ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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

^^^proof

i can only assume myst will be #1 in this poll

Myst is for even bigger morons tho

Haven't played Bioshock, think I'd dig it.

Sims is just a pain, the time runs out too fast, it's like trying to juggle 15 live squid and a chainsaw. And I'd argue it ain't a game, it's a toy.

The Sims soundtracked by MIA. For all my ILM friends: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yLkErCVsQNY

bioshock was no system shock 2 :(

Myst is just an overdecorated adventure game with moderate to easy puzzles and an ending, as far as I can tell, that doesn't really tell you the game's finished.

Myst is for even bigger morons tho

No, that would be Riven. Myst was mainstream enough that you almost wanted to check it out just to see what the fuss was about. Riven was for people who somehow enjoyed Myst and were eager for more.

Playing Scorched Earth with school chums on Windows 3.1 = childhood. That and downloading the "Anarchist Cookbook" on AOL 2.0 and trying to create napalm in an empty coffee can.

#65: Secret of Mana (1993)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Secret_of_Mana_Box.jpg
http://secretofmana.planets.gamespy.com/images/secretofmanashot.gif
Developer:Square
Publisher:Square
Original format:SNES
Highest position:#1, caek

whoa '16 meg-memory'

Tombot voted for that one as well.

Bioshock was my #9 and my most recent pick on the list. That said, I'm still shocked it got a #1 from someone. It's really hard for any new game to penetrate the haze of gaming nostalgia from my youth.

Also, if The Sims highest score was a #10, but placed before a lot of #1 rated games, does that mean a lot of people liked it a little?

ha!

no way

I feel like I've played the first few hours of most of the Square rpgs and never finished any of them.

I voted for SOM out of some kind of affection for my first experience staying up till dawn playing a game (my neighbor friend had gotten it for his birthday). I played quite a bit of it later on emu - and much much more of Seiken Densetsu 3, before getting bored with all the tedious levelling-up - at this point I can't really remember what stuff was in which game (I didn't finish either one). They've got nice bright colors and the multi-player thing was cool (in principle anyway).

#64: Nethack (1987)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Nethack_releasing_a_djinni.png
Developer:The NetHack DevTeam
Publisher:Open-source
Original format:PS Dos
Highest position:#1, Catsup Dude

ZZT for number 1

I play it with a tile set cos I'm not geek enough.

I guess what impresses with Nethack is how much game is packed into so little code, and how well a bunch of ASCII characters can create a satisfying atmosphere.

#63: Cannon Fodder (1993)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Cannon_fodder_MDb.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Cannon_fodder_MD_2.png
Developer:Sensible Software
Publisher:Virgin
Original format:Commodore Amiga
Highest position:#8, blueski

^first game on the list I love unconditionally

that's more like it

^^^ TOO LOW

Cannon Fodder was so much fun, until you got to the first really hard level and gave up.

wtf? i've never even HEARD of that one.

Screenshots from the cancelled Sensible Software project, Sex'n'Drugs'n'Rock'n'Roll:

http://www.purplesensi.co.uk/snd/sshots.php

Find an abandonware copy now, you won't regret it.

xpost

wtf? i've never even HEARD of that one.

-- Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:40 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Real-time war tactics game, control a motley group of soldiers and kill opposing armies. Produced by the Godlike (for British gamers, at least) Sensible Software. Big tabloid controversy around the time the game was launched because it used the red poppy as a logo.

Abandonware copy of Cannon Fodder: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/76/Cannon+Fodder.html

#62: Planescape: Torment (1999)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Planescape-torment-box.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/nordonordo/planescape_torment01.jpg
Developer:Black Isle Studios
Publisher:Interplay
Original format:PC Windows
Highest position:#2 HI DERE, Greg Pallis

yeah i'm sure that's better than cannon fodder

It's pretty good. Different kind of thing. Not sure that the much vaunted plot is as mind-blowing as the hardcore fans think, but I've never finished it.

Cannon Fodder was so much fun, until you got to the first really hard level and gave up.

Painfully OTM. Anyone else play that Sensible Soccer crossover called Cannon Soccer? That was a perfectly measured dose of CF.

cannon fodder was wonderful.

Not sure that the much vaunted plot is as mind-blowing as the hardcore fans think, but I've never finished it.

Dude, finish it. It's fucking mental. (At least, it was in 1999.)

Also I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT ABOUT SCORCHED EARTH, WAU

There's a general "look" to these turn-of-the-millenium PC games - this, Diablo, Baldur's Gate - that is just incredibly off-putting to me. I don't know how to describe it...other examples would include Age of Empires, Ultima Online, and to a lesser extent Ultima 8 (which has plenty of other problems to worry about). It's not the ugliness of polygons (another scourge of the late 90s) but something else. Not sure why it connotes "boring, tedious game" but it does.

Thanks for the tips on Cannon Fodder - I'll check it out tonight maybe!

(the "this" above is Planescape)

big shame lucasarts etc have been the abandonware sites and pulled their games off with no sign of rereleasing them

#61: Final Fantasy VII (1997)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Ffviibox.jpg
http://www.gamethink.net/IMG/jpg/playstation_Final_Fantasy_VII-Combat.jpg
Developer:Square
Publisher:Square
Original format:PlayStation
Highest position:#5, Mordechai Shinefield

xxxpost

Mrs Vague complains about the "stupid little people that you can't see properly" aspect of those games.

DG I can hook you up with some Lucasarts adventures if you're interested.

Throw out a wishlist; I may have one or two

xxp

xp oh no i've got the adventures, it's stuff like X-Wing i'd like to play again, cheers anyway

(x-wing alliance hates vista)

FF VII is where I got off. Specifically cos my son made me read all the text out loud and I got bored stupid, but that's not really Square's fault. Pointlessly over-elaborate combat fannydangle and random fights that happen every time you cover one inch of screen OVER AND OVER AND OVER are tho.