Niteowl's List Of 100 Essential Games

[Niteowl]

this is my list of PC games that have impacted game making and/or have a etheral 'classic' feel to them. discuss, make yer own lists!

civilizations
sim city
doom
half life
starcraft
nethack
evercrack
solitaire
total annihilation
test drive
need for speed
falcon 3.0
kings quest
leisure suit larry
zork
sims
deus ex
thief
diablo
nwn
scorched earth
alone in the dark
quake
grand theft auto 3
elite
black and white
command and conquer
prince of persia
wolfenstein 3D
counter-strike
Oregon Trail
Dungeon Keeper
Grim Fandango
metal gear solid
roller coaster tycoon
archon
X Com
X Wing vs TIE Fighter
Doom 3
Morrowind
Descent
fallout
mechwarrior
natural selection
tetris
bf1942
mdk
system shock 2
hitman
max payne
unreal tournament
medal of honor



Classics, but not sure if they are essentials:
Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max
Loom
homeworld
marathon
Battle Chess
MASTER OF ORION II
Baldur's Gate
Screamer
Duke Nukem 3D
Serious Sam
Ages of Empires 2
Rise of Nations

[Necrosis]

X Com man FTW!!

Criminal you missed this out. Squad based gameplay at its finest.

Shadowrun
Warriors of the Eternal Sun
Shining Force series

Arguably the finest RPGs to grace the Megadrive/Genesis

Blade Runner (so sweet)

I defy you to find a better RPG than this, in the truest sense of the term. No other game allows such a wide range of char interaction (as opposed to the FF games.. your responses there being surly or surly).

Dune 2/2000/Emperor

C&Cs jazzed up cousin

Alpha Centauri, ftw.

Yes, lets take the best bits of Civ and slap on a bloody decent enemy AI. And yes despite lagging by close to a decade, I still urinate on Civ 3, my mutant offspring.

MASTER OF ORION II

Observe as I likewise urinate on my mutant offspring, as well as give you fleet battles, galactic politics, micromanagement, macromanagement in a format that WORKS.

X: Beyond the Frontier/X-Tension

Yes, after the loooooong crawl to a decent ship I become Elite only better.


X Wing vs TIE Fighter (Alliance is for 2 yr olds)

Thrill as I allow PC users to fly Star Wars ships and kill each other. Show love to the ability to hack files and make Star Destroyers flyable.



Other than those, I have to agree with your list. Freecell.

[esuna]

Well, i feel i should, since my opinion is more important than anyone else's. In no particular order:

• Doom 3
• Final Fantasy 6, 7
• Silent Hill 1, 2, 3
• Mafia
• Super Probotector / Contra 3
• Super Mario 3
• Duck Hunt
• Shadowrun
• Actraiser
• Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City
• Morrowind
• Baldur's Gate 1, 2
• Fallout 1, 2
• Fatal Frame 1-2 / Project Zero 1-2
• Civillisation
• Warcraft 2
• Dune 2
• Elite
• X
• Descent
• Quake, Quake 2
• Zelda 3: A Link To The Past
• Zelda 4: Er, that one with the egg on the mountain
• Need For Speed Underground
• Sensible Soccer
• Screamer
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, 4, 5
• R-Type
• Tapper
• Cannon Fodder
• NARC
• Blake Stone
• X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Alone In The Dark
• Blade Runner
• Command & Conquer
• Bionic Commando
• Mario Kart
• F-Zero
• Sonic
• Police Quest 1, 2
• King's Quest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Leisure Suit Larry 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
• Monkey Island 1, 2, 3, 4
• Mechwarrior 2, MW2 Mercenaries
• Grim Fandango
• Space Quest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• I'm bored now
• Thief 1, 2, 3 /  Deadly Shadows

All classics, and if you've not played them all, you suck.

[That Annoying Kid]

rise of the triad anyone?

