So, thirteen of the twenty are available for the Mac, I'm surprised and pleased to say. If only I had more money and time for games The PC version of Halo was a lot of fun. The controls were just like any other FPS and the graphics were on par with other games made in that same year. My friends and I enjoyed playing Halo after ut2k4 became a bore and, in my opinion, it has a lot of great multiplayer maps Blood Glutch, Sidewinder, and Death Island to name a few. If this list came out a few years ago, I would be shock.
A highly repetitive game that features midget aliens that ran around like toddlers on cocaine? A dark future where the elite special forces get issues crap guns by default? Doom 3? A single trick pony, not that "sucks that in the future we'll forget how to attach lights to guns" is much of a pony to start with. It's gorgeous, but it's a crappy game. Game design has moved on since the original Doom. It's not that there aren't better games. Where is Far Cry, which blew Halo's outdoor scenes away It jumps the shark midway through, but there is still a lot of great gameplay?
How about Quake 4, which took Doom 3's amazing technology and coupled it with rock solid gameplay and features the radical idea that a future military might issue its troops useful assault rifles!
Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Mac fanboi during the XP era: "Get a Mac. For games, just get a console. Anyone who claims to be an RPG fan, but only gives a game like oblivion less than an hour to prove itself, is not an RPG fan of any sort. It's my favourite series, and I really don't get why more people don't like like it. My biggest problem with most of the other ones are too many resources. In Warcraft 2, you had wood, gold, and oil, and you need varying amounts of each for building units.
Then there's games like starcraft where you have to constantly click around your base figuring out which buidlings you can finally upgrade, and which ones you can start doing research on. No reason to click on your barracks to build a soldier, or you factory to build a jeep.
Having only one resource is too simplistic. As far clicking on buildings are concerned, I don't like clicking on the map or on the menu; both are too slow. If I had my druthers for Starcraft, you'd have a hotkey to cycle through buildings, or better, several hotkeys to cycle though different classes of buildings.
Chris Mattern No Starcraft or Fallout 2? Forget it! Score: 2 , Interesting by Anonymous Coward writes: Yah, I know those are old games now, but damn I have had a lot of fun playing them. I enjoyed Space Rangers 2 also I also noticed that Warhammer 40k is not included which is too bad, I thought that was a lot of fun. Maybe to be fair to this list we can have a comprehensive list made that shows g Re: Score: 2 by tbannist writes: This may be redundant, but Starcraft and Fallout 2 were generation ' So while they are way, way better than some of the games on that list, they just didn't meet the age requirements for consideration.
Best game of the generation? And I still do. Nethack, the best game of this, past and probably future generations.
Share twitter facebook Re: Score: 2 by JoshJ writes: Nethack was a great game for its time, and everyone that's interested in serious gaming should play it at some point. Because Nethack has so many ridiculous game design flaws it isn't even funny. Every single game designer out there should be forced to play Nethack nonstop until they ascend. That's the only way we'll get the shitty game design elements from roguelikes out of games forever.
Not saying that Nethack is flawless mind you. Have you heard of Tetris? Share twitter facebook Re: Score: 3 , Funny by Geoffreyerffoeg writes: Hasn't everybody upgraded to Vista by now? This soon? I much prefer crashes, especially since I only use Windows for games nowadays when I have time. XP is pretty good about not having viruses or worms if you apply the proper precautions, the first of which is turning on a firewall default in SP2 and only opening ports when you absolutely have to.
And if you don't download sketchy software or mount sketchy disks. I run XP semi-frequently directly on the public Interne Re: Score: 2 by C0rinthian writes: I should also point out that fixing every problem in a multi-million line piece of code is hard I don't think that this has occurred to anyone on here.
You try debugging an operating system with the complexity of Windows. When you can do it, then we'll take your complaints about Windows seriously.
If we could do it then microsoft would be out of business. They are a software company that sells an operating system. People pay them money for said OS, so they don't have to make their own. That's sad. Most video games do, particularly high-budget games which are likely to win awards. Once you've done that, the question becomes: what do you do in this dream world? The answer is simple: you do something you can't do in the real world.
You fight an alien invasion, become a special agent, complete mythical quests, engage in futuristic arena combat, steal cars, or build an empire. Sports games don't do well on PCs. They play better with controllers and on a big screen with friends. Racing games - ditto - few have a wheel, and no one wants to play a racing game with a keyboard. So, what does that leave? Guess what? They almost always involve at least a minimal amount of violence.
We did leave one insanely popular PC game out, though. The Sims is the best-selling PC title of all time, and it isn't really violent at all. I guess you still "shoot" in a basketball game, though. No GTA? Sounds like either of the 3 last one was pretty important, and GTA:III on its own was quite a breakthrough, not to mention the commercial success and popularity of each episode.
At least for now SA-MP is the only one that allows us to get out of our cars, in spite of its numerous bugs and it's advancement far under MTA DM's current betas but hey, they're not releasing it until the editor's done.. Given that Vista takes away several audio features from Creative's line of sound cards [creative.
Given that the best known technical name in the gaming industry says it's not worth bothering with As things stand, I was under the impression that all Vista does for gaming is disable features you have under XP. And give you a couple of exciting menus for games and game specs. Shame hardly anyone plays it any more Back in the day, you could log on and have a really excellent game.
