The 150 or so Greatest Games of All Time (According to the VG247 massive)

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The 150 or so Greatest Games of All Time (According to the VG247 massive)

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Started 2 years ago by mathare92
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mathare92
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A fortnight ago, user Timber-_-wolf asked us fellow VG247ers what we thought were the five Greatest Games of ALL TIME. (http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=4377)

39 users put in their different lists which encompassed three decades of gaming and a multitude of genres. If you didn't vote, tough luck. Pay more attention to les forums, non?

The list you see below consists of the 150 or so games which us nutters apparently think are the best titles of all time (yes that includes Leisure Suit Larry [see below]). Note, I've taken into account the total number of "mentions" a game received from users and not where they rank in the individual lists.

If you're still miraculously reading this crappy intro, hope you enjoy the list and make sure to let your opinions known below.

And now Ladies and Gentleman - and you troll in the back too, here are the 150 or so GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME, as voted by the GREATEST games community *grins* on the planet. Hoo-rah!

Games with ONE Mention/Vote:
- System Shock 2
- God of War
- Silent Hill 3
- The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
- Odd World Strangers Wrath
- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
- Starcraft 2
- Super Mario Land
- Contra
- Super Mario 64
- Okami
- Gran Turismo 5
- 007: Night Fire
- Micro Machines
- Treasure Island Dizzy
- Manic Miner
- Resident Evil 4
- Resistance
- Halo Reach
- Lost Planet
- Final Fantasy Dissidia
- MediEvil: Resurrection
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Black
- Ridge Racer
- Alone in the Dark
- Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
- Bubble Bobble
- Final Fantasy 9
- Legend of Legaia
- Toma Runner
- Prince of Persia
- Ridge Racer Type 4
- Snobow Kids
- Spy vs Spy
- Turrican 2
- Shadow of the Beast 2
- Terranigma
- Shining Force Series
- Doom 2
- Gunstar Heroes
- God of War II
- Jak 2
- Gran Turismo 3
- Leisure Suit Larry (GaiusMarius did this)
- Rome Total War (he also did this, which is good)
- Shinobi
- Tales of Phantasia
- Secrets of Evermore
- Final fantasy IV
- Advance Wars
- Lord of the Rings: Third Age
- Rayman
- Populous: The Beginning
- Transport Tycoon
- Fallout 2
- Little Big Adventure 2
- UFO: Enemy Unknown
- Gears of War 2
- Bioshock 2
- Super Street Fighter 4
- Manhunt
- Tomb Raider
- Resident Evil 3
- MotoGP2
- Rallisport Challenge 2
- Battlefield 2
- Shenmue
- Max Payne 2
- Metal Gear Solid 2
- The Secret Of Monkey Island
- Outrun 2
- Shenmue 2
- Legend of Zelda
- Dead Space
- The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
- Starcraft
- Legacy of the Wizard
- Panzer Dragoon Saga
- Meridian59
- Phantasy Star Online/Universe
- Rock Band
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Diablo
- Captive
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Championship Manager 01/02
- SSX Tricky
- Space Giraffe
- DRoD
- Tetris
- Halo 3
- Dawn of War Series
- Dino Crisis
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Fahrenheit
- Fallout 3
- Zone of the Enders 2
Games with TWO Mentions/Votes:
- Cannon Fodder
- Quake
- Super Metroid
- Ratchet And Clank
- Civilization
- Demon's Souls
- Final Fantasy X
- World of Warcraft
- God of War 3
- Mario Kart
- Street Fighter II
- Goldeneye 007
- Gears of War
- LittleBigPlanet
- Rez
- Bayonetta
- GTA San Andreas
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Timesplitters 2
- Metal Gear Solid 4
- GTA IV
- Fallout 3
- X-Wing/Tie Fighter
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Mafia
- Grand Theft Auto III
- BioShock
- Resident Evil
- FIFA
- Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
- Diablo 2
- Chrono Cross
- Darksiders
- Mass Effect
Games with THREE Mentions/Votes:
- Super Mario World
- Planescape: Torment
- Grim Fandango
- Super Mario Bros 3
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
And now, the creme de la creme...

