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Anyone watching G4TV's top 100 greatest video games of all time countdown ?
Howard_Casto:
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--- Quote from: Vigo on June 18, 2012, 01:27:42 pm ---Day of the Tenticle? Cmon...Maniac Mansion was far better than it's sequel. I can name a good half dozen scumm games I liked better than DOTT.
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They did that with a lot of games.
For example the fact the Doom II of all things placed, but the original Doom didn't. Doom II is the same damn game as Doom, only it isn't as potent because it's the sequel and not the original. It would kind of be like having (Japan's) Super Mario Bros. 2 make the #1 spot and not have SMB place at all. SMB 2, just like Doom II, is essentially a level expansion pack of the original game.
DOTT ran on the same engine as MM and had a lot of the same humor, but because you had already seen it before on MM, it wasn't quite as good.
That's what I was talking about in regards to inconsistencies in the list.
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Yep, the list does have some sequel-itis goin' on. Some I agree with, Mega Man II, Civilization II. Since their are not being original game purists, I am surprised that a few originals, and not their superior sequels got on. I probably clocked less than 5 hours of Mortal Kombat after MKII came out. Same thing with Tecmo Bowl. Tecmo Super Bowl still gets played all the time by me.
I have never played BioShock. Is it's place as the 3rd best game of all time justifiable?
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Agreed.... the inclusion of MK and not MK II or UMK3 kind of left me scratching my head. I mean I'm a hardcore MK fan, but even I realize that MK1 is to MKII what SF1 was to SFII..... basically once the sequel came out the original was dead, the franchise was radically different, and the popularity exploded.
I finally broke down and played Bioshock a few years ago after ironically, X-Play kept gushing about it constantly. I've gotta say... I wasn't impressed. The atmostphere was impressive, but that's about it. And nobody plays a game just for the background art. The best way to describe it is this:
Remember when Doom 3 came out? Half of the people out there loved it because it looked so nice, but the other half hated it because the poor gameplay and design choices ruined all the fun. Imagine if they had remade Hexen instead.... now add a failed dutopian setting.... that's Bioshock.
I guess if you are into that sort of thing it's a pretty good game, but it's nowhere as original as everybody claims it is nor should it have hit the top 50, much less the top 10.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 19, 2012, 08:37:20 am ---
Super Mario Bros is a great game, but if youre counting sales for a pack in game, thats gonna skew the numbers a bit dontcha think?
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SMB was #1 due to it's impact on the game industry. It's about the only ranking on their list I agree with.
The NES saved the gaming industry and in terms of launch titles, SMB was the game to get. If you look at the NES's original 18 release titles that came out in the first year, I'll think you'll agree that it didn't get those sales numbers pushing Hogan's Alley and Donkey Kong Jr. Math. ;) You can't deny it's staying power either. The New Super Mario Series is selling like hot-cakes, and even the VC release of SMB sold millions.
SMB is literally why I got into gaming. I played vs SMB at the local Dairy Queen when I was a kid. After wasting 10 bucks in quarters in a sitting, my folks decided it might just be cheaper to get me a NES.
It wasn't necessarily a pack-in game either. It was a year or two later, but in it's original release about all you could find was the deluxe set, which came with gyromite/duckhunt. SMB actually came out a few months after the NES release.
jimfath:
--- Quote from: hypernova on June 13, 2012, 06:19:26 pm ---I'll wait for the summary. Not wasting hours of my life to watch an arbitrary list that I may not even agree with.
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I used to write for a, now defunct, online comedy type magazine called the phat phree. We loved lists. They were easy, required no skill, and got more clicks because they would ALWAYS spur debate. Lists are a lazy cure all for actually having something to produce something worthwhile. There's a reason Comso and other magazines like that are filled with lists.
It's meaningless, totally subjective, and baiting.
That being said.. Ocarina of time should have been above Link to the past. ;)
Blanka:
Geeze. All those "magazines" are the same. If you don't have Mario or Zelda tattooed on your butt, you won't be employed. 3 Zelda's in the top 10 (well 11), and 6 Nintendo games common. That shows you are a stinking Nintendo Pederast community. Even the number one is weird. Who knows Super Mario Brothers? Well most fanatics know, but walk into a average shopping mall and ask the average McDonalds burger eating guy/lady. They know Mario, but as the driver of one of the Karts, not as platform gay.
But they definitely DON'T KNOW SMB!
Top 3 should be in the Tetris, Pac-Man, Angrybirds, Wordfeud section, no matter how much we gaming fans hate this crap (OK, Pac-Man is OK for everyone, so that is no.1, period!)
And if you don't include Katamari, Monkey Island, Sim City X, Second Life and FGS PAC-MAN you miss some serious game-changers and you prove you don't know ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about Gaming History.
Totally agree with jimfath BTW. Lists are something for lady-mags.
Bootay:
Not sure I agree. I would say most people alive today know EXACTLY who Mario is. Or can at least recognize the character if shown a picture. And most people would know SMB if shown a screenshot.
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