Best PC game of the 20th century

[Letum]

This is just an excuse for blatant opinionism.

For me it is System Shock 2. , even tho I am 99.9% a simulation fan.


SS2 oozes atmosphere.

You awake from sleep in a corporate space ship with no memory of recent events. The
atmosphere is extremely cold and lonely. Apart from your former crew mates who have
become zombie like and call them selves the "many" after some kind of parasite infected them,
you do not see another human through the whole game, apart from a few instances where
you glimpse some one through a window moments before they die.

As the plot play out, you find your self a pawn in a battle between a cold, callas, super
computer and the "many"; a vast biological infection.
The story and game are totally liner, but utterly immerse. The plot plays out in the
game play and through the last words of the other crew members that are stored in
audio logs or ghostly visions.

SS2 has plenty of faults. The end was clearly rushed to meet a deadline and it is tricky,
but not impossible to run it on XP or Vista.
However, what a great game! with a few mods, the graphics don't even feel to dated
and the gameplay is as tense and balanced as it was back in 1999.

*edit* Oh, and it's as scary as hell!
I gave up playing it the first 2 (3?) times because it made me jump so oftern.


What are everyone elses nominations?

[Peto]

That's a really tough (and good) question. I play many different types of games but the series that probably occupied more time on my systems has been the Baldur's Gate rpg collection. Good stories and tons of choices kept it interesting.

But the Silent Hunter series has also given me a "few" enjoyable hours as well.

I may edit this later :hmm:.

[Dowly]

There's too many to name only one. But they are all adventure games in my list. Broken Sword 1 & 2 for their amazing storyline & breathtaking drawn graphics. Fahrenheit for the dark and creep story and simple things that have been succesfully made scary (view from eyes of the character, going thru old file archives in the dark cellar with heartbeat & breathing audible, amazingly scary). Then, of course there the Cthulhu thing, whatever it was called, liked it alot. I wont say IL2 here, no matter that I've played it actively from the first release, it's the best of the bunch, but could be heaps better.

[Letum]

I found Silent hunter 2 too late.

I only got to enjoy it for a year or so before silent hunter 3.

I saw it on the shelves, but I had almost no naval experiance, so I passed it off as
something I wouldn't enjoy for a long time.

A shame.

[kiwi_2005]

Silent Hunter Series especially from 3 - cause coming from SH1 and 2 then seeing the graphics of 3 just blew me away at the time and i found myself playing SH3 for 2 years solid, still play it today. Now with SH4 the graphics are just pieces of artwork!

Planescape Torment - RPG. Old but had an adult theme, you played a character that was dead. The conversation dialog between characters were the best ever.

World of Warcraft - mmorpg cause its addictive as hell, makes you worry, makes you get up hrs before sunlight to level up that bit more before the day starts, you start buying books on Wow, reading about new ways to beat the game, learn a new history and can even teach yourself a new language - (bloodelf) epics and the right gear your character needs for raids, you learn skills like engineering and you appreciate daggers much much more than you would of.

Deus Ex. RPG. It gave you choices that seem to effect your way of thinking in the real world - hmm should i have done that - guilt trip starts to settle in:rotfl:

System Shock 2. For freaking me out

Doom 3 I know, but all the same it scared me :rotfl:

Su-27 Flanker - crappy graphics now but the first realistic flightsim to come out. Beats the stock Falcon 4 by miles.

[Letum]

ohh yes, Deus Ex was very good! I played that through more than once!

Got a bit boring once you got the abiity to become invisible tho.

[Stealth Hunter]

Assassin's Creed (beautifully redone cities of Acre, Jerusalem, and Damascus)

BioShock (wonderful storyline and graphics; voice acting was also done extremely well)

Il2 1946 (changed combat flight simulation as we know it)

Silent Hunter III (opened up a new age of graphics [it's actually generally credited with it])

Ghost Recon (revolutionized AI as we know it)

Battlefield 1942 (showed us a world of fraggers and kick-ass mods)

Rome: Total War (introduced more sophisticated graphics and changed the way we look at RTS gameplay)

Medal of Honor series (the daddy of FPS games [DOOM is the grandaddy, lol])

Red Baron 3D (showed us World War I)

Half-Life 2 (shook the world with graphics never seen before on the new source engine)

The Sims 2 (the improved game of life... with improved 3D mode...)

Elder Scrolls series (brought forth the age of roleplaying)

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (just added it because of the totally awesome script, acting, and storyline; great game that's more like a movie than anything else)

[baggygreen]

Erm...

MS flight sim 4.0. loved it!!!!! wow, how bad it seems now tho compared to FSX

most the games you guys are mentioning are 21st century games, not 20th! we're looking for 10 yrs or older!!

And i'll throw in Captain Comic and duke nukem, too

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

Erm...

MS flight sim 4.0. loved it!!!!! wow, how bad it seems now tho compared to FSX

Wait 10 years and see what everybody says about SH3... and SubSim!:rotfl:

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

Assassin's Creed (beautifully redone cities of Acre, Jerusalem, and Damascus)

BioShock (wonderful storyline and graphics; voice acting was also done extremely well)

Il2 1946 (changed combat flight simulation as we know it)

Silent Hunter III (opened up a new age of graphics [it's actually generally credited with it])

Ghost Recon (revolutionized AI as we know it)

Battlefield 1942 (showed us a world of fraggers and kick-ass mods)

Rome: Total War (introduced more sophisticated graphics and changed the way we look at RTS gameplay)

Medal of Honor series (the daddy of FPS games [DOOM is the grandaddy, lol])

Red Baron 3D (showed us World War I)

Half-Life 2 (shook the world with graphics never seen before on the new source engine)

The Sims 2 (the improved game of life... with improved 3D mode...)

Elder Scrolls series (brought forth the age of roleplaying)

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (just added it because of the totally awesome script, acting, and storyline; great game that's more like a movie than anything else)

Almost none of those are from the 20th centuray!

[Mikey_Wolf]

Best PC game of the 20th Century?

Day of the Tentacle.

[Deamon]

This question is easy to answere for me: OPERATION FLASHPOINT <--- best game of all times

Hey did you said of 20th century ?

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

most the games you guys are mentioning are 21st century games, not 20th! we're looking for 10 yrs or older!!

Ok if one game i had to choose before 2000, it would have to be 'Fast Attack and Aces of the Deep' ...

Wait a minute thats two... Oh stuff it! :rotfl:

At the end of 2008 when the thread comes up 'Whats your worst and best moment of Subsim'. My worst moment would be this one. It popped out of nowhere and is a twister of all twisters. There is no such thing as best game! Its Best gameS <---

I cant pick just one! :rotfl:

[Mikey_Wolf]

Hang on, I revise my original suggestion - the best PC game of the 20th Century = Solitaire.

[antikristuseke]

I'm quite surprised noone has mentioned Fallout or Fallout 2 yet. Thats the one that takes the cake ffrom me, but it is really close with some of theo ther greats allready mentined here.