PC Games of the Ages.

[Xpwn3ntial]

Starcraft. Love it or hate it, it's big and shall echo through the ages of PC games.

Earth 2150 is a good game. A really, really good game.

 

[Myskomunken]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

 

[RivFader86]

Jagged Alliance 2 dunno how many times i played through it.

 

[Vuljatar]

Deus Ex, Morrowind, Total Annihilation. The classic greats that are the ultimate examples of their genres.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Master of Orion 2

 

[artanis_neravar]

Oh yeah...
RA2 was one of my first PC games, and I was still pretty new to the whole RTS thing. My approach was just to build up my defenses, and to use a bunch of aircraft to destroy the soviet con yard or the nuke silo before they could wipe me out. Man, I must have tried that mission a dozen times before I finally beat it.

Heh I did pretty much the same thing when I first got into playing RTS games. Which was c&c actually the first c&c. I would always just build an insane defence and then slowly expand with a monster army. I actually have every single c&c game, minus c&c4. Out of them all RA2 & RA3 were probably my favourites.

Air force rules in those games. Hopefully they will make RA4, and C&C 4

 

[Atmos Duality]

X-COM 1 and 3.
UT99'/UT2004 (with mods, back before the publishers banned mods so they wouldn't have free competition for their shitty DLC)
Starsiege: Tribes (or Tribes 2, which is legally free now)
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (the PC versions, not the hack n slash games on consoles)

Master of Orion 2

Thank goodness someone mentioned this.
I'd like to throw MOO1 in there as well, purely because it has some pretty slick AI, and is the only strategy game where the AI acts in its own interest rather than in an invisible alliance against the human player.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Ufo: Enemy Unknown

fucking Starcraft, everyone should play it.

Good to see that Deo ex got posted first

 

[omicron1]

I spent so many hours with this one:

"Your people desire the full version!"

Also,

Edit: And finally,

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

I'm almost 20, and there's still no better thing in the universe.
Seriously, though. At the top of my list is Total Annihilation. Still love that game, and play it occasionally...

To add to the list, though?
The first 2 oddworld games were/are amazing.
The first 3 Duke Nukem games.
Age of Empires 1 and 2.
Worms World Party and any of the Worms games before WWP.
<3

There're more that I should add to this list, but I'm tired and can't brain at the moment. >_>

 

[Seamus8]

The original SSI/Stormfront Studios "Stronghold" (The 1985 one in the D&D setting)

Seven Cities of Gold

Planescape Torment

Dungeon Keeper

The Journeyman Project III

 

[Waaghpowa]

Couple of my highlights

Homeworld 2

Max Payne

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

 

[DanDeFool]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

That game was friggin awesome.

If they had had Supreme Commander when I was that age, I would have been incapable of playing anything else.

 

[krychek57]

Sim City - HOURS in that game >_<
Need For Speed - Can't forget your first. Head to head was the best.
Realms of the Haunting - Underrated and a hell of a lot of fun.

 

[artanis_neravar]

X-COM 1 and 3.
UT99'/UT2004 (with mods, back before the publishers banned mods so they wouldn't have free competition for their shitty DLC)
Starsiege: Tribes (or Tribes 2, which is legally free now)
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (the PC versions, not the hack n slash games on consoles)

Master of Orion 2

Thank goodness someone mentioned this.
I'd like to throw MOO1 in there as well, purely because it has some pretty slick AI, and is the only strategy game where the AI acts in its own interest rather than in an invisible alliance against the human player.

I've been waiting for steam to re-release it because I want it again

 

[RuralGamer]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

Oh yeah!

OT: Probably KOTOR; now ten years old and still the best one of the best RPGs out there.

Edit: Actually I don't think it is ten years, but it will be in a couple of years and still be awesome.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Oh yeah...
RA2 was one of my first PC games, and I was still pretty new to the whole RTS thing. My approach was just to build up my defenses, and to use a bunch of aircraft to destroy the soviet con yard or the nuke silo before they could wipe me out. Man, I must have tried that mission a dozen times before I finally beat it.

Heh I did pretty much the same thing when I first got into playing RTS games. Which was c&c actually the first c&c. I would always just build an insane defence and then slowly expand with a monster army. I actually have every single c&c game, minus c&c4. Out of them all RA2 & RA3 were probably my favourites.

Even sole survivor? :O
Anyway, I stopped playing C&C after the hilariously mislabeled C&C3. The demo for RA3 left me less than enthusiastic about the future of C&C. Then was the cancellation of that tiberium shooter thing, and the absolutely awful C&C4. Then again, isn't it better to have had a great series in the past and a crappy last few releases than to have never had it in the first place?