the best PC games that never made it to consoles
You didn't like Skullmonkeys? Really? Wow...I never thought I'd hear anybody say that.
You know, there are a lot of awesome games that never made it to console...it'll be hard to shorten it so much. You're gonna have to include stuff like Quake, Warcraft/Warcraft 2, Descent: Freespace, Diablo 2(I don't think any of these had console ports at least). I suppose an MMO or two should be thrown in, since they're influential but almost none have ever been ported. And what about mods, like TF and TFC? Those are classics, but not officially published games. Should they be included?
In all honesty, I'd say we could break it down into the two genres that were almost exclusively PC until last gen, FPS and RTS. There were quite a few FPS games on console before the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox era, but few that actually deserved being remembered(and few actually are). As for RTS...I know there were a couple ported, but it's a ridiculously low number because multiplayer just wasn't up to par for them. Starcraft 64? Can you say "Crap"?
You know, there are a lot of awesome games that never made it to console...it'll be hard to shorten it so much. You're gonna have to include stuff like Quake, Warcraft/Warcraft 2, Descent: Freespace, Diablo 2(I don't think any of these had console ports at least). I suppose an MMO or two should be thrown in, since they're influential but almost none have ever been ported. And what about mods, like TF and TFC? Those are classics, but not officially published games. Should they be included?
In all honesty, I'd say we could break it down into the two genres that were almost exclusively PC until last gen, FPS and RTS. There were quite a few FPS games on console before the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox era, but few that actually deserved being remembered(and few actually are). As for RTS...I know there were a couple ported, but it's a ridiculously low number because multiplayer just wasn't up to par for them. Starcraft 64? Can you say "Crap"?
and about that FPS - most of them are not worth of much in these days, except a few like System Shock 1, System Shock 2 etcIn all honesty, I'd say we could break it down into the two genres that were almost exclusively PC until last gen, FPS and RTS. There were quite a few FPS games on console before the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox era, but few that actually deserved being remembered(and few actually are). As for RTS...I know there were a couple ported, but it's a ridiculously low number because multiplayer just wasn't up to par for them. Starcraft 64? Can you say "Crap"?
You forgot Adventure games. Monkey Island got ported to Sega CD, and KQ5 got an awful NES port, but that's about it as far as I can tell.
Oh, I guess the NES port of Maniac Mansion isn't all *that* bad.
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Didn't Myst get ported as well? And as for Quake getting ported...it did, really? I didn't know that. I know Doom got WAY too many ports, and Hexen got ported, as did Dark Forces...was the original Half-Life ported, because I remember a HL game coming out for PS2, but I thought it was a different storyline with two characters.
Heretic didn't have a port, did it? I still enjoy playing it, even if the controls aren't so hot...heck, it's hard going back to before the WASD, but I'll still play Wolfenstein, so I suppose I shouldn't talk..
Heretic didn't have a port, did it? I still enjoy playing it, even if the controls aren't so hot...heck, it's hard going back to before the WASD, but I'll still play Wolfenstein, so I suppose I shouldn't talk..