The top 10 PC games of all time

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the Tom's Hardware community: where nearly two million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Status
Not open for further replies.
Half life 1, 2: HL will always top the list for me. My uncle gave it to me when I was 9 and I was scared like all get out. Picked it up again when I was 11 and from that moment on was a HL fan through and through.

Ive probably put more time into AoE the original than any other game. I used to spend hours and hours lanning with my sister, I had those strategies down pat!

After that I would have to say CoD 1. Back in the days before modern warfare 1 I was a champ at CoD online. One of my proudest moments was being asked to join the SoC clan... ahh yeah.

Id then have to go with WoW. Too much time put into that game on both private and retail servers to leave it off this list.

Just Cause 2 was also an amazing game to me. The open world and completely ridiculous stunts made it so fun to play.

Some extra's that Ive loved: TF2, CSS, (I hate to admit it but MW2).

Id say the baseline here is SO MANY GAMES SO LITTLE TIME!
 
My top ten games are

1. Starcraft (Still LAN party this game at school I lost my expansion disk though)
2. Battle for wesnoth (free, fun and massive!)
3. Battleships forever (an amazing space game where you can build your own ships with customs sprites. Although the community has died out. someone released a massive repackage version of the game with most of the communitys sprites and it's freeware too!)
4. Black and white (the mechanics and feel to the game were just so interesting)
5. Warcraft 3 Reign of chaos (the battlenet customs games were a lot of fun)
6. Age of Empires 2 (one of the first games I played and I still have it today)
7. C&C tiberium sun (the first PC game I ever played and me and my grandfather still play together sometimes)
8. Minecraft (I love the freeplay aspect and it's super fun!)
9. C&C Generals (the first game I ever got as a present and it's just so entertaining to get a Humvee filled with rocket troops)
10. Master of Orion 2: battle at Antares (I plan on getting this set up and running with dosbox one day and it's just a fantastic game)
Edit: Thank you PcGamer81 I fixed it! In my defense I wrote this really late last night.
 


Good list, but when you say World of Warcraft 3, do you mean WotLK, or Warcraft 3? I am almost certain you mean the latter.
 
Ok I'm adding Amnesia: The Dark Descent to my list. I know I've already listed 10 games but....it deserves a mention, a great PC exclusive, and as far as I can tell, nobody else has mentioned it so far.
 
Geoff Crammonds GP series, put some serious hours in on those games. 😀 So hard to pick a top 10 though, think the HL2 and Farcry would be on my list also.
 


Great game - scarier than system shock 2 and better than silent hill.
 
Geoff Crammonds GP series, put some serious hours in on those games. 😀 So hard to pick a top 10 though, think the HL2 and Farcry would be on my list also.
 
My top 10 in no particular order. Im bit of an old school PC gamer and not kept with the times.

Unreal Tournament.
Sim City 2000.
Elite 2 Frontier.
Monkey Island 3.
Day of the tenticle.
7th Guest.
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.
Theme Hospital.
Microprose Grand Prix 3.
Command and conquer: Red Alert.
 


Great games, no doubt. Old but fun.

Especially Sim City.
 
The 'top ten' of any games list is going to be hugely subjective, and incredibly difficult to reduce it down to 10... But here goes:

In no particular order, but ten games that i think have had the biggest impact on my personal gaming life on the PC:

1: Lord of the Rings Online (MMO)

2: EvE online

3: Tie Fighter (remember the first time you got to pilot the TIE Defender? Oooooh Hell Yeah lol)

4: Age of Empires II

5: Dune 2000

6: UFO: Enemy Unknown

7: Diablo

8: X3 (closest game i've found to 'Elite' yet...)

9: MechWarrior2

10: Half Life


Honourable mentions:

7th Guest (not a spectacular game in itself, but the first to move things 'properly' from Floppy to CD - and the first i can remember to step the graphics up so significantly)

Day of the Tentacle (and Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders! lol)

- Mach
 
No particular order:
Battle For Wesnoth
Europa Universalis 3
COD 4
Commandos 3
Gothic (played only 1 and 4)
Praetorians
Assassin's Creed series
Runescape :)
Can't think of more lol

 
Not even one Ultima Online vote!? Well that's my undisputed number one. I'll have to take some time on the other nine, but geez, where's the love?
 


X-Wing vs TIE Fighter .... what a game, I remember the first time it booted and the 'Star Wars' music starting booming out of my Soundblaster AWE32 - magic.
 


Most of us didn't mention MMO's. I did mention the Ultima and Ultima underworld games, however.
 


Is that the second time I seen Battle for Wesnoth up there?

I played that game a while back (it was free if I remember right) and I absolutely hated it. I thought it was a poor man's Disciples. But since then, I have heard good things about it - maybe I should give it a second go...
 

Well, the base game isn't that good. But there are some absolutely awesome player-made campaigns.
 


Aw, I see...

Makes sense.

