ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

most retarded kotaku post ever: http://kotaku.com/gaming/ocarina/ocarinas-not-just-for-link-any-more-256174.php

#32: Madden NFL series (1988-)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/John_madden_football.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Madden06Screen.jpg
Developer:Electronic Arts Tiburon
Publisher:EA Sports
Original format:Commodore 64
Highest position:#4, Euler

abanana, it is even more retarded because I'm fairly sure that shape isn't the most common shape of ocarina at all.

The cover of John Madden Football looks like a Rodney Dangerfield movie.

Can anyone tell that I'm procrastinating furiously?

Oh god, kill me now.

american football is the crappest sport ever

even worse than curling

ha u know nothing abt football or curling

emil.y stop procrastinating. 11 days left!

i know less than nothing and am quite content to keep it that way

i know nothing abt this game except that i hate it!

I'm retracting my support of returning ILX to DG.

me and my big mouth

come on britishes back me up here, am i right or am i right?

I wonder if Fallout is going to show up?

Let's speculate as to the #1:

Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Mario 3

#31: Half-Life (1998)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Half-Life_Cover_Art.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Halflife_ingame.jpg
Developer:Valve Software
Publisher:Sierra Studios
Original format:PC Windows
Highest position:#3, caek

this some weak trolling homes

This game bored me to tears.

American football is fucking great; speaking as someone too scrawny and anti-social to play it on a team at any point in my life. Soccer is a horrible communist abomination.

this some weak trolling homes

-- jhøshea, Sunday, May 4, 2008 5:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Has it been 10 years since Half Life? Daaaaaaaaamn. I remember playing Counter Strike at my first office job.

Half-Life cover character = nerdiest looking 'hero' ever?

Soccer is a horrible communist abomination.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:36 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Not getting into this argument, but American sports are based around the draft system, which seems to me to be the only currently existing example of full-scale Marxism in the Western world. Football, on the other hand, is straight-up capitalism: the team who has the richest Russian oil magnate/Italian media mogul/faceless Saudi investment group bankrolling it wins the most trophies.

I have an anthology of MEGA reviews from like 1995, this UK sega mag reviewing every genesis game, and they give madden 93 and 94 the second highest scores of *anything* (Sonic 2 is top). And the whole review they're apologizing, saying look, they don't even know the rules of the stupid sport, but this is amazing.

Also Madden 2008 on PS2 with the insane league where you fight invisible icemen and then DEVILS IN HELL = late flowering.

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Sports games that have wacky side-shit like that are the best. FIFA has never been better than when you could play IN THE 1930S, with the players all Brylcreamed up and with a sepia tiny camera shot.

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Seriously whatever you think of american football, those early-mid nineties madden games have as pixel-perfect a sense of inertia as Sensible Soccer does.

Aren't Madden games more "tactical" than "smooth" though, presumably like EA Rugby?

Half-Life cover character = nerdiest looking 'hero' ever?

Surely a huge part of its success! You play as a rogue nerd whose nerdy place of employment suddenly becomes exciting and intense and YOU SAVE THE DAY!

re: #1, I still think Tetris has a huge shot at it, with SMB3, Civ, and the usual RPG suspects also being contenders.

#1 Tetris, #2 Civ

The later ones (which I love too) are totally tactical, yeah, these interlocked series of satisfying minature puzzles? Defence is way more boring in them though, as a cost.

Yea, you're right Dom, but not at the youth/school levels.

usual RPG suspects also being contenders.

FF7 already eliminated not boding well

I have an anthology of MEGA reviews from like 1995, this UK sega mag reviewing every genesis game, and they give madden 93 and 94 the second highest scores of *anything* (Sonic 2 is top). And the whole review they're apologizing, saying look, they don't even know the rules of the stupid sport, but this is amazing.

yeah i remember a lot of this sort of thing which only added to the WTFness

Yeah, but I think FF3 and ChronoTrigger may have a broader base of support...

Question for Dom - did games tend to get on the charts through a few high-placed votes or a swell of lower rankings? Like, what was the lowest "highest position"?

Half-Life cover character = nerdiest looking 'hero' ever?

"I haven't ever played Half-Life"

xxp

Also no way GTA:SA and HL2 won't be in Top 5

#30: Resident Evil 4 (2005)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Re4boxart.jpg
http://media.gameworldnetwork.com/news_shots/201009515745f4c49c3187a.jpg
Developer:Capcom Production Studio 4
Publisher:Capcom
Original format:Nintendo GameCube
Highest position:#2 Jordan Cohen, KenC

Question for Dom - did games tend to get on the charts through a few high-placed votes or a swell of lower rankings? Like, what was the lowest "highest position"?

-- Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:50 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I'll check this at a later point, but in general old school arcade games got a wide spread of low votes, but sports games got a few high placed ones. In general.

Half-Life cover character = nerdiest looking 'hero' ever?

"I haven't ever played Half-Life"

xxp

i did play it but only network multi-player

Ok, I'm going to complain about the rank of the original Legend of Zelda. Fuck this. This game is still fun. I played through it in 2006 when my girlfriend was at work and I wasn't feeling good in Boston.

If Emlyn Hughes International Soccer and/or Microsoccer don't feature I'll seethe. And no Ultimate PTG yet...guys?

#29: We ♥ Katamari (2005)
http://www.joystiq.com/media/2007/06/welovekatamari_realbox.jpg
http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/games/uploaded_images/we-love-katamari-4-784168.jpg
Developer:Namco
Publisher:Namco
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#3, emil.y

Oh come on now, are those two games so different as to have required separate noms/votes?

I wish KD and We <3 Katamari had been reduced to a single nom. Should be way higher than this.

Not getting into this argument, but American sports are based around the draft system, which seems to me to be the only currently existing example of full-scale Marxism in the Western world. Football, on the other hand, is straight-up capitalism: the team who has the richest Russian oil magnate/Italian media mogul/faceless Saudi investment group bankrolling it wins the most trophies.

-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, May 4, 2008 1:37 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha i like this! someone write a paper stat. btw you left out salary caps and revenue sharing which make american sports even more communistic. (tho baseball doesnt have a salary cap)

I was going to say the same thing as Dom about UK football - particularly the 'false consciousness' that there is some meritocratic system in it. I don't know shit about that foreign football.

#28: Worms (1995)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Worms-win-cover.jpg
http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/W/worms_4.png
Developer:Team17
Publisher:Ocean Software
Original format:Commodore Amiga
Highest position:#5, robertwolf8080

why are sensible soccer etc condensed into one nom and these others split up?