ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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― difficult listening hour, lundi 26 janvier 2015 21:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Re: lumping series, I'm happy to go with whatever seems liek the popular option. Personally I'd say case-by-case and determined during the nominations.

Honestly don't see how lumping ~5-10 completely discrete games released over 30 years makes as much sense to you as ~20 games released annually with incremental changes, but if you wanna vote-split CM97 vs CM03 vs FM08 vs etc etc etc into oblivion I guess it's yr life.

Like, a non-franchise poll would be cool. Nothing that has more than maybe one sequel or spin-off.

I mean, we all know that everybody likes Mario and stealing cars in various cities.

I think by decade would be better.

Also, I'd love to see a mobile games poll. Thinking just iOS/Android/etc.

I'd be willing to drive this one i think

maybe put it on ILE for maximum exposure

i think this thread is on ile, and yeah i def agree -- the more the merrier with the big ones!

Decades is a pretty interesting idea. Wonder if making several separate ballots would intimidate some people out of playing along, or alternately encourage participation in certain decades by people who otherwise wouldn't bother.

Decades seems like a weird way to split it, at least to me. I kinda prefer generations? (I did a PS2 poll some time ago, I should've included Xbox...)

generations is ideal for console games i think

(but)

This was a really bizarre list. No fighting games either, which is kind of understandable because they usually tend to blur into series rather than stand on their own.

Everyone thought someone else was going to burn their one '90s pick on Street Fighter II, but it turned out there were a lot of good games made in the 1990s.

Symphony of the Night for one.

somebody start a nomination thread for video games of the 80's plz

I still like generations -- question is, would we start at 1? 2? (3 is where everyone's a renaissance person i think, probably a lot more response on best NES vs best Atari 2600)

(and all 80s = good luck atari 2600)

How do arcade and personal computer games fit in though?

i reckon i might well be the biggest Football Manager saddo left on this board and no fucken way am i distinguishing one year from another, bundle or die imo

also if we do this again maybe my ballot won't get disappeared

is ILX still british enough for lords of midnight to place

important questions 2015

The handhelds hold roughly similar generations as well (DS vs PSP, 3DS vs Vita). The problem of course is that the PC doesn't really care - so where does a game released before the last PS3 title but after the first PS4 count? And that's not counting staggered console release dates.

Hmm maybe decades is just the best way to do it then. Until '89, 90-99, 00-09?

or make best-computer-games its own category? 1/2gen, 3,gen, 4gen, ... & computer games

I like mixing everything together but I'll go with whatever

I understand that this would probably be a totally separate thing, but it'd also be cool to see a poll by genre.

I really see no reason to segregate computer games off in their own space, just reduces turnout in every poll as people may not feel they have enough of a stake to throw in on any given individual poll. Plus, a lot of work for the poll-runner etc.

If they need to be broken down, decades makes more sense - you'll catch people who were gaming a lot at a certain moment in time, regardless of how they split their time between arcade/console/computers. Plus, then the results feel more like a comparison among peers, which could be more interesting - - - ranking Zelda vs. Mario 3 is meaningful in a way that ranking Asteroids vs. Half-Life 2 might not be.

however we do it can we have a lot of votes on our ballots? esp for games i'm gonna be bummed if i only get like 25 spots.

just throw everything together, if the kids can't deal with the fact that games were better back in my day then fuck em

This was a really bizarre list. No fighting games either, which is kind of understandable because they usually tend to blur into series rather than stand on their own.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, January 26, 2015 7:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Everyone thought someone else was going to burn their one '90s pick on Street Fighter II, but it turned out there were a lot of good games made in the 1990s.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, January 26, 2015 7:50 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unforgivable!

No offense to Rygar, but there is no way it would have made it on my ballot had Street Fighter 2, any Sim City, DOOM, or Ms. Pac-Man been available.

for kicks heres another thing we did

ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (116 - 86)
ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (85-51)
ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (48-21)
ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (20-1)

I love that it went :

100-7. other games
6. Team Ico game
5. Katamari game
4. GTA game
3. GTA game
2. Katamari game
1. Team Ico game

And their combined scores wouldve been
3. GTA games, 280 (incl. gta3)
2. Katamari games, 294
1. Team Ico games, 303

yr hivemind @ work

old hivemind though tbh, i dunno if overwhelming lasting love for GTA, Katamari or Team Ico still exists universally on this board

hmm maybe, in the context of ps2 i can't imagine they'd move far from the top...

dang it yall, i am seriously considering running an X360+PS3+Wii "seventh generation" ILX poll just so i can think more and talk more about mgs4. i'm reviving this thread because the conversation kinda died, but i like games and rankings and shit.

i'm also into running previous gens polls too...
6: ps2/xbox/dreamcast/gamecube, even though we did ps2 already it'd be worth a redo including the xbox and gc and especially the DC
5: ps1/n64/saturn/jaguar?/3do?
4: snes/genesis/neo geo/tg16 (this one would be v popular... did we ever do this?)
3: nes/master system/7800?

the original issue with the generation method is that it became murky when to include PC games. easy fix: no pc games. we could do a separate thing for pc games at some point.

an october rollout for one of these would be pretty fun, what is up ILX can we do it?!

Sure thing, tho some of it will be odd voting patterns: Had a PS2, never touched an XBOX, so my voting will be heavily skewed. Less of a problem with later generations of course.

I would be down, for sure. I only opted in to the 7th gen when I bought a PS3 early last year and I've been binging ever since.

i'm game for this shit even tho i've only had a PS3 for a couple of months, i feel the need to get aggro about under-rated Wii games i have loved

It might get me all nostalgic about playing videogames, which is a thing I don't do anymore, but I'm in. 7th gen probably the peak of my gaming career, which tempts me towards the indefensible thesis that it was the ne plus ultra of videogaming, period.

yes

to the poll. real games don't come in "gens" obv

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anyway this will rule i will post about bully and sm64

i can take on the pc thing later actually if no one else wants! eventually, whenever.

i know sm64 is not seventh gen but i will probably talk about it anyway.

there are literally no good games after the ps2

to the poll. real games don't come in "gens" obv

Real music doesn't come on decades, but, y'know, it's a handy device.

this will rule

I think I might start w/ third generation, because A) moving fwd chronologically, B) hitting those nostalgia spots early, C) by the time I get to seventh generation it's more fully "complete" (i mean there are still games coming out for these consoles rn, they're just usually inferior ports of 8g games).

cool?