Comments on: Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! July

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:31:05 +0000

39 Baldur’s Gate
38 Gears of War
37 System Shock 2
36 STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
35 Mafia
34 Guild Wars
33 Medieval II: Total War
32 Max Payne
31 GTA: Vice City
30 Mass Effect
29 Planescape: Torment
28 Crysis
27 Fallout
26 Battlefield 2
25 Final Fantasy VII
24 Warcraft III
23 Counter-Strike 1.6
22 Garry’s Mod
21 Morrowind
20 Counter-Strike: Source
19 GTA: San Andreas
18 KOTOR
17 Civilization IV
16 Fallout 2
15 Half-Life 2: Episode Two
14 Baldur’s Gate 2
13 Bioshock
12 Oblivion
11 Diablo 2
10 Deus Ex
9 Half-Life
8 Starcraft
7 Portal
6 TF2
5 Call of Duty 4
4 World of Warcraft
3 Lord of the Rings Online
2 Eve Online
1 Half-Life 2

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:23:19 +0000

69 Fable
68 Battlefield 2
67 Age of Conan
66 Halo
65 Everquest
64 Total Annihilation
63 Far Cry
62 Diablo
61 The Secret of Monkey Island
60 Football Manager (series)
59 The Witcher
58 Quake III: Arena
57 Hitman:Blood Money
56 Unreal Tournament
55 Neverwinter Nights
54 Call of Duty 2
53 Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
52 Doom
51 Hereos of Might & Magic III
50 C&C: Red Alert 2
49 Grim Fandango
48 Supreme Commander
47 Ultima Online
46 Rome: Total War
45 UFO: Enemy Unknown
44 Half-Life 2: Episode One
43 GTA 3
42 Max Payne 2
41 Age of Empires 3: Age of Kings
40 Company of Heroes

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:16:12 +0000

I know this is long after the event but I have just tried and failed to find any trace of the result’s of the 2008 PC Gamer Reader’s Top 100 anywhere on the internet, so here they are (from the #194 “December 2008″ print magasine):

100 Dwarf Fortress
99 FIFA (series)
98 Quake
97 Race Driver: Grid
96 Final Fantasy VIII
95 Homeworld
94 Command & Conquer
93 Tie-Fighter
92 Civilization
91 The Sims 2
90 Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War Dark Crusade
89 Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
88 City of Heroes
87 KOTOR 2
86 Guild Wars Nightfall
85 UT2004
84 Star Wars: Galaxies
83 Doom II
82 Everquest II
81 FEAR
80 WORMS
79 C&C: Red Alert
78 Thief II
77 Battlefield 1942
76 Civilization II
75 Psychonauts
74 Beyond Good & Evil
73 Red Orchestra
72 Cal of Duty
71 Dark Age of Camelot
70 Duke Nukem 3D

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:16:37 +0000

Actually PCPowerPlay would have stolen it from PC Gamer. The PC Gamer top 100 started in 1994, two years before the first issue of PCPP.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:05:36 +0000

Man, you guys totally stole the Top 100 idea from PCPowerPlay.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:12:01 +0000

That reminds me – the thing that irritated me about the Mass Effect DLC was that it was delayed so long. Here I was, cackling because my foresight had allowed me get an improved version of Mass Effect for less money (than the Xbox version originally cost, anyway) with the DLC bundled in free and actually playable in a first go through the game. And then they went and held off on the DLC until I was already done with the game and had uninstalled. I mean, I’m sure it’s great and all, but a couple hours of sidequest isn’t going to prompt me to do another entire playthrough anytime soon.

By: Freudian Slip

Freudian Slip — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:47:43 +0000

I got the FIFA: Euro 2008 version on the basis that it had the Be-A-Pro mode that everyone has nowadays. Then I found out that also the engine for that style of game was in there, my player wouldn’t develop. So I saw absolutely no point in not creating a character with 99 in everything that saw Steve McClaren the european champion.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:24:07 +0000

I got the Mass Effect DLC a while after I’d finished the game, so it was nice to be able to have some more time with it, even if it was just a slightly meatier side mission. Now if only they’d made all the other little side missions to that standard, then the game would have been so much better.

By: Pod

Pod — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:02:09 +0000

PC Gamer UK, Britain’s Greatest Living Magazine, launches the Reader’s Top 100 Site. You can vote for your top 100 all time PC games, and web automagic takes care of the aggregate placings. Huzzah!

Kieron: I just went onto their site and despite voting being now closed, there’s no link to the final list on the site. Presumably it went up somewhere, yeah? Poor, deserted site. The saddest emoticon in the world = :(

Jim: I’d assumed they would keep this site open as a kind of ongoing perma-top 100. Seems silly not to, eh readers?

Does anyone know what the top 100 actually was? I no longer buy PC Gamer and feel a bit short changed that my free contributation, which I agonised over for ages, isn’t being taken into consideration and I demand my free money’s worth back.

By: Dante

Dante — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:40:00 +0000

Star Trek Online has serious dark horse potential, I think, not because the license is so big, but because it would seem to force them away from traditional MMO mechanics into something a bit different.

Some of the concepts they’re talking about are amazing, crew as pets, the ability to create your own alien race, continual exploration and discovery.

Of course they haven’t said anything about how this will work, so they might just be going all Peter Molyneux on us.

By: Hermit

Hermit — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:27:53 +0000

Mmm, the Mass Effect DLC was an odd one. I didn’t actually get round to buying and playing Mass Effect until it came out, so I played the expansion content in my first runthrough. Heck, I was about halfway through exploring the little moon / asteroid thing before I even realised I’d stumbled into the DLC. The plot seemed largely inconsequential though, and the “moral choice” bit at the end was silly. Still, another hour of Mass Effect to play was nice.

DLC is far too much like filler or movie spinoffs of TV shows, wherein the events that occur there are never mentioned ever again.

By: pepper

pepper — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:14:22 +0000

Aaah SWAT 4, i reckon it is that time of the year again to go COOP! Shame that i cant get the game and expansions anywhere around here:(…