The Top 5 Games of All Time

An anonymous reader writes "The guys over at trusted reviews have come up with lists of their top five games of all time. There are some obvious choices and some very obscure ones, but on the whole its interesting reading. See how their lists compare to yours."

What? No Freebird?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

This list sucks!

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[andersa]

Where is Aztec Challenge [lemon64.com]?????

Best music and gameplay, like.. evaahhh

No Freespace, either?

[Sage Gaspar]

I think the space sim is a genre that hasn't seen much action in the last seven years because it's already been perfected by Freespace 2. Let's talk about a game where you have a little fighter flying amid literally miles-long capital ships firing giant beam weapons at each other. Where there's gameplay moments and mid-mission plot surprises that just bowl you over. Where you have complete control over three squads of wingmen and you can see (and target) every subsystem on every ship. Where you actually have to make targeted strikes on these subsystems using bombers and covering fire to take down big targets. Where you fly into the middle of really awesome nebulae that do crazy things to your ship's sensors.

And most notably, where the devs were pimp enough to put a clause allowing completely free redistribution to friends and acquaintances in the EULA, and it's now legitly open-source. Leading to the creation of beautiful graphics packages that breathe new life into it. (video [youtube.com]). Anyone who thinks they might enjoy this game and hasn't tried it yet, you owe it to yourself :P

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[Lotana]

While we are complaining, where are:
Planescape Torment
Descent: Freespace 1 & 2
The Longest Journey
System Shock 1 & 2
Knights of the Old Republic
Sid Myer's Alpha Centauri
Baldur's Gate series
Thief series
Deus Ex (first only)
Morrowind
Fallout 1 & 2

Lists Lists Lists

[Freaky Spook]

Have all of these news/blog sites run out of things to write about because it seems this year everywhere has been inundated with dam lists.

Re:Lists Lists Lists

[pookemon]

Inundated? Go on then, list the Top 5 lists we've been inundated with... ;)

Re:Lists Lists Lists

[astromog]

The top 5 dams of all time: 1. Hoover Dam 2. Benmore Dam 3. Grande Dixence Dam 4. Keban Dam 5. Verzasca dam.

What, no Three Gorges Dam?

[sir_montag]

How can you fail to list Three Gorges Dam?

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[Himring]

Hi, this is the dam tour. I'm your dam guide. Let me know if you got any dam questions.

You got any damn bait?

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[TeknoHog]

And in case you're atheist:

-1. Bud Dham

indeed,Wikipedia's list of lists of greatest games

[spage]

Yes, this has been done to death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_ga mes_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever [wikipedia.org] does a good job of keeping score.

I bought an N64 just to play Super Mario 64. 3 Shigeru Miyamoto!!

29 pages for top 5 !?!

[alcmaeon]

Sorry, I'm not reading an article that gives someone's opinion of the top 5 games but runs 29 pages. They can scam their advertisers some other way. How does this crap even make it to slashdot. Don't we have admins or something who exercise some discretion over the selections?

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[joeljkp]

It's 5 people each naming their top 5 games, for a total of 25 pages, plus some introductory material.

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[briggsb]

You need to read the list of the five reasons you shouldn't list to blog lists [bbspot.com]. I wish more people would take its advice.

Re:Lists Lists Lists

[EEBaum]

Indeed. [wikipedia.org]

No RTS games in the lineup?

[EmperorKagato]

Starcraft isn't that good of a game worth mentioning? Knights and Merchants?! Age of Empires?

Starcraft

[Shadowlore]

This game is still selling in the stores. Ten bucks, new. Patches still come out for it (it's still supported). Even if I didn't like the game I'd have to admit that it belongs in any "top X of ALL TIME" list of video games. The game has been selling for what, about ten years now? How many other video games in any genre are still selling in "ordinary" stores after that much time? You can still buy Starcraft at Walmart, Hastings, Best Buy, etc.. This fact alone makes it an objective cause for it to be listed

The Real Best Games

[VirusEqualsVeryYes]

Tch. Everyone knows that the real top 5 are:

1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2. Halo 2
3. Half Life 2
4. Counter Strike
5. Battlefield 2

All my 11-year-old neighbors told me so.

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[jcenters]

Sounds about as good, if not better than their list. I've been a gamer for over nineteen years, and I have to say that Counter-Strike and BF2 are two of the best online shooters ever, GTA:SA is truly a revolutionary game that has more content than you can shake a stick at, and Half Life 2 has the best pacing of any game I've played.

