! That was the exact game I thought of bringing up when I saw the thread title.

It's too bad they didn't break down into the expansions though. Ghost Bear was better than the original, but Mercenaries is still the 2nd greatest mechwarrior game ever (behind mechwarrior 3).

 

[irishda]

Voting closes on Wednesday. So I'll edit the top 50 list when the final list is done.

 

[Random Fella]

I like how many people get angry because their favourite games aren't on the list
"OH GOD PEOPLE WITH OPINIONS ON GAMING THAT DIFFER TO MINE?"

Yeah, this is a survey, we're talking about casual gamers and general gamers, people who think Skyrim is the best game ever made for the fact that it is Skyrim, and not the fact that it is a good game.

 

[getoffmycloud]

skyrim? Skyrim is number 1!!!

its a game thats been out for only a few months, compared to a 3-4 decade long medium... today is the day I lost hope in gamers.

So in your opinion a game has to be old to be considered great?

 

[karcentric]

1. Grim Fandango
2. Saints Row 2
3. Postal 2
4. The Neverhood
5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

 

[BlueMage]

How the shitting fuck is Deus Ex not #1?

And I mean, on everybody's list. Your taste in games be damned, we would not have half the free-roaming, open-ended, story-driven-yet-unconstrained games we do today without it.

 

[ediblemitten]

1. Half-Life 2
2. Skyrim (Tied with Half-life 2 at 73% though)
3. Portal 2
4. Portal
5. Diablo 2
6. Half-life
7. Knights of the Old Republic
8. Fallout 3
9. Starcraft
10. Morrowind

That's actually a pretty sweet list. I've played all of them but Diablo 2 (which I own), and... yeah, they're all really good games. In fact, all of those games but Fallout 3 and KotOR (which are still great games) I would put on my top ten games of all time.

And I'm not going to kid myself with that test, seeing as in the first few questions I hadn't played more than half of them. I doubt many people will have

It did't work very well though, the same few games I've never played kept coming up and something called 'Oregon trail'? all the time. And there were lots of good games that never came up.

You... you haven't heard of Oregon Trail?

Um.. look it up. It's the first video game ever created.

That's not even close to true. Oregon trail was 1971... the earliest interactive electronic game comes from 1947.

 

[karcentric]

1. Grim Fandango
2. Saints Row 2
3. Postal 2
4. The Neverhood
5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

Scrap 3.

Should be...

1. Grim Fandango
2. MDK
3. Saints Row 2
4. The Neverhood
5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

And I'll happily give reasons should anyone really care.

 

[GigaHz]

Really... I think we need to rethink the whole 'Top 50' approach to PC gaming specifically.

These lists wouldn't be so damn atrocious if we confined top games to specific eras, mainly because PC's have been around for a while and aren't going anywhere anytime soon. This leaves the potential for far too many considerations.

The problem is, people get offended when their PC gem they loved growing up gets shoe-horned by a modern game like Skyrim. While these games are definitely deserving of respect, they haven't aged well (barring a few exceptions). To say that these games can compete with the vast majority of modern titles without the aid of nostalgia is more than a bit naive.

So why not keep these games on a separate list spanning releases from the late 80's to 99? I could think of at least 50 gems I could add to a list like that. Then you could have all the more modern games ranked from 00's to the present.

Classics don't get outranked by lesser titles and Modern Games can duke it out in the battle of the 9s.

Everyones happy.

 

[ValentineUK]

I must say that every list i've seen on this topic has the same problem; Skyrim is on it. Now, i'm not by any means saying that Skyrim is a bad game. I personally think that it's the best of the Elder Scrolls series so far (with a few mods of course). I will say that I don't count it as one of the best PC games of all time. I would place Morrowind or maybe even Daggerfall on that list but not Skyrim. My reason for this is I believe that the "Top PC Games of All Time" should be games that were unique or ground-breaking for their time. I don't think that current generation sequels that didn't really bring anything new to the table should be eligible for this list.

 

[psicat]

1. Baldurs Gate II
2. Fallout 3
3. Grim Fandango
4. Fallout
5. The Longest Journey

Deus Ex, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldurs Gate came very close to my top 5.

 

[Bvenged]

Max Payne 1/2 & Black and White 1/2 can have my vote; but my true answer is Unreal Tournament 1/'04.

 

[Rumpsteak]

X-COM UFO defence
Call of Duty modern warfare 2
Deus Ex
Balders gate II
Battlefield 3

/serious hat
Ok I honestly couldn't decide. There are so many games I hold in high regard that deciding on five feels like I'm betraying the others. At least you can have a chuckle knowing for a second you thought I was serious and you're just as cynical as I am.

 

[eldorquo]

Warcraft III
Kotor
Chip's Challenge
Deus Ex
Duke Nukem 3d

Baldur's gate 2 really should be in the top 5, but it got screwed going against wc3 relatively early, and bg1 got screwed going against kotor. Don't know how duke nukem 3d made the top 5. It's a great game but i wouldn't put it in my top 10, let alone my top 5. Chips challenge is amazing. Everyone should play it.

Making sure everyone knew about chip's challenge was my real reason for making this post.

 

[irishda]

OK Voting closed. After 1,077,364 votes, the final standing for the top 50 is:

1. Half Life 2
2. Skyrim
3. Portal 2
4. Portal
5. Half Life
6. Diablo 2
7. Morrowind
8. Knights of the Old Republic
9. Fallout 3
10. Team Fortress 2
11. Starcraft
12. Warcraft 3
13. Deus Ex
14. World of Warcraft
15. Oblivion
16. Doom
17. Age of Empires 2
18. Mass Effect 2
19. Starcraft 2
20. Counterstrike
21. Bioshock
22. Diablo
23. Fallout
24. Mass Effect
25. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

 

[irishda]

26. Minecraft
27. Baldur's Gate 2
28. Quake
29. Left 4 Dead 2
30. Left 4 Dead
31. Unreal Tournament
32. Age of Empires
33. Dragon Age: Origins
34. Witcher 2
35. The Old Republic
36. Max Payne
37. Warcraft 2
38. Wolfenstein
39. Baldur's Gate
40. Red Alert
41. Duke Nukem 3D
42. Civilization V
43. Grim Fandango
44. Age of Mythology
45. Hitman: Blood Money
46. Curse of Monkey Island
47. Battlefield 3
48. Bioshock 2
49. Battlefield 1942
50. Rollercoaster Tycoon