IGN post reader's top 100 games of all time. IGN readers presumed stupid.

What a random list. Many of those games deserve a top 100 but there are much more that deserve it more.
 
Splinter Cell sucks penis.

I guess they only got #1 right :)
 
I think the original TMNT was better than the second...I think I'm the only person who takes pride in how good I used to be at that damned game....

And where the hell is Friday The 13th? Oh yeah, that game sucked.

But I still play it.
 
I know we've had 'your favourite games' threads many times before, but I think I might start one so that we can have a list of HL2.net members top 100 (or top 50) games - Cos obviously HL2.net members have the best taste in games of any gaming website!

I would ask everyone to nominate their favourite 20 games, then compile that into a definitive list. '

Good idea?
 
pomegranate said:
I know we've had 'your favourite games' threads many times before, but I think I might start one so that we can have a list of HL2.net members top 100 (or top 50) games - Cos obviously HL2.net members have the best taste in games of any gaming website!

I would ask everyone to nominate their favourite 20 games, then compile that into a definitive list. '

Good idea?
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If Half-Life series games don't dominate the top 5, and PC games don't dominate the top 50, I will be very surprised. Every community is biased one way or the other...
 
Yeah of course HL and HL2 will probably be 1 and 2 (or vice versa), but it'd be interesting to see what the remaing 58/98 would be. Yay or nay?
 
Simple to fix that (not the HL bias) we limit it to games released on the PC. Then lynch anyone who tries to get Halo on it.
 
I don't see much point limiting it to PC. Most people are platform-agnostic to some degree.
 
There aren't many games within the top 100 that shouldn't be there, probably.

But the order is just so wrong it hurts my eyes.
 
Our own top 100 would end up in a big flame fest ...

Somebody would post, 'Mafia is the best'!!
Then i'd say, 'Mafia's shite, Mario 64'!
Samon says, 'Mario 64 has a shite narrative' and screams, 'HL2'!
Eventually Halo gets dragged into the equation and things really go downhill.

There - saved everyone the trouble :)
 
pomegranate said:
I don't see much point limiting it to PC. Most people are platform-agnostic to some degree.
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Maybe here, but HL2.net is but one beautiful little gaming microcosm in the vast sea of stupidity that is internet forumality.
 
There's enough Legend of Zelda on that list to choke a donkey.


The lack of any LucasArts adventure games (ie Monkey Island, The Dig, Sam and Max, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle) renders this list null and void.
 
I think Zelda: Ocarina of Time is deserving of the number one spot. Then again it's obviously an opinion and others believe that it should have been a different game.
 
Warbie said:
Our own top 100 would end up in a big flame fest ...
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I'd set it with the rule of no discussion or debate.
Come on, be honest, if I set it up, would you be able to resist listing your favourites?
 
Warbie said:
Our own top 100 would end up in a big flame fest ...

Somebody would post, 'Mafia is the best'!!
Then i'd say, 'Mafia's shite, Mario 64'!
Samon says, 'Mario 64 has a shite narrative' and screams, 'HL2'!
Eventually Halo gets dragged into the equation and things really go downhill.

There - saved everyone the trouble :)
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Pretty much :p
 
Although we are smart enough not to do our own Top 100 list......






or are we?
 
Boring sods ;( About time we had a bit of internecine controversy here!
But like I said, if I start the thread would you really not post your favourites in it (besides for the sake of trying to prove yourselves right in what you've said above)?
 
Well, people are usually pretty compliant when 'no discussion' threads are started.

re: OCUK - that's pretty much what I had in mind. See, someone else thought of the same thing for the same reason, must be a half-decent idea!

Gonna do it, but will leave it a while for additional comments or suggestions...
 
Go on then, it can't hurt :)

May I suggest 10 choices - if only to help make up the no.s
 
Yeah already decided that would be more sensible than 20.
One thing I'm trying to decide is whether to give weighting to positions - i.e. a game placed at number 10 in someone's list gets 1 point, and a game placed at number 1 gets 10 points. Problem with that (apart from a lot more work) is that not everybody ranks their games. So I've probably argued myself out of that...
 
Ennui said:
it's really nothing special.
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No, it really, really is. The critical praise and sales number don't care about your opinion. Honestly, though, not liking a game is fine and all, but sometimes you just have to admit that a game is good despite your fanboyism (or anti-fanboyism, in this case).

I've never much liked Final Fantasy 7. Actually, I've never much liked any of the old school Eastern RPGs since SNES times. The genre bores me. But I'm not going to tell you that Final Fantasy 7 isn't a great game, and well deserving of its place on the list. The production of Final Fantasy 7 alone warrants it. The same can be said of TOoT.
 
The problem I see with Zelda, and the rest of the N64 titles, is that it all comes across as the work of a little clique of Nintendoites who stuck with the company when everyone else was captured by something elsewhere. I, and many others cannot argue against the assertion that Oot was the best game ever, because virtually no-one played it (I know of only two people who HAD an N64, and I doubt either of them had Zelda), and everyone who has gives it a 10 of 10 simply because it's some kind of in group "look at me, I actually played it" marker. That's my UK perspective anyhow, i'm not sure how Nintendo fared in the US during those years.

