gamrConnect 50 Greatest Games of All Time: The Results - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 21 February 2011 / 27,022 ViewsOn November 12, 2010 members of gamrConnect participated in an event called "VGChartz: Your 50 Favorite Games of All Time!" The object of the thread was simple: those who signed up would list their 50 favorite games from November 12 to December 31 (a total of 50 days). This was just a fun way for the community to step up and show others the 50 games that have impacted them in a big way.
So without further delay, here are the 50 games that made it to the top of the event. Cheers!
Ranking | Game | Boxart* |
50 | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater |
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49 | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night |
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48 | Valkyria Chronicles |
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=45 | GoldenEye 007 |
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=45 | Pokemon Red/Blue |
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=45 | Super Smash Bros. Melee |
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44 | Heavy Rain |
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43 |
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars |
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42 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl |
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41 | Final Fantasy XII |
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40 | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots |
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39 | LittleBigPlanet |
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38 | Ico |
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37 | Final Fantasy VIII |
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36 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
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35 | Red Dead Redemption |
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34 | New Super Mario Bros. Wii |
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33 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |
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=31 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
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=31 |
Super Mario Bros. |
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30 | Portal |
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29 |
Final Fantasy IX |
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28 | Pokemon Gold/Silver |
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27 |
Final Fantasy XIII |
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=25 |
Mass Effect |
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=25 |
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune |
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24 |
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
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=22 |
God of War III |
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=22 | Resident Evil 4 |
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21 |
Final Fantasy VII |
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20 |
Bioshock |
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19 |
Okami |
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18 | Final Fantasy X |
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=16 |
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask |
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=16 | Mass Effect 2 |
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15 |
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker |
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14 |
Super Mario World |
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13 | Super Mario Bros. 3 |
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12 |
Final Fantasy IV |
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11 |
Metroid Prime |
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10 | Super Mario Galaxy 2 |
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9 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past |
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8 | Shadow of the Colossus |
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7 |
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess |
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6 |
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
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5 | Super Mario Galaxy |
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4 | Super Mario 64 |
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3 |
Final Fantasy VI |
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2 | Chrono Trigger |
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1 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time |
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Fun Facts:
- 576 unique games were accounted for when scoring the games.
- Franchise Count!
- 22 Mario games were ranked overall. Talk about a-famous (8 made it to the top 50)!
- 16 Final Fantasy games were ranked overall (8 made it to the top 50).
- 11 Legend of Zelda games were ranked overall (5 made it to the top 50).
- 8 Pokemon games were ranked overall (2 made it to the top 50).
- 7 Castlevania games were ranked overall (1 made it to the top 50).
