IGN top 100 games list

[Felch]

I think it was a pretty good list. A little bit overrepping of Nintendo games though.

[Adagio]

Re: IGN top 100 games list

Originally posted by Solver
Unsurprisingly, Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) takes the No.1. spot. This leads me to a question, am I the only one who utterly hates Mario and Mario-clones?

No you're not... Except for the clones bit, I'd actually say one of the clones (Giana Sisters) is more fun than Mario... I haven't played any of those games for many years though. Those games are ment to 12 year olds

[DrSpike]

Could be improved of course, but as lists go this one isn't bad. I have no problem with Mario at number 1. Anyone that gamed widely pre and post Mario will know what an amazing accomplishment it was.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Agathon
They left out a lot of good home computer games from the 80s. And where the **** was Gauntlet? More people wasted money on that than any other game except SFII AFAICR.

Many of the best games I've ever played were for the old Spectrum and C64 series of computers. Most were written by small British software companies. Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are better games than most of the ones on that list. What about Beach Head?

Amen but it did have some other old great games i was kinda surprised to see(it being a mainstream game site), like 'The day of the Tenticle' + 'The Grim Fandango' etc.

Not a bad list at all, even had the Star Wars cabinet i wasted so much money as a kid

[Solver]

Could be improved of course, but as lists go this one isn't bad. I have no problem with Mario at number 1. Anyone that gamed widely pre and post Mario will know what an amazing accomplishment it was.

Mario is definitely an accomplishment. You don't even need to have gamed in the 80s to know that. However, knowing the importance of Mario doesn't prevent me from being utterly frustrated by the gameplay.

Besides, the list isn't an influence only list. If it were, then Wolfenstein 3D would have to be on the list.

Actually, it's an interesting idea, a most influental game list. Then titles such as Rome: Total War wouldn't be there, as they're too new to be massively influental, and the list would be full of classics such as Starcraft, Wolfenstein, Doom, Half-Life, Age of Empires, Elder Scrolls:Arena, Mario, SimCity...

[Skanky Burns]

Wolfenstein may have created a large number of similar clones, but Doom was that far ahead of the competition that it killed all these clones and was the only fps for a long period of time (for the computer industry). That counts for more, in my opinion.

Doom was in the list, too.

[Solver]

Doom could quite certainly be in the Top10. In fact, Doom, Civ and Half-Life are usually near the top of lists.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Verto
What a load of horse****.

Final Fantasy VI should have been at least #5, NOT 56. I mean, ****ing sports games, inane first person shooters and Mario 64 beats out the greatest RPG ever?

Amen.

FF6/FF3:

[Guynemer]

I like Rome: TW a lot, but come on!

Higher than Deus Ex? Half-Life? Star Control 2? Grim Fandango?! Balderdash.

[DrSpike]

Yes, that one caught my eye too. It's not even the best game in the total war series, especially with the big reload bug.

[Solver]

Yep, Rome:TW is definitely a good game of its genre, and the good reception is received is entirely fair, but I don't think it can rank higher than Half-Life or Deus Ex at least because it's not as revolutional as those two were - Rome:TW is an addition to the Total War series, after all, with the same basic idea.

[ZargonX]

I think alot of those newer games, such as Rome: TW, will probably have faded much further down the list (or possibly off it) when the next version of it comes down. There are also a few "hot" games that, when viewed with some distance, aren't as great or memorable as first thought.

[Carolus Rex]

Interesting that Tetris is so high... A simple idea in a simple costume... Works in research; apparently works for computer games...

I played it a lot 10-12 years ago; I had it on my Mac Powerbook... The summer of 1994 I was away... When I got back, my mother had erased all my high scores to get in her own... Her name was Kristina and all the new records had the same signature, "Bravo K!"...

The description of Civ 2 felt kind of lame, though... Doesn't transmit at all the addiction the game breeds...

Carolus

[Az]

giving the props to the old games.

saying Russia is the motherland if chess

[Japher]

Not bad, but I would still have Master of Magic in there.