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Top 20 PC Games on Windows XP
ApacheVE writes "Voodoo Extreme has up a story called Generation XP: Top 20 Games of the Last Generation. They call out some of the best games released in the Windows XP era, to mark the passing into the 'next generation' of PC gaming this past week. Some favorites include Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 2004, Civilization IV, World of Warcraft and other titles that helped shape the era." Any titles you see missing from the list? The XP years were truly great, as far as PC titles went; how long do you think it will be before Vista has enough market penetration to make a difference in gaming?
they put (the entirely forgettable, purely eye candy, shallow as a puddle) Oblivion at #3, what do you expect? Still I can't believe they didn't put FarCry in there, easily should've been in the top-5.
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Perhaps most people don't appreciate the annoying features of normal MMORPGs and don't like "challenge" that means losing more progress if you die in a mind-numbingly boring battle?
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The PC version doesn't just have bugs, it has huge, system-crashing bugs. The kind of system crashing bugs that I've never actually seen any other game manage under xp. I've replicated these bugs myself, under common conditions, on two of my own PCs, neither of which have stability problems in any other games I've thrown at them. I don't actually know anybody from among my series of friends who actually has the PC version running stably for protracted periods.
The 360 version... just works. There may be minor bugs in there, but I've yet to actually notice one that in any way obstructed gameplay. Besides, in case you hadn't noticed, MS quietly and informally ditched the whole "no patches via Xbox Live" thing months ago. Console games these days can and do get patched. That you don't know this... implies that you are arguing more from emotion than facts.
Control-wise, I'm fairly agnostic. If you don't like console fpses, or don't have much experience with them, you may find Oblivion on the 360 frustrating at first. I've long since gotten used to console fpses, so not an issue for me. As for mods? Personally, the only mod I'd like would be one to remove the auto-level-balancing thing. But I can live without that.
My own install of the PC version of Oblivion got vaped months ago. I don't miss it. The 360 version still gets booted up sometimes.