[PC] What is your Favorite PC game EVER?

Originally Posted by Raptor

half life and half life 2. they're just simply amazing.

Uh huh, any particular reasons why? C'mon you can tell us.

For me, my favourite PC game has to be KOTOR. It may have been a little linear, but the story and the gameplay more than made up for it. I suppose that the graphics weren't too bad either.
But the main reasons that I enjoyed this game so much was for the adventure and to the character storylines.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Domino

Uh huh, any particular reasons why? C'mon you can tell us.

For me, my favourite PC game has to be KOTOR. It may have been a little linear, but the story and the gameplay more than made up for it. I suppose that the graphics weren't too bad either.
But the main reasons that I enjoyed this game so much was for the adventure and to the character storylines.

ya that just sounds like a description to any other game thats why i didnt put any particular reasons why half life and half life 2 are amazing. u just gotta play it believe it.

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Well, to make my reasons for liking KOTOR less like a review for the game and more like opinions....

I liked this game because the story sucked me in and had me playing into the small hours of the morning just to find out what was going to happen next. That twist in the tail had me shocked, I just wasn't expecting it.

There was a good selection of characters to have in your team, and they all interacted with one another in different ways. And depending on who you had with you would depend on the things that they would comment about and what they would say about the situation. And, at the time, I thought that this was actually quite clever.
Also, the voice acting for each character was very good, and made the characters more believable.

The worlds were all very varied, but linear. But this was good, because all the worlds were different I never felt like I was doing the same thing on the worlds over and over again.
The sounds in the game fitted in well. The music for each world made the environments all that more believable.

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wow KOTOR looks great i checked it out here lucasarts.com/products/swkotor/index.html
too bad it has no multiplayer otherwise i would be playing it on coopertive with my brother and some friends.

heres half-life 2 steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=220&
im terrible at explaining things sorry

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You don't need to explain why you like HL2. If you like it, than you like it.

Personally, I like CSS-Zombie Horde ^_^. Gary's mod gets boring after awhile.

I am picking up BF2 this saturday =D I am going to play it straight 6 hours with 10 of my friends =D.

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haha holy shit lan party thats great. i need more ram and a better graphic card to play bf2 and bf 2142 on my computer i only have a geforce 4 ti 128mb 4x and 256 ram LOL. but it plays css smoothly. anybody played sven coop and brain bread for half life? go to svencoop.com and ironoak.de check them out

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Between Starcraft and Unreal Tournament '99, I always find myself periodically coming back to these games. I get addicted to them in bursts, probably because they're always fun to play and easy enough to relearn things if you've been out a while. Plus there's always people to go against (that applies to many games though), but it's just that old school vibe. I'd Starcraft is more of a favorite than UT99, probably because of Starship Troopers <3, but these games are definitely my top two.

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ya same here, those games are great. especially diablo 2: lord of destruction, max payne and hitman. cant get enough of them.

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I'd say NetHack, easily. The game has tons of variables and randomization, you learn something new with each game. And it has been stated to take years to master (though I somehow got my first ascension in about 3-months play.) If I ever got stuck on a desert island, and could only have one game to spend the rest of eternity with, NetHack would be it. Enough said.

Close favorites would be DooM/DooM II/Final DooM/Ultimate DooM, plus all WADs/TCs ever created for them, all conveniently loaded up on Doomsday. Those would keep me busy for quite a while.

gta vice city.
Yeha go ahead and laugh, i played this game everyday for atleast 2-3 hours for a YEAR. the first months were crazy, i played all day. Recording stunts, replaying missions etc.

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I wanna say CS but that was jsut an addictive game lol what my favorite is Jedi Knights 1 or 2. played it when i was like 8-9 lol. JEDI KNIGHTS! BOOYA. but im not a star wars freak lol.

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Starcraft, rivaled with older generation RTS, the original Command and Conquer.

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I love two very oposite pc games. The first is The Sims2 (with all expansion packs) and the second one is Oblivion:The Elder Scrolls IV.
But, when I look better now, these two games has a common thing - GREAT GRAPHIC

I also love Heroes of Might and Magic V. They resurect this legendary game successfully... for my opinion, of course.

What do rest of you think?

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It's hard to pin point down an exact favorite as there are multiple titles up there, genre based that hold a great spot in my memory.

FPS, I'd have to say Unreal Tournament (the very first one not the 2 crappy sequels).

RTS, Starcraft is the winner, just good single and multi player memories from that time

Adventure, I liked the first 2 Broken sword games alot, and enjoyed them more than the Monkey Island series.

