• Kate Archer
• Mona Sax
• Alyx Vance
• Jeanette & Therese Voerman
• Sarah Kerrigan
• Jan Ors
• Lara Croft
• Velvet Velour

... They made Duke Nukem Forever. That pretty much speaks for itself. Pffrbt

Duke Nukem Forever was developed by 3D Realms

... They're really just despicable and they haven't made a single good game. So what's to like?

Pffrbt

• Half-Life: Opposing Force (arguably the best Expansion Pack of all-time.)
• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
• BiA: Earned in Blood
• BiA: Hell's Highway
• Borderlands 1 & 2
  

the Von Braun

Planescape: Torment

Day One pre-order.

King's Bounty: The Legend ($4.99)

King's Bounty: Crossworlds - GotY Edition ($12.49)

King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame

1997 - Goldeneye 007 (relatively weak year for gaming so Goldeneye 007 wins easy) drekula2

• Fallout
• Quake II
• Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
• SW: X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
• Total Annihilation
• Age of Empires
• Myth: The Fallen Lords
• Curse of Monkey Island
• Dungeon Keeper
• Close Combat II
• Hexen II
• Blood
• Shadow Warrior
• Blade Runner
• Longbow 2
• EF2000 v2.0
• Outlaws
• Sid Meier's Gettysburg
• Wing Commander: Prophecy
• Panzer General II
• Warlords III
• Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
• Broken Sword: Smoking Mirror
• Carmageddon
• Tomb Raider II
• Dark Earth

1999 - System Shock 2 (not a great year but i thought System Shock 2 was really innovative for atmospheric games) drekula2

• Homeworld
• FreeSpace 2
• Planescape:Torment
• RB6: Rogue Spear
• Unreal Tournament
• Quake III
• Outcast
• The Wheel of Time
• Heroes of Might & Magic III
• Mech Warrior 3
• Heavy Gear II
• Age of Empires II
• Worms: Armageddon
• Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge
• HL: Opposing Force
• SWAT 3
• Pharaoh
• Everquest
• Dungeon Keeper 2
• Age of Wonders
• Asheron's Call
• Flanker 2.0
• Battlezone II
• Panzer Elite
• SW: X-Wing Alliance
• Warzone 2100

in no particular order; too difficult to draw the line at 5...

• System Shock 2 (pc)
• Deus Ex 1 (pc)
• Half-Life 1 (pc)
• Mafia 1 (pc)
• Thief II: The Metal Age (pc)
• Vampire: TM - Bloodlines (pc)
• X-COM: UFO Defense ('94, pc)
• Total Annihilation (pc)
• FreeSpace 2 (pc)
• Homeworld (pc)

Your viewpoint sounds like you've never played PC games.

XaosII

• Transport Tycoon Deluxe
• Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
• Railroad Tycoon II + Second Century
• Trevor Chan's Capitalism II
• Patrician III
• The Movies