Polygon's 500 best games of all time

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