Must have PC games

[DSK-]

These are the games that I personally went "wow...this is amazing!" with at some point whilst playing them. Consider them the benchmarks of their time.

PC:

Quake 1, 2 and 3
UT99
Splinter Cell 1
SW:KOTOR
SW: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy (Force choking people over cliffs NEVER gets old)
Shogun, Medieval 1, 2 (Total war)
Homeworld
Black & White
Mass Effect 1
Dragon age: Origins
Command & Conquer
C&C:Red Alert
Total Annihilation
Starcraft
COD 4: MW
Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
Sid Meiers Civilization 2
Max Payne
Freelancer
Half Life 2


Console:

Metal Gear Solid (1, 2, 3 - never played 4 so :/)
GRAW 1 & 2
Gran Turismo 2 (where did my life go?!)


I don't really think much of my console games in all honesty :/

 

[Woodsey]

The Orange Box
Rome - Total War
Crysis (Because it's a game in it's own right and everyone should treat it so, it's a crap-load better than anything from the CoD series, and prettier too - it doesn't need a mammoth to run and I die a little inside every time someone suggests it's only useful as a benchmarking tool. *sniff*)
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I err... Just a quick edit there.

It just makes me so damn angry!

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Erm...STALKER, System Shock 2, Half Life 2, DOOM, Quake, Unreal Tournament 2004, Serious Sam II, The Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, Silent Hunter III, Il-2 Sturmovik, Freelancer, X3 Reunion, Elite, Elite II, Privateer, Galactic Civilizations II, Hearts Of Iron II, Empire: Total War, Hidden and Dangerous II, Killing Floor, Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs gate 1+2, and some others I can't think of.

You seem to be forgetting Arcanum and Fallout, oh, and vampires.


[HEADING=1]Dead Space[/HEADING]

 

[hazabaza1]

Just Cause 2, Dragon Age, Mass Effect 1+2, Mount and Blade, L4D series, Stalker series, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, and GMod if you're up for that sort of stuff.

 

[birky]

I'm trying to think of one PC game which spans enough genres, and provides enough interest that I'd argue every gamer should play it.

Only one I can come up with is Deus Ex.

Whether you care about story, stealth, action, puzzles, or reading "The Man Who Was Thursday" in a really long winded way, it's got it all.

 

[Tharwen]

The Orange Box
Rome - Total War
Crysis (Because it's a game in it's own right and everyone should treat it so, it's a crap-load better than anything from the CoD series, and prettier too - it doesn't need a mammoth to run and I die a little inside every time someone suggests it's only useful as a benchmarking tool. *sniff*)
[a href="http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html"]N[/a]

I err... Just a quick edit there.

It just makes me so damn angry!

I believe that Crysis is a good game, but as FPSs go, I don't think it's worthy of a must-have list. Hence, I added the slightly flippant "Crysis Demo" since it is fun to be able to say, "I can run Crysis on Medium with only a bit of lag! My computer is awesome!"

[sub]Or, in my case, "Look! I can run Crysis on the very highest settings with no visible lag! My computer is really awesome!"[/sub]

 

[sirkai007]

Thief: The Dark Project
Thief 2: The Metal Age
The Half-Life series
Portal
Dark Reign (a great RTS that flew under the radar it seems)
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
KotOR
Bio Shock
F.E.A.R.

 

[Aux]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is pretty good as well but three is by far the best.

 

[Davey Woo]

Team Fortress 2.
Unreal Tournament (of whatever variety you feel like)
RTS of choice - Dawn of War/ Battle For Middle Earth are my favourites.

 

[bam13302]

My opinion, the games i have gotten the most fun out of and most time on
Supreme Commander 2*
Fallout 3
Command and Conquer 3*
Orange Box


*not necessarly best if u dont know anyone that also plays it, but i have spent hundredes of hours doing coop skirimishes in these games

 

[johnman]

Stalker trilogy, anything made my Valve and the Creative Assembly, Crysis, Call of duty 2, Mount and Blade and Dark Messiah.

Snip

I wouldn't say its a must have, but Crysis was a fucking amzing game. I find that those that slate it never really played it and are just trying to justify the fact they cant.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is pretty good as well but three is by far the best.

These, a thousand times these!

 

[alinos]

PSYCHONAUTS

 

[Contun]

Counter Strike: Source
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Half-Life Series
(Pretty much the Orange Box and everything Valve)
Fallout 3

If you're into MMO's you should get World of Warcraft, but only if you think you're interested.

 

[CmdrGoob]

Planescape: Torment
The Witcher
Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
Homeworld
Company of Heroes
Thief
Crysis and Crysis: Warhead
Diablo 2
Grim Fandango
Civilization 4
Bethesda games + tons of mods
System Shock 2
Valve (everything)
Pretty much everything by Bioware

phew, how did I do, I know I'm forgetting tons of stuff

 

[CmdrGoob]

The Orange Box
Rome - Total War
Crysis (Because it's a game in it's own right and everyone should treat it so, it's a crap-load better than anything from the CoD series, and prettier too - it doesn't need a mammoth to run and I die a little inside every time someone suggests it's only useful as a benchmarking tool. *sniff*)
[a href="http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html"]N[/a]

I err... Just a quick edit there.

It just makes me so damn angry!

Here, here! Crysis is absolutely excellent, when you get used to flicking between suit powers it's like being the fucking predator, totally awesome, and yet it's still challenging because you have to use the powers well and keep your energy up. Plus the maps are excellent. Way more fun than the Call of Duty series.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Orange Box
Counter-Strike: Source-Garry's Mod package
Half Life 1 Anthology

Any Total War game
Diablo Battle Chest
Starcraft

 

[RooftopAssassin]

-Age Of Empires I, II, and III
-Any of the Total War games
-Civilization IV
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2
-Half life series
-Fallout 3
-Tropico 3

 

[Dirty Apple]

I don't wanna repeat the obvious ones that have already been mentioned. Here are my fallbacks which never fail to amuse:

Neverwinter Nights (more mods and add-ons than you'll ever play)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (multi-player is a wonderfull diversion)
Dawn of War (hours in army painting alone)

As an aside, here are some less popular but equally fun games:

Tropico (ever want to be the dictator of a small island country?)
Moonbase Commander (awesome mix tactics and skill)
Freedom Force (fun, silly, camp, and as deep strtegically as you want it to be)

 

[esperandote]

Max Payne
GTA 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Silent Hill 2

Those are the ones that I have :/