My buddy and I spent most of the summer arguing over the best games of all time. The problem? How do you determine? Do you go by pure fun factor, or do you also consider timeless

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[sir_montag]

You know, when I played Beta 7, they were saying the same thing about Beta 6?

Fast-forward half a decade later, and they're saying the same thing about CS 1.6! A decade from now, I'll hear kids bitching about how Counter-Strike 7 was so much better than CS 8.5.

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[sir_montag]

Every time I hear 'realistic' and 'counter-strike' in the same sentence, I tend to laugh.

What maps did they remove that you liked?

Re:Something to be said for Counter-Strike

[cyclomedia]

not my cup of tea, for comparison half life's DMC (Death Match Classic) mod played along these lines

1. spawn
2. run towards nearest big gun
3. kill people
4. die hilariously
5. repeat = fun

and counter strike, (which admittedly i havent played much since one of the original beta's back in 99) goes something like this

1. chose from vast array of guns in a menu and not being a firearms expert have no idea what's what or what's any good about them
2. spawn
3. try to find players on other team, half of whom are camping
4. die from single bullet shot to toe
5. wait 20 minutes for round to end
6. finally repeat = suckage

obviously the former falls into the arcade category and the latter into tactical, so whilst it's most certainly a question of taste i prefer my games to place their emphasis on fast furious fun

Games every gamer should try

[DrStrangeLug]

1. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Best Civ Game Ever , Dispite not being a true civ game.
2. Halflife. Enough said.
3. Deus Ex. This is how game storylines should work - smartly.
4. Hostile Waters . You can pick this up now for less than a 10 and you'd be a fool not to.
5. Spore - Hurry up and release the damn thing! And I WILL torrent it from the US while I wait for a UK release if they do that staggered release date crap.

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[Gherald]

Ok, I'll deny it, because:

Starcraft > Dune II
Counterstrike > Doom
Baldur's Gate 2 or Deus Ex > Zelda

You seem to be listing some top "groundbreaking" games, and that's a little different.

I'm not really into things like Super Street Fighter, so I wouldn't know. My list would have Tetris instead.

At least we agree on Civilization :)

PONG ???

[Anonymous Coward]

If it doesn't include Pong, then it's not a real list.

Not a single mention of nethack!

[Virak]

What is this blasphemy doing on slashdot?!

Re:Not a single mention of nethack!

[pthisis]

Seriously. It's been in constant development for decades now, game play (and balance) continues to improve, and it's the ultimate in learning curves--insanely difficuly but incredibly fun when you first start playing, excellent learning curve all the way through where you can get further and further with just exploration, and with time you can learn to win more than half the time and yet it's still fun.

1. Nethack

2. X-com UFO Defense

3. Grand Theft Auto III

4. Doom/Wolfenstein 3D (I'm undecided)

5. Starflight

Honorable mentions (unsorted): Contra, Archon, Hitman, Ultima IV, Counterstrike, Autoduel, Dune II, Tetris, Civilization, Bard's Tale, World of Warcraft, Simcity, Wing Commander

of all time?

[Anonymous Coward]

This certainly isn't an "of all time" list. The vast majority of the games are from the last 15 years and it's very heavy on console games (No Zork? Or Pac Man?). As a gamer (tabletop, arcade, PC, and even consoles) I have NEVER understood the appeal of gaming consoles. 20 years ago consoles were a worthwhile investment since they could smash computers in every area except input (mouse/joystick/keyboard vs. crummy gamepad). At this point computers smash consoles in every area, and two genres (FPS and R

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[legoburner]

The best 'top X games of all time' site is GameRankings [gamerankings.com]. You can sort by user votes or by reviews from magazines. The only problem is that 'all time' only goes back as far as 'N64' as that is when they started parsing reviews. Still worth a look though as it does not have 30 pages of adverts and is quite a nice search engine.

Trusted Reviews?

[The Bungi]

OK, so we have 29 pages, each with ~6 paragaphs of text and at least four large animated banner ads.

Quality of layout and choice of graphics aside, this is really a pointless review. But who exactly are these people at TrustedReviews.com? Since when do they exist, and why are we supposed to trust them?

And why does Slashdot keep posting what they write [slashdot.org] again and again?

