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Geek Culture / Favorite PC game of all time.

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Bug Man
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What is your favorite PC game of all time? Myself, not being much of a FPS player looks more to RTS and RPG so I have a tie between Rise of Nations and Guild Wars

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Gil Galvanti
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Depends on which genre, because it's hard to compare across them:
FPS-Battlefield 2
RPG-TES IV: Oblivion
RTS-Company of Heroes


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Agent Dink
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Hmmmm...

FPS : Half Life 2
RTS : Anything C&C, but probably Generals
RPG : old Nintendo RPGs and WoW

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Aaron Miller
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I can tell you my favorite console games... Not PC, considering the only PC game I have ever played (besides my own, and ones from these forums) was Need for Speed.

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Zaibatsu
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FPS: Half-Life
RPG: Fable: TLC
Adventure: Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the Land Lizards

those three are great, but i think LSL wins it.

"I admire its purity, a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality"

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Chily Dog
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Deus Ex. That game was so awesome for me when I played it, I can't even tell...
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GatorHex
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Unreal

I just played it the other day on an old machine and was very impressed with how the story, graphics and music made the whole thing very atmospheric.

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hessiess
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i find fps completly boring my favarite game is between tomb radar 5 and prince of pirsa worrior within.
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Dared1111
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Mine are BF2,swat4,HL2-fps
oblivion-rpg
c+c:Red alert (soon to be c+c: generals)

[link]"http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/user/Dared1111/" my account on GGE[\link]
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indi
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My favorite game was gauntlet.
I won 5000 tokens split between 4 players, I was the valkyrie.

I dont really have a pc game i would call my favorite.
My era of that passion was more in the 80's etc..

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Van B
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Posted: 24th Apr 2007 12:44
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Kinda split between Half Life and Oblivion. But yeah, I think I have more retro favourites than PC favourites like Indi. I mean, Half Life is good n'all, but it's no Bubble Bobble.


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Fallout
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Posted: 24th Apr 2007 13:59 Edited at: 24th Apr 2007 14:02
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UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as XCOM I think)

Absolute mutts nuts. So involving and deep. Management, strategy, story, action, tension, cool weapons you researched and developed, character/soldier progression and leveling up, randomly generated maps, really tough enemy and a great finalle.

Bloody awesome and ahead of its time. Played that for over 2 years. No game has been worth that amount of time and effort since. And the intro was quality!

haha. Just found it on YouTube. Remember, this game is early 90's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX0Cm3N_n6k


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xtom
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Overall best game on the PC for me would have to be Half-Life. As well as the brilliant single player game, the multiplayer added literally years of life to the game especially with the free mods like Counter-Strike.


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DieRider
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FPS: Unreal tournament, thats right, the first one.
RTS: All C&C love red alert 2 yuri's revenge is the best.
RPG: ES4: Oblivion

Counter-strike Used to be free, before they implomented steam, but im glad they did because i was gonna stab someone after the experience of WON servers. In aus, stupid WON could not find any other aus servers, so at best of times, i was playing with 200+ ping. there were occasionally 8blocksofconnection servers (1.5 was the downtime of my life) but it would never connect to them, i was going insane...then i discovered gamespy, always had fast aus servers...then steam was made, and we were made to pay.

But i have to agree, the HL1 multiplayer kept me entertained for a long time. Oh man i miss those trip mines, some of the best fun in my gaming life.

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zenassem
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Posted: 24th Apr 2007 17:02 Edited at: 24th Apr 2007 17:12
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I'm not a big PC game player, mainly becuase I never had a high-end system to run the latest software the way it was meant to be played. So I generally buy/play PC games that don't translate well to console, or emu, remakes, or independent games.

Some of my favorite PC games:

Almost anything by Introversion Software:
1. Darwinia
Just really inventive and fun?
http://www.darwinia.co.uk/screenshots/image20.jpg

2. Uplink
Makes me feel like I could actually Hack?
http://www.uplink.co.uk/cgi-bin/screenshots.cgi?pic=uplink3.gif

3. Defcon: Everybody dies
Shall we play a game?
Global Thermonuclear War

I always wanted to create this game. It's what got me into computers. I tried coding a version in Simon's Basic for the C64. But never found a way to balance the gameplay like this.
http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/screenshots/screenshot3.jpg

4. msn.zone Spades
5. Sim City (series)
6. Star Craft + expansions
7. Command & Conquer (Red Alert II)
8. Civilization (series)
9. Age of Empires II + Conq.'s Expansion
10. Firewall - by Bolt Software (Xander)
http://www.boltsoftwaregames.com/screen3.jpg

11. Stronghold
12. Myst (series)
13. Missing and the sequel Evidence
14. Lineage II
15. Snood
16. DUO - by FOG
http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=showcase_view&i=275

17. Duke Nukem (series)
18. Unreal Tournament
19. Ragdoll Monkey Bowling - by Walaber
http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=showcase_view&i=306

20. Magic The Gathering Online
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Cash Curtis II
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Geisha House, duh. I'm an advanced Alpha Tester, but I promise it's great.


