Best PC games ever.

[Mala]

Zoombinis

[Hitoshura]

Resident Evil 4 once it's out.

[izembo]

play ut:goty and ut:2004, you can skip ut2003 also get ut3 once it comes out in june

[Eckskalibur]

Red Alert 2.

[Gatsby]

Star Control 2: Ur Quan Masters or get the free version thats actually playable with current computers as Ur Quan Masters.

Great game with a lot of great characters. If you can beat the game without a strategy guide on the first try, then you sir are a god among men.

[solsovly]

X-COM: UFO Defense

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcom

Needs repeating. See also old school D&D Goldbox series, Ultima Underworld. Betrayl of Krondor is also old and awesome.

[noir]

Grim Fandango

[skylar]

Starcraft!!! and Freecell!

[The Blackrose]

Deus Ex: Invisible War. holy crap forgot bout it til I saw my box sittin here comin into my room.

Hahaha... Oh shit, he's actually serious?

IW took a shit on everything the original Deus Ex was.

Take a look at the Thief series, although I don't have Thief 3 (yet).

[divisortheory]

The Zork series
The Myth series

[Isiolia]

Deus Ex...the original one...

If you like KoTOR you could try out Neverwinter Nights, as that's what it's based on. The second one is a bit more playable now too after patches. The bigger deal with those though is the user added content.

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2, often overlooked FPS series that was quite good.

The Longest Journey was great if you like adventure games, though it's not really one you'd have needed a new PC for. Second one is out, but I haven't tried it...wasn't supposed to be quite as good. If you like Kings Quest and the like back in the day, this is a must-play.

Thief series

Morrowind and Oblivion

Far Cry

Fallout series (though old). If you can find the 1&2 pack for like $10 it's well worth it, though the manual and all for that game was kinda cool.

Obviously stuff mentioned like Half Life 1 & 2, UT2k4 (there's a UT collection out there now too, though as mentioned, UT2k3 is pointless with 2k4).

Lotsa stuff

[Cesaria]

Civ2

Civ2

Civ2

Civ2

Greatest PC game... ever.

[Kross]

Isiolia is the only one who mentionned Fallout... I'm disgusted!!!

Fallout 1/2 were prolly the best games ever made on PC, I wish they would add expansions tho....

Diablo II would kinda fit in there too

[Misterjingles]

Ultravixen. it was a game where you controlled tentacles and you're objective is to reach ultimate climax >_>;;[

Anyways,

Starcraft

WarcraftIII, if you get this be sure to get DoTA (Defense of the Ancients, one of the best custom maps, it's a completely different game in itself)

Total Annilation WITH all the expansions (I lost my copy, someone gimme please ._.)

Battlefield2, Battlefield2:Special Forces, Battlefield2142

Eh, can't think of the other games I got, but these listed are ones I still play.

[Byrd]

Fallout series (though old). If you can find the 1&2 pack for like $10 it's well worth it, though the manual and all for that game was kinda cool.

I was looking for someone to recommend this. I would also recommend Arcanum, which was done by the same people. It was a more Steampunk style than post-apocalypse, but it had the same irreverent humor and gameplay style.

[Altanass]

the old school lucasarts and sierra graphic adventures ^^

no one lives forever

[Headspace]

Worms: Armaggedon.

[Po]

I used to play Zork and Myst back in the day, they were the shit.

I have heard age of empires is good too.

[divisortheory]

I used to play Zork and Myst back in the day, they were the shit.

I have heard age of empires is good too.

Myst sucked. I didn't mention that game though :D

[Po]

It didn't suck, you probably just couldn't figure it out.