Polygon's 500 best games of all time

368. SUPER MARIO LAND 2: SIX GOLDEN COINS

I know there are better Mario games but love this eternally as it was the only one I played as a young kid.

Missed that one. Yeah, it's all-time. I spent so much pre-adolescent time scrunched up on the couch playing that thing.

this is such a weird list

I am cracking up at "Stephen's Sausage Roll"

Polygon's list of 500 games that exist

stephen's sausage roll is a pretty damned good game. those puzzles are hard as fuck

I dunno I kinda like how random this list is. It's like a coint and plick rollout lol

#1 of all time: marvel puzzle quest

harsh but fair

Any list of 500 games from all systems released over the course of several decades is going to be a weird list.

stephen's sausage roll is a pretty damned good game. those puzzles are hard as fuck

Stephen's Sausage Roll: Hard as Fuck

it's not just weird bc it's from all systems released over the course of several decades. it's weird bc a lot of the games they chose are not what i'd think of as the top 500 games of all time? it seems v ad hoc like ppl have mentioned in this thread "here are 500 games we thought of" rather than any kind of guiding idea for what makes a game great, worthy of inclusion, etc. feel like 500 top games of all time is a cool idea but probably requires a better group to put something legitimately interesting together. also have i missed it or have there been zero infocom games? also obligatory deus ex + DOTT too low. i have no mouth is great -- kudos to them for including it def in personal my top 100.

lol djp

Understanding the criteria for scoring would have been nice. And put goddamn screen caps for each game.

IMO the inclusion of any mobile game, however popular it may be, has to have more than 'boy, did a lot of people ever play this while taking a shit' going for it.

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/11/29/16693094/polygon-500-best-games-of-all-time-300-201

Starting it off right with ... Microsoft Flight Simulator? Sheesh

Solitaire better be top 10, man, I'm telling you.

and the #1 game of all time is...

the game YOU make up inside your head

Fez at only 263?!?!?!? Okay, seriously, gtfo.

Tony Hawk Underground sucks shit wtf.

No way is that shit better than ... Snake for Nokia phones

All of these would probably be competing for my top 10:
293. PROTEUS
262. AGE OF EMPIRES 2
259. BLOODBORNE
219. DOOM (2016)

Rooting for a high Frog Fractions finish.

so like maniac mansion is not 100 slots better than DOTT. those two should be reversed.

hitchhiker's is the first infocom. a good list imo should also include

a mind forever voyaging
zork
planetfall
deadline
the lurking horror

mind forever voyaging is 221

oh didn't get down to it yet! glad to see they included it!

those games are good but are they really better than ... MINI METRO (2015, PC, others)?

did both dishonored games really need to be on this list?

no

fallout new vegas is not better than fallout 1, 2 or wasteland

stardew valley top spots below animal crossing suggests that they just listed games as they thought of them

basically every entry in mgs, mario, zelda games is gonna place huh?

how many warioware games were there??? (also two in immediate proximity)

stardew valley ten* spots

warioware: twisted and warioware inc: mega microgames! -- two of the greatest games of all time apparently

i can't remember which warioware game I played but it was extremely fun. great party game.

i personally would argue for bloodborne being a little higher and demon's souls being ~200 places higher, but dark souls 2 prob shouldn't be on this list at all.

warioware rules

fuckit i'mma just make my own list

I don't know how any rational person could argue that Maniac Mansion is better than DOTT if for no other reason than the fact that you can actually play Maniac Mansion in its entirety within the game world of DOTT.

This list is great so far

Seeing that they placed Star Control already I'm hoping that SC2 makes top 20 at least

As it should

The first and second WarioWare games are awesome, the first especially

Played Quake 3 the most of this batch.

oh, you're that Jeff. enjoyed sniping u

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/11/30/16717548/polygon-500-best-games-of-all-time-200-101

Frog Fractions in the hizzouse

really an accomplishment how bad this is. i applaud the deliberate and determined effort it must've taken.

lol so glad they found room for rock band AND rock band 2 (exactly 5 spots apart)

still no beatles rock band yet *crosses fingers*

And we left out sequels that we deemed too similar to the games that came before them.

i mean i dunno, can you play brass instruments on the second one?

have any guitar heroes placed???

would be pretty funny if the top 20 was all different guitar band / rock band variants

what the hell Guitar Hero Aerosmith is #1?!

maybe this list is a criticism of lists. the real list is a layer deeper

https://youtu.be/jeBKRk_gaf8?t=59s

iirc original rock band came with an acoustic guitar and upright bass

no washboard no credibility

So all three Diablo games will be in with the order 2 > 1 > 3? Seems about right

Except they forgot Star Control 2 but for some reason ranked Star Control 1

Love the rogue-likes in the top 100 (would've placed ADOM up there myself), love that their ranking of every game considers its innovation and impact at the time (ranking Zelda 1 and SMB3 highest in their respective series).

I, also, wish that it was 2002, when I was at my physical peak and a website could write whole-page essays on 500 games wtf is wrong with you.

241. Shenmue

A clone of the game Rogue, the roguelike NetHack