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Time: The 50 Best Video Games of All Time

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brandonh83

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SolidSnakex said:
TechSmart, TechCentral, Gulf News, and Gameswelt.
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thefro

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My big problem with this list is it seems completely random whether the game is the best game in the series/first game in a popular series/most important/most popular game in a series.
 
brickarts295

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Well shit I guess now I have a reason to buy the PS4 version of ROTR. Can't pass on playing the 19th best game of all time [according to TIME magazine] XD
Seriously though wtf?
 
Danny Dudekisser

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jett said:
One day someone will make a like of this sort that disregards nostalgia, importance and "history." Then it will be kinda interesting.
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EGM did that back in 2001 or 2002. It was a great list, and the last good one I've seen. Super Metroid was #1.

I think Tetris was 2, which I think is bullshit because GB Tetris is boring as hell, but whatcha gonna do?
 
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Ogni-XR21

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I agree with the sentiment that this is a list of important games and some really great ones but not the 50 best ones ever made (some are but a lot are just "important milestones" in video game history).
 
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javadoze

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I always dislike lists like this for the sole fact that it's not really the "best" videogames, but rather the most important or influential ones.
 
Sanctuary

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hydrophilic attack said:
It's in the top of a much better list
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That list is great, but it also seems to be going for something entirely different, and actually more focused. Even saying that though, that list is a bit silly in its own way.

Dark Souls as the best game of all time? LMAO. It's easily my favorite game of the last decade, but it's nowhere near the best game of "all time".

kpaadet said:
It's Time's "Best Video Games of All Time", why are you trying to push this false most important narrative?
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False, most important? I'm not pushing anything, the top ten list is. That's the only possible way the top ten makes any sense. Like I said in an earlier post, the top ten read exactly like most influential/important and then the next 40 are totally random.
 
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hydrophilic attack

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javadoze said:
I always dislike lists like this for the sole fact that it's not really the "best" videogames, but rather the most important or influential ones.
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This list is what you want

Sanctuary said:
That list is great, but it also seems to be going for something entirely different, and actually more focused. Even saying that though, that list is a bit silly in its own way.

Dark Souls as the best game of all time? LMAO. It's easily my favorite game of the last decade, but it's nowhere near the best game of "all time".
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Yeah I know, it should be Demon's, but other than that it's a good list
 
Sanctuary

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hydrophilic attack said:
Yeah I know, it should be Demon's, but other than that it's a good list
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I have to wonder how long some of you have actually been playing games for, or if you actually remember what the previous generations were like. It's been said more than once, but the main reason the Souls games stand out in the current environment is because of how old school they are. If these games were made during the PS2 era, they wouldn't have had as much of an impact as they did.

That's less of a reflection of the quality of the Souls games and simply a matter of what the majority of games are like now.
 
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brandonh83 said:
A much better list that has Far Cry 4 and Little Big Planet 3 in front of Witcher 3 :p
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I see nothing wrong with this tbqh

Sanctuary said:
I have to wonder how long some of you have actually been playing games for, or if you actually remember what the previous generations were like. It's been said more than once, but the main reason the Souls games stand out in the current environment is because of how old school they are. If these games were made during the PS2 era, they wouldn't have had as much of an impact as they did.
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From was making similar games back then. They don't even come close to Souls in playability
 
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hobblygobbly said:
Really bizarre list because of how it glosses over games that fundamentally changed the games industry on both technical and design levels such as Elite 1984.
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They can't decide if they want this to be a 'best games' list or a 'most influential' list, because I'm sorry but there are loads of games better than Wolfenstein 3D or The Legend of Zelda nowadays. And I find the choice of GTA3 instead of San Andreas or GTAV kind of absurd.
 
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Famassu

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Seems more like a list of the most influential games than the absolute best games, though with some odd additions like Rise of the Tomb Raider. And I don't really understand putting in Castlevania when IV, Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia are far better Castlevania games.
 
Sanctuary

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hydrophilic attack said:
From was making similar games back then. They don't even come close to Souls in playability
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Uh, you just unintentionally agreed. Not only that, but what you're actually thinking of had more to do with hardware limitations than anything else. Kings Field was the closest comparison, and it was actually quite playable. It just wasn't a third person action game, although it had the atmosphere and obliqueness down long before Demon's Souls arrival. Otogi would be the next closest, and the Souls games were somewhat an almagamation of the two.
 
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Nimby

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Incredibly safe list, really kinda weird Rise of the Tomb Raider makes it in over the original or the second given the majority of the list.
 
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hydrophilic attack

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Sanctuary said:
Uh, you just unintentionally agreed. Not only that, but what you're actually thinking of had more to do with hardware limitations than anything else. Kings Field was the closest comparison, and it was actually quite playable. It just wasn't a third person action game, although it had the atmosphere and obliqueness down long before Demon's Souls arrival. Otogi would be the next closest, and the Souls games were somewhat an almagamation of the two.
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Edge made a list based on the best games you can play today, rather than "most influential" or whatever. King's Field games are nearly unplayable today due to the first person perspective and hardware limitations
 
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Spenny

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I don't mind the top ten but the rest of the list is missing some seminal shit. Where's Metroid and Street Fighter 2?
 
Sanctuary

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hydrophilic attack said:
Edge made a list based on the best games you can play today, rather than "most influential" or whatever. King's Field games are nearly unplayable today due to the first person perspective and hardware limitations
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Sure, but that's not even what I was debating in the first place anyway. I was talking specifically about why the Souls games are considered such a big deal now. If it was technically even possible to make Dark Souls in the PSX or PS2 eras, it would have simply been considered a really great game for that period, but it wouldn't have held the same kind of esteem it does now. The playing field today isn't remotely similar.
 
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Sparrowhawk

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Not a bad list, but I'm surprised at the lack of a Souls game. That could easily have replaced Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Edit: No Metroid either? Damn.
 
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Hupsel

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Thank god no Last of Us or any Uncharted.

No Super Metroid was really weird yeah.

And I am loving Rise of the Tomb Raider but probably woulnd´t put it in the best of all time. Bloodborne and Dark Souls deserve it waaaay more.
 
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veloxStrix

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Most of these choices are the "Sure, I see it" kind, but Fallout 3 kind of rubs me wrong. A game that got by on premise and open-world hype over any real quality. To me, at least.
 
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ViewtifulJC

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Sanctuary said:
I have to wonder how long some of you have actually been playing games for, or if you actually remember what the previous generations were like. It's been said more than once, but the main reason the Souls games stand out in the current environment is because of how old school they are. If these games were made during the PS2 era, they wouldn't have had as much of an impact as they did.

That's less of a reflection of the quality of the Souls games and simply a matter of what the majority of games are like now.
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What PS2 games are better than Dark Souls. Are even like Dark Souls. or "old school" like Dark Souls. Name them.
 
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