Empire Magazine - The 100 Greatest Games of all Time

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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