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Time: The 50 Best Video Games of All Time

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Dreams-Visions

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The Lamonster said:
This is a solid list but I'd call it "most important games of all time."

"Best" implies eternal replayability and most if not all of those games are extremely dated.
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No it's not. If it were measuring importance, Tomb Raider wouldn't be there and Street Fighter (perhaps the predominant reason why the fighting genre exists and persists in its current state) would have been in the top 10. We'd see games like Falcon 3.0. Brood War would be here instead of Star Craft 2. Goldeneye would be here somewhere as the first really successful console FPS game. Quake and/or Unreal Tournament would be locks. Dragon Warrior would be present.
 
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mikeyvids

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Branduil said:
No Super Metroid in the top 50?
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Nor Prime

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Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Member
Dreams-Visions said:
No it's not. If it were measuring importance, Tomb Raider wouldn't be there and Street Fighter (perhaps the predominant reason why the fighting genre exists and persists in its current state) would have been in the top 10. We'd see games like Falcon 3.0. Brood War would be here instead of Star Craft 2. Goldeneye would be here somewhere as the first really successful console FPS game.
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Fighting games are still extremely niche in the grand scope of things. Street Fighter 2 should have at the very least made the top 20. It not even being included, and replaced by Mortal Kombat however is baffling.
Goldeneye is on the list BTW.

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Kusagari

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Stiler said:
If that was true then you should have Half Life 1 instead of Half life 2, half life 1 had a much larger impact on the entire genre of fps games then HL2 did

Same goes for Rise of hte Tomb Raider, the first Tomb Raider game basically set the gold standard for action-adventure games that others would follow like Uncharted, etc.
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That's the problem with all these lists that try to rank based off impact. They never stick to that for the entire list and then you end up with CoD2, Starcraft 2 and other games on here that make no sense in the context of the list.
 
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Lime

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Rise of the Tomb Raider @ #18 sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe Time's Intern smuggled that one into the list, because it's simply ridiculous to put in that game among so many influential and timeless classics. Christ, the game has hardly been out for a year.
 
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Curufinwe

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Time employing the typical American bonus point system for Nintendo games they played as kids.

Rise of the TR at 18 is completely ludicrous.
 
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Nev

Banned
Haha. Funny how Tomb Raider 1 or 2 aren't on the list but Rise of the Tomb Raider is, despite this clearly being a list of "most important or famous videogames" and not a "best videogames" list. Fallout 3 and CoD 2 higher than RE4 ayyy. Also, Angry Birds on the list but not Tlou or Uncharted 2 (this one being the reason ROTR even exists). Call me crazy but I think the author might be slightly biased or hasn't played a lot of videogames, was told to made a quick list with misleading tabloid title and this mess was created.

Not even a mention of Bloodborne (the best game of all time) or even Dark Souls (the second best game of all time). Garbage list; waste of time; regret the click I gave to them.
 
Sanctuary

Sanctuary

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Curufinwe said:
You realize TLoU is was very well received outside of GAF, right? Far more so than RoTR.
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Yes, thanks for the update. However, TLOU, Bloodborne and TW3 are the most gushed upon, "totally flawless" games on this board. They're decent to great, but not as much as what this forum would want you to believe. Two of them don't even have particularly strong gameplay.

Dusktildawn48 said:
I hate lists that are just about nostalgia
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Each time I play Rise of the Tomb Raider, I get all warm and fuzzy remembering the first time I played it. Last year.
 
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Wabba

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Strange to not see The Last of Us being in the top 50. Pretty great list, but it should be most impactful games not best games because it a little to much nostalgia for my taste.
 
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Curufinwe

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Sanctuary said:
Yes, thanks for the update. However, TLOU, Bloodborne and TW3 are the most gushed upon, "totally flawless" games on this board. They're decent to great, but not as much as what this forum would want you to believe.
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TLOU gets higher praise outside of GAF than on it.
 
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Wabba

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Sanctuary said:
Yes, thanks for the update. However, TLOU, Bloodborne and TW3 are the most gushed upon, "totally flawless" games on this board. They're decent to great, but not as much as what this forum would want you to believe.
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If TLOU, Bloodborne and The Witcher 3 is decent games then you have a pretty high bar because they are todays classics. Great games that are going to be played and enjoyed for years to come.
 
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Curufinwe

Member
Nev said:
Haha. Funny how Tomb Raider 1 or 2 aren't on the list but Rise of the Tomb Raider is, despite this clearly being a list of "most important or famous videogames" and not a "best videogames" list. Fallout 3 and CoD 2 higher than RE4 ayyy. Also, Angry Birds on the list but not Tlou or Uncharted 2 (this one being the reason ROTR even exists). Call me crazy but I think the author might be slightly biased or hasn't played a lot of videogames, was told to made a quick list with misleading tabloid title and this mess was created.

