Edge is a UK magazine and Chrono Trigger was never released in the UK on the original SNES.

Edge used to only give out scores of 10 for games that they considered "revolutionary". That changed around the start of the gen when they stopped defining their scoring system. That's why so many games in the current gen have 10s compared to previous gens.

rock bandn 3? they must have got paid for that one

There's a few I question being on the list. Namely:

Bayonetta: I don't see why this is anything special in a fairly competitive genre.
Rock Band 3: Not sure what this did significantly differently to previous iterations/rivals to warrant a 10.
Super Mario Galaxy 2: Same as above. Good game, but I don't see it being much more than an evolution of SMG.
Halo 3: When Edge reviewed the game I'm not sure it had done anything genre defining to warrant a 10.
GTA IV: Lots of content, but how can they give it a 10 when the predecessors had more content and features.

The last of us : Seriously too soon to tell.

Bayonnetta : Goos game. There are a lot of good games.

Mario 64 : Super Mario World is still better =p

Halo 3 : Great Game. But it didn't bring anything to the videogame.

Super Meat Boy would have deserved a place for the indie and retro movement, and Final Fantasy VI for bringing scenario in RPGS to a whole new level.

At first I thought this was a "Most influential games of the past 20 years" list...

Of the current gen games on this list, only Little Big Planet and Halo 3 deserve to be here for "Most influential"

But i read the title wrong :)

Yeah, so I would also argue about some titles, at least those I have played, since I have only played like half of their list. Putting Orange Box is questionable since it's a collection, but if the really wanted that, don't put Half Life 2 as a standalone as well. Still keeping GTA IV high? I thought after some time passed it wouldn't show up on all time best lists despite the initial scores. Bayonetta does not deserve to be on the list. Never played Rock Band, but I don't know, it just doesn't fit such a list ;-P

What obvious choices it misses imo? An MGS, Final Fantasy, Tekken 3, God of War 1 or 2, Red Dead Redemption, other GTA than IV like Vice City or San Andreas, Uncharted 2, Resident Evil 4 maybe.

Sadly that isn't beacuse the games have been better it's just that today it's way to easy to get a 10/10

I don't get the complaints against Bayonetta and GTA4....

They were really good games, perhaps not exactly what everybody wanted but they were good in their own right.

I mean a game like Bayonetta what are your complaints against it? Bearing in mind its a hack and slash game, why shouldn't it get a 10?

Personally id give GTA4 9/10

and Bayonetta 9/10

I don't see how anyone can give these games much lower scores... 1 point higher or lower? sure. But clearly Edge went with 1 point higher.

Obviously its debatable, but when you talking about "perfect" games its always going to be. I see no complaints about the last of us getting a 10...and that game doesn't even get a 9 from me.

Yeah reviewers were decently harsh back then. One of my favorite games probably got a 5/10 from reviewers. 5/10 now would be a broken unplayable game.

This.