ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

Which part doesn't make sense?

"my taste in video games is really limited/specific" coz it's hardly limited/specific at all! Y're normal dude.

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The first few levels really are like this, and I didn't bother with the rest.

if i had voted, my top 5 would have been

1. TETRIS ATTACK
2. STREET FIGHTER 2
3. FINAL FANTASY 3/6
4. STAR CONTROL 2
5. CIVILIZATION 2

i guess only one made the top-100..

no one has made a good defense of boob raider yet! Phil two's list is pretty dope. Civ 1 & 2 were good games.

not a complaint per se, but i'd question why some games were available to vote for as a series while other sequels were in there individually. it's a pretty interesting list regardless. yay for Monkey Island making the top ten.

Yea I would kind of say that all the GTA3 games were just "mission packs"

Dom, did you not get mine. I voted Vice City number one but didn't get credit for it ?

tomb raider was all about atmosphere for me.

the GTA games were vastly different from each other, in comparison the Gran Turismo series all looked the flippin same.

Like I said I think it's incredibly atmospheric, the music and the visuals give me a real sense of place and made me want to explore it. I like the melancholy of it and the almost loneliness of those remote tombs, and it achieves that despite shitty cut scenes and crap voice acting.

-- Noodle Vague, Monday, May 5, 2008 8:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

this pretty much sums it up!

at the time it was pretty novel. even if the formula got pretty stale with all the sequels.

+boobs

it's no where near the same calibre as seeing chun li's knickers if you knock her out in SF2, obv

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look, there were also puzzles involving levers, ok?

the best part of being able to slow down an emulator

hahaha in the first tomb raider her boobs were just pointy polygons

you don't like pointy boobs?

are you gay or something

from the greatest thread evah. to this. in 4 days.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/captain.custard/CPC%20images/Lara%20Croft%20then%20and%20now.jpg

ken's comments do not diminish this thread in the slightest. pointy boobs rool.

the GTA games were vastly different from each other, in comparison the Gran Turismo series all looked the flippin same.

but equally the championship manager games on the amiga were totally different beasts from the one Dom and Louis are OCD about today. pro evolution soccer series (this is called Winning Eleven in the US right? lol) similarly changed a lot from the original incarnations of it.

monkey island one and two otoh, as with a number of other games in that list, were very much cut from the same cloth ----> vote splitting. as a series they would have presumably cracked the top 5. Governor Elaine marley the first fictioinal character i had a crush on.

Just like to point out that last night on Football Manager 2008, I got Northampton Town promoted to the Premiership. In the 2016/2017 season. On the playoffs. After we'd been out of the play-offs all season up to the last three games. And losing the first leg 5-3 (won the second leg 2-0 and got through on penalties). And won the final 1-0 after West Brom had their catain sent off in the third minute.

Our ground capacity is 13,500. We are going to get royally SHAGGED this season.

The game I am playing right now I got Ipswich up to the Prem in 2009-2010, and I think I am going to finish in 17th place! Woooooooo! They're one of the easier Champ teams, but all champ teams are difficult in the Prem...

I haven't played WoW in a month ;_;

Ive had GTA IV for almost a week and havent even opened it :(

This thread seems to have faded away altogether too rapidly considering how much build-up and anticipation there was. presumably there's some kind of sexxy analogy that I can't be bothered to come up with but feel free to insert (lol) yr own.

I have nothing particularly worthwhile to say other than SIMCITY WTF? Which has been said many mnay times.

well my votes didn't seem to get registered so I'm in a strop about the whole thing

well make the strop PUBLIC and give it a full-blown airing in here.

Monkey Ball at 95???? CHRIST ON A BIKE

I did, and got ignored.

I guess my vote is the only reason Monkey Ball is in the top 100 at all. I love that game. The only one I've clocked on the hardest difficulty level since I was a kid.

s'okay. i can understand the attachment i was urging people to nominate the chaos engine and the attack of the mutant camels in the earlier thread. and possibly would have picked ipod poker if i'd thought of it at the time.

oh god chaos engine

i think we're due to redo this poll.
anybody wanna drive?

No way. I'll ride though.

