The top 10 PC games of all time

[PCgamer81]

I'm sorry.

Call of Duty flat out sucks ass. I went out of my way to be nice before, saying that is was good but not that good. I have felt like a liar/compromiser/hypocrite ever since.

Call of Duty is the biggest, smelliest, steaming pile of cow manure in the history of interactive entertainment. It is FPS lite, Battlefield for children, hardcore gamer anathema.

*sigh*

I feel better.

Sorry if I offended anyone (actually, I'm not).

That is all.

 

[Gothams Finest]

I don't see how anyone could get offended by someones opinion about a game.

Personally I love Call of Duty and always have since the original Call of Duty from 2003, I think its pathetic the hate Call of Duty gets, its a game, there are plenty others out there to play if Call of Duty is not your thing.

 

[PCgamer81]

I don't see how anyone could get offended by someones opinion about a game.

Personally I love Call of Duty and always have since the original Call of Duty from 2003, I think its pathetic the hate Call of Duty gets, its a game, there are plenty others out there to play if Call of Duty is not your thing.

Aye, true. Just a game.

I will say this:

The original CoD was a classic. I love that game, and always will. CoD 2 was a great follow-up and really redefined the genre.

After that, I feel the genre evolved. I feel the BF series took it to a whole new level. ARMA and ARMA 2 as well. Rainbow Six Vegas II, and the GRAW games - while CoD has, in my opinion, not evolved. It is the same game year after year. It treats gamers as if we were fools.

I respect your opinion, however.

 

[casualcolors]

The reason for little variation is strictly corporate. Moneymakers don't change a great deal until they've sucked every last penny possible in their current state.

 

[bystander]

Evolution is an interesting thing. It is cool to see new ideas, but if you really like something, it's often frustrating when they take it away in newer versions.

Over all the years I've gamed, I've both been blown away by change, and disappointed by the lack of old style games. I'm glad both that some dev's do provide old school experiences with new graphics and new experiences too. Both are good to have.

 

[avieor]

Okay, I forgot to mention this before.

The original F.E.A.R, or First Encounter Assault Recon.

This game is truly amazing. It does get a bit repetitive and tries to be scary when it barely scares me, but is otherwise flawless.

 

[avieor]

I was playing Crysis 2 this morning, actually. High Res textures in DX11 on Ultra.

I am so unimpressed with the graphics. I know I have touted them before, but I don't know what I must have been smoking. I just got through playing through Crysis 1 with the Natural Mod, and playing a little Warhead.

Crysis 2 looks terrible. And in DX11/High Res textures it runs terrible. I am only getting about 60-70fps with my configuration. I do about the same or better in Crysis 1, and it looks a hell of a lot better.

I liked Crysis 2, In my opinion I felt it was a good title. It does not come close to the original and Warhead. It was a better game in quality and in graphics. I still like Crysis 2 however, why? Because that is who I am.

Metro 2033 is a good game, but it does not look quite as decent as either games yet is twice as demanding. What is up with that?

 

[casualcolors]

I also enjoyed Crysis 2. I felt very immersed in the suit in that game. Their moniker of "Be The Weapon" felt very appropriate and I spent the entire campaign feeling like a post-human badass. In a lot of ways I thought the suit felt remarkably better in Crysis 2 than in Crysis.

 

[Stringjam]

Okay, I forgot to mention this before.

The original F.E.A.R, or First Encounter Assault Recon.

This game is truly amazing. It does get a bit repetitive and tries to be scary when it barely scares me, but is otherwise flawless.

I thought the game was fantastic as well. I think the AI sets it apart from other games from this era....hell, even a lot of games today.

I like how the FPS mechanics also incorporated the melee movements, which could make for some fun approaches to combat. The game was just awesome. Great story, great gameplay, interesting characters, and some ambitious FPS mechanics to boot.

HL2 seems to get all the attention, but I really loved this game.

F.E.A.R. 2 gutted a lot of what made the first game special (I know "consolitis" is used ad nauseam on forums, but in this case it really applies). It was still a fun game and I enjoyed it, but they could have / should have built on what they had with the original to make something really incredible. The story also went from something intriguing in the first game, to something pretty ridiculous. Ah well.

