Polygon's 500 best games of all time

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

Ahhhh Papers, Please and Device 6 placing higher than Link's Awakening? nice challops love it

Glad to see Undertale up there

Mario Kart 64 sucks and doesn't belong here

Mario Kart 64 should be way way higher

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160. CRUSADER KINGS 2

heresy

Bump. Guess no one is reading about games today.

92. ROBOTRON: 2084

okay respect where respect is due

whoa did not expect KOTOR in the 80s; I liked that game but that seems high

okay I can't argue with a good chunk of the top 100 actually and #1 feels right

Starcraft should be top 10.

66. Madden NFL 2005
65. ESPN NFL 2K5

hahaha they really did list 2 (at least - still working down the list) guitar heroes in the top 100

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/12/1/16707720/the-500-best-games-of-all-time-100-1

fkn animals can't share a gddamn link

70. FF7
69. Harvest Moon

nice, i have to admit that despite being a weirdass list with write-ups that were submitted while literally running down 3 flights of stairs and yelling into Voice Memo, this list has some good qualities

ok so did i miss it or did they really not place binding of isaac at all?

actually i apologize, i didn't need to see that at all

no balder's gate either. i'll just say again this is a v strange list.

gone home at 31 and journey at 27 are both O_o, but otherwise it's kind of hard to argue with a lot of the stuff at the top. a lot of them are pinnacles of completely different kinds of genres and styles.

No Baldur's Gate and BOTH KOTOR games is a very odd choice.

it really doesn't seem like it was a choice. it kinda seems like they just sat down, brainstormed a bunch of games, listed them as they thought them up (that's why so many sequels and related games are a couple spots a part), and then figured out a top 50 that included in mostly no particular order the ones they thought were the classics.

is gameboy pokemon really #5 all time

This list is perfect

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