IGN Top 100

[Suigin406]

holy crap, vader, ur right about d2, bad exclusion imo as well...

just some notables that brought a smile to my face [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

86. perfect dark
64. TA
59. RA 1
50. SSB 1
47. God of War 1
39. SMB 3

[chuckleslovakian]

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A number of factors were taken into consideration when selecting a winner: How good the game was compared to others of its time, its overall game design, how well it stands up over the years, how influential it has been in the realm of gaming and just plain how much fun we had playing it are all points for contention.

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Super Mario Brothers and Tetris rightfully destroy a lot of games when judged by this criteria

[Zimmer4141]

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A number of factors were taken into consideration when selecting a winner: How good the game was compared to others of its time, its overall game design, how well it stands up over the years, how influential it has been in the realm of gaming and just plain how much fun we had playing it are all points for contention.

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Super Mario Brothers and Tetris rightfully destroy a lot of games when judged by this criteria

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I know and when based on their criteria they used for judging, I have no problem with those two as #1 and 2. However, I feel like that as games and systems evolve, there are better games that can replace those games as the best ever. So by my criteria, SMB and Tetris are still very good games, but not the two best ever. Honestly, Tetris was just a puzzle game that I'm pretty sure my buddy (Who is a computer Science major at UM) could make in not that long of a time. It was influential, but I feel like there are games that have passed it in terms of being the greatest ever.

[SoloAJ]

I don't want to necessarily search through the top 100 at this time, but was "Alone in the Dark" in there?

I am assuming not, but that game, as far as I know, was the first real survival horror game and at the time was pretty neat.

I guess my question is, if that game didn't spawn survival horror-a pretty popular genre-, what are we giving credit for doing so...Resident Evil?

[JuntMonkey]

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I don't want to necessarily search through the top 100 at this time, but was "Alone in the Dark" in there?

I am assuming not, but that game, as far as I know, was the first real survival horror game and at the time was pretty neat.

I guess my question is, if that game didn't spawn survival horror-a pretty popular genre-, what are we giving credit for doing so...Resident Evil?

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It was there and Resident Evil was a little bit higher. It's kind of like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D...Doom gets all the credit because it's so far superior and only came out a little while afterwards. However, Alone in the Dark wasn't the beginning of survival horror anyway, as they say in the write-up (it's in the 80s or 90s).

[SoloAJ]

I'll go look for ALone in the Dark to see the writeup.

Thanks guys.

[Jack of Arcades]

imo Tetris Attack > Tetris.

Tetris Attack is so fun.