Game Informer's Top 200 Games of All Time

[REmaster]

Nevermind the RE games, how in the shit is MK2 number 72...Ms. Pac-man my ass lol.

[Vector]

I have to say the list is a bit wonky.
There's like some sort of mixture of "Still good", "Hype machine", "Once upon a time revolutionized" and just "Good at the time"

Yeah, pretty much. It's not as though some of those old games withstood the test of time, because most haven't, they're simply there because at the time of their release, they were either revolutionary or just really good.

[Stu]

Just had another look at it.

Super Mario World at 47? Ok then.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I must say I am pleasantly suprised that Eternal Darkness made it on there. I love that game and I think it's very underrated, I'd heard nothing of it before I picked it up second hand at a store in 2002. Nice to see it recognized for once. I agree with a lot of what's on there as well, including Resi 4.

[Vector]

No SOCOM II? That game is still, to this day, the best multiplayer shooter I've ever played.

[doomed]

48. Deus Ex (PC, 2000)

Way lower than it should be! Halo is better than Deus Ex? LOL

[Skunky]

This entire list is complete and total PIG SHIT!!!

There's so many things wrong with it, I'm not even gonna get started...

[Det. Beauregard]

Way lower than it should be! Halo is better than Deus Ex? LOL

Deus Ex should be in the top 10.

[Itashious_boy]

It should be higher, really. Some of the other choices at the top are kind of WTF, honestly.

im sure they base it on the interest at the time the games came out, not interest now, if it was now COD4 would be WAAY at the top

[Stu]

No one else is going to give this list any credit...so i will...but fair play to them for bothering going as far back as to include so many retro titles! Legend Of Zelda in number one when so many people feel it's not even the best Zelda game, let alone best EVER game?

At least they're doing something different from the usual Ocarina Of Time, Super Mario World, Metal Gear Solid, Half Life 2 and Resident Evil 4 scenarios. It's about as broad a list as you're probably likely to find right now!

im sure they base it on the interest at the time the games came out, not interest now, if it was now COD4 would be WAAY at the top

So it's Game Informers Top 200 Hyped Games Of All Time?

[Itashious_boy]

i guess XD but the legend of zelda (the original) was was of the most purchased games of all time, no game today has beaten it yet :/

(not talking in dollar amout, amount as in copies sold)

[TheSelfishGene]

lol wut?

It's not even first on the NES.

And Starcaft @ #35 is the reason that I think that this list is shit. There's a whole host of others, but that's the most jarring.

[Stu]

Legend Of Zelda is so NOT the biggest selling game of all time.

[Beanovsky Durst]

Quit the numbers and I would agree. There are some great games in that list, giving them priority is not fair, all the "greatest game ever" list is utter crap, I'd rather have a list evaluated with games according to their respective era.

There's no way I could compare TLoZ NES with MGS4 PS3. It's just wrong.

[Stu]

Yeah if these lists dropped the numbers and said these are the best games of all time, with no precedence over eachother then i'm sure people would agree a bit more than they do...it's just that people wouldn't discuss them then.