ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

never did play this....is it good? Are PSX copies available cheap?
It was a greatest hit for PSX so there should be some cheap used copies available. XG had one of Square's best battle systems ever and an amazing story. I'm still kind of surprised to see it ranked over DQ8 though, which is bar none the best straight RPG they ever released.

Don't think I voted for any of the others I've missed. Not including any of the Black Isle RPGs was a really perverse decision on my part, must've not been feeling the on railsness of them the day I voted. Haven't played BG2 that much tho. Thought Spy Hunter was dope as a kid, but there's not a lot to it really. It's fun for a quick blast I guess. Ico is...alright, but I feel like it's a game that people who don't LOVE games go on about. Being way po-faced don't make it Great Art.

I'm really pleased AMFV did so well. I thought it wouldn't place at all. (And I think that if more people got the chance to play it - it would've potentially gotten more votes.) In case people didn't get it before, here's a link where you can download it.

#71: Metroid (1986)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Metroid_boxart.jpg
http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Metroid_NES_ScreenShot4.jpg
Developer:Nintendo R&D1
Publisher:Nintendo
Original format:Famicom Disk System
Highest position:#3, TOMBOT

I know this is a big unnecessary Challops Bomb but I've never got what people see in the Metroid games. Admittedly I've only played Super Metroid, as far as I remember, but it just seems like a dull version of a budget Spectrum game, meandering round a boring maze collecting the occasional boring power-up. Big whoop.

i didn't vote in this, but metroid should have been at least top 50. xp

orig metroid is addictive as shit.

you supposed to vote in these things to complain, MORBIUS.

also having two versions of it obv split the vote. but that's because people sucked at nominating and also dom didn't bother with sorting it out when making the ballot

but I'm not complaining, everything in the top 100 is a winner!

I'm predicting GTA IV as the surprise #1. Even though it came out after nominations ended.

Quiten down NES boy. xpost

#70: Deus Ex (2000)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Dxcover.jpg
http://www.tech2.com/media/images/img_4966_deus_ex_001_450x360.jpg
Developer:Ion Storm Inc.
Publisher:Eidos
Original format:PC Windows
Highest position:#2, Mordechai Shinefield

Oh snap!

what is challops??

wtf when was voting held

i strenuously object to, like, everything ever

xenogears? EAT SHIT

i <3 scorched earth.

ps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0N1CkVshOc

Metroid that low is such an embarrassment.

m shocked that you never played it, curtis! this game was huge for me when it came out, though obviously if you showed it to me now I would probably vomit on you and maybe attempt to chew off your orbital bones.

-- IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Monday, December 5, 2005 5:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Think I voted for Deus Ex. Love the fluid storytelling, great plot, a lot of fun gadgets. Nowadays I'm not so sure that stealth in games is a good thing tho. I've spent too much gaming time staring into the screen waiting for some grunt in a balaclava to turn his back on me, only to get alarms going off as soon as I move and end up mowing down everything in the room.

El Gershboto xp

yeah exactly dude!

re: chewin off ur bonez

i played deus ex earlier this year. it was really good! it still holds up imo.

#69: Tomb Raider
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Tomb_Raider_1_Box.jpg
http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/6108-TombRaider2.jpg
Developer:Core Design,
Publisher:Eidos
Original format:Sega Saturn
Highest position:#8, Louis Jagger

I'm not saying shit.

lol.

Dom I placed Tomb Raider higher than that.

I knew it wouldn't do as well as it ought to tho. For me it's perfect, the combo of music and level design create this absolute sense of inhabiting a space, I feel like I could walk some of those levels blindfold now. And some of the shocks: like the first time you hear that T Rex lumbering towards you before you see it, are cinematic as hell. Of course the story is ripped off a bunch of movies, that's why it works.

I'm going back and fixing all my errors at the end, I'm in the zone right now.

Tomb Raider: One of the worst ever well-known franchises?

The first 3 Tomb Raiders are all perfect, I don't really get why they wind people up so much?

#68: Bioshock (2007)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Bioshockcoverfinalcropped.jpg
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1663/bioshock200708261254317yr0.jpg
Developer:2K Boston
Publisher:2K Games
Original format:Xbox 360
Highest position:#1, bnw

So far 5 of my picks have made it. Got a feeling I might lose a few.

The first 3 Tomb Raiders are all perfect, I don't really get why they wind people up so much?

-- Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 21:35 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Residual loathing of Eidos.

RE: Tomb Raider

The controls, for one thing! Controlling Lara Croft didn't resemble normal human movement so much as maneuvering an oblong shaped piece of wood around with only one chopstick.

What were you playing it on??

The response to the controls, too. Tomb Raider epitomizes the control style where if you have to jump over a large gap, you have to hit the jump button around 1 1/2 steps before you actually want to leap. Eventually you get used to it, sure, but shit, I'll take Mario Bros. mechanics anyday over that.

PSX

I just never found that an issue on the PS. I suppose counting the jumps was a little mechanical but I picked it up really quick.

#67: Contra (1987)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Contra_flyer.jpg
http://dailyscreenshots.de/screenshot/contra/nes-1867381
Developer:Konami
Publisher:Konami
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#5, Euler

I think this took a fair bit of my arcade coin too but I barely remember playing it.

Contra had some great C64 clones, Midnight Resistance and shit like that.

I played Tomb Raider on the PC and it was one of the most fluid, seamlessly-controlling games I'd played, up to that point anyway! This is another game that was just a revelation the first time you loaded it up, stepping out into these huge cavernous environments - it was really breathtaking. Big nays for provoking the "crate-pusher" school of gameplay, but there were a few great puzzles, and yeah, the T-Rex was great.

I'm not sure why I placed it at #18 though! My ballot in general looks kind of strange to me now...the aggregation of many small, independently logical decisions.

Scorched Earth might not have been "THE MOTHER OF ALL GAMES" as billed but it was so cool! Loved loved loved all the stupid high-concept weapons you could get, the earth-eroding things, the insane one from that T-shirt (Fanta Bomb?)...etc.

#66: The Sims (2000)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/The_Sims_Coverart.png
http://www.thesims.eagames.nl/images/pages/screenshots/566-The%20Sims1.jpg
Developer:Maxis
Publisher:Electronic Arts
Original format:PC
Highest position:#10, Mordechai Shinefield

I got enough problems holding down a real job and keeping a real house tidy thanx guyz.

I know SO many non-gamers who love this thing. All of them say that it's only fun if you use the infinite-money cheat code. I played it obsessively for a few days and then somehow lost the CD and forgot about it completely.

Isn't it like one of the best-selling PC games of all time?

Feel free to link to your favourite Youtube videos featuring clips from The Sims set to contemporary pop songs.

bioshock is massively massively overrated

the sims is for morons

In 2002, The Sims became the top-selling PC game in history, displacing the game Myst.

xxp