Plenty of people on there, good ping times etc. Now, there are far fewer players, and far more of them are part of a clan which means there is little chance of them working with you. I suppose that was one of the best elements. There are plenty of multiplayer shooters, but few managed to get people to co-operate in an ad-hock kind of wa Morrowind?
I can't believe Halo got in instead Re: Score: 2 by Mattintosh writes: Halo was an Xbox game as an afterthought too. After Microsoft thought to buy Bungie, development stopped on the Mac version and was switched to the Xbox. Score: 4 , Insightful by pugugly writes: on Sunday February 04, AM I'm finding something odd that 13 of the 20 'great' games are basically first person shooters and none of them are from small companies.
This is like a review of beverages that argues between coke and pepsi, or musical talent that's really concerned about whether Britney or Christina are better.
Not that some of these aren't good games, but he doesn't even show any variation in taste in the FPS games - he's got, what, four FPS's about "Let's go kill the aliens", and Thief or No one lives forever didn't make the list? I'm sorry submitter, but your gene pool license has been revoked - you're no longer allowed to reproduce. Not if you cooperate. Also, the submitter is the administrator of the site TFA is on.
It was Real-Time Strategy like so many others, but it was fun. The individual physics of each troop member made the excitement factor rise over pretty much all the others.
A troll wading into a group of soldiers and swatting them away; cavalry riding over a troop of orcs, not just flattening them, but bouncing off the horses; the wings of the Nazgul blowing troops aside; and the Balrog exploding from the earth, tossing anything nearby away.
It had true Re: Score: 2 by Gabrill writes: The problem with those games is not gameplay. It's not graphics. It's not entertainment value.
All those qualities were and are completely adequate to the awsome games that they are. The real problems with those games, and why new people don't hold them in the same awe is this: The don't play on new hardware. From hardware cycle timing to obsolete graphic modes, they just don't play the same as they did. God I wish we could have decent ports to current OS's.
Re: Score: 3 , Funny by Stormwatch writes: Yeah, the graphics are nicer - but that's like putting a Dior suit on a pound human. The colors and style are neat, but what's underneath can't run, can't jump, and one flight of stars will kill them. Oh, and for anyone who wants to criticize me - I'm 6 feet tall, weigh pounds.
I'll criticize you for not using the metric system. Even if getting down to doesn't happen as fast as you like, don't lose hope. It really is worth getting in shape, especially I would imagine for a father. I woret he same rose tinted glasses for a long while, but after I tried a lot of the really great games I remembered from years ago, I have to say that most aren't that good.
They were great then, but now they're not worth the effort. There's still as you say some pure classics which can stand the test of time, but most of the games that you remember as good games, you'll be dissapointed to try out today.. Re: Score: 2 by Profound writes: I think they meant to play online. The most popular - WoW - has subscription fees.
Re: Score: 2 by Tim C writes: Anyone with the dough to buy a system that can run Vista sensibly could use the same money to buy all three of the latest gen consoles, all of the big name titles for each of them, and enough takeaway for several weeks of gaming with the change.
I remember when people said the same thing about XP. There was no reason to upgrade from Win 2k or even 98 , WPA was an egregious violation of privacy, etc etc. In fact, the only person I know who is considering getting new kit in the near future is me, and I have specific reasons for upgrading now that are entirely unconnected with Vista.
Sorry, I think we've lost the plot here. We're talking about the potential impact of Vista on the gaming market, are we not? In that case, surely the home market is the only thing that is significant! Primarily, Guild Wars is one of only a few commercially produced and distributed online role-playing games to eschew subscription fees, instead off.
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They call out some of the best games released in the Windows XP era, to mark the passing into the 'next generation' of PC gaming this past week. The XP years were truly great, as far as PC titles went; how long do you think it will be before Vista has enough market penetration to make a difference in gaming?
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. The Goods Score: 5 , Informative. Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 2. None of the Grand Theft Autos made the cut? Re:The Goods Score: 4 , Insightful. Thank you, 20 pages of barely readable text with 5 times more ads than story was not worth reading that.
Parent Share twitter facebook. Too bad I'd still rather play worms or quake3 than soldat. Woo hoo! Score: 2. I just checked the list out to respond to another post, and it turns out 13 of the 20 games on the list have made it to the Mac. Give me a break. Three basic classes gave you an excuse to revisit the game after a while, as did its numerous mods. Battlefield 2 wasn't just a game in — it was a way of life for many bedroom-bound soldiers. Clans and friendships were forged and broken over who piloted the AH aircraft, and using the medic's defibrillator to literally give enemies the shock of death was more fun than it had any right to be.
Shooters from that era demanded fast reflexes, but Battlefield 2 was a better fit for savvy tacticians. It was a game that introduced scores of PC gamers to team-based chat programs such as Ventrillo, making it one of the most social shooters of the XP era. There were few games worth waiting for your humming desktop PC to boot up for than the original Far Cry.
A, ahem, far cry from ' Primal ' and its other modern incarnations, the first game in the series was one of the first open-world shooters in an era when a 'sandbox' was something that kids built castles in. Taking out mercenaries from afar with an assault rifle was all part of the fun. Its mutated Trigrens that could kill you with two swipes of their muscular arms?
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