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Anyone watching G4TV's top 100 greatest video games of all time countdown ?

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Howard_Casto:
Yeah it's pretty odd....

I caught the last 15 minutes (which is all you need to see anyway).  

The list wasn't entirely out of left field, but it had a lot of stuff that didn't make any sense.

Super Mario Bros. made #1, at least they got that right.  


Asteroids made it to the top 5.... it was the only classic to make it to the top 10... no pacman, no pong... but asteroids?  Mind you I'm a big fan of the game, but even I understand that it was kind of a one hit wonder... no real lasting value to "normal" players.  

There were a lot of inconsistences in their logic.  For example, Zelda LTTP made it in the top 5, while the original Zelda only made the top 10.  Their argument was that it built on the original and thus is the better version, which I can see.  On the other hand SMB 3 was only in the top 10 while the original SMB made #1... they even go so far in the reviews to say the SMB 3 is the pan-ultimate version of Mario.  So why is it ranked lower?  Well they said that SMB single handedly changed the home console industry, which again, I agree with, BUT so did the original Zelda, not LTTP.

Also BioShock was in the top 10.  Why?  I get it, the game had a good story, but it barely has any age on it and it's just another fps.  Portal on the other hand, which was groundbreaking to the genre, didn't place nearly as high afaik.  

There were a lot like that.  In typical g4 fashion, games that were released last tuesday were given as high regard as games that are 20 years old or started a multi-million dollar franchise.  I don't agree with that line of thought.  It isn't that newer games aren't as good, but rather they are newer, and thus haven't been proven to stand the test of time.  

They did a pretty good job though... stuff like Golden Eye ranked highly as did stuff like Ms. Pacman.  




krick:
Grand Theft Auto III made the list, but Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is way better.  Everything about Vice City blows away GTAIII.

I also can't believe that Twisted Metal II isn't on there, though I guess the list is kind of short.  Twisted Metal II is one of the greatest games ever released for the original Playstation.

I would put Portal in the top 10.  There is NOTHING like portal.  NOTHING.

What the hell is "Shadow of the Colossus"?  It's in the top 10 and I've never even heard of it.

TOK:
You can always tell when people in their 20's put a historical list together... You wind up with two month old crap that will be forgotten in 5 years like "Words With Friends" in the top 100, and a game like Space Invaders which basically ignited the Golden Age at number 40.

trekking95:

--- 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.

--- End quote ---
Agree!!  ;D

trekking95:
That list is not good. The #1 was right but like others here said there need to be more of the really big classic games, its just new stuff here.

At least Galaga got on the list, but you think it would have been higher up due to the popularity it got from being shown in The Avengers.  ;)

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