#100: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)
#99: Kirby's Adventure (1993)
#98: Wolfenstein 3-D (1992)
#97: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (2004)
#96: Diablo II (2000)
#95: Super Monkey Ball (2001)
#94: Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
#93: Metroid: Zero Mission (2004)
#92: Maniac Mansion (1987)
#91: Rez (2001)
#90: Super Mario Bros 2 (1988)
#89: Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon (1991)
#88: Lords of Midnight (1984)
#87: Double Dragon II - The Revenge (1988)
#86: Master of Magic (1993)
#85: WipEout 2097 (1996)
#84: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
#83: A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985)
#82: Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
#81: Defender (1980)
#80: River City Ransom (1989)
#79: Ico (2001)
#78: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)
#77: Spy Hunter (1983)
#76: Xenogears (1998)
#75: Ninja Gaiden (1988)
#74: Elite (1984)
#73: Scorched Earth (1991)
#72: Castlevania (1986)
#71: Metroid (1986)
#70: Deus Ex (2000)
#69: Tomb Raider
#68: Bioshock (2007)
#67: Contra (1987)
#66: The Sims (2000)
#65: Secret of Mana (1993)
#64: Nethack (1987)
#63: Cannon Fodder (1993)
#62: Planescape: Torment (1999)
#61: Final Fantasy VII (1997)
#60: Prince of Persia (1989)
#59: Sega NHL series (1991-2007)
#58: R-Type (1987)
#57: Grim Fandango (1998)
#56: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991)
#55: Galaga (1981)
#54: Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)
#53: Guitar Hero (2005)
#52: Worms Armageddon (1999)
#51: Jet Set Radio (2000)
#50: Gran Turismo series (1997-)
#49: Chuckie Egg (1983)
#48: Marble Madness (1984)
#47: Pac-Man (1980)
#46: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
#45: Dance Dance Revolution series (1998-)
#44: Wii Sports (2006)
#43: Micro Machines (1991)
#42: Portal (2007)
#41: Singstar series (2004-)
#40: Arkanoid (1986)
#39: The Legend of Zelda (1986)
#38: Another World (1991)
#37: Final Fantasy Tactics (1997)
#36: Katamari Damacy (2004)
#35: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991)
#34: Sensible Soccer series (1992-1998)
#33: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
#32: Madden NFL series (1988-)
#31: Half-Life (1998)
#30: Resident Evil 4 (2005)
#29: We ♥ Katamari (2005)
#28: Worms (1995)
#27: Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe (1990)
#26: Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
#25: GoldenEye 007 (1997)
#24: Bomberman (1983)
#23: Fallout (1997)
#22: Bubble Bobble (1986)
#21: Mega Man 2 (1989)
#20: Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987)
#19: Super Metroid (1994)
#18: Super Mario 64 (1996)
#17: Championship Manager/Football Manager series (1992-)
#16: Metal Gear Solid (1998)
#15: Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
#14: Super Mario Bros. (1985)
#13: Half-Life 2 (2004)
#12: Pro Evolution Soccer series (2001-)
#11: Chrono Trigger (1995)
#10: The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
#9: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
#8: Lemmings (1991)
#7: Super Mario Kart (1992)
#6: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
#5: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
#4: Super Mario World (1990)
#3: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
#2: Tetris (1985)
#1: Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996)

i bet a quarter of these wouldn't make the cut today.

i mean, wii sports? singstar? defender?

all of these sorts of lists get dominated by newer games. i'd kinda rather see specific decade polls

another one, then?

#97: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (2004)

r.i.p. tombot realest bro alive

iirc dom had some contrived nominating system to ensure that the poll didnt get too clogged up w/ newer titles

i support this proposition for a decade specific poll

regarding the poll - STILLLLLLL, i'm not seeing why mario is warranted enough to gain multiple positions. the platformers were all very, very much the same game... innovative, possibly, in context of themselves but never in the wider spectrum of things. also i suspect iconoclasm for not including shadow of the colossus - as it is a really, truly great game.

we should do this cuz i'm new

i can run this next month once the semester is done

i mean, wii sports? singstar? defender?

i'm a singstar defender.

why the sudden frenzy to do-over polls? are we getting old? is there nothing new under the sun?

This is nerds vs. jocks and US vs. UK at its finest.

Tru-nerds are the ones who play RPGs, fwiw. People who like Ico and Nethack go biking and on dates from time to time

j-rpg's, definitely. but fact that skyrim has it's own pre-launch parties and has been advertised off the fucking ying yang (television ads??) makes me thing rpg's have broken into that lower tier of nerdom.

or maybe its just bethesda games. i was thinking fallout 3 as another case-study til i realized these are all games developed by the same dudes.

jonny greenwood likes ico

would say Ico was more for dweebs than nerds