I'm further inclined to think this because the one Zelda game I have actually played, A Link to the Past, made me question what the hell the fuss was about. I mean, you just run around poking hedges with a sword and picking up hearts, before going to go poke some monsters in the side?

As for Final Fantasy... yeah, I agree. Their gameplay is on par with the window's start menu. Summoning Kinghts of the Round is like loading up an Excel 2003 document on a 386: you select the item, watch it churn away for a few minutes, and see the numbers pop up after it's down. Woohoo!
 
kupoartist said:
I'm further inclined to think this because the one Zelda game I have actually played, A Link to the Past, made me question what the hell the fuss was about. I mean, you just run around poking hedges with a sword and picking up hearts, before going to go poke some monsters in the side?
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Eww. A Link to the Past was decent back during its release, but it really lacks anything special now. Definately not the title one should form an opinion of the series on. The Ocarina of Time, on the other hand, was and is a wonderful, wonderful game. During its release The Ocarina of Time was a very involved, visceral experience, more about visual ambience than gameplay or story. It hasn't aged as well as say FFVII, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people don't appreciate it who didn't play it right on release.

In my opinion, however, the late 90s was a Golden Age for gaming. Literally everything at least decent that came out in that period of time will be deemed great by the gamers of today. A lot of titles, and TOoT may be one of them, perhaps do not deserve all of that praise.
 
Reviews, both on and offline, tend to differ, kupoartist. The reason these games are still so fondly thought of is because at the time they were that good.


'I, and many others cannot argue against the assertion that Oot was the best game ever, because virtually no-one played it '

Many, many people have played OoT, Mario 64, Golden Eye etc. That is just crazy talk! :rolling:

Seriously.
 
Yes, but Goldeneye is a hugely overrated game. An average shooter blown into something it really, really isn't.
I didn't see the fuss with OoT either.
 
Goldeneye was the right game at the right time. It got the formula right for four player deathmatch on a console, which was exactly what people were wanting now that they had a four player console.

And as for "no one" playing OoT....around here you'd have to look pretty far and wide for a gamer who hasn't ever played it, even if they never got a chance to complete it.
 
Sorry, Super Mario Bros shoulda been no1...still the best game Ive ever played...and Yoshi is the bomb...
 
Oot is also the highest rated game by professional reviewers, So it definatly deserves the number 1 spot, I mean I would rather see MGS or Psychonauts, but I can't blame anyone who likes Oot more, because it simply kicks ass, even today. It's an incredible game, even more so for it's time.
 
Samon said:
Yes, but Goldeneye is a hugely overrated game.
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You have to be joking.

Me and my mates literally spent years playing Golden Eye - multiplayer was blast. It also took absolutely ages to properly finish the single player game (unlock everything). Modern fps just don't offer this challenge/substance anymore.
 
Gray Fox said:
Oot is also the highest rated game by professional reviewers, So it definatly deserves the number 1 spot
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Based on a third of the reviews that most modern games are judged on, and a quarter of the reviews of certain titles like Half-Life 2. Not to mention that tge online sites counted, were in the infancy of net reporting and certainly of dubious quality. I take that one with a mound of dilicious heart-disease inducing salt. The same is true of all of metacritic's top 5, and if we're to claim it is an accurate assertion, NFL2K1 for Dreamcast is the fifth best game ever. Go Go professional games reviewers!
Direwolf said:
And as for "no one" playing OoT....around here you'd have to look pretty far and wide for a gamer who hasn't ever played it, even if they never got a chance to complete it.
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I'm not convinced. N64 was always the games console that everyone ignored. Those who didn't, peered down their glasses at the rest of us and over-exaggerated the qualities of the titles they had. Due in part to the fact that there were so few titles, good or bad. This is UK sentiment of course. Zelda has always been sneered at here. I played Mario64 and Goldeneye, but no-one had Zelda. Or if they did, they weren't going to go telling people that they had.
Leviticus said:
Eww. A Link to the Past was decent back during its release, but it really lacks anything special now. Definately not the title one should form an opinion of the series on.
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Yet it is of course the fifth game in IGN's top 100 list.

edit: I too don't see the appeal of Goldeneye. As for why Goldeneye is so frequently high up the list: many more people have played it, and many console-only FPS gamers simply don't know better. Hence: Halo.
 
Do you live in a crazy alternative gaming reality in which Zelda OoT does not exist?

Just thinking back to the agonising wait for OoT makes me feel uneasy (in comparison HL2 seemed quite timely). For what felt like years every gamer I knew was holding their breath for this game, searching the internet and magasines for any screenshot or tidbit of information they could get hold of. The gaming industry was on the edge of its seat - it doesn't get bigger than this.

The fuss when OoT was finally released was immense, and the collective sigh of relief became a whoop of cheers when it exceeded peoples expectations. It seems that, at least for a few years, you were living under a gaming rock.
 
Warbie said:
It seems that, at least for a few years, you were living under a gaming rock.
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Apparently so. I couldn't tell it apart from any other Zelda game, and no one I knew so much as mentioned it whenever it was that it was released, or was going to be released.
 
I never had Zelda but my cousins did and they loved it. I played it on a emulator about 2 years ago, feel in love with it. Hell I still play it every now and then.
 
I think now is a good time to say I've always hated zelda games.
 
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