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#4002975 - 08/30/14 07:38 PM The PC Gamer Top 100 2014  
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List linked below, without any spoilers I think the content of the list is reasonable, its just its order is rather questionable:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/08/30/the-pc-gamer-top-100/


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#4002993 - 08/30/14 08:39 PM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Operation Flashpoint should have had a much better ranking.

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#4002996 - 08/30/14 09:11 PM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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As should KSP, but then I guess KSP is still considered (loosely) as a Beta wink .


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#4002997 - 08/30/14 09:29 PM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Vertigo1]  
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Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
Operation Flashpoint should have hsd a much better ranking.
I agree 91st is an insult, especially considering RO2 Rising Storm is at 30th.
I've never understood the fascination with Team Fortress 2 either.

#4003007 - 08/30/14 10:02 PM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Not my choice at all but then everyone would produce a completely different result.

There are only 2 games in the top 50 that I have put any serious time into and that's BF3 and Doom.You would have to point a gun to my head to make me play any of the others,especially the top 10,with the possible exception of XCOM.


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#4003053 - 08/31/14 12:48 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Hmmmm. Looks like it was made by people who don't have a memory that goes back beyond ten years. I can think of quite a few that are missing from their top 100:

Sim City (any of them except the newest one)
Neverwinter Nights
Dungeon Keeper
Black & White
Rainbow Six (any of the pre-console entries in the series)
X series
Age of Empires (1 or 2)
Anno series
The Settlers series
Civilization 2 or 4
Galactic Civilizations 2
Homeworld
Hearts of Iron
Europa Universalis
Morrowind
Shogun Total War (the first)
Rome Total War (the first)
Medieval 2 Total War
Grand Theft Auto (the first)
Tropico series
Warcraft 2
Starcraft (1 or 2)
Quake
Call of Duty (the first one)


That's just the stuff that springs to mind...

#4003054 - 08/31/14 12:52 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Surprising that TIE Fighter isn't there...

Or Knights of the Old Republic, for that matter.

I think I'll load up TIE Fighter again... would be interesting to try it with the FSSB R3. smile Plan to use UJR to merge that, my Warthog throttle, and the Saitek combat pedals (which TF doesn't use, but XWA does).


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#4003063 - 08/31/14 01:19 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Not one flight-sim on the list. :-( ROF was #47 in 2012. They don't have one simmer on staff so they don't even bother any more. That is how far we are out in the woods as simmers, even though it was the sim generation that put PC games on the map. We're outcasts...rebels...the dregs of the gaming world. I also didn't see an X-Wing or Tie Fighter game or a Mechwarrior game. Maybe I missed them.

Oh well....

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#4003067 - 08/31/14 01:44 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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You made a helluva great sim, Jason, you should have been on the list. cheers


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#4003069 - 08/31/14 01:50 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: 777 Studios - Jason]  
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Yeah Jason...Flight Sims are THE reason I bought my first windows computer (EAW and F4).

Have only owned and played THREE on the list. Eve, COH and Alpha Centauri...and really only saw a couple I'd think about in a firesale.

Ah well..... old_simmer

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#4003076 - 08/31/14 02:24 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Most of the PC Gamer contributors who voted on this list probably weren't even born yet when the great games of the 90s missing from this list were out, for them an old classic is probably Angry Birds.


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#4003109 - 08/31/14 04:02 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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First of all, PC Gamer is irrelevant and secondly why do people place so much importance on these lists?


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#4003118 - 08/31/14 04:29 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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Because we like to see our favourite game on a list, preferably near the top wink


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#4003136 - 08/31/14 05:13 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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I see my favorite game on the number one spot so thumbs up. Although, I played it on 360. ME3 should not be in top 10. I miss the Rainbow Sixes though.


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#4003139 - 08/31/14 05:17 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted By: Nixer
Yeah Jason...Flight Sims are THE reason I bought my first windows pcr:


Ditto. Unfortunately the first sim I installed was CFS3 rolleyes

Between this thread and the Discovery channels one, it's a bit depressing here today.

#4003148 - 08/31/14 06:13 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: tagTaken2]  
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#4003158 - 08/31/14 07:05 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  
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#4003165 - 08/31/14 08:48 AM Re: The PC Gamer Top 100 2014 [Re: Jeza]  

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I was expecting Starcraft there and other classics. At least Grim Fandango and Alpha Centauri made it.

Still a bit suspicious though if it is some sort of native advertising because of the many recent games on the top 10. Not sure if they placed real classics just to cover up their actual intent: go buy these recent games!

BTW where's pacman? lode runner? no point placing them there because they're abandonware?

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