 

[PCgamer81]

I thought the game was fantastic as well. I think the AI sets it apart from other games from this era....hell, even a lot of games today.

I like how the FPS mechanics also incorporated the melee movements, which could make for some fun approaches to combat. The game was just awesome. Great story, great gameplay, interesting characters, and some ambitious FPS mechanics to boot.

HL2 seems to get all the attention, but I really loved this game.

F.E.A.R. 2 gutted a lot of what made the first game special (I know "consolitis" is used ad nauseam on forums, but in this case it really applies). It was still a fun game and I enjoyed it, but they could have / should have built on what they had with the original to make something really incredible. The story also went from something intriguing in the first game, to something pretty ridiculous. Ah well.

AI is easy to write when everything takes place in tight little office spaces. Crysis AI was far more impressive than F.E.A.R's, considering all the trees, landscapes, and rocks and such that the AI has to take into account.

 

[PCgamer81]

I liked Crysis 2, In my opinion I felt it was a good title. It does not come close to the original and Warhead. It was a better game in quality and in graphics. I still like Crysis 2 however, why? Because that is who I am.

Metro 2033 is a good game, but it does not look quite as decent as either games yet is twice as demanding. What is up with that?

I'm sorry but Metro 2033 blows Crysis 2 totally and completely out of the water in every single graphical aspect, and it's not even close.

 

[casualcolors]

I'm sorry but Metro 2033 blows Crysis 2 totally and completely out of the water in every single graphical aspect, and it's not even close.

Crysis 2 still has stronger gameplay elements and a lot of that comes from the vastly smoother animations and interactions. Metro 2033 definitely has the finest texturing and specular lighting seen in a game to date though, and a badass storyline to go with it.

 

[Stringjam]

AI is easy to write when everything takes place in tight little office spaces. Crysis AI was far more impressive than F.E.A.R's, considering all the trees, landscapes, and rocks and such that the AI has to take into account.

FEAR was released in 2005....closer to the "Far Cry" era of CryTek. Crysis AI should be a lot better having had the benefit of several more years of innovation.

I think Crysis has some very good AI, but (and I'm a huge Crysis fan), I feel like they wasted it a bit with some of the the most homogenous, boring, and sometimes dumb NPCs possible. They have about 5 different vocal lines, which gets pretty stale after about the 100th time you've heard them. The "Akimbo" nano-suit soldiers that you encounter ONE TIME in the entire game are awesome. They cloak, melee, switch weapons, and act about 100% smarter than everybody else in the game. Why in the fire they didn't use that kind of ambitious scripting for other characters I don't get....they obviously had the programming worked out. I want NPC's that are difficult to kill.....fast, accurate, and smart. Am I asking too much? 😉

 

[PCgamer81]

FEAR was released in 2005....closer to the "Far Cry" era of CryTek. Crysis AI should be a lot better having had the benefit of several more years of innovation.

I think Crysis has some very good AI, but (and I'm a huge Crysis fan), I feel like they wasted it a bit with some of the the most homogenous, boring, and sometimes dumb NPCs possible. They have about 5 different vocal lines, which gets pretty stale after about the 100th time you've heard them. The "Akimbo" nano-suit soldiers that you encounter ONE TIME in the entire game are awesome. They cloak, melee, switch weapons, and act about 100% smarter than everybody else in the game. Why in the fire they didn't use that kind of ambitious scripting for other characters I don't get....they obviously had the programming worked out. I want NPC's that are difficult to kill.....fast, accurate, and smart. Am I asking too much? 😉

No, you encounter them 4 times. The first before being extracted after rescuing Helena the first time (after you leave her with Psycho), you encounter 4 of them completely cloaked in the cemetery (where you lay prone and crawl into the cement box and take them out one by one). The second at the big compound just after you take out the AA artillery just after the full scale invasion, you encounter 4 uncloaked and wielding miniguns . The third inside the caverns just before you reach Helena and Kyong, you encounter a few dispersed throughout - wielding miniguns and uncloaked. The last time is Kyong himself, after your suit is recharged and his men are killed.

