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Whats your favorite pc game of all time?

Mass Effect. All 3 count as one IMO. Yeah I know they're mainly console ports but I only ever played them on PC.

Crysis 1 might be up there. Not the best game but it was the one that made me want to go all in on PC building and gaming so I could get those luscious graphics.
 
Baldur's Gate for me, particularly 2 & Throne of Bhaal. Actually just a big fan of old Bioware games in general, but that's #1. Runner up is probably KOTOR 1 & 2, honorable mention to Mass Effect.

Susquehannock said:
Unreal Tournament 1999. I still play maps I created myself back in the day. With bot pathing, full lighting & sounds. Play on a Win98 voodoo 4 system built from parts I've had since back then. The weapons were not overly balanced like UT 2004.
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I had a lot of fun with that back in the day. Still play it once in a while. No need for a retro rig though. It runs really well on a Ryzen 5 9600X and an Intel ARC B580 with the community patches installed. So throw some gear at it that didn't exist at the time and it still runs well thanks to community support. The one messy bit I've run into with it over the years is on some rigs I've had is it really didn't like multiple CPUs. Ran like shit on a dual Opteron rig I built in 2004 unless I pinned it to one CPU. Also had trouble with a first gen Core Duo laptop. 9600X doesn't cause trouble but maybe the community patches fixed it. UT99 only needs one CPU thread. It doesn't know how to use more, and runs better when pinned to a single core. Doesn't really matter what kind on a modern rig. One of Intel's lower power e-cores they put in laptops is stupid crazy fast compared to what UT99 needs. So if UT '99 runs like crap on a multi-core rig just open up task manager and pin it to one CPU thread.
 
So many that could not answer. Many gave alternate picks so as too subdue the reality .
Got to give the "WHOLE THING" a pass.
 
Hard to choose... but as of this time in my life, my pick is Divinity Original Sin 2. Played thru at least 5 times @ 200 hrs each...
 
Difficult to pick a favorite, so here's top three. Ultima 7 + expansions, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Battlefield 1. With more time and more expansions, may add Arc Raiders to the list.
 
I started real online gaming in 2002 with Metal of Honor : Ailled Assusalt = MOHAA , started learning to put a socket 478 Intel P4 together running the Nvidia Ge Force 4 4200Ti with 64mb of memory, it was wild times!
 
In no particular order:

Thief 2: The Metal Age
Total Annihilation
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
The Incredible Machine
Space Quest V
Quake 1 + Team Fortress + Jailbreak
Quake 3 Arena
World of Warcraft was pretty amazing up through WotLK
League of Legends - I generally hate it but I can't deny that it's pretty fun when you've got a 5 stack in ARAM and you're crushing every match.
 
Half-Life 1 - game itself was pretty captivating and immersive for the time - and then it came with Hammer Editor and I used to watch Stargate SG-1 late at night on syndication trying to recreate SG Command in Hammer - and then HL1 allowed for Counter-Strike which we used to play at the cybercafe against Koreans all the time - and then the sequel (HL2) and needing to upgrade to play well/better is what got me into computer HW (only knew how to use a computer and download MP3s before that never touched anything inside).

I've had a lot of 'favorite' games on PC but HL1 was probably most impactful thus most favorite.
 
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Favorite? What a tough question, akin to your favorite food or.. child if you had like 20.

First game I remember was Oregon Trail on an old Apple in elementary school. Also this typing game that measured your wpm I became obsessed with. (Fastest in class and they announced it at graduation :p)

From there my next memories were of the Sierra games on my home Apple once we got one, mostly Roger Wilco and Freddy Pharkas come to mind. It’s hard not to have such fond memories of the ones that got you started..

The first game to get me into shooters was the first Wolfenstein, Doom, and Duke Nukem.

Then it was all Half Life, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, and Team Fortress.

Then of course UT99. I had a class in middle school with PC’s at every desk, me and the class managed to get it installed on every one of them and would play pretty much the whole time. Since I played it and they were new to it I would wipe the floor with all of them to the point they’d sit where I couldn’t see them and start games without me. Awesome times.

The original MAFIA rocked me at the time as an honorable mention, my degenerate ass actually stole a physical copy from K-Mart.

Another one to Fallout 3, my first experience with an rpg of its kind that opened the genre to me for the likes of its sequels, Oblivion, and of course The Witcher series.

I still play CS to this day and my time is unknown from beta - Source, but I have about 2800 hours in GO and 2 alone. I don’t play much at all anymore but I guess based on that alone I’d have to call it my favorite.

Also Elden Ring though, that game changed my taste in gaming forever.
 
Bankie said:
In no particular order:

Thief 2: The Metal Age
Total Annihilation
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
The Incredible Machine
Space Quest V
Quake 1 + Team Fortress + Jailbreak
Quake 3 Arena
World of Warcraft was pretty amazing up through WotLK
League of Legends - I generally hate it but I can't deny that it's pretty fun when you've got a 5 stack in ARAM and you're crushing every match.
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Oh man Soldier of Fortune brings back good memories. Having a Steve Balmer flashback.

