ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

as it should be

Thought that'd be higher.

It took a hit because only the first game of the series was nominated, which isn't the best. The huge, freeform maps didn't appear until Sonic CD and Sonic 2.

Can we wrap up this thread so I can get on with the rest of my life, plz? I've got papers to write.

Sonic's a decent game, but if I were heading off to a desert island there'd be at least 100 others I'd pick first.

xpost Super Mario World hasn't come up yet.

up down left right A B C start

wow, so sonic's ahead of all the mario games?

Surely an effect of vote-splitting - there was only one Sonic game nommed versus half a dozen Marios. Given the restrictions on nominations, that spread probably gives a clearer indicator of ILX's collective preference on this battle.

But Sonic is still fucking great.

oh yeah, that's true (xp mario world)

did sega do a lot better in the uk? i knew some kids who had them, but everyone had an nes and snes

Yes.

For some foolish reason I begged for the Genesis over the SNES and got it. I think at that particular moment the Genesis was cheaper, and with Sonic in the deck the two systems were fairly comparable. Unfortunately, it turned out that the last 2-3 years of the SNES produced an absolute slew of stone-cold classic games, whereas the Genesis kind of just puttered on, getting somehow more grainy-looking with each game.

Not just the UK, Europe and South America as well were areas with much bigger Sega penetration than Nintendo.

xp

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/pics3/segaviz2.jpg

Bloody hell. Is that real?

#8: Lemmings (1991)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Lemmings-BoxScan.jpg
http://dailyscreenshots.de/screenshot/lemmings/amiga-1331451
Developer:DMA Design
Publisher:Psygnosis
Original format:Commodore Amiga
Highest position:emil.y, #4

still amazed that these people are the same guys that have just put out GTA IV

what the fuck

lemmings was cute for like two days

It's only as I contemplate what puzzle games I like better than Lemmings that I notice the conspicuous absence of Dr. Mario.

Lemmings is possibly the perfect mobile phone game.

Brilliant game but there's never been a perfect version of it. Eventually too much of the challenge comes from hitting the right lemming at the exact right time.

NES version was fucked so you could get in an infinite loop that stopped you finishing a level. Coz of that--fuck it.

I voted high for nostalgia, didn't expect it to zoom so far up. It's one of the few games I played LOADS, though.

xxxxxxpost sega ads

I like Lemmings 2: Tribes a lot as well. More jobs, less fiddly staircase shit.

#7: Super Mario Kart (1992)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Supermariokart_box.JPG
http://www.fabricoffolly.co.uk/images/games/supermariokart.gif
Developer:Nintendo EAD
Publisher:Nintendo
Original format:SNES
Highest position:#1, Alex In Baltimore

Never liked this at all - but the N64 version was a big hit.

so many teenage punch-ups over this game

Battle Zone 4 FTW

lol the karts are small as fuck compared to now.

battlezone?

The only game all my girlfriends have liked as well.

Not Battlezone.

I am ok with mario world being number one. the visual / audio melee of crossing a goal post riding yoshi with bullet bills a flying and chucks a charging and the spotlight zooming in is soooo satisfying

Battle Course 4, sorry

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/985/supermariokartmapbattleph4.png

I wish mario kart had a "red shell proximity warning" light in at least the battle mode

Mario Kart 64 had better tracks - and four player was a big plus - but the AI cheating was turned up even more than before (and it's still way up). It's just retarded when you hit Princess with two shells near the end of a race, only to have her boost past you for the win seconds later, for no reason.

I wish mario kart had a "red shell proximity warning" light in at least the battle mode

Just look at the other half of the screen.

I would veer off so they couldn't see this.

ZS - I mainly played it in multiplayer with minimum of two other people, so the computer AI wasn't really an issue for me. But I can believe that would be obnoxious!

Gonna post the next two together, for obvious reasons...

#6: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Vice-city-cover.jpg
http://www.counterfrag.com/screenshots/grand%20theft%20auto%20vice%20city/3.jpg
Developer:Rockstar North
Publisher:Rockstar Games
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#3, stet

#5: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/GTASABOX.jpg
http://talk.xboxsolution.com/gallery/data/720/GTA_XBOX_SCREEN_3.jpg
Developer:Rockstar North
Publisher:Rockstar Games
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#1, antexit

ugh so so so so wrong.

PAGING DR CASINO

Most overrated game of the 90s? That screenshot says it all - four hideous deformed freaks in a completely undifferentiated space. My friend Matt and I played this a couple years ago, and every deathmatch ended with us running out of time before we even found each other to try and shoot it out. Like, "OK, I'm gonna stand still in this room. You come here and shoot me." "Fuck, how do I get over there?" This game sucks.

Goldeneye is one of the best FPSs ever in single or multiplayer. You know it's the best selling N64 game ever? The weapon selection, the mission design, the level design - "completely undiffferentiated space" wtf? the levels were copied straight from the Goldeneye sets which means, as the game producer Martin Hollis puts it, "many of the levels in the game have a realistic and non-linear feel. There are rooms with no direct relevance to the level. There are multiple routes across the level ... it contributes to a greater sense of freedom, and also realism".

More from Martin Hollis on why it ruled in this great "making of" article:
http://www.zoonami.com/briefing/2004-09-02.php

GTAs should have really fallen under the "sports game series" clause.

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/pics3/segaviz4.jpg

best selling N64 game ever in the US, xp to self

Fuck it, if Rise of the Robots had the GTA:SA soundtrack I would have voted for it.

Dude, even if the levels had been copied from the house I grew up in, I would have been lost because everything would have looked the same. Can you even jump in this POS?

"There are rooms with no direct relevance to the level" === "there's random shit that wastes your time and they didn't get around to filling it up with enemies, items, or details to distinguish it from every other environment in the game."

I didn't vote in this. CT would've been my #1.

I hope Earthbound is on the list, but I kinda doubt it

We're really running out of time for ULTIMA 7 to make its JUSTIFIED AND TRIUMPHANT entrance...