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MohammadBadir said:

Pretty bad list IMO.
Lots of head-scratchers. Super Metroid at 94? SMG2 at 97? Metroid Prime nowhere to be seen? Grand Theft Auto 5 at no. 8? Come on!

And I agree TLOU is a great game, but far from no. 1 in my book.

This whole list looks like a poor combination of "what's popular now" and plain genericness. 

Metroid Prime is #72.  Way too low, but it's there.  Super Mario 3, however, is not.  SMH

@bold:  Yeah, I sensed that too - especially the top 10; a little bit of what's popular (TLOU), what has sold well (GTAV, WoW), and for "gamer cred" throw in a couple of what people consider legendary classics (OoT, FF7), and voila!  We have our top 10!  Still don't know how the hell Shenmue got in there, though.



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CleggaZ said:
Where's borderlands.

Outside of that though good list I like it.


In the top 100 worst gaems of all time



archbrix said:
MohammadBadir said:

Pretty bad list IMO.
Lots of head-scratchers. Super Metroid at 94? SMG2 at 97? Metroid Prime nowhere to be seen? Grand Theft Auto 5 at no. 8? Come on!

And I agree TLOU is a great game, but far from no. 1 in my book.

This whole list looks like a poor combination of "what's popular now" and plain genericness. 

Metroid Prime is #72.  Way too low, but it's there.  Super Mario 3, however, is not.  SMH

@bold:  Yeah, I sensed that too - especially the top 10; a little bit of what's popular (TLOU), what has sold well (GTAV, WoW), and for "gamer cred" throw in a couple of what people consider legendary classics (OoT, FF7), and voila!  We have our top 10!  Still don't know how the hell Shenmue got in there, though.

Some people consider Shenmue to be a legendary classic :P



ErwinMoC said:

CleggaZ said:
Where's borderlands.

Outside of that though good list I like it.

In the top 100 worst gaems of all time

 

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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)



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The first two games on the list are definitely two of the most overrated of all time. Who made ​​this list? It seems that person only started playing at the end of the fourth generation of consoles. Where is Atari 2600? Nes? The Blockbuster game known as Super Mario Bros 1?



Dannythegamer said:
The first two games on the list are definitely two of the most overrated of all time. Who made ​​this list? It seems that person only started playing at the end of the fourth generation of consoles. Where is Atari 2600? Nes? The Blockbuster game known as Super Mario Bros 1?

Super Mario Bros is #44.  I agree, though; the original Zelda and Mario 3 are both absent.



archbrix said:
Dannythegamer said:
The first two games on the list are definitely two of the most overrated of all time. Who made ​​this list? It seems that person only started playing at the end of the fourth generation of consoles. Where is Atari 2600? Nes? The Blockbuster game known as Super Mario Bros 1?

Super Mario Bros is #44.  I agree, though; the original Zelda and Mario 3 are both absent.


This game is too important to be number 44, the rest of the list are games that try to be movies instead of games.  Crappy list without doubt.



Lists like this do nothing but annoy me.

Halo Reach at 34? Laughable, especially when halo 2 isn't even on the list.
Dark souls at 13? Just No.

I could go on and on but it would just stress me out.



I came to see if the last of us was number 1.

It was... great list.