EDGE lists top ten best video games
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 11:14am by Jack
…and Nintendo cleans up.
The 10 Best Videogames:
1) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)
2) Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, PlayStation 2)
3) Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
4) Half-Life 2 (PC)
5) Super Mario World (Super Nintendo)
6) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super Nintendo)
7) Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
8 ) Final Fantasy XII (PlayStation 2)
9) Tetris (Various)
10) Super Metroid (Super Nintendo)
This list pretty much confirms that I’ll be downloading A Link to the Past (No. 6) tonight after work from the Wii Shop Channel.
[Thanks, Paul W.]
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
I think that either they should have had a separate list for casual/old games like Tetris, or they should have included Galaga and Pac-Man in there as well. Probably Space Invaders too.
That said, I’ve still never played Super Mario World or Super Metroid. Wish I had some time to get into the VC games on the Wii.
And I sure can’t argue with their choice for #1, though I think I’d rate Twilight Princess over Link to the Past. (If they’re measuring greatness in 2007, Twilight Princess should outrank LTTP, whereas if they’re measuring greatness when each game came out, Pac-Man should certainly be #1, followed closely by Tetris and Street Fighter 2, a game I never actually liked.) In truth, though, they’re probably not measuring anything and just felt the need to “shout out” to both the 2d and 3d Zeldas.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
HEY MAN?!?!?
WHERE’S WINDWAKER??
Reminds fellow infendoites that both Ocarina & Windwaker scored a perfect 40/40 by Famitsu.
/eagerly awaits Phantom Hourglass
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 am
Super Metroid! When will this be on the VC?!
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
raindog
Link to the Past is at least ten times better than the uninspiring Twilight Princess. It’s a fact. It’s science.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
True… If included, Wind Waker would surely rank above Twilight Princess!
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I don’t like these lists. Gaming is subjective media, rather than facts (as the TP/LTTP comments above), nobody can say what game is better than another, even something as authorative as Edge can say that. I would personally put Street Fighter 2 in there, Final Fantasy VII and Super Mario Brothers 3 in there.
Why this list gets media coverage on things like the BBC, I don’t know.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Right… And, come to think about it, where are the Pokémons?? No list of “greatest” games of all time is complete without a Pokémon title in it!
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
@mis
they didn’t like wind waker because of the “graphics”
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
it be great if super metroid made the list. it’s the greatest 2-d game ever made. so good that castlevania and megaman try to copy its design 13 years after it came out. infendo should have a top 10.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
W00t for Half-Life 2 being up there. The world’s most underrated FPS deserves the fourth spot. On the contrary, the world’s most overrated FPS is sitting in the number seven spot: Halo. There is a golden rule amongst FPS games, and that rule is that level design is EVERYTHING; there’s the reason why games like Metroid Prime are so great.
Halo 1 did not have any creative level design. If you remove the gorgeous graphics, the lush sound, excellent control and well-done storyline; here’s what you get: Well, we have some weapons based off real-world weapons, the Covenant have plasma versions of real-world weapons. Hmm, uh, There’s about 8 types of aliens and uh…4 types of marines.
Okay, not much variety there so let’s look at level design… Hmm, level 1 is pretty much the same 3 rooms & corridors over and over and over… Level 2–okay, good level design here, except at the end when the three buildings are the exact same. Level 3: good. Level 4, pretty good. Level 5–terrible; imagine the same circular room, but you go through it 50 times; I should also mention the outside looks a lot like level 2 but with snowy textures. Level 6 is good up until you enter the building, then it’s the same rooms over again. Level 7 is pathetic. It’s 2 rooms repeated about 100 times. Level 8 is level 5 backwards–”#7 Best Game of All Time” material right there! Level 9 is a slightly different version of level 3 and level 10 is a slightly different version of level 1. Oh, and Halo’s multiplayer is nothing special; especially when what it has been doing, has been done in multiplayer PC games for ten years when Halo was first released.
So what’s my point of all this? I don’t know, maybe I just can’t stand the fact that Halo is regarded like it was up on that List; and plus I needed to get all of that off my chest. Thanks for reading my rant if you did.
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Super Metroid is too low. Number one spot or bust.
July 3rd, 2007 at 6:03 am
- Halo should NOT be there (And I do really like it), replace with Deus Ex
-Chrono Trigger instead of XII,
Also, Oblivion on there somewhere too and you’re getting close to my list.
Ps: Windwaker’s great and all, but it definitely doesn’t deserve to be there (maybe if they finished it… if only :/ ).
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
SHAME on you Jack. You should own ‘Link to the past’ on an original SNES cartridge. *slaps him across the face with a leather glove*
‘Link to the past’ in my opinion was better than ‘Ocarina of time’, ‘Super Mario bros. 3′ was better than ‘Super Mario World’ and Final Fantasy VII was better than number XII. That list is iffy.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:00 am
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