Those are really the genre's I play on PC.

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Starcraft is my favorite game of all time, EVER. Since it's release in '98 I've been playing online on and off, casually and competitively(at least attempting to). The fast paced gameplay and the varied levels of accessible competition and strategy kept me hooked all this time.

For the past few years I even started following its professional gaming scene in Korea, downloading videos from broadcasted matches and reading up on the latest through an English Starcraft community, TeamLiquid.net. Four years ago I chuckled at the thought of Starcraft as a spectator sport, but now I'm anxious to get my hands on a broadcasted game in a language I can't understand; I still get pumped hearing them call the "play-by-play" with crowds cheering.

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Fallout, most definitely. I understand I talk about a lot, but it's the only CRPG so far aside from Planescape that lets you roleplay a character in a consistant gameworld through character interaction instead of just falling back on simple good/evil choices or class constrictions. Plus the setting is just wild. Nothing says fun like a retro-futuristic nuclear apocalypse.

As for Half-Life 2, the best thing about it, I think, is that reviewers are starting to toy around with the idea of the game looking dated. If it starts becoming a more common practice, then it just confirms my theory that we've reached a graphical Uncanny Valley.

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I got way too many favourites to pick just one, so here's a small selection:

Beyond Good & Evil
They just make too little games like these anymore. Captures the spirit of good old adventuring perfectly and molds it into a fantastic modern action/adventure. It has charm and atmosphere like no other. Sorely overlooked.

Full Throttle
One of LucasArts' most fantastic adventure games EVER. I love the rough-and-rowdy action movie atmosphere, especially during the climax. Not to mention Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill voices the villain. And the music just plain ROCKS.

Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers
Sierra's best. I love how the story blends fact and fiction, plus it fleshes out Voodoo beyond the usual dolls-and-pins stuff. Logical, tricky and fun to solve puzzles and FABULOUS music make this is an utter joy to play. Same goes for the sequel (and the switch from pixel art to live action was a master stroke, especially since they handled it so brilliantly, minus the casting of Dean Erickson as Gabriel).

Half-Life
Redefined single-player FPS and still has one of the largest mod communities in existence. The atmosphere and presentation of the game was and still is unbeatable.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Diablo 2 LoD, NWN Series, Final Fantasy Tactics. Basically all these games have very deep character customization/personalization (attribute-wise, skill-wise, appearance-wise). And those three you can play off-line 24/7 and still can't get enough of it.

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I had a lot of funs with Black an White 2 I guess cause I just liked playing a god.
I didn't get to go deeper into the game though since I needed to make room for city of villains :/

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Was going to go ahead and toss my lot with Starcraft, but instead I'm going to go with Command and Conquer Tiberium Dawn. While starcraft is arguably the better game but to me the old C&C had it at the point where everything felt right. You didn't have to worry excessively about resource gathering yet by no means was it a totally hands free process. The combat in that game just felt very straight forward, anyone could get it. Compared to today's RTS' its like comparing a tactical room breach to a casual snowball fight. You didn't have to worry about complex relationships between units such as auras or special abilities. You just horded a large group of tanks and whatnot and rolled the other guy's base. Now of course some people find that distasteful, but I think its what made the C&C games so fun, and I can only hope they didn't screw things up with C&C3.

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System Shock 2. Period. Like Deus Ex, this game totally blew me away. I'd say it's almost a tie between the two, but System Shock 2 wins because of it's incredible atmosphere, a blend of horror, cybernetics, sci-fi and the entire RPG element just makes it a winner. Furthermore, the music is stunning, the storyline and the way it's conveyed through audio logs is just top-notch.

Now, I'm a huge horror fan in general and the game has an eerie effect of being able to scare the living fuck out of you - nearly forcing you to just quit altogether and I was there a few times, but I always came back for more and pushed on. When you find a game that's able to give you both of those - fear and lust for more fear, you know it's perfect.

Another thing worth mentioning is the multiplayer feature. Coop with 4 players in a stranded intergalactic cruiser that has been overrun by aliens and an AI gone rogue. Just face it, it doesn't get better than that.

