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    #32
    TheKeenMachine
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭TheKeenMachine


    F1ngers wrote: »
    I'm not looking for my favourite games to be there.
    I'm looking for a list of good games to be there.

    Cherry picking from a list of the 100 "best" games of all time smacks of lazy.

    6 lists. And not cherry picking either, tbh I haven't even played some of these games. How would you have gone about it? We wanted to make the list objective. Laziness doesn't really come into it anyway, why would anyone would put a load of effort into the list? Cross referencing 6 lists was effort enough for an internet poll, that was just set up for a bit of fun imo.


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    #33
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A poll is never going to work for something like this, and is frankly ridiculous. Everyone has their own opinions and quite rankly a list of populist choices really doesn't cover the best games ever made and is never going to come near to covering a fraction of the list of games people consider the best ever.

    And I'm not even going to go into how wrong saying Fallout 3 is the best in the series is.
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    #34
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    TheKeenMachine wrote: »
    6 lists. And not cherry picking either, tbh I haven't even played some of these games. How would you have gone about it? We wanted to make the list objective. Laziness doesn't really come into it anyway, why would anyone would put a load of effort into the list? Cross referencing 6 lists was effort enough for an internet poll, that was just set up for a bit of fun imo.

    There is your problem right there...You didn't put ANY effort into the list, shows how much you care about the subject matter.

    You "cherry-picked" from "popular" lists.

    At the time of this post, more than 1/3 of the votes are for "other", that tells me a lot about your list.


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    #35
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    And I'm not even going to go into how wrong saying Fallout 3 is the best in the series is.

    Ah Gamebryo, Morrowind was the crown there.


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    #36
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Can't I pick them all? I find it next to impossible to pick from that list. I would be easier to pick the worst out of them all


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    #37
    Eoiny1117
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Eoiny1117


    TheKeenMachine wrote: »
    In fairness, I helped the OP with the list. With no definitive way to pick a list of 25, we took 6 "Top 100 Games of All Time" lists and went with the 24 games that appeared most frequently. If your favourite games are not there, sorry, but it seemed the fairest, least subjective way of picking the options. Although Halo Combat Evolved and Splinter Cell were not on the original list that I saw..
    halo was!!!!!!!!!! splintercell wasnt though to be fair but it and chrono trigger both got two votes so i put it in!!


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    #38
    Alactric
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Alactric


    Honestly, it's a bit of a naff idea OP. No offence. It's been done since the dawn of time, and it always invariably turns into "my favourite" games of all time. it's impossible to have objectivity, and even then...it's really, really pointless.


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    #39
    Eoiny1117
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Eoiny1117


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    A poll is never going to work for something like this, and is frankly ridiculous. Everyone has their own opinions and quite rankly a list of populist choices really doesn't cover the best games ever made and is never going to come near to covering a fraction of the list of games people consider the best ever.

    And I'm not even going to go into how wrong saying Fallout 3 is the best in the series is.
    its the best get over it!!!!!!


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    #40
    Alactric
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Alactric


    downwithpeace wrote: »
    Ah Gamebryo, Morrowind was the crown there.

    Morrowind used Gamebryo though? :p


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    #41
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Alactric wrote: »
    Morrowind used Gamebryo though? :p

    It did.


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    #42
    TheKeenMachine
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭TheKeenMachine


    F1ngers wrote: »
    There is your problem right there...You didn't put ANY effort into the list, shows how much you care about the subject matter.

    You "cherry-picked" from "popular" lists.

    At the time of this post, more than 1/3 of the votes are for "other", that tells me a lot about your list.

    Ok, firstly, you don't know me and have no idea how much I do or don't care about the subject matter (games).
    Secondly, cherry picking would imply that we went through the lists and picked our favourites. As I have already said (twice) we cross-referenced the lists, and I haven't played nor would I have included on my personal list some of the games listed above. However, we didn't want the list to be opinionated, hence the method of selection.
    Thirdly, of course the main vote is going to other, you hardly expected everyone voting to have their favourite game included in this list? There are thousands of games out there, for people to have any favourites within the 24 is, statistically speaking, strange.


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    #43
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    F1ngers wrote: »
    I'm not looking for my favourite games to be there.
    I'm looking for a list of good games to be there.

    Cherry picking from a list of the 100 "best" games of all time smacks of lazy.

    all the games listed are good. op clarly meant the thread as just a bit of fun, no need to be an elitist knob about it.


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    #44
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,697 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    There are too many games created to definitively call any one the "greatest EVER".

    Also, it's Ico.


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    #45
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    krudler wrote: »
    all the games listed are good. op clarly meant the thread as just a bit of fun, no need to be an elitist knob about it.

