ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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

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

This is my mantra.

Kingfish I think the list gains some interesting perspectives from being on ILE. I'm gonna end up disagreeing with three quarters of it, but that's the point of polls really. I'm confident some of today's placing are gonna be COMPLETELY EFFING NUTS.

Third point, Britishes: the NES never really did any serious business over here, did it?

Kingfish I think the list gains some interesting perspectives from being on ILE.

I agree. I just wish we could go back to having bookmarked boards as I personally found that that feature far better facilitated board-surfing than the current set-up.

I just use site new answers 99 percent of the time now, but it does affect how you use ILX.

why is there a cassette tape with this game

-- cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:38 (8 hours ago) Link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Commodore-Datassette.jpg

people calling each other out for being bigger nerds on the

oh fuck it I'll have more fun with the end of that sentence tomorrow

http://retrograde.trustno1.org/pics/WIZ1_1.GIF
http://retrograde.trustno1.org/pics/WIZ1_2.GIF

This was the first home game to really suck me in deeply. Wizardry also was the first fantasy RPG computer game to use mock 3d graphics.

It's still fun too.

If Trayce forgot to vote, were there any other girls aside from me who voted? Not saying that it'd have any impact on the results (I highly doubt that it would, tbh), just interested as the thread is entirely male.

I'm just as god made me, ma'am.

#51: Gran Turismo series (1997-)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Gran_Turismo_4.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/ps2/granturismo3/gt3_0322_screen001.jpg
Developer:Polyphony Digital
Publisher:Sony Computer Entertainment
Original format:PlayStation
Highest position:#5, Upt0eleven

*#50, not #51

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'

Hell yeah. I remember what a dissappointment this was after weeks, if not months, of playing this game with my friends, and when we finally, finally make it through the last level, then we get this message?! Did anyone actually complete the game properly?

Still, alongside Mario 3 it's one of the greatest platform games ever.

#49: Chuckie Egg (1983)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Electron_Chuckie_Egg_inlay.jpg
http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/screenshots/chuckie-egg1.gif
Developer:A&F Software
Publisher:A&F Software
Original format:ZX Spectrum
Highest position:#2, Thomas, Raw Patrick

now there's one of the greatest platformers ever

I thought pretty hard about voting for Jet Set Radio #1, actually - in the I put it behind four games that I enjoyed less, loved less, but thought were 'better' in some way.

Things I love about it: it hits this amazing blend between allowing mad improvisation and being really really hard, loads of learning-by-dying that gets you free to make it up and feel so fly? The soundtrack! From the radio station to the voice that says "Mmmmembers of the golden rhino" on the last level & is the best sound in videogames. The stages on the American version, with cube and combo and that grind square level and the park where you could do that insane 200-plus combo across the whole zone. The way, like GTA, it changes the whole way you look at a city when you blink into daylight.

It's the best and last and most Sega game ever.