Best PC games of the past 4 years

[Korgan]

Star Wars Battlefront (both) were really fun single-player-wise.

Tell me I didn't see this.

 

[Pegultagol]

I'd say Europa Universalis and its expansions. I've played the game the most in the last four years.

And also MVP baseball 2005. I know this genre is anathema to most here, but before EA was put out of baseball license bidding war by 2K, it was one of the best depictions of the sport that was at least comparable to its console version. The fan community support has been nothing short of sustaining the entire franchise without a single contribution from the developer and it still is one of the most played and popular sports game on the PC to date. There is a foreboding that EA will just screw the community over after it resumes its MLB license, but the rapidly failing genre can highlight certain gems.

 

[meeneque]

Portal
Dwarf Fortress

 

[Letum Fol]

Civ IV
Galactic Civilizations 2 with expansion
Sins of a Solar Empire
Company of Heroes
Bioshock
Crysis
Rome: Total War

That's all I can think of now.

 

[GeneralSamov]

Thief: Deadly Shadows
Far Cry
SWAT 4
Civilization IV

 

[ricolikesrice]

without RPGs:


-Rome and Medieval 2
-Dawn of War + Expansions (except Shitstorm)
-Farcry and Crysis (singleplayer)
-UT2004 (multiplayer)

guess i should mention CoH too but i never really played it that much since you couldnt play the good guys in the campaign :twisted:

other than that not its not really been a good timespan for games. very few interesting strategy games released that were remotely interesting and the shooter genre has the same problem as hack n slashes: there are shittons of shooters but most are utter crap or at best mediocre rehashs of the same old gameplay in a different scenario.

 

[JarlFrank]

guess i should mention CoH too but i never really played it that much since you couldnt play the good guys in the campaign :twisted:

Heh, same here. Always played skirmishes, never really touched the campaign [only played the first two missions to get familiar with the basics of the game mechanics].
Played the German campaign in the expansion though.

 

[MetalCraze]

Hey guise what do you think about Nexus: Jewpiter Accident?

 

[DefJam101]

Hey guise what do you think about Nexus: Jewpiter Accident?

Uhm, play it?

 

[MetalCraze]

Ermmm but I wanted to know why exactly should I play it?

 

[JarlFrank]

Alright. I liked that game. Why? Cause it's got really nice combat with a lot of tactical options.

Basically, the game begins slowly but then gets better and better. You control big spaceships in tactical space-battles. There are many options, and before each battle you can equip your ships with different weapons. There's anti-shield weapons, lasers [to target specific parts of enemy ships] and ballistic weapons [to damage hull]. You have many tactical options, like deciding which part of your ship gets how much of the battery power [for example, you can take the engines down to get more energy on the weapons and shields], you can target specific parts of enemy ships, you can use fighter squads to attack enemy ships.

If you're a graphics whore, you also won't be disappointed, as the graphics are pretty gorgeous. The interface is rather simple to use, and once you memorized the controls it's really easy to maneuver and do stuff on the map.

Really good game, worth trying out. Maybe you could check if there's a demo.

 

[Comrade Hamster]

-Rome and Medieval 2

Rome: Total War was alright, but Medieval: Total War 2 completely sucked ass. Bring back the Risk boards, Creative Assembly/SEGA!

Alright. I liked that game. Why? Cause it's got really nice combat with a lot of tactical options.

Basically, the game begins slowly but then gets better and better. You control big spaceships in tactical space-battles. There are many options, and before each battle you can equip your ships with different weapons. There's anti-shield weapons, lasers [to target specific parts of enemy ships] and ballistic weapons [to damage hull]. You have many tactical options, like deciding which part of your ship gets how much of the battery power [for example, you can take the engines down to get more energy on the weapons and shields], you can target specific parts of enemy ships, you can use fighter squads to attack enemy ships.

If you're a graphics whore, you also won't be disappointed, as the graphics are pretty gorgeous. The interface is rather simple to use, and once you memorized the controls it's really easy to maneuver and do stuff on the map.

Really good game, worth trying out. Maybe you could check if there's a demo.

Sounds good. I might have to. It'd probably be better than the massive clusterfuck battles of SoaSE.

 

[MLMarkland]

Portal
Bioshock
F.E.A.R.
Half Life 2++
Stalker
Far Cry
Hitman:Blood Money
Civ4
The Chronicles of Riddick
Rome: Total War
Thief: Deadly Shadows
CoD4
Splinter Cell+++

 

[ricolikesrice]

-Rome and Medieval 2

Rome: Total War was alright, but Medieval: Total War 2 completely sucked ass. Bring back the Risk boards, Creative Assembly/SEGA!

yeah rome was definitly better but with the frequent mentions of shallow, mediocre crap like Bioshock, CoD4, Half Life 2 etc in this thread i thought i could let it slip under the radar =(

that nexus game looks interesting, gotta try the demo - havent played a good space game in quite a while and sins wasnt really my cup of tea.

 

[Fenril]

Mount and Blade
Space Rangers 2
Beyond Divinity
Gothic 3
Civ IV

Off the top of my head.

 

[Trash]

That's a pretty shitty list you've got there.

 

[Fenril]

Blame my poor taste or the industry, im sure theres a couple more, bloodlines is another if it was released after 2004, not sure it was. Maybe I would like the witcher if my PC was up to it, cant really think of anything else.

 

[Jasede]

Thief: DS [Only for the Cradle]
Farcry [If you think away the aliens]
Chronicles of Riddick [Only good movie-game ever and a kickass one at that.]

And... yeah, that's all modern games I played and liked from 2004+. I'd likely include Mask of the Betrayer there if it ran on my computer. And Kotor 2 is also in that list, but I don't remember if it was a 2004+ game.

Oh, and Splinter Cell made me vomit. That game was just too awful. I can tell it has promise, but the first three missions of the first game were still awful enough for me to throw away my 3-in-1 all SC games pack I got somewhere for 10 bucks. It was like Thief, but [even more ] linearl evels and minus all the things that made Thief great.

 

[Inziladun]

Rome: Total War was alright, but Medieval: Total War 2 completely sucked ass. Bring back the Risk boards, Creative Assembly/SEGA!

You should try the Stainless Steel mod for Medieval 2: Total War. It really enhances things quite a bit.

 

[kingcomrade]

Splinter Cell was a good game. It wasn't really like Thief.

 

[Jasede]

That's prolly why I didn't like it. I thought it would be like Thief when I bought it, and then the disappointment that it wasn't was so big that I couldn't appreciate it for whatever merits it may have had.

 

[silver crowaxe]

Games that made me warm and fuzzy inside:

- Portal
- FEAR
- Company of Heroes
- Dawn of War (with expansions)
- Hitman: Blood Money
- Painkiller (not the expansion)
- Brothers in Arms