All-TIME 100 Video Games

I agree...minecraft

minecraft... that's all I have to say

Where are Pokemon and Borderlands?

Wait, wait, wait. Does anyone care to tell me how any one of the Pokemon or Kingdom Hearts games aren't on here? How about Ratchet & Clank, or any of the other PS2 classics (I know it's ignorant to only mention one console, but it's the one I grew up with, give me a break)? What about Ocarina of Time? Given some of the "games" listed on here (Solitaire???), I'm surprised that they got anything right..

Where's Flimbo's Quest, Red Alert 2 or Monkey Island?...

Baldur's Gate 2 is missing.

And yes, people must be abusing the votes and voting down things they haven't played.

Are you kidding me??? Where's Half-Life, thought to be greatest game of the last decade with 50 game of the year awards??

Anyway I'm glad to see Cave Story given it's due honor. It's the greatest indie game of all time. 

I remember playing my Metroid in my GBA

This Pong Must Be Top 10 i remember when i played it 5 hrs a day!!! and half-life must be in this list!!!!

Obviously, Mega Man 2 is the one game of the Mega Man series that should be here.

Those of you who voted against Thief: The Dark Project are either fools or never played the game. I've played hundreds of games from Atari to the NES to the PC to the PS3 and XBox 360. Thief: The Dark Project is the best of them all.

Mass Effect Trilogy - Definitely. ME3 alone? No way.

I guess subjectivity is a lost concept.

Time doesn't know anything about great games. Im still in shock that The Ocarina of Time isn't on here since it was one of the top reviewed games of all time

Ocarina of Time.  That's all that really needs to be said, but also Majora's Mask and A Link to the Past are right up there as well.  Not to mention Windwaker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.  All of these are better games than most on this joke of a list.  The only conclusion I can draw is that whoever made this list doesn't actually play video games.  Seriously, Angry Birds?  A slap in the face to Shigeru Miyamoto.

Final Fantasy Tactics has some mistakes to cover up. It may be great sometimes, but it's mistakes sometimes really kicks itself off.  Why is there a miss on attacks sometimes? Okay, they can add the miss and hit percentages to the attacks, but why is there also a "miss" on reviving allies? You really need the reviving especially when grinding and fighting overpowered wild monsters.

Why did they came up with the idea of having a chance percentage on reviving? Square likes to spice things up by experimenting with each new games and sequels, but this is one of their unwanted experiment results.

It's a great game, but not the best one, I don't know if it really deserves to be added on this list. It has some great plot, some great systems.

You guys totally forgot Suikoden II, Kya Dark Lineage and Chrono Cross... Really?! :P 

I see that Solitaire of all this is listed as a "video game" and not only that but listed as one of the top 100 VGs of all time. All I have to say is take it off the list 'cause Solitaire ain't a "video game"

No Wasteland?  You missed a bet here.

I don't know, if this was mentioned before, since I'm not eager to read over 1.400 comments, but:

Unlike stated in the article, even Diablo 1 has a multiplayer-mode, not only its successors.

Please give me the addresses of those who voted no way to Final Fantasy 7. LOL....but srsly. That game is awesome.

The fact that Ocarina of Time is not on this list, makes the ENTIRE List invalid, if Ocarina is not on EVERYONES Top Games list, then their list has no meaning and cant be taken seriously. FACT

Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario 3 and Duck Hunt

this list was clearly dreamed up by 10-15 people that don't really even like the idea of video games, their explanation of the games/why they picked them is awful, the explanation is often incorrect or only focuses on minor elements (see Chrono Trigger).. if they needed filler they would have been better pulling descriptions off wikipedia... These guys clearly couldn't see the forest for the trees, they messed up when they made the article 'greatest games' rather than what their actually trying to list, 'games that were most influential to popular culture'

How the hell is Fallout 3 not on here?

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I'm pretty surprised how few people don't like Chrono Trigger. I found it to be better than pretty much all of the other games I've played. If you haven't played it and have time, **find a way to play it**. 

Braid 4,315 6,834

W.T.F ? Are people just voting no way because they don't know the game/haven't played it ? I can't believe than more than 10% of the people having actually played this game would vote no way. Scary.

Where are Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Starcraft I?
My mom would have done it better.

I'm sorry, but there are probably fifty+ games missing from this list that could EASILY be on here.  I understand giving some of the older games their due, but your title, Time, is All Time 100 Video Games.  So you are saying that these games you've listed are the best 100 video games of all time.  But I'm just throwing it out there, best selling, doesn't mean best.  Modern Warfare 3 is still one of the best selling games on the 360, but almost no one is going to put it on a "Best of All Time" list for Video Games.  And the same thing can be said of MANY of the games you included on this list.  

Now, with that being said, at the end of the day, this is YOUR list, and how YOU feel these games should be ranked.  But, if it were me, you simply can't have a Best Video Games of all Time list, and leave off games such as LOZ: OOT, the Pokemon Franchise as a whole (love it or hate it, few games have been as widely revolutionary or generated so much interest), Resident Evil 4, one of the Unreal Tournaments, and, as far as I'm concerned, Skyrim.  All of those games did something to truly change the way gamers view gaming (Seeings as I'll get called out if I don't expand:  OOT was probably the first true 3D adventure game to have commercial success, and puts together one of the best stories in video game history, Unreal truly changed the way FPS's and the competitive shooting genre was approached, Resi 4 redefined, and more importantly rejuvenated the near dead survival horror genre, and put together perhaps the best adventure from the series, and Skyrim single-handedly blew away any and all expectations for how much we can expect in a game.  When a game can be played for 300+ hours on a single file, and still be entertaining, something went right).

