Edge: The 100 Greatest Video Games

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RPGFan1 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

This list is going to cause a lot of controversy, so I'll be going to my flamewars bunker.

Also, no Pokemon? Really?

I think Pokemon is added to lists like these just to appease a fanbase.  The only thing you could really back up is it has good end game content for those interested in the multiplayer. 

As for the list, seems like a lot of games that have received a lot of praise sometime or another.  Seems like most of the stuff is from last gen, but atleast they don't have games like Space Invaders or Dragon Warrior listed to proclaim that they're the best games ever made simply because they pretty much started a genre.  What a game has done for a genre has no effect on how good the game is.

Really?Pokemon is just to appeal to fanbase?I dont know about the more recent releases(X and Y, Omega Ruby and so on), but the first ones are timeless, in the sense they are still great even today.If you say things like these is probably because you never really played a pokemon game, or not played the best ones.Red and blue should easily be in the top 20, maybe even in the top 10.

Now as for about your second claim, its also wrong.Of course those old games wont hold up to today because they are more than 30, 40 years old.But only by the fact that they created a genre by themselves should prove that they are indeed, excellent games,and should be recognized so.