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…I’m leaving this alone, and I want you to know that I do this in the name of continued peace

Laughing at only the first two sonic games on it. It deserves to be 0 but I'll take it.

Pa Rappa the Rapper *does not hold up*

It was sold by Timex in the US, no? You would have thought that a considered list would be written by gaming journalists who knew the background. Here, you read down and USA Today gets 3 votes, Esquire gets 3 votes etc because it's actually a consolidation of lots of "best games ever, ranked!" lists

lol you either gotta be an anglophile or an actual UK’er to understand this reference, and I support that

Animal Crossing New Horizons is a bad game propped up entirely by the global pandemic.

If I'm looking at the more "classic" end of the spectrum, there's so much wrong with Monkey Island 2 Modern lol hearthstone Also I love both but Flower >>> Journey

Ain't no way Dragon Quest 8 is the only DQ on there.... Overwatch? How about they keep the list to games that actually exist. Also worth noting that there are less and less notable games as the years progress past the 2000s. Actually that checks out.

Não tem como mesmo em 1996 alguém jogar o Red Alert e achar que é o melhor jogo da história

Unfair that Rondo of Blood could never have made this list because it didn't release outside Japan in time.

CastleVania 1 is a near perfect game. They really catched lightning in a bottle there, and with very little game design literature or studies to help them too!

Secret of Mana is a utter slog of a game. It's a half baked project made out of rejected elements from the infinitely superior Chrono Trigger...... and the cover art is My favorite piece of art ever

Hang on, *League of Legends* was on this list??? Fuck League. There we go lol

the oregon trail was boring enough to me as a kid that even though they had it on the school computers i played the math facts game in the computer lab instead

This is kind of the most widespread belief for these games even from CoD players.

The first CoD was great, in the Soviet campaign you were not given a rifle (due to shortages) and had to crawl through the battlefield to get it from one of your fallen comrades. Great stuff

I liked the part where you died from a nuclear bomb but then the game continues for some reason. Unforced error!

Can't say any of the few games from that series that I have played has ever clicked for me. 🤷🏽

nice to see someone else hate System Shock 2. Maaaaaaaaad overrated.

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The idea that arkham city is still thought of in this way in the year of our lord twenty-twenty-five is so fucking funny

In fairness, even most people who like the game think the prologue chapter is way too goddamn slow.

Guitar Hero or Rock Band. I could just buy a guitar if I wanted to play some covers with like 65% accuracy.

4 rips

ah ahhhhhhh I support and respect your right to be wrong in public, matt, that’s all imma say

Obviously, when you include things like Mega Man Soccer or Super Adventure Rockman my statement becomes a bit more hyperbolic

…the ones you like more would not exist if the OG series didn’t codify the formula.

if im feeling particularly critical basically anything D or lower id still take 2 over

I can’t believe people play World of Warcraft when FFXIV exists

League Overwatch Hearthstone

the bar was ON THE GROUND. it’s *still* barely above the ground lol

Totally forgot about this game. I think I blocked it out

Heavy Rain and its consequences for the human race 💀

Press X to Jason

That was about B2S but applies to literally all of them because he's a hack loser who coasts by on the suggestion of plot divergence rather than actual branching plots lol

I love this game :p it's strange and off-kilter and bleary in the best ways. It's hard to explain. I don't think it's an exceptional top of the line game or anything but it's a personal favourite of mine

JASAN?! JASAN?! JASAN?!

mmm, no. hades isn't a roguelike, it's a rogueLITE. roguelites are DEFINED by meta progression. if you want to blame a game for the proliferation of roguelites displacing roguelikes, uhhhhh... blame like, Rogue Legacy? Hades was WAY late to the party, it joined a well-established subgenre.

A lot of the most popular games in the "marketed as roguelike" genre have ruined that genre, IMO. Like 5 of them.

Would this carry through to things like permanent unlocks in Blue Prince? Like, if you've played it, do you dislike that aspect and hold Hades to some degree responsible?

Finals Fantasy both 7 and 10 Destiny (who tf?)