All good questions, but first...

[sir_montag]

Why don't you click on a few ads though? ;)

Re:Trusted Reviews?

[Chaffar]

But who exactly are these people at TrustedReviews.com?

Personally, I usually tend NOT to trust companies or people who ask me to just trust them.

Me: Hum... Are you sure this wifi card comes with linux drivers?

Retarded Store clerk: Of course! Trust me, it's my JOB, I know what I'm talking about...

Me: Mind if I make you sign this declaration swearing that this card comes with linux drivers?

Retarded Store clerk: ... let me check with my manager [disappears through this small previously unnoticed door and never comes back]

29 trusted reviews later

[shawn443]

and I just puked advertisements.

Re:29 trusted reviews later

[Firehed]

I cheated. Clicking on the drop-down and just reading the titles is so damned easy. Well, not for copying and pasting the list in here for karma whoring, but it was interesting to see DOTT make it in there. And Jedi Knight... I wish I still knew where my discs were for that.

I couldn't think of five

[Petrushka]

Hmm. I got as far as

• Ultima IV
• Civilization II
• Unreal Tournament (classic)

and couldn't bring myself to add others. While things like Half Life, Starcraft, Deus Ex, BG2, Rogue, and Grim Fandango are all great games, they either didn't change the way I thought about games in quite the way the above three did, or else I don't still enjoy playing them. Rogue and Deus Ex were great, but I just don't play them now, or not much. I don't think Half Life has quite the perfect storyline it needs to make a top five

My own list

[nsayer]

Not that my opinion is worth a damn, but it's free.

bzflag, because it remains the premiere open-source 3d multiplayer game, in my view.

Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.

Tempest, because it represents the pinacle of the vector game. No, it wasn't the most advanced one, but best in terms of gameplay, look, adictiveness, and quite frankly, unit sales.

Robotron, because it is the best adrenaline pumping game ever made. Retire the cup.

Pac-Man, because of its sheer iconic status. There were games before Pac-Man, and games after Pac-Man. But anyone can look at any game and immediately be able to say with certainty which group it belongs in. No other game of its time can say that.

Honorable mention goes to Myst, which, like Doom to the FPS, represented a redefinition of the adventure game.

You're welcome.

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[Ours]

Honorable mention goes to Myst, which, like Doom to the FPS, represented a redefinition of the adventure game.
Redefined as a boring series of pretty postcards with puzzles in-between? I'll have my Monkey Island instead any day of the week.

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[Saint Fnordius]

Myst redefined the adventure series by not stating the goal, by creating the idea of simply exploring the world and eventually getting a goal. It was as nonlinear as possible. In many ways it was more of a successor to Zork than any LucasArts or Sierra Online title was. By the time it was ported to the PC (it was originally a Macintosh-only title), there were copycats already in the market (Sliver, Obsidian, etc.).

Of all the LucasArts/Sierra Online titles, though, I think Full Throttle was the best game of

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[jamesh]

Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.

You obviously never wasted a summer playing wolfenstein 3d then?

Doom would make the list for bringing in network multiplayer though. The amount of time I wasted with cheap network cards, cheap (probably not proper 50 ohm network quality :) coax and making network terminators with a coax connector, a 50 ohm resistor and a soldering iron... just to play a multiplayer game of Doom :)

Then there was try

Wolfenstein

[Frankie70]

Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.


No, that was Wolfenstein.
I liked Doom better, but it was Wolf which reinvented the genre.

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[mgblst]

As someone who played ridiculous amounts of both games, I am not so sure. I remember people getting a bit excited at Wolf, but going crazy over Doom. I remember the hysteria that doom created, even before it release, as soon as some pictures were released - many didn't believe that they were real, but they were. This was before the web, when you had to cruise the news groups for information, or hidden ftp sites, getting into the alt+255 directories.

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[telbij]

Let's get this straight.

Wolf3d invented the FPS genre.
Doom perfected single player FPS and invented multiplayer FPS.
QuakeWorld perfected multiplayer FPS.

