Incline RPG Codex's Top Non-RPG PC games - VOTE THREAD

As the first post in this thread said:

Prey 2017 was on the top 101 RPGs list, so people should change it to something else on their lists.

 

HansDampf said: ↑

Thanks, I updated my list

 

Should I tell him that 6 is not 5, or is it better if this vote gets disqualified?

 

5
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Uplink
Battlezone 1998
M.A.X.
Myth: The Fallen Lords

3
Heavy Gear
MissionForce: CyberStorm
Z
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Battle Realms

1
Ascendancy
Cavewars
Burntime
Krush, Kill, 'n' Destroy
War Wind
History Line: 1914-1918
Supreme Commander
Dune 2
The Tone Rebellion
The Lords of Midnight

 

Not only that, but it's also runner-up for Codex's RPGotY 2017.

 

5 Points

- Pirates! (1987)

- UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM (1994)

- Blade: The Edge of Darkness / Severance (2001)

- Victoria: An Empire under the Sun (2003)

- Pathologic (2005)


3 Points

- Alone in the Dark (1992)

- Thief: The Dark Project (1998)

- Commandos: Behind the Enemy Lines (1998)

- Europa Universalis II (2001)

- Rome Total War +BI/AL (2004)

1 Point

- La Abadía del Crimen/ The Abbey of Crime (1987)

- The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)

- The Patrician (1992/1993)

- I have no mouth, and I must Scream (1995)

- Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares (1996)

- Tomb Raider (1996)

- Caesar III (1998)

- Commandos 2: Men of Courage (2001)

- Tropico (2001)

- Aurora (2004)

 

Prey has no fucking business being in a top RPG list. It should've been disqualified.

 

5 points:
Championship Manager 01/02
Counter-Strike 1.6
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Max Payne

3 points:
Battle Realms
SWAT 3 - Close Quarters Battle
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
GTA III
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

1 point:
Age of Empires
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Hidden & Dangerous 2
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Civilization IV
Rome: Total War
Red Baron 3-D
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Planetside 2
Moto Racer 2

 

Voting only for 10 games.

5 points:

Resident Evil 1 (1996)
Persona 1
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil 4
Yakuza 0

3 points:

Doom (OG)
F.E.A.R.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Devil May Cry
Hotline Miami 2

 

The line between Prey, STALKER, Deus Ex HR, Dishonored and others is definitely thin. Can't rewrite history though, so... important thing is what's on the 101 list and what isn't.

 

It took me a while to come up with a list, once I realized it's not about *favorite* or *most influential* games, but objectively the best. Happy to see that StarCraft, Heroes III and Alpha Centauri are most likely going to end up in the top 5.

Anyway, I'm amazed at how many of these games were released circa 1999. Clearly the Renaissance era wasn't only about RPGs.


5 points

1. Quake / 1996 / GOAT FPS
2. StarCraft: Brood War / 1998 / GOAT RTS
3. Heroes of Might and Magic III / 1999 / GOAT TBS
4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri / 1999 / GOAT 4X
5. Max Payne / 2001 / GOAT TPS

3 points

1. Half-Life / 1999 /
2. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun / 1999 /
3. Sacrifice / 1999 /
4. Outcast / 1999 /
5. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver / 1999 /

1 point

1. Clive Barker's Undying / 2001 /
2. Worms 2 / 1997 /
3. Dungeon Keeper 2 / 1999 /
4. Oddworld: Abbe's Oddysee / 1997 /
5. Heretic II / 1998 /
6. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast / 2002 /
7. PowerSlave / 1996 /
8. Caesar III / 1998 /
9. Captain Claw / 1997 /
10. Resident Evil II / 1998 /

 

nothing special, just cherrypicking:

***5 points***
pathologic [2005]
tension/the void [2008]
stalker shadow of chernobyl [2007]
thief the dark project [1998]
rollercoaster tycoon 2 [2002]

**3 points***
quake [1996]
half-life [1998]
x-com ufo defense [1994]
silent hill 2 [2001]
tetris: the grand master 3 - terror-instinct [2005] (technically arcade-only but it runs on a winxp based board - you can run it natively on a windows pc )

*1 point*
yume nikki [2004]
the neverhood [1995]
team fortress 2 [2007]
simcity 4 [2003]
the sims 2 [2004]
ftl [2012]
tomb raider 2 [1997]
rayman 2 [1999]
beyond good and evil [2003]
oddworld: abe's oddysee [1997]

christ all of the fucking games ive played are rpgs, old console exclusives, or furry bait. guess i need to play more goddamn videogames

felipepepe if im stretching the definition of a "pc game" too much by including something thats technically an arcade game running on a windows machine, then just lump tgm3 in as "tetris" or whatever

 

Poll is closed, thanks everyone for voting.
Results will come out once I finish/get bored of Bloodstained

 

I cant understand why people would ever place DK 2 in this poll instead of DK1.

Heathens

 

Now show us how many thief games are in the top three!

 

Top 5 will have something like, Thief, StarCraft, Heroes III, Alpha Centauri. As it should.

 

Starcraft got 187 points (I've counted Broodwar too since it can't exist without Starcraft and is an expansion) with 58 people voting on it (and 27 people giving it maximum rating) and it will probably take #1 spot. I've skimmed through Thief votes and they got divided between 1 and 2 so I'm guessing it will be lower, Heroes III will probably do better but worse than SC. In comparison my beloved Sacrifice (and the best game ever) got 44 points which is outrageous. 16 people voted on it with 5 people giving it 5 points and 4 giving it 3.

 

Sacrifice is the GOAT hybrid strategy.

 

The good news is that your beloved game remains just as good as it was before people assigned arbitrary amounts of points to it.

 

I'm quite impressed at how diverse the list is. I just did the first page and we got votes for 253 different games.

 

Will you split the results between genres?

 

Would've offered to give you a hand in counting things, but that sounds like too much of a nuisance.

Godspeed, felipepepe.

 

Have you ever made these lists via non public submissions ? It would be interesting to see
whether subliminal bias due to seeing the other lists affects the results.

 

Well, any buzz around this game is good in my book. I would love to see a sequel for that game and that won't happen unless many people will ask for it. The problem is not that many people know about this gem of a game, it sold badly despite great reviews. Its low popularity is also the main reason it got so few votes (although it's still not bad, e.g. Disciples 2 got 17 points only despite being better than most HoMM games).

 

Maybe as an after statistic. No need to cut it in to genres when it is a top list.