Come see the WIP!
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Zappo
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I too am more of a retro PC gaming fan. I use a console for most of my modern gaming.

The game I played the most on PC back then was probably the original Wolfenstein 3D. I hadn't seen anything like it before - proper 3D (well mostly) done in realtime. The original ground breaking FPS.
'Sam and Max Hit the Road' was great. So funny and well animated.
The original 'Theme Park' took up a lot of my time too, along with 'Syndicate'.

There probably won't be many on here who remember 'Snipes' - the text mode maze shooter which run on a Novell NetWare network. Probably the first multiplayer LAN game, and definately addictive. It was great for testing out a new network installation
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Sergey K
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RPG: Heroes of Might and Magic III
RTS: Heroes of Might and Magic III
FPS: Counter Strike 1.6

MyNewSite:http://gogetax.com
Forums(About BLO and more):http://gogetax.com/forum
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Jeku
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Quote: "Counter-strike Used to be free, before they implomented steam"


It was free if you owned HL1. Nothing's changed.

My faves are the Sierra and LucasArts adventure games from the 80s and 90s. Space Quest, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, The Dig, Full Throttle, Colonel's Bequest, etc..

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BiggAdd
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My Favorite of all all time is:

KKND KROSSFIRE 2

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Seppuku Arts
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Mine, as I can't pich one: FPS: Call of Duty 2, RPG: Final Fantasy VII or IX, Horror: Alice Action/Adventure: Prince of Persia 3, Adventuure: Monkey Island 1/2 Puzzle: Pushover, Sport: Fifa Racing: Gran Turismo

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Zappo
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Quote: "Mine, as I can't pich one: FPS: Call of Duty 2, RPG: Final Fantasy VII or IX, Horror: Alice Action/Adventure: Prince of Persia 3, Adventuure: Monkey Island 1/2 Puzzle: Pushover, Sport: Fifa Racing: Gran Turismo"

Are you sure those are all on the PC, Seppuku?
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Seppuku Arts
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Misread...cross out gran turismo, and as FFIX is a maybe I'd leave it...The rest are on PC.

Did The Buddha have a Zen micro?
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Phaelax
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Unreal (Unreal 2 sucked)
Deus Ex (Deus Ex 2 sucked)
Thief (2 and 3 were good)


I got Unreal for free with my gfx card (voodoo3) and Thief came with my sound card (SBLive platinum). My gf's dad got me into Deus Ex.


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Hobgoblin Lord
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Tough one, but I would say.

RPG: Bard's Tale II
RTS: Starcraft
FPS: Wolfenstein 3d
Beer n Pretzel: Bespelled
MMORPG: DDO

other good ones
Alice
1503
Diablo II
Heroes of might and magic series


IMO worst games all time (not counting ones from Joe Programmer's bedroom)

Rise of Robots
Virtual Villagers
Fish Tycoon
Swarog

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=73324&b=8
My RPG WIP, check it out
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The dude guy
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Call of Duty 2, although I was unrightfully GUID banned by punkbuster (seriously), it's still my favorite game.
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Suicidal Sledder
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My all-time favorites are the oldies...

Dragons Lair
Commander Keen
Jill of the Jungle
Adventures in Serenia (anyone remember THAT one?)
Cosmos Cosmic Adventure
Clydes Adventure (I think that one might have been Canadian )


still though... I gotta hand it to Call of Duty for being the best FPS in the world

--STAR RUNNER-- Full game, arcade clone, nice graphics and music, small download!!

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Bug Man
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Oh man I feel stupid, I completely forgot about Elder Scrolls and there awesome RPG's
Also @ zenassem I'm pretty sure Stronghold takes a pretty good comp. Mine can play Oblivion really quickly and well, it still takes forever to load Stronghold Legends

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zenassem
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@Bug Man,

Sorry, I should have specified it was Stronghold Crusader not Legends. lol.

I know it's not as good, but I like castle sims.

Requirements:
Processor: 100% PC Compatible Operating System: Windows? 98/ME/2000/XP CPU: Pentium? II 300MHz (550MHz preferred) RAM: 64MB RAM CD-ROM: 8X Speed Hard Drive Space: 850MB Graphics: DirectX 7.0 compatible 4MB video card Sound Card: DirectX 7.0 Compatible sound card Keyboard & Mouse: Microsoft? compatible Modem: 56K (For Internet Play)

And I usually play Lineage II with sliders down, becuase it can lag real bad on me.

I generally use my Toshiba Satellite Touchscreen Laptop

Specs:
Intel Pentium M processor 1.60 GHz
Memory 1006MB
Intel 82852/55 GM/GME Graphics Controller
64.0MB Video Ram

What really kills me is no Pixel/Vertex shaders, and I don't have Hardware Transform Lighting (I don't think)
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Bug Man
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Stronghold Legends:
Windows 2k/XP - 1.6 Ghz processor - 512 MB RAM - 64MB - 2.5 GB HDD Space - DirectX 9.0c

Looks like your computer could do it.

Heres my specs:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
512MB RAM
RADEON X1600 Series (512MB Video Ram)

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