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bouzane said:
Nettles said:
Agreed, goldeneye is basically unplayable nowdays


Funny, I thought that it was unplayable the day it released :p


I felt the exact same way, and still do to this day.  Dual analog sticks made fps games sort of almost bearable to play on consoles, but when you're used to a keyboard and mouse everything just pales in comparison for an fps.



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NintendoPie said:
Wright said:

I can't find Ghost Trick anywhere in that list.

Poor Wright. He's too hipster for his own good.


I'd say the best Nintendo DS game deserves to be in this list.



TLoU? Really? It has completely retarded AI. I doubt it even deserves top 10.



Where's Final Fantasy XIII?



Shenmue at #7? lol ok I wont take this list seriously. It's not a bad game but being the 7th best game of all time? lol



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Nettles said:
Agreed, goldeneye is basically unplayable nowdays

I tried replaying it a year or so ago and I really didn't have too much fun! The game deserves props for what it did back in the day though!



                
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HigHurtenflurst said:
daredevil.shark said:
BTW it seems the list was made by someone who has started gaming after 2000.

I usually think these lists should be restricted to games at least 5 years old, that way the tinted goggles of shiny graphics and the excitement of "innovative new game mechanics" has worn off.
Of course if new games were not allowed not many people would want to read the list so it wouldn't be worth printing.

Then again sometimes the lists have a little too much essence of nostalgia in them too (LoZ:OoT definately deserves to be in any top 100 list if the compiler is trying to be objective, but it's nearly always in the top 5 and more often than not at number 1)


I kind of agree. Maybe not 5 years old, but I wouldn't think anything released later than 2012 is old enough to be viewed very objectively. Such games would also be too young for us to see if they're going to become truly influential, like Ocarina of Time or Mario 64 have been.

TLoU in particular received an insane amount of hype for being "cinematic". While I imagine the game will still be highly regarded a few years from now, I suspect there'll be less people frothing at the mouth over it. I certainly don't expect it to rank #1 on a whole ton of best-of lists in five years.



Here's a better list compiled by a gaming website as opposed to a film publication: http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html

Of note is Uncharted 2 being above TLoU as it should be! Also GTA SA should be above the more recent GTAs IMO. Sucks RE4 Wii did not make it on the list though! The wiimote worked great in that game!



The Last of Us being #1 makes sense.



Lawlight said:
The Last of Us being #1 makes sense.


Not above Uncharted 2: U2 had better writing.