How can an opinion be wrong?
This list is pretty OK, but it is pointless to rank things and even more pointless to argue about whether one editor's opinion is right or not.
Who cares if "game X is ranked above Game Y", it is FAR more important that genuinely good games are included at all rather than where they appear on rankings.
I think the smart thing to have done would have been to just select the top 200 games and then merely sort by year, and then by alphabetical order within a year.
I have made my own "top 200 list" though it is more a "12 games worth buying each year" (from 1995 to 2011, based on speculative release dates). The idea being if I were to buy and play on average one game per month what would I get, even though I usually don't buy them on release but often a year or two post release (once cheap) it should all add up in the long run.
I mean come on, who cares out of Ocarina of Time and Half Life which is better? Why do the impossible task of trying to rank two completely different games against each other when the logical thing to say is "They're both great, I suggest you play BOTH"! It's not like we all have only 8 hours to live and can only play a single game, you can play both... in any order.
This ranking bullshit is pointless.
This list is pretty OK, but it is pointless to rank things and even more pointless to argue about whether one editor's opinion is right or not.
Who cares if "game X is ranked above Game Y", it is FAR more important that genuinely good games are included at all rather than where they appear on rankings.
I think the smart thing to have done would have been to just select the top 200 games and then merely sort by year, and then by alphabetical order within a year.
I have made my own "top 200 list" though it is more a "12 games worth buying each year" (from 1995 to 2011, based on speculative release dates). The idea being if I were to buy and play on average one game per month what would I get, even though I usually don't buy them on release but often a year or two post release (once cheap) it should all add up in the long run.
I mean come on, who cares out of Ocarina of Time and Half Life which is better? Why do the impossible task of trying to rank two completely different games against each other when the logical thing to say is "They're both great, I suggest you play BOTH"! It's not like we all have only 8 hours to live and can only play a single game, you can play both... in any order.
This ranking bullshit is pointless.
