Quote Originally Posted by jb143 View Post
I think a lot of games were just compatible with multiple versions and not just XP... but to sort of answer your question more broadly, I thinks it's because that's when Steam started to take over on PC.
I agree. When did Half Life 2 come out? 2004, I looked it up. That'd be one to add to your list for XP. And bringing up a Valve game, I can't believe I didn't mention Portal! It is one of my all-time favorites. (portal 2 is great, too).

I also think a lot of people, like me, were clicking away in Diablo 2 and its expansion. StarCraft and Warcraft were still huge, and I think the Battle.net edition of the latter came during XP. But I thought you were looking for a little more obscure stuff, and these were huge. Other big ones I'd consider XP for would be Fallout 3 and Oblivion IV, both on console also, but really PC games IMO. KOTOR 1 and 2 are excellent. Other good Star Wars were Jedi Outcast and Academy and ... I think there's more. Was Dark Forces XP?

Vampire Bloodlines was a good one that went a little under the radar. Far Cry was pretty amazing.

So I don't have to look them up again for this thread:
Windows XP released Oct 2001
Windows 7 Oct 2009 (we won't count Vista in 2007 )