Edge Magazine ranks the 100 Greatest Videogames of the past 30 years

[Segata]

The top 10:

10. Doom
9. Elden Ring
8. Portal
7. Half-Life 2
6. Halo: Combat Evolved
5. Resident Evil 4
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario 64
2. Dark Souls
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Discuss.
bing bing wahoo

[Emphyrio]

Accurate

[Piggy]

Leaving aside the usual Nintendo & soulslikes fetishism, what's the rationale behind ranking Halo above Doom? Not only was Doom more impactful and innovative but it's also more fun to play today. Why are journos so infatuated with a mediocre game with Halo? there has to be more than "it was the first playable console FPS" (which isn't true) and "it was the first time an FPS got multiplayer right" (which isn't true).

[WhiteShark]

I dub this genre 'normiecore'.

[General Reign]

The top 10:

10. Doom
9. Elden Ring
8. Portal
7. Half-Life 2
6. Halo: Combat Evolved
5. Resident Evil 4
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario 64
2. Dark Souls
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Discuss.
bing bing wahoo

Portal has to be one of the most overrated normie games of all time.

[gerey]

Obvious reason why all these Top 10 50 100 charts are dumb. They're nearly always a product of their time, and the people that make them are always biased towards including newer releases and their own experiences (and the fact there's far too many games for one person to play them all), despite many older games either leaving a bigger impact on the industry, creating a new genre by being released, or simply by being the better game.

There's nothing egregiously wrong with the top 10 picks, they're all solid games, though everyone is likely to disagree with one or more of the selected games.

[GhostCow]

Portal is a flawless game brought down by an annoying fan base.

[Segata]

Portal is a flawless game brought down by an annoying fan base.

It's too easy.

[maidenhaver]

Even if you'd rank 64 games in the top 10, there's no way I'd pick Mario 64 instead of Mario Party, Smash Bros, or Banjo Kazooie.

[Segata]

Mario 64 wouldn't even make it to my list of top 3 Mario games ever. And that's only counting the platformers.

[maidenhaver]

I think journos are gay.

[rusty_shackleford]

all these games suck

[Emphyrio]

HL1 was a better game than hl2

[Lutte]

Any list with doom not in number one is wrong.

[CrazedGoblin]

The top 10:

10. Doom
9. Elden Ring
8. Portal
7. Half-Life 2
6. Halo: Combat Evolved
5. Resident Evil 4
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario 64
2. Dark Souls
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Discuss.
bing bing wahoo

Elden Ring is overrated.
at least having Bloodborne with Dark souls or demon souls or even Sekiro in the list will more tolerable but elden "muh body type 1 and body type 2 open world Goyslop" Ring really!!!!

[Segata]

Future addition to this list: Baldur's Gate III, the first CRPG ever.

[maidenhaver]

The top 10:

10. Doom
9. Elden Ring
8. Portal
7. Half-Life 2
6. Halo: Combat Evolved
5. Resident Evil 4
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario 64
2. Dark Souls
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Discuss.
bing bing wahoo

Elden Ring is overrated.
at least having Bloodborne with Dark souls or demon souls or even Sekiro in the list will more tolerable but elden "muh body type 1 and body type 2 open world Goyslop" Ring really!!!!

I liked Elden Ring more than the others, but it isn't top 10. Probably 80-60 range, though. I think it could have been better if it was just a dungeon the size of Limgrave and the Well. Maybe that's because I quit after them.

[Rand]

Halo was mid all the way. It was nothing special unless you were a console cretin that hadn't seen a good FPS yet.

[The_Mask]

It's a list.

I betcha whoever made it thought they were really edgy for putting BOtW above Dark Souls.

Meh. I can think of other games that made more of an impact than Halo, for example. Whatever...

[rusty_shackleford]

If it's meant to be a list of most influential games, Skyrim takes #1 easily no question. You could argue the games that inspired Skyrim belong there, but they aren't the ones that directly influenced most of video games made post-2011.

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

[Segata]

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

That's thanks to CoD4, the most influential RPG™ ever.

[rusty_shackleford]

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

That's thanks to CoD4, the most influential RPG™ ever.

[CoD4 sold] around seven million copies by January 2008 and almost sixteen million by November 2013.

Skyrim has sold more than 60 million copies

I doubt CoD4 is influencing, say, Assassin's Creed.

[Segata]

And Doom sold way less than that so it's not an influential game or something

[rusty_shackleford]

And Doom sold way less than that so it's not an influential game or something

yes

[gerey]

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

That's an interesting topic of discussion though. Games, by their nature, are iterative, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. As an example, Call of Duty popularized ADS, which now appears in nearly every FPS.

I think the reason modern developers shove RPG mechanics into everything has less to do with the fact they think they're neat, and more with the fact the behavioral psychologists the company has on payroll have figured out that watching arbitrary numbers go up, accompanied by catchy music and sound effects, gets the dopamine flowing.

[maidenhaver]

If it's meant to be a list of most influential games, Skyrim takes #1 easily no question. You could argue the games that inspired Skyrim belong there, but they aren't the ones that directly influenced most of video games made post-2011.

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

Every game had to be open world, too.

[Emphyrio]

If it's meant to be a list of most influential games, Skyrim takes #1 easily no question. You could argue the games that inspired Skyrim belong there, but they aren't the ones that directly influenced most of video games made post-2011.

Nearly every single game now has RPG mechanics. Did any other genre ever infect the video game industry quite like this?

where are muh skyrim clones though

[maidenhaver]

Far Cry 3 would rank with Skyrim as most influencial. Didn't every game do FC3 discover the world by climbing towers?

[Emphyrio]

Far Cry 3 would rank with Skyrim as most influencial. Didn't every game do FC3 discover the world by climbing towers?

fc3 is the closest thing to a non-beth skyrim clone we've seen

[maidenhaver]

But FC3 had ladders.