Other Things:
- If you're interested in seeing a more robust results thread, I originally made this thread which shows the top 150 games (Sonic & Knuckles included!).
- The "VGChartz: Your 50 Favorite Games of All Time" thread is located here if you're interested in viewing the original lists (both complete and incomplete), as well as a link (located in the inital post) to the complimentary discussion thread.
*Boxarts are not representative of a specific version of the game.
1 | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword |
Wii | = | 128 | 35 |
2 | 15 | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception |
PS3 | â–² | 91 | 24 |
3 | 2 | The Last Story |
Wii | â–¼ | 68 | 20 |
4 | 9 | KillZone 3 |
PS3 | â–² | 66 | 18 |
5 | 6 | Mass Effect 3 |
Multi | â–² | 63 | 19 |
6 | 8 | The Last Guardian |
PS3 | â–² | 56 | 19 |
7 | 13 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
Multi | â–² | 53 | 13 |
Mass Effect 3 |
X360 | 50 | 14 | |||
8 | 10 | Pokemon Black/White |
DS | â–² | 47 | 10 |
9 | 4 | inFamous 2 |
PS3 | â–¼ | 44 | 16 |
=10 | 13 | Portal 2 |
Multi | â–² | 38 | 12 |
=10 | 12 | XenoBlade |
Wii | â–² | 38 | 12 |
12 | 15 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time |
3DS | â–² | 37 | 11 |
13 | 16 | Batman: Arkham City |
Multi | â–² | 32 | 11 |
14 | 3 | Final Fantasy Versus XIII |
PS3 | â–¼ | 30 | 10 |
15 | 28 | Resident Evil: Revelations |
3DS | â–² | 28 | 12 |
16 | 7 |
Gears of War 3 |
X360 | â–¼ | 26 | 6 |
17 | 30 | Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds |
Multi | â–² | 24 | 7 |
18 | 25 |
Okamiden |
DS | â–² | 23 | 8 |
Batman: Arkham City |
PS3 | 23 | 8 | |||
19 | 35 | Paper Mario |
3DS | â–² | 21 | 8 |
20 |
18 |
Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
Multi | â–¼ | 19 | 8 |
21 | 14 |
Diablo 3 |
PC | â–¼ | 18 | 7 |
22 |
31 |
The Witcher 2 |
PC | â–² | 17 | 5 |
23 |
16 |
Conduit 2 |
Wii | â–¼ | 16 | 5 |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
PC | 16 | 5 | |||
Portal 2 |
PC | 16 | 5 | |||
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
X360 | 16 | 4 | |||
24 | 40 |
The Grinder |
Wii | â–² | 15 | 5 |
Portal 2 |
PS3 | 15 | 5 | |||
Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds |
X360 | 15 | 6 | |||
25 |
11 |
Dragon Age II |
Multi | â–¼ | 14 | 5 |
26 | 37 |
Ico Collection |
PS3 | â–² | 13 | 6 |
27 |
36 |
Kirby's Epic Yarn |
Wii | â–² | 13 | 5 |
28 | 53 |
Pikmin 3 |
Wii | â–² | 12 | 4 |
Dragon Age II |
PS3 | 11 | 4 | |||
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
PS3 | 11 | 4 | |||
29 | 34 |
Resistance 3 |
PS3 |
â–² | 10 | 5 |
30 |
24 |
Final Fantasy Type-0 |
PSP | â–¼ | 10 | 4 |
31 |
94 |
Radiant Historia |
DS | â–² | 10 | 3 |
32 | 42 |
L.A. Noire |
PS3 | â–² | 9 | 4 |
=33 | 38 | Guild Wars 2 |
PC | â–² | 9 | 3 |
=33 | 29 | Rage |
Multi | â–¼ | 9 | 3 |
Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds |
PS3 | 9 | 3 | |||
35 |
44 |
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm |
PC | â–² | 9 | 2 |
=36 | 71 | Ar Tonelico 3 |
PS3 | â–² | 8 | 3 |
=36 | 50 |
Yakuza 4 |
PS3 | â–² | 8 | 3 |
Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
X360 | 8 | 3 | |||
38 | 55 |
Shogun II: Total War |
PC | â–² | 8 | 2 |
39 | 39 | Mario Kart 3DS |
3DS | = | 7 | 4 |
=40 | 61 |
Dragon Quest VI: Realm of Revelation |
DS | â–² | 7 | 3 |
=40 | NEW |
Final Fantasy XIII-2 |
PS3 | NEW | 7 | 3 |
=40 | 40 | Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright |
3DS | = | 7 | 3 |
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Symphony of the Night only #49?-__-...
Only 5 Xbox and Xbox 360 games. I don't think heavy rain deserved to be on the list.
Good list, most of my favourite games are included :) My top 5 in order would be GoWIII, Mass effect 2, Uncharted 2, Bioshock and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, all absolutely outstating games.
pretty good games on this list, but u can tell there was $ involved in this. example: ff13,uncharted 1, god of war 3, red dead redemption. like wtf?!! i love those games but its just not right. i know people have thier won opinions, but u dont fucking fuck like that. this is not a joke. there are certain limits to everything. im not expecting this list to be my opinion, and in fact its pretty good, but just take out a few titles that are nowhere near outstanding
Solid list, makes sense to me
I am dissapointed...
Not because of the games in the list but how boring the list is...
It would have been nice if this list had a little summary of the games... I know a lot of work still;..
Finally a Top 10 I can agree with
well considering this is a user list it isn't too bad.
Personally I would of love to see a link to the past a bit higher.
wow I agree with kopstudent89. Final Fantasy XIII in the top 50. Really?
Wow horrible list... but that's the users' opinion!!!
Glad to see OoT made number 1. But no Halo or Call of Duty 4? And vice City? VC was good..but i preferred GTA3. Chrono Trigger at 2 is good as well.
Remember the list is based on what users have said, not staff.
wow this is a horrid list... and i dont normally say that on this site but damn
the fact that no pc games are on here is because this site has very little pc gamers lol...
RELAX KIDDES ITS USER VOTED. Btw uncharted 2 is best game this generation so it desserves number 6
Shitty list
This is a pure people voted list, so if you don't agree there is lots of other people who do agree on these games.
Few games are missing in my opinion but overall looks good. OoT freakin awesome
Damn right OoT number 1.
