IGN has made a list of the best PC Games of all time, and despite some heavy competition X-COM was awarded the top spot on the list.

I apologize for the bad title, but I didn't want to make it too long. And the quote tags are not working properly.

Technical problems aside, I don't really like the list, because it contains far too many new games. Seriously, games that aren't at least five years old shouldn't appear on these lists.

I don't know all of the games, but I think Deus Ex deserves better than Nº20. Plus, they put Half Life 2 and not the original Half Life, which I consider to be 10 times better.

I don't like the list either, as Gimli, I feel a game should be out for at least 5 years or so, time will determine which game is the best, otherwise it turns into "What game is the hottest right now" list.

At least they did include X-Com...

True, 10 games were released after 2001, but there are a few newer titles which deserved their spot. (Half Life 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004). The average release date of all games is 1999 so it seems like a pretty good of mix. Then again, you can't really go by dates either as some of the games are continuations of a series and the authors had to pick one. Still, I can't understand why the they decided to pick WarcraftII, Starcraft and World of Warcraft. True, all are good games, but they are all in the Warcraft series of games. They should have listed one and used the other spots for some other games. Nice to see one of my favorites is in there: SimCity 2000.

No argument from me on X-COM being #1. It deserves the headline spot in all respects. Few games ever came close to the lasting appeal, re-playability and strategy which it offers. But why, oh why, would they say this?


If you are a true strategy fan, the game should already be out, installed, and running. If you are a die-hard X-COM fan like myself, you should even have multiple copies installed on your HDD.

- Zombie

The only one I agree with is the #1 spot. I think several of those choices were bribery-induced.

A quick browse through the list turns up nothing from Origin or Bullfrog...

Indeed, and there's no Planescape either.

Crap, I was just thinking I may be the first to post this...

I said it once, I'll say it many times - we should invite the IGN team to our boards!

How can they not include the true classics like Elite and stuff like that? It's been over 25 years and still nothings beaten that for a space trader sim...................

I think the X universe is much better than the original Elite... But I definitely agree that Elite deserves a VERY special place in gaming history, just like X-COM.

Indeed - one of the first games I played on my ancient 486.

Hmph, they add Unreal Tournament 2004 but no Master of Orion II, and how can they add Half Life 2 and not add Doom?

/me thinks StrategyCore should have its own list of The Best Games of All Time.

That sounds like a great idea to me - Call it a list of the top hundred... Yep, sure it'd take ages, but everyone would have great fun argueing!

I think the same

Sounds like a good plan. I'll just see whether there's a limit to how many poll questions you can have.

Personally I found the X Universe had some great ideas but were poorly executed. Loved building my own factory network, hated having to wait months of real-time play to get it to work

We could spend hours upon hours arguing about the top 100 games though!

I don't understand why Half life 2 was in there so high instead of half life 1. Lets be honest in a list thats the best games of all time graphics have nothing to do with it (tie fighter was even higher for example) so clearly the pioneering half life should be the game mentioned and not the slightly improved no.2...

All that aside though, doesn't it bring a warm feeling to the cockles of your heart to hear such praise of a game we all love so much. We always feel like we're the only people who care but it just goes to show we're not I guess

Meh, at present you can only have three questions with 20 choices in a poll. Just for info. I'm sure I could up it if we really wanted to do something like an "Unbiased top 100 gaes of all times unlike IGN, Gamespy and Gamespot etc".

Snappy title eh?

How about a special separate page just for that? There would be a list of all games for the PC (built along the way) ever made minus the ones from the last 5 years where people would be able to cast their votes.

A seperate section, even.