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

I can't believe I was the only one that voted for Outlaws.
And the original Master of Orion ranked as low as number 100 is an outrage.
Apart from that it looks like a good list.

 

But where's the bayesian average?!

 

To help with categorising it, I really quickly went through Lady Error's 1000+ MEGA-LIST and picked out FPS games. Here they are in descending order.

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Doom (1993)
Half-Life (1998)
Quake (1996)
Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
Half-Life 2 (2004)
Unreal Tournament (1999)
Blood (1997)
Doom 2 (1994)
System Shock (1994)
F.E.A.R. (2005)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (2009)
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (2006)
Quake 2 (1997)
No One Lives Forever (2000)
Counter-Strike (1999)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (1997)
Bioshock (2007)
Crysis (2007)

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Unreal (1998)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004)
Descent (1995)
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003)
SWAT 4 (2005)
Heretic (1994)
No One Lives Forever 2 (2002)
Far Cry (2004)
Metro 2033 (2010)
Metro: Exodus (2019)
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003)
Left 4 Dead (2008)
Postal 2 (2003)
Call of Duty 4 (2007)
Doom 3 (2004)
Hexen (1995)
Quake 3: Arena (1999)
Call of Duty 2 (2005)
Day of Defeat (2003)
DOOM (2016)
Shadow Warrior (1997)
Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
Bioshock Infinite (2013)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012)
Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995)
Hidden & Dangerous 2 (2003)
Medal of Honor (1999)
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
SWAT 3 (1999)
Call of Duty (2003)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
Descent 2 (1996)
DUSK (2018)
Far Cry 2 (2008)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)
Final Doom (1996)
Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999)
Halo (2001)
Insurgency (2014)
Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999)
Overload (2017)
Ultimate Doom (1995)
Aliens vs Predator (1999)
Painkiller (2004)
Serious Sam (2001)
Battlefield 4 (2013)
Blood 2 (1997)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)
Call of duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remaster (2019)
Call of Duty: WW2 (2017)
Crysis 2 (2011)
Far Cry 4 (2014)
Metro: Last Light (2013)

This is only the first 600 or so games on the list, because I'm tired and can't be bothered going through like 400 more games. This is also mainly just games I instantly recognised as being FPS games, so there's a good chance I've missed some. Plus, these are just games I consider to be FPS - I left out Portal (puzzle game) and Mirror's Edge (platformer) for example, but I assume people are gonna disagree.

 

Pretty solid list overall, with the exception of the glorified physics demo Half-Life 2 ranking higher than the often copied, never reached all-time classic System Shock.

 

What's the problem with that? Having more great (or even good) games to play that you might've overlooked in the past is always a good thing.
Also, the last sentence is retarded.

You're right, Life is Strange is a traditional RPG and shouldn't be in this poll. After all, it's got choices & consequences, therefore it's an RPG according to the KKKodex KKKonsensus.

 

HoMMo at #1 while MoM is at #15. The Codex truly is going down the toilet.

 

The full list makes me realize that i played a lot of games when i was younger. I have really become lazy.

 

Two walking simulators in the top 5 though as if having Morrowind and shit like that in the Top cRPG wasn't enough.

 

Lady Error
With your list (sorted one) i find 201 for UFO instead of 202, UFO: Extraterrestrial being a different game.

Not sure it's worth it to count again post by post like i did yesterday, it's easy to make mistakes and the alternative is worse, if i didn't, it'd mean there was an error while exporting data.
So, my mistake, your count is perfect.

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Also, there is two people on my IL so there's that, not that their shit taste matters.

 

And Unreal so low.
I think it has aged better than games like Quake, Duke Nukem and Half-Life.

 

Severance: Blade of Darkness seems to have made it to the top 100. Mission accomplished.

 

Thanks for compiling the list, Lady Error. Added a few titles to my ever-growing backlog.

 

How to vote?

 

Wait for the next election cycle in 4 years.

 

Aren't some of those games in the RPG list already?

 

You can always try pm felipepepe begging to include your votes

 

My results differ only slightly. It should be noted that I only tracked a few potential 'high-scorers', and then I lumped the score together for all the Civilization games, as mentioned previously.

(From memory)

HoMM3 was 1st with 265 points.
Thief 1 was 2nd place with ~215.
UFO: Enemy Unknown was third with just below 200 points.
The biggest change was with Starcraft and Thief 2, they were so close in points that I won't make the call which one came in 4th and 5th place.

Regardless of that, I'm very pleased with the Top 5.

I kept track of SMAC seperately and know that it scored high, but was pleasantly surprised to see that it comes in sixth.

Other games I kept track of were Doom, Half-Life and Thief 3. Doom and Half-Life were pretty much the same place in Lady Error's place, but in my books Thief 3 got 18 points, not 17.

Quake was the highest-scoring title I didn't keep track of, meaning that I got the Top 8 pretty much right.

As always Felipepepe has the final word, though the only judgement call to make is whether Starcraft or Thief 2 is at No. 4.

 

Dunno why everyone's Disagree-ing so hard with this post, I think you're right (except that I don't think it's necessarily aged better than those three games). It took me a few playthroughs to click with it but Unreal is great and deserves a spot in the top 100 for sure. At the very least I'd put it far above the likes of Crysis, Bioshock and Quake 2, all of which made the top 100.

Also surprised that Descent, Heretic and Far Cry didn't make it into the top 100.

 

To clarify, what I meant was that while I don't think I'd personally say Unreal aged better than those three games, I wouldn't strongly disagree with the argument that it has. It plays just as smoothly as the rest, its visuals have aged just as well (or better than Duke 3D, which doesn't look great during most of Lunar Apocalypse), and there's not much that would alienate a modern audience. And like with Half-Life, the game being a series of connected maps rather than episodes makes it feel closer to post-2000 FPS games.

 

Just stating my opinion, but of these three only Descent deserves a shot at the Top 100. Heretic wasn't that good and Far Cry is a tech demo.

 

My 2018 assessment:

 

Far Cry definitely is a tech demo but it doubles as a pretty solid game. It derails a little when the mutants show up but I found the combat against human enemies to be a lot of fun.

It took me a few playthroughs before it suddenly seemed to work for me. The spongey enemies and weak-feeling weapons (especially compared to their UT99 equivalents) were what repelled me from it the first couple times too.

Now is probably a good time to mention Ash's Unreal Evolution mod, here, which eliminates some of Unreal's gameplay flaws.

 

Corrected the mistakes that were pointed out. Here is the updated list:

http://www.filedropper.com/voting_1

felipepepe should double-check anyway if he finds anything else.