EW: Our top 50 games of all time

[Squilliam]

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Reposting so it's easy to read:


1. Tetris PC (1985) Possibly actually or something.
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64 (1998) I thought Zelda on the Wii was average, is this one that much better?
3. Doom PC (1993) Yup
4. Super Mario World SNES (1991) Yup
5. Guitar Hero PS2 (2005) Too high really, its not like it hit it perfectly out of the gate given what was available.
6. Street Fighter II SNES (1991) Yup
7. Super Mario Kart SNES (1992) Yup
8. GoldenEye 007 N64 (1997) Nup - Too many PC games poop on this for it to be this high. It'd be like saying Halo wars is the best RTS because it did it well first on a console.
9. Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 and Xbox 360 (2008) GTA - XXX city is probably a better example.
10. Metal Gear Solid PlayStation (1998) Never liked these earlier games that much
11. Halo: Combat Evolved Xbox 360 (2001) After a 14 years of gaming, this was the first console FPS that impressed me. Deserves a higher spot than Goldeneye.
12. Super Mario Galaxy Wii (2007) Excellent game
13. Final Fantasy VII PlayStation (1997) Didn't bother playing it.
14. Resident Evil 4 GameCube (2005) Awesome on the Wii so quite possibly, but too many flaws to be considered this high on a top 50 of all times list.
15. Chrono Trigger SNES (1995) Dunno.
16. Gran Turismo PlayStation (1998) Yup.
17. Sim City Macintosh and Amiga (1989) Yup.
18. Half-Life PC (1998) Deserves a top 10 placing. Its way better than goldeneye and was released only a year after.
19. Sid Meier's Civilization II PC (1996) Awesomeness, actually they all are.
20. Gears of War Xbox 360 (2006) I wouldn't say so people will forget it exists apart from the fact that it came before Gears 2 and probably 3.
21. StarCraft PC (1997) Deserves a top 10 as well. Few games have had this much impact.
22. Super Metroid SNES (1994) Dunno.
23. Deus Ex PC (2000) Cool game but didn't play much of it.
24. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 PlayStation (2000) Skating...
25. Shadow of the Colossus PS2 (2005) Dunno
26. God of War PS2 (2005) Overrated. Won't date well same reason as gears of war.
27. Soul Calibur Dreamcast (1999) Don't play them
28. BioShock Multiplatform (2007) Again, a game that has flaws doesn't deserve such a top billing. Wait for Bioshock 2 and heap the praise on that for many of the achievements of the first.
29. Final Fantasy III Famicom (1990) Fantasy.. ok.
30. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Xbox (2003) Awesome game. never finished lol.
31. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes Dreamcast (2000) didn't play.
32. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night PlayStation (1997) Saw a little, wasn't interested.
33. Metroid Prime GameCube (2002) Dunno
34. Tomb Raider Multiplatform (1996) Awesome game, very influential. Maybe should be higher.
35. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo PlayStation (1996) Street fighter good.
36. Star Wars: TIE Fighter PC (1995) Awesomeness is here and now.
37. Tekken 3 PlayStation (1998) Beat em up.. dunno
38. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Mul tiplatform (2007) Deserves to be MUCH higher. Few games do what they attempt as close to perfection as this one.
39. Contra NES (1988) ??
40. Okami PS2 (2006) Sweet game yep.
41. Tecmo Super Bowl NES (1991) Wat is this?
42. Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi PC (1991) Invented long winded cut scenes it seems. Kojima took notes I think.
43. Psychonauts Xbox (2005) Dunno
44. Silent Hill 2 PlayStation (2001) Pretty cool game, game of all time? dunno.
45. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Multiplatform (2003) They did it so well.
46. Perfect Dark N64 (2000) Didn't play.
47. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Multiplatform (2006) Replace with morrowind then make it higher.
48. WipEout PlayStation (1995) Dunno.
49. World of Warcraft PC (2004) Should be higher, much higher. Its like they're sending a message.
50. Madden NFL 2005 Multiplatform (2004) A madden game deserves to be on it doesnt it.
 


Note they have Halo: CE on the wrong system.

My take.