How did Skyrim even make the list
Not a fan of Witcher 3, but I respect where it is. Personally I think Mass Effect 2 should be #1. Also Bloodborne needs to replace Dark Souls' place.
There's not a single sim on the list. No mention of games like:
Tie Fighter
Mechwarrior 2
Wing Commander
Falcon 4.0
As a media institution commemorating the PC platform's offerings of a wide variety of genres in the last 40-50 years, you need to at least acknowledge one of the historically significant genres.
PC Gamer should clearly outline the criteria for "best" and enforce it.
Well, shit, it looks like they just listed a bunch of games they had a good time with, in lieu of catering to didacts obsessed with teaching the filthy consoletards What Real Gaming Is All About.PC Gamer list said:The Top 100 selection process is democratic and subjective. Each writer simply nominates their personal top 15 games, and we combine the resulting choices to produce a longlist. Two writers, one each from our US and UK teams, then get together on a sweaty and prolonged Skype call to decide on a final list that were proud of.
Wow, it gets worse every year. It's like a list written by 16-year-olds who didn't play PC games until some guys on YouTube were like "mastur raec amirite."
Well, shit, it looks like they just listed a bunch of games they had a good time with, in lieu of catering to didacts obsessed with teaching the filthy consoletards What Real Gaming Is All About.
Skyrim has a place. The gameplay may be terrible but I can understand why people like it (decent character customization, big world, lots of shit to do, different guilds to join etc) but Dragon Age II does nothing well. Nothing.
Bloodborne is not on PC lol
Wow, it gets worse every year. It's like a list written by 16-year-olds who didn't play PC games until some guys on YouTube were like "mastur raec amirite."
Also, not having Alpha Centauri on the list but including Civ V only proves my point further.
MGS V was their best game of 2015 but now witcher 3 is their No.1 of all time. Shouldn't MGS V be at least close to No. 1 or something
Slander. Xbox button prompts in my PC games make me reflexively vomit.Well, shit, it looks like they just listed a bunch of games they had a good time with, in lieu of catering to didacts obsessed with teaching the filthy consoletards What Real Gaming Is All About.
Not 1 Blizzard game in the top 10 seems strange.
Dark Souls should be higher.
This is the cold hard truth.
It actually is quite good.
Morrowind is a Bethesda game though so you're completely objectively wrong.
Not 1 Blizzard game in the top 10 seems strange.
I'm still, like 1-2 years later, so surprised that so many people like The Witcher 3.
To me the story wasn't all that new/inspiring (Another "You gotta save your daughter and the world" plot), the world wasn't very engaging (Just another all-white fantasy. I can appreciate that it was different white people this time, but still), the controls were still shit from The Witcher 2, Combat's still shit from the witcher 2, the game didn't even acknowledge if you played The Witcher 2 at all (Where the hell was Iorveth?), the love story devolved into that boring "Choose between 2 girls with no personality" schitck, most of the "Free DLCs" were cosmetic and barely worthy of the name "DLC", the story/morality system was just needlessly "morally grey", Geralt had no emotion (and yes I know it's because he's a Witcher. It still makes him boring and impossible to relate to), all the "strong female characters" everyone was talking about were... just slightly better interpretations of a teenager's "dream girl" (let's not even get started on how many of them dressed, Better than Witcher 2, but still), and the entire world was just, depressing and cynical to the point where I didn't care what happened to it. Why should I care about a bunch of negative people?
Yeah I'm being VERY contrarian, but honestly I can't get into the game at all. And this is from someone who LOVES RPGS, but the entire game just came off as very tryhardy. That or it's because the fanbase has overhyped the game.
Never played any Fallout of Dark Souls.
People say play NV instead of Fallout 4 if you're only gonna play one, will do. However, why is Dark Souls 1 here?
If I'm only going to play one Dark Souls it should be 3?
Never played any Fallout of Dark Souls.
People say play NV instead of Fallout 4 if you're only gonna play one, will do. However, why is Dark Souls 1 here?
If I'm only going to play one Dark Souls it should be 3?
Not going to delve into your racist/sexist arguments (which have been covered extensively already in previous threads) but I do find it pretty ironic that you accuse the game world for being too cynical while at the same time criticising the developer for releasing free DLC, next to their two stellar expansion packs.
Also you can't possibly claim with a serious face that Geralt doesn't show emotion, what game did you play?
My problem with calling W3 another "all white western fantasy" is that you're lumping in all cultures that happen to share the same skin color as white. TW3 is based upon Polish fantasy mythology and not English, like most fantasy series. They definitely share some similarities, it's hard to escape Tolkien's influence on Fantasy, but The Witcher is very good at differentiating itself from the old stereotypes.I'm not criticizing them for releasing free "DLC". I'm criticizing the fanbase for acting like the DLC is on the same level as DLC from games such as, say, Fallout New Vegas. Also, Dragon Age Inquisiton also released Free Cosmetic DLC along with Expansion Packs (except they didn't label them as Expansion packs, they were called DLC) and I don't see everyone obsessing over it.
