Anonymous wrote:Have you ever seen a good "Top 100 games" list?
I don't even mean /v/ or 4chan, but on the Internet in general.
I have the impression that pretty much every vidya rankings list is beyond retarded.
Only too true, and it's getting worse every year in fact. In their defense, it is an extremely difficult task. I mean no one has what it takes to even review one of these games properly, and even those who get somewhere near doing so for one or two games, can hardly do it for more than one or two genres. It is laughable to even expect anyone but me to do even a top 5, let alone a top 100. So I am going to make an effort to at least start a top 100 in this thread, a couple of titles at a time, and see where it goes. Note that this list is not the same as the Videogame Art list, but I will leave the detailed explanation as to why for later. So here goes:
1. Grand Theft Auto III
2. Far Cry 2
3. Halo
4. Max Payne
5. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
6. Sid Meier's Civilization III (haven't played IV yet)
7. Metal Gear Solid 2
8. The Super Shinobi
9. Super Mario World
10. Jet Set Radio
Note that, apart from the top 2 or 3 entries, all others are provisional. Obviously, when I play and rank Deus Ex, it will go far above the 2D, turn-based games, etc., pushing all of them down, and so it is with many other games. But this list is a good start, and certainly gives some idea of the relative standing of the different games, and more importantly the genres they belong to. But it gets really mind-bendingly tough trying to rank such extremely different games in terms of raw pleasure, so I am going to stop for now and think about it some more. But like I said, this top 10 is already light years ahead of every other ranking you've ever seen published. (And watch it being aped across the internet by people who have not the slightest idea why they are aping it.)