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Posted 21 October 2006 - 07:55 PM

Well... there it is:

http://microsites.ig...kfc/top99games/

But, you know it's a "Reader's Picks" list so it's 90% games from the last five years.

Best X ______ Ever lists are always nonsense. Someone should get to work on a Best _____ Database instead, with user comments.

I know my top 10 games but putting them in order is useless and difficult.
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Posted 21 October 2006 - 09:14 PM

Well I don't rate the games I play as in the context of the best but I may rate it in other details.

The thought of the large banners on the left hand and top corner of that page is starting making me feel sick. I see a piece of dried up mud. As it is big maybe that is their top rated number 1.

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Posted 21 October 2006 - 09:44 PM

OKAY!!!...you know theres a HUGE problem when youre reading a list for whats supposed to be the greatest 99 video games of all fucking time,.and it doesnt list tetris, mortal kombat, street fighter or pacman anywhere,.but DOES list max payne 2.im sure max payne 2 was such a great game,.it makes no sense why i saw about 50 copies of this game at toys 'r us priced at $4.95 each on the clearance rank.

one question comes to mind when reading this expansive list,..did IGN (b.k.aa the company that owns GamePro) accept any money from companies wanting their games to be ranked high? Resident Evil 4 is an awesome game,..but i still would not rank it as being the absolute best game every made in the past 30 or so years! Im thinking Capcom paid IGN a hefty sum to be listed as such.

these types of lists really piss me off. they aremy compiled by true video game aficianados, rather by fan boys (or girls) that simply played a certain game, and loved it so much, they want to rant about it. this is quite evident being that the majority of games on this list were released in the last 5 years.

did they even take into consideration games of the course of the past 30 years here?? yes,.i know consoles of yesteryear didnt sport as much technical power as they do today,..but i dont judge games by their graphics. i judge games by their gameplay! is the game fun? is it addictive? is it easy to get into? does it challenge the mind? test your skill? these and many more attributes are what make a great game...not how good the graphics are.

i also judge games if they have made some sort of impact to the gaming world, not merely by them being top-sellers,.but if they introduced some type of new concept into the gaming world


Now,..this is a list of what i personally feel to be the greatest 100 games of all time. and unlike the IGN list, which i feel is biased, i will attempt to take an unbiased approach at listing what i feel is the best 100 games ever, from now all the way back to the atari 2600 days, encompassing games over the span of almost 30 years. this list doesnt represent my own personal picks, but rather what i feel the gaming community as a whole would agree to be the best. this list is in random order.

1. super mario bros 3
2. grand theft auto-vice city
3. tetris
4. chrono trigger
5. donkey kong country
6. super mario bros/duck hunt (1985-nes)
7. metal gear solid 3
8. galaga
9. grand theft auto-san andreas
10.legend of zelda-a link to the past
11. super metroid
12. mrs. pac-man
13. goldeneye 007
14. world of warcraft
15. metal gear solid
16. contra 3-the alien wars
17. r-type
18. halo
19. frogger
20. final fantasy III
21. castlevania-symphony of the night
22. mike tysons punch out
23. the sims
24. perfect dark
25. star wars-kotor
26. gran turismo 3:a spec
27. resident evil 2
28. double dragon
29. final fantasy VII
30. marble madness
31. super mario 64
32. final fantasy (nes)
33. final fantasy VIII
34. gta-vice city
35. qbert
36. sim city
37. conkers bad fur day
38. ridge racer V
39. ninja gaiden (nes)
40. xenogears
41. contra (nes)
42. PACMAN
43. street fighter 2:turbo
44. super smash bros melee
45. mortal kombat
46. earthbound
47. mortal kombat 3-ultimate
48. sunset riders
49. donkey kong
50. dragon quest VIII
51. tony hawks pro skater 3
52. tekken 3
53. super mario world
54. dragon warrior
55. mega man 2
56. doom
57. space invaders
58. doom 3
59. grand theft auto III
60. asteroids
61. rampage
62. advance wars
63. diablo
64. mortal kombat-armeggedon
65. splinter cell-pandora tomorrow
66. RUSH:2049
67. shenmue
68. metal gear solid 2: sons of liberty
69. secret of mana
70. shinobi
71. house of the dead 2
72. paperboy
73. DR. MARIO
74. starcraft
75. pole position
76. driver
77. joust
78. gauntlet IV
79. golden axe
80. legend of zelda (nes)
81. afterburner
82. final fantasy X
83. pokemon (franchise-no specific title)
84. age of empires
85. METAL GEAR (NES)
86. outrun
87. splatterhouse 2
88. manhunt
89. phantasy star
90. sonic the hedgehog
91. soul calibur II
92. nba jam
93. tomb raider
94. primal rage
95. baldurs gate
96. pitfaLL
97. golden sun
98. super mario kart
99. centipede
100.myst

a rather hard list to compile,.even going by random order. if you feel that there was a title i missed that should be included, and should replace another one, let me know.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 01:31 AM

