OPM's Big List of Games To Play

1up is running a feature from Official Playstation Magazine, an exhaustive list of 100 games for Sony platforms you must play ... before you die! From the article: "We couldn't go it alone. We asked the top PlayStation game designers, producers, and members of the press to submit their picks, and we've included what they had to say. No list is ever perfect. But perfection was never our goal. In the end, we hope this list is one that, if you were to play all the games in it (and you conceivably can since many are still available at retail or on eBay), will make you a supremely well-rounded gamer. Maybe you'll find, as we have, that games have the power to entertain, challenge, inspire, and affect you in ways you never thought possible."

Comments

Much of this list is anti-Nintendo bulls***

[DeanCubed]

Some of these have merits, but others are just plain idiotic.

I'm paraphrasing here, but:

"Metal Gear Solid was released at the same time as Ocarina of Time, which is why I have yet to play Zelda. Who cares about a deku tree when there are terrorists with nukes to stop?" -Guy who made Burnout series, which, suprise suprise, is no longer being made for the Cube. With biased dickweeds like this working in the industry, no wonder Nintendo can't get third parties to support their consoles.

"Crash Team Racing took the Mario Kart formula and perfected it." - Some guy from 1up. I mean seriously. CTR is what Mario Kart could be if it was perfect? Gimme a freakin break! Guess what came out the same gen? Mario Kart 64! Is that not perfect already? I know MK for the DS improved on it, but for consoles without a second screen to display an overhead map, and taking the online component out... You don't get better in kart racing than Mario Kart 64, unless you REALLY like Double Dash for some reason. Crash Team F'n Racing...

Re:Much of this list is anti-Nintendo bulls***

[Kazzahdrane]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but overall CTR was a much better game than Mario Kart 64. I played the hell out of that game, unlocking all the tracks and characters and spending dangerous amounts of time beating my time trial ghosts for good laps. CTR also had an excellent battle mode which made MK64's look like an afterthought in comparison. Sure, you needed a multitap to really get the most out of the game but that was a fault of the hardware rather than Naughty Dog. I had this very arguement with a Nintendo fanboy just yesterday, in the end we decided that MK64 had the advantage of characters that everyone knew and a SNES prequel that was a real gem itself - whereas only PSX owners had met Crash and his friends (and the characters were mostly a bit rubbish anyway). For me, CTR just felt a bit faster than MK64 a lot of the time, and it's a game I still have very fond memories of playing alone and with my family (My MUM finished the Adventure mode!).It's a real shame that Sony decided to let another developer have a crack at the CTR sequel when Naughty Dog sold the license off. They should have left it alone as I understand the later games in the series were pretty dire.

Re:Much of this list is anti-Nintendo bulls***

[nickyj]

I've played CTR and MK64. Yes MK64 is slightly slower, but that doesn't mean anything. You want speed, play F-Zero (29sec my battle time). CTR only entertained me for a few days with friends. MK64 we played everyday for months, (beatings for using lightning on the Wario track). Two different games but one appealed to the gamer friends (MK64), the other appealed to the non-gamer friends (CTR). Nothing wrong with that.

Re:Much of this list is anti-Nintendo bulls***

[Guppy06]

"And the writer even bashes the wrong game with wrong game! You don't splat Ocarina of Time with MGS. Nope! You need Final Fantasy VII to splat that. Duh."

Except that OoT outsold Final Fantasy VII.

It's been years since OoT launched, and it continues to be the only game for which I stood in line before the store opened. I have never seen that kind of reaction for a game again.

Re:Much of this list is anti-Nintendo bulls***

[dyslexicbunny]

Or you have other gems like:

"Red Faction gave Half-Life's a run for it's money." - Granted it should have after 2 years. But instead, it was a mediorce shooter with a cool, destroyable environment. The only interesting thing was the Geo-Mod environment.

It also considers Baldur's Gate a Diablo-esque game. Laugh. Dungeon Siege is Diablo-esque. D&D just isn't the same. But I doubt anyone that wrote the article bothered to think about that.

Final Fantasy ##. We must fellate this series to no end. VII was excellent with IX being just as good. XIII, X, and X-2 are jokes and insults to the FF series. Some people may find them redeeming but I don't (which is all that matters to me on game opinions).

I just don't think most consoles have 100 games you HAVE to play before you die. Besides they throw FFXI on there and still try to make it pass for Playstation when it's really pretty much a PC game. Sigh... lists like this are stupid.

Besides, to hell with them anyways. I'm content with my Gamecube. I may have only bought 15 games but I enjoy all of them. And being a PC gamer, I prefer FPS on PC.

Oxymoronic

[Curien]

An exhaustive list includes all possible values. An "exhaustive list" of the "top X" of something is an oxymoron.

I stopped reading...

[Strell]

When Peter Molyneux called Lara Croft a "believable heroine."

That was enough for me.

The ONLY?

[chrismcdirty]

"Lara Croft is the only videogame character to have achieved international-cultural-icon status"

I believe Pac-man was an international cultural icon 15-20 years before Lara Croft. Add to the list Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Frogger, at least. I'd be willing to bet more people recognize Pac-man than they do Lara Croft. Most people likely see Lara Croft as Angelina Jolie these days.