Empire Magazine - The 100 Greatest Games of all Time

[Scoobes]

Mr Khan said:

Scoobes said:
I'd agree with most of the games on the list being there. The ordering tends to be subjective in these lists so I simply ignore it.

It's also a case of how do you rate older games? Many of the old greats that made the Top 10 like FFVII, OoT and even Goldeneye, are mechanically horrible to play now, so balancing old school nostalgia with objective rating is very difficult to do.

I think the best way to do that is to balance impact at the time (measured by general critical reception, not necessarily metacritic since it didn't exist for a while, and sales to a lesser degree) with an objective scoring of the game as it holds up today.

I remember it was your method for the Top 50 games last year (and it was definitely a good way to do it). I think the problem is that if you give a lot of older games to younger (relatively speaking) hands today, they'd simply get frustrated for a whole range of issues.

There's something rather devestating about having your once favorite game mechanically and objectively put down by a younger generation gamer.