Both Doom and Quake were so good they both deserve to make the top 5. As good as Quake is, the single player can't hold a candle to Doom. In fact, I've never seen another game that packs the visceral punch of Doom single player. The sheer quantities of enemies and satisfying weapons (especially the double-barrell shotgun in Doom 2). In Quake it was like

Early bungie games

[Hachey]

I'm sorry, but the ol' days of Bungie before they got bought out by Microsoft (man, at the time I was thinkin' that was a cold day in hell) had one of the best games of all time. Marathon. Little is it known but this game gave _birth_ to the rocket jump. The story line was friggin phenomenal. It could be scary as hell. Coming out just a year after doom, it made all the right changes (larger deathmatches, multiple floors per level, etc). And let us not forget the game that gave birth to the age old crazy AI video game meme. That was a golden egg for sure.


and one more thing... Frog blast the vent core!!!!

Play it for free...

[interactive_civilian]

For those who don't know, Bungie open-sourced Marathon and released the game data file for free. You can get them all at http://source.bungie.org/ [bungie.org], or more specifically, here:

http://source.bungie.org/get/ [bungie.org]

I agree that this is one of the most amazing games ever. Not only did it bring us some technical innovations (at the time) such as the ability to look up and down to aim your weapon, dual triggered weapons, etc., but it was one of the first FPS games to actually have an amazing, intricate plot [bungie.org].

If you haven't played it, go for it.

Coral cache

[Sagachi]

It's already slashdotted... here's the CC link.
http://www.trustedreviews.com.nyud.net:8090/articl e.aspx?page=8102&head=0 [nyud.net]

What?

[Sathias]

What? The particular game which I would have included if I made the list myself wasn't named? What an outrage!

missing game

[macadamia_harold]

See how their lists compare to yours

My #1 favorite game is "hide the sausage". Wonder why they didn't list that one.

Re:missing game

[trash eighty]

er this is slashdot dude, you may have to explain that one

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[smittyoneeach]

The fact that the list was about video games was implicit.

At the risk of sounding un-American, I'm disinterested in watching you "get your game on" in a personal way.

Such voyeurism would take away from getting my own on. Or /.ing, for that matter.

I suppose you could YouTube yourself, as a popularity check.

Re:missing game

[argStyopa]

My #1 favorite game is "hide the sausage". Wonder why they didn't list that one.

I think one of the requirements was that the reviewers had to have had experience playing the game.

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[gEvil (beta)]

I like to play it as a tabletop game. But, truth be told, it can be played anywhere.

How can these guys call themselves gamers?

[lewp]

Mario 64 instead of Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World?
Ocarina of Time instead of Zelda or A Link to the Past?
Jedi Knight instead of KotOR?
Formula 1 GP instead of Gran Turismo?
Unreal Tournament instead of Quake?
No Starcraft?
No Final Fantasy (take your pick) or, at the very least, Chrono Trigger?
No Grand Theft Auto?

I'm missing a bunch I know, but I've only been thinking about this for a few minutes.

Nobody even went oldschool and mentioned a true classic like Donkey Kong, Pit Fall, Pac Man, or Space Invaders.

Which video games are the "best" is ultimately pretty subjective, but they've picked sequels that undeniably weren't the best in their series even. Everyone's got their "out there" pick for an obscure game that they happened to get hooked on, but how can you put those in a "top 5 games of all time" list when there are absolute masterpieces that are basically the same game done better?

Glad I didn't bother to RTF this A and just skimmed the list of games.

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[lewp]

Shoulda thrown my own list in there:

1) Chrono Trigger
2) Doom
3) Super Mario Bros. 3
4) Starcraft
5) Tetris (mainly because of Tetrinet... so addictive)

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[telbij]

It's all subjective, but I'm definitely right when I say that Quake 3 perfected the original FPS formula. The weapon balance, physics, interface. It was so perfect that no one needed to do another game like that. That's why Counter Strike was the next big thing.

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[teslar]

Quake 3? That the game where they make you jump around in space using big jump pads as if you were in some kind of friggin' Super Mario jump'n'run just so that your mate who's been perfecting his Railgun skills all month can just pluck you from the sky before you even make it to the yellow armour? You must have been the one with the Railgun if you call that perfect and balanced :)

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[lendude]

Exactly, and to further illustrate the impact of the game hardware-wise, Quake primarily drove the demand for 3Dfx Voodoo cards via the development/availability of the minigl driver for the game, hence kickstarting what now is today the multi-billion dollar GPU industry.

Oh yeah! Spectrum Chaos!

[spoco2]

Chaos page in list [trustedreviews.com]

I remember this game only after reading that... and man, yeah it was great. I think I got the whole game free on a cover cassette of Your Sinclair [wikipedia.org]!