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Favorited List:
Ultima 7 : The Black Gate and Serpent Isle
Baldur's Gate Saga
Wing Commander 3 and 4
Masters of Magic
Morrowind
Tribes 1
Quake 2 and Duke3D
Loom and Monkey Island

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Favorite game(s).. hmmm [never can choose just one]
Ultima 7 : The Black Gate and Serpent Isle wins a favorite in my list. That game was so very well developed, there are few that are like that, if any these days... [single player]

Morrowind makes my list but, it doesn't quite capture the player like Ultima 7, but gives plenty of free reign, and OH the Awesome thing about Morrowind : MODS.... OMG, modded Morrowind looks like Oblivion :P [well it sure comes much closer]
Players have professionaly replaced, all the textures, most models, fixed all the original bugs the developers never fixed, etc etc etc [I have 10 gigs of mods to try :P] (someone claimed to have 50!]

The Baldur's Gate makes the list for being the closest thing to Ultima in a whole amazing compelling story of its own. Surpassing Ultima in character development; and of course what's the thing I love? MODS!!! Once again, Baldur's Gate has a strong mod base: Romances, AI changes, quests, etc; although much less freeform than Morrowind or Ultima [minus :(] But, for a semi-linear story it is excellent.

Tribes 1 gets a favorite. That game I feel is in a place of its own. Immmmmmmmensely sadly it doesn't reach the potential in mods that it could be by annnnny means. But the original game, strictly multiplayer is still one of the best in my opinion out there. If people would have just modded it like Morrowind...

Quake 2 gets a favorite, before Tribes I was pure Q2. Some damn good times. I can still hear the railgun and know the feel of that rocket...! QUAD DAMAGE!

Masters of Magic is HANDS DOWN the best strategy magic game there is that I've played [Age of Wonders and the like were fun, but they never had that same addictiveness I felt with MoM!] I'll never forget summoning Warrax the Chaos Warrior... Call the Void... BOOM!!

Wing Commander 3 and a little bit less 4 makes a favorite... Those games need to be fixed up in High Def and re-released. Those were the sexiest flight simulator games I've played. Strong story, memorible characters; Live GOOD actors?! Sigh! What the hell happened with the Wing Commander Movie wt... was that lol The games were great.

Loom and Monkey Island had some of the best atmosphere, and until The Longest Journey came along, the only adventure games I really played~
[never could get into the others]

Quake 1 and Duke3d left lasting impressions~ Those games have OWNAGE! I still remember Ultimate Quake, a mod where you could be a Jedi, Predator, Alien, Quake guy, Magic user, Warrior, etc etc etc I remember the Quake 1 movie demo that was like 3 hours long with voice acting, a story and everything lol I haven't seen a demo of Quake quality since then :P

I haven't really played many recent recent games so I can't comment on them.

Worms games were great fun but didn't feel a great depth to them :P
Sims is a good game, but for me it was like a one time thing.
Starcraft was pretty sweet, but I eventually went back to games I liked more like Tribes :P
Half-Life 1 was really great, but I haven't really thought about it or replayed it much since.

Finally of course there are emulators and imported games that I've found to be really sweet and different but since there style is more like a console game [although PC] I'll leave em out :P

I tried Deus Ex but I died after 1 minute of playing... :P [I think I pulled out a rocket or something and used it]

Diablo 2 was a fun game, but GRRR I invested time into it to have the accounts auto-disabled since I didn't login to it during the summer [happened to 3 fully pumped with character accounts I made!] The fact that I could login, see my characters but couldn't restore them just made me say. Okay no more. :P 4#@423423$234@#$2342342
EDIT: I miss Mr Fujisawa one of the oddest characters for D2 I made... It was a Barbarian, that basically was built for ridiculous speed, jumping and... PUNCHING! That's right he never had a weapon, I beat Diablo by PUNCHING! Used punching skills combined with great artifacts to do poison, shock, knockback, fear and all sorts of damage lol it never failed to make people laugh

Oh and Max Payne 1 and 2... I've gotten really interested in trying that game, I think I'll get it partially thanks to seeing it favorited multiple times ;)

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Half-Life (first game I played online)
Counter-Strike (probably the first game for everyone else)
Asheron's Call (great MMORPG)

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Artificial Girl 2

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I'm not much of an MMO or RPG gamer, so my winners are UT and CS.

I did however really like "The Longest Journey", when I had the patience to play it... I also played EQ but got too bored.

What can I say? I just like to frag.

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Originally Posted by jaellehanako

I'm not much of an MMO or RPG gamer, so my winners are UT and CS.

I did however really like "The Longest Journey", when I had the patience to play it... I also played EQ but got too bored.

What can I say? I just like to frag.

Btw, most of the times I played CS was with pod bots, as dial up was far too laggy...

I was speaking idiomatically.