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Valkyria Chronicles to be in the top 10 alone is great and is well deserved, but it also beat out Super Mario galaxy AND the overrated RE4, wonderful!

However... The lack of Flower, Chaos Legion, Dissidia, DW6: Empires among a few more is disturbing...



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Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
Valkyria Chronicles to be in the top 10 alone is great and is well deserved, but it also beat out Super Mario galaxy AND the overrated RE4, wonderful!

However... The lack of Flower, Chaos Legion, Dissidia, DW6: Empires among a few more is disturbing...

Would you please accept that you're one of perhaps three people in the entire world who still like Dynasty Warriors?

Chaos Legion and Dissidia are good, but not good enough to be in the top 50.

Flower, however, should definitely be on there.



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I DO NOT endorse this list.

It lacks FINAL FANTASY X & MGS4 which were both better than FINAL FANTASY IX & MGS3



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Pretty good list There are a couple of omissions IMO, but overall trully solid



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Shadow of the Colossus is a MASTERPIECE!

One of the best games i have ever played and NO ONE cant say that its NOT ONE of the BEST Games EVER!

Ico was also GREAT!



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darthdevidem01 said:
I DO NOT endorse this list.

It lacks FINAL FANTASY X & MGS4 which were both better than FINAL FANTASY IX & MGS3

Well, I do endorse it.

And I was here first!



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KylieDog said:
"It feels sacrilegious to say the Resident Evil games were once growing stale, but after the remake of the original game and prequel Zero released on the GameCube, the once revolutionary series started to feel uninspired. Even worse, the completely archaic control scheme and awkward camera angles -- while passable on the PlayStation -- were completely out of date.

Resident Evil 4 changed everything.

Gone were the pre-rendered backgrounds and set camera angles. Replacing them was a behind-the-shoulder view that followed hero Leon Kennedy as he journeyed through a fully 3D world. Not only did this complete visual overhaul look incredible, it managed to turn the Resident Evil series’ laughable B-movie vibe (“master of unlocking!”) into a game that could genuinely terrify you. It is impossible to forget the first time Leon steps foot in the opening Spanish village and is chased by the now-iconic chainsaw-wielding maniac. It is one of the most visceral and haunting videogame sequences of all time. From the first stunning set piece to the last, Resident Evil 4 is absolute perfection. There may never be a survival horror game as good."



So much ignorance in this. The "awkward camera angles" are in fact classic horror movie style camera angles, since that is what the RE games are influenced by. Aside from the aiming the controls of RE4 are also identical to older RE games, the perspective has just changed.

The 'laughable B-movie vibe' was like the camera angles part of the influence of classic horror movies, RE1 the haunted house movie, RE2 the zombie apocalypse, RE3 the chasing slasher movie.

It is great how he quotes the very first game though when all the other games released afterwards took a much more seriously acted approach which was far better than RE4s cheesy action flick vibe.

...and 'could genuinely terrify you'. RE4 was absent of any set shock pieces, it was in your face action start through finish. As proven by everything else he typed he clearly has no understanding of what survival horror is and thus lables RE4 wrongly at the end.


The biggest crime would be the writing off of REmake though. I'm not even going to touch that except to say the impact of such comments is enough to discredit the entire list of games, though the rest of the comments for this game alone would do that too, without the REmake comment.

I agree with everything you just said. Kudos.



Dr.Grass said:
naznatips said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
naznatips said:
There was no year zero. The decade ends at the end of 2010, not the end of 2009.

1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 2002
4. 2003
5. 2004
6. 2005
7. 2006
8. 2007
9. 2008
10. 2009

2000-2009 = ten years.

Missed the point. There was no 0000 AD. It started with 0001 AD. This means the current century didn't really start until 2001, which means the current decade doesn't end till 2010.

OH FOR GOD'S SAKE WE'VE HAD THIS DEBATE A MILLION TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!

"For example, "the 1950s" refers to 1950 through to 1959 (inclusive). In English, "decade" can also be used to specify any period of ten years" ~Wiki

2010 is the start of the next decade. DEAL WITH IT.



Then perhaps people should use it correctly. Nazna is correct on this, and ironically, this gets into the intricate parts of the English language. Yes, a decade is any period of 10 years. Referring to the 90's as a decade is not incorrect. However, changing A decade to THE decade actually does. Use of 'the' is for a very specific 10 year cluster. The first decade of the millennium refers to the year cluster 2001-2010. The 70's refers to a different cluster, 1970-1979.

So why this conflict. It's been mentioned that the first year in this counting system was 1 AD, not 0. Thus, the first millennium must be from 1-1000 AD. Likewise, the first decade was from 1-10 AD. Sure, 1 BC - 9 AD is a decade, but it's not the first decade of the AD system. So the millennium started in 2000? No, A millennium did, but not THE millennium. Otherwise, we would have a millennium going from 1-999 or 1001-1999, and neither of those constitutes a millennium. If they wanted to refer to this list as best games in the oughts, I'd have no problem with that. (except for the fact that they're technically not over yet) But it's not the first of the millennium. We've got a year to go.

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-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...

A good list with a lot of great games. As we can see from the list, these guys know what good games are



d21lewis said:
Geometry
Gran Turismo 3
SSX3
Mario Kart Wii
Soul Calibur 2
Gears of War 2
Grandia II
Halo
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
World of Goo

-My personal "snubbed" list.


+ Mass Effect
+ Sims
+ Pokemon
+ Oblivion
+ Warcraft 3

Just some more games that truly deserves a spot in the top50



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