That really brought back memories, and just for that I thank those guys for their lists. :)

My top 5...

[Loligo]

Ok, I've been a gamer of various sorts for approaching 30 years, and the only game on their list that I think belongs in a top TWENTY is Doom.

Top 5, in no particular order.

Zork
Adventure for the Atari 2600 (Warren Robbinett forever)
Civilization II (sorry, Civ fans, Civ 2 is the definitive version)
Utopia for the Intellivision (the FIRST widespread RTS)
Asteroids arcade version

These aren't even my top five favorites of all time, but the ones I feel deserve even more recognition than they got (ESPECIALLY Utopia, we wouldn't have Starcraft without it). They pioneered generations of games, and their influence is still felt today.

  -l

And just where the hell is Elite

[shockwaverider]

What about Elite [wikipedia.org] on the BBC micro?

OK - Lets forget that

• It was the first truly 3D 8 bit game
• It had 8 galaxies, each containing 256 solarsystems to explore
• It had missions, and police ships as well as pirates and traders, and the ability to be either

But fer Chrissakes it was coded into 18Kbytes of handcrafted 6502 machine code. That alone deserves a mention!

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[CaptnMArk]

Yes, Elite ruled.

If not elite, maybe least Wing Commander.

My list:

Elite/Wing Commander
Dune II/TA
Doom/Quake
Civ/Alpha Centauri/Railroad Tycoon
Diablo 2

Also, Day of the Tentacle was nice.

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[pthisis]

This list is pretty darned good. It's not what I would pick, but it's all things that I considered before making my list above (except Diablo II which is Nethack without any of the depth or strategy but with some pretty graphics)

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[drsquare]

Elite may have been technically impressive, but the gameplay was abysmal. You spent 50% of your time spinning round in circles avoiding pirates, and the other 50% crashing into the spacestation.

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[Fry-kun]

...which just added to realism :)

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[Fry-kun]

Amen to that!
I spent countless hours hunting (and being hunted by) Thargoids ;)

By the way, those who loved Elite should check out X3: Reunion [egosoft.com]. It's close to what Elite would've been in this day and age.
Sure, there's hope for Elite 4 yet... a little more than DNF (though that may just be the optimistic view of an Elite fan talking :P )

No Elite!?

[Hylander]

The complete lack of "Elite" on these lists must be a conspiracy! I thought maybe they were all kids, but one of them at least names Lords of Midnight, which was pretty awesome. Nowhere near as good as elite though.

Hooray Lucasarts!

[adolfojp]

Monkey Island 2 and Day of the Tentacle. It is good to see some graphic adventure games on the list. :-)

Nope, not right

[davmoo]

Any "top 5 games" list that does not include Zork is obviously fucked, and cannot be trusted.

Deli's Top 5

[Deliveranc3]

1. Descent - 6 Degrees of freedom done right and one of the first games to push beyond earth normal physics arguably paving the way for other games to move outside reality.

2. Quake 1 the first fps that allowed for tactical gameplay akin to chess, your skills developed as you played and there was always something more to learn, birth of first game player as idol "Thresh".

Starcraft - Micromanagement and Resource spooging.

Civilization 2 (I just played all 4 it's the best one) - Showing how gaming can mak

My Top 5

[marcello_dl]

1. Descent - 6 Degrees of freedom done right and one of the first games to push beyond earth normal physics arguably paving the way for other games to move outside reality.

Games beyond earth normal physics: SpaceWar! (first computer game evar)
With six degrees of freedom (sometimes in the game, not always) Star Wars. One of the first decent 3D FPS, too.

My favourites:

• Asteroids (i never played spacewar!, so this is the best entertainment per Mhz)
• Xevious (high endorfine release when playing at hard le

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[Deliveranc3]

Descent is also credited as the first true 3D polygon based game.

Mine (biased as all get out)

[aarku]

1. Dungeons and Dragons [wikipedia.org]
2. Space Rogue [wikipedia.org]
3. Escape Velocity [wikipedia.org]
4. Tempora Heroica [wikipedia.org]
5. Counter-Strike [wikipedia.org]

How about these?