And I never noticed the repetitiveness of the enemy dialog - I always play on Delta and they speak Korean. 😀

Edit:

I want NPC's that are difficult to kill.....fast, accurate, and smart. Am I asking too much? 😉

I think the aliens in the last 1/3 of the game fit that bill, perfectly. (Try cloaking from the Ceph )

 

[PCgamer81]

Crysis 2 still has stronger gameplay elements and a lot of that comes from the vastly smoother animations and interactions. Metro 2033 definitely has the finest texturing and specular lighting seen in a game to date though, and a badass storyline to go with it.

Boy, you are right about that. Metro 2033 had some amazing textures.

 

[hunter387]

On the CoD topic, I used to absolutely hate the new CoD games but then I noticed that it became the "cool" thing to hate on it. Now I just don't care for them. I did however enjoy World at Wars campaign.

Now that said, Call of Duty United Offense may be one of my favorite games of all time. If anyone has played it they KNOW that it is better then the rest of the Call of Duty games. Its a classic.

 

[PCgamer81]

Just want to give everyone fair warning...

I just went out and bought Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition for the Xbox 360.

The graphics are terrible and the frame rate is horrible. If good graphics and acceptable frame rate are important to you, steer clear of this game.

Reach is vastly superior.

Edit: I just read that installing this game to the HDD is supposed to improve the frame rate. I guess I will see...

 

[Stringjam]

No, you encounter them 4 times.

The only place you encounter them is in the grave yard.....one time in the entire game. The other NPC's you mentioned aren't the same script (the minigun nano-soldiers).

If you load the levels in the Sandbox editor you can just select the characters and see which script they're using.

 

[PCgamer81]

The only place you encounter them is in the grave yard.....one time in the entire game. The other NPC's you mentioned aren't the same script (the minigun nano-soldiers).

If you load the levels in the Sandbox editor you can just select the characters and see which script they're using.

So I guess the minigun wielding maniacs don't fit your definition of "difficult, fast, accurate, and smart"? And neither do the aliens?

 

[PCgamer81]

On the CoD topic, I used to absolutely hate the new CoD games but then I noticed that it became the "cool" thing to hate on it. Now I just don't care for them. I did however enjoy World at Wars campaign.

Now that said, Call of Duty United Offense may be one of my favorite games of all time. If anyone has played it they KNOW that it is better then the rest of the Call of Duty games. Its a classic.

You just won my heart. 😍

 

[bystander]

I'm sorry but Metro 2033 blows Crysis 2 totally and completely out of the water in every single graphical aspect, and it's not even close.

Every way? Metro 2033 had great lighting effects and all, but Crysis 2 Dx11 (I assume you mean Dx11) had much better displacement tessellation. Actually, it's the only game to ever use that effect outside benchmark that I've seen.

 

[Stringjam]

So I guess the minigun wielding maniacs don't fit your definition of "difficult, fast, accurate, and smart"? And neither do the aliens?

No...the minigun wielders are pretty slow and one-dimensional. They just have a lot of firepower and they can take a lot of hits before they go down. I much prefer the graveyard guys. I wish they would have showed up in a lot more places.

I dig the aliens, though. I'm not sure why people diss the aliens in Crysis - I think they're pretty fascinating.

 

[bystander]

Moving fast side to side doesn't mean they have better AI either. I find the way Crysis and Far Cry AI worked was impressive do to how they used search patterns in a wide open area. At least that's what I remember from Far Cry.

 

[de5_Roy]

it's been a while since anyone posted a top ten list..........

 

[PCgamer81]

Every way? Metro 2033 had great lighting effects and all, but Crysis 2 Dx11 (I assume you mean Dx11) had much better displacement tessellation. Actually, it's the only game to ever use that effect outside benchmark that I've seen.

You have to remember, Metro 2033 was optimized for DX11. Crysis 2 DX11 was more or less a mod, albeit an official one.