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Did anyone see the [URL="http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/latest-news-announcements/328815-pc-gamer-top-100-a.html#post5513447"]"PC Gamer Top 100" Announcement[/URL]?
I always find it impossible to choose [I]one[/I] game, when I'm asked, "what is your favourite game of all-time?" or to put my "top ten games of all-time" into order of greatness...
How do you compare different genres?
How do you compare an MMORPG (on the PC) to a Racing game (on a console) or a puzzle-game (on a handheld console)?
How do you compare the 2D platform game that you [I]loved [/I]when you were an 11 year old, to the survival-horror game that you were [I]almost[/I] obsessed with when you were 19, or the FPS that you just could not stop playing when you were 20!?
I suppose the decision is easier (for me, at least), in this particular instance, because the question is not, "what is your favourite game of all-time?", it's, "what is your favourite [I]PC[/I] game of all time?", so the choice of games is limited to PC titles...
"I'm not an avid PC gamer (yus, I'm a console-boi :shifty:)", I think to myself, "so this shouldn't be [I]too[/I] hard..." and then I begin to think about all of the games I've played and loved, on the PC...[LIST][*]Grim Fandango[*]Half-Life[*]Counter-Strike[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2[*]Command & Conquer: Generals[*]Championship Manager 2002-2003[*]Championship Manager 4[*]Worms Armageddon[*]GTA III[*]The Sting![*]Chaos Legion[*]Sid Meier's Sim Golf[*]Unreal Tournament 2003[*]Civilisation III[*]Neverwinter Nights[*]Guild Wars[/LIST]17 games. :roll:
...so, If I had to choose just ten of these (and I do, if I want to take part in the vote), I have to cut 6 games. Easy! I'll cheat!
Half-Life and Counter-Strike came together in Half-Life: Generation - down to 16. :teeth:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer: Generals came together in Command & Conquer: The First Decade - down to 14. :teeth:
Cutting four wouldn't be [I]too[/I] hard; if only it were that simple...
Neither Half Life: Generation, nor Command & Conquer: The First Decade are available for selection. Foiled!
Okay, let's see if any of the other games on my list of 17 [I]aren't[/I] available for selection. Yup, 4 of them;[LIST][*]Chaos Legion[*]The Sting![*]Sid Meier's Sim Golf[*]Unreal Tournament 2003[/LIST]
and the Championship Manager games are grouped; that takes me down to 12;[LIST][*]Grim Fandango[*]Half-Life[*]Counter-Strike[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2[*]Command & Conquer: Generals[*]Championship Manager (series)[*]Worms (series)[*]GTA III[*]Civilisation III[*]Guild Wars[*]Neverwinter Nights[/LIST]I guess that means I need to cut two games...
[B]Command & Conquer: Red Alert[/B]
Red Alert 2 and Generals were much, much better. I can live with cutting Red Alert from my list.
[B]GTA III[/B]
I consider this to be a PS2 game (because I played it more on my PS2 than I did on my PC), so it would be unfair to include it in this list, I think.
I'm sorry, [B]GTA III[/B] and [B]Command & Conquer: Red Alert[/B], but you are only my 11th and 12th "favourite PC games of all-time (respectively, according to PC Gamer's limited choice), good-bye... :cry2:
I'm [I]finally[/I] down to ten![LIST][*]Grim Fandango[*]Half-Life[*]Counter-Strike[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2[*]Command & Conquer: Generals[*]Championship Manager (series)[*]Worms (series)[*]Civilisation III[*]Guild Wars[*]Neverwinter Nights[/LIST]Now for the hard part: putting them in 'order' from 'favourite' to 'least favourite.' This may take a while...
[a considerable amount of time passes]
...okay I [I]think[/I] I've finally settled on a list I'm 'happy' with. I put them in the order of "which I'd rather play" - I compared each game to the one above and below it - and after a lot of shuffling about, I settled on this;[LIST=1][*]Grim Fandango[*]Half-Life[*]Counter-Strike[*]Worms (series)[*]Championship Manager (series)[*]Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2[*]Guild Wars[*]Command & Conquer: Generals[*]Civilisation III[*]Neverwinter Nights[/LIST]So there you have it! My "top ten PC games of all-time (according to PC Gamer's limited choice)"!
If I wasn't restricted to the selections on the PC Gamer website, and I was allowed to 'cheat' my [I]real[/I] "top ten* PC games of all-time" list would look like this;
[SIZE=1]*where 10 = 13[/SIZE][LIST=1][*]Grim Fandango[*]Half-Life: Generation[*]Worms Armageddon[*]Championship Manager 4[*]Command & Conquer: The First Decade[*]Guild Wars[*]The Sting![*]Chaos Legion[*]Unreal Tournament 2003[*]Civilisation III[*]Neverwinter Nights[*]Championship Manager 2002-2003[*]Sid Meier's Sim Golf[/LIST]Done! Eesh. My head hurts. I hope that this was easier for you, and I hope - I beg! - that there isn't another "favourite game of all-time" question asked any time soon...
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