[Rik Sweeney]

Edge gave these 3 games 10 of out 10 (they were before Edge's time)

Exile
Elite
Super Mario Bros

Personally I completely agree they deserve it

It's given these 5 games 10 out of 10

Super Mario 64
Gran Turismo
Ocarina of Time
Halo
Half Life 2

Personally I'm not so sure about the last 2

Where is Total Annihilation

[ThomasHoward]

WHy is Total Annihilation not on any of those lists, it is still the best RTS ever made, well, as far as I am concerned, anyhow.

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[rucs_hack]

It is probably my favorite RTS game ever, but it remains obscure.

Had Cavedog not pissed off Chris Taylor, making him quit, then they might have been able to secure TA's place as a leader in the RTS field. I don't know how they pissed him off, but his departure was sudden, and seemed to be linked to difficulties getting TA2 off the ground.
One minute he was talking about it, the next he was gone, and we got the abortion that was TA-kingdoms instead.

Also, and Chris was equally responsible for this, they said t

quake

[mincognito]

Yeah, "Chaos," Commander Keen and Jedi Knight for example, beat out Quake which doesn't even make the list. If I remember correctly didn't Quake, aside from being the first true 3D FPS (unlike Doom), bring realtime tcp/ip multiplayer to the masses? Personally, my mind was pretty much blown the first time I deathmatched over the internet.

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[mincognito]

Personally, my mind was pretty much blown the first time I deathmatched over the internet.

minus score huh...

i don't miss the lag of a 28.8k modem...and when the data flowed again finding oneself in a pool of friggin lava

nethack

[kubla2000]

There is a staircase up here. You see here an iridium wand.

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Surely a 'Best Game Of All Time'...

[payndz]

...would be one that you still regularly play - and enjoy - now, no matter how many years it is since its release or how primitive it may look. Which for me would give a list something like this:

1: Robotron 2084
2: Tomb Raider
3: Tempest 2000
4: Knights of the Old Republic
5: Tetris

Hmm. Only one game produced this century in there.

Looking Glass!

[auralrothko]

I can't believe no one mentioned System Shock II!

Only 1 top game - Defender

[Viol8]

Williams Defender - best adrenaline rush ever devised for a CRT screen.
Nothing since has even come close. You don't need another 4 games to add
to a best ever list , this game is enough on its own.

Short memory! the reviewers were too young!

[master_p]

The top 5 games of all times, in no particular order:

1. Ms Pac Man : the best Pac Man game and the most successful coin-op ever.

2. World Of Warcraft : best multiplayer game ever.

3. Half Life : best FPS single-player game ever.

4. Civilization : best strategy game ever.

5. Tetris : best action puzzle game ever.

Top 5 Omissions:

[kahei]

1 -- Angband, and the Roguelike genre in general
2 -- The great 8 and 16 bit console RPGS -- no Phantasy Star, no 2D Final Fantasy, no Secret of Mana?
3 -- MMORPGs. I hate them, I don't play them, but to have none at all is strange.
4 -- Alpha Centauri, greatest Civ game.
5 -- Planescape: Torment.

I'm also surprised a bit by the absence of both the X-Com and Total War series.

I can understand omitting 2 and 5 if you don't have a soul. But the others are inexplicable!

Re:Online Scrabble & Chess..

[SharpFang]

If the title meant ALL TIMES, then yes, chess or some card game would likely win. Same as Bible is the ultimate bestseller of all times.

Re:Online Scrabble & Chess & the game of s

[56ker]

What would be interesting though would be a top 5 games slashdot commenters play eg:-

1) Trolling
2) Providing a link to the ad free version of the article
3) Saying something totally obvious but because you write more than a paragraph hoping it'll get modded as insightful
4) Karma whoring
5) Karma whoring other posts (eg mod parent up please!)

Re:Online Scrabble & Chess..

[indifferent children]

If the title meant ALL TIMES

What about Duke Nuke'em Forever? The term "ALL TIMES" includes future times (and even far-distant future times).

Re:Online Scrabble & Chess..

[pookemon]

Ahh - this it the list of THEIR favourites. Not yours, or mine, but theirs... If you can convince them that they like Scrabble or Chess better than the games in the list, then maybe they'll update the list for you.

Beacuse it's 5 games for EACH of the reviewers

[spoco2]

You could at least have just clicked on the contents dropdown to see that.

Re:Beacuse it's 5 games for EACH of the reviewers

[spoco2]

I realise that it's all for the ads, but realistically, each page has a lot of content, with screenshots, detailed rundown of the game etc. It's a lot better than I've seen on other sites.