Do you like Crysis? That quote you have at the bottom of your posts is how I feel about Crysis vs everything. Here lately I can't get enough Crysis.
 

I have played just Warhead, which I didn't like that much.
 


Well, if you don't like Warhead than you wouldn't like Crysis.

Warhead is like Crysis on steroids.
 
So I took everyone list and used the amount of times a game was said to make a top 10:

1. Half Life with a score of 10 (Steam Page)
2. Doom with a score of 9 (Steam Page)
3. Starcraft with a score of 6
4. Crysis with a score of 5 (Steam Page)
5. Half Life 2 with a score of 5 (Steam Page)
6. Deus Ex with a score of 5 (Steam Page)
7. Warcraft 3 with a score of 4
8. Far Cry with a score of 4 (Steam Page)
9. Star Wars: Tie Fighter with a score of 4
10. C&C Red Alert with a score of 4
11. Dune 2 with a score of 3
12. Civilization with a score of 3
13. Max payne I with a score of 3 (Steam Page)
14. Max Payne II with a score of 3 (Steam Page)
15. Command & Conquer with a score of 3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cut off point
I think we are getting too many games with a score of 3 so I'm cutting it off at 15.

Under the line is a complete list from the beginning of this thread to the end.
I ignored series votes and I may have missed a couple. The ~x# is how many times I saw a game.
Edit:
1.1: Alphabetized the games list.
1.2: Added 2 download links for free games.
1.3: Linked all the games to Wikipedia
1.4: Updated to page 3 & Added some steam links.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent ~x2
Age of Empires I
Age of Empires II ~x2
Age of Empires III
Anno 1404
Anno 2070
Assassin's Creed I
Assasin's Creed II

B:
Baulders Gate
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn ~x2
Battle for Wesnoth ~x2 (Download)
Battleships Forever (Download)
Black and white
Batman Arkham Asylum ~x2
Battlefield III ~x3
Battlefield II
Bioshock
Borderlands ~x2
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield Bad Company 2

C:
Commandos I
Commandos II
Commandos III
Crysis ~x5
Crysis II ~x3
Command & Conquer ~x3
C&C: Red Alert ~x4
C&C: Red Alert 2 ~x2
C&C: Tiberium Sun
C&C: Generals
Civilization ~x3
Civilization II ~x2
COD 4 Modern Warfare ~x3
COD World at War
COD Modern Warfare 2 ~x2
Colin Mcrae Rally
Company of Heroes
Counterstrike ~x2
Championship Manager
City Of Heroes

D:
Diablo ~x2
Diablo 2
Deus Ex ~x4
Doom ~x9
Doom 2 ~x2
Dune II ~x3
Duke Nukem ~x2
Duke Nukem 3D
Dragon Age Origins ~x2
Day of the Tentacle
Delta Force I
Delta Force II
Descent
Dungeons and Dragons online

E:
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind ~x2
Elite 2 Frontier
Europa Universalis 3
EvE Online (MMO)
Everquest II

F:
Fallout I
Fallout II
Fallout III ~x2
Far Cry ~x4
Freelancer
Falcon 3.0 ~x2

G:
GTA San Andreas
GTA Vice city
GTA III
GTA IV
Gothic 1
Gothic 3
Gothic 4
Gears of War

H:
Half Life ~x10
Half Life 2 ~x4
Heroes of Might and Magic 3~x2
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 6
Hellcats over the Pacific

J:
Jagged Alliance 2

K:
Kings Quest 6

L:
Lord of the Rings Online (MMO)

M:
Metal Gear Solid I
Metal Gear Solid II
Metal Gear Solid III
Mortal kombat 4
Max payne I ~x3
Max Payne II ~x3
Mass Effect I ~x2
Mass Effect II ~x2
Master of Magic
Master of Orion
Master of Orion II
Minecraft
Myst
Microprose Grand Prix 3
Mech Warrior 2
Monkey Island 3

N:
Need for speed II
Need for speed Most Wanted
Need for speed III: Hot Pursuit ~x2

P:
Portal
Portal II
Praerorians (No Wikipedia article found)
Planet Side

Q:
Quake ~x2

R:
Red Orchestra 2
Runescape (MMO)

S:
Sniper Elite
Star Wars: Rouge Squadron
Star Wars: Tie Fighter ~x4
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic ~x3
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Starcraft ~x5
Starcraft II ~x2
Supreme Commander
Sim City 2000 ~x2
Swat 4

T:
Total War
Theme Hospital
Team Fortress 2 ~x2

U:
UT2004 ~x3
Unreal Tournament
Ultima
Ultima Underworld ~x2

V:
Vanguard Bandits

W:
Warcraft 3 ~x4
Warcraft 2
Warcraft
World of Warcraft ~x2
Wing Commander ~x2
Witcher
Wolfstein 3D

X:
X-Men legends - Rise of apocalypse
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
X-Men: The Last Stand

#:
7th Guest
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom