ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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)
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http://www.gamethink.net/IMG/jpg/playstation_Final_Fantasy_VII-Combat.jpg
Developer:Square
Publisher:Square
Original format:PlayStation
Highest position:#5, Mordechai Shinefield

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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

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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.

"Oh good, it's some more Ninja Acid Blobs and a Big Fucking Frog".

Fuck a random battle, f'real.

I don't care how big your sword is you aren't seriously gonna take down some dude with a nuclear laser cannon.

I made an honest stab at playing through that one but I just couldn't fall in love with it... where is influential voter Mordechai Shinefield in this discussion anyhow? I'm curious what would make someone so adore this game that it makes top five!

#60: Prince of Persia (1989)
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http://vogons.zetafleet.com/files/prince_of_persia.gif
Developer:Brøderbund
Publisher:Brøderbund
Original format:Apple II
Highest position:#10, KenC

had that exact version

it was no flashback though

This was fun too for a bit but feels like another game you'd vote for cos of its historical importance, and I ruled that out as a voting criterion. Yeah Flashback was better.

This was fun but got old once you'd done it, which didn't take long.

nice turbans though

Best ever video game turban?

Yeah, I didn't vote for it for precisely these reasons, although I was happy to give historical votes to a lot of these, I guess cause they were historical AND I played the shit out of them, whereas Prince I would load up every so often, be unable to beat it, and then give up. Boy was the animation cool though!

penalty shootout w/aladdin xp

The Disney Aladdin game had some dece turbans I seem to remember.

lol snap

Dhalsim wears a turban in SF2:Alpha

Was gonna ask if Monty was in the latest versh of EA Cricket but he don't wear the full turban on the pitch.

#59: Sega NHL series (1991-2007)
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/NHL_Hockey_screenshot.png
Developer:EA Canada
Publisher:EA Sports
Original format:Sega Mega Drive
Highest position:#6, Euler, bnw

If most Sikh cricketers find the turban impractical for playing, I'm pretty sure Dhalsim shouldn't wear one for street fighting.

shit, the Sega NHL games man.

Question: why did I love the Madden games but I've never given a shit about playing an Ice Hockey game?

Dhalsim wears a turban in SF2:Alpha

No doubt in honor of his ancestor, Great Tiger from Punch-Out!. As well, any game with a desert board probably has at least one turban to speak of, eg Super Mario 3 (the king of that world). Quest For Glory 2 is absolutely rife with turbans.

Also do you think EA Rugby League sells any copies at all in the US?

i'm sure it's trounced by EA cricket

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#58: R-Type (1987)
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http://www.theaveragegamer.com/wp-content/Screenshots/Rtype/rtype_3.png
Developer:Irem
Publisher:Irem
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#10, blueski

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I love side-scrolling shooters in theory (like, within issues of Nintendo Power) but have never gotten past level 2 on a single one.

the spectrum version was pretty brutal IIRC

I like Sexy Parodius.

They're ALL brutal.

that's comforting

whoa this thread

I gave A Mind Forever Voyaging a pity vote.

Why 'pity vote'? plz to explains.

#57: Grim Fandango (1998)
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http://archived.ryanjohnwilliams.com/files.ryansgoblog.com/small/grimaanone.jpg
Developer:LucasArts
Publisher:LucasArts
Original format:PC Windows
Highest position:#3, Mordechai Shinefield, Louis Jagger

Yeah, I voted for A Mind Forever Voyaging (17, I think). I also gave Nethack my no 1 vote, mostly because i still play it.