100 Best Video Games of All Time

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Wait! Before you scroll down or click to the next page, you need to read this intro. Before you can agree, disagree or tell us what we “missed” and “forgot,” you need to understand exactly how we chose the games that we did, and why your favorites may not have made the final cut. See, this isn’t a typical – and typically predictable – countdown of the 100 best games ever. Here are a few reasons why:

• By best, we really mean best. These are not the most important, most groundbreaking or most definitive games of all time, though a majority would certainly overlap with those descriptions as well. In selecting what to include, and what rank to assign, we focused only on the word “best.”

• Still worth playing now. For each contender, we asked ourselves: Would we really recommend this to a friend today? Some games are truly timeless and will entertain no matter how old the graphics or how outdated the interface. The ones that aren’t… aren’t here.

• No repeats. 100 is a small number when you’re judging an entire medium, so we couldn’t afford to include more than one example from each series, unless that series evolved substantially. Yes, you’ll find multiple Zeldas, Marios and GTAs, but only because they’ve offered brand new experiences again and again.

• Different rules. Don’t be shocked when a couple of our Games of the Year lose out to their former Runners Up. When choosing that award, we value innovation and surprise, often passing over sequels for titles that offered us something we’d never seen before. For this countdown, pure quality trumps everything else.

So! With that philosophy in mind, are you ready to begin? Big breath. Here goes.
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The 100 best games of all time | GamesRadar

I haven't read it yet, but I will give it a go now.
 
Just saw the top 5 and knew this list is nonsense.

Tetris number 2?!

First they claim the criteria is 'would you recommend someone to play it today' and hence they're saying best not most memorable and yet Tetris is right up there. If I told most people to play Tetris today, I'd be pointed towards and laughed at for the rest of the conversation.
 
Ocarina of Time isn't #1. Already found a flaw in this list.

It's not even my favourite game, but theres no doubting it's the greatest ever, or at minimum the greatest Zelda, which this list also doesn't recognise.
 
Zen said:
Ocarina of Time isn't #1. Already found a flaw in this list.

It's not even my favourite game, but theres no doubting it's the greatest ever, or at minimum the greatest Zelda, which this list also doesn't recognise.
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More nonsense.

There actually isn't game you can say is 'without doubt the greatest ever' just as you can't as that about a music. It is very subjective. I thought very little of the Zelda series.
 
Subjective is what you like, it's a different thing, PES3 is probably my favourite and most overplayed game ever, but I wouldn't in my right mind claim it to the best ever because I know the difference. The impact of Ocarina of Time, the game itself, just everything, it only has a handful of games that you can remotely consider equal to it, and it's from skimming this, it's not even in the top 30, which is beyond blasphemy.
 
Well it's certainly different I'll give it some credit for that.

Bit weird to leave out Ocarina though when it's widely (and IMO rightly) considered the best of the Zelda series but include several of the others.

But yeah it's a list and subjective and all that jazz.....
 
So it seems there is no FF7 and OOT......yeah clearly a troll list made to bring attention to their site, which it clearly will.

However seeing Secret of Man was a pleasant surprise -_-
 
You probably expect to see Ocarina of Time somewhere on here. After all, it routinely appears in lists just like this, usually near the top. But if we’re talking about what’s best today, we’d much rather point people toward 2006’s epically huge Twilight Princess. In our eyes it replaces Ocarina as the “serious” Zelda experience, offering everything its N64 predecessor had, just with cleaner graphics, more interesting combat and streamlined controls (Wii has copious waggle, but the GameCube version is A-OK).
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:lol: What a load of rubbish. Twilight Princess was rubbish as Zelda games go. Putting it ahead of Ocarina is laughable and leaving Ocarina off the list altogether doubly so.
 
Zen said:
Subjective is what you like, it's a different thing, PES3 is probably my favourite and most overplayed game ever, but I wouldn't in my right mind claim it to the best ever because I know the difference. The impact of Ocarina of Time, the game itself, just everything, it only has a handful of games that you can remotely consider equal to it, and it's from skimming this, it's not even in the top 30, which is beyond blasphemy.
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Impact? Where are games like Zelda these days? And Mario 64 was before Zelda's time with many similarities in the perspective so it wasn't ground breaking.