The only Midway game that should be on there is Ms Pac-Man. The others are all aimed at totally extreeeeeeeme 1990s edgelord 13-year-olds and have no artistic merit.

In fairness League of Legends was the most popular online game in the world for an extremely long time, and it did that without any dark pattern stuff like battlepasses, daily login bonuses or gachas. that requires at least being a tiny bit good kek

ok. the real one is actually the original god of war.

Very mixed. I quite liked Abby's story, which surprised me. Ellie, on the other hand, made so many stupid decisions and acted so childish that I genuinely hate her more than most characters in gaming.

DOTA2 ruined my life.

I can’t believe that Leisure Suit Larry isn’t on the list. Terrible by modern standards, but it was a humor-driven game driven by story. It hasn’t aged well, but it was great for the time.

The crazy thing was how much imagination it took. "An evil sorcerer is casting spells on dragons" and its like a green blob of pixels. But we loved them!

Heavy Rain has some cool noir vibes, a few memorable scenes, although one is a blatant Saw rip off, and absolutely nothing else, unless you count how fucking funny it is sometimes.

Paper Mario TTYD is just okay

Of the games I've actually played: Deus Ex. I think I'd love this game if the controls weren't a nightmare. Everything else about it looks really fun, but when I tried to play it, I felt like I was fighting the controls. Might see later on if I can find a mod or something to work around that

E.T. surely

The inventory system is very strange. The characters have a shared inventory but you still have to sort through each character's individual inventory sometimes?

Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 were pretty bad, except being fun as hell. Which, I suppose, is what games are for. But SF2 / SSF2 is so much better on most levels.

I mean league of legends is on this list so thats an easy one

Whoa... What's wrong with Spelunky? I mean, I get that I wouldn't put it on a list like this, but I don't think it's worth hating.

FROGGER

Hearthstone is Magic: the Gathering but worse in every way.

“who needs history, shit already happened, so why do I gotta know about it” ass take

Civ V was unplayable on release; patches and expansions are what later made it very good.

Fortnite

I 100%ed burnout 3 because its the GOAT of GOATs. I remember trying Burnout Paradise and feeling like it was a pale imitation of everything that made 3 so good, and I just couldn't play it

I’m still bitter they never made a normal sequel to Burnout 3.

uhhhhhhhh I think a second crack at that idea would have made something FUCKING AMAZING

praying you find joy in your heart on this day ❤️

know what, i was going to nominate another game but this is the correct take. fuck, i almost forgot how much i hate burnout paradise, i'm going to be angry all day

Thank you! I loved Burnout 1-3, and even Revenge/Legends/ Dominator… but Paradise completely killed the franchise for me, I expect my arcade racers to offer high adrenaline tunnel-vision focused race to the finish line… not having to navigate a map and lose a race because I got lost 😞

Paradise ruined Crash Mode and that's a sin I can never, WILL never forgive.

willing to grant it that it MIGHT be the hearts of iron iv of rpgs (6/10 game, 200/10 modding engine) but i have it on ps3 so i can't speak to that therefore, mid

Fire Emblem Awakening is a tactics game where every other map is a giant open circle/rectangle and sometimes there's like, A Bridge

Elden Ring (open world slop that directly undermines a lot of the design principles of the souls games) Baldurs Gate 3 (5e is a dogshit system and Larian did their fucking best with it but it's still just such a disappointment of a cRPG) I didnt even mean to choose the two most recent lmao

Red dead 2 - urrrghhh

Had to scroll way way too far to find this comment

Prolly heavy rain, but my hot take opinion is Mortal Kombat

Destiny you were meant to the challenger to our Krieg, the celestial fortress to our Tiny Tina's Magical Castle The Shiny Boo**** outfits to our Mad Moxxy .....instead you chose multiplayer online slop....

I think one thing the original Borderlands did better than any of its followups was the guns. It was the game that really ran with having 'a million gazillion guns' and didn't fall back on strange manufacturer quirks like the games from 2 on did, and in a looter shooter I do think the loot counts