That was long winded, but those were just the obvious ones that I would argue are terrible misses by this article.  There are many other games that I personally feel deserve to be on there, but that would be for my own list, and my own opinion.

One final thing.  I don't understand this argument that a game series can't have more than one game in a "Best of All Time" list.  Guess what, some series and franchises are simply golden.  More than one Zelda game easily deserves to be on a list such as this (I would argue Link to the Past, OOT, Windwaker, and the Original could all make a "100 Best Games of All Time" list), same with Mario, Elder Scrolls, etc. etc.  Otherwise, don't call it a list of the best games, or at the very least, designate one of the spots for the whole franchise instead of picking out some of the weaker games from the series for your best of all time list (the original LOZ over OOT?  Really?!?)  Rant is officially over.

It's a shame that "Heroes of Might and Magic III" ain't on the 1990 list. It's either a game that one didn't play at all or THE game you played those years ago (and occasionally still do). Nevertheless: it's one of a kind, and definitely earns its place among the others.

I would like to say this is a great start.  I think you would have to be a litle bit crazy to want to start a list like this.  I hope you up-date the list and maybe expand to top 1000.  Or you could even try rankings all the video games of all time (limited to mass market ones of course.)

How about Monster Rancher it has 3 sequels and an online version (japanese only).  I also liked Jade Caccoon.

What about Rome Total War? The first game that truly brought a sense of scale to strategy games.

Remarkable Video Games of the 1990's That Deserve Mention If Not Ranking:

Ultima VII

It created a world that had nearly real-time night and day and such detailed detours and AI that you could actually change the moral and ethical direction of gameplay and rob and kill innocent people, for which you would be chased by the local constables. However, if you made it to another fiefdom, you past crimes would be forgotten. This was the first realtime top-down fighting game where you could literally get lost and keep playing and have fun.

Bionic Commando

It had perhaps the coolest physics of a game of it's time. The cut scenes were fantastic and dramatic. And it could be beaten and had a cool build-up arc to the end. The flow and design of the gameplay felt uniquely human and expressive, not like it was just there to make your life miserable if you lost of slipped up. 

Bonk's Adventure & Bonk's Revenge

Granted this was on the turbografix 16 and thus is very niche, however, ESPECIALLY with Bonk's Revenge, it's cartoon design, level design, playfulness, MUSIC, character control and action, environments, and battles were so cool, so much better than the Super Mario Bros and Sonic variations at the time, that it's a shame it wasn't more widely available. Everyone knows the Mario music, but this one was better in my book. They were trying to take down Nintendo and as is often the case the challenger just was hungrier and worked harder. The result: It was just a fun game to be in. Bonk had more character and chutzpah and emotional expressiveness than any other platform game at the time. You would do funny things, too, like jump into a dinosaur's mouth, battle huge bacteria in his stomach, which was filled with pink water chunks of food you could eat if you needed health, then he'd poop you out. The way Bonk interacted with water and ice was just fantastic in it's day. It was really like playing a cartoon. My friends who played it came back like drug addicts who needed a fix and I ended up selling the system and gems to one of them long after I'd beaten all the games and the console was no longer even producing games, mainly because of bonk. 

Out Of This World (PC) / or Another World

The most thrilling, cinematic, unpredictable and elegant side-scrolling video game perhaps of all time. It has the pacing and minimalist beauty of a film. Also, your character has a friend who you don't control and who helps you at times and at times you help him. This relationship is more like what real life morality is when you have a very good friend. I beat this game by staying up all night with one of my best friends. I think two minds made it more feasible. Is there another game where you befriend a character who is so integral to the plot (and there is a real, the-Star-Wars-of-video-games plot) and who moves with you throughout the game? This game felt like it was someone'a baby and he just wanted to push every pixel and moment of gameplay and story in a way that confounded you as a player and made it a true adventure as far as video games go. Nothing matched it since for me. They set the bar too high. 

Rise of the Dragon (1990) PC

Early cyberpunk game that set the bar for Blade Runner inspired graphical adventure games.

Samurai Showdown II

Speaks for itself. Best fighting game.

There are certainly games missing, such as Might and Magic. I am happy to see Grand Theft Auto III (it ushered in the era of 3-D gaming) and Pac-Man, which is a no-brainer. I am a bit sad that there are many people who do not even know what "Ultima Online" is and how influential it really was to the entire MMORPG genre. It is expected due to the "new" generation of gamers, who are mostly under the age of 20. I'm not sure how Angry Birds is relevant. Mobile gaming?

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How the hell did "BALDUR'S gate rip off Diablo?" That is an absurd statement and stupid to say the least. They are 2 entire different games in every way imaginable.

Animal crossing is amazing, none of you have played it obviously.

heavy rain need i say more

Why is Thief: The Dark Project so downvoted?    I quote- "Thief: The Dark Project was the first 3D stealth PC game and its stealth gameplay innovations influenced later games in the genre. The game has been cited as the first to use light and shadow as a stealth mechanic, and the first to use audio cues, such as the ability to eavesdrop on conversations and alert guards with loud footsteps. The game's use of sound wave propagation, which allowed sounds to travel around corners and through rooms, became widely considered by game developers."    The game paved the way for development of hugely successful series. Edios (who developed both) moved many elements from Thief into the Deus Ex series. The Dark Engine used in Thief was later used on System Shock 2. Dishonored (which I'm not advocating for the list though I do love it) was modelled almost entirely on it.    It's the same sort of people downvoting games like Castle Wolfenstein and upvoting ME3.