If anything Half Life was a more influential game. Every first person shooter has basically been a half life skin since then.
 
I didn't expect that to be at number one.

I never played Chrono Trigger. A lot of nerds rave about it.
 
Age of Empires II: Conquerors, Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade, and the whole Warcraft series needs to be in there.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
:lol: What a load of rubbish. Twilight Princess was rubbish as Zelda games go. Putting it ahead of Ocarina is laughable and leaving Ocarina off the list altogether doubly so.
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Yeah, I think they're just trying to be wacky here for the sake of it.

Leaving your little self contained village and walking into that big open field in Hyrule for the first time (in Ocarina) and whistling for Epona was a seminal gaming moment for me. It hasn't lost any of its charm, I played it again not too long ago and it just seems churlish to leave it off the list.

It'd be like someone leaving The Godfather off their Top 100 films list.
 
I had a look through it, some I agree with others I have never liked but ofcourse its just a list based on that particular websites content writers opinion. The #1 choice wouldn't be in my top 20, in fact that almost seems like "hey guys, this is the #1 greatest game of all time, buy the second one and read our review which happens to be out soon".
 
What the hell is Portal?

I thought it was some Half Life add on!?

I have it with some Half Life combo pack.
 
No Mercy is a classic, even to non-Wrestling fans tbh.
 
Where is Mortal Combat placed? That first two were obsessions of mine!

ROUND 1!

FIGHT!

WHOOOPIEEEEEE!
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Just saw the top 5 and knew this list is nonsense.

Tetris number 2?!

First they claim the criteria is 'would you recommend someone to play it today' and hence they're saying best not most memorable and yet Tetris is right up there. If I told most people to play Tetris today, I'd be pointed towards and laughed at for the rest of the conversation.
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Only if you were talking to a bunch of spastics.

Tetris is and shall always be awesome, can't argue with it placing high on lists like this. Portal on the other hand...
 
I'm 36 in a few weeks' time. I've had a console/computer since the age of 4 (I had a Pong paddle game, that's how old school I am). I can honestly say, I've played about 15 on that list.

The first 50 games are littered with obscure console RPGs and shooters that only magazine reviewers would've had access to back in the 90s. fecking uber-geek twats.
 
never heard of portal.

No Age of Empires?

No Frozen Throne?

No Starcraft?
 
I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but I've heard of almost all of the games on the list, not many obscure ones there.

Portal at number 1 though, still can't believe it...
 
Ixion said:
Only if you were talking to a bunch of spastics.

Tetris is and shall always be awesome, can't argue with it placing high on lists like this. Portal on the other hand...
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For 10 year olds maybe.
 
Tetris is a classic, and will always feature on these kinds of lists. As it should.
 
My top 10. Would be.

10. Super Mario World - SNES
9. Streets of Rage - Sega Megadrive
8. Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega Megadrive
7. Fifa Road to World Cup 98 - PC
6. Final Fantasy XII - PS2
5. Final Fantasy VII - PS1
4. Uncharted 2 - PS3
3. Kingdom Hearts II - PS3
2. Pokemon Red - Gameboy
1. Zelda - Link To The Past - SNES
 
Not read the list yet but want to say that Portal is fantastic, obviously not the best ever but those saying they've never heard of it really need to look it up, its brilliant i cant wait for the sequel
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Just saw the top 5 and knew this list is nonsense.

Tetris number 2?!

First they claim the criteria is 'would you recommend someone to play it today' and hence they're saying best not most memorable and yet Tetris is right up there. If I told most people to play Tetris today, I'd be pointed towards and laughed at for the rest of the conversation.
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Tetris is probably the most playable game ever. It's so addictive and anybody can understand how to play it within a few seconds. I've never met anybody that has said it was a bad game. It might not have an amazing story and jaw dropping graphics, but it is fun to play and that's what games should be.
 
bill.s.preston said:
Tetris is probably the most playable game ever. It's so addictive and anybody can understand how to play it within a few seconds. I've never met anybody that has said it was a bad game. It might not have an amazing story and jaw dropping graphics, but it is fun to play and that's what games should be.
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So a song that is an easy listen and liked by the pubic without involving a great deal of complexity and skill (grenade by bruno mars) is better than one that involves those aspects to a huge degree (stairway to heaven)?
 
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