The 50 most important PC games of all time

[PurpleGaga27 40]

It's one huge feature split into sections: http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games

 

But hold it, PC Gamer left out C&C, Call of Duty, Company of Heroes, Halo, GTA and Fallout!!! At least they did mention Dune II.

 

Even I think that GTA, C&C, COH, COD, Fallout and Renegade-X deserve to be in the honorable mentions list.

Edited January 18, 2016 by zocom7

[Tore 33]

I agree that C&C and Fallout should've been mentioned as well as WarCraft, Codename Eagle (or Battlefield 1942) and Homeworld. Regardless I think it is a good list.

 

I don't think Renegade X should've been mentioned. It is a good game, but it didn't provide anything new or had a impact on the games industry.

[Plok 323]

Of course it is expected of gibons who call themselves gaming journalists to neglect titles which actually mattered because they never played them. They merely played what their 10-year-old neighbour next door played because it was teh kewl stuffz.

 

Who even played Second Life?

 

DotA? That **** wasn't even released in 2003, but the game it was a mod-map for, WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, was. And the latter was a quality title (and RoC as well).

 

Broken Age can't qualify as "influential" as PnC adventures' revival era was over by the time it was released.

 

Of course Dark Souls is an honourable mention, but would it have been if YouTube gamers didn't bitch how hard it is?

 

Quake III Arena wasn't that bad, but 1999 was the year Epic Games surpassed id Software. Unreal Tournament lived on, Quake went off the radar (Quake IV, anyone?) despite the successes of Q1 and Q2. Quake III's strength was in the count of licensees using its engine, but UT took over everything else and had its sequels' engines licensed far more in the long run, while nobody cares about id Tech anymore. UT2004 has a mere honourable mention.

 

Where's Heroes of Might & Magic III, a best-selling TBS game that was among the first to replicate Civilization's "one more turn" disease, and was inexplicably popular in literally all Slavic countries + Hungary? (but when something's a hit in South Korea, it gets attention...)

 

Where are STALKER, Company of Heroes, any C&C title, Total Annihilation, any X-Wing/TIE Fighter game...?

 

I'm surprised, however, they had enough gaming culture to remember Civ1, Dune II, Baldur's Gate and Thief: The Dark Project.

[Nmenth 290]

I didn't read the article because I don't care enough, so what I have to say is out of ignorance.

 

However, it seems to me that you all are complaining that popular or high quality games were not included in their list, while the name "important" implies something vastly different to that. An important game does not need to be popular or good, or even an full game in its own right (DotA).

 

A game's importance is determined by how it affected the gaming industry, not how popular/great it was unless its popularity/greatness literally changed the industry. Dune II was the beginning of RTS, not Command & Conquer. DotA was the beginning of MOBA, not Warcraft III.

 

I will say no more since doing so would require me reading an article I couldn't care less about.

[Tore 33]

I see that they actually mentioned BF1942, but it seems to be missing Operation Flashpoint one of the first games that had large scale combined arms combat depicting real hardware.

 

Where's Heroes of Might & Magic III, a best-selling TBS game that was among the first to replicate Civilization's "one more turn" disease, and was inexplicably popular in literally all Slavic countries + Hungary? (but when something's a hit in South Korea, it gets attention...)

 

The Heroes of Might and Magic series was great. I played Heroes 2 the must though.

 

The list seems to be missing Tennis for Two as well.