Which is the best pc game ever made?

Hakoria

Laon King

Location: gmt+1

Joined: Apr 03 2011

What about your own reasons?
Sengoku Rance, because of ost/gameplay/replay value (different routes)/plot.

RexLeRouge

IMPACTO

Joined: Aug 15 2008

oooooo
I demand kara VS Laon

and as I fail to objectively find the best PC game, I'll give my favs: Doom/Quake 3. The fun I get playing those bad boys exceeds everything.

SalemJenet

Joined: Sep 22 2011

minesweeper

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

Icewind Dale II's my all round favourite. Immersive, compelling, reactive and challenging. The audio and visuals are also excellent.

Sadly the game went under the radar on release, and it's probably the least played of all decent rpgs. I have no idea why this is.

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

fuck you salem was going to say it :(

the best pc games are console games on emulators

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

YEAH SON

Pasto

Eat your Pasta ! ! !

Joined: Mar 25 2009

Some other good stuff :

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Hakoria

Laon King

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Joined: Apr 03 2011

karathrow said

I was going to come here and say inb4 shitty visual novel weeaboo shit but I was about an hour and a half too late.

Hah!

Crazymoogle

Crazymoogle

Location: SoCal

Joined: Mar 30 2012

worldeditor11 said

And to the people who say skyrim is the best game ever made,sorry but no.This game is the worst and most boring ES game ever made by Bethesda.Monotonous dungeons and boring quests are seriously a no no for an adventure game.

It's so boring that it breached 5 million users logged in on steam, so repetitive that the lowest score from a notable critic it received was an 88%, so "the worst" that it won overall Game of the Year from IGN, SpikeTV, and Gamespot. I agree wholeheartedly. I'm alright if you think it's bad, but don't go with that "worst and most boring" malarkey :P

But I might agree with those Monkey Islanders. Unique gameplay and just an entirely enjoyable experience.

Rook

Location: US

Joined: Jun 21 2011

Braid, Bastion, Limbo. In that order.

Ranulf

I will not join your gametabs.

Joined: Oct 15 2009

I didn't really think Skyrim was good either, but it was fun for a while.

Edit: A friend told me even with mods it was still meh. But, he still plays it. XD

PS: Salem wins...as usual.

RexLeRouge

IMPACTO

Joined: Aug 15 2008

I'm disapointed kara. Its commander keen

Pasto

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Joined: Mar 25 2009

Rex, Kara, You are both right.
Pasta of love.

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

Actually I found Skyrim quite entertaining when I first played it, but got bored after two weeks. The main story is weak, the factions are too small and the whole dragonborn/shout thing detracts from the sense of achievement you'd get without it. Afterall, when everyone else is handicapped (limited to one crappy shout or none) where's the fun in killing? Actually I don't dig the whole 'chosen one' stuff anyway - achievements should be made on equal ground for them to be called achievements imo.

However, something compelled me to start playing it again and I'm really enjoying it :O. Been playing it for a week in a very different manner. I'm a rogue archetype who uses a lot of speech and illusion, thief skills, archery and backstabbing. I'm just playing it casually this time, just doing one quest at a time and avoiding the factions. It seems every dungeon more or less has it's own story, and there's quite a few easter eggs scattered throughout the game. I think the problem with Skyrim was that on release it had lots of fans who were new to this type of game and rpgs in general,lots of kids impressed by the dragons and lots of electric guitarists fus ro dahring all over the place. In other words the game was overrated into some kind of 'best thing ever made ever ever', so cynics like myself reacted against it like true hipsters.

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

Yoshi said

Dota 2 is the best multiplayer game out there for sure - rewards you based purely on your skill (unlike LoL pay-to-win)

Man ok that is some stupid shit. Lol is not pay to win at all. Some of the top players in the solo queue ladder have never spent money on the game.