Dismemberment! Dismemberment! Dismemberment!

:ROFLMAO:
 
AceGoober said:
Oh man Soldier of Fortune brings back good memories. Having a Steve Balmer flashback.

Dismemberment! Dismemberment! Dismemberment!

:ROFLMAO:
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Yeah, I had that on my list but removed it because I felt my list was already too long.
 
I feel like Red Faction was my first wow moment with dismemberment, maybe I’ve got things mixed up.
 
evhvis said:
So hard to pick a single game as some older games that were outstanding at the time of release still hold up reasonably well in the gameplay, but graphics and mechanics are very outdated. My favorite game of all time wasn't available on PC until well over a decade after it's release so I will not count it as a PC game. I will cheat a bit though and split it into single player and multiplayer and split single player by decade.

Single player:
  • 1990s - Tie Fighter Collector's CD-Rom
  • 2000s - Knights Of The Old Repulic (KOTOR)
  • 2010s - Mass Effect 2
  • 2020s - Cyberpunk 2077
Multiplayer: Tied between CS and Quake 3/Quake live. So many hours in both as they have enormous amount of depth and very high skill ceiling. Always something you can do slightly different to achieve a better outcome, shooting mechanics can always be improved a tiny bit etc.
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My overall favorite game is Final Fantasy X, but I consider that to be a PS2 game with remasters on other platforms. Should be noted that CP 2077 and Mass Effect 2 come close to FF X as I absolutely love those games.
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That’s actually a pretty solid way to break it down. Picking one game across 30+ years feels almost impossible. Mass Effect 2 would be high on my list too, but for multiplayer I’d probably go with CS. There’s something about that simple formula and ridiculous skill ceiling that just never gets old.
 
I have to choose two.

1. Warcraft 2: It was the game I saw a kid playing at a ham-fest that made me want to buy a PC so I could play it.
2. BF1942: It took PC multiplaying games to a whole new level by bringing vehicles into the mix that was actually fun. I played it for over 2 years straight.
3. Ok, I have to make it 3 games. Jedi Knight, maybe Jedi Knight 2..(I can't remember) brought awesome multiplayer saber play to life on my 28k dial up modem. The messed up part is no dev has followed suit on what was the best (imho) light saber gameplay since. Everything Star Wars game since has been candyassed because of consoles and gamepads.
 
Everquest - original


Notable mentions:

Dark Age of Camelot
Quake II
Counterstrike
EvE Online
Battlefield 3
PUBG
 
I'll try to mix this up by announcing a winner in some special categories.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe - still play it regularly with mods more than 30 years after launch.

Carmageddon / Half-Life - it's a tie, about 12 hours without quitting for both

Mass Effect 2 / DeusEx another tie, simply because I stopped counting so IDK which is the winner, but both sit well over 10 full playthroughs

System Shock 2 - When you're hauling ass through hydroponics and "Polito" says "Why are you moving so slowly?" - And you instantly get the feeling that something's off

Ghost Recon Wildlands - Huge living open world, all the freedom, it feels like you're really there, and you are not some holier than thou hero, just a regular soldier.

Assassin's Creed - Odyssey - The best looking setting of any game I've seen

Cyberpunk 2077 - I just want to explore every rooftop, every secret, every promise it holds

Alpha Protocol / Splinter Cell Double Agent - it's another tie

Beyond: Two Souls - yes I know it's a console game, but it has a PC port now, so I say it counts.

Test Drive Unlimited

Mad Max

Doom II / Mass Effect 2 / Dragon Age 2 - triple tie

Dragon Age 2 / Last of Us 2 / Starfield - another 3some tie

Dragon Age Inquisition / RDR2 / Witcher 3

Trans Am Racing 68-72 / Star Wars 1313 / Command & Conquer: Generals 2
 
M76 said:
I'll try to mix this up by announcing a winner in some special categories.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe - still play it regularly with mods more than 30 years after launch.

Carmageddon / Half-Life - it's a tie, about 12 hours without quitting for both

Mass Effect 2 / DeusEx another tie, simply because I stopped counting so IDK which is the winner, but both sit well over 10 full playthroughs

System Shock 2 - When you're hauling ass through hydroponics and "Polito" says "Why are you moving so slowly?" - And you instantly get the feeling that something's off

Ghost Recon Wildlands - Huge living open world, all the freedom, it feels like you're really there, and you are not some holier than thou hero, just a regular soldier.

Assassin's Creed - Odyssey - The best looking setting of any game I've seen

Cyberpunk 2077 - I just want to explore every rooftop, every secret, every promise it holds

Alpha Protocol / Splinter Cell Double Agent - it's another tie

Beyond: Two Souls - yes I know it's a console game, but it has a PC port now, so I say it counts.

Test Drive Unlimited

Mad Max

Doom II / Mass Effect 2 / Dragon Age 2 - triple tie

Dragon Age 2 / Last of Us 2 / Starfield - another 3some tie

Dragon Age Inquisition / RDR2 / Witcher 3

Trans Am Racing 68-72 / Star Wars 1313 / Command & Conquer: Generals 2
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