| SegataSanshiro said: There is literally no point in even having a poll. Just a topic about what do you think is the best game ever made. No matter what you put on the poll there will always be somethig missing. So just don't do one. |
I agree. There are far too many amazing games, and many people have very strong feelings/attachements to games you might personally not even think of at all when the discussing the "best games of all time." Just for me, on a personal level, I have a very hard time putting an exact top 10 together when I think about what my favorite games of all time in a specific order.
If somebody put my feet to the fire and demanded I name the 5 best games ever made (that I have actually played, and not necessarily my favorites), I'd say it's something like...
1. Witcher 3
2. GTAV
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. World of Warcraft
5. The Last of Us
I wanna note....when I personally think of the best games ever made, very old games are pretty much out of the running as far as I'm concerned. That's not because I don't think very highly of them, or don't respect what many of them did for gaming as a whole, and how they've influenced the industry. Fact is though, technology simply has surpassed many a classic. Just on the immersion factor alone that you can get out of today's machines, when the games look so damn amazing...it's just not something the oldies can compete with. That's not even going into how much mechanics, writing, voice acting, etc, etc have improved for the most part as time passes. Many old games hold a special place in my heart as being some of my favorites ever, and I replay them all the time, but that doesn't objectively put them on par, quality wise, with modern games. I love them because of nostalgia, because they take me back to how I felt playing them as a kid or teenager. I love them because back then everything was fresh, and I hadn't "seeen it all" yet. I love them because they got me into gaming in a broad sense, and into specific genres often. I love them because they inspired trends that have survived to this day. That said, I must repeat again.....they can't compete with their bigger, better, prettier grand children....and in another decade or so, the same will be true for all the games that are currently the best ever made.
