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farlaff on 14 September 2013
forest-spirit said:
Kresnik said:
forest-spirit said:

Timesplitters 3 is #79. Still too low though for those games, and Perfect Dark should also be higher imo.


Right you are.  I control + F'd "Timesplitters" but he'd missed a 't' out of the Timesplitters in Future Perfect.

I actually enjoyed FP more than Timesplitters 2, so aside from the fact that they're both far too low, they're also in the wrong order for me.  Boo this list!

(I've never played Perfect Dark, but going off the fact that it's made by Free Radical devs before they became Free Radical, I am sure you are correct!)


Perfect Dark has aged about as well as most other 5th gen 3D games (not so well in other words) but back then it was truly epic. It improved greatly on the Goldeneye formula and added a lot of new features such as bots, a highly customisable multiplayer mode and co-op/counter-op mode. It also featured a simply incredible arsenal, and each weapon had a secondary mode meaning you got machineguns with built-in grenade launchers, guns that you could deploy as sentry guns and rocket launchers with remote-controlled missiles. Not to mention the cheesy sci-fi setting with blue big-headed aliens and flying, talking laptops. It was amazing.

Am I wrong or was it in Perfect Dark that there was only one song during every multiplayer match?



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farlaff on 14 September 2013
outlawauron said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Here's the full list. Sorry for the formatting issues. 

#100 - XIII
#99 - Black
#98 - Tron 2.0
#97 - SiN
#96 - Halo: Reach
#95 - Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
#94 - Red Faction 2
#93 - Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
#92 - Crysis 2

#91 - Heretic
#90 - Battlefield 3
#89 - Doom 3
#88 - Unreal Tournament
#87 - Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force
#86 - STALKER: Call of Pripyat
#85 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
#84 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
#83 - Aliens vs. Predator (PC)
#82 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
#81 - Counterstrike: Source
#80 - Tribes: Ascend
#79 - Timespliters: Future Perfect
#78 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
#77 - Crysis 3
#76 - Blacklight Retribution
#75 - Red Steel 2
#74 - Clive Barker's Undying
#73 - Hexen
#72 - Red Orchestra 2
#71 - Red Faction
#70 - Kill Zone 3
#69 - Rainbow Six: Vegas
#68 - Halo 3
#67 - Borderlands
#66 - Bulletstorm
#65 - Far Cry 2
#64 - Prey
#63 - Singularity
#62 - The Darkness
#61 - Soldier of Fortune 2
#60 - Timesplitters 2
#59 - Rise of the Triad
#58 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein
#57 - Halo 3: ODST
#56 - Painkiller
#55 - Perfect Dark
#54 - Marathon
#53 - Metro 2033
#52 - No One Lives Forever
#51 - Serious Sam
#50 - Quake
#49 - Doom 2
#48 - Unreal
#47 - Call of Duty 2
#46 - Halo 4
#45 - Left 4 Dead 2
#44 - Call of Duty: Black Ops
#43 - Borderlands 2
#42 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2
#41 - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
#40 - Aliens vs. Predator (Jaguar)
#39 - Far Cry
#38 - Rainbow Six 3
#37 - Star Trek: Elite Force II
#36 - Star Wars: Republic Commando
#35 - System Shock 2
#34 - SWAT 4
#33 - Far Cry 3
#32 - Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
#31 - Bioshock Infinite
#30 - PlanetSide 2
#29 - Star Wars: Dark Forces
#28 - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
#27 - The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
#26 - F.E.A.R.
#25 - Crysis
#24 - Left 4 Dead
#23 - Battlefield 2
#22 - Tribes 2
#21 - Duke Nukem 3D

20 Medal of Honor 
19 Ghost Recon 
18 Team Fortress 2 
17 Quake III 
16 Unreal Tournament
15 Rainbow 6 
14 Deus Ex 
13 Battlefield 1942 
12 Metroid Prime 
11 Wolfenstein 3D 
10 Quake II 
9 Counter-Strike 
8 BioShock 
7 Halo 2 
6 GoldenEye 
5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 
4 Halo: Combat Evolved 
3 Half-Life 2 
2 Doom 

And #1
Half-Life

Thanks for posting. Phew, I don't really care for more than half this list. More than half of the top 20 included.


I've had the first post edited so that everyone can see that he has put the list together. Thanks Veknoid.



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killerzX on 14 September 2013

Halo 3 ODST doesnt belong on that list, or at least not that high.

Killzone 3 deserves top 30 easily.
Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 deserve to be on the list, and all within top 50.



Player2 on 15 September 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:
How did I miss this?

Perfect Dark at #55 is a disgrace.

Deus Ex and Metroid Prime aren't shooters, although they are masterworks.

Half-Life is a solid choice for #1, although I think its sequel is superior.

My own top 5:

5) GoldenEye 007
4) BioShock
3) Perfect Dark
2) Half-Life 2
1) Halo: Combat Evolved

Just re-read the list again and I found a bigger one. Not a single Descent game in the list is a heresy.



prayformojo on 15 September 2013
kupomogli said:

Terrible list. Influencing a genre doesn't magically change the game and make it better and that's what's the problem with all IGN games, but even most "best of lists." Take RPGs for example. In most best of lists, you'll see Dragon Warrior in the top 50 when it doesn't belong on the list at all, atleast when you compare that it's above many other games that are better RPGs, just didn't do anything influential for the genre.

This list has the first Unreal Tournament at #11, Unreal Tournament 2003 way back in the #70s or #80s, which is backwards, and where is Unreal Tournament 2004 and UT3? These two games being the pinnacle of the series. Best multiplayer shooters of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1xzazs4GRI


I completely diagree. It is a million times harder to dream something up, then to simply refine someone elses dream. Originality should alwayws get more praise imo.



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LilChicken22 on 15 September 2013

Did they list all 100 COD's from this generation?



farlaff on 15 September 2013
LilChicken22 said:
Did they list all 100 COD's from this generation?

LOL and I have not played a single one.



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Dahum on 15 September 2013

WTF!! not a single Resistance game on this huge list!! what a load of crap

all 3 of them should have been on the list since so many undeserving games made the cut.



platformmaster918 on 15 September 2013
Leadified said:
farlaff said:
Leadified said:
J_Allard said:
List has too many classic games that are remembered more for their impact than their quality imho.

Also, UT and Q3 are way, way too low. Need to be top 5. Take Halo and Doom out of there.


That's my main problem with this list. Especially with Wolfenstein 3D, it was influental and all but it has aged really poorly in compairson to the first Dooms and Quakes. Goldeneye too was a good game for the time but going back to it today it just doesn't hold up anymore.


Graphically or gameplay wise?


Both.

disagree.  I played Goldeneye at a family reunion recently 4 player split screen.  Game is still a hell of a lot of fun and my little cousins had never played it before and loved it just as much so it wasn't just nostalgia talking.




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Leadified on 15 September 2013
platformmaster918 said:
Leadified said:
farlaff said:
Leadified said:


That's my main problem with this list. Especially with Wolfenstein 3D, it was influental and all but it has aged really poorly in compairson to the first Dooms and Quakes. Goldeneye too was a good game for the time but going back to it today it just doesn't hold up anymore.


Graphically or gameplay wise?


Both.

disagree.  I played Goldeneye at a family reunion recently 4 player split screen.  Game is still a hell of a lot of fun and my little cousins had never played it before and loved it just as much so it wasn't just nostalgia talking.

Of course the game is still fun. Afterall it is a good game I never implied it wasn't, but it's hard for a game to hold up againist future generations of technically superior games. That's where I feel is Goldeneye's weak point.