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    Default RTW Second Best PC Game ever according to PCGUK

    Today I bought the PC Gamer magazine for its demo of BI, and I noticed that they had a top 100 games of all time thing. So before playing the demo I decided to read a bit through it. After stumbling through some pages I turned over to reveal Rome Total War, with a big picture of some legions marching across some grass. At first I thought it was twenty-something, but soon realised there was no second digit. OMFG. RTW has been voted the second best PC game ever by PC Gamer readers. This is in front of Halo, Deux Ex, World of Warcraft, The Sims 2 and many other great games. Number 1 was Half-Life 2, which is strange because RTW and HL2 were both reviewed in the same issue and HL2 got 94% whereas RTW got 93% (if I remember correctly)

    I haven't posted this so I can get a huge rant of "But Rome Total War is inaccurate and a crappy game, why wasn't it Shogun or Medieval?" which I can almost guarantee somebody will post in the first page. Maybe it has its problems, maybe it isn't all that accurate, maybe the AI isn't as smart as some would like it to be, but you have to admit, this is the kind of statement about the brilliantly complex but balanced gameplay that RTW has that it deserves.
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    If I remember correctly, Medieval was at number two before Rome came out. At some stage it (MTW) was even number one, or so I've heard.

    Rome's a great game and all that, but I'm not sure if it deserves such a high ranking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kor Khan
    If I remember correctly, Medieval was at number two before Rome came out. At some stage it (MTW) was even number one, or so I've heard.

    Rome's a great game and all that, but I'm not sure if it deserves such a high ranking.
    I second that....

    RTW is a great game but it has tons of bugs, which makes it very annyoing...
    MTW is my favourite game, although it doesn't have 3D appearance, but it doesn't have annoying bugs!!!!!
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    RTW is a superb game but it could be better. I would put it in the top ten for sure. But #2!!! And Half Life 2 is not better than Rome IMO. And what about Starcraft. That was and still is the best computer game that I have ever played. It has a campaign that really draws you in, a wide variety of units that are still almost perfectly ballanced. And the multiplayer is phenominal. I have NEVER seen the Blizzard site crash or kick me off. It didn't lag (even when I had dial-up) I would put Starcraft at the top of my list.
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    If I remember correctly, Starcraft was #84 or something like that (many people love that game, but please remember this was voted by the British public, or at least those who read PCG and can be bothered to vote). I think we play too much RTW over here that we have taken it for granted and don't appreciate its true greatness.
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    It's just people putting the flashy new games up top. Same with Best Film Ever polls, people choose the new good ones, not necessarily the greatest ones. That's what happens when you have the public choose. People have a short memory.

    Personally, I'd put Tetris as the best game ever.
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    If you ask the mainstream gamer to vote, they're always going to put graphics over anything else. They're also going to put the latest game over the previous games in any series. RTW has an excellent strat map but the battles are anything but balanced and tactical.

    If I'm going to make a list, my top 10 will include the following, not in order:
    1. XCom: UFO Defense
    2. Baldur's Gate 2
    3. Starcraft
    4. Diablo
    5. Civ 2
    6. MTW

    Honestly, today's games are too dumbed down to put in that list, RTW included. Only BG2 and MTW came out after 2000 in my list. Also, XCom, Diablo, Civ 2 and MTW all have sequels but I found those editions to be the best in the series.

    I'm also willing to bet that most of the voters are new gamers who haven't played the true classics and weren't old enough for most of them.
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    Probably didn't deserve second place, but third place for sure. Anyways if RTW is so bad why are you wasting your time on these boards.

    Congrats CA on second place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silver Rusher
    If I remember correctly, Starcraft was #84 or something like that (many people love that game, but please remember this was voted by the British public, or at least those who read PCG and can be bothered to vote). I think we play too much RTW over here that we have taken it for granted and don't appreciate its true greatness.
    Well, I understand then...

    I mean, their British. I know very few people from Britian (most of whom are on this forum) that don't judge games just on their flashy appearences and added features.

    About us playing too much over here (U.S. I presume) that is a good arguement. However, I had stopped playing Starcraft for a few years while I played various other games. Then I played RTW. I thought it was an amazing game (and still do) however, I just started playing Starcraft again and realized just how much better it is in many aspects. You can play that game literaly all day, on campaign or on multi-player. The only other game that I can do that with is Halo 2 and you need to buy Xbox live for multi-player on that anyways...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silver Rusher
    This is in front of Halo, Deux Ex, World of Warcraft, The Sims 2 and many other great games.


    Sims 2



    Enjoy playing those vastly superior games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaius Magnus


    Sims 2



    Enjoy playing those vastly superior games.
    Meh, I only pu the Sims 2 there 'cos I couldn't remember any others.
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    "If you don't think RTW is the #2 game of all time then why are you visiting the forums?" That is one of the least impressive loaded questions I've come across in my time. It's like saying, "If you don't think tic-tac-toe will end famine then what gives you the right to even talk about it?" RTW is definately not among the deepest or most well balanced strategy games I have played, so why do I visit the forums? Because I payed for the game, I enjoyed the game, and I like discussion about the game, not because I worship it. How about this for a loaded question? "If you don't want to hear someone else's opinion, why ask?" With regards to all that tetris bashing: the greatest games are timeless

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    Silver Rusher: I played Tetris last week. Still a brilliant game. Age and graphics have nothing to do with it, it's the enjoyment you get out of it that comes first. The genius of Tetris is that it is insanely addictive, never crashes, never suffers a bug, works when you want it to and never, EVER loses it's appeal.

    I wasn't actually comparing films and games, but the polls. The comparison between what get's voted into the top 5 is the sane for films as it is for games, the flashy new ones that are in any way half decent get placed ahead of the older but better games.

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    As much as i like RTW, it's not the 2nd best game ever.


    IMO, shogun deserved the spot alot more.

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    Default Re: RTW Second Best PC Game ever according to PCGUK

    The PCGUK chart is not a readers chart at all, so it is not the combined wisdom of Britain's game players. Rather it represents the opinions of the PCG journos and, it must be said, acts mainly as filler over the traditionally slow summer months.

    Repeat:

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    Ah, what threw me off was this part:

    RTW has been voted the second best PC game ever by PC Gamer readers.

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    Hey! At least it is better than here with all the morons who think shooting someone... over and over and over again is the pinnacle of entertainment.

    I hate FPS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azi Tohak
    Hey! At least it is better than here with all the morons who think shooting someone... over and over and over again is the pinnacle of entertainment.

    I hate FPS.

    Azi
    I'm mostly a strategy gamer, but I can't say I hate the entire FPS genre. The best FPS are high stakes (like, bullets freakin' kill you man), and manouvering for the kill rather than pulling your triggers a million times a second is the heart of the game. Ghost Recon was nice, Rainbow Six was good, Operation Flashpoint was pretty good too though the interface kinda sucked; hell, some FPSs actually are strategy games. One that is a bit more mindless, but a classic nonetheless, is Doom.

    There is a level of effort and planning that results in a good strategy game. In that way, some FPSs are strategy games, while some strategy games are FPSs in different clothing.

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