There's a reason LoL is the biggest online game right now. Also Dota 2 is garbage. It's filled with broken game design, an awful ui, and is generally an unplayable pile of shit. You can try to defend it by saying it's in beta but we both know it's not going to change substantially before release. I promise you Dota 2 is never going to amount to shit and it's not because it's too deep for casual players, it's because the people designing it learned nothing from Dota 1 and kept all the shitty parts in it.

There is no advantage LoL players who pay can access that players who don't pay can't also access. The only thing you can buy with real money that other players cant have is skins which are cosmetic. (for the record I've spent money on the game twice only for skins, I refuse to spend any money on actual game shit and I've unlocked pretty much everything in the game with in game money)

Also Dota 2 has no system to deal with leavers or griefers so the community is a pile of shit too.

It's pretty simple if a game is pay to win then paying should

1)make you win automatically or give some significant advantage over other players

or

2)Allow access to content that non-paying players cannot access (which should lead to #1)

I can tell you that when I queue up aside from skins on champions there is no way to tell who has spent money on the game and who has not. The people who spend money are not hitting harder or really doing any better in the games. The competitive community is very alive and there isn't a sense that people are spending oodles of money on the game with the hopes of coming out on top.

This kind of bullshit is perpetuated by people who have never played league and hate it because of its admittedly shitty community or by people who just hate it for the same reason people hated CoD and WoW. (They're popular games and I can't carve out an identity for myself as a "hardcore gamer" playing low-brow games that everyone knows about hurr hurr)

"Pricing, aside from us saying "let's have the game be free forever and never sell power" has largely been an after thought because our view is that if we create awesome, then our players will reward us. That has held true." -Mark Merril President of Riot Games (makers of LoL)

/ragepost

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

YES! Star Control 2 has been open sourced as the Ur-Quan Masters. It is now free to play :-D

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

For Monkey Island, you can get the Special Edition versions of 1 and 2 for Windows. Or, get the old versions and play them with SCUMMVM (which is free, though the games aren't). For 3 (Curse), I don't think you can buy new copies anywhere, but you could find it somewhere (eBay?) and play it on Windows using SCUMMVM.

I don't know about 4 (Escape), but that game was skippable anyway.

Tales of Monkey Island is a modern game and works just fine on Windows. That one's good, too.

tiger child

Joined: May 31 2012

you definitely should. i remember thoroughly enjoying it. i dont think it was as popular as it should have been. i could be mis-remembering. that was 14ish years ago. the music was great, too.

Pasto

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Joined: Mar 25 2009

Long Live Tim Schafer

worldeditor11

Joined: Jul 28 2012

why nobody has said pong or pinball yet.I also puzzled to the guy who said dota 2 is the best game ever when it is not even officially being release yet(probably didnt do his homework).The reason i started this topic is to find good games to play.i found the monkey island series and braid and limbo interests me.What are these games centre about and really how good these games are or whether i should play it.

edit:to hakoria,isnt sengoku rance a hentai game at its core

Clanver

Pixelfingers cant play

Location: Germany, Kiel

Joined: Jan 03 2009

playing league of legends most of the time, though a great game, it has the worst Community ever, no game without massive flames, even before game started~

Freelancer was a great game, great controls for a space opera shooter, never found something similar afterwards :/

Jacob31593

Location: Tampa, FL

Joined: Jan 04 2009

thats a pretty nice looking formation pasto! do you like these ones?
(I WILL DESTROY THE WIDTH OF THIS PAGE WITH MY GIANT PHOTOS MWAHAHAHA)

Crazymoogle

Crazymoogle

Location: SoCal

Joined: Mar 30 2012

Age of Empires, most definitely belongs in the PC Hall of Fame for me.

Also, thanks Auriplane... Now I have a whole galaxy to explore, and I'm going to have to divide my time between SC2 and Age of Wonders. But really, a cool game...rather quirky, but that's not a bad thing I would say :P

tiger child

Joined: May 31 2012

jeremy soule is good. he did the score to secret of evermore.

worldeditor11

Joined: Jul 28 2012

Why everyone starts posting images all of the sudden.