Why is San Andreas so high, and soul Calibur 2 and Myst so low? GTA 3 gets props for giving people open ended, graphic violence and exploration a home, but VC and SA were just rehashes, VC embellishing heavily on Al Pacino's Scarface, and SA being... uh, a bunch of profane black gangstas and finally saying "fuck", along with having Samuel L. Jackson as a voice actor. I think if you list a game, you need to take into consideration its effect on other games, as well as how fun it is.

But you're fully entitled to your own opinion, of course. You are commended for actually throwing a list of 99 games together. I wouldn't be able to name more than maybe 15 without lots of help.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 09:42 AM

That isn't bad, if you put Madden higher than Kotor, Wind Waker, Conker, Perfect Dark, Metroid Prime, etc, etc, etc.
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Posted 23 October 2006 - 04:37 AM

I think you'll notice that Blueoceans said random order.

It's a bit unfair complaining that the list is biased. Of course it is, a person, or group of people, made it. Even if they're going off of sales, the list is still biased by a games advertising budget. Personally, I wouldn't put tetris on, because I don't think it's a good game. I don't care that it's a classic, it never interested me. Likewise, I wouldn't rank a single sports game, and the only racing game that I think is any good is Carmageddon (I'm not counting GTA as a racing game).
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Posted 23 October 2006 - 01:58 PM

sad.gif ..where is Smash TV in that list???,.thats the greastest multi-player game ever made! No other game gets your friends together in non-stop total mayhem like that game does. Me and my friends get together and open up some beers and gnaw down some chex mix and play that all night! Its one of the best games on Midway Arcade Treasures Volume I.
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Posted 23 October 2006 - 04:25 PM

Oooh. Random order. My bad. Now on the one hand I want to say "Why number them at all?" but on the other hand it gives more weight to there actually being 99 games listed. tongue.gif
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Posted 25 October 2006 - 09:03 AM

QUOTE (mireaux7 @ Oct 24 2006, 02:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
sad.gif ..where is Smash TV in that list???,.thats the greastest multi-player game ever made!

I beg to differ. Get a copy of Timesplitters 2 and find the Anaconda cart in the first level. 4 player Anaconda (or Chuacabra as we call it, it's a long story) is the greatest multiplayer event imaginable. I have personally seen it convert even non-gamers to it's greatness.
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Posted 28 October 2006 - 04:44 PM

I think that's an old list.

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Posted 29 October 2006 - 09:11 AM

How is KOTOR only #25?

At least they put Ocarina of Time as #2. I would have put it at #1, but since my video game expertise is limited to only KOTOR and Ocarina of Time, I probably shouldn’t have a say.
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Posted 29 October 2006 - 08:43 PM

How can FF X be on there? What is it with Square and it's trite rehashed story, rehashed content, and ultra-effemminate male main characters who are angsty about saving the world? FF X took a good 2 hours just to get to where you could actually play due to the long stupid cutscenes, and then they only pretended there was any freedom in the leveling up system.

Best. Game. Ever? No idea. Something old and fantastic and ultra positively influential, like SMB3. *shrug*
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Posted 30 October 2006 - 02:50 AM

Zelda's nice, but it lacks depth and emotion, I wouldn't rank it that high.

Final Fantasy X == completely fucked up, just like FF IX. VIII was nice, VII was absolutely brilliant and III (i.e. VI) was the best FF ever. Full stop.

Chrono Trigger... now that one clearly deserves to be No. 1. The only thing that bugged me about it were those crappy drawings made by those horrible horrible people who drew Dragon Ball, too.

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 07:31 PM

QUOTE (Gobbler @ Oct 30 2006, 03:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Chrono Trigger... now that one clearly deserves to be No. 1. The only thing that bugged me about it were those crappy drawings made by those horrible horrible people who drew Dragon Ball, too.


if you want to see a horrid game, you should play Vib Ribbon for Playstation. the graphics are terrible, it looks like a vector game drawn by a toddler.

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 08:18 AM

QUOTE (Gobbler @ Oct 30 2006, 02:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Zelda's nice, but it lacks depth and emotion, I wouldn't rank it that high.


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