Next, I never said that the game was racist. I just said that it was another All-White Fantasy world. The lack of POC isn't racist it's just boring and uncreative because Western Fantasy is ALREADY whitewashed as all Hell.
Did you even read my comment or are you just inserting arguments because you're mad that not everyone dick-rides for The Witcher 3. And yes, Geralt barely emotes. His voice actor is horrible.
Not sure what "free" dlc have to do with the quality of the game and Geralt is a Witcher they are stripped of emotions during their mutation. So his voice fits his persona.I'm not criticizing them for releasing free "DLC". I'm criticizing the fanbase for acting like the DLC is on the same level as DLC from games such as, say, Fallout New Vegas. Also, Dragon Age Inquisiton also released Free Cosmetic DLC along with Expansion Packs (except they didn't label them as Expansion packs, they were called DLC) and I don't see everyone obsessing over it.
Next, I never said that the game was racist. I just said that it was another All-White Fantasy world. The lack of POC isn't racist it's just boring and uncreative because Western Fantasy is ALREADY whitewashed as all Hell.
Did you even read my comment or are you just inserting arguments because you're mad that not everyone dick-rides for The Witcher 3. And yes, Geralt barely emotes. His voice actor is horrible.
What's ironic is your lumping Swedish (Norse?) mythology with Polish folktales and culture.My problem with calling W3 another "all white western fantasy" is that you're lumping in all cultures that happen to share the same skin color as white. TW3 is based upon Swedish fantasy mythology and not English, like most fantasy series. They definitely share some similarities, it's hard to escape Tolkien's influence on Fantasy, but The Witcher is very good at differentiating itself from the old stereotypes.
Oh right. CDPR are Poles. My bad. My point still stands. 🙃Not sure what "free" dlc have to do with the quality of the game and Geralt is a Witcher they are stripped of emotions during their mutation. So his voice fits his persona.
What's ironic is your lumping Swedish (Norse?) mythology with Polish folktales and culture.
Never played any Fallout of Dark Souls.
People say play NV instead of Fallout 4 if you're only gonna play one, will do. However, why is Dark Souls 1 here?
If I'm only going to play one Dark Souls it should be 3?
I'm not criticizing them for releasing free "DLC". I'm criticizing the fanbase for acting like the DLC is on the same level as DLC from games such as, say, Fallout New Vegas. Also, Dragon Age Inquisiton also released Free Cosmetic DLC along with Expansion Packs (except they didn't label them as Expansion packs, they were called DLC) and I don't see everyone obsessing over it.
Next, I never said that the game was racist. I just said that it was another All-White Fantasy world. The lack of POC isn't racist it's just boring and uncreative because Western Fantasy is ALREADY whitewashed as all Hell.
Diablo 2 is very ugly on modern computers, and Diablo 3 is a much better game than its first year of release. Hopefully if they ever do decide to remaster Diablo 2, they won't "enhance it" too much with gameplay alterations. This isn't a list of "what games were the best when they were first released".
This just goes to show how out of touch these "journalists" actually are with PC gaming. Overwatch not in top 10? League of Legends, one of the most popular games in the world in both playing and streaming, not in the top 10? WoW, the most popular MMO in the world?I'll contribute to the bingo, no Blizzard in top 10 of PC gaming list is crazy to me.
Yeah it's getting pretty tiresome, all those games based on Polish folklore.
This just goes to show how out of touch these "journalists" actually are with PC gaming. Overwatch not in top 10? League of Legends, one of the most popular games in the world in both playing and streaming, not in the top 10?
This just goes to show how out of touch these "journalists" actually are with PC gaming. Overwatch not in top 10? League of Legends, one of the most popular games in the world in both playing and streaming, not in the top 10? WoW, the most popular MMO in the world?
To be fair, Popularity does not mean quality, or the Oscars would look a lot different.
From a popularity AND quality standpoint, having Dishonored and MGSV in a PC top 10 while LoL, WoW, and Overwatch, don't crack that top 10 is absurd. This opinion coming from a PC gaming outlet of all places is quite frankly unbelievable.Popularity is generally not a measure of quality. It's perfectly acceptable not to include games with great popularity.
This just goes to show how out of touch these "journalists" actually are with PC gaming. Overwatch not in top 10? League of Legends, one of the most popular games in the world in both playing and streaming, not in the top 10? WoW, the most popular MMO in the world?