If there was a list of the 50 worst lists of all time, this list would be in the top three. There are way too many similar games repeated. Two Pokemon games? Two Smash Bros games? Two Mario Galaxy games in the top ten? Not to mention half the list is Mario games and not a single Mario Kart?
Also, way too many blasphemous omissions to name. No Half-life 2, Street Fighter 2, WoW, and any Fallout games.
But the icing on the cake is including FFXIII. If that's your criteria for quality, why was Superman 64 omitted? I could list 50 CD-I games that were better than that chocobo dung.
How can you make a Top50 list without having Half-Life 2?
quality > favoritism
Ocarina of Time #1!!!!! I would've flipped a shit if any other game had landed in the top spot
Next time The Last Guardian will be in this list.
FFXII and FFXIII in this list: how can be possible?
The Legend of Zelda NES, and Super Mario World 2 SNES are better games thant Uncarted 1 and 2.
@NoirSon
I agree about FF8, I can't believe I missed it. What the hell is that turd doing on this list, couldn't bear more than 15 hours of that junctioning crap, the plot that only the writer can tell whats happening and those annoying characters. Its the only Final Fantasy game I couldn't finish. The only Top 50 it belongs to is Top 50 most overrated games of all time in my opinion.
I really love this list, and i don't relly like Nintendo that much, well the new nintendo, but this list brought back a lot of memories, really good memories of when gaming was gaming not the watered down COD crap that it is today, but the golden age of gaming.
I scratched my head when I didn't see gaylo or gears on there, I would have thought that those two games would have been in the top ten, although I am happy that they aren't.
I hate Gaylo, with a passion, I just can't stand it. Its just an average shooter people, but all the twelve year olds that plague my beloved 360 defend it as if it was Zelde the Ocarina of Time. And geras, well I like gears, but lets face it, the only thing that its got going for it, are its graphics and gore, other than that, the story sucks, the narrative sucks, the controls are clunky and the dialogue is a twelve year olds wet dream, nothing but insensible cursing.
Great list though.....
Fudge this list.
I'll accept some favoritism for franchise games but FFVIII over Ico, much less genre defining blockbusters like Pokemon, Symphony of the Night or Goldeneye? And don't even get me started on FFX placement.
Heavy Rain AND FFXIII made it to the top 50? Really?!? I can think of about 100 games off the top of my head that I could replace those with on this list.
Overall, pretty good list, though I'm surprised Uncharted 2 "charted" so high (hehe, I used a pun!)
Take away that and Shadow of the Colossus and Nintendo owns the Top 15 games of all time.
8 Nintendo Titles in TOP 10... YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:::!!! Sorry, but Resident Evil 4 is not a TOP 10 best games is a TOTALLY MISTAKE... Uncharted 2 is very overrated... Final Fantasy III ( FINAL FANTASY VI) the best Final Fantasy Game is TRUE... :) ,... Chrono Trigger the best RPG game TRUE..... :) :).... OMG!!!!
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time TOP 1.... is TOTALLY TRUE... Sniffle... The best game of my life....
Congratulations Nintendo. You have a good part of the best HARDCORE games...
:) ...
Happy Birthday The Legend of Zelda... AND please I want a new trailer of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword....
I was looking for the 'like' button after reading Gilgamesh's comment! Seriously, though, VGC should add a 'LOL' button!
I nearly exited the page after seeing Snake Eater at 50. Then I seen Metal Gear Sold 4 shortly after....ok maybe the list will be better, then I see Final Fantasy XIII way ahead of both games...right.
hahahaahhahaha No xbox exclusives on here? Yeah, because they all suck.
Ocarina of Time: Best game ever.
i looked at the thread and this is actually the result of only a handful of voices. but this list is already good for not having halo in it.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best game ever period
BTW: Halo 1 should be on the list.
As with any community list, this is heavily biased towards newer games. The newer games they chose are pretty good though, ha.
OOT will always be #1 in these things. :-P
I may not have voted in this, but it seems a lot of the games I would have chosen are up there.
This is actually an atrociously bad list. This is what happens with pure democracy though lol.
I mean now Metal Gear Solid 1.........really?! F that.
I resent vehemently the use of the Wii cover for Okami. It is a PS2 game, dammit! You can't change that! shakes fist
I'm just going to remind everyone that this is a list based on the community and not on the staffs preferences. All of you had the opportunity to vote for your favourite games, so if they didn't make it on the list, it's because the community didn't deem it worthy.
Well, at least the top 3 are accurate. People shouldn't get too upset over the list, it just based on opinions and most of those come from kids who were in diapers when Chrono Trigger was released.
