Following the method of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films Of All Time poll let’s post our individual 10 “greatest” video games. Will then collect and rank the results. Interested to see the diversity of opinion here. Maybe we will discover, together, at last, what the true “insert credit” games really are….
*2 Rules:
Don’t rank your choices, just list 10 games
Lists will be considered final as of 12:01 AM Central on August 1st, 2021.. I’ll bump the thread periodically until then in the event that it slows down. The more lists we have the more nuanced and detailed the results will be so lurkers and new users please post!
**words of advice: you will see other lists posted here. Other forum users will state opinions about them. Don’t listen only your opinion matters in this thread. You’re right and they’re wrong (for the purposes of this thread)
**A note on “Greatestness” - your choices don’t have to by guided by an attempt at objectivity or historical importance (unless you want them to). Read through some of the contributors’ rationales at the link above for some ideas of how to approach your list
*Note re duplicate titles, HD editions, etc - Please specify among versions or identically titled games where appropriate (1993 Doom vs 2017 Doom for example.) For HD editions, updates, re-releases etc I’ll assume you’re choosing the original release unless otherwise specified (Dark Souls II vs Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin eg)
Will update the OP if/when we get the data, thanks for your consideration
Sonic CD
Dark Souls
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Metal Slug 3
Outrun
Super Metroid
Nights Into Dreams
Red Dead Redemption 2
Phantasy Star Online (I had originally put the first one, but if we're allowing edits I realized that this one has a bigger place in my heart)
Breath of the Wild
1 - Its entry into one of the greatest games of all time is pending the dev's capability of washing away the alt right stink from last weekend over the lead dev being a big edgy loser
2 - Edited to remove _Monster Hunter 4U_ and include _Kirby Super Star_
I am going to disagree with this almost immediately, but
**Yakuza 0
Sonic 3
Metal Gear Solid 3
Ridge Racer Type 4
Super Mario Odyssey
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Ape Escape 3
Symphony of the Night
Resident Evil 4
Yoshi's Island**
My list of “greatest” and “favourites” would be rather different, as I will readily admit that some of my all-time favourite games are highly flawed and messy. I love them anyway.
..but this topic calls for greatest. I don't even _like_ some of these games:
Doom
Counter-Strike
Tetris
Pac-Man
Super Mario Bros.
Starcraft
SimCity
Fortnite
Sid Meier's Civilization
Street Fighter II
I was 11 years old when I first played minecraft so it's got to be on the list:
Celeste
Out Run
Thunder Force IV
Twinkle Star Sprites
Downwell
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Minecraft
Super Monkey Ball
Sakura Taisen (1996)
Alien Soldier
@“Gaagaagiins”#p35460 pending the dev’s capability of washing away the alt right stink
"pending" is not possible itt. Your selection is written in stone until a future poll. I notice you also have dragon quest III on your list, so will note your lockstep ideological agreement with both the factorio guy and sugiyama
@“rejj”#p35474 My list of “greatest” and “favourites” would be rather different
@"tomjonjon"#140
take a look some of the individual lists on the Sight and Sound poll, and you'll see a variety of rationales among the contributors, with many choosing what their personal "greatest" are
My fault for implying a more rigid criteria, so if you excluded games because of this please do a re-do if you'd like
If this is just a list of our favorites with no need for “objectivity”…
Mother 3
Chrono Trigger
NieR: Automata
Super Monkey Ball
Katamari Damacy
Pocky & Rocky
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Hollow Knight
Final Fantasy IX
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
i feel like this list is kind of terrible, but here it is:
**Bangai-O Spirits** **Super Mario Bros.** (the original, which I think I’ve finally concluded I like more than all the sequels) **Dragon Quest Monsters** **80 Days** **Maplestory** **Civilization** (not sure which one. i’ve played each one since 3, and to me they’re just new editions/evolutions of the same game.) Edit: since @"yeso"#385 is making me pick I guess I’ll just go with VI since it’s the most recent and I don’t really object to any of its changes/additions. **.Hack** (original series (which all might as well be one game). i haven’t played G.U.) **Wattam** **Spore** **Kero Blaster**