ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

two crude dudes for number 1

Just beating out Yie-Ar Kung Fu.

whoa, what is this rainbow islands game? kawaaiiiiiii!

mehlt, the whole poll/thread is about differences of opinion. It's fascinating seeing how different people approach games. But #56??????? NO WAI

I think we could safely get another good poll out of the worst/most irritating video games.

#51: Jet Set Radio (2000)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Jgrbox.jpg
http://www.ntsc-uk.com/reviews/sdc/JetSetRadio/01.jpg
Developer:Smilebit
Publisher:Sega
Original format:Dreamcast
Highest position:#5, stet, Greg Pallis

Last one of the evening. Next 50 tomorrow. SPOILER: there's a bunch of NES shit on there.

I think we could safely get another good poll out of the worst/most irritating video games.

Wonder how much crossover there'd be?

i found the level 3 vampire the hardest boss in Rainbow Islands - much tougher than any of the subsequent ones. if you didn't have triple rainbow and the red shoe you were fucked.

bullshit reward at the end tho: 'now go play it again and this time collect the jewels in the right order on every island, sucker'

lol i never even realised you had to collect the jewels in an order!

Like I said, jewels in the right order is ROCK. I find most bosses on the arcade version want at least double rainbows to beat.

I don't remember there being that much NES shit on the original list.

xposts, fair enough.

Either way, this thread + fresh start to <4 months of summer vacation without a job or anything to do. . .

http://www.retroscene.co.uk/prodimages/c64/m/rainbow-islands.jpg

why is there a cassette tape with this game

also this thread is fucken siccening 2 me

Man. I was top voter on a lot of these, huh? Tho I've probably blown my load at this point. Unless Fallout makes the list (or unless I'm the unlikely highest vote on Monkey Island).

And Casino - FFVII came out when I was 13 and was probably the first kind of massive console JRPG I played. I think I also played Fallout that year, and the two together really stand out in my mind.

Yeah FFVII is a big touchstone for gamers born between 84 and 87 or so

in my experience at least

<3 jetset radio, loved the cartoon-type 3d colouring - it's the first game I recall it in. Loved the feel of skating, the grinds and the little speed boosts you could get by bouncing/scraping off vertical surfaces. On the first level you could do an entire loop of grinds and jumps without ever touching the floor and actually skating and i used to just love going round and round and round...

Think it would almost be worth getting a dreamcast again just for that and MSR and chu-chu rocket.

Yeah, Max. That's pretty deadon IMHO.

Huh - that makes sense actually. I was born in 81 so my peak years of impressionability were just slightly earlier. Funny thing, though, with the exception of Secret of Mana, I hadn't played any of the great 16-bit RPGs by the time FF7 came out, unless you count Shining Force, which is a tactics game and also FUCKING AWESOME. But I didn't play FF7 until I had my own PSX, ie summer of 2000. By that time, I'd caught up on ChronoTrigger and FF6 and so, in a kind of delayed action, I was living out the spirit of '81.

I always loved the look of Jet Set/Grind Radio but never got the chance to play it - did it ever get ported off Dreamcast?

hahha i was singing the chu chu rocket song last night on my walk home!

But I'd like to flesh out this generational idea more - I guess it depends what really qualifies as a touchstone game. (Our various top tens, maybe?)

weirdly, i played tmnt: the arcade game (both in the arcade and on NES) to death but don't think i ever played turtles in time.

the games i remember most from my most impressionable years (i.e. middle school and first couple years of high school)--goldeneye, FFVII, and super smash bros.

and maybe mariokart 64

Mario Kart 64 has been a joy in my life at several different moments - playing it to death with my brother and sister a couple summers after it came out...then again in 03-04 with my roommates and their respective boyfriends and girlfriends. Such a blast.

The most impressionable years games for me from those years (some of which we will hopefully see later on in this poll) - Ultima 7, Ultima Underworld, Civilization, LucasArts games. Slightly later, Duke Nukem 3D... middle school and first couple years of high school are funny for me because it's a period where the NES was sort of in its death throes but except for three games for the Genesis, I didn't have a 16-bit console of my own. PC gaming I was very on top of but the technology slipped completely past me with Quake, and that was it.

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http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20061208/simcopter.jpg

http://minicastle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/star-fox-64.jpg

http://www.pelipaketti.net/kuvat/rogue_spear/rogue_spear_04.jpg

http://gen14.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/resident-evil-4-wii-edition-20070517044724284.jpg

stop that

people with worst top votes:
Mordechai Shinefield
Lois Jagger
HI DERE (tentative)

RONG.

Catsup is just jealous that Aeris never wanted to hook up with him.

uh to this: Catsup is just jealous that Aeris never wanted to hook up with him.

FFVII, at the end of the day, was a big bag of dicks.

http://ff.munkyisland.com/images/ff7/aeris_tifa_yuffie2.jpg

This kind of thing also a part of my cold distance from FF7.

in terms of aeris hooking up with Catsup, i mean.

FFVII, at the end of the day, was a big bag of dicks.

-- HI DERE, Sunday, May 4, 2008 2:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OTM. I think we have like identical tastes for games.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d70/McDagger041/SephirothAeris.jpg

I always thought it was total bullshit when people actually FOR REAL, DRAMATICALLY died in those games, given that every five minutes you bring party members back from the dead with potions they sell at the corner store!

Phoenix Downs aren't the answer to everything. :(

Shit I forgot to vote in this. Oh well.

later FF games have the among the most boring combat systems ever.

I can't believe I missed this whole thing until now. Thought it was a resurrected thread.

why is there a cassette tape with this game
So young, so young...

i really wanted to vote in this, but every time i thought about it i got really lazy.

I didn't vote in this since my board participation has been way down lately thanks to non-desk-job, and I'm the guy who started up the game subboard. More of you need to visit ILG.

Also, the fact that Grim Fandango and Planescape are so far low on the list means that it has issues.

Also, I daresay that ILG has not been as fun as it once was, with Gzeus and Darramous not around. I gave Tombot mod privs specifically to fuck with those two, and much entertainment resulted.

For what it's worth, my faves:

Ultima IV/V/VII
Grim Fandango
Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate 2
Gyruss
Legend of Zelda / Link to the Past / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Jet Grind Radio
Tie Fighter/Xwing
Bionic Commando
Rez
Psychonauts
Civ 1 / 2 / 4
NHL 94 (whatever the last year they had fighting)
Earthbound
Monkey Island 1 / 2
Fallout 1 / 2