I love top lists. I hate top ten lists. What's the difference? Well, for some reason, most gaming websites decide the number 10 is a special number, so if there are only 6 things that should be on a list, they force four more into it. And if there are 13 worth mentioning, they cut out 3. And they feel so obliged to make these lists that they often make unneccessary ones. I saw a 'top ten sexy game character costumes that should never exist' list on ign. They had girls dressed in Bikinis and stuff themed after Kirby, Yoshi, DK, Masterchief.....can't remember the rest. why bother?

              There are lists that are funny or informative, but the majority of those with '10' in their title are a waste of time. And one usually doesn't realise how useless they are until you read the article. IGN(I'm not insulting them, just that I use IGN & VGC for my gaming info 90% of the time) has a 'top 10 most anticipated 3DS games' list. I would really have preffered a "List of all 3DS games at launch"(which I think they have, or maybe it was on VGC I saw this) or "List of 3DS games that will probably be good" or just "Most anticipated 3DS games" without the limit of 10. I'm not saying they should put like forty something games there, but I think I'll get more information from a list that shows all the hottest games based on previews without a limit to how many the list shows. As long as it's hot, it's on the list.

       Your thought?

Two things.

1. It generates hits, like goty awards, I mean, a lot of people have a different goty.

2. It causes controversy and gives people an excuse to yell and stuff... >_>.

I hate these too, they're so stupid, I feel like making a top ten list of the stupiest top ten lists.

they wanted to copy Final Fantasy X-2 :D

Though OT:

I understand why you do a top 10 or top 5 etc in the forum. It makes people pick 5. And when many people answer it creates too many walls of text. If you limit then more people might read each list. Also even if you say top 5 or 10. people will give honorable mentions anyways of ones that are close.

Sites do it for hits. Sometimes they try to sound more definitive, When in reality, it's just another fan list. often written by one person.

But I'm not really against them, much worse things in life, than words written by an unknown on the internet.

I quite like them myself

i kind of like them.

Ilove top 10's

I really like top 10 lists. You say its bad that they have to cut things off the list to make it down to ten, but thats the whole point of top 10 lists. If it was just a list of best games ever it would be someone thinking of all the games they like, but if its top 10 then people have to actually think about what the best games ever are and put them into a proper order.

But i do agree with u in that some lists are just stupid and pointless.

Top 10's are crazy !!!

I enjoy top ten list of anything really. I have no freaking clue why. Hell if a site did a top ten list of the top ten list Id probably read it.