Menegrothx wrote:It's more important to include the most influental games of all times than just the "best games of all time" since it's so hard to decide the latter. That list for example had Mega Man instead of Mega Man 2 or 7 and Thief the Dark Project rather than Thief II: The Metal Age, even though pretty much every one agrees that Mega Man 2>Mega Man and Thief 2>Thief. I think majority of people would rather play Monkey Island 3 (even 1 or 2 for that matter) than Leisuire Suit Larry 1 because as a newer game it's so much more polished. It's always the first game in the genre that matters the most, even if later on many games improve the concept in different ways (like how MM2 and MM3 improved the Mega Man concept and Thief 2&3 improved the Thief concept)
There are plenty of awesome games that simply didn't do anything new or innovative.
Actually, I think it is a lot harder to decide what game is more influential rather than what game you think is better (better as in more fun).
General_Norris wrote:Given that Time magazine isn't exactly well versed, what do you consider the best of the best, those games that are beyond amazing and which crush even the most tense titles you can think of under their boot?
I've been thinking of making a list for the blog and covering them with great detail, but I don't have the time for it right now, so why not share our lists here? For a game to qualify it must be significantly better than stuff like Robotron or Cosmic Encounter, which is quite a task!
Here's my list so far. It's....quite tense.
Chess (????, XV century) (Boardgame)
Quake III Arena (Graeme Devine, 1999) (PC)
Magic: The Gathering (Richard Garfield, 1993) (Boardgame)
Starcraft (Chris Metzen and James Phinney, 1998) (PC)
Tetris The Grandmaster 3: Terror Instict (?????, 2005) (Arcade)
Team Fortress 2 (John Cook and Robin Walker, 2007) (PC)
Possible additions:
Civilization V+Expansion (Sid Meier, Jon Shafer, Ed Beach and others, 2010&2012) (PC)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (Julian Gollop, 1994) (PC)
OutRun 2 SP (Yu Suzuki, 2004) (Arcade)
What games would be in yours?
Hmm..I'm a little confused with the addition of boardgames. Are you actually referring to Chess and Magic as the boardgame and card game versions exclusively, or are you talking about any digitized versions of them. If it's the former, you would have to take into account sports which is why I am asking.