These lists always have most of the top-twenty in common, but I guess they're usually fun for a couple observations:
Final Fantasy XIII ranked above VIII, IX, and XII?
Not a single X-Box exclusive?
No Super Metroid?
I feel young and old at the same time.
In my opinion, this list cries out for a VGChartz 'best games nobody played' list to introduce people to less common games. I'm not implying the games on the list are bad, but I think there are a lot of games that are as good or maybe even better [ducks] which simply did not get the exposure these games did.
RacketBoy did some nice lists, from NES to PS2: http://www.racketboy.com/guide/hidden-gems/
OK i agree with OoT the fact that Civ is not there is kinda jokish, Halo CE prob should be there as well, Sonic 1 or 2... I dunno the list just doesnt make sense to me
EPIC FAIL!
@Cory
It wasn't just the fact that OoT ranked highly in the lists, it was also the fact that the game appeared in so many lists. While some games ranked highly in a few lists and never showed up again (Sonic and Knuckles... sadness), OoT appeared often and was usually ranked very highly. A good combination for success.
ps3 exclusives on the list: 7 (8 if you include FFXIII)
games on the list released before 1995: 6
lol
DS had like none!
DS had like none!
the margin for success for the ocarina of time is pretty large lol, bigger than any other gap in the list by like 100 points, surprises me that so many consider it their favorite game, not that it wasnt a good game :P
I'm sooo disappointed I couldn't finish the list in time.
But again great work Smeags!
yeah or to lazy to even know the thread existed?
in any case, suprised to not see secret of mana, starcraft and diablo in there ^^ (lack of PC love), but most of these games would definitely be in my top 50/100 so i'd say i like the list
lol xbox failed so hard in this list.
Here's my thing. Being young doesn't automatically discredit your opinion on older games. I'm 22, and started with the old atari as my first console and worked through every generation since then. It was around the N64/PS era that games really started to become magical, so I tend to favor them. It just depends on when you hit that magic age, when gaming became the reason you were excited about christmas. For older generations it will always be the retro games that hold a special place, that's the way it is for every form of entertainment.
So stop saying this community is full of young people, sony, and nintendo fans like it's a bad thing. If that's the demographic, then it is what it is, and it must be that way for a reason. If you don't like it, then you can either go somewhere else, sit there and take it, or expand the microsoft or pc community.
how is super metroid not up here?!?! :(
I really liked some of the choices on this list... others...? FFXIII being the one that stood out the most to be honest...
SMG 1, 2, Uncharted 2 and TP does not belong in top 20. They are all great games, but lets be realistic here... Other than that decent list except really low placement of FF7 and RE4. Also MGS1 no where to be seen, but 3 and 4 is on there???????????
ok ffxiii and not a single 360 exclusive apart from the first mass effect... riiiiight
Bioshock at 20 but no System Shock 2.
I am now convinced that the median age here has to be under 17, given how little presence games from before the ps1/n64 generation have (i counted 10).
This is the Nintendo fanboy list and how you can tell:
Final Fantasy > Zelda pre-playstation days, now its not.
None of the non-nintendo FFs ranked higher than those on the nintendo.
1 too many Mario game on that list.
Pokemon, yeah LOL
Wow, this is actually a great list.
It has ICO Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Uncharted 1 & 2
This seems unbiased to the fact that Super Mario Bros 1, Zelda 1 and Halo weren't in the top 10.
I'm a huge Zelda fan, but I don't think Twilight Princess should be so high in that list.
Lately it feels like the Zelda games are getting worse.
Or maybe the other games are getting better and Zelda has trouble keeping ahead...
Metroid Prime rocks. So glad it made it so high. Also Resident Evil 4 and Twilight Princess. Gamecube FTW!!
i can´t trust a litst that includes ff13. that piece of garbage
This list is very flawed. Most are. Some great games on this list though.
You know, I hate to break it to people, but there are great games that aren't on a Nintendo or a Sony console...
Handheld games are pretty underrepresented as well.
I have my issues with the methdology which I stated in the thread. I would have just posted my list but we had the limit to post only till a certain date (and then subsequently forgot when school started).
