The 10th Annual Greatest Games Event - Discussion Thread

[SanAndreasX]

Breakdown of my list.

Publisher/developer: Nintendo is my favorite game company, and they dominated my list with 17 games, including three of the top five. A good many of those were Zelda games, as Zelda has been my favorite game series since it started in 1987 and has remained pretty consistently good.

Nintendo: 17
Square Enix, which includes all games published by Square and Enix individually as well as after the merger: 13
Sega: 4
Bandai Namco: 3
Capcom: 2
Game Arts: 2
Midway and Williams: 2
Konami: 2
Level-5: 2 developed, with one published by Bandai Namco and one published by Square Enix
Obsidian: 1
id Software: 1
Origin Systems: 1
Datasoft: 1

By primary platform:
PS1: 8
Switch: 7
PS2: 5
SNES/SFC: 5*
PS3: 5
Arcade: 4
Gamecube: 3
N64: 3
PC: 2
DS: 1*
NES: 1

* overlap in platform. I played Trials of Mana (#38) on Switch, and Dragon Quest V (#43) on DS, even though both games were originally SFC games

The Switch titles tended to be at the higher end of my list, while PS1 and PS2 titles were more evenly distributed.

By genre: RPGs dominated my list, with action-adventures and strategy RPGs also making a good showing.