Giant Bomb's top 30 PC games (of all time)!

This seems like the worst way to build a list of the communities favourite PC games. It would be better to do something in style of the GOTY year lists where people rank their own top 30 and first place gets 30 points, second gets 29 and so on. Then you could aggregate the scores and see what comes out on top.

replace age of kings with age of mythology

 1. Starcraft 2
2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
3. Neverwinter Nights
4. Deus Ex 
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Quake III: Arena
7. Rift
8. Day of the Tentacle
9.  Planescape: Torment
10. Half-Life 2
11. Recettear
12. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
13. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
14. The Witcher
15. Crysis
16. Fallout 2
17. System Shock 2
18. Diablo 2
19. League of Legends
20. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
21. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
22. Magicka
23. Portal
24. Left 4 Dead 2
25. Baldur's Gate 2
26. Europa Universalis 3 
27. Machinarium
28. X-COM: UFO Defense 
29. Team Fortress 2
30. Age of Mythology
also, i think everyone should repost the list AND you should edit the first post every once in a while

Ugh... seeing COD at #3 and STALKER:COP at #21 is a super depressing sight. Excuse me while I go cut myself.

" This seems like the worst way to build a list of the communities favourite PC games. It would be better to do something in style of the GOTY year lists where people rank their own top 30 and first place gets 30 points, second gets 29 and so on. Then you could aggregate the scores and see what comes out on top. "

Replace Mass Effect 2 with Doom 2.

1. Starcraft 2
2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
3. Neverwinter Nights
4. Deus Ex 
5. Doom 2
6. Quake III: Arena
7. Rift
8. Day of the Tentacle
9.  Planescape: Torment
10. Half-Life 2
11. Recettear
12. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
13. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
14. The Witcher
15. Crysis
16. Fallout 2
17. System Shock 2
18. Diablo 2
19. League of Legends
20. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
21. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
22. Magicka
23. Portal
24. Left 4 Dead 2
25. Baldur's Gate 2
26. Europa Universalis 3 
27. Machinarium
28. X-COM: UFO Defense 
29. Team Fortress 2
30. Age of Mythology 

Unreal Tournament needs to be in there somewhere, but otherwise it's looking pretty good to me.

Some of the games on this list make me laugh. Good luck, guys.

Remove Crysis, add StarCraft: Brood War

 1. Starcraft 2
2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
3. Neverwinter Nights
4. Deus Ex  
5. Doom 2
6. Quake III: Arena 
7. Rift 
8. Day of the Tentacle
9.  Planescape: Torment 
10. Half-Life 2
11. Heroes of Might and Magic lll
12. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge 
13. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
14. The Witcher 
15. StarCraft: Brood War
16. Fallout 2
17. System Shock 2
18. Diablo 2
19. League of Legends
20. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
21. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
22. Magicka
23. Portal
24. Left 4 Dead 2
25. Baldur's Gate 2
26. Europa Universalis 3  
27. Machinarium
28. X-COM: UFO Defense  
29. Team Fortress 2
30. Age of Mythology

 C'mon, someone bump it higher! It should be in top 5 at least!

" @mracoon said:

" This seems like the worst way to build a list of the communities favourite PC games. It would be better to do something in style of the GOTY year lists where people rank their own top 30 and first place gets 30 points, second gets 29 and so on. Then you could aggregate the scores and see what comes out on top. "

http://www.unikgamer.com/

Pretty good site for that. There are "official" lists, too. You just need a VIP-account that somebody of that site has to create.
Gametrailers or BitMob have one for example.

edit: This is the overall PC list on that site: 
http://www.unikgamer.com/tops/top-pc-games-6.html "

This list is very modern-learning.  Starcraft, BroodWar should be ahead of SC2 because of its impact.

Replace Rift  with Civilization IV.

Remove Starcraft 2

Any PC game 'greatest of all time' list without X-COM is a failure. 

Replace X-COM with any game on the list.

Why was CoD Blops on there? Game was terrible on PC, MW2 wasn't too too bad, CoD 4 was the last really good one on PC.

" This seems like the worst way to build a list of the communities favourite PC games. It would be better to do something in style of the GOTY year lists where people rank their own top 30 and first place gets 30 points, second gets 29 and so on. Then you could aggregate the scores and see what comes out on top. "

This list is not updated enough so
Replace league of legends with Descent

Replace  Recettear with Doom.

Wow.  No Wolfenstein 3D or Doom?  I get the feeling that some people think the PC was invented in 2004.  Pretty weak list overall.

I'd replace Starcraft 2 with Doom for starters anyway.

Well I had a list almost made, but then I hit enter by mistake and this fucking site deleted it all so ya... fuck this site and this list.

Replace Recettear with Freespace 2

 
@mracoon said:

" This seems like the worst way to build a list of the communities favourite PC games. It would be better to do something in style of the GOTY year lists where people rank their own top 30 and first place gets 30 points, second gets 29 and so on. Then you could aggregate the scores and see what comes out on top. "

Current List

My List

1. X-Com: UFO Defense
   
2. Doom
3. Ultima VI: Underworld
4. Fallout 
5. World of Warcraft
   
6. Diablo 2
7. Quake III: Areana / Team Arena
8. Deus Ex
9. Unreal Tournament 2004 
10. Half Life
    
11. Baulders Gate 2
12. Sim City 4 (I would have put 2000 on the list, but 4 is really just a better looking version of the same game)
    
13. Civilization 4 (Basically the same reason as above)
    
14. System Shock 2
15. Starcraft 2 (Someone mentioned that Brood War should be on the list, but 2 is a better game, and I am not judging based on influence)
16. Day of the Tentacle
17. Mech Warrior 2
    
18. The Witcher
19. Age of Empires II
20. Heroes of Might and Magic III
21. Half-Life 2
22. Star Wars: Tie Fighter
23. Grim Fandango
24. Battlefield: 1942
25. IL 2: Sturmovic 
26. iRacing
27. Team Fortress 2
28. Minecraft
29. Rollercoaster Tycoon
    
30. Quake
    

• Rome: Total War
• The Incredible Machine
• Rise of the Triad
• Might and Magic: World of Xeen
• Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
• Planescape: Torment
• The Sims
• SimGolf
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert
• Warcraft II
• Counter Strike
• Oregon Trail
• Max Payne
• Thief
  

Haven't played that many pc games, but the one that stuck is Rome Total War for me. 

TIE Fighter is needed.

Add Half life and Half life 2. Remove Call of Duty games from the list.

1. Starcraft 2
2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
3. Neverwinter Nights
4. Deus Ex  
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Quake III: Arena 
7. Rift 
8. Day of the Tentacle
9.  Planescape: Torment 
10. Half-Life 2
11. Recettear 
12. Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge 
13. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
14. The Witcher 
15. Crysis
16. Fallout 2
17. System Shock 2
18. Diablo 2
19. League of Legends
20. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
21. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
22. Magicka
23. Portal
24. Age Of Empires 2 (Got rid of L4D2)
25. Baldur's Gate 2
26. Europa Universalis 3  
27. Machinarium
28. X-COM: UFO Defense  
29. Team Fortress 2
30. Age of Kings     

I've got lots of suggestions but if it's only one game per post I'll start with

TF2 needs to be higher up. Maybe switch places with Recettear. Also, Remove Machinarium and add Civilization 4

Swap Rift and Diablo 2 in position
Take out League of Legends and put in Counter Strike Source
Take out Magicka, insert Battlefield 2
Take out Europa Universalis 3, insert Oblivion

somebody but half life 2 higher please, also the original Portal