[Game] Best Year for PC Games?

[Harb]

I was thinking about some of my favourite games and making various lists (a bad habit like the top5s from High Fidelity) and realised how many great games came from 1997.

From adventure games Last Express, Blade Runner, Broken Sword II, Curse of Monkey Island, Little Big Adventure 2 and Dark Earth to RPGs Fallout and Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny to stratgey Total Annihilation, X-Com Apocalypse, Myth: The Fallen Lords, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Age of Empires. First person shooters Outlaws, Quake II and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.

1997 saw the release of so many great games of which 3 are in my top 10 games of all time list. Fallout, Last Express and Total Annihilation.

I can't think of another year that was as strong with so many great PC games. The late 90s was a great time for pc gamers

What's your favourite year for PC games and what games make the list?

 

[Nicholas]

2011, because Heroes of Stalingrad comes out

 

[Fedorov]

2011, because Heroes of Stalingrad comes out

I was gonna say, whatever year HOES comes out xD

Until then... its 2004 and 2005 (the years I played Red Orchestra: Combined Arms, Battlegrounds HL mod, Lineage 2 and Guild Wars)

 

[Major Liability]

Honestly my favorite PC games are spread perfectly evenly across the years. There is no best for me.

 

[LemoN]

1996!!

So many great games.

Duke Nukem 3D
Elderscrolls II
Diablo
Master of Orion II
C&C:RA
Star Wars: SOTE
Mech Warrior 2
Close Combat 2
House of the Dead

 

[Amerikaner]

2002 - Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Battlefield 1942.

or

2003 - Red Orchestra mod UT2k3 beta and America's Army


Too close to call. MOHAA and BF1942 are two of the greatest PC games ever and built the path for future war games yet RO and AA refined fps's to more tactical realistic gameplay. Both awesome years.

 

[KrazyKraut]

I think you can find lots of the greatest computer games in each year between 1993-2000. As clich

 

[Tomcat_ha]

no way to pick my favorite games of all time are civ2, total annihilation, ofp, red orchestra and UT. While this does make the 90's better than the 00's its still spread fairly evenly.

 

[NoxNoctum]

2011, because Heroes of Stalingrad comes out

This.

But yes the late 90s and early 2000s were great for games... Freespace series, Battlezone series, Thief series, Tribes 1 and 2, Starcraft, Red Alert 1, OFP, Combat Mission series, R6 series before it sucked etc.

Honestly it just started to go downhill with the start of the CoD series (even if the first was good fun). Clich

 

[Ralfst3r]

Tough one. Don't think I have one favorite year really. And oh yea, Outlaws was awesome! "Whhheeere are you Maaaarshalll????"

 

[DASU DASU]

Riven was also released in 1997

 

[Nezzer]

2010 just because of Mass Effect 2

 

[SheepDip]

Nezzer I hardly think that counts given that Mass Effect 2 is a multiplatform title and meant nothing really for "PC games"

After consulting my collection...

I think either 1998
Half Life
Thief
Baldurs Gate
Fallout 2
Myth 2
Unreal
Starcraft

1999
Planescape Torment
R6 Rogue Spear
System Shock 2
Freespace 2
Dungeon Keeper 2
Mechwarrior 3
Aliens vs Predator
Homeworld
Unreal Tournament

Or 2000
Soldier of Fortune
Deus Ex
Thief 2
Shogun:TW
Baldurs Gate 2
The Sims

 

[slavek]

Nezzer I hardly think that counts given that Mass Effect 2 is a multiplatform title and meant nothing really for "PC games"

After consulting my collection...

I think either 1998
Half Life
Thief
Baldurs Gate
Fallout 2
Myth 2
Unreal
Starcraft

Those were the good old days.

 

[Nicholas]

This.

But yes the late 90s and early 2000s were great for games... Freespace series, Battlezone series, Thief series, Tribes 1 and 2, Starcraft, Red Alert 1, OFP, Combat Mission series, R6 series before it sucked etc.

Honestly it just started to go downhill with the start of the CoD series (even if the first was good fun). Clich

 

[Floyd]

Its a toss up between 1979 when text based Zork I came out on 5.25in floppies and 1993 when Myst came out for the Windows platform.

Soo many sleepless nights wandering around in Zork...

go e
The path continues
go e
go e
"You have come to a mailbox"
open the mailbox
"There is a letter inside."
read the letter
...

 

[DraKon2k]

Nezzer I hardly think that counts given that Mass Effect 2 is a multiplatform title and meant nothing really for "PC games"

Multiplatform titles like Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age or Battlefield Bad Company 2 are huge on PC too and are good pc games. Nowadays you can't really think with your logic anymore because there simply aren't many BIG pc exclusives anymore.

But if we're talking PC exclusives then of course you'd have to go with the 98-01 years with great titles like HL1, Deus Ex, Nolf, UT99, Red Alert 2 etc. But I also believe that 2004 was a pretty big technological leap forward with Doom 3, Far Cry & Half-Life 2.

 

[Nimsky]

I can't pick, lots of great (PC) games are released every year, even to this day. Every year both good games and bad games are released, it has always been that way. Though if you're a bit too nostalgic you might not see that.

 

[Nezzer]

Nezzer I hardly think that counts given that Mass Effect 2 is a multiplatform title and meant nothing really for "PC games"

I only play on PC anyway :troll:

 

[Dcode]

Mid to late 90's; some real gems came out then, add in online multiplayer and 3D accelerators and developers just went ape-****