For the record, I have no problems with the list or how it came to be. I'm just concerned with newcomers and lurkers seeing this list and thinking it's the official VGChartz list and not the current GamrConnect community list. I don’t want to damage site credibility. This is arguably the biggest story on our front page right now.
wow lack of a sonic game? seriously
lets look at last 50 sonic games. basicalyl all shit, we can agree right?
yet why does everytime a new sonic game gets announced people get anxious? because it had some AMAZING games way back when. and not ONE on the list. Not going to say waht i think don't deserve to be on list cause don't want to piss others off, but easy to see its a total fanboy list. I mean hell i know i personalyl didn't vote in this thing cause i knew it would just be fanboys coming in saying how some series holds position 1-20. and so on.
and as others have said, way too many this gen games. many do deserve it, but just as many do not.
wow, not going to comment about order. when i look at games list i just look at the games. order is just flamebait
but there are quite a few games that don't deserve to be on that list AT ALL. how did some of those games get even 1 vote
Zelda is the best series ever!
Only on VGchartz would Goldeneye be as low as 45. Zelda is overrated.
So many Zelda games... are they all really that good?
Yay we will have #1 and #50 remakes for the 3DS!
I also think Heavy Rain and FFXIII doesnt deserve to be in that list as well.
no shining force??!!??!!
no Shining force = invalid list
I demand a recount and a different community ;)
@cddiablo
i play games over 20 years now and this generation is great! just because there arent the genres you love doesnt mean this generation isnt great. how can someone think this generation isnt great wtf?
PC gaming has been ignored completely. Half Life 2 and Planetscape Torment not being on there is terrible. I can't believe portal is on there instead of the two I mentioned (I'm not saying Portal isn't good but if a PC game had to be on there its either Half Life 2 or Planetscape Torment).
I don't understand why a turd like Heavy Rain is on that list either or what Uncharted 1 is doing so high. The list isn't all bad though and I should just accept everyone is entitled to their opinion.
20 of the 50 games on this list are from this gen, and this gen isnt that great. It is a window into the community of this website which is cool but it is probably the worst top #___ list in all of videogaming I have ever seen.
I don't understand the position of Heavy Rain and FFXIII, both messes. However I think it was a neat list because of the heavy inclusion of RPGs, revolutionary games in terms of gameplay and soft games to the heart.
Nice to see both FFVI and Chrono Trigger, my two favourite games of all time, ranked up near the top, but I was pretty confident of who was going to get first place.
What's that turd FFXIII doing up there? I'm overly dissapointed in your tastes, people!
The list is full of great games, but the lack of Sega classics or any Xbox/360 games makes me think that the voters were primarily Nintendo and Sony fans. Don't get me wrong, all the games on the list are of high quality, but you'd think Sonic, Virtua Fighter, Halo, etc. would have shown up somewhere on the list.
On a side note I think the list is a little too current gen heavy. Maybe most of the voters are just smitten with the latest games or maybe they are young and didn't live through the golden years.
Donkey Kong arcade or Pac Man instead of Heavy Rain. Or drop one or two Final Fantasy games for Sonic 3 or Crazy Taxi.
I don't know, the list just seemed really skewed, like Sega fans, PC Fans, MS fans, and retro gamers didn't participate.
do we know how many users actually voted?
mmmm uncharted 2 it too high in my opinion and i dont know how can God of war 3 be over mass effect but I like the list since i love all this games
No Half-Life, hell yeah.
Take that, Gordon Freeman, most overrated and stupid protagonist ever.
no HALF-LIFE 2 = HUGE GIGANTIC ZETA FAIL !!!
what have final fantasy 13 to do with the 50 top ten games ever? :P and where is halo,ratchet and clank,dragon quest etc......sry but this list is a fail
HOW DID FINAL FANTASY 13 GET IN THERE!!!!! :O must be a typo! Should be in the top 50 worst games of all time, Unless they only got votes from 12 years that is.
im really satisfied with this list .
The most overrated game of all time wins!
It seems some members were too lazy to join the fun and post their own top 50 but not too lazy to complain about other people's taste. :-P
Good list actually. And FFXIII is in there! Wait didn't someone say it was the biggest disappointment of 2010? Despite the despicable hate that was thrown at the game in various GOTY, this shows once more that FFXIII has been hugely popular, and that game journalism is completely broken...
Shut up!! the list was made by the Vgchartz community. Good work Smeags!
And yes @ #2, by how much votes did it loose?
Not surprised the amount of Nintendo fanboys on this site.
The list is already fail enough especially since FF13 somehow made it on there but the biggest issue is where the fuck is HALF LIFE!!>!@>!>!#$L<N!@$#
Good to know that even a list that the gamers choose can be fail by gamers standard... just waiting someone to call it biased... altough at least one Sonic should be there =]
Ocarina of Time & FF7 ftw.
@IamAwesome
I don't want to talk about the lack of Sonic. ;__;
@Captain Havok, you win. I recall my remark.
WTF?? No Sonic? No Super Metrioid? This list is good, but slightly off.