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

No Nethack?

[dasunt]

Shouldn't Nethack get a nod? It may not be a well-known game, and the graphics are a tad primitive, but its supporting most of the roguelike genre, and its a hell of a game.

Re:No Nethack?

[interiot]

Nethack is more than 10 years old.

The problem with these lists...

[frederec]

The problem with top whatever lists is they seem designed to start flamewars. For example, the first list seems to me to be very biased towards pc games. It's almost as though the console games there were tossed on because even PC gamers know all about them.

The second list seemed very biased towards early games. Though you could argue that if it is a list of games that "defined" the PS1, then it's to be expected.

But someone already noted that the lists seem very good to them. So it shows what I know. Possibly means I'm biased, not the lists.

Castlevania SOTN

[superpulpsicle]

Hands down still the best 2D scroller ever made. The replay value is just insane, I can't believe I played a 2D game for like a year nonstop.

The PS1 version was great, but the Japanese saturn version supposedly allow you to play as Maria too.

CNet lost me at their 2nd pick.

[OpMindFck]

OK, so they put Starcraft right by the top. I'm for that. The game still holds appeal for me today whenever I manage to tear myself away from WoW. My only question, did anyone at CNet every play the game?

The gameplay itself was so addictive that players often played the game through three times just to experience it from the perspective of all three races.

I seem to recall a storyline formula in both the original and the expansion that required playing all 3 races on one playthrough.

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.

Hm , strange list

[FidelCatsro]

I would definitely keep Ocarina of time (still number one on my list) , half life and GTA 3 .

The rest are very subjective , Starcraft was not a personal favourite , but i can see how it got listed .

The Sims may have done a lot for the Casual gamers , but it was dull as dishwate. Sim-city 3000 was far superior .4/10

Madden .. well ... I did not enjoy the game .. may have been a cultural thing ( I played rugby) .. but then i did really enjoy some other American football games. 5/10

Quake .. well it was very influential .. but the single player game was rather under par , though i have great respect for the online component . 7/10

Halo is one of the most over-rated games of the past 10 years .It was not a bad game , infact it was rather good .. just not as good as the hype made it out to be . 7/10

Everquest bored me silly . Again i can see that a lot of people enjoyed it , but if credit goes to any MMORPG of the past ten years it should be Ultima online . 5/10 ...

In the place of the other 7 i would have

Mario 64 . the game the legend 9/10
Unreal tournament , amazing fun .I prefer it over the sequels . 9/10
Deus Ex , Taking System shock to the next level 9/10
Thief 2 , Removing the Zombie levels was a great idea 9/10
Pokemon Gold/silver/crystal :Fashionable to hate ,wonderful to play 9/10
GoldenEye 007 , Countless hours spent living the life of Bond 9/10
Gran-Turismo 3 ,I like Skylines 9/10(That or soul calibur)

These lists are very subjective , and as such these are just my opinion .
I couldn't really do a top 10 properly , these are just a few from my top 50 list of games since Pong .
it's in non specific order(bar ocarina of time which sits solidly at #1).

There can be no definitive top 10 list .It is all based on your personal opinions.

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Re:My take on the list

[self assembled struc]

Honestly Parappa The Rapper has to be one of the most innovative games I've ever seen.

People are always jerking off over Miyamoto and his innovativeness (which is immense) but here we have an exclusive game for a platform that isn't Nintendo that doesn't follow the traditional video game path (sports, killing, simulation).

Not only that but Greenblat's artwork is amazing, and they way they were able to animate the characters and coordinate the music and the motion is beyond amazing.

Stop hating on it because you have no rhythm and couldn't beat your four year old cousin, and recogize what an amazing game it really is/was.