PC Gamer-2014 Top 100 Games

Are they paid by EA ?

RANK 1 - Mass Effect 2
Wes - Mass Effect 2 dropped the deeply customisable weapon system I loved in Mass Effect. I also missed Mass Effect’s optimistic tone and wide-open, explorable galaxy.
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RANK 8 - MASS EFFECT 3
Richard - Citadel is my favourite DLC ever.
Evan - Number eight? C’mon, guys. Don’t do this to me.
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:rolleyes:

Can't even see mass effect in the list

Also Dawn Of War #74 :confused: :( (altho it is pretty bad on widescreen resolutions)


RANK 4 - DEUS EX

has anyone tried playing this recently :confused:
I got the goty edition on gog, installed loads of mods and it seems really terrible :(
Mouse sensitivity seems weird, game feels like it's just a mod on UT (I know it's same engine but it seems terrible even compared to UT)

Arcane said:
Battlefield ahead of Quake 3 was enough for me to disregard it. Also, no Half Life 1, far Cry 1 or Quake 1? All subjective though I suppose.
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dvs8 said:
I stopped reading after seeing Doom 3 ranked higher than Quake 3
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Completely agree with the above comments :(
 
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PC Gamer, I stopped reading that site/mag years ago. Just full of up their own ass tripe from payed reviews.
 
Skyrim at number 2

What kind of joke is that lol. Yeah it's a good game, made better with mods but it had all sorts of problems with 120hz monitors and to be honest got boring quickly for myself.
 
I sunk silly hours into Skyrim and it does a great deal very right. Doesn't change the fact that the combat is god awful though! Wouldn't make my top 50 PC games.
 
Warbie said:
I sunk silly hours into Skyrim and it does a great deal very right. Doesn't change the fact that the combat is god awful though! Wouldn't make my top 50 PC games.
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Thank you! Super Mario had better combat than skyrim. Just no feeling whatsoever.
 
That top ten or even twenty... what the ****?

Mass Effect 2 at #1? :eek: Are they mad? Mass Effect 3 at #8? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :rolleyes:
Mass Effect 1 should be higher than both, and even then I wouldn't rank it anywhere near #1.

Where's Morrowind anyway, I couldn't find it in there?

As usual these lists are nothing more than a subjective joke.

molinari said:
As already said, some strange omissions and inclusions.
Do you need to have played Mass Effect 1 in order to appreciate Mass Effect 2??
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No, but you'll never be able to appreciate ME1 properly if you start with ME2 and go backwards.
 
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The list is utterly pathetic. Let PC gamers vote then see how different it is:

The following were not even present:

Limbo
Alan Wake
Max Payne 2
Castlevania Lords Of Shadows 1
Dark Souls 2
Dead Space series
Batman Arkham Asylum
Shadow Warrior 2013
Hard Reset
Jedi Knight 1 + 2
Aliens Vs Predator (original)
Grand Theft Auto Vice City

You could go on for ages the list is just compiled by a group of journos voting whilst drinking & thats how they arrive at the final list :rolleyes: & how credible it is :rolleyes:
 
Stop reading them a while back to be fair, quality of online places caught up and now there appears to be a collective slide in writing quality across all media platforms anyway.

Not a bad list overall, but certainly some things I'd disagree with. Then again it is impossible to create such a list and pleasing everyone.

I would agree with Crysis, it may not have had a breaking gameplay and storyline but end of the day it also embodies what PC gaming is about a lot of the time and it's breaking new ground and pushing hardware not just to the limits but beyond and generations to come. It was also, even to this one of the last true PC exclusives that we've had and that's something for a game from 2007!

Also in terms of impact on generations I would have to say that BF2 probably had more influence than newer iterations. Sure the original 1942 game was fantastic, but BF2 really polished the gameplay, the mechanics and brought large scale vehicular/air/infantry combat onto our puny PCs. With today's emphasis on accessibility for everyone, DLCs left right and centre and the need for non stop fun and explosions to keep those dopamine levels spiked in our over stimulated brains we just seem to have games with little differentiation between each other.

Saying that though for anyone coming into PC gaming now it would merely be an outdated game and its impact on the industry, simply a lost reference. I can't even blame them, while I got to experience games like the original Half-Life and Deus Ex quite a few years after their release, I'm sure if I did so now in this day and age I would find them lacking features, graphics and polish. At 27 I find even playing something like Half-Life 2 starting to feel stale now after experiencing recent games.
 
List is full of games that just never appealed to me at all

Quite refreshing to still see Frontier in there at 47 and UFO at 83 though

And no Half Life? I can still remember seeing that jaw dropping intro for the first time
 
Just looked at top 10 and was surprised to see the new XCOM in there.
I liked this quote though:

Phil said:
There is a guy acting suspiciously near Jock’s helicopter. I have noticed that he is acting suspiciously, but I don’t do anything about it. I figure there’ll be a clearly marked moment in which to register that I have noticed him acting suspiciously. There isn’t. In Deus Ex, unlike in other games, action speaks louder than cutscenes.
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^This is exactly the sort of thing we will 'never' (never say never!) see from modern, mainstream, console-oriented games. If Deus Ex was a 2014 game, there would be a voice-over with JC saying "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, veeeeeeeeeeeeery suspicious"
*Attempt to Enter helicopter*
Message pops up "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ENTER HELICOPTER? THERE IS A VERY SUSPICIOUS MAN OVER THERE"
*Attempt to enter helicopter*
Lose control of the character, camera view pans round to look at the guy. He's flashing with a red border around him......
etc.
 
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Very spotty list to say the least..

Where is X Wing vs TIE Fighter for instance or StarCraft (or even the original Warcraft which was the first real multiplayer RTS which hit it big time and along with Wolfenstein spawned a thousand LAN meetings)

These are the games which got me into PC gaming back in the day along with Everquest on the MMO side.
 
Too many indie / just released / unreleased games.

Says it all. All of this mostly from metrosexual hipsters who were barely floating around in someone's testies, while us, glorious vanguard of the PC Master Race were already conquering Wolfenstein, Populous, Wing Commander, Tie Fighter, Prince of Persia, Dune II, Chuck Yeager or Ultima VI...

Pfft, tourists!
 
tommybhoy said:
Can't for the life of me, getting my head round the most glaring omission that is-Crysis.

That was the single most incredible PC title in a long, long time and way, way out of site of what any other dev could muster.

Crysis gave the community exactly what no one was willing to do, a (rig)killer title that brought PC's to their knees for years-putting the buzz back into PC gaming.
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I'd say that was mainly due to the second half of the game (where the aliens appeared) dragging the game down completely. It went from something amazing, with fantastic AI to a repetitive game of cat and mouse. Don't even get me started on the alien spaceship scene!
 
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