Games with FOUR OR MORE Mentions/Votes:
- Final Fantasy VII (4 Votes)
- Metal Gear Solid 3 (4 Votes)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (4 Votes)
- Deus Ex (4 Votes)
- Super Mario Galaxy (5 Votes)
- ICO (5 Votes)
- Mass Effect 2 (6 Votes)
- GTA: Vice City (6 Votes)
- Half-Life (6 Votes)
- Half-Life 2 (6 Votes)
- Metal Gear Solid (6 Votes)
- Shadow of the Colossus (7 Votes)
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (8 Votes)
There you have it, then.

The ever-wise VG247 community has, maybe controversially, chosen Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as the Greatest Video Game of All Time, followed closely by the Half-Life series, Metal Gear Solid, GTA: Vice City and Shadow of the Colossus.

Let the banter begin.
Posted 2 years ago #
mathare92
Member

Well that was quite the long post, glad I didn't horribly mess up the markup stuff.

Posted 2 years ago #
BraveArse
Member

Bloody hell - that must have taken you ages dude!

I can see why UC2 would take top spot although wouldn't necessarily put it there myself. Maybe that's an illustration of the downside of the alternative vote ;)

It was a pretty groundbreaking title imo - showed the way forward with storytelling in games, even if it was still simply a blockbuster summer movie story.

Posted 2 years ago #
Callum
Member

Vice City FOR THE WIN!

It's the only game I've played out of the 7 top ones...lol I am such a sorry excuse for a gamer! Cant'e quite believe that Okami only got one vote...shame!

Great post dude

Posted 2 years ago #
OlderGamer
Moderator

Fantastic Job Mathare92!

That is one interesting list, kind of worried it might disqualify us as a whole from being gamers at all :)

Posted 2 years ago #
Kerplunk
Member

Space Giraffe should've won.

/forms petition

Posted 2 years ago #
Crab of Thunder
Member

Nice list, bet that took painfully long to put together. :)

Posted 2 years ago #
spiderLAW
Member

Hmmm... Uncharted 2 in the top spot???? weird.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ireland Michael
Moderator

I can definitely say that at least three of the top four winners definitely deserve to be in the top spots.

Interesting results. Well deserved for those games.

Posted 2 years ago #
Christopher Jack
Member

Uncharted 2 is one of my favourite games, but it seems too much of a cluster of cliches to deserve the top spot.

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

Uncharted 2 is worthy of the top spot and I agree its the best video game ever made so far to date.....I'm sorry MGS3 (you are still my favorite game though)

Posted 2 years ago #
SOMI
Member

Shouldn't be a Nintendo game in that list, shameful.

Posted 2 years ago #
mathare92
Member

@SOMI - That's why all your 5 votes went to Ninty games :)

The one thing that struck me when compiling the list was the sheer variety of games - for better or worse. I mean you've got strategy titles like Starcraft, Civ and Total War, adventure games like Zelda: OOT and Shenmue, racers like GT3 and Ridge Racer, sports series like Fifa and well, FIFA, sandbox stuff like the GTA's and Mafia, RPG's like Mass Effect, Fallout and Final Fantasy, platformers like Halo Reach and Super Mario, first-person shooters like Half-Life and BioShock, cheerful stuff like LBP, and not so cheerful stuff like the 2 G's of War. There are timless classics there, like Deus Ex and er, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, as well as really old shi- sorry, gems, like Populous: The Beginning, Contra and Snobow Kids(?).

The list has it all. In our impeccable taste, we even managed to squeeze Leisure Suit Larry in there too. :D

Posted 2 years ago #
Dr.Ghettoblaster
Member

Dude, that was awseome what you just did there mathare92. Seriously. Very cool. Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
mathare92
Member

Your welcome? No seriously, credit goes to Timber-_-wolf for getting the voting thread together. Allz I did was some tallying and listing.

By the way, you all may have noticed that Okami is in bold. This is because it is the most BESTEST game human kind will ever see... EVAR!

Posted 2 years ago #
SOMI
Member

@mathare92 that was my bottom 5 though which would have gone to the top 150 worst games ever which would pretty much be all nintendo systems games.

Posted 2 years ago #

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