If there are 5 reviewers (I didn't count), then a game a page plus some extra fluff for intros and you have 29 pages.

Re:let the platforms wars begin

[dualmoo]

For those interested, here is the complete list:

Riyad:
- Resident Evil 4 - Nintendo GameCube
- Chaos - Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Dungeon Explorer - PC Engine
- Blade Runner - PC
- Riyad: Mario 64 - Nintendo 64

Stu:
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64
- Lords of Midnight - Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Civilization - PC
- ICO - PlayStation 2
- Half-Life - PC

Benny:
- X-Wing vs Tie Fighter - PC
- Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 - PC
- Counter-Strike - PC
- Unreal Tournament - PC
- Shenmue - Sega Dreamcast

Gordon:
- Kick Off - PC
- Sim City - PC
- Tetris - Nintendo GameBoy
- Championship Manager 2 - PC
- Formula 1 GP - PC

Spode
- Commander Keen - PC
- Lemmings - PC
- Doom - PC
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - PC
- Day of the Tentacle - PC

Re:Er, random?

[skam240]

This list looks much more like a bunch of people trying to prove their gaming 133TN355 by claiming obscure favorites. I'll site as an example Dungeon Explorer. For starters the author of the article refers to the system it came out on by its Japanese name "PC Engine" rather than what it was marketed as in the US, "TurboGrafx-16", which is what most American gamers would know it as (I myself was confused for a few minutes until I remembered this fact). Then there's the very fact that this person is naming it one of their top 5 games ever. I've played Dungeon Explorer. Allot. Me and my older brother played the hell out of it when I was younger. It was great. But to call a slightly more advanced Gauntlet one of the best games of all time is absurd.

There's plenty of other examples to go from on the list (like naming civilization instead of civ2), most of which is comprised of good games that didn't sell well, are really old, came from systems most people didn't own or some combination of the previous three. "Good games" is the key phrase here too. Most of the games on the list are in fact good games, they're just not, for the most part, top 5 list worthy.

So in summary, I felt like I was reading an article written by those kids we all knew in school who wouldn't listen to anything that sold over 10,000 albums just so they could look cool.

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[nickos]

For starters the author of the article refers to the system it came out on by its Japanese name "PC Engine" rather than what it was marketed as in the US, "TurboGrafx-16", which is what most American gamers would know it as

On the first page of the article he says he's from the UK, where neither the PC Engine or TurboGrafx was released officially. If you're going to buy a console on import, which would you rather have, a cute PC Engine with loads of Japanese games or the ugly Turbografx with the games relea

Trusted!

[beaverfever]

Yeah, but this is "Trusted Reviews" - if we can't trust them, then who can we trust?

Well, you do have to consider the audience...

[sir_montag]

Given the sparkling coversational gems I hear on the internet on a regular basis; 'lol wut' or 'OMG, LIEK, U KNOW!?', I'd say a paragraph per page is about all the average internet reader is capable of, given that they seem to find 'Dick and Jane' challenging reading material.

Well...

[sir_montag]

It tried to make the list, but it died of dysentery :(

Console games don't count

[sir_montag]

Who plays console games? I mean, seriously, do they even have a market percentage these days?

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[pthisis]

X-Com is phenomenal, great pick. As much as I enjoyed Dune II, it's almost criminal that RTSs have displaced turn-based strategy games for the most part.

Star Control II is just a relatively uninspired remake of starflight; a graphics facelift is always nice, but the inferior gameplay and lack of originality put it well of the list for me.

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[DrKyle]

It was a great game, but I think I was a bit too young to do very well at it. I usually got about as far as the 3rd or 4th level, vulcan ring, then would get my ass beat by some knight. Nothing like hunt & peck typing a l
a l
a l
a l
a l
a l
and then realizing you somehow had made a mistake and were typing l a
l a
l a
l a
Or hearing that whiff whiff whiff of all the attacks you typed in after you defeated a blob. So how did the game even end? I'd really like to know.

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[drsquare]

Popular != good. Otherwise you're going to have to include the Sims in this list.

Let's see if world of warcraft is remembered in fifteen years, or if it's on the scrapheap with Everquest and Diablo.

And isn't it funny how the quoted number of subscribers on world of warcraft goes up by about a million every day?