From 10 years ago until now ...

It's hard to single out 1 favourite PC game but the ones I enjoyed very much are

Silent Hill 2 and 3

Need for Speed 2 Special Edition

Fifa 98

Championship Manager 00/01

Football Manager 2008

Worms 2

Tell you what - we can do this thread if we change the question to include why the game or games are your favourite - as is this is a pretty useless starting point for a discussion.

CloudShawChina: What's your favourite PC game from the past 10 years, and why?

Everyone else: Please include a reason why if you're going to respond to this. I'll be closing the thread if we just end up with a big pointless list rather than actual discussion.

[Edited by - jbadams on March 19, 2009 2:10:03 AM]

I would say that it is mix of two. I know these are older then 10 years old... sorry.

Civilisation 2. I enjoy the game and the part that brings me back is the constant goal of beating my old score. Total victory is almost a certainty, it is the attempt to top my last score.

Atlantis. A PBEM game which I play, and have played for the past 12 years. I play it as I am part of the development team for improving the game... so I enjoy implementing features and trying them out. Also for the tactics and diplomacy of playing against real people.

In terms of just total play time, StarCraft wins by a landslide. I played the shit out of that game back in high school. I even stole my dad's internet password so I could log online late at nite when I wouldn't be disturbed and do online match after online match. (I don't count this as replay since that only relates to campaigns or story for me)

In terms of just replay, Deus Ex would be my favorite. With so many gameplay options, including augmentation layouts, level completion strategies, dialogue branches, etc - it's just a joy to replay over and over again just so I can do things differently. Plus the story rocks, I love all that Illuminati conspiracy stuff.

In terms of both it would be either The Sims or SimCity. I suppose I'd have to pick SimCity since I've been playing it longer than The Sims, but it also has the advantage of just being an older series as well. Since you make up your own stories/goals each time you play, replay and total playtime are combined.

Diablo II

Planescape: Torment

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

As the years go by, those are still my top 3 - in any order. I can't pick a #1.

Starcraft - I've always been a huge rts fan. The first pc game I owned was a warchest of Warcraft I, II and II's expansion. And Starcraft just managed to capture the right gameplay. And the free Battle.net definitely didn't hurt any.

SimCity 2000 - Simulation games before simulation games were "the thing". Building up your city and trying to find the right balance of raising taxes and keeping citizens happy. Being pleasantly surprised when you get the offer for that new structure that you didn't even know was in the game prior to right then! Good times, good times.

Civilization 2 or 3 - Controlling a whole civilization's rise (and sometimes fall). A brilliant concept and right around part 2 or 3 of the series, it found a balance of allowing you to control/micromanage lots of cities and multiple religions/governments/etc and still have fun.

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As the years go by, those are still my top 3 - in any order. I can't pick a #1.

Why?

I used to prefer strategy games but find myself more drawn towards the RPG games recently. The hitman series is probably my favourite on PC (hitman bloodmoney being the best). There is a bit of replay value to them as theres different ways of doing each mission but once that is exhausted it gets a bit repetative. I love the story, theme and environment though and really look forward to the next game/expansion.

Age of Empires II - It was kind of like Sim City but with the ability to go and invade another "city" with your massive army of camels. I also loved building up huge empires with complex systems of gates and walls to see how well the computer can try to break it down. Once I got a faster connection, the online portion was way better then the kinda-weird AI.

Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. - Travel around the universe, land on planets with full acceleration causing damage to the ship, try to repair it, repeat. I don't know why this was fun, but it was.

Half Life I,II,EP1,EP2 - Quite honestly, this seems like the only game I played that seemed more than just "Enter room, kill bad guys, continue." In other words, it had a better story than most games I've played. Sure the physics, graphics and such were cool - but I liked the story a lot. GOD DAMN IT FINISH EP3 ALREADY.

BF1942: Desert Combat - BF1942 was the first game I ever played where you could walk around, sail around, drive around and fly around - while shooting people in all four. When DC came out and they introduced modern weaponry, helicopters, new maps and overall faster vehicles...mmm. Once I finally figured out how to fly the damn helicopters, I got good...really good. I pwnd nubs.