The "must have" PC games (Since 2001)

Did KOTOR come out on PC first?


Anyways, the lack of straight up RPG's on that list is depressing. Especially considering the great history RPGS (that were PC exclusives) had.


I don't think most PC fanboys will argue that there is a quantitative decline in quality. The upside is that alot of those games have the potential for 1000's of hours of gameplay (due to mods, online play, etc etc). So in a way it balances out. You would be hard pressed to find a game on the PS2 that could offer the replayability of a BF2, Rome: Total War or WOW. That's where the value is for a PC gamer .. you could play 1 game for an entire year. On a console, you are lucky to play one game for a month.

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Originally Posted by toxic

Did KOTOR come out on PC first?

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Nope.

I just can't get into MMORPG's. even WOW was too much of a grind session for me, though the universe is really sweet and exploring it was fantastic fun (trying to swim away from level 50 turtles at level 7 = awesome).

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Originally Posted by toxic

Anyways, the lack of straight up RPG's on that list is depressing. Especially considering the great history RPGS (that were PC exclusives) had.

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Yeah, I miss black isle :(

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Originally Posted by arjue

Yeah, I miss black isle :(

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All of those were out before 2001 or else I'd have straight-up name dropped all the Fallouts. The only game from that series that came out in '01 was Fallout Tactics..Eh..Yeah.

Yeah, I thought that was the point of toxic's post.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

I stopped playing SWG because it was a ridiculous, unbelievable grind that was absolutely no fun whatsoever. I stopped playing WoW because it was so much fun that it was consuming my life and I needed to stop. Nevertheless, if I had to make a list of the games I spent the most time with, WoW would be in my top 5.

Hmm, I wonder which is better...

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strangly why i quit wow. look, we are glad you like wow, you certainly have told us enough about it every single time we have talked about mmo's, pretty much like clockwork, but the game was fucking boring rehash of everquests ideas to alot of us here, so unless you want to argue the same points with the same poeple over and over again, its kind of redundant already. we get the point , you like generic races and half assed rehashed combat mechanics, proud of you.

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Originally Posted by toxic

I don't think most PC fanboys will argue that there is a quantitative decline in quality. The upside is that alot of those games have the potential for 1000's of hours of gameplay (due to mods, online play, etc etc). So in a way it balances out. You would be hard pressed to find a game on the PS2 that could offer the replayability of a BF2, Rome: Total War or WOW. That's where the value is for a PC gamer .. you could play 1 game for an entire year. On a console, you are lucky to play one game for a month.

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quantitative yes, unfortunatly the lure of the money of mmo's has drawn a lot of studios from making enjoyable single player content and its a shame. bethesda has pretty much become the standard bearer for single player rpg's anymore, they seem pretty solid that they will never make an mmo, and i admire them for it, sometimes its fun not to have to continue paying for each game you buy individually.

unfortunatly the success of wow will only make it worse, since most devs will overlook the fact that they dont have blizzard's following and will think they can get numbers like wow, and they will fail.

American McGee's Alice

This game doesn't have much replay value, but it's fun and has good music.
The level design is interesting, if not terribly complex, and gameplay is solid enough.
It's also one of the few console-style games that was exclusive to PC, AFAIK.

I usually see it packaged with Undying for really cheap.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

American McGee's Alice

This game doesn't have much replay value, but it's fun and has good music.
The level design is interesting, if not terribly complex, and gameplay is solid enough.
It's also one of the few console-style games that was exclusive to PC, AFAIK.

I usually see it packaged with Undying for really cheap.

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Pretty fun game, but kinda bad to control. I wonder if American McGee is an egomaniac like Cliffy B. Maybe they're lovers or something.

Anyway, you're right about the bundle with Undying. I've seen that bundle at Walmart for 10 bucks. Sometimes you can get good deals on PC stuff at Walmart.

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Originally Posted by arjue

Yeah, I thought that was the point of toxic's post.

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He edited all that shit in after I'd answered his question.