The Most Important PC Game Ever

Masterdog · 12 May 2007 at 23:33

The poster for Quake I boasted it was 'The Most Important PC Game Ever', as evidenced by this thread.
What would you say is the most important PC game ever? Which has done the most to advance the cause of gaming on the PC? It doesn't necessarily need to be a great game, although that'd probably help.
I think Quake has a valid claim, in that it really kickstarted the mod community which for me is one of the strongest strings to the PC's bow. The 3D gaming, mouselook, netcode - without it, would some of our favourite games play the way they do today? Half-life was based on the Quake engine - would it have been so revolutionary without it?
Be interested in your thoughts...

sarutobi · 12 May 2007 at 23:35

There is no definite
but Half Life is deffo up there, as everyone will probably agree.

squiffy · 12 May 2007 at 23:36

Wolfenstein 3D

yhack · 12 May 2007 at 23:38

The first one?

squiffy · 12 May 2007 at 23:40

yhack said:
The first one?

Yup. It ushered in a new era of PC gaming. Fantastic game too.

Inoshishi · 12 May 2007 at 23:40

Wolf3D\Doom\Quake - They paved the way for the rest imo.

snowdog · 12 May 2007 at 23:41

Mr.Orb · 12 May 2007 at 23:42

Monkey Island.

squiffy · 12 May 2007 at 23:43

snowdog said:
C&C

Nope, Dune 2.

Kemik · 12 May 2007 at 23:52

For me it was defiantly Half Life. Started my addiction to PC gaming and my main love (CS & CSS) come from HL.

wnb · 13 May 2007 at 00:31

Wolfstein 3d must have done it for me.

Glaucus · 13 May 2007 at 00:33

simple and yes there is an awnser doom. It's what kicked of 3d gaming. without it gaming would never off exploded like it did.

benjo · 13 May 2007 at 00:33

Kemik said:
For me it was defiantly Half Life. Started my addiction to PC gaming and my main love (CS & CSS) come from HL.

Same for me too

I really enjoyed HL1, it was probably one of the first games i played with a story line that kept me hooked.

Duff-Man · 13 May 2007 at 00:36

Tough to say...

I think I might have to plump for quake though. It was the first fully 3d game, and it provided an engine platform for a revolution in gaming - both PC and console based.

original C+C created a genre and has to be high up... you could go further back and point to doom or even wolf3d, but it's tough to say whether they were important in themselves.

I'm surprised no-one has said Pong yet - after all that game was the one that started everything (although of course it was inevitable that computerised gaming would develop at some point anyway).

weringo · 13 May 2007 at 00:37

Commander Keen

NokkonWud · 13 May 2007 at 00:40

Wolfenstein.
Doom.
Quake.
Half-Life.
Deus Ex.
Populous.
Civilization.
Command and Conquer.

Those kind of cult games are the ones that have shaped genre's etc..
It's impossible to put a definite on it.

I'd say Quake certainly revolutionized 3D gaming more than any other game though and so you could argue very strongly that that is the most important game of all time.

EvilGrin · 13 May 2007 at 00:41

Pong.

m0r94n · 13 May 2007 at 00:47

EvilGrin said:
Pong.

Theres always one

Psyk · 13 May 2007 at 00:53

AcidHell2 said:
simple and yes there is an awnser doom. It's what kicked of 3d gaming. without it gaming would never off exploded like it did.

I'm inclined to agree. Sure there was Wolf3D before it, but that didn't have the mainstream success that Doom did.

skullman · 13 May 2007 at 00:54

Wolf3D came first but it was when Doom arrived ppl started to look up and take notice of PC gaming - me included.