I do accept that people have different tastes, that's not even a question.

But after noticing that most of these games are recent (13/20 I consider very recent, or 65% of them), it doesn't make much sense.

After all, the title says "of all time". Take a look at the release years for all these games:

2008, 2009, 2009, 2001, 2008, 1997, 2008, 1998, 2009, 2008, 1998 (2006 on PSP), 2010, 2005, 2004, 2006, 2009. 2010, 2009, 2009, 1995 (2010 on PSP)

75% of them are from 2004 or later

55% of them are on current generation consoles, 70% if you include ports

Also, FFXIII is there but FFIII isn't ?

Interesting... not a single Pokemon game is in the top 20, despite it being Japan's most popular franchise.

And yes, this is list is very "current", which I see as a shame. Oh well, what can ya do?

Well then if you have been a follower of the FF series you will know how diverse opinions can be, on this site in a thread I've seen one person call FF8 the worst game ever, and the next post in the thread call it the best game ever.

Now thats a massive range and just lets you know the range of opinions you will see for the games in the series. 

The list has been voted by people who read Famitsu magazines now, yeah most of them are current, they may think games are improving, hence why most are current. 

It's okay, I don't think it's worth arguing that much over a list. I'm just saying. :)

Not sure about the improving part though.

Fail list is not fail, you just gotta read into it in more depth.

It obviously is no use as a list of the greatest games of all time, that's just silly. What it does tell you about is the Famitsu audience, and thus about the Famitsu content, recent and upcoming.

Protip - the famitsu audience is all aged 12 or below, it's the only excuse I can think of.

360 got more games than DS SNES combined. LAWL

I'm not either

But I sure know if I was way younger right now I would definitely believe many games released recently could legitimately be the "best ever", because I never played many many older games. Thats not to say older games are definetely better than the newer ones now.

My dad hates gaming right now and still says SNES games used to be the best, I laugh at him for saying that......20 years later people will remember their childhood/teen years playing PS3/360 games and will be more attached to that and might say to their children, "most of these PS5 and Xbox 1080 games suck!". Even I might say that, but I really want to avoid getting that cynical.

Greatest games of all time list (voted by users of Famitsu) =

Favourite games of recent history for current Famitsu readers who like responding to polls. 

That's a pretty terribad list I must say, most of it is just there cause its newer and fresh in the minds of people with short attention spans, but that is what happens when the greatest games of all time are voted by the users, though I must say our own community made a very decent list despite having short attention spans as well

Hilarious list.

A lot of those games won't last very long as greatest games of all time.