Edge does the ULTIMATE countdown -- 100 Best games to play TODAY!

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Hawkeye on 09 March 2009

badgenome said:

Quite a few games in the top 20 are not even a year old. That doesn't discount them from being awesome games, but I wonder if they would place so highly if they didn't have the same novelty. Then again, a lot of the placements throughout the list seems pretty random, as is usually the case with these humongous lists.

Thats becuase this isn't a "best game" list. Its a "most to play" list, for TODAY. I guess it assumes you havn't played any of the games either. I think Yoshi's Isalnd should be higher actually, especially if this is a list for someone who has not played video games before.

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badgenome on 09 March 2009

Hawkeye said:

badgenome said:

Quite a few games in the top 20 are not even a year old. That doesn't discount them from being awesome games, but I wonder if they would place so highly if they didn't have the same novelty. Then again, a lot of the placements throughout the list seems pretty random, as is usually the case with these humongous lists.

Thats becuase this isn't a "best game" list. Its a "most to play" list, for TODAY. I guess it assumes you havn't played any of the games either. I think Yoshi's Isalnd should be higher actually, especially if this is a list for someone who has not played video games before.

Oh. That makes more sense. I cant reedn today, apparently.

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starcraft on 09 March 2009

I was highly in agreement with that list until I realised something.

Unless I am very mistaken, there was no Mass Effect, Fable or KOTOR.

Fail.

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Reasonable on 09 March 2009

Very console centric. Good games, and I guess that the ration of console owners to PC gamers is high, but I find that top 10 more than a little surprising, particularly with only one PC game.

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Johann on 09 March 2009

Yoshi's Island shits all over Suer Mario 64. I'm sorry, it's true.

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bouzane on 09 March 2009

Way too much Nintendo fan service. The top 10 is so bad I don't want to look at the rest of the list.

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chasmatic12 on 09 March 2009

badgenome said:

Orca_Azure said:
Tetris is a little too retro for me

What badgenome said.

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Slimebeast on 09 March 2009

IMO the list is garbage. Too much Nintendo, too little PC.

No Age of Empires and Oblivion is only 45th.

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BHR-3 on 09 March 2009

100 best games to play today?
IDK if i made that list i would put current gen games on it RE4 Wii i played that yesterday on my PS2 i don't care bout the wii controls i like the DS2 better. GTA4, KZ2, SF4, Gears2, LBP, and others should of been on that top 10 as they are current games and maybe even RE5 if u can import one