SIM PLANET! [yes I played that]

let's not forget everyones favorite RTS / FPS fusion Natural-selection.

and I'm sure HL2 will be a big step towards realism [physics and the like] in games

[Satanic Monkey]

Final Fantasy 5,6,7,9
Super mario 3
Super mario World
All super mario karts
Super mario 64
Starcraft Broodwar
Ragnarok
Prisontale
Pokemon (yea, i said it, so what)
Pokemon the card game
Tetrix
Half-life mods ( esf, ts,tfc, ns)
Most of the zeldas
Conker's bad fur day
Psi-ops
Dragonballz fighting games for snes and final bout for playstation.
Street fighter 2 and 3
Breath of fire 3 and 4
Chrono Trigger and Cross
All kirby games
Donkey kong Country 1,3
Bomberman
Harvest moon (all of 'em, expect the snes one)
Super mario rpg
Sonic
Warcraft
Super smash bros Melee
Pikmin 1,2
DDR
Secret of evermore and the other one, i forget the name
Pacman
Lesiure suit larry
And that's all I can remember

[Diablus]

Sim Copter. Hands down. Crappy graphics, sexual sounds used for "bumping into structures/things" finding and jacking helecopters, HELLA lot of bugs. Cheat codes that let you get hipachi's for hours of Annihilating a city fun since theres NO cops!

[Jefe]

Well, i feel i should, since my opinion is more important than anyone else's. In no particular order:

[/li][li]Doom 3
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• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, 4, 5
  

All classics, and if you've not played them all, you suck.

[snapback]26547[/snapback]

you might want to think about these one more time.

[Niteowl]

what part of PC GAMES do you goobers not understand? make your own list for consoles! keep this aboot PC games!

[holy_devil]

can't believe no one mentioned shadow warrior. great game, one of the first to use jump crouch and secondary fire (if not the first) and climbing. also, blood. hilarious and great freaking game.

[esuna]

can't believe no one mentioned shadow warrior. great game, one of the first to use jump crouch and secondary fire (if not the first) and climbing. also, blood. hilarious and great freaking game.

[snapback]26564[/snapback]

Shadow Warrior, as much as i really like that game, was released far too late. The Build engine was already dead by it's release, and it looked dated as hell. Blood was pretty good too, but got boring as it went on.

And jefe, as far as i'm concerned, Doom 3 is a classic in my eyes, i really love that game, and as for the Tony Hawk games, those things have kept me and my friends entertained for more hours than i'd care to count. I'd say that barring HL and FFVII, the tony hawk games have kept me entertained longer than anything else.

And finally, my opinion > yours. XD

[Evangelion_2]

Blood was a awesome fps. Especialy during a LAN party and you light someone on fire in deathmatch

I would add:
MDK
Serious Sam
AVP2
System Shock 2
BF 1942
No one lives forever
Myst
Enter the Matrix ( lol just kidding :p)
Splinter Cell

[sonic]

Front mission 3 for the psx, absolutely fantastic mech game

[BobTheJanitor]

System Shock 2

Can't believe it took that long for it to be mentioned. Heathens!

[Niteowl]

PC games ppl, PC!

[Seth]

Doom 3
Half life ( not going to mension mods )
Deer hunter 2004
Quake 3
Unreal turnament 2003
Lord of the rings, War of the ring
Max payne 1 n 2
Tribes 1 n 2
C%C red alert2
Soldier of fortune 2
BF1942
Delta force Blackhawkdown
Operation flashpoint
Tom clancy Ghost recon
Star wars jedi academy


thats just what i got kicking around in my desk

[Necrosis]

Every game is a PC game now. GG Emulation. TECHNICALITY!


Anyone mention Ecstatica?



Side note, and rather funny.... despite using a Remember Citadel spray, I have never played SS1 or SS2. I need to mug ebay.

[Malevolent]

I don't necessarily like some of these titles, but they've had a large impact.

Unreal Tournament
Unreal
Diablo
Diablo II
Rainbow Six
Medal of Honor

[Tombomb]

Master OF orion 2 is leet.... i remember playing that asowme game and i heard there was a masters of orion 3? so i waited and waited and got it..... Pa-TOOYE.... WORST GAME EVAR they OVER DID IT HARD CORE it was so advanced and complicated i dint understand ^^ nor did my brothers who are way smarter than me for like weeks... game sucked died horribly.  Master Of Orion 2 still owns

[Leaderz0rz]

Ages of Empires 2...that took my life for like a year

[CorvusX]

Nobody played Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Clone Campaigns?

Basically the Star Wars version of AoE2 :ph34r: