Empire Magazine - The 100 Greatest Games of all Time

[Metrium]

platformmaster918 said:

Metrium said:
#1 is a complete joke. It should barely make the top 10. The fact that it has a ''deep'' story that is completly cliché and predictable and that this game takes itself for a movie does'nt make it the best game of all time despite ppl getting hipnotised by it's story to see this game as what it's not. Especyaly when the story is absolutly the only thing this game has.

Great stories are common, gameplay prefection is rare and only the games that achieve it should be in the top 10.TLoU only has a great story and it's its marketing, production and the fact that it's made from Naughty Dog that helped this game get overhyped above the rest creating a snowball effect (seriously, from the moment we've seen the first CGI trailer with the ND logo that game was already considered by many to be a futur best game of all time contender...)

And it has great gameplay with nice open environments that keep the stealth tense and some of the most terrifying encounters in modern gaming.  Companies always get overhyped (mainly Nintendo imo).  No one was crying when TLoU was announced unlike another game's teaser so don't act like ND is the only one that benefits from name recognition.

You and I clearly don't have the same deffination of ''open''. The game is not open at all. It's as open as Super Mario Bros where you have the choice of staying down or going up the blocks...

I'll give you the fact that some of it's stealth is tense. I said in a earlier post that the best thing from this game came from the clickers and that imo they were underused. But don't start spreading the word that it has ''some of the most terrifying encounters in modern gaming'', cause that just not true. This comes from a real chicken when it comes to video games. I love scary games but I can't get to play them cause I get so stressed out, I'm a real chicken lol. But I never had any problems with TLoU. Some of it's moment were scary but nothing to make me shit my pants. I even thought Bioshock was more scary and it's not a horror game. I know the most overhyped game of all time is getting underserved praised on every possible aspects, but saying it's one of the most terrifying game in modern gaming is going WAY to far and pretty much sums up how overhyped this game is.

As for when TLoU was announced, you clearly have no spent much time on N4G.com. Do yourself a favor and stay away from it's community. Ppl were going batshit crazy when it was announced over a simple CGI trailer. Ppl over there was already calling it GotY and game of the generation. Naughty Dog is imo the Christopher Nolan of the video game industry (altho I do LOVE Nolan movies). As for Zelda, first of all atleast it was a game from a established franchise that some could say is one of the most respected in the industry. So ppl have alot to look forward and be happy about. And second, it actualy showed gameplay, and ppl were going crazy about the ''mature'' artstyle that fans have been asking for years (I think it's a dumb reason but for some it's important). My point is, how can you say a game will be the best thing since the discovery of bacon when it's a new IP and you did'nt even see gameplay from the game? You litteraly know nothing on how it plays. Atleast if GTA gave us a CGI trailer you can expect that a game you will love is comming since you played the previous games. But either way, crying over a game announcement is overdoing it I'll give you that.... Unless it's Metroid Prime 4 :P

And I'm not saying ND is the only one to benefit from name recognition, but I'm saying that if this game was made by someone else and had no where near the marketing(propaganda?) push from sony and by snowball effect the internet, this game would'nt be in the top 10.