Not even a mention of Bloodborne (the best game of all time) or even Dark Souls (the second best game of all time). Garbage list; waste of time; regret the click I gave to them.
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I don't think there are any PS2/PS3/PS4 exclusives on the list.
 
MastAndo

MastAndo

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Perhaps it's an unpopular opinion, but I always found it interesting how video games list like this are so heavily subjected to the effects of nostalgia and sentimentality. I mean, if someone who had never played a video game in their life asked to try the 10 best games ever, would anyone really show them Oregon Trail? It certainly had its merit in its place in time, but if you're going to create a comparative list, how can you honestly say it holds up well enough against other games to be deemed one of the best?

It just seems to me video game lists, more so than say, movies or book lists, are ingrained more with the writer's fond recollections than actuality.
 
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Version 3.0

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IcyRhythms said:
People having opinions that are unlike your own? Come on...what's that about? Who does that?
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It's always so weird to see people say "wow, opinions" in a discussion about a subjective topic. Yeah, we all know it's an opinion, or in this case, maybe several poorly merged together.

Does every post have to expressly state "my opinion of their opinion is X"?
 
Sanctuary

Sanctuary

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Wabba said:
Strange to not see The Last of Us being in the top 50. Pretty great list, but it should be most impactful games not best games because it a little to much nostalgia for my taste.
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That's what the top ten is. Unless you simply meant most impressionable for a one time experience. But that doesn't have much to do with the impact of videogames in general. It doesn't help that this list doesn't seem to be able to decide what it wants to be anyway.

Wabba said:
If TLOU, Bloodborne and The Witcher 3 is decent games then you have a pretty high bar because they are todays classics. Great games that are going to be played and enjoyed for years to come.
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Yeah, I guess I do actually prefer gameplay over story and graphics. Not that the latter two aren't important to the overall presentation, but they shouldn't be the focus at the exclusion of compelling gameplay. I also happen to prefer the games with "Souls" in the name over Bloodborne. Mostly an aesthetic issue with me however, since I really enjoyed the gameplay for the most part, even though it was entirely limited to melee until the end of the game/expansion/dungeon farming. Also, reread what you quoted. I didn't just say "decent".
 
Salty Hippo

Salty Hippo

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Sanctuary said:
Honestly not sure how you can compare Rise of the Tomb Raider to Mortal Kombat and claim that it's better. Not only are they generations apart and seperate genres, Rise doesn't even do anything new. It's also not being "mocked" as a game either, the inclusion of it over essentially every other more influential game is the problem. The original Tomb Raider games influenced a lot of the third person adventure games, and it greatly influenced Uncharted. Uncharted influenced the Tomb Raider reboots...
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MK is and always was a garbage fighting game and ROTR is one of the best action-adventure games of its generation, that's how. But of course, opinions and everything.

Also, despite featuring a lot of influential games, the list proclaims Best Games, not Most Influential. Disregarding a game because it's not influential in this case doesn't make a lot of sense.
 
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IcyRhythms

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Leondexter said:
It's always so weird to see people say "wow, opinions" in a discussion about a subjective topic. Yeah, we all know it's an opinion, or in this case, maybe several poorly merged together.

Does every post have to expressly state "my opinion of their opinion is X"?
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People insinuate that somehow the opinions are wrong and that TLoU, MGS3, or something like SFII etc should have absolutely made the top 20 in lists like these. Just because those people feel that way doesn't mean everyone else should/does.
 
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uncleniccius

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Rise of the Tomb Raider and not The Last of us?

This seems dodgy. I don't understand how it isn't it with its critical/general reception.

I actually think TR 2013 is far better than Rise.. Rise wouldn't be in my top 10 of last year even..
 
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Pancake Mix

Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Not giving something with Tetris at #1 a click. Gaming has surpassed a quality addictive puzzle game.
 
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ScaryShark

Banned
Lime said:
Rise of the Tomb Raider @ #18 sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe Time's Intern smuggled that one into the list, because it's simply ridiculous to put in that game among so many influential and timeless classics. Christ, the game has hardly been out for a year.
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Did RotTR win a single GOTY from a major publication last year?
 
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jett

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One day someone will make a list of this sort that disregards nostalgia, importance and "history." Then it will be kinda interesting.
 
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Sanctuary

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Salty Hippo said:
MK is and always was a garbage fighting game and ROTR is one of the best action-adventure games of its generation, that's how. But of course, opinions and everything.
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The game is literally not even a year old yet. It's way too early to be making such claims, especially since it's still on the extremely easy side of things in the "action" department. Even if it *is* one of the best of the current generation, this current generation is only three years old, so it still makes no sense for it to be on that list.

rackham said:
More like top 10 nostalgic games. Oregon trail above mega man? Yeah ok.
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You clearly have no idea how important Oregon Trail was.
 
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