    Not all the games listed are good, most are.

    You're confusing elitist with drunk...:p


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    #46
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    lol, no Quake? Biggest game on the planet for how many years and arguably the game that started e-Sports and it's not included?

    Out of your list OP, I choose Tetris. Genius concept and it's also one of the most appealing and simple to understand games ever created.


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    #47
    Alactric
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Alactric


    krudler wrote: »
    all the games listed are good. op clarly meant the thread as just a bit of fun, no need to be an elitist knob about it.

    I wouldn't say he's being elitist, it just rings of an IGN / Gamespot headline generator. Grabs people attention fine, but is so painfully, excruciatingly dull and obvious.

    You say you're opinion, someone else says there's. That's it really. Seems like a tired topic for a thread...circa 1999.


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    #48
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    This Poll was made by a fella who loves Nintendo.
    Little or no PS1 or Megadrive games,

    4 !! Mario Titles in there, 2 Zelda, Metroid,......yawnn.... too much Biased.

    Absolutely no clue about games.

    Troll be trolling !!


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    #49
    Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭Magill


    Shiminay wrote: »
    lol, no Quake? Biggest game on the planet for how many years and arguably the game that started e-Sports and it's not included?

    About half a year, if at all.


    Obviously deserves a spot tho.


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    #50
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Magill wrote: »
    About half a year, if at all.

    Yeah, UT took it's place.


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    #51
    hefferboi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭hefferboi


    Gta San Andrews hands down best game of all time.

    Others:
    Pes 6
    Mgs
    Goldeneye
    Nfs underground


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    #52
    Alactric
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Alactric


    hefferboi wrote: »
    Nfs underground

    See what I meant about it turning into my "favourite game" OP?


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    #53
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Out of that list the most time I spent playing was Street Fighter 2. I can say I spent a considerable amount of my childhood playing SF2 with my mates on my Sega Mega Drive2. We used to have competitions with all my friens and they'ld go on for hours. They were real fun days.

    Apart from that overall I think I spent the most time playing Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2. I finished that game like 3 times and I still used to play it until last year when I got a windows 7 PC and the game wouldn't run on it anymore...

    Among the modern games I have spent the most time playing borderlands. That game is seriously long with all the dlcs and 2nd playthroughs but I do love playing it! Can't wait to play the 2nd one soon but I need to finish the first game first!!

    Another game I would mention is Uncharted 2. It was the most fun and prettiest (as in scenery wise) game I've ever played and one of the few games I bothered finishing twice...


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    #54
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    "What's the best song of all time"


    What's the best book of all time".


    These questions don't really have answers because there's a million ways to answer it.

    The most original? The most influential? The best selling? The best critically received? The most technologically advanced?

    Quake, Starcraft, GTA 3 are what I'm going to swing for but I could easily remember another 20 later.


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    #55
    hefferboi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭hefferboi


    Alactric wrote: »
    See what I meant about it turning into my "favourite game" OP?

    :D


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    #56
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Most of my favourite aren't even on that list but if I had to choose it would be Oblivion and Super Metroid.

    Super Metroid because it's such a perfectly crafted game which I only played again and cleared last week since playing it when I was a kid. Still blows all other 2D games out of the water, a lot have come close to it's greatness but never bettered.

    Then Oblivion for giving me 170+ hours of solid fun. Kept me sane when I lived in Longford for 6 months :pac:

    Best game of all time is subjective, really, but the closest and most universal game I can think of that people like playing is Tetris. Really was a great yet simple concept.


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    #57
    Josey Wales
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    Noticed plenty of votes for Goldeneye. That is surely just nostalgia talking. Playing it now would be a terrible experience I think.

    Poll has some strange choices. Not to include Super Mario World being one of them. So I voted 'other'.


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    #58
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,480 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    I cannot believe Final Fantasy VII isn't on the list. I'm a sad Cloud :(

    video-game-memes-sad-cloud.jpg?w=479

    Sorry for the spoilers..:pac:


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    #59
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Josey Wales wrote: »
    Noticed plenty of votes for Goldeneye. That is surely just nostalgia talking. Playing it now would be a terrible experience I think.

    Time has not been kind to that game. It's an influential and important game but I'd be hard pressed to call it a good game let alone one of the greats.
    sheehy83 wrote: »
    I cannot believe Final Fantasy VII isn't on the list. I'm a sad Cloud :(

    Bleh, it's not even the best PS1 RPG :P
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    #60
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,226 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Metal Gear Solid 3, closely followed by GTA: Vice City.

    Poll list is hugely flawed.


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    tommy2bad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭tommy2bad


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