Fallout #5 on IGN's best PC games list

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For this past week, IGN has been counting down a number of "Top 25 Games of All Time" lists, for various consoles and the PC. Based on criteria such as the overall quality of the game, the impact on the industry, and how enjoyable it is today, Fallout was ranked the fifth best PC game of all time. It is the highest RPG on the list, ahead of Oblivion (#16) and Baldur's Gate II (#7).<blockquote>Fallout really had it all: dynamic, believable characters; a quality of narrative and storytelling too rarely seen in games; and the opportunity for players to drastically affect how events proceeded. It was a game that above all else recognized and rewarded the player's free will. Fallout's fiction and game world were vivid, it's character development system deep, and it possessed an often hilarious tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Peering past the post-apocalyptic science fiction surface, deeper cultural themes become apparent, echoing notions of humanity's absurd fallacies hit on in novels like Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Though games like Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Planescape: Torment and plenty of others are all worthy of the PC RPG crown, this 1997 release from Interplay is our choice for the top of the heap.</blockquote>I would describe Fallout's humor as 'often subtle dark comedy,' perhaps they are thinking of Fallout 2.

Link: Top 25 PC Games of All Time at IGN (Fallout's listing is on page 3).
 
In general: I'm surprised how games like rome total war or company of heroes made it into the list and on the other hand where's close combat or even diablo2 which still is popular even with blizzard giving zero attention to it. Few legends like pirates there makes me almost wanna set up good ol commodore 64 hehe.

On topic: fallout totally deserves that spot among the other legends, although on my list it would probably be 2nd
 
I'm surprised as well that Diablo 2 didn't make it on that list at all. I am glad to see that Fallout still has an impressive standing, even ahead of Starcraft which says an awful lot.
 
The list is strange in ways, especially in how it treats series. It seems to often take the latest game in a series as the best. Half-Life 2 is more influential and better than the original? World of Warcraft is the best MMORPG of all time, rather than the most recent popular one? Civilization IV is the best Civilization game, or better than Alpha Centauri? There are other puzzling choices, such as having both Starcraft and Warcraft II on the list or having Call of Duty on the list at all.

But it is IGN after all, not exactly the cutting edge of gaming journalism. At least they included a fair number of good, old games on the list. All to often these lists seem only to extend back a few years.
 
no Total Annihialtion, or Quake ? i do have to cheer for xcom - alltho i wouldnt place it at no1 ...

seems kind of a wierd lineup coming from IGN
 
The desriptions are ridiculus. See why they put Oblivion there. In text about TESIV they say some bullshit about choices ("The Elder Scrolls series has always delivered something unique to players: choice. The games aren't MMOs, but basically the single player equivalent; open worlds where you can follow a main story, or get lost in a titanic amount of side quests and hidden content.") and don't mention that 90% side quests were idiotic. They also say about upgraded iterface which was one of the most annying iterfaces I have seen and it was definitely worse than the nice one Morrowind has. They see the bad points (at least) and notice "Hate on the auto-leveling all you want" but seem to simply not consider it.

Now compare it with text about Fallout. Especially with the first few lines. Oblivion clearly looks like shit in comparison and is left only with better graphics (only because newer) and big boring world where everything looks alike and people keep saying the same things.

This way they can put whatever game they want on the list with their explanation and people reading would say "wow, they are right, the game rocks"

Still, it's nice that children who just bought X360 can read what is the difference between Fallout and Oblivion and why the second one is so much worse.
 
aah good they inserted Grim Fandango , as they said it's unforgettable experience, even if you don't like adventure games.

Overally agree with previous opinions, some games should definitely not be included, and there are also some misses , but it's IGN ...
 
X-Com best PC Game ever? Now there's a surprise. Not that X-Com: UFO Defense isn't a good game (definitely not the best) but I didn't expect IGN to give it such an accolade.
 
That's about 50% of my favorite games of all time in there.

Jagged Alliance should be there...
 
Dove said:
That's about 50% of my favorite games of all time in there.

Jagged Alliance should be there...

I agree whole heartedly with you. WTF, no JA?

Argh. But, as has been said before, it is IGN, of course :roll:

Civ4 at 2? Civ3 is by far the best of the series, Civ4 just had "uber" graphics, and lacked the gameplay that Civ3 had... Rome Total War deserves it's place, I spent many a night trying to gain control of the known world, and actually have binges on this game even now :D SimCity 2000 was great, but SimCity 4 was much better. Once they fixed the game with the expansion pack, Rush Hour, it became my favourite game, after Fallout of course.
 
I'm actually glad X-Com got the first place. The game rarely gets the respect it deserves. :) Although the list is pretty decent overall, which is a quite rare thing to find nowadays. I am surprised Doom is not there.
 
Maybe their sudden public love for Fallout is a part of support for Beth's marketing hype. You know, popularizing the franchise even more, telling how good it was, alongside with Oblivion, which of course, was good crpg also (for partly similar reasons, like freedom of choices, as by IGN). And now look at the joy, company, which is responsible for TESIV will also make the long awaited sequel to the great game. Yay...
 
and no gothic II :/

...

it should be named "some of the best games ever" because lists like that always hurt somebody
 
Gnidrologist said:
Maybe their sudden public love for Fallout is a part of support for Beth's marketing hype. You know, popularizing the franchise even more, telling how good it was, alongside with Oblivion, which of course, was good crpg also (for partly similar reasons, like freedom of choices, as by IGN). And now look at the joy, company, which is responsible for TESIV will also make the long awaited sequel to the great game. Yay...
I disagree. Fallout (and Baldur's Gate 2 [the most overhyped "cRPG" in history]) is on much higher position than TESIV.
 
He might have a point, I was thinking the same thing yesterday.

Boosting up Fallout's popularity on an IGN bestgame list might be part of a pro beth hype.

Although it's borderline 'conspiracy theory' thinking.
 
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