A Top Ten and A Definitive Dozen

End-of-week lists are always fun. From CNet, we have a list of the top ten games of the last ten years, and from 1up.com the definitive dozen titles from the PS1's lifetime. From the 1up article: "Resident Evil Capcom, 1996 Admittedly a straight-up rip-off of the PC adventure series Alone in the Dark (all the way down to the polygonal characters in static environments), Resident Evil was the first great example of Sony's commitment to quality, adult-oriented entertainment. Sure, the controls sucked, and the voice acting was worse. But for all intents and purposes, this was the game that helped the PS1 grab gamers by the throat, chew on their jugulars, and gnaw on their brains."

Comments

Re:No Nethack?

[interiot]

Nethack is more than 10 years old.

Re:Some 'list'

[yoyhed]

That screenshot is from Blue Shift, an expansion released for Half-Life.

To answer to both you and the child poster, Blue Shift came with a high-definition model pack (which updated Half-Life as well), and that scientist in the screenshot (a main character in Blue Shift) was a good demonstration of the HD pack.

And yes, I would agree that Blue Shift was a bastardization, as you put it. It was only a few hours long, and the story wasn't nearly as interesting or well-done as that of the original Half-Life.

And for nostalgic reasons, I like the original 8-polygon faces better anyway :-)

To those of you who use Steam to play Half-Life, they only just recently released Blue Shift on Steam, and later released the high-definition pack.