The Top 5 Games of All Time

An anonymous reader writes "The guys over at trusted reviews have come up with lists of their top five games of all time. There are some obvious choices and some very obscure ones, but on the whole its interesting reading. See how their lists compare to yours."

Early bungie games

[Hachey]

I'm sorry, but the ol' days of Bungie before they got bought out by Microsoft (man, at the time I was thinkin' that was a cold day in hell) had one of the best games of all time. Marathon. Little is it known but this game gave _birth_ to the rocket jump. The story line was friggin phenomenal. It could be scary as hell. Coming out just a year after doom, it made all the right changes (larger deathmatches, multiple floors per level, etc). And let us not forget the game that gave birth to the age old crazy AI video game meme. That was a golden egg for sure.


and one more thing... Frog blast the vent core!!!!

Coral cache

[Sagachi]

It's already slashdotted... here's the CC link.
http://www.trustedreviews.com.nyud.net:8090/articl e.aspx?page=8102&head=0 [nyud.net]

Re:let the platforms wars begin

[dualmoo]

For those interested, here is the complete list:

Riyad:
- Resident Evil 4 - Nintendo GameCube
- Chaos - Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Dungeon Explorer - PC Engine
- Blade Runner - PC
- Riyad: Mario 64 - Nintendo 64

Stu:
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64
- Lords of Midnight - Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Civilization - PC
- ICO - PlayStation 2
- Half-Life - PC

Benny:
- X-Wing vs Tie Fighter - PC
- Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 - PC
- Counter-Strike - PC
- Unreal Tournament - PC
- Shenmue - Sega Dreamcast

Gordon:
- Kick Off - PC
- Sim City - PC
- Tetris - Nintendo GameBoy
- Championship Manager 2 - PC
- Formula 1 GP - PC

Spode
- Commander Keen - PC
- Lemmings - PC
- Doom - PC
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - PC
- Day of the Tentacle - PC

And just where the hell is Elite

[shockwaverider]

What about Elite [wikipedia.org] on the BBC micro?

OK - Lets forget that

• It was the first truly 3D 8 bit game
• It had 8 galaxies, each containing 256 solarsystems to explore
• It had missions, and police ships as well as pirates and traders, and the ability to be either

But fer Chrissakes it was coded into 18Kbytes of handcrafted 6502 machine code. That alone deserves a mention!

Re:Beacuse it's 5 games for EACH of the reviewers

[spoco2]

I realise that it's all for the ads, but realistically, each page has a lot of content, with screenshots, detailed rundown of the game etc. It's a lot better than I've seen on other sites.

If there are 5 reviewers (I didn't count), then a game a page plus some extra fluff for intros and you have 29 pages.

Wolfenstein

[Frankie70]

Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.


No, that was Wolfenstein.
I liked Doom better, but it was Wolf which reinvented the genre.

Play it for free...

[interactive_civilian]

For those who don't know, Bungie open-sourced Marathon and released the game data file for free. You can get them all at http://source.bungie.org/ [bungie.org], or more specifically, here:

http://source.bungie.org/get/ [bungie.org]

I agree that this is one of the most amazing games ever. Not only did it bring us some technical innovations (at the time) such as the ability to look up and down to aim your weapon, dual triggered weapons, etc., but it was one of the first FPS games to actually have an amazing, intricate plot [bungie.org].

If you haven't played it, go for it.

indeed,Wikipedia's list of lists of greatest games

[spage]

Yes, this has been done to death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_ga mes_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever [wikipedia.org] does a good job of keeping score.

I bought an N64 just to play Super Mario 64. 3 Shigeru Miyamoto!!

Re:And just where the hell is Elite

[Fry-kun]

Amen to that!
I spent countless hours hunting (and being hunted by) Thargoids ;)

By the way, those who loved Elite should check out X3: Reunion [egosoft.com]. It's close to what Elite would've been in this day and age.
Sure, there's hope for Elite 4 yet... a little more than DNF (though that may just be the optimistic view of an Elite fan talking :P )

Re:What? No Freebird?

[Lotana]

While we are complaining, where are:
      Planescape Torment
      Descent: Freespace 1 & 2
      The Longest Journey
      System Shock 1 & 2
      Knights of the Old Republic
      Sid Myer's Alpha Centauri
      Baldur's Gate series
      Thief series
      Deus Ex (first only)
      Morrowind
      Fallout 1 & 2
      Grim Fandago
      Homeworld
      Icewind Dale series
      Myst series
      Total Annihilation

And these are just off the top of my head. I am sure I had forgoten some.

Re:Er, random?

[nickos]

For starters the author of the article refers to the system it came out on by its Japanese name "PC Engine" rather than what it was marketed as in the US, "TurboGrafx-16", which is what most American gamers would know it as

On the first page of the article he says he's from the UK, where neither the PC Engine or TurboGrafx was released officially. If you're going to buy a console on import, which would you rather have, a cute PC Engine with loads of Japanese games or the ugly Turbografx with the games released in the US. I'd pick the PC Engine any day.

Re:29 pages for top 5 !?!

[joeljkp]

It's 5 people each naming their top 5 games, for a total of 25 pages, plus some introductory material.