Empire Top 100 Video Games of all Time

[Mastodon2]

What terrible list, some great games but imo some major, major omissions and the ordering is all over the place. Still, I'd trust the Empire reader base to be able to do a "100 greatest games list" to about the same degree as I'd trust NME's readership to do a decent "100 greatest guitarists" list.

[130R]

AndrewEH1 said:

T1berious said:

Operation Flashpoint Now that was a game. Incredibly hard but the level of detail was just incredible.

I don't think I've ever got so angry at a game!

I bought it for PC and then bought it again for Xbox years later. When you think that game came out (on PC) in 2001, and remember the mission editor it came with, it was well ahead of its time. Should be on any top 100 list.

You will never get everyone to agree on a top 100 though. There are some very good games on there but frankly if you think The Last Of Us is the best game of all time you can't have played many on that list.

[mattshiz]

Banjo Kazooie would be in my top 10.

Shame Rare went pants after the N64. So many great games created by them.

[Digger]

Half Life - 36?!!

Pah!

[T1berious]

130R said:

bought it for PC and then bought it again for Xbox years later. When you think that game came out (on PC) in 2001, and remember the mission editor it came with, it was well ahead of its time. Should be on any top 100 list.

You will never get everyone to agree on a top 100 though. There are some very good games on there but frankly if you think The Last Of Us is the best game of all time you can't have played many on that list.

I remember that editor, agreed years ahead of it's time. Also surprised by not a single Mech Warrior Game - that made me get a decent graphics card! ahhh those were the days.....

[Lordsmut]

Define greatest.

For me, it's going back to a game that is over 2 decades old and still enjoying it - Street Fighter 2. Played first in the arcade then SNES, Megadrive, PC emu, Xbox and 360. I still love it now as much as ever.

Tough choice on such a list, but personal top 5 in no particular order;

Street Fighter 2 Chapionship Edition

COD 4

GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas

Final Fight

Goldeneye

Honourable mentions to Sim City 2000, Zelda A Link To The Past, Mario World, Lemmings. This is too hard!!!!

[OllieC]

Here is my (heavily PC biased I admit) personal top 10, not in any order, I dont expect any consensus here either

Formula One Grand Prix - Amiga / PC (the original rame sim)
C&C red alert - PC
Transport Tycoon - PC
Goldeneye - N64
Half Life - PC (including associated mods, Counter-Strike, TFC, Day of Defeat etc)
Mario Kart - SNES
Frontier Elite II - Amiga / PC
GTA SA - PS / PC
Civiliation II - PC
Championship manager series - PC

[Zad]

I get the impression that this list was created by under-30s, who have only heard of things like Elite from recent publicity. So many ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari 800, Atari ST and Amiga titles missing, not to mention early PC work.

Ultima Underworld came out at the same time as Wolfenstein, way before Doom, and was a better game than either, being a proper RPG not an on-rails blast-through.

No Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Worms...

[him_over_there]

How does Heavy Rain make the list, it's barely a game.

[Ruskie]

No Monkey island?!

[Piersman2]

Ruskie said:

No Monkey island?!

Or Larry the Lounge Lizard??

[northwest monkey]

Ruskie said:

No Monkey island?!

I'm sure it was in there somewhere?

I'd agree with that list being a list of 100 great games, but certainly not the 100 greatest of all time, and definitely not in the order they have put them in.

Like someone else posted, I imagine the demographic of Empire to be relatively young.

No Jet Set Willy, Space Invaders, Gran Turismo?

Hmmmm.

[Alex]

That list is too biased to more recent games.

My list would include Elite, the original Tomb Raider, Monkey Island, Lords of Midnight.

From more recent games, I would choose Far Cry and Battlefield 2.

I am currently playing The Last of Us, and while it is quite cinematic, it is not a great "game".

Minecraft has to be in there due to the massive impact it has had. If you have kids between say, 8 and 12, you'll know what I mean!

[anonymous-user]

AndrewEH1 said:

T1berious said:

Operation Flashpoint Now that was a game. Incredibly hard but the level of detail was just incredible.

I don't think I've ever got so angry at a game!

The atmosphere in a room when somebody is playing an original OF mission can get pretty "Tense", to say the least

[Alex]

Good call on Operation Flashpoint. Serious concentration required, and it could get very tense, in a way that CoD simply never does.

[AndrewEH1]

Alex said:

Good call on Operation Flashpoint. Serious concentration required, and it could get very tense, in a way that CoD simply never does.

I always found I was scared of getting killed whereas in CoD you can just re-spawn around the corner.

[THX]

AndrewEH1 said:

Alex said:

Good call on Operation Flashpoint. Serious concentration required, and it could get very tense, in a way that CoD simply never does.

I always found I was scared of getting killed whereas in CoD you can just re-spawn around the corner.

OF shredded my nerves. Getting shot was seriously distressing!

[T1berious]

Yup, In a similar way Rainbow Six was you get shot, that's it. very much a "thinking" man's shooter, looking forward to see what the next game does as it looks like it's another "Die and you're left spectating" kind of game.

OF really was so ahead of the curve.

[dalzo]

Funny seeing everyone's opinions of top 100.

I wouldn't have street fighter nor any final fantasy in my top 100 and am shocked streets of rage didn't make it in, think the author might be quite young.

Getting extremely reminiscent of the times I had playing some of they games! Starting to think that we haven't had a good groundbreaking top 100 game in a while

[mp3manager]

Rainbow Islands??

Edited by mp3manager on Thursday 28th August 02:18