Best Ever PC Game.

[Encolpius]

Hello,

What do people reckon is the best game, ever, of all time, on the PC, and why?

For me, it's a two way tie between Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Baldur's Gate II. The former because of its hard science fiction setting, finely balanced and intensely strategic gameplay, ladle-loads of nightmare fuel (mind worms, the Dream Twister, nerve stapling, etc.) and for being a randomised 4X strategy game that manages to tell a coherent and adaptable story. The latter for its incredible depth and breadth, offbeat characters, and enormous modding potential. And the ladle-loads of nightmare fuel (having your soul stolen and being condemned to an inevitable early death and then NOT EXISTING IN ANY KNOWN AFTERLIFE, and occasionally waking up as an unstoppable killing machine and being compelled to murder all your friends, etc.)

Honourable mentions go to Ultima VII: The Black Gate, The Witcher 2, Command & Conquer (original), and Mass Effect 2.

 

[Boozad]

I'd love to say Syndicate by Bullfrog as that was the game that got me using a PC in the first place 18 years ago, and a great game it was too, highly addictive.

But I'd have to say the Football Manager series (Championship Manager before SI split from Eidos). I logged over 1,000 hours on FM12, and I've calmed down a lot since the kids came along. FM (well, CM) was the reason I got my first computer back in 2000 and I'd love to know how many accumulative hours I've played on the series.

 

[lewishollings]

Hmm having only been playing PC for a year now I haven't experienced many of the older pc titles and most of the games I play nowadays are just poor ports! phaha but for me, anything valve is a good shout, especially Portal 2 and TF2, just 2 of the games that I personally really enjoy playing, most people would say half life but I haven't even played it yet! CS is also a game I have put MANY hours into! Obviously my own opinion and maybe a lot of people would disagree but it's what I've enjoyed playing over the year!

 

[nathanjrb]

The one I got the most enjoyment out of and therefore, in my own humble opinion, the best game ever would be 'Lego: Rock Raiders'. This was effin awesome.



That or Rollercoaster Tycoon. I remember my first sustainable park. I'd just sit back and watch it as it made me millions and millions of vitrual £s.



Simply amazing.

*wipes away a tear*

 

[Yamikotai]

Theme Hospital, and Dungeon Keeper 2 are probably joint 1st - along with a fair few other games - in my thoughts of best ever PC game. The Mass Effect, Halo, and Elder Scrolls series as a whole also count. I'm a sucker for deep lore and the latter has it in seemingly endless spades - more than the first two combined, which when you think how much lore Halo has...

The one I got the most enjoyment out of and therefore, in my own humble opinion, the best game ever would be 'Lego: Rock Raiders'. This was effin awesome.

I remember that! I played it a bunch as a kid but I was rather impatient and gave up when the puzzles got slightly challenging

 

[nathanjrb]

Yeah, as soon as the lava reached you, you were pretty much screwed

 

[tom_gr7]

for me, it has to the total war games, (most of Rome, Medieval II, Napoleon, shogun 2 and rome II) and the Company of Heroes series.

I did enjoy the old WW2 cod's and WaW too.

 

[sted]

Bioshock, definitely for me. I was obsessed with that game before I even bought it, and it was out a few years before I had a PC that could handle it.



Others I feel worth a mention, new and old would be the likes of Dragon Age, LBA2, the first GTA's were great at the time, (The other Bioshock's go without say), I think Neverwinter nights 2 with the Mask of the Betrayer ad-on (The base game was okay, but MotB was the highlight of it for me), Abe's Exoddus (I'd say oddysee,but I only played that one on console), and possibly some more.



I say Bioshock because before playing any game with anything like Bioshock, I've always liked the idea of things such as Telekinesis. The first game with anything similar which I played was Second Sight (I think that was also great for its time), where you can use psychic powered abilities to your advantage - Healing, Telekinesis, 'charming' enemies so they just ignore you while using it, and so on. Was a great game for me. There was another game with similar abilities, which I never got to play, but the idea held my interest. Years on, I watched the first previews of Bioshock (The ones where the eve needles weren't gigantic syringes, but more realistically sized/shaped) - I wanted right after I ever saw anything about it. I downloaded a 2GB Demo on a connection which was 2Mb/ps at it's peak, after a long downloading process the computer wasn't good enough for the demo to play.


A couple+ years on, I buy the game after I had been able to get a better desktop, and was hooked there on. Upon Bioshock 2 being released, I bought it the day that it was. Other than that, I find it hard to explain finer reasons why I rate Bioshock so highly but it's probably one few game series' that's made such a huge impression on me (MGS games also did a great job of that).

 

[Jack Guinea]

I've only been PC gaming for around a year now but id say my favorite has to be ARMA, they're so realistic, graphically beautiful and the extras such as DAYZ and Wasteland adds so much more. It has a long campaign, mission editor/creator and challenges. In my opinion the best game of all time

 

[Drunken Monkey]

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[Encolpius]

Let's throw Torment on the pile as well. I had low opinions of it when first it came out because it crashed so spectacularly it broke Windows (this was Windows 95, so this wasn't difficult) but we had to do a full reinstall afterwards.

Played it properly many years later. Not a game for those who are afraid of lots of dialogue. And a bit slow to start with but it gets going and the metaphysical nature of the setting and the plot that you know can't possibly end well yet you keep playing. Also, the very existence of a game where you play a hugely-scarred grey-skinned bloke immortal amnesiac and as such constantly smells of formaldehyde and walks like both their hips are broken, and hang out with a floating talking skull with a potty mouth, a virginal succubus, a half-demon street urchin, a Zen warrior master, a pyromaniac wizard who's constantly on fire, and a possessed suit of armour that is sworn to kill all evil-doers is reason enough to play it.

And there's going to be a sequel, of sorts, at least.

 

[SlimCini]

Close call between Champ. Man. 97/98 and Champ. Man. 2001/02.

Trifon Ivanov and Ibrahima Bakayako for the win...