EDGE ranks the top 100 greatest games (2017 edition)

[JakDaSnack]

Wright said:

JakDaSnack said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I said it was a perfect list.  Frankly I would have preferred they used "puyo puyo tetis" as that is a better version of the game.  But I do agree there are faults in the list, However GTAV, the last of us, zelda botw, and dark souls are the probably the best games (or close to the best games) out there right now, so it's nice to see them so high on their list.

I don't mean to say the list is flawless. I mean to say that just because there lies flaws in it, people can express discomfort with the choices (or the order of the choices) made. It doesn't necessarily has to reflect nostalgia, it just points out that the list can be criticised for the choices made. Bloodborne is a game that came later than Dark Souls, but it's ranked lower; despite both being modern games, there's room to debate which one deserves to be over the other one.

What you're suggesting is that just because Bloodborne uses a different (better?) combat formula, a more refined (more solid?) gameplay system and it all came later in development, it automatically deserves to be better than Dark Souls. Which is extremely debatable.

I didn't mean to suggest that, sorry you took it that way.  And I never said you couldn't express discomfort, in my personal experience I see 20-30 year old games that have been improved upon in numerous ways over years, being placed near the top of various "best game ever" lists.  Usually the reason why they are placed there is because "they still hold up well" or "they were good for their time" or "they were very influencial".  And I don't agree with those assessments.