This thread sparked a great conversation during today's game day when I was surprised at my own top ten and then tried to put together my own top 25 and realized that I couldn't. It was just too hard to pick so I was working on it during my opponent's turns (yeah sometimes they take awhile) and we all just started talking about how much fun we had had with lots of different games so I asked for their help. In the end we came up with a list of 42 games (and still others that only after much debate didn't make it but I think should have.) Oh, and I went 4-2 in today's games. Appropriate but I blame my preoccupation with this topic (and the inherent weakness of the anti-matter universe) for my losses. So thanks for the excuse! ;0)
So here's my demographic and what that voting site says is my generations top ten:
Male 1970 - 74 U.S.A. (My gaming pals are in or close to this demographic as well with one 30 year old and one only in her 20s)
1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past (I didn't have the right system to play this one.)
2. Super Mario World (Great game)
3. Final Fantasy VI (Again, wrong system for me)
4. Dungeon Keeper (Dungeon Who?)
5. Half-Life (I have the Orange box and enjoy the series but I don't think I've played this.)
6. Super Mario Bros. 3 (I think I played this as part of Super Mario World.)
7. Baldur's Gate II: Shadow of Awn (Outstanding Game. It got rated #9 by us though.)
8. World of Warcraft (10,000,000 folks and Mr. T. can't be wrong, right? Not my thing.)
9. Super Mario Bros (Again great game, great series, worthy of three slots? Not to me.)
10. the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Great game, I thought it would have ranked higher.)
And here is our list of what we think are collectively the 42 most fun games of all time:
NOTE: We did make a rule to avoid the repetition we saw in so many top tens that each franchise could only be represented ONCE. So thanks for that fun debate too!
1. Archon 22. Eternal Champions
2. Dues Ex: Invisible War 23. NBA Jam
3. Zelda 24. Star Wars: Jedi Academy
4. the Marvel Trading Card Game 25. Wing Commander II
5. Shenmue 2 26. Resident Evil: Code Veronica
6. Capcom VS. SNK 2 EO 27. Power Stone
7. Doom 28. Etrian Odyssey
8. Beyond Good and Evil 29. Suikoden
9. Baldur's Gate II 30. Blast Corps
10. Mass Effect 31. Ghostbusters the Video Game
11. Castlevania X: Symphony of the Night 32. Jet Set Radio Future
12. Blazblue: Continuum Shift 33. Izuna the Unemployed Ninja
13. Flashback 34. Dragon Age: Origins
14. Phantasy Star Online 35. Fallout 3
15. Twisted Metal 2 36. Luminous Arc
16. Sonic Adventure 37. Wolfenstein
17. Mechassault 38. Enslaved
18. Whacked! 39. Shining the Holy Arc
19. Hydro Thunder 40. Tron: Evolution
20. Lunar 41. Wild Arms
21. Eat Lead the Legend of Matt Hazard 42. Dracula Unleashed
I would list how and why some stuff is where it is (or how it survived to be in the list at all) but you don't want the gamer eqivalent to War n' Peace and I don't want the cramp.
Now I'd be really curious to see what lists other people would come up with if they had their usual gaming friends around to borrow their memories. I bet it would be a lot different but the debates you'll have making it will be very fun and interesting (and at points hilarious.)
So thanks again for sparking this!