Good Pc Exclusive Games?

[Bobbovski]

Some more PC-exclusive games:

All(?) the games made by Paradox: http://www.paradoxplaza.com/ (They're really good games actually, at least if you're into realistic games)
The Close combat series
World in conflict (at least I think it is)
Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines (One of my favorite RPG games)

There's simply a TON of PC-exclusive games...

 

[MR T3D]

should i be suprised counter-strike has yet to be mentioned...

 

[Woodsey]

Crysis if you can handle it.
Any Valve games (they're supposed to be played on a PC even if they're not exclusives).
RTS's are always ALWAYS better on PCs.
And I'd say the same with FPS games, (your Call of Duty's etc.) I know a lot of FPS games aren't exclusive to PC but they will look/play better and they're cheaper to buy.

portal is on consul, but I did sort of like crisis despite lots of unfavorable reviews, also any RTS ever made is better on PC

Crysis got lots of unfavourable reviews? The ones I read were all good, except complaints obviously by people in the public with an average spec PC complaining they couldn't run it at 50 FPS with everything maxed out.

It's metacritic rating is 91 (universal acclaim) and the lowest review score on there is 80/100 which is still very good.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Shooters:
Battlefield
1942 and 2 take both Console games so far an soundly piss on their chips.
Source Shooters (Day of Defeat, Counter Strike, TF2)
Technically TF2 is out on consoles, but it's the difference between an i-Tunes single and buying the entire album. DoD and CS:S are based largely on skill, team work and are brutally unforgiving, even if you are good at them you will die, a lot.

RTS
Dawn of War/2
Two very different takes on the RTSdespite being the same series, both more than worth the time.
Starcraft
The most hardcore RTS ever, only play online if you like Starcraft a lot.

Hundreds, probably thousands more, but they're the favourites of mine.

There have been no worthwhile PC exclusives in ten years. Also, portal is available for consoles so that is no longer on your list.

Here speaks an idiot. If the idiot would get out there and play some of the games he is indirectly slagging and put Halo of Duty 7 down for a month or two, he would stop being an idiot and have a valid opinion.

 

[KSarty]

Neverwinter Nights series
Star Wars Dark Forces series
Half-Life
Battlefield series
X-Wing/TIE Fighter series
Homeworld series
Civilization series

I could go on and on.

 

[Killerbunny001]

Nobody said :

1. Heroes of Might and Magic series - TBS
2. Knight of the old Republic series - RPG
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1.000.000. Dungeon Keeper series

WOW! The list is very long, does this mean the PC is the best platform ? fnar fnar

 

[xenus87]

26 posts, and no mention of System Shock 2?

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I see someone already pimped S.T.A.L.K.E.R. But make sure to get the "Oblivion Lost" mod. That really makes the game come alive.

 

[mjhhiv]

Definitely check out The Witcher if you're into RPG's that allow choice.

And, of course, grab the classics like Grim Fandango, The Monkey Island games, Half Life games (seriously, they minus well be PC exclusive), Baldur's Gate, Homeworld, System Shock 2, Diablo 1 and 2, and a ton of others. Pretty much, just check out the all-time high scores here, and buy them all:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/pc/

 

[veloper]

Galactic civilization 2
Temple of elemental evil
Knights of the chalice
Civilization 4 BTS
Fallout 1,2
Age of Wonders
Tropico

If a game requires a brain, it's on the PC.

 

[Gaderael]

I've heard that the Pc was the better than consoles in exclusive games, but I don't know any of them. I only know like WoW, Guild Wars, Aion, Portal and that's it. So could someone name the ones that are good?

To start off, here's a few competition-free games.

*awesome games*
-Age of Empires (Stay away from 3rd sequel!)Third sequel is awesome!
*more awesome games*

Don't forget Rise of Nations!
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Unreal Tournament 2004
The Witcher

 

[PublicNuisance]

Crysis
Crysis Warhead
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernoybl
Far Cry (the consoles has spinoffs not the original)
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising
SWAT 4
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights 2
Audio Surf
Company of Heroes
Fallout
Fallout 2
Infernal
The Witcher
World in Conflict

That should ge you started, if you want more just let me know.

 

[Tartan_Ninja]

I'ma suggest Dawn of War (the first one, wasn't too fond of the second), and anything from the Total War series. Thats only if you like RTS to be honest.

Oh, AND Civ 2. One of my favourite games ever.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

I'd suggest taking a look over at Good Old Games (GOG) [http://www.gog.com].

Plenty of classic games (and cheap!), of which I've bought around 40 so far (it's gonna take me a while to play them all!).

I'd recommend Fallout, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Freespace 2, Descent 3, Sacrifice, Duke Nukem 3d, etc.

Theres even a buy one get one free offer on Interplay games (mentioned in a news thread around here somewhere).

What more do you need?

Well, I suppose I could mention the freeware games that are available... but perhaps I should just link to this wikipedia page: List of commercial games released as freeware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_released_as_freeware]

 

[Megacherv]

There have been no worthwhile PC exclusives in ten years. Also, portal is available for consoles so that is no longer on your list.

Although, the PC versions are usually better if I do say so myself. Cases in point: Any FPS or RTS game.

I second this motion

 

[MurderousToaster]

Huh. I'd say:

Diablo Series

The Dawn of War series.

Crysis (Simply due to complete graphical beauty)

Most Blizzard RTS's

Most Relic RTS's.

Basically most RTS's.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

paint

used to spend hours on that thing.

 

[JaseMorris]

Rome/Medieval II: Total War, but not the expansions, IMO

SWAT 4

Crysis, the first 5 levels, anyway.

Yet more love for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC here.

I was keen on Freelancer, too.

..and, IMO, FPSs always work best with a mouse.

 

[Fangface74]

..and, IMO, FPSs always work best with a mouse.

Not just your opinion my friend, it's a technical fact.