Monday, June 23, 2014

My Top Computer Games of ALL TIME!

Here it is folks, the definitive list of the best PC games I have ever played. And I have played a lot.
I am huge fan of shooters, and adventure games. RPG's I also like as long as the story is good but as a rule do not go looking for them. (The best RPG's I have played are probably The Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic games and the Mass Effect series) Racing games usually bore me to death within the first five minutes unless they are arcade games with lots of action. One of my best racing action games I played in my youth was called Axelerator (Have a NICE day). This was awesome, arcade cars with machine guns and rocket launchers to blow up the car in front of you. What could be better. I always thought of racing simulations as a dead bore. What fun is it sticking to the rules of physics and the law within a gaming enviroment? So I hardly ever played any real racing sims. That al changed after I bought my iPhone and discovered a gem of a game called Real Racing 3. But that's another story. This here is about PC games and the following are the greatest I have had the pleasure of experiencing.

Doom/Doom 2
These 2 games came preloaded onto the first PC I ever owned back in 1997, a Pentium 200MMX. My buddy and I used to play this for hours on end. We were young and no cares in the world, all we had was Doom :) This made an indelible and unforgettable impression on my psyche. Amazing action, utterly breathtaking levels and stunning music (the soundtrack I still listen to sometimes). Seeing 100s of enemies come at you from every direction was a true nightmare. The Boss fights in the vast arenas are still amazing to this day. I love games like this, games that don't pretend to be anything but a game. The reason I hated the sequel Doom 3 so much was they dropped all this and went with the times and bogged it down with storylines and claustrophobia and enemies in single-file. lol.

Half Life

Half Life was a game changer. It had a movie like storyline NPCs that were essential to the player progression. NPCs that could talk with perfect lip syncing. Amazing weoponry such as the laser-guided RPG launcher that could be used to take down the black gunships (first-time ever I'd seen a helicopter shot down by an rocket launcher in a game). Plus it had Gordon, a hero who was no muscle-bound Duke Nukem but a MIT particle physicist. Amazing set piece after set piece, with stunning enemy AI.

Hexen II

I was a huge fan of the first Hexen with its enhanced Doom engine graphics, moss covered ruined castles and fantasy setting. Endless dungeons with endless enemies, and secrets and keys and portals. An intricate puzzle that was extremely intoxicating as well as hard as hell to solve. When Hexen II came along and i bought it immediately. Graphics were a step above, and gameplay was even better. Catapulting over castle walls, finding clue after clue, secret after secret beating one horsemen of the Apocalypse after another, till finally we meet Eidolin in a vast arena with the creepiest music I have ever heard for a boss battle. This still is the greatest Final Boss battle in any game ever for me.

Far Cry

Jedi Knight Dark Forces II

Jedi Academy

Crysis

Prey

Pharaoh

Quake III


Dead Space

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